• Legacy Mode is now available killing Alaloth for the first time. A new option will be unlocked in the Main Menu, leading to a new editor in which you'll be able to create your own banner, motto, etc
  
• Repair benches in Safe Zones are now interactable and Repair Kits available can be bought from blacksmits. The Repair Kit repairs the equipped stuff giving +1 durability. Prices are going to change with the whole economy-sys in a while
  
• Descriptions for conditions are now detailed in the item inspect view
  
• Available gems’ sockets on crafted items are now visible on top of the list of attributes in the item view, repair view and compare view. That should make it faster to understand if what you just crafted has gem socket/s or not
  
• Support for DualSense controllers has been added. Control hints for DualSense controller are now available and will show up just plugging-in the pad. Related Control Settings info and images will follow in the next patch
  
• Information in General Settings Menu have been reviewed and now are put down in a clearer way. Also, Hit Stop is now disabled by default at the game start for each new player (you will be able to enable it if you want, of course), preventing some players misleading the feature as lagging/freezing
  
• Leaping Strike skill has been fixed. The skill had a bug giving knock-down and stun on enemies 100% of the time, despite the size. Bigger enemies [trolls, golems, etc] had a problem with their animations, ending-up in the fallback pose for a brief moment when hit [mid torso above ground]. The skill now has a 50% chance to stun enemies [all sizes] and a 30% chance to knockwodn them [small and medium size only] as stated in its description
  
• The NPC near the waterfall in Mayfalls was wrongly placed, compenetrating PC during interactions. Now fixed
  
• An issue preventing A Whole New World quest to be completed has now been fixed. Quest progress will be reset
  
• The Tale of Volkar the Brave quest will now properly fail if unable to get Volkar's possessions [Competitive Mode]
  
• Mining Syndicate quest will now properly fail if Glittering Peaks has already been claimed [Competitive Mode]
  
• An issue preventing players to restore a save due to invalid questing Game World state has been fixed
  
• An issue preventing saves to be loaded the right way has been fixed
  
• Drops from bosses starting quests have been reviewed and work properly now. No more issues in getting drops day/night
  
• Red Mage now plays a bark when not interactable
  
• Regents of the kingdoms now play a bark when not interactable
  
• A tentative fix for inputs via controller being ignored while in a local Remote Play session has been deployed
  
• Grozdan, Vorund and The Patriarch have new weapons as originally intended
  
• Stability updates and misc fixes

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Following the latest update we published celebrating a week into Early Access, we are here again to give you an overview of what's going on with the development, sharing the roadmap we've drafted in these crazy busy days. We've already gathered tons of super amazing feeds about the game and gone through every single post with suggestions and critics. We are still overwhelmed by the incredible support you are giving us and all of this will help the team to build the game we've always wanted, since the beginning of this journey. Looking at people playing hours and hours and reading reviews witnessing that our vision has been embraced by so many people is literally hearthwarming. Thank you for that! Before going on with the plan, we want just anticipate a few things you are going to see with the upcoming patch [out tomorrow]. We've already put in workbenches in Safe Zones and Repair Kits will be available all around the kingdoms. Workbenches will work as shrines, more or less. Buy a kit, use it on the workbench, done. All items equipped will gain +1 durability. We are thinking about adding new traits for crafting in the future but this is just a first step, following what a great number of players were asking for. The same is for the new Legacy Mode, available for who defeated Alaloth already. It is a fancy mode that will let you create your house, customizing your banner, motto and starting city by lore. We are aiming to expand this in the future, making the world reactive to you wearing your colors. DualShock users will have now the right UI with correct inputs popping in-game when plugging their pad and last but not least, we've added 67 new achievements for hunters, bringing the total to 83. Other things have been fixed of course, all the details will be notified with the new changelog as usual. Time to move on with the hot stuff than!



First of all, we have to say this post is just to give you a general overview of what we are working on. We are not going to slow down with patches, so we've just put in the features that are going to take a bit more time, Bug fixing, new contents, balancing etc. will be on-going till the end, no need to underline this, hopefully. This means that plans may change moving on with the development and things listed Beyond for example, could happen in a few days [or in months], according to development needs. The idea is to update the roadmap on monthly basis, given that you are going to get updates almost daily on our channels and the same updates will be posted here too as soon as we decide something.

Strongholds have been thought to be your personal hub with access to stash, bed, kitchen and personal shrine. We have a few NPC here at the mo, you can't interact with. The counselor will allow you to customize your home upgrading furnitures and unlocking other special NPC visiting you time by time. Leveling-up, a personal smith will be available as well as a barber [to customize your aspect] and you'll be able to collect taxes as any noble in the Four Kingdoms. We are still working on the customization, because it's a bit of work to do with assets but we are aiming to 3/4 different layouts for each Stronghold. And we are open to put in special layouts and furnitures in the future


We've built Plamen in a very modular way. The update will bring four new locations on the map with unique characters and quests available. Rockstarn is where The Mercantile Union has its own HQ. The port is where all official businesses are conducted to the benefit of the Union and the Kingdom. Merchants and ships come and go, but the Union always remains, forever amassing wealth and power.



Mountain Hand is owned by Clan Teres-Toil, the mines have supplied the stone and metal that built the first halls of Karak-Hohn. Thousands of years later the mines are still revered for their massive yield.



Fal'Thalas is the former home of a druids' clan that was wiped out by the Ver'Quintiss. The Gardens have been taken by the Vas'Yilien who tend to the crops of those that came before while waiting for their seer to return.



Arrowtooth lies on top of this cliff and among these tents the orcs gather to air their grievances against one another. With the help of the Tahred the orcs make peace or war, or better yet, joined together for battle against an outside force.



Ok, we had a problem here but let us explain once again what's happened with this, because it's very important. We explained all the issues we had on the way many times and by the end of April, we had to make some choices. These choices brought us to the release on June 30. We sat down and evaluated all the options. At time, we were in a very bad position because we had to build-up an emergency plan for the release more than anything else. It was about surviving and giving sense to all the efforts to make Alaloth happen. Someone rightfully argued about the partial support for mouse & keyboard, but we were not mad and moving on this way was just to be able to release as soon as possible with some weeks to market the game properly. Full mouse & keyboard support was simply delayed because it's not an easy task and in our long term vision, it is completely bond to a rework of the UI. The situation now is very different so it's way more easy to confirm that full support will be available in September. In the meantime, we are patching again by the end of the week, improving what is already in. With the patch arriving at the end of the week, you will be able to customize the assignment of default keyboard actions to mouse buttons, and default mouse actions to keyboard buttons.



Easy as it is: as you know the world of Plamen is huge and it's an amazing box to be filled with amazing contents. We have a number of mobs ready to join the army of Alaloth, as well as new NPC and special chars. We've almost done in putting in all the items we consider as a sort of Layer 1 and we are close to 800 different assets to interact with, including weapons, armors, wereables, consumables, mounts, quest items etc. This not means that we are going to stop and there is a bunch of new cool stuff on its way for vendors, loot tables and rewards. The main quest already received some improvements with a new cutscene introducing The Fifth Kingdom through Vaizmil's words. We are going to put in some new steps to be able to enter the endgame area, making the journey way more connected to the lore and the chars, introducing more of the pantheon and some other tasks to make things more challenging.

These are just ideas we are discussing since a while, even considering feeds we've gathered in these first days. The Arena Mode was a thing since the very beginning, trying to understand what we can do with this. We could say that an arena is already in-game and it will be available at some point, but we are talking about a stand alone mode here, offering many opportunities in terms of local coop and such. Thought about something omaging the old arcade cabinets: think about a Street Fighter-like UI with the chance of playing using all the champions available from the houses in-game or importing the save to use your char against them or mobs and such. We'll talk about this later. We already had the chance to explain about localization too and our store page contains all the info about this. New languages are a prio and by the end of the summer we should be able to plan something with a ratio, using the data collected through sales. We had some really cool surprises in a few countries [hello Turkey! Hello Brasil!] and we are carefully evaluating all the options. Dubbing is a different thing, it will be English only but the idea is to start with the narration, the main char and companions moving on step by step. The same for companions and local coop: we have a few ideas to improve this, given that in the next weeks companions will be tweaked to make them pivotal in combat. Last but not least: dragons. Big boss fights waiting, heroes and legends to be told.


Size comparison & VFX testing


As said above, this update is just a sort of recap of the things we would like to do and we are going to do in the next months. There is much more and again, expect new stuff and fixes with every patch to come. We are now on numbers, balancing the combat sys, the mobs, the weapons, the items. You can expect changes in your inventory with new patches, changing rarity and values of what you've acquired on the way. We are actively working on keeping your saves ok and if something risky is going to happen, you'll be aware of it. We are actively working on our Discord server to introduce a small meta-game to be even more involved in the development and we are going to have polls about in-game contents to add. The iterations we are having on Discord are amazing but we really need a change of policy there, to make things easier for both you and us. We literally received hundreds of messages and gone through every single DM but this is something we can't handle anymore as we can't handle flooding on different channels that are supposed to be used properly. More info about these changes coming soon.

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• Dremadea custscene brining to an infinite loading screen or random freeze now works properly
  
• Amaya of the Death Sister now working properly
  
• Sedlak Heraldic sometimes appearing randomically in kingdom's spot now fixed
  
• Desert Stalker Quest QG/QO non interactable, now fixed and working properly
  
• Dagan The Cold giving a wrong 80% discount, now fixed. Merchants will now properly evaluate their discount rate
  
• Healing Wells have now the interactable VFX on them, to make it clearer they are interactable objects
  
• Rewards of the following quests have been iterated/improved: King of the Swamp, Remenants of the Illuminated, The Book of Eras, Unkindness of Ravens, A Thorny Winter, A Circle in the Sand, A Veteran's Claim, Baga's Shame, Dead at Dawn, Clash of the Maw, Crimson Cobweb, Defender of the Orphans, Heads Will Roll, Pest Problems, Righteous Flame, Ritual of Ukar-Rakagul,The Desolate Dunes, The Sand Raids, The Beauty of the World, Forgive and Forget
  
• Food Dressing added to general vendors stocks where food vendors are missing by lore
  
• Repair Benches are now available in Safe Zones. Benches are not interactable yet but will allow player to repair items without moving back into cities. Benches will work through a consumable object [Repair Kit] the same way the respec works [interacting with the bench]
  
• Additional adjustment to general music settings
  
• Sei-Eld’s Blessing now has correct name and description
  
• Grand Masters tutorial page has been enriched to make it clear how the respect through them work
  
• Notification pop-up for stashed items and items that need to be repaired, now working. Both notifications will appear on the left of the screen. A small blinking icon will remain as a reminder until the item is checked or repaired.
  
• Rare Mounts [Wolds, Rams, Elven Chargers] now have stats
  
• Bald-char bug in inventory view now fixed
  
• T-pose char in Na'Kazkadden now fixed.
  
• The Beauty of the World markers on map are now as they are supposed to be (not too much)
  
• Lost Brotherhood QG now disappears after quest completion as intended
  
• Righteous Flame quest occurred to cause a game freeze, now fixed
  
• Dovkam’s Personal Hell spawning problems fixed. Now he is where he is supposed to be
  
• Red Mage and its codex entry now working properly
  
• Shattered Memories quest markers on map now properly displaying (in the correct number). The quest is now doable
  
• Black Dragon Turtles do have their markers on map now (Slow Jog quest)
  
• Spectral Circle Codex is now correctly available in its location
  
• Minor tweaks for improving performance on low quality hardware

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Hello Champions

The world of Plamen opened its gates since a week now, and it's time for a new update!
The reason why we are writing this post now is basically because we thought it was important for us all to deliver a message to you! We are absolutely blown away with the amount of people that have bought the game so far. We knew that we had a game with potentials, but of course we were afraid it might be too ambitious and too niche for a broader audience. We've always pitched Alaloth as something in between old school RPG and modern action souls-like. Something amazing to tell but so hard to explain, to be honest. Since the very beginning we thought that bringing 3D mechanics in a retro isometric view would have been great, but super hard too, for many different reasons. We met a lot of people on the way telling us that there was no way to make it work, but the key has always been trying to position Alaloth as something unique, hopefully catching the interest of a niche and talking to two different targets in the same space. We tried to bring in people who loved gaming in the '90s, as well as we focused on engaging hack'n'slash/aRPG players. The cool thing is that apparently our players really understood our work. The feedback has been overwhelming, we slept just a few hours since the reelase, red every Steam review, every thread, and all the suggestions here, on Discord, on GOG etc. We never thought this weird blend of early Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook art, Baldur's Gate and Dark Souls [cit.] would have been so much appreciated and we are giving 110% to improve the game on daily basis. We've already released 5 patches to fix bugs here and there but we could say that we have a pretty solid build for an Early Access release. We already said it before launch: releasing has been something we had to do, but the idea was to send out something cool with an honest price, hoping to start building the community we've always imagined. This is happening, with our Discord server doubled in a few days and hundreds of questions answered, night and day.


The very first concept art for Alaloth we've outsourced in 2015. We've paid it selling some jewelry and a watch, completely RPG-style. What a ride...

Reading that people have never seen anyone as active as we are, is something that makes us proud, after such a difficult year. We are painfully aware of how many of you would have wanted complete M&K support, but as we explained, we had to go with a partial support to be here today. Full support will be available soon, but we had to choose carefully a number of feature to put on hold to be able to set the launch on June 30 and believe us, squeezing prod, marketing, PR and everything else in 40 days is something that could be considered epic. We are working on a good number of amazing features now, while fixing bugs and improving the overall quality of the experience. We are literally hand-picking every single item in the game, assigning it to the right loot, vendor, quest, character and this is something that directly impacts the balancing of all things. We have nearly 500 different assets to consider [weapons, armors, mounts, wearables, consumables etc] and once we'll have done with this, we'll start going through numbers to make the flow more interesting, keeping it challenging the right way. We'll focus on the RPG half of the cake too, because both things [old and new] have the same importance. Speaking of the to-do list, we’ve started to lay the groundwork for our roadmap as well. A full plan for the next months will be provided tomorrow or Monday the latest. We’ve always enjoyed an open communication and we intend to keep that communication two-ways, honest and open. Hope you appreciated how much time we spent in so many different channels to just find the time to say thank you and this post has been basically created for the same reason: thank you so much!

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• Lava's texture in Kima the Volcan has been improved and now looks definitely better
  
• Proximity barks added to strongholds for items included in the Supporter pack [PC recognize now both Nikan and Wisdom of The Mudar]
  
• Music volumes have been tweaked to be more aligned with the other SFX and the ambience tracks.
  
• Bogtok (Cortians' Boss) death SFX tweaked to be more impactful
  
• Slow Jog quest now does update its Codex entry properly
  
• Massive number of fixes on navmeshes to improve PC movement in FA avoiding weird blocks during combat
  
• A Whole New World quest now properly register quest items
  
• Various skills' VFX tweaked
  
• New items added to be iterated

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• Wold, Elven Charger, Windowolf, now DO HAVE stats working now
  
• General Navmesh fixes have been done around my different locations in Plamen [cities, PoI, FA]
  
• Proof reading in progress. Some typos have been fixed too, the stash tutorial has now the correct image and the Respec tutorial now specify that Sanctuaries are the only ones where you can respec, along with your Stronghold.
  
• Ilzeborth issues preventing him to be responsive during the fight, tentative fix
  
• A high number of quests making the quest journal scroll broken, fixed
  
• Champions bhvs have been improved and dodging/parrying have been tweaked making the fights more challenging
  
• Spectral Codex now properly lootable in Queen's Rest
  
• To the Giant World quest now works
  
• A Mother's Gift quest now properly working, with marker pointing to Na'Kazkadden instead of The Portcullis
  
• Smothering Lights Taranath now properly interactable
  
• The Wedding Planner quest now properly working, wine correctly spawning and lootable
  
• Primal empty dialogue removed
  
• Slow Jog quest now properly working
  
• Way of the Seekers broken steps now restored
  
• Boon of the Stones, fixed info on where to find Vontag Lhoril
  
• The Emergence quest fixed, no more wrong markers on world map
  
• Vendors' Stocks improved and items added in Nhulbarar and Na'Kazakdden that previously didn't have the correct items. Rarity level and stats of items still in progress. Expect rarity and values of items and weapons going on changing
  
• Special FA loot tables are now working (not final loot, but not broken)
  
• Minor UI fixes

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• Rewards for the following quest now correctly dropped: Queen of the Dead, The Eternal Cage, A Burning Rage, Sorrows & Sand.
  
• Negative quantity of items in inventory, preventing from using crafting or selling/buying things, now fixed.
  
• New beautiful narrative cutscene Implemented
  
• Companions HP level modifier increases from -7%,-3%,0, +5%,+10% to +15%,+20%,+25%,+30%,+35%
  
• Champions HP increased from 1800 to 2500 HP
  
• Following Skills have been balanced: Affliction now inflicts 90 magic damage instead of 130, Puppet Wire will last 10 seconds instead of 20, Vampiric Touch now heals the player for 35% of the damage inflicted during the skill, instead of 50%.
  
• Following Stats have been balanced: each Strength point will give +3% physical damage instead of 5%, each Constitution point will give +10% Poison and Stun Resistance instead of 15%, each Dexterity point will improve Crit chance by 1% instead of 2% and will diminish Stamina expenditure of 1% instead of 2%.
  
• Following Traits have been balanced: Pious, Scholar, Veteran will now guarantee -15% cooldown time instead of 20%
  
• Legendary Items lacking stats have now their stats [to be iterated]
  
• Mounts items lacking stats have now their stats [to be iterated]
  
• Gems sockets have been moved on top of the stats list of items view (currently in inspect layout, on the way for comparison layout and broken item layout) so they are immediately visible
  
• Little icon showing how many pieces of that item you already have in your inventory has been switched (now it's a little backpack instead of the previous misleading bag of coins)
  
• Various stability fixes for low performance hardwares

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• Main quest has a bug that prevents the player to complete the game, being stuck in the Dremadea area without a way to leave. For whoever has a save where the main quest already failed, we are sorry, but this save can’t be fixed. If your main quest is still active and correctly behaving, your run should be fixed.
  
• Champions of competitive mode were bugged in the last build version causing them to be hardly visible and active. Fixed, so they will now behave correctly and be way more challenging.
  
• Quest Dovkam's Personal Hell was not correctly trackable on map, fixed. The QO could have been found already in the right place.
  
• Placeholder Death Screen is now finalized: NOOB has been removed leaving space to a proper and more fitting expression [it was a joke!]
  
• Hammerhaven secrete chest (behind the closed gate) has now a proper loot.
  
• Recipes have a bug that could cause them to get lost during Inventory navigation, now fixed.
  
• 30+ Quests Rewards improved and iterated, items added, they are now more balanced and rewarding [expect items changing rarity in your equipment in a few cases]
  
• Quest “Chasing Specters” has an issue that prevents it to be completed, showing the wrong dialogue without chance to proceed any further, now solved.
  
• Respec’s Altars in Shrines issue that causes them to become not interactable after 2 repeated interactions in a short time, has been fixed.
  
• Bug that prevents the ability to scroll properly through the Journal and Inventory Lists (a new one) has been fixed.
  
• Food dressings are now available as intended in the game.
  
• Cookbook is now properly written
  
• Luck points were refunded after respec, but they were not removed if already used on Luck stat, causing a surplus of points: fixed.
  
• Dealer trait + merchant discount (reputation bonus) is now correctly calculated
  
• Phase 1 of the game world is now triggered at day 50 [Alaloth getting stronger with new spawns, quests, NPC on the map]

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Hello Champions

It's almost 48 hours since we've launched Alaloth in Early Access! As we already said, we have been overwhelmed by the support we've received, as much as we've been super happy to collect so much feeds about your first steps in Plamen. A new patch is on its way [in 3 hours from now] and we've fixed things thanks to the reports we've collected here and on our Discord server. As we explained before launch, we've created a in-game tool to take dumps of everything weird occurring during a playthrough. These dumps are stored in your PC and can be sent to us now uploading the file in #bug-report channel on Discord. This was a problem for someone not using the chat, so we've set-up a new tool to make things easier for both you and us. As you've already seen, we are pretty fast with fixes and we are trying to answer in real time to everyone asking. We are happy to receive your support and your issues notifications and above mentioned dumps are very helpful to spot bugs and solve them in the shortest time possible. We've just created a super simple form where we ask you to put the same info you posted in our Discord #bug-reports channel until now. This will permit us to triage the notifications and dumps even more efficiently, in order to bring you more and more fixes and improvements in no time!

Just CLICK HERE, follow the instructions and we will be immediately notified and can start working on the problem with no risks of missing something! That's how it works, super simple!



Changelog for the upcoming patch will be available shortly. We had a very long day fixing loots, quest rewards, trainers and items in general. Expect part of your equipment suddenly changing rarity or popping-up with different stats. Nerf on the way for a few mobs too, as well as a general check of values here and there.

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• Summon Familiar, Puppet Wire and others skills breaking mobs with certains specific conditions are now fixed. The bug was blocking player with no reason in in the area
  
• Moonvale Loot Table issues fixed, no more blockers in that area
  
• Holy Fire cooldown changed to avoid spamming the spell [from 3 to 7 seconds]
  
• Jarzothan bhv and stats fixed
  
• Quest Journal issues that prevent you from scrolling an entire list of items, is now fixed
  
• Vendors and Inventory issues that casused random freezes are now fixed
  
• General prood reading and texts/typos fixes
  
• Some mobs bhv and values have been iterated and improved
  
• Fixed a minor issue that could happen when swapping weapons in the menu
  
• Improved stability by fixing some minor glitches

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