Chronicon News

Hey everyone!

Thanks for all the reports! Here's an update that should resolve most found issues since 0.90.0. There's still some left in the bug reports thread, and I'll have another update out by the weekend or so to take care of that.

Here's the full notes:

Anomaly Rewards:

• Anomaly experience rewards were tweaked around not stacking with bonus experience stats... which they accidentally did, awarding as much as 40 times too much on the highest difficulty (oof)
  
• They now intentionally stack with bonus experience stats, and have been balanced around it
  
• You are guaranteed level-ups when on an estimated appropriate league all the way to Mastery ~900 where it slows down
  
• The reward experience now also scale with your Mastery, granting you a little bit more for each Mastery level you gain
  
• The Anomaly interface now also properly reflect the true reward experience with all bonus experience stats included
  
• Crystals, Materials, and Rune rewards remain unchanged
  
• Boss Chests now drop Crowns
  

Experience gains:

• Experience gained from quests are no longer increased by experience modifiers as the quest rewards are already based on your level
  
• Trove experience reward doubled
  

Interface:

• Moved the killstreak announcements upwards slightly to where zone entrance announcements are
  

Loot:

• Story bosses have had their drop rates increased
  

Monsters:

• Wailing Scholars have had their damage reduced by 30%
  
• Fungimancas no longer cast Fairy Ring (poison shrooms of death)
  

Skills:

• Berserker:
  
  • Burn:
    
    • Now renamed Dragon Burn to avoid the inevitable confusion
      
• Templar:
  
  • Magnetic Field:
    
  • Magnetic Orbs:
    
    • Now updates the crit rate from the player rather than snapshot (might add this to other similar skills if it feels good)
      

Tinka's Domain:

• Moved the Resistant Dummy down a bit so bouncing effects doesn't seek out dummies in other rooms etc
  

Fixes:

• Fixed Firebreather's Helmet description saying "AMOUNT"
  
• Fixed Dragonbreath (Berserker) not working
  
• Fixed issue causing inconsistent drop rates of Champion's Crowns
  
• Fixed issue causing incorrect exp overflow calculations when gaining insane amount of experience, resulting in a lot of extra levelups
  
• Fixed some skill description typos/grammar and missing highlights
  
• Fixed some enchant skill ID references pointing to wrong skills
  
• Fixed issue causing dupe Rune drops before having seen all Runes
  
• Fixed Shady Dealer announcement not popping
  
• Fixed Shady Dealer not leaving the area
  
• Fixed Hardcore Tombstones using the old Anomaly system in the info
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen when hovering world objects with color blindness help turned on
  
• Fixed Gust and Tornado (Warden) not drawing their sprites
  
• Fixed rare crash from render updates
  
• Fixed being able to (regular) Augment unlocked Greater Augmented enchants
  
• Fixed Sporeling (Warden) not working as intended
  
• Fixed Storm Shrooms (Warden) not working as intended
  
• Fixed Tome of Condemnation Augmenting proc rate beyond 100%
  
• Fixed weird looking boss fight rooms in some Dungeon Anomalies
  
• Fixed Increased Conduction not increasing Lightning Rod proc rate
  
• Fixed Feeding Dunes portal spawning out of reach sometimes
  
• Fixed issue causing Relics and Spell Codex going on cooldown and doing nothing if used mid-attack
  
• Fixed being able to unequip the Thundering Army set (Templar) and still keep permanent companions
  
• Fixed being able to unequip the Soul Avatar/Replica (Templar) skills and keep the permanent companions up with the Thundering Army set
  
• Fixed Lich Form (Warlock) not granting the correct amount of base cooldown reduction
  
• Fixed Skull Bomb and Poison Skull (Warlock) not having a throw range
  
• Fixed Sun & Moon interacting weirdly with a lot of stuff
  
• Fixed Snow Fury (Warden) causing Snow Blast on herself when there were no Wolves active
  
• Fixed co-op issue with allocating Mastery points
  

Hey everyone!

Did you find True Legendary items to be a bit rare recently?
Turns out they didn't drop in Anomalies. My bad. ːsteamfacepalmː

This update fixes that and a few other things, and also changes how MF works in general.. should provide a better experience overall, but please let me know what you think!

Thanks for the continued reports and suggestions!


Loot:

• Further tuned drop rates across the board
  
• Player MF is now multiplied with chest rarity bonuses and enemy MF bonuses (the enemy MF bonus is based on their relative maximum health)
  
• This, among other things, makes spending keys on locked chests more worthwhile
  

Fixes:

• Fixed Static incorrectly stating that Companions may trigger it
  
• Fixed being able to use portal scrolls at the end of Dungeon Anomalies (prevented so you don't miss the loot)
  
• Fixed some powers and skills having incorrect skill references
  
• Fixed issue causing True Legendary items to not drop in Anomalies
  
• Fixed issue causing enemy affixes to not scale with Anomaly Leagues
  
• Fixed issue that prevented Elites attached to Champions from calculating their bonus MF correctly
  

Hey everyone!

Thanks for the reports!
I have mainly fixed a bunch of issues and done some tweaking to Anomalies and drop rates. Please let me know if you think drop rates are better and how the Anomalies feel now!

Here's the full update notes:
Anomalies:

• Increased monster density of all Anomalies
  
• Vastly increased monster density in the larger open layouts and forests
  
• Tweaked the Anomaly completion bar fill rate
  

Loot:

• Adjusted base drop rates as they were accidentally set much too low
  
• Bonus MF from difficulties past Legendary have had to be rebalanced (since they scale multiplicatively with the base drop rates)
  
• As a result of this, MF on gear is much more valuable now
  

Misc:

• Reduced frequency of Unstable Dimension spawns
  

Skills & Monsters:

• Target circles should no longer be covered by ground damage effects
  
• Enemy fire ground effects should now also show target circles so they are still visible if they overlap with player abilities
  
• Thunder affix thunder strikes now show a target circle
  
• Spirits of Torment now merges from a greater distance (set bonus) and are now limited to 15 active spirits
  
• Spirits of Torment and Windcaller Whirlwinds (set) now update their attack timers properly when merging
  

Fixes:

• Fixed a Rune of MISSING TEXT dropping
  
• Fixed Crash on Maddoc boss fight
  
• Fixed Maddoc's table going absolutely nuts
  
• Fixed Grace's shield visual (Templar) not fading away correctly
  
• Fixed some Berserker Heritage skills causing a flickering Root Veil effect
  
• Fixed potentially unreachable exit in Clairebourg Halls
  
• Fixed Waypoint portals in The Chronicon appear as if unlocked at all times
  
• Fixed the Eastern Wing key still referencing Eastern Wall (old zone)
  
• Fixed going out of the Servant Quarters to Castle Exterior putting you inside a wall
  
• Fixed Sporeblood Perk (Warden) referencing the wrong skill
  
• Fixed dungeon doors in Lushlands spawning incorrectly
  
• Fixed Shrines sometimes doing a weird screen flicker when activated
  
• Fixed Containers of varying qualities merging
  
• Fixed "MISSING TEXT" on gem combination info cards
  

Have a great weekend!

Hey everyone!

Major Content Update #7 is finally here!
And it's a big one - in fact so big so the update notes don't fit in this announcement, so you'll find all of them over here.
You can also check out this little video I made to see some cool new stuff and builds.


This update introduces a new Endgame system based around the old Anomalies, however now you manually get to pick the difficulty without having to slog through 2000 floors before your über build faces a challenge. :-)

Numbers has also been squished a lot to be more easily balanced and maintained in the long run, so if you were hitting in the trillions before, you will most likely not do that anymore, though you should be getting through content of the same difficulty at the same pace regardless. Also please note that not all builds have been given the attention they deserve, and there will be a lot of updates leading up to 1.0 that adds new powers, balances sets and existing powers, etc. to bring as many builds as possible to great power and fun!

The Anomalies have been split into 3 different types:

• Random Anomaly - similar to the old system, with the exception that no bosses appear and they don't automatically scale.
  
• Dungeon Anomaly - generates a 3-floor anomaly with a similar layout on all floors, and ends with a boss fight in a dedicated boss room at the end. Rewards a big chest and special crafting materials and Runes.
  
• Elite Dungeon Anomaly - A Dungeon Anomaly but has a higher concentration of Elites and Champions, better rewards at the end, and you may not leave it until you are done, or die.
  

A new Rune system has been added:

• Runestones are received as rewards from Elite Dungeon Anomalies, and they can be transmuted with items with powers on them to extract the power from the item onto the rune. The Rune can then be transmuted with any item of the same type to apply the power to it, allowing double powers on items, or moving powers to those precious set items. Unique and Legendary items generate Lesser runes, and True Legendary items generate Greater runes - of which you can only have 3!
  
• Regular Dungeon Anomalies also reward Lesser Runes, however these Lesser Runes are different from the ones you create yourself. They can be applied to a wider array of items, and they hold new powers that aren't on any existing items! 47 such Runes have been added with this update, and more will be added over time.
  

Here's a few examples of new runes:



The Masteries have been totally revamped as well, turning each node in the entire Mastery tree into a multi-skill node allowing you to pick and mix from a large amount of passives and perks. Perks are more powerful, single-point, passives that define, alter, or add to playstyles and mechanics. For the sake of balance, all Masteries except the base stat ones have been capped. However, the base nodes (the ones that increased with each point spent) now increase base skill damage rather than elemental damage, so regardless of how you spend your points, all your skills will improve.

Here's two example of the base nodes:



In addition to all this, there has ben a ton of general improvements and balance tweaks, many performance boost, bug fixes, and other general quality of life changes. Not to mention, a ton of new equipment has been added and many existing Legendaries have had powers added to them! Refer to the massive update notes for a full list of changes.

As always, a big thanks to everyone who submitted bug reports, suggestions, and helped to test everything for this huge update!

I'll keep an eye on the forums in case any issues arise - I hope you enjoy this update!

Hello everyone!

As discussed in the previous announcement, I have some test builds up where you can try out the new features of the next update. I would like to invite anyone who is interested to check it out, and give an update on what the plans for next year is.


I've decided to invite everyone to the test build rather than make it a half-finished optional update, as there is still plenty to do so it would be a lesser experience. The test builds are different from the current live ones in a few ways:

• Separate saves are used, and no progress can be carried over to live, and no achievements can be earned
  
• Characters can be boosted to level 100 & mastery 1000
  
• All waypoints and content is unlocked
  
• Vendors carry all legendary sets, and a special vendor carry the new runes
  
• Crafting is largely free of cost
  
• There's various keyboard commands (listed on the Discord pins) to spawn enemies/items/other stuff
  
• Odd bugs :-)
  

I call these builds "Tinka builds". (As reference to the Goblin in the main hub doing maintenance work)

These are designed to make testing easy and comfortable and can easily be tweaked to lock out features or classes for focused testing etc. Currently only a few (new) things are locked out due to not being finished and/or stable.

• New rune system with several runes for Templar and Warden, and a few runes for Warlock and Berserker (many runes are yet to be added)
  
• New endgame system based on difficulty leagues that you can pick from freely, although so far it's only the "Random Anomaly" version that is testable (basically the current system but with controlled difficulty) - it is soon to be expanded with "dungeon anomalies"
  
• The complete new Mastery system
  
• A lot of changes to the base skills - for Templar the changes are pretty significant with new skills, but for others its mostly about number tweaking
  
• A lot of bug fixes
  
• General performance tweaks, however please note that the test build is *not* running the latest engine version that fixes the 144hz and other framerate issues, but the end goal is to have the update run on the latest engine version when it goes live
  

• If you want to provide feedback or just see what on earth I've been up to all this time.
  

• Locate Chronicon in your Steam library, then right-click it and select Properties
  
• Go to the BETAS tab, and click the field to enter a code
  
• Enter tinkaistheking and click CHECK CODE to enter the special test builds
  
• Wait for it to download and you're off!
  
• To get back to the normal game you simply pick "NONE - opt out ..." in the dropdown-list under the BETAS tab where you entered the code
  

Here's an invite link to the Discord where we talk a lot about the test builds, the games design (and bugs), and other ARPG's: https://discord.gg/nSKhPEA




Next year is going to be a big year, because next year is full release!
When? Can't say exactly - as this announcement alone is proof of, I always underestimate the time I need to finish an update, and I don't want to release an unfinished mess. But I am looking at the spring months currently, so I guess Q2 of 2019!

What's coming next year then?
First off, the current test build is going to go live as soon as it's ready. Then I am working on polishing all existing content and also releasing Act 5 - the last act of the game. I will likely split this up in a series of smaller updates, adding new runes, items, tweaks, fixes, community suggestions, and the items on the roadmap, etc as I am quietly making progress on act 5.


Well you get the full game, that's what!
The currently lower price will also be adjusted - as is listed in the Early Access info on the store page the current price is with all the bugs and missing content in mind, so expect it to go up a bit on release. I will do another announcement on this when we are getting closer to give everyone an honest chance to grab the game in a cheaper state. The price isn't yet decided but it's not going to be anything crazy - I'll let you know exactly what it's gonna be when the time comes.


I would love to add more content to the game after 1.0, both as free updates and larger paid DLC. Something that has been requested a lot is "supporter packs" with skins for your characters or other cosmetics, which I must say is very flattering (thank you!), and is also something I will keep in mind. Though my main focus for DLC would be expanded game features, mechanics, areas, and perhaps even a class or two. I am taking all your requests and wishes into account. I am also going to look at porting to consoles!

The priority of these issues depend entirely on how launch goes so I can't say what's going to happen and when - just know that I'm keeping every option open and I want to keep supporting the game and the awesome community around it for as long as I can.



I'll keep an eye on the Discord, forums, and other social media, and reply when I can, but I am now going to take some time off. I might get bored and update the test builds a bit but other than that, I'll be trying to relax and spend time with family and friends for the next week or two.

I hope this year has been good for you, and I'll see you in the next one!

Happy Holidays!
-Squarebit