Striving for Light News

Update 0.9.4.3 has just dropped for Striving for Light adding a new special melee weapon as well as more soundtrack options.

Quick reminder: we will host a 48h Treasure Race Event, if you missed that announcement you can read on how to participate here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/4161968803625725157?l=english

[h2]New Features[/h2]

[h3]Abyssal Hunger - New Melee Weapon[/h3]

Defeated enemies that grant experience charge up this weapon and increase the weapon damage. Getting hit will removes 20 weapon charges.

This weapon will not only grow in strength but also shapeshift it's appearance. The charges are displayed in the weapon tooltips.



Initially this weapon is weak with a low range but can grow into a devastating weapon with huge range.



[h3]More Soundtrack Options[/h3]
We have added the latest 4 sountracks of Striving for Light: Survival to Striving for Light. So if you want to have intense and pumping music for the race event starting tomorrow, this is the way to go!
You can switch to the survival OST in the settings menu.

If you have followed yesturdays news, you might already know that the full Striving for Light Soundtrack is now available on all major streaming platforms.

You can now listen to the Striving for Light Soundtrack anywhere anytime:
[h3] ♬ Listen on:[/h3]

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Amazon Music
• Youtube Music
• Deezer
• Tidal and many more!
  

You can read the full announcement here:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/4179983836283047015

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed a crash when entering pathfinder portal on offline save files after adding recent treasure race content.
  

Thanks for your support and for being part of this amazing journey!

[h3]Join the community![/h3]
Want to report a bug or talk with fellow players about the game and the new features? You are invited to join our official disccord.

We are thrilled to announce that the soundtrack for Striving for Light is now available on all major music streaming platforms!

[h3] ♬ Listen on:[/h3]

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Amazon Music
• Youtube Music
• Deezer
• Tidal and many more!
  

We have also set up a bandcamp page in case you prefer an uncompressed sonic experience:

Official Bandcamp

[h2]Cutting Dark[/h2]
We decided to release the soundtracks for all our games under the music project name 'Cutting Dark'. In addition to the beloved tracks from our games, we have a few new albums on the way, that you as well might enjoy.

• [h3]Eternal Horizons[/h3]
  
  Release on 21.6.2024
  
  The album captures the beauty, power, and recovery of nature, telling a story of destruction and renewal through powerful and emotional melodies.
  
  [previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
  
  
• [h3]Into the North[/h3]
  
  Release on 5.7.2024
  
  An evocative album that musically captures the harsh, icy landscapes and the rugged, untamed spirit of the northern wilderness.
  
  [previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
  

As we want to take you with us on this new sonic journey we decided to offer our two new albums as an limited 1€ (pay what you want) pre-order offer on bandcamp which will be available until the full release.

Pre-Order: Eternal Horizons on Bandcamp Pre-Order: Into the North on Bandcamp

There is also a very generous full dicography bundle if you want to get all soundtracks at once. Of course all albums will be available on all major music streaming platforms on release day.

As this is the very beginning of our music journey with this new project we appreciate every support.

Happy listening!

[h3]Bugfixes:[/h3]

• Fixed glaring light skill not scaling with projectile and melee damage as intended
  
• Fixed not removed minimap icons when completing world events
  
• Fixed not removed heart minimap icons when collecting hearts with petrified heart trinket active
  
• Fixed double triggered and overlapping skilltree tutorials with lost focus when playing with gamepad
  

[h3]New Challenges:[/h3]

• New Challenge added, have gloomtide and sunfire sceptre weapons equipped
  
• New Challenge added, have sun orb and moon blade weapons equipped
  
• Upated Challenge, equipp 4 buzz keeper trinkets and the buzz harbinger (was play the dark wanderer before)
  

• [h3]Bugfixes:[/h3]
  
• Fixed permanent player effects not being directly activated after extiting skilltree
  
• Fixed persistent treasure goblin minimap icons
  
• Fixed challenge unlock all weapons triggered to early
  

[h3]We are hosting a 48h Treasure Race Event which will take place at the 14th-16th June 2024 starting and ending at 7pm CEST.[/h3]

[h3]Unique Twist[/h3]
Each map will contain a special flying trasure goblin that you can hunt down for additional treasure! But beware some might fight back!



[h3]Participate with Demo Version[/h3]
For this race we decided to update our Striving for Light Demo to make it possible for all players to fully participate in this event with the Demo Version without any restrictions. This is a unique possibility to invite all your friends & content creators to join the event and experience Striving for Light.

[h3]Dynamic Price Pool[/h3]
Another twist is the dynamic price pool. The price pool will depend on the amount of participating players and increase by 1€ / each participating player that reaches at least 50 challenge points in the leaderboards and has registered for joining the event on the Igniting Spark Games Discord.

[h3]Price Pool[/h3]

• 1. Place: 50% of price pool + Design Weapon/Skill/Trinket together with the devs which will be implemented into the game.
  
• 2. Place: 30% of price pool
  
• 3. Place: 20% of price pool
  
• 4.- 6. Place: Striving for Light: Survival Steam Key
  

Price pool will be rounded up to available steam gift cards, price pool can't exceed 1000€

[h3]How to participate[/h3]

• Join the Igniting Spark Games discord & introduce yourself in #treasure-race
  
• Please stick to fairplay, no cheating, no offensive player names, violation will result in disqualification of this and future events
  

[h3]How to win[/h3]

• Complete seasonal challenges to earn challenge points, the player with the most challenge points wins!
  

[h3]Special Features:[/h3]

• Each map contains a special flying treasure goblin that can be hunt down for additional treasure. But beware some might fight back!
  
• You can fully play the whole treasure race event with the Striving for Light Demo.
  
• Dynamic Price Pool: So invite all your friends and your favourite content creators to increase the price pool!
  
• Refined challenges.
  
• Race is hardcore only
  

Update 0.9.4.2 also features:

• New minimap icons for treasure goblins to better seperate them from map bosses
  

Feel invited to Join the Igniting Spark Games discord !