Soulstone Survivors News

1. Game is too hard/dodge fest:
   The most requested change in the game, where the end game has way too many enemy attacks and how it limits the way you can play the game;
   
   
2. Endless Balance:
   How runs can become stale, where you are either immortal or instantly killed without being able to react;
   
   
3. Game Visibility:
   How the game can be very hard to navigate with the spam of skills, how some skills are very intrusive causing visibility problems even early in the game;
   
   
4. Power Up Infos:
   How the information displayed on the Level Up screen and Power Up list can be hard to navigate or incomplete, leading to confusion;
   
   
5. Struggle with Ascension:
   How some ascensions can be hard to interact, how this is linked with the issues above and what are our goals with ascensions;
   
   
6. Rune Balance and Limitations:
   How you might feel like you cannot experiment as much as you would like due to how they are structured and the limitations they have;
   
   
7. General UI improvements:
   How there are constantly more and more ways to improve usability in the game, and how even small changes can end up compounding to make big improvements to the game;
   
   
8. Sneaky Void Presence:
   How the Void Presence can sneak up on you under the chaos of the game and ruin a run in a way that feel unfair;
   
   
9. Entering the home portal by accident:
   How you can accidentally end a great run by entering portals at the wrong time and how frustrating that can be;
   
   
10. Overall Skill Balance and Chaos revamp:
    How there are many underpowered skills that never get used, while others become mandatory, and a note about the upcoming change to how Chaos skills work and why.

1. Endless Resource Sink:
   Being able to spend extra resources into a system that offers interesting choices (unfortunately we did not go into much detail about this one in the video, but it is definitely in our plans!);
   
   
2. More Bosses:
   Something will definitely do and already have some cool plans in this regard;
   
   
3. In-game Wiki:
   A way to view details about the game, its functionalities and so on, basically a way to understand how the game works in more detail;
   
   
4. Better UI customization:
   Being able to scale the UI, disable and enable elements, make it your own;
   
   
5. Trade Materials:
   A way to exchange resources you have for resources you need, and how that could improve the experience.

• The Arcane Weaver's Mana Crystals are now collected instantly by walking over them;
  
• The Sentinel's Panther Bond no longer decays when you are far away from the Panther;
  
• The Hound Master's Beefs are no longer affected by your pick up range, as you are still meant to find and collect the beefs manually;
  
• Reduced memory usage of multiple textures along with a few performance improvements;
  
• Added a limit to the number of Mines all "Mine" type skills can have active at any one time;
  
• Fixed an issue where skills that target random enemies could target invulnerable enemies such as the Void Presence;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Legionnaire's Catapults would target invalid targets such as the Void Presence;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Panther Bond connection would be affected by the Special Effects Visibility slider;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Legionnaire's Catapult Blueprints would become invisible if special effect visibility was low;
  
• Fixed an issue where if you reduced the cost of the Legionnaire's Catapults through the skill tree, the price reduction would not properly show in the UI;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Legionnaire's catapult part item would not be glowing if visual effect visibility was too low;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Chaoswalker's Orbs would not be glowing if visual effect visibility was too low;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Hound Master's Beefs would not be glowing if visual effect visibility was too low;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Necromancer's Body Parts would not be glowing if visual effect visibility was too low;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Assassin's Tasks might still be active after a match ended;
  
• Reduced the opacity of the ground effect of the Spellblade's Rift;
  
• Fixed the damage area of the Void Presence which was slightly larger than the red circle;
  
• Fixed an issue where buffs could appear gigantic on certain enemies and allies, causing a lot of screen clutter;
  
• Fixed an issue where in certain maps, enemies would spawn slower than intended especially in the beginning of the match;
  
• Fixed an issue where Fiery Blades and Spider Cocoon descriptions would not update properly with the Extra Help rune;
  
• Fixed an issue where Synergy type power ups would not specify that they also work with the upgraded versions of negative effects;
  
• Multiple fixes around skill tree nodes, including small visual issues, incorrect values being displayed, purchase order, etc;
  
• Multiple new sound effects across the game;
  
• Fixed Frostborn warrior icons on the Death Recap screen;
  
• The Kobold Demolisher enemy no longer causes damage to itself with one of its attacks;
  

• Changed the order of the Spellblade Riftwalker skills so Energy Pulse is the last skill, and Arcane Comets is the second skill to be used;
  
  
• Summon Skeletal Archer damage reduced from 200 to 140;
  
  
• Summon Helper Elves damage reduced from 150 to 100;
  
  
• Summon Skeletal Mage damage reduced from 350 to 180;
  
  
• Frenzied Bunnies' negative effect power was reduced by approximately 15%;
  
  
• Skill Tree nodes that grant stats when you take damage now have limits to their bonuses;
  
  

• Player movement will now be more responsive, for example, when changing directions;
  
  
• The scenario will now become transparent when it would be blocking your view of your own character and immediate proximity;
  
  
• All loot, currencies, materials, prestige,are saved every time you go through an endless portal, instead of only when the match ended;
  
  
• You can now use the keyboard to learn skills in the Level Up panel;
  
  
• You can now see the Weapon Special skill on the Blacksmith menu before crafting a new weapon;
  
  
• Arcane Weaver's Mana Crystals can now be collected instantly;
  
  
• Skill Tree nodes that grant stats when you take damage now have limits to their bonuses;
  
  
• Changed damage numbers at the ending screen to use text notation, so they are not as long and hard to see as before;
  
  
• Crystal Eggs in the Caves of Dhal Zhog now have a loading bar to display how long it takes to pick one up;
  
  
• Added option to General Options so you can configure the minimum delay for picking up skills in the Level Up screen (to prevent accidental skill picks);
  
  
• Fixed an issue where the Spellblade Riftwalker skills had multiple tags, receiving more bonuses than they should;
  
  
• Fixed issue where Synergy-type power-ups would not apply rune effects properly, such as Gangrene and Pulse of Agony;
  
  
• Fixed an issue where Fissure Strike would aim under the crosshair, with an incorrect angle;
  
  
• Fixed soundtrack not reverting from Boss to Regular;
  
  
• Fixed an issue where you could die as the Level Up screen would appear;
  
  
• Fixed an issue where a few enemies would deal much more damage than intended, especially in endless modes;
  
  
• Fixed issue where when changing resolutions with a gamepad, the game would lose track of the controller;
  
  
• Loads of other small fixes all across the game;
  
  

• Summoned units should now benefit from runes as expected, for example, runes that give you a bonus based on your health or on your level will use your attributes for the calculation instead of the summoned unit's attributes;
  
• Most summoned units can no longer be directly targeted by enemies, so enemies will prefer targeting you. The following summoned units will still attract attention from enemies: Chaos Golem, Battle Moose and Cave Bear;
• Now that summoned units properly inherit all of the player's attributes, they no longer receive a hidden damage bonus based on the curse intensity. They still receive defensive benefits based on curse intensity;
  
• Fixed an issue where with the Vulnerable Target rune, summoned units could potentially do infinite damage;
  
• Fixed an issue where with the Focus Fire rune, summoned units could become unable to hit enemies;
  
• Fixed an issue where with the Purity rune, summoned units could start healing the enemies;
  
• Fixed an issue where Skill Affinity runes could proc every level when used in combination with Summoning skills;
  
• Fixed an issue where the Singular Focus rune, when used in conjunction with the Divine Legacy rune, could cause the game to freeze due to the lack of available legendary powers;
  
• Fixed an issue where certain Runes would be applied multiple times to high quantity summons such as Frenzied Bunnies;
• Fixed an issue where Riftwalker (Spellblade) and Wrathful Focus (Pyromancer) ascensions would not be able to multicast;
  
• Removed the ranged web attack from the basic spider;
  
• Fixed the tooltip descriptions in the Skill Tree to mention that certain skill trees are not available in the current version;
  
• Fixed an issue where zooming in/out of the skill tree could cause strange visual artifacts;
  
• Fixed an issue where the gamepad could lose focus of the game when hovering over newly unlocked achievements;
  
• Fixed an issue where Bloodlust's cooldown would not work as intended while mounting a Panther;
  
• Fixed an issue where the maximum number of hounds for the Hound Master should be 5, instead of 4 (with skill tree upgrades);
  
• Fixed an issue where the Spellblade's Rift could appear inside a rock in the Scorching Valley;
  
• Cobra Totems damage increased from 150 to 300⬆️;
  
• Frenzied Bunnies negative effect power increased by approximately 25%⬆️;
  
• Volcano Eruption damage increased from 150 to 200;⬆️
  
• Summon Plague Rats Rot damage increased from 600 to 1000;⬆️
  
• Shockwave Totem damage increased from 100 to 200;⬆️
  
• Summon Putrid Hounds damage increased from 200 to 300;⬆️
  
• Summon Skeletal Mage damage increased from 500 to 600 ⬆️;
  
• Summon Swamp Boar damage increased from 100 to 200⬆️;
  
• Summon Swamp Boar Rot damage increased from 300 to 400⬆️;
  
• Summon Ballista damage increased from 120 to 200 ⬆️;
  

Soulstone Survivors is one of my favourite games in the spirit of Vampire Survivors, and it just got a lot bigger with the new Path of Ascension upgrade.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/soulstone-survivors-a-great-vampire-survivor-like-has-a-huge-skill-tree-upgrade