Relic Hunters Legend News

Patch Notes for 0.8.9

Hey Hunters,

We have an exciting new update featuring some desired quality-of-life improvements! This release focuses on elevating your daily adventures with revamped Exploration Daily Goals where players will get scored for defeating enemies, collecting chests, and looting resource nodes. This update also ensures smoother gameplay by addressing crashes, introducing insightful Weapon and Gear Tooltips, and much more!

In our recent discussion on the State of the Game, we shared our commitment to refining and revitalizing Relic Hunters Legend. These patches are our start in that direction, with more updates in the pipeline! You can read more about the State of the Game here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/633080/announcements/

To make sure your feedback continues to be heard, join our Discord!

Discord: https://discord.gg/relichunters

Happy hunting!

[h2]Patch Notes- January 16th[/h2]
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• Added new Weapon and Gear Tooltips
  
• Match transitioning has undergone a thorough rework, significantly enhancing the overall stability of the match transitioning process
  
• Exploration Daily Goals have been revamped and improved
  
• When entering repeated Asteroid Dungeon Nemesis Missions players will no longer experience a game crash
  
• Delve Portals will now stay activated even after defeating Champion enemies
  
• Several VFXs changes to Status
  
• Updated the Skills network to fix desync issues and ensure a smoother and more synchronized gameplay experience.
  
• We've addressed several Asteroid Dungeon Nemesis related crashes and softlocks to provide a more stable gaming environment.
  
• Fixed incorrect values in some of Pinkyy's skills
  
• We've tackled minor bugs across the game to improve overall performance and user satisfaction.
  
  

Hey Hunters,

Welcome to our very first "State of the Game" post! My name is Mark, and I'm the Game Director for Relic Hunters Legend here at Rogue Snail.

It's been a wild ride since launch, and we are super grateful for all of you who loved Relic Hunters and supported us in this grand adventure! We are a small team from Brazil with very big dreams and you are helping make them come true. Thank you with all our hearts!

Posts like this will be opportunities for us to talk about the game's development, and also to talk to you—our community—to keep you in touch with what we’re working on, and what is coming next in Early Access!




Launch went well and overall server stability is pretty good! We haven’t had any long outages since launch, and apart from a few hiccups on day 1, our servers seem to be generally well-behaved.
Overall, we've seen very positive sentiment about the game itself, the core gameplay, the story, and the RPG systems—with the vast majority of negative reviews being about the current technical state of the Early Access build. The overall sentiment from negative reviews was "this game has a lot of potential, it just needs to be more stable before I can recommend it".

Although the early parts of the game and story content seem stable enough, we’ve made mistakes when it comes to the technical state of the endgame. We’ve fixed a LOT of things since launch, but there still are a lot of serious technical problems that we are working hard on addressing, including but not limited to:

• Some Asteroid Dungeon Nemesis (ADN) missions are unstable when played in multiplayer, and can soft lock or crash sometimes;
  
• Some skill and item combinations in Raff and Jimmy are causing performance issues that can lead to sync issues, crashes or soft locks;
  
• Sometimes Delve bosses don't spawn their exit portal;
  
• Trading has some general instability and can be a bit buggy and unreliable at times;
  
• When playing Epic missions in a sequence, backend errors can be frequent and occasionally require players to restart the game;
  
• Players are sometimes getting temporarily stuck in the dropship when joining a game in progress
  

We are also aware that the current endgame balance is not fulfilling your expectations. Compared to Raff, the rest of the Hunters feel underpowered and weak. Even so, there seems to be a decently healthy variety of builds being used in endgame, so it's a good sign that with a few more updates and tweaks we can bring the game to a great spot balance-wise!

Finally, the endgame didn't hold much interest after about 80-100 hours of play, and you are waiting for more content and/or major features. Honestly, this is actually not bad for our first Early Access release, and we are hopeful for the future, as we will explain below!



We heard you and are currently investigating adding an Offline Mode to the game before it's out of Early Access! Our goal is for you to be able to enjoy Relic Hunters Legend even when you're somewhere without an internet connection (or if servers are down for maintenance).

This is early in development, so we will share more information at a later date.



We are aware that, for some of you, being restricted from playing Story content in multiplayer is annoying. We are a very small team making a huge RPG, so we have to be very careful about where to dedicate our resources, and unfortunately, that’s a really hard change to make at this stage. We’ve made the difficult decision to keep Story missions single player and to invest our attention into making other parts of the game stronger.

We understand that some of you will disagree! At the end of the day, game development is full of hard choices like this where there isn't a clear "right" answer.




I played the game myself alongside you all for 40+ hours at release and the whole team have been watching livestreams, playthroughs, and feedback posted on our Discord.

We were shocked and felt really bad to see the game performing badly and making players frustrated, when we all put so much love and care into making it.

The team and I took a step back and looked at some of our technical infrastructure supporting the game's systems. We are serious about addressing everything that the community has spoken up about at launch, but that is a big undertaking.

We are balancing our time and prioritizing fixing known issues while also working towards a larger update that we’re looking forward to sharing with you all when we can.

Our goal is that, whenever the next big update hits, players will come back to a much more stable and enjoyable experience. We are super grateful for your patience, and we are doing our best to make sure it is rewarded!



We have been working on a first big Early Access update that is due next year!
Here's what to expect:

• Bug fixes and technical stability;
  
• "Treasure Maps" endgame system, with over 100 new levels, new gear, new weapons, new Relics, a new Faction and new Rebel Rank Chapters;
  
• A new playable Hunter (who do you think it'll be?);
  
• New balance and items made to make all Hunters strong and fun to play;
  

We have no release date yet, as we want to make sure we fix the majority of serious technical issues before making the game bigger. But hopefully you are as excited as I am to jump back into the game when the new update hits and farm some loot in Maps!



That’s it for our first State of the Game post! If you've read it all until this point, I commend you for your commitment—I know it was a lot of text! But hopefully it was a good read and made you feel like we are all on the same page about how to make this game better!

If not—that's okay too! Tell us about it (respectfully, please!), as the team over at Rogue Snail will be keeping a close eye on community discussions here on Steam, on our Discord, and on social media.
We are only just beginning, and we are grateful for having you all along for the adventure!



Cheers,
~Mark

Hey Hunters,

We have a new patch update to help further improve some quality-of-life improvements!

Our team is still hard at work taking all of YOUR feedback and suggestions on how to improve Relic Hunters Legends. As we continue to implement the changes inspired by community feedback, there are going to be many different types of changes that will touch on all areas of the game. They’re all being made only after much consideration by our team of devs, and with the long-term vision of building a game that is both fun and challenging.

To make sure your feedback continues to be heard, join our Discord!



Discord: https://discord.gg/relichunters

[h2]Addressed the following concerns:[/h2]

• Pending Positive Reviews would not be considered even when reaching the “Help Others” weekly limit
  
• The dreaded "The Iron" Bug, would cause the Skill Trees to be locked until restarting the game.
  
• Added a very short internal cooldown to Jimmy's Counterstrike Skill Node.
  
• Several Status were being scaled by Buff Duration or Reduced Condition Duration affixes when they shouldn't have (The Selfless cooldown Status, for instance).
  
• Various instances of issues that resulted in game crashes
  

Hey Hunters!

Get ready for an epic holiday season with Relic Hunters Legend! 🎄 We have TONS of festive holiday events planned for you ALL MONTH LONG. I know! Crazy right?!

Let's dive into the exciting gifts we have to share!

[h2]Holiday Twitch Drops[/h2]



We're thrilled to bring you our special Holiday Twitch Drops event. It's the perfect way to celebrate and spread joy this festive season. 🎄

From December 11th to December 29th, you'll be able to earn rewards while watching your favorite streamers play Relic Hunters Legend! Check out the Holiday-themed presents you'll receive while watching channels that have Twitch Drops enabled:

Holidays Present Bubble: Watch for 15 minutes.
Panzer Reindeer Bubble: Watch for 20 minutes.
Holidays Badge: Watch for 30 minutes.
Snowman Banner: Watch for 60 minutes.

Enjoy the holiday season with Relic Hunters Legend!

[h2]🎁Discord Community Achievements🎁[/h2]



🎁 Starting today, we're launching the Holidays Community Achievements event. It's simple: the more, the merrier! As our Discord server grows, we'll unlock special presents to share the joy with all of you!

How does it work?

1. Invite your friends and fellow Relic Hunters to join our Discord.
2. Keep an eye on the #announcements channel for our weekly achievements updates.
3. As our member count increases, we'll unlock weekly codes for awesome in-game cosmetics.

🎉 Our weekly gifts will be distributed as follows:

Reaching 50 new members by December 7th - 500 Shop Token
Reaching 100 new members by December 14th - Santa Hat (all Hunters)
Reaching 200 new members by December 21st - Seven’s Santa Clothes - Top and Bottom



The more friends you bring, the more rewards we all get. So, let's spread the word and share the joy of Relic Hunters Legend this holiday season.

📆 Event Schedule:

- Each week from now until December 21st, we'll announce new achievements every Thursday.

🎄 The greatest gift you can give this year? More friends to play and celebrate with! Stay tuned for updates and invite your friends to join the Relic Hunters community.

Let's make this Holiday unforgettable together! 🌟

Discord: https://discord.gg/relichunters

[h2]Holiday Instagram Stories Event[/h2]



'Tis the season of giving, and we're thrilled to spread some holiday cheer with our Relic Hunter community! 🎅🎁

We're excited to spread joy and gifts during this festive season. From December 18th to 22nd, stay tuned to our Twitter for a special gift every day!

🗓️ Event Dates: December 18th to 22nd

🎁 What's in Ace's bag? Exclusive in-game gifts for YOU! 🎮✨

🔗 How to Participate:

Follow us on Instagram (@playrelichunters).
Share this post with your friends and spread the joy!
Share on your Instagram stories which gift you received from Ace!


🎅 Daily Gifts:

Every day, from December 18th to 22nd, we'll reveal a special Holiday code on Instagram Stories. Be quick, as each code is limited to the first 250 redeems!

The presents will contain:


December 18th: 10 Dye Kit
December 19th: 250 Shop Token
December 20th: 250 Shop Token
December 21st: Holidays’ Tree Bubble
December 22nd: Ace’s Holidays Banner

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playrelichunters

[h2]Shop Token Holiday’s Calendar on Twitter[/h2]



Get ready for a month of gaming surprises and holiday cheer! 🎅🕹️ We're excited to present our Relic Hunters Legend Holiday Calendar Event, starting December 1st and continuing all the way to New Year's Eve.

📆 Event Duration: December 1st to December 31st
🎮 How It Works: Each day, we will reveal a special gift code on our Twitter. Simply redeem the code in-game to receive your Shop Tokens!

📢 How to Participate:

Follow Us: Make sure you're following us on Twitter to catch the daily gifts.
Redeem Quickly: The codes will be available for a limited time, so don't miss out!
Spread the Joy: Share your holiday victories with your gaming buddies. The more, the merrier!

🌟 Join the Countdown: We're counting down the days of December in style. Let's celebrate together! 🎉

Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and stay tuned for a month full of epic gifts and holiday-themed fun. It's the most wonderful time of the year, and we can't wait to share it with you! 🎮🎄

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RelicHuntersU

Social Links:

Discord: https://discord.gg/relichunters
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RelicHuntersU
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RelicHuntersUniverse/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/playrelichunters

The Steam Awards are upon us! It’s that special time of year where we ask our amazing community members to hit the ✨ shiny button ✨ to select Relic Hunters Legend for Better with Friends!

Ace, Pinkky, Raff, and the rest of the Relic Hunters crew have been hard at work taking down those evil Ducans with your help! Relic Hunters Legend was always meant to be a multiplayer experience for you to join your friends, make new ones, and adventure together around the galaxy!

Now, we’re asking for your help with nominating us for the Better with Friends category!



We appreciate all of you and are excited to share more with you on what’s coming in Relic Hunters Legend soon!



Relic Hunters Legend is available for 33% OFF during the Steam Autumn Sale! This is the perfect time to pick up Relic Hunters Legend for yourself or gift it as a huge nudge that your friend should play with you!

The Steam Autumn Sale is going on NOW!

Thank you everyone for your nominations, we look forward to seeing you in-game!