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Frozen Flame News
⚔️Let's get ready for "Stream with Developers"!⚔️
📅 July 16 (Friday)
🕐 1 PM EST
Stream with Developers
⚔️Let's get ready for "Stream with Developers"!⚔️
📅 July 16 (Friday)
🕐 1 PM EST
Stream with Developers
⚔️ Grab your swords & your axes.
Let's get ready for tomorrow on Steam!
"Stream with Developers"
📅 July 2
🕐 1 PM EST
✅ Share new and upcoming updates
✅ Answer all your questions!
Update 0.17: Cursed Lands of the Ancient Valley
[h2]Main Changes[/h2]
[h3]Ancient Valley[/h3]
We continue filling the Ancient Valley with multitudes of precious resources, interesting places, challenges and secrets. This time we also added more Cursed camps, and made their dwellers stronger.
If you venture deeper into the Ancient Valley, you will notice that once beautiful forests now succumbed to the curse: their trees' needles became crimson, and trunks - overgrown with swollen purple boils. The air reeks of corruption and despair. Travelers should beware not only of the degrading atmosphere, but also of the land's cursed guardians.
[h3]Meet the Ghosts[/h3]
Ghosts of Arkana's past denizens hount the Ancient Valley's abandonned houses. And, truth be told, hospitality isn't their strong suit. But don't give up on looting the houses just yet - their new owners only appear at night, and don't present any threat during the day. Just keep in mind the time you have till the sun sets.
[h3]Mystical Cubes[/h3]
There've been reports of mystical cubes appearing all over the Ancient Valley. Noone has managed to pinpoint when and where they appear, so noone can predict their placement just yet. All that is known is that they always emmit a golden beam up to the sky, making them quite easy to find.
[h3]Skill Tree[/h3]
Picking your Ancestry in the Skill Tree is an important step in your character's development, as it unlocks one of the five skill paths, with their unique advantages in attributes and abilities.
E.g, a character with Rogue Ancestry will be able to throw spears with great accuracy, while one with Warrior Ancesty will be able to perform a special attack with Greataxes.
In this Update you'll also find new skill paths for Exlorer and Artisan Ancestries.
[h3]Even More Spells[/h3]
We've introduced three new spells to the game: "Stone Skin" will reduce the damage you take, "Slowness" will, unsurprisingly, slow down your enemies, while "Chain Lightning" will damage several opponents. In addition, you can now target your allies with non-damaging spells!
[h3]Barrier of Chronos[/h3]
The magic barrier that protects players in the Cradle of Keepers is now completely impassible.
Yup, that's it.
[h3]Recipes' Effects Clarity[/h3]
Until now to learn which effects the dish would give you on consumption you had to, well, eat it. Now you can view all the dishes' effects in their desctiptions, to have more understanding of how much and which kind of food you need to bring to your journey.
[h3]Experimental Changes[/h3]
Here's the first batch of experimental batches, fate of which depends on your feedback:
[h2]Other Changes[/h2]
[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
[h3]Map[/h3]
[h3]UI[/h3]
[h3]Sounds[/h3]
[h3]Other[/h3]
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
We look forward to seeing you in the world of Arkana!
If you would like to know more about the game, join us on Discord, check out all of our other Social and Community channels.
[h3]Ancient Valley[/h3]
We continue filling the Ancient Valley with multitudes of precious resources, interesting places, challenges and secrets. This time we also added more Cursed camps, and made their dwellers stronger.
If you venture deeper into the Ancient Valley, you will notice that once beautiful forests now succumbed to the curse: their trees' needles became crimson, and trunks - overgrown with swollen purple boils. The air reeks of corruption and despair. Travelers should beware not only of the degrading atmosphere, but also of the land's cursed guardians.
[h3]Meet the Ghosts[/h3]
Ghosts of Arkana's past denizens hount the Ancient Valley's abandonned houses. And, truth be told, hospitality isn't their strong suit. But don't give up on looting the houses just yet - their new owners only appear at night, and don't present any threat during the day. Just keep in mind the time you have till the sun sets.
[h3]Mystical Cubes[/h3]
There've been reports of mystical cubes appearing all over the Ancient Valley. Noone has managed to pinpoint when and where they appear, so noone can predict their placement just yet. All that is known is that they always emmit a golden beam up to the sky, making them quite easy to find.
[h3]Skill Tree[/h3]
Picking your Ancestry in the Skill Tree is an important step in your character's development, as it unlocks one of the five skill paths, with their unique advantages in attributes and abilities.
E.g, a character with Rogue Ancestry will be able to throw spears with great accuracy, while one with Warrior Ancesty will be able to perform a special attack with Greataxes.
In this Update you'll also find new skill paths for Exlorer and Artisan Ancestries.
[h3]Even More Spells[/h3]
We've introduced three new spells to the game: "Stone Skin" will reduce the damage you take, "Slowness" will, unsurprisingly, slow down your enemies, while "Chain Lightning" will damage several opponents. In addition, you can now target your allies with non-damaging spells!
[h3]Barrier of Chronos[/h3]
The magic barrier that protects players in the Cradle of Keepers is now completely impassible.
Yup, that's it.
[h3]Recipes' Effects Clarity[/h3]
Until now to learn which effects the dish would give you on consumption you had to, well, eat it. Now you can view all the dishes' effects in their desctiptions, to have more understanding of how much and which kind of food you need to bring to your journey.
[h3]Experimental Changes[/h3]
Here's the first batch of experimental batches, fate of which depends on your feedback:
- Fall damage reduced by 50%.
- Added animation to indicate that the fall will result in damage.
- Nights became brighter.
- Cooked food now restores HP.
[h2]Other Changes[/h2]
[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
- Teleport is now assigned to the fourth quick-slot by default.
- Challenges' text can now be re-read.
- Titans gained a ranged attack.
- Increased the time period during which you can claim rewards in Elite Cursed camps.
- Increased the aggro range of Titans.
- Reduced the difficulty of Cursed Chieftains' camps in Cradle of Keepers.
[h3]Map[/h3]
- Visual improvements to Ancient Valley's waterfall.
- Visual improvements to Skull Hunter's camp in Cradle of Keepers.
- Reduced the number and increased the distance between boars in their spawn areas.
[h3]UI[/h3]
- You can now assign any usable items to quick-slots.
- Reworked the blood effects appearing when player suffers damage.
- Unknown recipes are now hidden during cooking.
- Added markings to Cooking Book recipes that you can't currently prepare.
- Updated spells' reticle.
[h3]Sounds[/h3]
- Fixed cooking sounds.
- Added new sound for learning cooking recipe.
[h3]Other[/h3]
- New visual effects and animations for teleportation and viewing crafting recipes.
- Visual fixes for the "Ice Spike" spell.
- Fixes for Prologue level design.
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- You will no longer hear other players opening chests that you've already opened.
- Titan shouldn't disappear anymore.
- Changed colour of water splashes for "Water Walking" spell.
- Smoldering Warlock's AoE attack now properly applies damage.
We look forward to seeing you in the world of Arkana!
If you would like to know more about the game, join us on Discord, check out all of our other Social and Community channels.
Update 0.16: Ram Page
[h2]Main Changes[/h2]
[h3]Meet the Ram[/h3]
"The cutest creature of Arkana" according to twenty adventurers who explored the Ancient Valley's pine forests, and "the most unpredictable creature of Arkana" according to the only survivor out of those adventurers. Those facts alone were enough to include it in the name of this update. It's simply suprerbaa, isn't it?
[h3]Titans[/h3]
Once upon a time, people used Flame to create giant machines for their protection - the Titans. But now, like many other creations in Arkana, they have fallen to the Curse.
To put one of them down you'll need to cooperate with other players and think through your tactics.
Titans' behavior and loot drops are WIP, but now you can actually kill them.
[h3]Updated Ancient Valley[/h3]
Astrologers proclaim month of the Ancient Valley. The number of challenges, hidden chests and stellas has increased. There are now more Cursed camps, for those of you who like to smack their swords against wooden masks.
[h3]New Combat Spells[/h3]
The department of magic has sent us several magic staffs with new combat spells. We hurried to include them in the game to give our beta-testers an opportunity to experience the might of ice and fire. You can craft the regular "Fireball" staff. The more advanced staff with "Ice Spike" and "Heal" can be received from the Smoldering Warlock - he probably won't concent to this, but we're sure you'll figure it out.
Introduced changes didn't only affect the spells, but also how the staffs are used in combat. You can now properly aim your attacks, flinging spells where they are most needed.
[h2]Other Changes[/h2]
[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
[h3]Map[/h3]
[h3]UI[/h3]
[h3]Sounds[/h3]
[h3]Other[/h3]
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
We look forward to seeing you in the world of Arkana!
If you would like to know more about the game, join us on Discord, check out all of our other Social and Community channels.
[h3]Meet the Ram[/h3]
"The cutest creature of Arkana" according to twenty adventurers who explored the Ancient Valley's pine forests, and "the most unpredictable creature of Arkana" according to the only survivor out of those adventurers. Those facts alone were enough to include it in the name of this update. It's simply suprerbaa, isn't it?
[h3]Titans[/h3]
Once upon a time, people used Flame to create giant machines for their protection - the Titans. But now, like many other creations in Arkana, they have fallen to the Curse.
To put one of them down you'll need to cooperate with other players and think through your tactics.
Titans' behavior and loot drops are WIP, but now you can actually kill them.
[h3]Updated Ancient Valley[/h3]
Astrologers proclaim month of the Ancient Valley. The number of challenges, hidden chests and stellas has increased. There are now more Cursed camps, for those of you who like to smack their swords against wooden masks.
[h3]New Combat Spells[/h3]
The department of magic has sent us several magic staffs with new combat spells. We hurried to include them in the game to give our beta-testers an opportunity to experience the might of ice and fire. You can craft the regular "Fireball" staff. The more advanced staff with "Ice Spike" and "Heal" can be received from the Smoldering Warlock - he probably won't concent to this, but we're sure you'll figure it out.
Introduced changes didn't only affect the spells, but also how the staffs are used in combat. You can now properly aim your attacks, flinging spells where they are most needed.
[h2]Other Changes[/h2]
[h3]Gameplay[/h3]
- Added new recipes: "Baked Apple", "Fruit Cake", "Fried Vegetables".
- Reduced the weight of "Exploration"-type items to "0".
- Building unprotected by the Sentinel of Chronos will slowly decay over time.
- Changes to progression balance from Tier 0 to Tier 1.
[h3]Map[/h3]
- Reworked the ruins of Skull Hunter in Cradle of Keepers.
- Introduced visual improvements to portals in Cave of Chronos.
- Removed the wood stumps that used to summon Pestilent Boars from the Ancient Valley.
- Updated the world map.
[h3]UI[/h3]
- Added module names to the building menu.
- Improved the cooking UI and recipes.
- Added the visual representation of magic books' durability.
- Improved spell UI.
[h3]Sounds[/h3]
- Skull Hunter's shots.
- "Light Sphere" spell.
- Rebalanced the music and sounds in Cave of Chronos.
- Magic Staff attack sounds.
[h3]Other[/h3]
- Introduced visual effects to water walking.
- Changed the "Meat Soup" recipe icon.
- Changed "Water Walking" and "Light Sphere" icons.
- Visual improvements to character spell-casting animations.
[h3]Fixes[/h3]
- Lack of certain buildings' materials on the map.
- Incorrect lanscape textures.
- Magic book equipment sound.
- Skeleton behaviour.
- Prologue Ice Elemetal behaviour.
- Skull Hunter behaviour.
[h3]Known Issues[/h3]
- Russian language isn't fully supported yet.
We look forward to seeing you in the world of Arkana!
If you would like to know more about the game, join us on Discord, check out all of our other Social and Community channels.