Hello everyone!

New Slormite Chronicle for our second month anniversary and we have lots of good things to share!

First thing first, we have our largest patch to this date coming next week. We've been working on quite a lot of things that we are going to talk about below and detailed Patch Note will be released with the patch.

Also, because we've changed the engine and because various things might break the game, we are going to deploy this patch on the Experimental Branch at first so we can make sure everything is working properly. The Experimental period should not last long if everything works properly.

If you're interested in checking the new patch on the Experimental Branch, please do so. Your feedback matters a lot.
Especially, if you have a 1440p or 4k screen, we need to know that everything is working properly. ːsteamhappyː

Game Engine Migration

So we've decided to update our Game Engine to a more recent and more powerful version (we moved from GameMaker: Studio 1.4, to GameMaker: Studio 2). We felt that the sooner was the better since we believe that most issues preventing players from entering the game were related to the engine and fixing these issues were our top priority.

Migrating from an engine to another prevented me from working on new features hence the long hiatus. However, I've had to rework multiple systems to make the game work with the new engine so I took the chance to upgrade a bunch of things.

New Settings

• The Slormancer now supports 2560x1440 and 3840x2160 resolutions.
  
• Windowed Full Screen is now a thing.
  
• You can change the monitor where the game is displayed.
  
• You can customize FONT SIZE.
  
• Also, fonts should no longer appear blurry/fuzzy on various resolutions. It should be nice and sharp.
  
• You can lock the cursor to screen.

For other resolution settings: 21:9 (and above) support will come later. Due to a pretty rigid UI, I have to rework a bunch of things to make it work but we feel like we've already spent too much time working on technical stuff and not enough on content so we'll switch to content for a while for now.

Balance Changes

We believe that it is too soon to make small changes and tweaks on individual Upgrades, Passives or Skills unless they are widely overpowered so we mostly worked on general things such as Equipment as a whole, and mostly targeted specific stats such as All Damage Reduction.

We are not going to detail everything here, as we'll post a detailed patch note during next week. However, here's what you can expect:

• The most important changes are on Equipment. We like how Crafting works in The Slormancer, however it is detrimental to the excitement of looting new gear. So we're introducing a new genre of stat, called "Pure Stats". This is basically a critical roll of a stat on gear.
  
• These can be found on looted equipment but cannot be rolled by Friedrich. Also, if you modify the score or the stat itself at Friedrich's it will lose its Purity and turn back to a regular stat.
  
• Every stat on an item can be Pure, so you can loot an Epic Item with up to 7 Pure Stats.
  
• The difference between the perfect roll of a stat and a Pure roll is between 1% and 10%, so nothing crazy, but quite noticeable.
  
• We also have plans to upgrade Pure Stats chances and scores, but we'll talk about it later.
  
  
  
  
• Items can no longer roll the same stat twice since. The original purpose was to increase the possibility and the number of combinations on each item but it did the opposite, and players tend to just stack the same stat over and over.
  
• Reinforcement now offers diminshing returns. +1 Reinforcement gives a +15% bonus, +2 gives +14% bonus, up to +15 and above granting a +1% bonus to the Reinforced stat. That is instead of the former Reinforcement that granted +15% bonus to stats, at any Reinforcement level.
  
• We've made changes to how Slormelines work during Reinforcement. Players tend to completely bypass the Potential mechanic at the later stages of the game, which was obviously not intended. Instead of giving +10% Chance on items of equal rarity, Slormelines now work for every item regardless of rarity with different rates. The Normal Slormeline now gives +0.1% Reinforcement Chance, Epic Slormeline now gives +15% Reinforcement Chance etc...
  
• We've also reduced the value of some stats that were easily stacked on items, such as Critical Strike Chance or All Damage Reduction.
  
• We've made a lot of other changes but I feel like I'm writing the patch note all over again, so I'll just talk about the most important changes:
  
• Projectiles can no longer Pierce AND Fork. A Projectile will try to trigger the highest stat first, and try to trigger the second stat only if the first has failed. This change was made so you actually have to pick one of these options (or a little bit of both) and build around it. Same as how you can build around Overdrive or Inner Fire but not both while playing Melee.
  
• If you are a Mage using Arcane Clones: Skills cast by Arcane Clones now cost you Mana as if you were casting them. We really love Arcane Clones but we just feel they are just too strong all around. Especially because they can cast Skills with the most expensive Upgrades without batting an eye.

Other Changes

Mastery Changes
The following changes were made to keep the original idea of using the actual Skill you want to upgrade but also to offer players an alternative to slowly but passively upgrade other Skills.
It should now also be easier to try out a new Skill from the start and level it quicker once your level is high enough:

• Characters will now gain a permanent +2% Mastery Gain per level so gaining Mastery gets easier over time.
  
• Every time a Skill gains Mastery, other equipped Skills will gain a small portion of Mastery as well.

Enemy Changes
We've had lots of feedback talking about how easy the game is or how dumb enemies are.
We hear you. But right now, Enemies and Breaches are still missing a good amount of important features that will make the overall experience harder, so we feel like now is not the time to drastically change their behavior.

However, we do feel like Melee enemies (The Skeleton Soldier and The Rogue) are not oppressive enough (or should I say, AT ALL), so we've increased their Movement Speed, their Cast Time and their Attack Speed by quite a bit (if you're a new player, these changes are made throughout the first Act, so you can still get the basics at a comfortable pace).

So once the 0.2 build is stable, we are going to focus on adding content for a while. We know we've been working on fixing bugs and technical features for too long and it is now time to add fun stuff!

While working on the 0.2 version, we've made progress on our upcoming Major Update. We have everything sorted out, we now need to move everything into production.

We're happy with what we are about to offer but I can't share much more about it yet. However, I've managed to sneak into the dungeon and take a few pictures of the upcoming enemies.
They will introduce new, and hopefully fun, mechanics.





That's about it!
We hope you enjoy reading these posts!

Next week is patch week! See you then!

Hello everyone!

The game is 1 month old! Woohoo!
So we'll use this opportunity to take a look back at the release and what's to come for The Slormancer.


We are very happy with the sales numbers of the game which are way above our expectations, so thank you to all the players who trust us by playing the game during Early Access! We hope you will continue to have fun for a long time!

We are also pleased with the overall feedback from players and the game's reviews in general, however we know that the game is far from perfect and we will work to correct the most important issues raised by the community.

Here are the different major points that drew our attention:

- The Mastery System is problematic because it discourages players from experimenting (same goes for Reapers and Equipment). It also creates an unhealthy meta of "afk-mastery farming".

- The lack of diversity of enemies and environments, but this was expected, and will be corrected throughout the Early Access.

- The Difficulty level and the speed at which players tend to reach the last level of Wrath, while the game is still far from offering all the content to improve his character.

- The Crafting System. We know that it is appreciated overall but we are aware that it is currently too easy to optimize your equipment, starting from any piece, and that it is possible to optimize Craft a bit too easily.

- Stats Generosity. We found that it was VERY easy to get several stats like Fork, and Pierce over 100% without any difficulty. This is partly due to the Crafting system, the Slormite bonuses, but also to the way our items are designed.

Apart from these points, we are very much aware of some technical problems:

- Performance Problems of some endgame builds which are partly related to the generosity of the game but also to optimizations issues.

- Some players still can't launch the game, or run into a black screen problem very quickly.

- The resolution is not suitable for all screen types.

- The Font is too small and can be difficult to read under certain conditions.

There are other problems in the game but these are our top priority.


We will make a Minor Game Update in the next few weeks, which will take care of :

1. Balancing the game, in order to reduce the overall strength of most builds and to fall back to a difficulty level that suits us.
   Players are already able to easily complete Expeditions in Wrath 10 besides the fact that a lot of customization options are still missing. It is important to understand that as it stands, we have no interest in adding new content, such as new monsters with interesting mechanics, since they will get one-shot before their Breach even opens.
   
   This will be done by updating a number of Skills, and by making important changes to Equipment.
   
   Don't worry too much about balance and please note that our goal will never be to crush builds for absolutely no reason. It is a single-player game after all so fun is more important than a perfect balance. However, we know that players tend to do the most optimal thing even if it's not fun at all, so we have to be careful about that.
   
   
2. An Equipment Overhaul. We want to put the Loot back into the center of the experience. It is currently too easy to find the right piece, and upgrade it through the crafting system, and never have the opportunity or the desire to change it. This is a fundamental problem in a loot game.
   
   
3. The addition of some of the most requested Quality of Life features, especially in terms of inventory management.

Now that the pace is a bit slower, we will take the time to migrate to a more modern Game Engine. This migration should solve a number of compatibility issues along with black screen issues. The operation should not take too long but requires preparation.


We're about to finish preproduction of the first Major Update of the game and we'll try to share exciting content when we have something to actually show. Right now, we're at the stage of Excel files and funky prototypes.

The addition of a Minor Update in the calendar and the Engine Migration may delay the release of this Update but we will try to meet our deadlines. Though right now, we feel that the game is not healthy enough to just add additional content on top of it, so the priority goes to stability and balance.


That's about it!
Thanks for reading!

MAJOR BUGS:
- Freezes should no longer occur
- Breaches should always close when all enemies have been defeated

Since these were top priority bugs, we did not had that much time to work on other things.

Generals:
- Projectile Knockback is no longer applied to Melee Skills :x
- Critical/Ancestral Damages reduced to 0 should no longer count in the Expedition Recap
- Result Menu should now properly display the time

The Mighty Knight
- Training Dummy should now properly work
- You should now be able to properly cast Banners even when close to a wall

The Fierce Huntress
- Light Ballista should now be able to find a target when cast near walls

The Mischievous Mage:
- Improved Performance when channeling Ray of Obliteration (clones included), with more to come
- Arcane Clones channeling should change their target less often (to prevent the Disco Night Club effect)
- Arcane Clones should now be able to find a target when cast near walls
- Remnant's Vulnerability now applies the debuff with the proper icon

Hello everyone!

Another patch to fix bugs, and hopefully black screen issues and/or freezes.

Performances:
Hoverall, the game should be much friendlier to low-specs Graphic Cards.
If you had Black Screen problems and freezes since last patch, they should be resolved.
If not, let me know.

I mostly spent time working on these issues, so not a lot of other changes today.

Generals:
- Damages to Elites should now be displayed properly

The Mighty Knight:
- Vengeance is best served cold should now work properly (and should work fine with Mastering Retaliation)
- Elder Armor should now display changes without having to reequip your armor

The Fierce Huntress:
- Auto-Aim System should now properly work with multiple projectiles

Legendaries:
- Soul Eating Mantle now works with Whirlwind
- Soul Eating Mantle no longer works with Arcane Breach (Not a Channeled or Damage over Time skill)
- Aestia's Ring of Life's Cooldown should now only start when the effect is over
- Aestia's Ring of Mana's Cooldown should now only start when the effect is over
- Bulwark's Resolve should now display the correct value

Reapers:
- Reaper of the Manabender should now trigger Mana Detonation only with its Primordial form
- Manabender's Cooldown should now only start when the effect is over
- Vindictive Slam should now be properly triggered be split or forked Projectiles
- Reaper of the Vindictive Slam's Holy Ground should now deal the proper damage (from 10% to 30%)
- Reaper of the Nimble Warrior should now work properly when 0 damage is dealt

Elements:
- Burning Trail's debuff icon should no longer blink

Attributes:
- Zeal 15: now properly refers to "Skills" instead of "spells"
- Willpower 45: now properly counts Wandering Arrow as a Minion
- Bravery 30: You should no longer gain Greed stack when unequipping gear

New Patch! Mostly Bug Fixes.

Crashes:
- Fixed a crash when dying while using Book Smash

Generals:
- Projectiles should no longer pass through Wall when FPS gets low or when their speed is too damn high!
- Elite Damage Reduction wasn't actually working at all (it does now)
- Enemies with a Movement Speed reduced by 100% or more should not moonwalk out of the fight anymore
- You should no longer be perma-stun when your Tenacity is above 100%
- Elite Fallen Knights should no longer be knockbacked toward you
- Skeleton Wizards should no longer teleport out of their Breach area
- Mastery Notifications should no longer take your Mastery Modifiers from gear into account
- Combo & DPS Counter should now pause when a menu is open
- In the Expedition Result screen, Total Damage should now be displayed properly, even if it's above GAZILLIONS DAMAGE

- If your Inventory is full while picking an item from a Random Pack, it will be dropped on the ground instead of being destroyed
- Same if you buy it from the Sales Tab

- Small QoL: Items with Highlighted Stats will also be highlighted in your Inventory
- Small QoL: Potential Progress is now displayed with decimals

Attributes:
- Willpower: Rank 30 should now add the correct Elemental Damage (based on Points AND Gear)
- Determination: Rank 15 - same as above - Points AND Gear should be taken into account
- Fury: Rank 45 should now properly increase Attack Speed even if the CD has started
- Bravery: Rank 15 should now properly trigger when picking up Materials and Slormites

Knight:
- Deflect should no longer work on Area of Effect Damages
- Deflect's Safety Bubble should now properly work
- Deflect's Avenging Wrath should now only work when Fortunate or Perfect
- Living Blood should now properly move to the closest enemy
- Grapplink Hook's Commandeer should now properly work all the time
- Grappling Hook's Commandeer should now properly give Attack Speed to minions under your command
- Bleeding Overdrive's Trail FX should be of the correct color
- Mastering Retaliation should now work properly
- Luck should no longer go above 100
- Changing floor with 100 Luck should now properly trigger Perfect Cast effects on your next cast

Huntress:
- Volatile Hurricane should now properly spread
- When near a top Wall, Arrows should no longer move through the wall.
- Evolving Wilds should now properly move to the closest enemy
- Legacy of Pain from Turret Syndrom should now properly work
- Heavy Explosive Projectile's Auto-Aim System should now properly aim toward target area
- Smoke Screen: The game should no longer think you closed a Breach when losing aggro while going Invisible
- Hunting Net should now pull enemies to the center before doing damage
- Immortal Arrow's Instructions Points should now properly disappear all the time

Mage:
- Wall of Omen should stop indefinitely expand on rare occasions anymore (or maybe it won't. This one's a rebel.)
- Lost-in-Time should now properly end even if enemies are out of sight (also true for other DoTs)
- Time Warp should no longer teleport outside the map on rare occasions
- Arcane Sovereign should now properly Fork or split upon hitting Wall of Omen's Temporal Split
- Book Smash's Remnants no longer display Heavy Encyclopedia's AoE
- Ray of Obliteration should now properly stop when you change its upgrades while casting it
- Ray of Obliteration's Armor of Obliteration now properly adds Elemental Resistance
- Ray of Obliteration's Armor of Obliteration now also works when Arcane Clones are casting Ray
- Against The Necromancer, Remnants should no longer show Damage Numbers when he is shielded and invulnerable
- Arcane Breach's Gravitational Force should now only attract enemies within the range of the Breach
- Attunement Pulse's Relay Point should now work properly on Arcane Breaches
- Two AoEs dealing their damage at the same time such as Temporal Friction triggered by Rift Nova or 2 Arcane Breaches in the same area, should now both properly deal their damage
- Remnants of Orb of the Arcane Master should no longer trigger Temporal Friction
- School Orbs rotating around the Mage should no longer disappear after Time Warp

Elements:
- Burning Trail should no longer slow your FPS down

Legendaries:
- Aegis Justice now only triggers when Crest Shield is equipped
- Aegis Justice is now fired in the right direction
- Sahrusiel's Pact (when used with Reaper of Primordial Affinity) should now properly deal its damage over time and not Afflict you
- Inextricable Waistguard now benefits from AoE Increased Effect
- Inextricable Waistguard can no longer benefit from more than 100% Aura & AoE Increased Effect

Reapers:
- Primordial Reaper of Ferocious Affinity now properly adds 20% Max Mana to Elemental Damage (instead of 100%)
- Idle-based Reapers should now properly add or remove their effect when using Click to Move
- Primordial Kah Veer can now trigger Thunderstruck with any kind of Critical Strike (except from Thunderstruck)
- Primordial Reaper of the Nimble Warrior is no longer removed when received 0 or less Damage
- Primordial Reaper of the Nimble Warrior's Critical Strike Chance is now correctly multiplied with Nimble Champion Stacks
- Thornbite Reaper should now properly add its Thorns Multiplier when Idle

- If you unlocked Adam Nostrus' Primordial Bow by reaching level 100 with a Primordial Reaper in an older patch, you should now be able to evolve it

UI
- UI no longer says "+- XXX" Goldus when purchasing an item
- Skills in your Action bar should no longer be erased upon loading
- You can now properly select Reapers with a Controller

Performances:
- Improved Performances for a couple of upgrades in the Bravery Trait (Rank 15 & 30)
- Minor Improvements made to performance (might be a 10-15% FPS Improvement. But hey, that's a start)

Hi everyone!
For today's patch, we've worked on the last crashes that we've found and most importantly, on Performance. It's quite far from over but that's a start.
We've also been working on Out of Memory issues. It was a complex matter that took me a bit of time, so I didn't had the time to work/fix on a lot of other things.

Crashes:
- Fixed a crash occuring when a Boulder would fall while dying
- Fixed a crash occuring when casting Ray of Obliteration for too long
- Fixed a crash when looking at Ancestral Skills with Swift Wings of Hermesal Equipped
- Fixed a crash when closing the Blacksmith with an item being crafted
- Fixed a crash when throwing an item away at the Blacksmith

Perfomances:
- Drastically Improved FPS on Orb of the Temporal Master.
- Drastically Improved FPS on Floating Damage Numbers / XP Numbers / Gold Numbers.
- I used the word Drastically twice, so it has to be better.
-> Much more to come later on.

Out of Memory Issues:
- Fixed Memory Leaks here and there that should greatly reduce the number of "Out of Memory" crashes.
- The game should no longer slow down during extended periods of gametime (or at least much less).

Attributes:
- Dexterity: Rank 60 should now properly work.

Huntress:
- Sharpened Blades now create Ravenous Daggers when hitting a wall.
- Ravenous Daggers coming back at you also trigger Ravenous Swirl.
- You should no longer get stuck in environment while using Tumble.

Mage:
- Clones casting Orb of the Arcane Master will now be casted at the correct place when using a controller.
- When using Rapidcast, you can no longer cast Ray of Obliteration while casting the clone (same for Arcane Barrier).
- Arcane Clones should now keep casting when their target is out of screen range.
- Arcane Clones should now properly attack when close to walls.
- Wall of Omen should now stop expanding indefinitely.

Balance:
- "Shadow Repercussion" now starts its Cooldown once its effect is over.
- Rebound no longer resets the duration of the Projectile after the first Rebound.
- Some Auras, such as "Air Conditioner" are now capped to no longer benefit more than 100% Aura/Area Increased Effect (Air Conditioner being the only one right now).

Extras:
- You can now take a screenshot via Steam.
- You can move up and down Friedrich's store with Mouse-Wheel.

Hi there! Today's patch includes the first Quality of Life changes since we've finally had the time to implement some. If you still experience bugs, or have reported a bug that is yet to be fixed, no worries, we still have a long list to clear. We're just taking it one step at a time.

Crashs:
- Fixed 2 crashes occuring with Astral Retribution.
- Fixed a crash when receiving too much damage, also causing FPS drops.

General:
- Fixed a bug where some Legendary items would show a £ instead of their actual stat.
- Fixed a bug where you could not purchase Skills with Slorm if you had the exact number of Slorm required.
- You should no longer be stuck by environment when trying to reach Bryan's Portal.
- Slormites Found are now properly shown at the end of an Expedition.
- Fragments now display the proper icon on the Minimap.
- Debuffs on enemies should no longer be cut on high resolution screens (untested, let me know)
- Upgrades and Passives should no longer be active if you no longer have the requirement due to unequiping gear.
- Thorns should now properly hit all enemies even when multiple enemies are all hitting at once.
- You can no longer unlock Adam Nostrus' Primordial Reaper by reaching level 100 with any Primordial Reaper.

Controller:
- Your Character should no longer keep moving when Click to Move is enabled.
- Menus should now be accessible on any sort of screen resolution.

The Mighty Knight:
- Whirlwind now triggers Astral Retribution and Astral Meteor from Elder Retribution.

The Mischievous Mage:
- Arcane Breach's Violent Contact now properly deals Increased Damage to every enemy hit.
- Arcane Breach's Evergrowing Portal can no longer occur more than 10 times (Individually).
- Polyvalent Caster should now properly work.
- Diversify should now properly work (and stop giving you tons of projectiles).

The Fierce Huntress:
- Wandering Arrow should no longer prevent you from losing Bryan's Circle of Protection.
- You can no longer be unkillable while using Life Regeneration and Totems of Renewal.
- Void Arrow's charge now properly ends when being stunned.
- Endless Quiver should now properly work on Void Arrow.
- Endless Quiver should no longer increase Rain of Arrow's Mana cost.
- UI: The Delighted Mechanic should no longer be offseted.

Reapers:
- Primordial Vindictive Slam's Holy Ground no longer benefit from Vindictive Slam's Increased Area Size.
- Goldscourge should now properly count and add Goldus.
- Reaper of the Sleepy-Butterfly should now display correct informations in the tooltip.
- The Primal Ancient Ancestral Legacy's Elemental Fervor should no longer stack.

Attributes:
- Bravery Rank 30: should no longer work when equipping/unequipping gear.

Extras
- Typos... Typos everywhere!
- A bunch of other bugs should be fixed based on some general changes made to the game.
- I also probably broke a few things.

- You can now activate Area of Effect & Totems Rapidcast (and no longer have the option to Aim - toggled off by default).
- You now have an option to auto-pick up Crafting Materials (toggled off by default).
- (Also added an animation when you pick up Equipment or Materials).

- You can now see the Level of your Item on your Item!
- If you're at max level, the XP of your Reaper is displayed at the bottom of your screen.

- You can no longer right-click to Salvage an Item (will result in less accidental salvages).
- You can now right click on an Item at Friedrich's or Rick's menu to equip it back to its slot.
- Equipment is now automatically reequipped (or put back in your inventory) upon leaving Rick or Friedrich's Menus.
- You can now UNLOCK stats you've previously locked to your equipment, at Friedrich's.

- Fixed a crash when hovering the Legendary Item: Swift Wings of Hermesal in Chinese
- Fixed a random crash when using Reaper of the Chrysalis/Reaper of the Sleepy Butterfly
- Fixed a random crash with Corrupted Pudding targetting you
- Fixed a crash when looting too much gold with Aurifurious or Goldscourge
- Fixed a crash with Grappling Hook's Boulder Rain
- Fixed a crash with Astral Retribution
- Fixed a crash when using Wall of Omens on a Temporal Clone
- Fixed a random crash occuring while using Immortal Arrow

- Fixed a bug where the Max Craftable value was incorrectly displayed at Friedrich
- Fixed a bug where the Main Menu would disappear when using a Controller

- Goldus at the end of Expeditions has been regrouped so it does not reduce your FPS to 3 (or less!)
- Skills should now cost the appropriate amount of Mana
- Selling Stacks of Items should now display the correct amount of Goldus
- Various indirect damages such as Poison & Thorns should now properly crit.
- You can now longer get stuck outside a room with Tumble after opening a Breach
- You can no longer get stuck outside a romm using Arcane Gates to teleport
- Huntress' Trap Knockback no longer pushes enemies outside the room after opening a Breach
- Chrono-Manipulation now returns the correct amount of Mana
- UI: The Mechanic of the Huntress is no longer offseted on various resolutions
- UI: Maximum Warp should now properly display the mechanic
- UI: Highlighting All-Resist no longer highlight Light Resistance
- "Idle" Buffs such as Steady Feet now properly disappear when using Click To Move
- Mana Leech now properly works

- You can now bind the F2 key!
- Improved Performance when using Aurifurious, Goldscourge & Slormbane
- Regular Windowed mode is back

- Additional Projectile Percent Reduced by 60% on Gear
- Slormbane now deal Additional Damage based on Slorm found in the past 20 seconds.
- Reaper of the Manabender Raw Damage's Synergy is now based on 1% (per Reaper Level) of your Mana Regenaration instead of 10%
- The Effect of Upgrades on Equipment has been decreased by 25%
- Chrono-Puncture's Remnant Damage is now 5000% instead of 10.000%
- Deflect's Cooldown has been increased from 10 to 13 seconds
- Deflection now reduces the Cooldown of Deflect by 3% (at max Rank) instead of 5% per hit.

I've posted a thread with new solutions that people may want to try, please let us know if something works.

Hello everyone.

- Fixed a crash when Reinforcing an Item above +15
- Fixed a crash when dropping back an Item from Reinforcement
- Fixed a crash that could occur when casting any sort of skill during a transition
- Fixed a bug sometimes preventing players from equipping gear because of an unsufficiant level
- Fixed a crash when tooltiping a Movement skill with Swift Wings of Hermesal equipped
- Fixed a crash when the number of victims in a single floor was too great
- Fixed a rare crash when moving through a portal with Click to Move
- Fixed a crash with the Ancestral Legacy Reaper during a transition
- Fixed a crash that occured when leaving mission 12 or 13 to main menu
- Fixed a crash when merging slormites or salvaging at the Blacksmith

- Fixed a Freeze when Tumbling next to a wall with the upgrade "Booby Trap"
- Fixed a Freeze when using Smoke Screen next to a wall with the upgrade "Double Smoggy Traps"
- DAMN YOU TRAPS!

- Fixed an issue making the Mage invisible after a Time Warp
- Fixed an issue where enemies could be Knocked back outside of their Room

- Elder Lances should no longer trigger forks.
- Reaper of the Manabender no longer triggers an Explosion tied to its Primordial Form

- Primordial Reaper of the Sharpshooter: Additional Projectile Multiplier reduced from 100% to 50%
- Not So Lost no longer deals damage to enemies affected by Lost In Time.

We've tried a bunch of changes in the game that may or may not work out.
We're still investigating the issue.

In the meantime, here's what you can try. It worked for others, might as well for you:
Solution A:
Go to Users>Username>AppData>Local>The_Slormancer and open the config.ini file.
For the line "fs", set the value to "1".
For the line "res", set it to "1".
It should open up the game in a small window where you will then be able to access settings and set your own resolution.

Solution B:
Run Windows Troubleshooter and use Windows 8 compatibility mode.

Solution C:
If on a laptop, force the use of the Nvidia GC instead of the integrated one.

If you have a Black Screen issue, please comment below with a few informations:
1/ Screen Resolution
2/ OS
3/ Graphic Card
4/ Are you on a laptop?
5/ Let us know what solution you tried and if it worked or not.
We're trying to narrow the problem.
Thanks for your patience.

Hello everyone!

First, we wanted to thank everyone for trying out The Slormancer. We really hope that you are having fun, despite the delayed launch and some very annoying bugs.

The number of players who tried the game between yesterday and today is FAR beyond what we anticipated and we are doing our best to read all your comments and help you as fast as possible. That being said, there are only two of us. So we're trying to prioritize bugs that are preventing people from playing before fixing the smaller issues.


Our first goal is to solve the black screen at startup problem that affects a number of you. We have some ideas but we are not sure how effective our changes will be as this is a hardware issue that we cannot reproduce.

If you have been subject to this bug, please let us know if this update has made a difference.
If not, we will try something else.

Thank you for your patience.


- UI: Fixed a bug where players could no longer interact with the main menu.
- UI: Fixed a crash when checking the Tooltip of Steady Arm (Chinese)
- UI: (Not Sure) Fixed an issue that prevented the game from properly closing

- Grappling Hook: Fixed a Crash with Determination
- Mage: Fixed a crash when taking damage :o
- Ray of Obliteration: Fixed a crash when using it for too long :)
- Chrono-Puncture: Fixed a crash when triggering Puncturing Nightmare
- Book Smash: Fixed a crash when leaving a room with Book Smash in the air
- Legendary: Primordial Crusade: Fixed a crash when triggering the Effect
- Reaper of Vindictive Slam: Fixed a crash when the effect triggered on a dead enemy.

- Mission 10: Fixed a bug where you could loot the keys multiple times.
- Mission 12/13: Fixed a Crash when switching classes after leaving the mission
- Mission 12/13: Fixed a bug where you could get back to Main Menu and still play the class to unlock

- Expeditions: Fixed a crash when trying to get back to the village from expedition

- Fixed a Soft Lock when using Time Warp + Change of Heart


In the following days, we will try to take down the last remaining bugs and crashes so we have a healthy game. Once, we're all set and once everyone can play the game, we will address other important issues require a bit of work, such as:
- An option to increase Font Size
- Support for larger Resolutions and Wide screens


Thanks again for your patience.

And remember that you've been playing the worst version of the game, and that it will only get better from now on. We really hope that you're having fun anyway!