Nordic Ashes News

Hello!
In today’s patch we have many cool updates! New Ragnarok, in-game tutorials, and a ton of your suggestions implemented! Here they are:

[h2]Svartalfheim Ragnarok[/h2]
It was time for Svartalfheim Ragnarok to arrive, so here it is! Challenge yourself with stronger enemies and bosses and conquer the dwarves’ realm!


[h2]Tutorials[/h2]
We have implemented simple but effective tutorials so some concepts like how Ascensions work are crystal clear. We hope these are useful for new players.

[h2]Community Suggestions[/h2]
We’ve been reading all of your comments. Here are many of the ideas you’ve suggested, whether they are QoL, balancing related or just minor improvements we hope we did a good job implementing them. There are still a few to develop, and they will be added in future updates.

• Olga’s Blessing third piece was hard to find as it was Epic tier. It is now a Rare item, so you should find all the pieces faster.
  
• Chest, potion, artifact and Ascension Crystal info is now shown in the Glossary.
  
• Shuffling Helga’s Tarot Deck will now be influenced by Cooldown.
  
• Sacrifice Shrine has been reworked. Enemy souls will enter the shrine if you defeat them by YOU being INSIDE of the circled area. So, it won’t matter if enemies are inside or outside the area. The only condition is that YOU are inside.
  
• The wave bar won’t disappear anymore during mid-boss fights.
  
• Thyra’s ulti is now smarter. It will now move and search for the closest enemies.
  
• Now you will be able to hide requirements in the achievements, leaf and glossary panels with the same keys/buttons.
  
• Gnöki will finally smile at you when you reach level 5 of Happiness.
  
• Weapons are now displayed from more to less DMG dealt in the end panel.
  
• The “+” next to a relic on the end panel will now mean the number of resets instead the number of ascensions, as you will also see the icon of an Ascension Crystal next to the name of the relic.
  
• Talkor’s THE coin ascension description has been updated.
  
• The Yggdrasil upgrade “99+” description has been updated.
  
• The number of times you can revive is now better displayed, next to the character’s heart containers.
  
• Crystal Soul relic has been reworked. It will double the number of red hearts and turn them into blue ones and will also exceed the limit of 14 hearts if that’s the case.
  
• Many of you were asking that after unlocking higher difficulty levels, to be able to play them right after a new realm is released. So now, if you have already conquered Expert in other realms, you will be able to play Expert on new realms without having to play Normal and then Hard. The same happens with Ragnarok levels. However, in order to play Ragnarok, you must have conquered Expert on that realm.
  

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Axeldör’s hammer wasn’t working properly.
  
• Amaranth’s xp earning was bugged, so the xp you earned with Ivy was insanely high. It has now been fixed to its normal amount. It also was bugged in the opposite way, not gathering all the xp it should in some cases.
  
• Electric Rune was only firing 1 projectile.
  
• Axeldör’s axe was only firing 1 lightning bolt.
  
• Thyra’s arrows won’t feel “drunken” anymore when playing at high FPS.
  

We have also been working on improving performance.

That’s all for today’s update. We were planning to release the next realm’s beta next week, but we will need 1 more week to do so. So expect Vanaheim Beta in two weeks from now!
Cheers!

If you have any suggestions, issues or any kind of feedback, don't hesitate to contact us:
🔸 Discord.
🔸 Steam Community.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068280/Nordic_Ashes_Survivors_of_Ragnarok/

Hi!
Today we bring this minor patch including some fixes for the bugs you reported these days. Thanks so much for your support!

• Amaranth's relic Skog wasn't being added to the Glossary.
  
• Crystal Soul relic wasn't removing red hearts from the UI.
  
• Transparency setting is now being applied to Forest Mayhem
  
• Brazilian portuguese translation updated.
  
• Minor translation corrections
  

That’s all for today’s fix. Have a nice week!

If you have any suggestions, issues or any kind of feedback, don't hesitate to contact us:
🔸 Discord.
🔸 Steam Community.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068280/Nordic_Ashes_Survivors_of_Ragnarok/

[h3]Welcome our new survivor, Amaranth the Forest Summoner![/h3]
Defy the dark forces with Amaranth and her adorable friends! Her five inseparable familiars (Ivy, Skog, Peasprout, Lingon and Chilli) will fight for her, each in their own way, protecting Amaranth with everything they have.

Amaranth comes with 5 Active Summoning Relics, 1 Ultimate Relic and 6 Passive Relics. A total of 13 new Relics to try (and add to M.I.S.S.I.N.G.’s pool)!

Amaranth has never been too fond of weapons, so she is not that efficient with them, however, she was born to rule, providing a damage boost to all her summons.

Here’s a beautiful Amaranth wallpaper for you! (Gnöki as always sneaking in)



[h3]Fixes and changes[/h3]

• When you get gold from Talkor's ultimate, it can now exceed the maximum limit of 99 or 250 (if you have the Yggdrasil upgrade).
  
• There was a visual bug with life containers in some cases.
  
• The in-game information displayed above the Relics was not being displayed properly in some cases.
  
• Penetration stat in Yggdrasil has been changed to Summons stat.
  

[h3]Knights of the Dark skins[/h3]
This is a friendly reminder that the Knights of the Dark skins for Axeldör, Thyra and Hafgrim are Early Access exclusive. This means they will only be available while Early Access lasts (until nov/dec 2023, we still don’t have a fixed date for the official launch of the game).

If you unlock them before that date, you will be able to keep them forever!

After that, the opportunity to grab them will be gone, as they will become legacy skins.



If you have any suggestions, issues or any kind of feedback, don't hesitate to contact us:
🔸 Discord.
🔸 Steam Community.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068280/Nordic_Ashes_Survivors_of_Ragnarok/

Hello!

First of all, thanks again for your feedback about the new features and changes we’ve made to Nordic Ashes. The game is still on Early Access, and we really appreciate all your comments, positive or negative, so we can make the game better and better.


Since we launched Endless Mode, we’ve been debating if it was a good idea or not to release it so early. There have been major performance issues and runs went from 60FPS to 2, and that led to a bad game experience. We tried to solve it with performance fixes, but we also nerfed relics and features for the sake of Endless Mode.

And that is not the path we want to follow. Sacrificing fun relics in exchange for a few more FPS was not a good deal.

That being said, we’re gonna put Endles Mode on hold at least for now, until it is well optimized and better designed to make it more unique.

In return, we’re bringing back the functionality that nerfed relics deserve, as our main goal is to provide a fun, fresh and replayable game. That is Nordic Ashes true core! They are the following:

• R.E.S.E.T. can be used once again twice on each weapon, to a new max. of 5 times.
  
• Discount Coupon will work as it used to. It will always grant a discount in every relic.
  
• Relic stat limit has been removed.
  
• Axeldör’s Fury limit has been removed.
  
• Talkor’s Greed scales endlessly again, 1% per gold.
  
• Talkor’s Orbs scale endlessly, 0.25% per gold.
  
• Thyra and Hafgrim are easier to unlock.
  

Another well known suggestion is the grinding feeling the game can give:

• The seed-leaf exchange price has been lowered.
  
• The amount of leaves for each Yggdrasil tier has been lowered.
  

We felt that the game had lost some of its fun by capping so many things, and the only reason behind it was to try to improve Endless performance. We do not want that for the sake of a game mode, everything has to be modified. And well, the core of this genre is to have fun and get the most broken builds!

Aaaand tomorrow we will release the new character!

It is a pleasure to be able to develop this game with all of you ːNA_Gnokiː



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Hi!
Bugfix morning completed! Here are some fixes for the bugs you reported yesterday. Thanks so much for your support!

• The enemies Pain Sharing ability was not working properly. Damage was not being applied in some cases to Elites or Bosses.
  
• The new Torch Relic was not working correctly. It did not apply the extra damage it dealt.
  
• Talkor's Orbs were not working correctly. When losing gold, it added stats instead of removing them.
  
• Ymir's area attack was doing damage before the attack appeared.
  

That’s all for today’s fix. We will read new comments and suggestions during the weekend!
Have a nice end of the week!

If you have any suggestions, issues or any kind of feedback, don't hesitate to contact us:
🔸 Discord.
🔸 Steam Community.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068280/Nordic_Ashes_Survivors_of_Ragnarok/