Posted November 01, 2024 by Igniting Spark Games
#Major Update
We are happy to release the largest update Striving for Light has ever seen. You might have already got a first impression of the major features coming to Striving for Light with the Rift Content Update, but behold this update has even more in store for you!
Some might have noticed a new portal that has appeared in Ankerath. This portal will allow you to enter Unstable Rifts.
Rifts are unstable realms on the brink of collapse. Use your time wisely to conquer the darkness, unlocking new depths and challenges.
Unstable Rifts are a new endgame challenge coming to Striving for Light. In these unstable rifts, you will face not only powerful foes and treacherous environments but also a new nemesis: Time itself. A entire new leaderboard will log your required time completing a certain rift level.
Rifts utilise a brand new world generation algorithm resulting in dense packed levels. Your current rift progress as well as the remaining time will be displayed at a dual progress bar on the right. Once you have defeated enough enemies a portal will spawn that leads to one of 4 new uber pinnacle rift boss encounters.
If you manage to complete a rift in time you gain access to the sky forge, granting a chance to upgrade your weapons to ascended quality. With higher rift levels your upgrade chances will rise.
Entering an unstable rift is not easy, you will have to proof worthy and overcome the 4 trails of the elements to obtain the required key pieces to activate the portal and tear an unstable rift into reality.
Conquering the unstable rifts now grants you access to the forge of light where you can utilise light itself to ascent your weapons beyond legendary powers. Ascended weapons can hold up to 5 weapon stats and always have 2 embedded legendary abilities. This are the weapons you want to get to break the game.
Ascended Weapons can also be crafted and found as a random drop but they will be a lot more rare to find compared to legendaries which makes the sky forge the most reliable source for obtaining those powerful weapons.
Greed comes at a cost. Maps now have a chance to become corrupted when applying modifiers. Corrupted maps increase your received damage by 1 but also grant you access to corrupted weapons and new trinkets.
But beware, the immense power of these corrupted items comes with a cost. Carrying a corrupted item will increase all received damage by +1. Corrupted weapons always roll 4 weapon stats and have increased base damage rolls.
You now might ask yourself what happens if you try to upgrade a corrupted weapon to legendary or ascended quality. Well... you will be able to craft Ascended Corrupted items, and they will benefit from both the increased base damage stat rolls of the corruption and the ascension. This will be difficult to obtain but for the ones that are willing to go all in, these weapons hold powers never before seen in Striving for Light.
A complete new echo crafting system allows players to craft their own echo weapons which are then added to the global loot pool. There will be over 5000+ weapon combinations and the possibility to inscribe messages into your weapon. When your run ends you will be rewarded by one echo fragment per achieved level of your character. These fragments can be used to upgrade your echo weapons transforming them into very powerful options to strike down your foes.
Here are some design examples of the more than 5000+ possible echo weapons you will be able to craft. Echo fragments can also be used to upgrade your echo up to tier 25 improving various weapon stats. With echo weapons you can immortalise yourself and leave messages for other players. The item drop pool will be ever evolving and bring the online experience to a whole new level.
The most iconic and oldest player characters have been completely redesigned to align with the visual quality of the new content.
All interactable world objects now have hints what your interaction will lead you into. This should make it easier for new players to see what portal leads to which destination and where an interaction will result in a dialog or a challenging boss fight.
A new ranged weapon Wildfire's Wrath has been added. Defeating enemies will charge up this weapon and increase the amount of projectiles per attack.
The Abyssal Hunger evolution weapon has received a rework. Now for all evolution weapons charges when getting hit vanish by -30% instead of a total number of charges which makes early charge gaining much more forgiving. Keeping high amount of charges will be more challenging as well which should make playing these weapons much more interesting.
Increases all damage sources but also increases your received damage by +1. Increased companion damage +10, +10% Crit Damage, +80% Melee Damage, +80% Projectile Damage, +5 Condition Damage
There is now a currency inventory giving you an overview of all currency shard items you currently have collected without having to switch through all menus.
The complete UI of the game has received a complete rework, yes every UI, also the user interface that has been unaltered since our Early Access start over 2 years ago. Fear not we will do further iterations and closely listen to your feedback. If there is something you dislike or feel is missing that the old UI had, please let us know we want to further iterate on the new concepts and let you be part of this journey.
Your energy and endurance charges will now be included in a new bottom UI bar that should not only make it easier to read but also make it easier for new players to understand the resource system.
All tutorials have been updated to make diving into the game for the first time less overwhelming and more straight forward. Opening the pathfinder for the first time will exactly introduce what maps are and where to click to jump into the action as fast as possible.
Discharge and Lightning Strike type skills have been completely redesigned.
We value your feedback and appreciate your invested time.
At this point we want to thank you for all your continuous support on this wild - almost 3 year long - early access journey.
You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.