Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch News

Dear Tacticians,

Thank you for diving into the Trials Patch! Your support and enthusiasm for Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch mean the world to us as we continue refining the game throughout Early Access. We've received reports of some bugs, and we're rolling out a patch to address them!

[h3]Patch Schedule[/h3]

PT: 4 PM, March 14, 2025
ET: 7 PM, March 14, 2025
CET: 12 AM, March 15, 2025
KST: 8 AM, March 15, 2025

Here are the changes within version 0.08.014 that we’ve made to the game:

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed untranslated text for the Workshop when locked within the Raven’s Tower
  
• Fixed an issue where Karlotta would become separated from her Bodyguard when moving
  
• Fixed an issue where using the Infiltrate skill would not end the unit’s turn
  
• Fixed an issue where relics that should not appear were displayed as a choice during a certain Trial event that required you to sacrifice a relic

We appreciate everyone that reported any bugs or issues that they came across during their gameplay. Please feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions with us on our
Steam discussion boards or our Discord server.

- ODS Team

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Dear Tacticians,

The Trials Patch is live! Are you ready to face the challenge? To celebrate, we're joining Steam’s Spring Sale! If you've been waiting to dive into Veil of the Witch, now’s the perfect time to grab it at 20% off.

Now, let’s dive into the new updates in this patch!

Among all the feedback we’ve gotten during Early Access, there are two key points we wanted to address immediately: replayability and repetitiveness.

Since this game incorporates roguelite elements, a certain amount of repetition is inevitable. However, some of that I felt was the perception of the experience of many battles being a little too similar. I was especially interested in feedback from players who have played the game for a fair amount of time—and wish to continue playing—but find that the game stops being as engaging after a certain amount of progress.

So let’s take a look at a few of the changes in this update (of which there are many) that should help to address the situation! There are three major features I want to highlight today.

Raven’s Tower, where you can craft Accessories and set your Trial level

1. Trials (18 Optional Effects and 7 Levels)
   • Various Trial effects can be combined together to increase the game’s overall difficulty.
     
   • As the difficulty increases, enemies become stronger, but you also gain access to unique reward currencies.
     
   • Originally, there were only three stages of trials. We felt that wasn’t enough, so now it goes up to seven.
     
   • Activating all 18 trial effects will make the game extremely, extremely difficult. I attempted it myself and didn’t last very long.
     
2. Accessories (19 Total)
   • As a reward for progressing while under the effects of a Trial, players can now craft Accessories that include new skills with new effects.
     
   • After it’s crafted, each accessory can also be upgraded one time.
     
   • Your party members can equip one accessory each.
     
   • Some accessories grant unique skills with a set number of uses.
     • Initially, these skills had really specific restrictions, like “only usable once every such-and-such number of battles”. But we decided that wasn’t very fun, so now they all just have a fixed number of uses in general, allowing for more strategic and flexible gameplay.
       
   • If used tactically, these Accessories can be game-changingly powerful.
     
3. Altar of Fire Upgrades (Further strengthening the effects of persistent upgrades)
   • To keep up with the added difficulty from Trials, we’ve added a new system to let players further enhance the upgrades available at the Altar of Fire.
     
   • All upgrades in the Altar of Fire can be enhanced with Sacred Embers.
     
   • After enhancing 30 upgrades, you’ll unlock the ability to slot one additional Greater Blessing.

Trials are a feature that allows players to adjust the game’s difficulty to their preference. We encourage you to experiment with various Trial effects to find the difficulty level that suits you best. And if you enable them all, be prepared for the ultimate challenge.

There’s a lot of ways to alleviate repetitiveness in a game like this, and some of them take a bit longer than others. In this update, we focused on adding more challenges and new abilities, woven into another track of persistent unlockables.

For the official release, we’ll be adding additional maps, more variations to battles, new enemies, another entire Act, and more. We've listened to our community’s feedback and adjusted our development plans accordingly. This new content will be designed to enhance replayability and keep the experience fresh for our players. We will share more in detail as we continue to develop new content! Stay tuned for more!

Best regards,
Jinsang Kim

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Dear Tacticians,

The long-awaited Spring update on our roadmap is coming soon! Introducing our Trials Patch, where you can put your tactical mind to the test. We’re bringing you the Trials Mode, an all-new accessories system, new unlockable partnership conversations, adjustments to Blessings, and more!

[h3]Patch Schedule[/h3]
PT: 10 AM, March 13, 2025
ET: 1 PM, March 13, 2025
CET: 7 PM, March 13, 2025
KST: 3 AM, March 14, 2025

Here is the list of changes for this patch version 0.08.012 below:

[h3]New Content / Features[/h3]

• Raven’s Tower
  • Chamber of Trials - a new challenging mode for players
    • Includes 18 trial effects to choose from
      
    • Includes higher tiered options for some trial effects
      
    • Complete battles with trial effects, including boss battles, to receive Trial Rewards and unlock the Workshop
      
    • Unlocked after all 3 bosses have been defeated
      
  • Workshop - accessory crafting and enhancement
    • Includes 19 accessories to craft
      
    • All accessories can be upgraded one additional time
      
    • Craft accessories with the Trial Rewards
      
    • Level up the furnace as you continue to craft more accessories
      
• New upgrades to the Altar of Fire
  • Once all blessings within the Altar of Fire have been unlocked, there will be an option to upgrade existing blessings more
  • Once a Greater Blessing has been obtained, there will be an option to unlock another Greater Blessing
• 5 new Forked Road events
  
• New Partnership conversations

[h3]Changes / Improvements[/h3]

• Improved Blessed Marks and Accursed Signs received during an expedition
  • Added a feature to be able to obtain multiple Marks or Signs at once
    
  • Adjusted some Forked Road event rewards to grant only Tier 2 Blessed Marks
    
  • Adjusted to only give Marks or Signs to allies with specified equipment
    
  • Removed events that only removed Accursed Signs
    
  • Adjusted so that identical status effects granted by Blessed Marks and Accursed Signs do not stack
    
• Improved existing Forked Road events
  • Shortened some lengthy events
    
  • Adjusted dice mechanics and corresponding rewards
    
• Improved how partnership levels increase
  • Max partnership level is 4
    
  • After reaching max, additional tiers will be displayed as +1, +2, +3, …, +9, purely to show how often the character was taken on an expedition
• Added a new Boss icon to show the boss unit within battles
• Adjusted the Act 1 boss battle so that Fallen soldiers will not spawn after Karlotta has been defeated
  
• Adjusted the summoning patterns of the Shadow Warriors to appear after Fellheart uses “Shadow Tempest”
  
• Adjusted the spawn locations of the Shadow Warriors summoned by Fellheart
  
• Improved sound quality for magic spells

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Fixed incorrect speaker names showing in some conversations within the Chat Log
  
• Fixed an issue where an error occurred when displaying the Relic tooltip
  
• Fixed an issue where some healing skills were not affected by healing increase / decrease effects
  
• Fixed Soraya’s Power of Darkness skill so that the primary target cannot be an object like Ice Walls
  
• Fixed an issue where the summoned ally with Emile’s Shadow Double skill would not receive Altar of Fire effects
  
• Fixed an issue where units summoned by Soraya’s skills had lower stats than intended
  
• Fixed an issue where if you rapidly press the flip button when training, the flip button and shortcut keys will become unusable
  
• Fixed an issue allowing players to activate the beacon within the Karlotta battle
  
• Fixed an issue where Fontaine’s Bodyguard status would not work properly when using a charging skill
  
• Fixed an issue where upon purchasing the Merchant’s Mug, the price of the items beyond budget did not change to red
  
• Fixed an issue where the Battle Start UI would appear during the battle dialogue incorrectly
  
• Fixed an issue where the battle would be lost if an enemy soldier was moved into an escape point during an ally’s turn in battle
  
• Fixed the ability to move again after using Shooting Spree while in Lone Wolf status
  
• Fixed an issue where the connecting line will not appear when unlocking the “Cruel Instinct” Blessing within the Altar of Fire
  
• Fixed an issue where the skill cooldown of a unit that ended during an ally's turn would be incorrect after performing a partnership effect action
  
• Fixed an issue where an exclamation mark would appear even though nothing could be upgraded within the Altar of Fire
  
• Fixed an issue where enemies affected by sleep skills would attack allies due to Soraya's co-op effect in certain situations during battle
  
• Fixed an issue with dialogue not appearing in the Street Gambler event
  
• Fixed an issue so that a Relic choosing Forked Road event does not appear before a Boss map
  
• Fixed an issue where a unit's level would be displayed as the maximum level, instead of the current level, when selecting to redistribute stats using the Chalice of Change
  

Throughout Early Access, we plan to continue improving Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch, by adding more features and listening to our players’ feedback and suggestions. We are always taking inspiration from our players, so if you have anything to share with us, please feel free to post on our Steam discussion boards or our Discord server!

-ODS Team

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Dear Tacticians,

"This game is too easy."
"I’ve beaten every expedition in under two hours."


You asked, we listened. Now it’s time to face the consequences 😈: the Trials Patch .

🎥 Watch the teaser:
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Patch Release Schedule PT: 10 AM, March 13, 2025
ET: 1 PM, March 13, 2025
CET: 7 PM, March 13, 2025
KST: 3 AM, March 14, 2025

Deep within the Raven’s Tower, the Chamber of Trials awaits. Here, only the sharpest minds will survive. You’ll face a series of brutal trial effects—how many will you take on at once? The greater the risk, the greater the reward. But be warned: even the best Tacticians may not make it out alive.


We’ll be revealing all the changes—including what awaits in the Chamber of Trials, the rewards that come with victory, and how you can tailor the challenge to your playstyle—with a dev log from the Creative Director and the full patch notes later. This patch will also include community reported bug fixes, feedback and suggestions, which you can find here.


Prepare yourself. The Trials Patch launches soon—will you rise to the challenge?

- ODS Team

Dear Tacticians,

Based on Early Access feedback, many players found the sheer health of the Act 2 boss daunting at first glance. This boss, like other large monsters, features weakness points that must be targeted effectively. Without a solid grasp of these mechanics, players may struggle to deal sufficient damage, making these encounters much more challenging. So, let’s dive into the best strategies for taking down large monsters, including the Act 2 boss.

[h3]Weak Point Mechanics[/h3]

Unlike regular enemies, large monsters occupy multiple tiles on the battlefield. These can range from smaller 2x2 monsters to even larger 3x3-sized ones.

Each turn, some of the monster’s tiles will randomly display weapon icons, indicating the monster’s current weaknesses. Three tiles for 2x2 monsters and four tiles for 3x3 monsters. Attacking these tiles with the corresponding weapon type will deal significantly higher damage and prevent counterattacks. However, using an incorrect weapon will result in lower damage output and leave the attacker vulnerable to an immediate counter.

Additionally, monsters rotate in the direction they are attacked from. This movement also shifts the position of their weakness icons, meaning players must strategically plan their attacks to maximize damage.


[h3]Chain Hit System[/h3]

When attacking a weakness for the first time, players will see a Chain Hit x1 effect, dealing initial damage. For example, the first attack here resulted in 32 damage:



On the second strike, Chain Hit x2 appears, increasing the damage output to 33 despite Marco’s spear is weaker than Emile’s axe originally:



The final weakness strike guarantees a Critical Hit, dealing a massive 132 damage:



[h3]Optimizing Damage Output[/h3]

To maximize efficiency, start your Chain Hit sequence with a lower-damage character and have your strongest attacker land the third and final hit, unlike what we showed in the above example. This ensures that the accumulated Chain Hit damage multiplier and Critical Hit bonus work together for the highest possible damage output.


By keeping these strategies in mind, we believe players can successfully overcome the Act 2 boss and other large monsters with greater ease. We hope this helps, and we’ll see you in the next log!

Jin Sang Kim