Versions

Original Release

August 18, 2016

• Only available on Gear VR

1.0.4

August 20, 2016

• Matchmaking speed significantly increased

1.0.5

August 26, 2016

New Features

• Added music throughout the match (with option to toggle on/off)

Balancing

• Pickups: Removed one pickup on Temple of Ophidian
• Pickups: HP regained by pickups was reduced from 20 to 15
• Armor of the Sun: cost increased from 30 to 50
• Hail of Death: damage reduced from 5 to 4
• Hail of Death: spread reduced 40% (accuracy improved)
• Lightning Strike: cost increased from 45 to 50
• Flaming Phoenix: flight speed increased
• Blazing Meteor: cost reduced from 45 to 40
• Electric Fist: number of bolts increased from 5 to 6
• Electric Fist: damage of each bolt increased from 7 to 8
• Soil Spikes: cost reduced from 55 to 45

Improvements

• Players can now earn relic dust in Friendly Duels
• Added pickups to the Basement to educate new players
• Changed blackboard and projector screen in Workshop

Bug Fixes

• Sometimes duels would never start after creating a game
• Lightning Strike worked as a shield against incoming projectiles
• UI didn't properly show if the match ended when a player was teleporting
• Stone Demon would fire through walls
• Added fail-safe for when joining a match that is already full

1.0.6

September 2, 2016

Improvements

• Improved collision handling
• Additional checks for network version control
• Improved tile occupation handling for Devil's Twins and Stone Demon

Bug Fixes

• Menu didn't show up when teleportong on match end
• Inquisitor's head didn't rotate

1.0.7

September 16, 2016

Balancing

• Pickups: time to collect increased from 1s to 2s
• Pickups: initial spawn time increased from 15s to 30s after the match begins
• Blazing Meteor: splash damage radius significantly increased
• Blazing Meteor: collision radius reduced
• Electric Fist: charge time decreased from 3 to 2 seconds
• Electric Fist: number of projectiles reduced from 6 to 5
• Flaming Phoenix: reworked with a start and end state where it flies in a straight line. Length of start line depends on how long you hold down the fire button. If end state is triggered, it will fly straight until it hits something.
• Flaming Phoenix: deals more (instead of less) damage the longer it's airborne, with a maximum of 60 damage
• Flaming Phoenix: collision radius reduced
• Heavenly Dome: activation cost increased from 5 to 10
• Heavenly Dome: mana drain reduced from 20/s to 15/s
• Hail of Death: damage decreased from 4 to 3
• Hail of Death: accuracy reduced
• Hail of Death: the first Hail fired costs twice as much mana
• Lightning Strike: is now reflected by Devil's Twins
• Shield of Light: no mana drain when reflecting a projectile
• Soil Spikes: trap functionality added
• Soil Spikes: cost reduced from 45 to 40

Improvements

• Game version number is now displayed on the blackboard
• Pickups explode when the last minute starts
• Reticle changes to an X when you land a hit
• Visual feedback for mana meter added during the last minute
• Updated project to Unity 5.4
• Opponent disconnect messages tell you whether they left voluntarily or lost their connection
• Increased search speed when looking for friendly matches

Bug Fixes

• Improper occlusion culling at the beginning of the match
• Players could become invincible throughout a match
• Reticle was improperly positioned between tiles on different heights
• Players could start in the wrong position by teleporting when the match ended
• Music cues would fail to turn off properly on Android decives
• Player name and unlocked spell would overlap if the name was too long
• Spectator would play music incorrectly if joining a match mid-game
• Projectiles did not damage players standing on the elevator in Aspis Prison
• Devils Twins did not show the correct avatar
• Devils Twins did not return projectiles accurately
• Devils Twins were not properly destroyed by splash damage
• Petrifying Prison could prevent teleportation after it had disappeared
• Devil's Spit would sometimes fire from the level origin

1.0.72

September 20, 2016

Improvement

• Optimizations to counter judder

1.0.82

October 3, 2016

Balancing

• Flaming Phoenix: increased lifespan from 18 to 60 seconds
• Stone Demon: damage increased from 11 to 12

Improvements

• Major optimizations to prevent judder on US phones
• Previous loadout selected on game start
• Improvements to friendly match making
• Improved random tile handling for Chaos Leap
• Improved destroy check on Stone Demon
• Sky box optimization on Temple and Halls
• Players can no longer trigger pickups if using spells or spell menu

Bug Fixes

• Spell menu could be opened while casting defensive spell
• Soil Spikes could block teleport when used with Petrifying Prison
• Added failsafes to make sure Devil’s Spit is fired from correct position
• Soil Spikes were not always destroyed on match reset
• Shields could stay active after the button was released

1.1.0 - Daydream release

December 9, 2016

New Features

• Players can choose between multiple loadouts
• Leaderboard (Gear VR only)
• Option to show controls in-game

Balancing

• Devil's Spit: cooldown increased from 0.2 seconds to 0.25 seconds
• Shield of Light: reflection accuracy improved

Improvements

• Rematch now switches to a different, random arena
• Changed hit mark presentation
• Changed occlusion culling functionality for better sync
• Changed how finding friends works
• Optimized network room handling
• Changed end of game mana stat from "Current Mana" to "Total Mana Used"
• Increased dust earnings
• CAL update
• UI update for improved readability
• Better sound effect handling for Spectator
• Spectator displays "Connection Lost" when disconnected
• Spectator displays player rank and rating in lobby
• Spectator doesn't display loadouts until the match has started

Bug Fixes

• Inquisitor blocked further character selection
• Match start music did not play properly at the start of practice mode
• Correct loadout did not display in Spectator
• Devil's Spit did not inflict damage when more than one hit within a short time span
• Shield of Light did not block projectiles returned from Devil's Twins
• Added further failsafes to solve blocked teleport bug
• Varois HUD and UI fixes

1.1.04

January 5, 2017

Bug Fixes

• More than two players could join the same game
• Players would sometimes get stuck in a black screen when trying to join a match
• Projectiles would get stuck when shot into the sky

1.1.1

January 19, 2017

Balancing

• Acid Cloud and Petrifying Prison can no longer be cast on the same tile at the same time
• Armor of the Sun: blocks 50% of damage instead of 100%
• Heavenly Dome: activation cost increased from 10 to 20
• Heavenly Dome: removed HP gain when blocking projectiles
• Lightning Strike: now costs mana (10) to initiate a charge
• Stone Demon: total HP increased from 35 to 50
• Stone Demon: projectile damage reduced from 12 to 10

Improvements

• When neither player is knocked out, the player with the most health wins instead of the match being a draw
• Relic dust earnings are displayed on end match screen
• If one player leaves after a rematch, the remaining player is returned to the workshop
• Optimized sound effect player
• Quit button is now contextual to prevent confusion
• Stone Demon now has a HP bar

Bug Fixes

• 5 second countdown window sometimes failed to appear, or appeared in the middle of a match
• Projectiles could bounce off the sky

1.1.2

January 25, 2017

New Feature

• Daydream leaderboard

Balancing

• Acid Cloud: decreased mana cost from 45 to 35
• Acid Cloud: increased duration from 20 to 22 seconds

Improvements

• Players with higher ratings will not lose or gain as many points
• Players who are not signed in will no longer affect their opponent's rating

Bug Fixes

• Players would get kicked from the arena when their opponent left during the warmup
• Players could lose points for leaving a friendly duel
• Players could lose points for leaving a game they already won
• Players could get stuck on the loading screen

1.1.3

February 1, 2017

Improvements

• UI now defines which leaderboard you're ranked on
• Change to end game UI to make rating and health stand out more
• Added a minimum value of 1 to rating gain or loss at the end of a match
• Mana and HP bars will now appear in correlation to the player's sight

Bug Fixes

• UI didn't always render on top
• Wand selection menu would close for both players if one player chose a new loadout
• Stone Demon's health meter didn't sync properly over the network
• Added additional checks to make sure no tile is occupied when it's empty

1.1.3.1

February 7, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Flaming Phoenix didn't inflict damage on your opponent
• Game sometimes failed to fade properly
• Stone Demon could fire from inside Petrifying Prison

1.1.4

February 24, 2017

Balancing

• Chaos Leap: mana cost reduced from 25 to 20
• Hail of Death: removed extra cost for first Hail

Bug Fixes

• Players couldn't take damage in the Basement
• Screen sometimes wouldn't fade in for host
• New Daydream player's progress would get reset on game restart
• Daydream players would get stuck on black screen after logo display

1.1.5

March 17, 2017

Improvements

• Total UI rework
• General optimizations
• Added option for toggling aim between gaze and wand

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with handedness and floating controller

1.1.7

April 10, 2017

New Features

• Could save
• News section on Blackboard
• New animation system and new animations

Bug Fixes

• Spell effects weren't properly destroyed
• Soil Spikes could block a player from teleporting indefinitely
• Removed prototype spells from the game

Other

• Temporarily blocked the purchase of additional laodouts

1.2.0 - Eastern Realms

May 4, 2017

New Features

• 6 new spells
  • Blood Bolt
  • Curse of the Undead
  • Demi
  • Dragon's Breath
  • Magic Missile
  • Oxymora
• 2 new arenas
  • Dead Master's Vale
  • Ortus Station
• New vanity system where players can choose from multiple new characters, masks, and wands
• Cross-platform leaderboard
• Cross-platform Friendly duels

Balancing

• Armor of the Sun: cost reduced from 50 to 40

Improvements

• General spell optimizations
• Improved Gear VR controller synchronization
• Tweaked counter latency method for projectiles to prevent them from popping up too close to defending player
• Removed minimum elo gain / loss
• Set reticle to always stay active
• Increased size of hit box on pickups

Bug Fixes

• "First ___ of the day" bonuses would reset on game restart
• Hail of Death would linger in mid air on hit before being destroyed
• Lightning Strike would drain mana twice when reflected back from a Twin
• Players could fill up their Wand with more than 4 relics in the Workshop
• Spells continued to stay active if menu button was pressed during it's activation
• Opponent's character sometimes wouldn't synch

1.2.1

May 11, 2017

Improvements

• Minor UI update in Workshop
• Updated aim handler to improve accuracy
• Added more rating-based titles
• Increased maximum pause time from 5 to 15 seconds
• Back button no longer brings up options menu on match end
• Minor optimization pass

Bug Fixes

• Stone Demon couldn't fire from certain tiles
• Character customization options would not load properly between sessions
• Scepter wand couldn't be used when selecting loadout
• One pickup on Ortus Station could not be used
• Oxymora would take triple damage when hit by Blazing Meteor's splash damage
• The wrong character's hurt sound effect would play when taking damage
• Players could teleport through the trains on Ortus Station
• Sound effects would sometimes only play in one ear in the Workshop
• Armor of the Sun didn't highlight characters properly
• Pressing the back button would result in some spells getting destroyed
• Fixed rendering issues with loadout selection in-game
• Replaced faulty texture on Ortus Station
• Fixed lighting on Dead Master's Vale

1.2.1.1

May 12, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Players would get stuck in endless title screen if launched from Oculus Rooms
• Loadouts wouldn't unlock properly

1.2.2

June 8, 2017

Balancing

• Armor of the Sun: blocks 70% of damage instead of 50%
• Blood Bolt: cast cost is now reduced by Armor of the Sun's block rate (so Blood Bolt costs 70% less when wearing Armor)
• Blood Bolt: damage dealt to opponent reduced from 8 to 6
• Demi: cast cost reduced reduced from 60 to 50
• Demi: speed increased from 12.5m/s to 13 m/s
• Heavenly Dome: mana cost per second reduced from 10 to 5
• Stone Demon: starting HP increased from 50 to 60
• Stone Demon: now loses HP (5) for every shot it fires

Improvements

• New pause function where all time related objects stops and resume properly. Resuming when match has started will trigger a short countdown. Max pauses per match is set to 3
• Decreased height of player hit box to negate players getting hit below the knees

Bug Fixes

• Players occasionally couldn't teleport after triggering Spikes or Curse
• Fixed bug with splash damage calculations, where it would deal full damage from behind the target

1.2.2.1

June 9, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Armor now deflects the correct damage
• Fixed endless pause state on player leave during pause.

1.2.2.2

August 11, 2017 - Daydream

• Added support for Galaxy S8

August 14, 2017 - Gear VR

• Added support for launch through Oculus Event

1.2.3

August 22, 2017

Balancing

• Blood Bolt: cost reduced from 4 HP to 3 HP
• Magic Missile: cost increased from 12 to 15
• Shield of Light: startup cost increased from 10 to 15
• Stone Demon: total HP reduced from 60 to 50

Improvements

• Added additional regions (cross region play is supported)
• Improved matchmaking
• Localization
• General optimization update

Bug Fixes

• Players could occupy the same tile as Demon or Oxymora
• Players did not earn rating points when their opponent left
• Acid Cloud appeared to inflict damage through Armor of the Sun
• The first Phoenix you shot could fly through walls
• Soil Spikes did not work on Devils Twins
• Players could cast tile-based spells through moving objects
• Players could be sent back to the workshop when loading a new level after a rematch

1.2.3.2

September 1, 2017

Balancing

• The mana regeneration rate has been increased from 5 per second to 8 per second (and from 10 per second to 12 per second during the final minute)

Improvements

• Regions have been limited to US East only

Bug Fixes

• Sounds would come from the wrong direction
• The end game text was transparent
• End game match times said "0 min 0 sec"
• Matchmaking did not work as intended

1.2.3.3

September 7, 2017

• Matchmaking has been improved

1.2.3.4

September 22, 2017

• End of Season 3

1.3.0 - Rift release

September 28, 2017

New Features

• Wands is available on PC via Oculus Rift
  • Improved graphics and sounds
  • 6DoF movement and controls
  • Inverse kinematics

Balancing

• Acid Cloud: deals damage through Armor of the Sun
• Acid Cloud: lasts 12 seconds instead of 22
• Acid Cloud: starting damage is 2 instead of 1
• Blood Bolt: cost reduced from 3 HP to 2 HP (2 to 1 with Armor)
• Hail of Death: improved accuracy
• Lightning Strike: charge cost increased from 10 to 15
• Lightning Strike: firing cost reduced from 50 to 45
• Magic Missile: cost of firing three missiles reduced from 45 to 30

Improvements

• Reworked Workshop
• Reworked Celestial Halls
• Reworked Ortus Station
• Improved wand UI
• New spell sound effects and visual effects
• Season 2 rewards
• Arenas are more fair for remote users
• Wardrobe item price changes

1.3.1

October 6, 2017

Improvements

• Multiple control improvements
• Lowered Shield of Light's position when using gaze aiming

Bug Fixes

• Armor of the Sun did not highlight your opponent correctly
• Chaos Leap sometimes failed to cast
• Inquisitor's legs were bent
• Inquisitor's black outfit appeared to be magenta
• HP and Mana bars appeared when they shouldn't have
• Armor of the Sun could cause issues with Twins
• Opponent's position sometimes didn't sync properly

1.3.2

November 2, 2017

New Features

• New optional control scheme (Swipe) for remotes on Gear VR, Daydream and Pico
• New teleport visual effect
• Can recenter on Rift by holding X or A
• Invite system added to Gear VR

Balancing

• Acid Cloud: has a 1 second delay before it starts inflicting damage when cast directly on a player
• Acid Cloud: damage starts at 4 per second instead of 2
• Curse of the Undead: works through Armor instead of instantly breaking it
• Curse of the Undead: if you try to heal while Cursed and wearing Armor, you take 30% damage and your Armor breaks
• Oxymora: starting HP reduced from 150 to 100
• Oxymora: takes 5 damage for each projectile it fires
• Oxymora: green projectile's damage increased from 8 to 10
• Oxymora: yellow projectile's healing reduced from 8 to 5
• Petrifying Prison: duration reduced from 8 seconds to 5
• Petrifying Prison: mana cost increased from 20 to 30

Improvements

• Major Ortus Station improvements
• Remotes are more responsive
• Invite system improved on Rift

Bug Fixes

• Opponent could appear to stay on their starting tile the entire game
• Armor of the Sun could break when you got hit while teleporting
• Oxymora took damage twice when firing a projectile
• You couldn't leave the game when you lost your Internet connection
• Players and summons are less likely to end up on the same tile
• When both players have equal health and deal the same amount of damage, matches will now end in a draw

1.3.2.1

November 3, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Players could be invisible for the entire game
• Players switched between visible and invisible when standing on the Aspis Prison elevator

1.3.3.1

December 4, 2017

New Features

• Lobby
• Wands is now available on HTC Vive
• EULA

Bug Fixes

• Hand rotation was not properly synced
• Repaired VoIP

1.3.4

December 19, 2017

New Features

• Survival
• Wands is now available on Steam

Balancing

• Chaos Leap: no longer avoids compromised tiles
• Chaos Leap: no longer shows a purple trail
• Devil's Spit: accelerates when airborne to double its original speed
• Dragon's Breath: increased range from 15 to 25 meters
• Dragon's Breath: changed damage range from 8-22 to 10-20 per second
• Dragon's Breath: increased flame speed
• Dragon's Breath: improved hit detection
• Flaming Phoenix: mana cost reduced from 45 to 25
• Flaming Phoenix: changed damage range from 16-60 to 10-25
• Lightning Strike: charge time reduced from 2 to 1.5 seconds

Improvements

• Clearer info in the Workshop portal
• Major optimization pass on all areans
• Improved graphics for all HP bars
• Exploration no longer counts as a match, you won't take damage and it won't end after 3.5 minutes

Bug Fixes

• Lightning Strike didn't damage your opponent
• Dragon's Breath has a visual glitch on Temple of Ophidian
• Chaos Leap would stop working after trying to cast it without enough mana
• Players didn't proceed properly to Lobby if match ended in draw
• The remaining could not use a pickup after two players tried to enter the same tile
• The game would crash when trying to bring up the menu in the Lobby on Daydream
• Repaired sound effects for the trains on Ortus Station
• Improved recovery on connection failed in the Workshop

1.3.4.1

December 20, 2017

New Features

• Non-unique user names are now supported

Bug Fixes

• Winning the game due to the opponent pausing did not correctly send the player back to the lobby
• Pressing Join a Friend now works as intended

1.3.4.2

January 4, 2018

Bug Fixes

• Non-logged in players couldn't access the portal menus
• Updating your wand cosmetics wouldn't disable the previous ones properly

1.3.5

January 25, 2018

New Features

• New boss type in Survival (Hulk)

Balancing

• Calcite Shield (Survival): removed startup cost

Improvements

• Players can now take damage in Exploration mode, when hp reaches 0 the arena is reset like in the Basement
• Pause functionality has been rewritten to be more stable
• EULA is more user friendly

Bug Fixes

• Match stats were not updated properly in the Lobby
• Match music played in the Basement
• Matches were not correctly labeled as Ranked or Casual in the Portal
• Your opponent's wand could appear to be held backwards
• Fail safes have been added to make sure you don't get stuck in an Arena due to your opponent leaving

1.3.6

February 22, 2018

New Features

• 2 new spells
  • Disc of Antioch
  • Cerberus Collars
• Arena Super Features
  • Aspis Prison: The Warden
  • Temple of Ohpidian: Rai Stone Traps
  • Celestial Halls: Energy Portal
  • Ortus Station: Teleportation Orbs
  • Dead Master's Vale: Mercurial Crystal
• In-game events
• Added prompt when playing against a developer

Balancing

• Acid Cloud: now destroys Devil's Twins
• Flaming Phoenix: mana cost increased from 25 to 35
• Flaming Phoenix: damage increased from 10-25 to 15-30
• Petrifying Prison: Stone Demon and Oxymora no longer rotate when imprisoned but they can still fire

Improvements

• Hail of Death visual and sound effects changed (from black arrows to ice)
• Removed muffled sound effects when you're low on health
• Improved distinction between colors on the wand mana bar
• New effect on health pickups when you're cursed
• Replaced red/blue screen flashes with less aggressive fade
• Survival spell selection UI cleanup
• Added button to display stats on the fly for gamepad users
• Added option on Daydream to toggle grip between straight (wand) or slightly tilted (pistol)

Bug Fixes

• More than one player could enter a room
• Match countdown sometimes wouldn't start
• Starting Survival after pressing continue didn't always reset HP and Mana properly
• Hulk's attack wasn't visible when it killed you
• Your opponent's wand could appear backwards for Android players
• If you died when casting Calcite Shield in survival, it wouldn't disappear
• When walking outside the tile area in survival, the enemies would not target you
• Tile-based spells are now more stable

1.3.6p1

March 5, 2018

• Fixes several crashes and improves stability

1.3.6p2

March 7, 2018

• Improves stability

1.3.7

March 22, 2018

New Features

• 2 new spells
  • Chilling Clutch
  • Skill Specter
• New rating system where players start each season with 0 points
• Banners in the Lobby that reflect your Season Score

Balancing

• Devil's Spit: reduced maximum speed from 20m/s to 18m/s

Improvements

• New lobby UI
• Updated graphics for spell select table in Workshop
• Improved context sensitive graphics in the Workshop to help ease new players into the game
• Basement (Shooting Range) can now be directly accessed from the Portal
• Updated spell descriptions to be more accurate
• Improvement to Dragon's Breath effect/damage correlation

Bug Fixes

• Spell selection could fail with a quick joystick movement after releasing a charged spell
• Flaming Phoenix targeted opponent's tile rather than opponent
• Wand aim and reticle rendered on top of fade sphere
• Fennec popped out of the portal
• Disc of Antioch played the wrong sound effect when being selected
• Disc of Antioch could deal damage through shields

1.3.7p1

April 5, 2018

• Dragon's Breath fix

1.3.8

May 1, 2018

• Network performance improvements

1.3.9

May 23, 2018

Balancing

• Cerberus Collars: reduced cost from 35 to 25
• Cerberus Collars: reduced duration from 10 to 8 seconds

Improvements

• Improved network sync for Flaming Phoenix
• Major performance improvements for spell casting
• Improvements made to the Swipe control scheme's input
• Daydream players need to be signed in to Google Play Games to connect to Wands

Bug Fixes

• Players could get hit while teleporting
• Dragon’s Breath dealt damage through shields
• More than 2 Twins could be active at the same time
• Splash damage could pass through some solid objects
• Elevator speed on Aspis Prison could be faster than intended

1.4.0 - Sanctum of Sahir

June 26, 2018

New Features

• New Arena: Sanctum of Sahir
• New Workshop
• New Wardrobe with 10 unique characters
• Tutorial with voice over
• New animations, including new spell casting animation and a unique animation for each character
• Unlockable titles that players can select from to be displayed by their name
• Scarab of Sahir Wand

Improvements

• Players receive a spell token every time they level up until they have enough to unlock every spell
• Players gain 100 relic dust for the first match of the day, first win of the day, and every level after they have all the spell tokens
• Fanfare when unlocking new items in the workshop
• Easier access to Explore Arenas via the portal

Bug Fixes

• Preferred wand grip wouldn’t be saved and set properly
• Disc of Antioch always bounced 5 times
• Enemy teleportation trail was not visible
• Direct hits with Disc of Antioch inflicted 0 damage
• Shield of Light did not block Twins projectiles
• You couldn’t open the spell menu if switching between control schemes too fast
• Hit response, both for reticle and opponent color flash, were incorrect

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