Halls of Torment News

• Character traits now have two variations for each level so will be able to further customize your build. This has been applied to Swordsman, Archer, and Exterminator in the PRELUDE.
  
• Multistrike & projectiles can now be partial. Those partial additional attacks are applied regularly on each n-th attack.
  
• Block Chance is superseded by Block Strength which will determine the Block Chance of a character based on incoming damage. Block Strength can lead to a 100% Block Chance for attacks with a power of ¼ of the Block Strength.
  
• Auto-aim can now be toggled with buttons.
  
• Ember Grounds now has its own soundtrack.
  

• New Double Slash Trait (I) has been added, additional levels will be made available through quests later on.
  
• The Scorched Giant elite in Ember Grounds is now a Scorched Giant Thrower.
  

• Ashen Wyrms now stay longer overground and wait a bit longer before attacking.
  

• Lord of Pain now casts homing projectiles with the death curse. (In the future we plan to add a quest item that allows you to cancel the curse projectile. Originally, it was not intended to beat this encounter by reviving)
  

• Added more descriptions for traits
  
• Added special info for Additional Attacks, Block Chance and Defense in the stat-tooltip
  
• Added an input delay to trait and ability selection
  
• Added graphics to the final screen
  
• Character Stats can now be navigated with a gamepad
  
• Items have now indicators to show if they have been retrieved or bought
  

• Auto-Aim and Auto-Attack is now properly saved and applied
  
• Power Hitter quest can now be completed
  

Ah hell, going to say goodbye to any free time I had for the next month. Halls of Torment has sucked me right in being a blend of retro Diablo and Vampire Survivors.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/halls-of-torment-is-retro-diablo-meets-vampire-survivors

• The Flamedancer, first boss of Ember Grounds, got two new attack patterns.
  

• Improved performance of monsters
  
• Improved player upgrade performance
  
• Improved Abilities performance
  
• Improved of XP Gem performance
  

• Sometimes on pickup the game would crash.
  
• Fixed a freeze when an item chest was collected while the player was dying.
  
• Fixed that loading of stages could be triggered multiple times.
  

• Visual Upgrades to Ember Grounds
  
• Visual Upgrades to the Overworld
  
• Updated all trait frames
  
• Added several new item graphics
  

• Added general description to undiscovered quests
  
• Changed item stash location and sprite in the overworld
  
• Improved sprite visibility of Ashen Wyrms in Ember Grounds
  
• Auto-Aim will now target on breakables
  
• When reviving an effect is shown
  

• Bullets would not properly react to: Sparking Tips, Ring of Fire, Shockwave Core
  
• Sparking Tips projectiles would not set enemies on fire
  
• Firewalker Boots and Bogged Boots no longer react to the attack speed modifier
  
• Dragon’s Breath could trigger burn endlessly on hit
  
• Dragon’s Breath and Ring of Fire now make the Fire Affinity trait appear (if unlocked)
  
• Fixed quest description for monster type kill quests
  
• Added monster types to all monsters on Ember Grounds (mostly Scorched and Imps)
  
• Items could be picked up multiple times from chests
  
• When re-entering a level, values on the right side should be properly reset now
  
• Quests’ hidden state will now be saved properly. A patch will unhide all falsely hidden quests.
  

• Reworked Transfixion ability: lower chance for the debuff but significantly increasied damage
  
• All burning effects: 10dmg/0.2s for 2s -> 25dmg/0.5 for 5s
  
• All burning chances have been generally halved
  
• Flamewalker boots trigger distance: 2.5m -> 5m
  
• Flamewalker boots burn chance as been reduced by 60%
  
• Sparking Tips damage 5 -> 25
  
• Shockwave Core range: 1.5m -> 2.0m
  
• Exterminator’s projectile damage falloff: 30% -> 25%
  
• Dragon’s Breath cooldown traits: increasing attack speed bonus
  
• Potions heal now 25 + 5% health
  
• Potion and Hand of Greed drops have been increased by 20%
  
• Invincibility time after spawn of slimes has been reduced to 200ms
  

• Full gamepad support has been added and a steam default configuration has been set.
  
• If you have any input problems, please reset the gamepad to default settings for the game.
  

• XP distribution has been modified among monsters, giving early monsters more XP comparatively.
  
• Completed quests now only give 0.5% additional XP instead of 1%.
  
• Astronomer’s Orbs now have a smaller starting distance.
  
• Range modifier affects Astronomer’s Orbs less.
  
• Size modifier of Astronomer’s Orbs has been reduced.
  
• Second orbit of Astronomer's Orbs now spawns closer to the player.
  
• Disabled the automatic difficulty scaling (Torment Rank) for now.
  

• Piercing Wind trait unlocks only when the player has an attack that requires Piercing.
  
• Mouse cursor will not be hidden anymore. This should fix disappearing cursor issues overall.
  
• More Linux versions should natively be supported. Anything newer than Ubuntu 18.04 LTS should work.
  

• The Wellkeeper cage location in Ember Grounds is indicated with a marker.
  
• Opening the pause menu will always open the character view first.
  
• Main menu can be opened without selecting a character.
  

• Weapon Proficiency is now using roman numerals.
  
• Blessings and stages are now unlocked without having to restart the game.
  
• Quests requiring certain damage now include critical hits (e.g. Power Hitter).
  
• Killing 50 000 enemies with effects quest is now properly tracking progress.
  
• Lord of Pain kills are now properly recognized by the quest system.
  
• Character selection via gamepad has been fixed.
  
• Runner Shoes movement buff has been fixed and should be now permanent.
  
• Corrected the description of Spellcaster Gloves: it increases all direct damage.
  
• Scorched Skeletons in Ember Grounds dropped way too much XP.
  
• It should now be possible to equip the right ring slot properly at any time.
  
• Health of monsters now doesn’t increase over time in Ember Grounds.
  
• Fixed stats display of pickup ranges and health regeneration tooltips.
  

• Optimised environments
  
• Optimised Imp behaviour
  
• Optimised performance of destructible objects
  

• Fixed: Certain monsters could cause crashes on death events.