Thank you all for the massive amount of support we’ve seen from Riven’s launch!

We have a new patch for you: Patch 1, version 1.1.0 (e3584-p25462)

You can find the build number above in the Options → Help section of the menu.

• Fixed being able to save/load on the tracks in the minecart cave and getting stuck underwater in specific circumstances
  
• Fixed being able to enter the engagement zone of the minecart on Boiler Island from outside of the cart and getting stuck
  
• (SPOILER) Fixed getting caught on the fire marble tray when it rises
  
• Fixed collision to prevent getting stuck on the path to the spider room chair
  
• Added additional safeguards for a crash that could happen in OpenXR (see notes in “Existing Considerations” section if you are on a Vive HMD)
  
• (SPOILER) Fix for being able to climb a ladder you shouldn’t have been able to in the Starry Expanse under specific circumstances, which led to the player becoming stuck

• Fixed steam rising from the wahrk effigy waterhole while the waterhole was closed
  
• Earthquake sound fixed for the ending
  
• Fixed being able to overwater the beetle tree
  
• Modified the auto focus on Gehn's Age 233 speeches to allow the player to look around more freely
  
• Sound fixes and improvements added
  
• Art fixes and improvements added
  
• Character art improvements added
  
• (SPOILER) Fixed the Starry Expanse loading in too late after the PMDs opened
  
• Cleaned up the animation for one of Gehn's exits in Age 233
  
• Fixed an achievement firing off too quickly
  
• The player can now no longer open the inventory and enter engagement zones

• If you are experiencing a crash on startup, and if you have a customized or older VR setup with options you can’t recall whether or not you’ve turned on or off, please disable the “motion compensation layer” in your OpenXR backend settings. This appears to be an engine bug prevalent in our version of Unreal and can occur regardless of playing in 2D or VR
  
• If you are experiencing crashes while playing Riven with a Vive HMD, please enable the “ViveVR OpenXR SRWorks” option through SteamVR, as this appears to prevent various crashes from occurring through OpenXR (unfortunately not something we can resolve).
  
• Riven officially supports the specific HMDs listed in the requirements on our store page. Many folks have been able to play Riven without a hitch on their unsupported HMDs by tweaking various OpenXR or SteamVR settings. For issues encountered playing Riven on unsupported HMDs (like WMR devices, BigScreen devices, and more), we recommend checking out our community forums for support on those issues.
  
• In certain VR configurations, the laser for selecting options might render behind the menu
  
• There is an issue with certain newer-gen Intel CPUs crashing on startup for many UE5 games, including ours. This appears to be a hardware issue and the only workaround is to modify BIOS settings. More information here: https://cyan.com/docs/riven-launches-but-closes-never-gets-to-the-menu-sometimes-shows-an-error-message/

The Third DLC for the Year 4 Pass!

This DLC unlocks a brand new world for hexceed: Viridis
Puzzle your way through 120 new levels - levels include all previously introduced mechanics!

Viridis is available now on Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2767690


Or
Pick up the Year 4 Pass to pre-purchase all the DLC for Year 4 with a discount!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2767660


New Features

• New Viridis World DLC bringing 120 new levels!

0.1.7.0

This is the last planned playtest patch, as the demo content for the most part is complete. Unless a major bug and crash is found, the playtest is going to be taken down in a week until the demo launches. Thanks for testing Heroes For Hire, the feedback has been really helpful.

Additions:
- Enemy tournament/rival weapons can now contain gems and have differing qualities.

Other Changes:
- Raids will no longer automatically start if one of the heroes is sick.
- The room building system that the guild hall uses has been changed. You can now build rooms anywhere in the raid, and the guild boundaries will expand and contract as necessary.
- It is now only possible to run one skirmish at a time.
- It is now possible to spectate the current skirmish if the popup is closed off.
- Selecting "maximize" during setup will now actually maximize the screen.
- The order of operations for automatic crafting and selling is now based on the vertical position of the popup and pin, from top to bottom. (Already works this way for raiding, gathering and training.)

Balance:
- The Bodyguard now has only neutral personality traits.
- The Bodyguard now only uses a sword, before was using randomly generated weapons each turn.
- Reduced the amount of healing done by the sapphire gem.
- Rival vs Rival battles during tournaments should now be more accurate.
- A couple enemy attacks targeted random heroes even if the hero was dead. This is no longer the case.
- Rebalanced some of the furniture items.

Bug Fixes:
- Autofilling a startraid popup with an empty fourth hero slot will now always add the Bodyguard if he is in your guild and is not raiding.
- Fixed a bug where the Bodyguard would occasionally not have a weapon.
- It is no longer possible to open up the Bodyguard's hero info popup using the raid list.
- Fixed a crash caused by trying to fire a hero.
- Fixed a crash caused by the "Pumped Up" skill.
- Fixed a crash caused by overworking a hero.
- Fixed a crash caused by the hero shortcut pin.
- Fixed a bug where the crafting menu wasn't actually checking to see if you had the right items when the actual item was being crafted.

Fixed bugs around Lichess gameplay and the display of arrows

The Play Online option has been removed as it could cause confusion.

1. New Dark-Type Legendary item: "Whispers of the Eyeless" - Drive your enemies to madness, dominating their mind and forcing them to fight for you! Sounds interesting? Check out the Cool Dark Cult -management Game we based the ability on, created by our good friends at Evil Gingerbread Studio!



2. Onslaught reworked: It's now significantly harder to progress through Onslaught Levels. Additionally, each level now increases the spawn rate of enemies. (a bigger rework is coming in future, where the Onslaught level will be tied to the entire run, rather than each wave separately, planned for the first major update 1.1 version)
3. Fixed display bug of some stats in pause menu.
4. Fixed Collected Gold display on Game Over Screen.
5. Changed localization, names and titles are now not localized to preserve the intended theme and wordplays. Descriptions and tooltips, however, will be localized.
6. Fixed Critical Chance Tarot Card. It will now properly grant the intended Crit Chance value.


Special thanks to our Discord members for helping us to make the game better!

Hello royals!

Earlier this year we announced we would update Shotgun King over the summer. Well, we've been working on it! We already have a few small spoilers for you and the outlines of a timeline!

Note that all these spoilers were posted on our Discord server over the last few weeks! If you want to see the next ones before everyone else, then that's definitely the place to be!

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Say what you will about pawns, the white king sure has a way to inspire them, and to avoid the quick death they deserve for stealing your kingdom! Better practice some good old social distancing with pawns whenever this card is in play!



I don't know about you but I'm a big fan of trebuchets, even the word is nice. And what better way to transform any old battlefield into a frantic dancefloor! Rooks simply weren't deadly enough!



But I don't want you thinking we're only adding things on the white side, so here's a brand new ability for our beloved and ever-so-clairvoyant black ruler: the Seer's Orb!

Predict an enemy piece's next movement... and lock it down so you may safely move elsewhere!



Okay but let's come back to making the white side a bigger pain to deal with! Here's something fun! Remember when you were a kid and your ultimate strategy was to sweep all the pieces off the board with your arms in a fit of frustration because this f*cking game is so hard to play? Well it seems the white king was watching you from just under the kitchen table, and they made sure to take notes...

Honestly, if this really was an illegal move, they would have invented a chessboard with little walls. Change my mind. You can't.

Also yes, the white side is actually getting smarter, as in we're improving the AI. Hang tight.



And finally, we thought some whimsy couldn't hurt, so here's a unicorn! It's like a regular knight, but they have a horn and they just love ramming into black kings walking a little bit to close to the edge of the board! What wondrous magical beasts!

Wait what's this? A new shipment of royal shotguns was delivered to the castle?! The delivery man will have to be shot for being late, dreadful but it's as fair as the King's justice gets. But look! It seems some new abilities are at hand!



Any idea what this shotgun might do? Let us know in the comments what you think, you might well give us some other ideas to implement too! I'll give you a clue though, this is our answer to something that's been complained about a fair bit ever since the game got on Steam!

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And that is all for the spoilers we've shared on Discord so far! So when is all this coming into your hands?

We're hoping to have a beta phase starting sometime during the end of July, and then we're aiming to release the update proper during the second half of August!

We're going to do our best to update all the localizations in time for August as well, but there may be a small delay, these things just take time sometimes. We were also made aware that the current Chinese localization is quite far from perfect, so we will try to get that looked into as well.

If you're interested in joining the beta, it will be available right here on Steam, but please make sure you join us on Discord so we can tell you how to access it and you can tell us about any bugs and issues you might find!

And if you have any friends who don't own the game yet but might be interested helping out with the beta, or simply playing a ridiculous version of chess, then let me point out this is a great time to pick up the game as it's 30% off for the Summer sales! And by the way so are most our other games, you should check them out they're pretty good too!!

That's it for now! We hope you're excited for the coming update, we're having a lot of fun working on it so far!

Thank you all for your support, see you soon, and long live the Shotgun King!
-PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞

Hi everyone, in this update we have did some graphical improvements

• Improved card/hero UI and colors

This is a board game where you can travel Around the World!
This event will last a few days, but you can only do 3 laps.

Use tickets to roll the dice and move the number of spaces equal to the number on the dice.

You can get more tickets for:

playing levels—each level will have a tag showing the number of tickets you can get
completing daily and weekly tasks in your blog


There are a few Rainbow Tickets that give you one roll free.

You can buy Gold Dice to get special features:

Roll the dice for half price
Get ALL the gold rewards
Get x2 showplaces
Unlock the 2nd and 3rd laps


There are 60 different spaces:

Some are empty.
Some contain a reward.
Others have showplaces on them.
And some spaces can move you either back or forward.


Every time you finish a lap you will get a reward!
You can buy the second and third lap with Rubies.

If you didn’t get a special reward during your current lap, it will be stored in the Golden Cage and you will be able to claim it after the third lap.

This event may get you:

Booster parts
Time-limited boosters
Full boosters
Groceries
Blog points
Coins
Rubies
Collections


Have a wonderful trip Around the World!

Mastery required skill, and skill required patience and training. Whenever she would spend time working on an invention or deceiving folks in the local tavern, she thought of it as praying at the Temple of Knowledge. And she was a frequent attendant.



It's impossible to ignore this grinning goliath with extravagant style. Aeon's performances are dazzling, and her conversations are filled with wit and charm. But her true genius is what she accomplishes behind the scenes, gathering a wealth of knowledge and secrets all while deceiving her patrons with distracting displays!

Aeon, a Goliath of exceptional intellect and charm, masterfully intertwines her skills as an Artillerist Artificer and Bard of the College of Whispers. Operating under the guise of a master tinkerer, she is, in truth, a cunning spy and manipulative puppet master. Aeon owns the renowned Greenhow, a unique tavern where patrons are served by her intricate automata, while she sells mechanical devices and curios embedded with Sending Stones and other surveillance tools; her ‘gifts’ have managed to make their way into some of the most powerful homes in the North Ward of Waterdeep. Her strategy is brilliantly deceptive; she portrays herself as a flamboyant performer and entertainer, so vivid and engaging that none suspect her of orchestrating a grand network of espionage, controlling events from the shadows.

Aeon is a Support and Debuff Champion who infiltrates the inner circle of one Patron each week to become eligible for all their adventures. She was created by B. Dave Walters, who the Idle Champions community already knows as the DM for many of our Idle Champions Presents livestreams and the creator behind Freely! He is also a published writer for comic books, graphic novels, and screenplays as well as a lead developer on many major TTRPGs. We're thrilled to bring another one of his characters into our formations!






Role: Support, Debuff


Eligible for Patrons: Mirt, Strahd, Zariel, Elminster (until July 3rd, 2027)


Seat: 10 (Tyril)

• Cane Wand - Aeon fires an energy bolt from her cane at the closest enemy for one hit.

• Network of Espionage - Every week, Aeon targets one Patron for infiltration. Aeon can be used in any Patron adventure or variant for her current Patron target, even if she would not normally be available to be used due to variant or patron restrictions.

• Inner Circle - Aeon increases the damage of adjacent Champions by 100% for each Champion in the formation that is eligible for the Patron she is infiltrating this week, stacking multiplicatively.

• Uncover Weakness - Each enemy that Aeon damages gains a Stolen Secrets stack. Enemies with a Stolen Secrets stack take 100% more damage from all sources, stacking multiplicatively up to 5 times.

• Challenge Accepted - Aeon increases the effect of Inner Circle by 100% for each completed Patron challenge for her current Patron target, stacking multiplicatively.

• Immediate Infiltration - Increase the effect of Inner Circle by 100% each time Uncover Weakness applies a Stolen Secrets stack, stacking additively up to 10 times per area and resetting when changing areas.

• Play the Long Game - Increase the effect of Inner Circle by 0.1% each time Uncover Weakness applies a Stolen Secrets stack, stacking additively up to 1,000,000 times and persisting until you reset the adventure.

• Artificer's Arsenal - Cane Wand can now pierce through the targeted enemy, dealing one hit to all enemies in a line. Additionally, it deals 5 seconds of BUD-based damage to all enemies it hits.

• Spy Network - Inner Circle now affects all Champions within two slots of Aeon and its pre-stack effect is increased by 75%.

• Powerful Patronage - Increase the pre-stack effect of Challenge Accepted by 150% while on a Patron variant for the week's chosen Patron.

• Deuce - Aeon's mechanical monkey Deuce fires a barrage at all enemies, dealing one ultimate hit to each one and knocking them back a short distance.

• Scheming Strategist - Gain 10,000 stacks of Stolen Secrets with Aeon's Uncover Weakness ability. (Accumulates over multiple adventures.)

Mechanical Mayhem - Save Waterdeep from the chaos of a Founders' Day gone awry with Aeon!

• Aeon starts in the formation. She can't be moved or removed.
• 1-2 Iron Defenders spawn with each wave. They don't drop gold nor count towards quest progress.
• Only Champions next to Aeon can deal damage.
• Area Goals:
  
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 75.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 250.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 600.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1200.

Spy's Strategy - Save Waterdeep from the chaos of a Founders' Day gone awry with Champions that work with a particular Patron.

• Aeon starts in the formation. She can't be moved or removed.
• You may only use core Champions and/or Champions eligible for Aeon's current Patron.
• Area Goals:
  
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 125.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 350.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 800.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1400.

Discovered Secrets - Save Waterdeep from the chaos of a Founders' Day gone awry with your best debuffers.

• Aeon starts in the formation. She can't be moved or removed.
• Only monsters that have a debuff can take damage.
• Area Goals:
  
  • Tier 1: Complete Area 175.
  • Tier 2: Complete Area 450.
  • Tier 3: Complete Area 1000.
  • Tier 4: Complete Area 1600.

Has Aeon charmed or manipulated her way into your roster? Tell us what secrets she's found out about your formations:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
  
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
• Our social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok!

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