Astral Throne News

[h2]Patch Notes 1.2.4[/h2]

Some gameplay tweaks and bug fixes in preparation for the Turn Based Thursday Fest on June 2nd.
More substantial updates followed by new content coming soon!

Gameplay Tweaks

• Added the ability to select more than one starting Memory in the Custom Games menu
  
• The Custom Games menu now remembers what configurations you had set previously
  
• Added a clear button to the Custom Games menu
  
• Made the requirements for a couple endings less strict
  
• Made the activation of Draco’s “Critical Roll” ability more obvious
  
• Added more tips for the loading screen
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed not triggering the Steam achievement for seeing the “Godfellas” ending (should grant it automatically upon opening the game if you have seen the ending before)
  
• Fixed “Lookout” skill softlocking the game when attempting to undo it
  
• Fixed recruitable Militia sometimes spawning with weird skills
  
• Fixed occasional inaccurate key counts in the HUD after getting a Crossroads event
  
• Fixed Alchemist transmutation menu not properly clearing Item tooltips
  
• Fixed visual bug in the Combat Forecast menu where weapon skills would seem to stack endlessly if the Unit had the “Hundred Arms” skill and you were switching back and forth between weapons
  
• Fixed item duplication when buying a Memory in a shop while still holding onto another item
  

[h2]Patch Notes 1.2.3[/h2]

Gameplay Tweaks

• Trading is now a free action, go nuts
  

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed the occasional perma-killing of downed units that were "Saved" after loading a run
  
• Fixed consumables not getting deleted when using from the Caravan while in an Encounter, leading to duping
  
• Fixed weapons sometimes disappearing when trying to equip them on units that can’t wield them with a full inventory
  
• Fixed consumables being deleted when their use is being undone before completion when the Unit has a full inventory
  
• Fixed being able to duplicate items while trading with quick inputs
  
• Fixed Marionette not being properly loaded after it had been broken, repaired, and summoned again
  
• Fixed Skill “Requisition” being learnable with no weapon proficiencies, leading to some Units gaining an errored weapon
  
• Fixed item duplication bug in the Alchemist
  
• Fixed Marionette sometimes duplicating
  
• Fixed some game text
  

In 1.1, we tried to smooth out the difficulty curve so you weren't cruising through Acts 2 and 3 if you managed to make it through Act 1. We overcompensated a bit and made the game too frustrating in turn, as that ended up cranking up the difficulty of the whole game too much. This patch is meant to undo a lot of the frustration that caused. And while the curve has hopefully smoothed out a bit, we're still working on improving it, but first we're going to bring the difficulty of the whole game down, making it easier overall.

[h2]Balance Changes[/h2]
Slightly reduced stats of all enemies in Acts 2 and 3
Slightly reduced generic enemy growth rates
Adjusted Final Boss to only gain +2 stat per remaining Ordinator while on the highest difficulty level
Reduced the ATS threshold for doubling to 4 from 5
Gave the "Thomas" Militia -2 MOV when on the enemy team, and made him guaranteed to spawn with a Sublcass and 2 Items
Reduced the bonus range of the long range Ordinator from +7 to +5 in the "Star of Montes Luna" encounter
Removed several of the Enemies from the starting area of the "Star of Montes Luna" encounter
Removed some reinforcements from the "Star of Montes Luna" encounter

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed the Starblind not spawning with weapons in the “Colline National Park” skirmish encounter in Act 2
  
• Fixed failing skill selection for a high level Alistair recruit
  
• Fixed Isolde starting with a horse
  
• Fixed skill and memory icons in the Unit codices not producing tooltips
  
• Fixed the Unit’s skill list closing when cancelling skill replacement
  
• Fixed some game text
  

Welcome to the second content update! This one doubles (yes, doubles) the number of Recruitable Militia Units and makes each Militia stand out from each other a little more.



[h2]New Recruitable Militia Units[/h2]

• 2 new Adepts
  
• 3 new Druids
  
• 2 new Knights
  
• 3 new Mages
  
• 3 new Monks
  
• 3 new Scholars
  
• 2 new Scouts
  
• 2 new Warriors
  

[h3]Militia Changes[/h3]

• Existing Militia’s stats have been rebalanced to make them stand out from one another more
  
• Each of the new Militia (and a few existing ones) now start with a skill that they’ll have every time they spawn
  
• Most of these skills are special and unique, but not all
  
• Skill books contains some of these new Skills
  

[h3]Bug Fixes and Tweaks[/h3]

• Fixed the World Map sometimes pointing itself in weird places when opening it
  
• Fixed issues with Cetus’s Teleportals and removed their cooldowns
  
• Fixed convoy filters sometimes switching while grabbing items
  
• Fixed “Learn By Example” Skill from locking up the game occasionally
  
• Fixed “Smokescreen” Status Effect from being removed after moving 0 tiles
  
• UI tweaks and improvements
  
• Recruitable Militia that spawn in Act 2 start with more experience
  
• Adjusted the base stats and growths of all classes
  
• Reduced impact of difficulty levels that reduce experience and HP
  
• Maia now starts 3 levels lower than the other Heroes so she can gain more experience quickly
  
• “Requisition” Skill now has a 50% chance of granting an Uncommon Weapon or better instead of 40%
  
• Reduced MOV of Starblind in the “Colline Royal Park” and “Manoir du Flambeur” skirmish encounters in Act 2
  
• Reduced difficulty of “Stargazer Temple” and “Imperial Cemetery” skirmish encounters in Act 2
  
• Halved the damage of the Stardust in the “Imperial Cemetery” encounter
  
• Reduced difficulty of the “Star of Montes Luna” encounter
  
• Final Boss gains +1 to each stat for each remaining Ordinator instead of +2
  

[h3]Fan Wiki[/h3]
The Astral Throne community has also started a fan wiki! Feel free to contribute to it. It’s gonna need some work after this update. Check it out here: https://astralthrone.wiki.gg/

We are of course still working on fixing bugs and balancing the encounters. We’ve received some great feedback on the previous balance update so look forward to more balance updates soon.

In case you missed it, here’s what was added in Patch 1.1.0, the previous update:

• Encounter balance changes to smooth difficulty curve, but more balance changes are on the way
  
• Knights got a new Skillset to improve their utility, with their old skills moved to the General Skillset
  
• Similar changes were made to the Battlemage, with Lyra gaining a new starting Skill
  
• QoL features such as sort and auto-heal buttons in the Caravan
  

You can read more about it here.

And if it's been a while since you've played, we've also fixed a lot of bugs and made the game a lot more stable since release!