Souldiers Version 1.1.1 update fully detailed

Quality of life improvements:

• Reduced loading times on Retry.
• Added resolution selection options to Options Video menu.
• Added new save statues and checkpoints in Spider Lair, Floating Module, Fire Temple, Forest of Fyr, Sunken Laboratory, Tempes Plains, Great Pyramid and Hafin Sewers.
• Archer arrows do reduced damage instead of missing if hitting far targets.
• On retry, recover HP up to a certain % depending on difficulty (100% in Easy, 50% in Medium and Hard).
• Increase rock push/pull speed.
• Mana bar is refilled when getting a skill sphere, so skills can be tested.
• Warm necklace no longer needs to be equipped to give protection from high temperatures, and now has more effects.
• Removed teleporter confinement restriction during the Great Pyramid arc.
• Statue checkpoint menu appears automatically after first activation to avoid confusion.
• Great Pyramid secret spinning doors are now marked in the map when on camera, no need to enter. Visited ones are marked different for extra clarity.
• Marked Great Pyramid’s opened globus doors as opened in map.

Bugfixes:

• Wizard: Avoid consuming mana if a skill’s startup animation is interrupted by blocking/rolling.
• Relocated wings in Sangrigor combat.
• Fixed maps from other zones being slightly visible in Great Pyramid and Forest of Fyr.
• Prevent changing difficulty on New Game +.
• Fixed Euder race sometimes being in an unbeatable state.
• Fixed big cauldron room in Fire Temple leading to void room below if returning after rising lava section.
• Fixed softlock when Melian sometimes misses a wind switch in a Sunken Laboratory scene.
• Fixed project 0,5 combat not finishing sometimes (right door keeps open).
• Fixed volume of some ambience sounds.
• Fixed next scene load after returning from failing Colisseum sidequest never finish loading.
• Fixed player having wrong collision size during death animation if killed in slime form.
• Fixed pig bomb rotation being wrong sometimes.
• Fixed Archer Skirmish not working with hidden Nomad Thiefs and Battos.
• Fixed Archer Skirmish arrows sometimes getting stuck forever.
• Fixed some props/gameplay elements sometimes not appearing.
• Fixed Scout Parry stamina cost being way too high.
• Fixed Galath’s blue grenades not exploding when touched by other grenades, and causing stamina damage when deflected correctly.
• Fixed Panacea item not curing ‘Paralysed’ status.
• Fixed crusher blocks and electric coils sometimes remaining frozen.
• Fixed Altera Punisher not detecting the player after retrying.
• Fixed Sunken Laboratory pressure jets not affecting pig bombs.
• Fixed game lock if leveling up after receiving a killing hit before hitting the ground.
• Fixed Spider Lair geysers affecting the player when in a cutscene or dead.
• Fixed being able to save a trapped soldier at Spider Lair with the Wizard before the quest starts.
• Fixed a falling chest in the Great Pyramid.
• Fixed camera limits with ultra-wide resolutions.
• Fixed Dark Sword being reachable without the bridge.
• Fixed vertical streams in Sunken Laboratory not appearing, which prevents the player from progressing
• Fixed softlock when Melian sometimes misses a wind fan in the maze scenes in Sunken Laboratory
• Fixed FPS drops in the Fire Temple prevent the player from progressing

Rebalance

• General reduction of enemy health and damage in all difficulties.
• Adjusted weapons’ shard cost.
• Reduced roll cooldown.
• Increased player turn/crouch speed
• Increased player stamina regeneration rate.
• Increased detection time for perfect blocks (reflecting blue attacks).
• Set same initial HP of Archer and Wizard as Scout.
• Reduced mana cost of all classes’ skills.
• Increased size of damage area of Scout air attacks.
• Increased attack hitbox of Archer arrows
• Increased detection time of Archer Skirmish attack for easier execution.
• Reduced number of levels for each increase in Archer’s number of arrows.
• Increased Archer bow damage.
• Increase Wizard’s homing target detection area and damage.
• Improved area and duration of Wizard ‘Vital sproutling’ skill.
• Increased Wizard mana regeneration rate.
• Decreased mana cost of detonating Wizard clones.
• Reduced mana cost of Wizard Spellweaver attacks.
• Increase damage of rebounded Ionic Nail (reflected Altera Marauder attack)
• Increased Drones speed and player detection radius.
• Improved healing potion HP restored.
• Improved mana and stamina recovery of Restorer potion.
• Revised some hard jumps in Sunken Laboratory.
• Improved necklaces’ healing properties.
• Improved effect of Regeneration vial.
• Revised map shop prices.
• Blocked a lift in Great Pyramid to lead player on the path to get the yellow globus.
• Increased time to beat Spider Lair’s torch puzzle.
• Revised wait times in some electric coils in Floating Module.
• Tweaked turrets speed and removed traps in Great Pyramid.
• Fire Temple torches don’t turn off automatically anymore.
• Increased money dropped by monsters.
• Revised elemental weaknesses in bosses and midbosses.
• Reduced stamina (shield) damage of most enemies.
• Reduced chance of causing adverse effects in common enemies’ attacks.
• Reduced flying distance from player for Harpy, Gargoyle, Storm Raven, Altera Marauder, Hipicus and Scarab.
• Increased time between attacks of Harpy, Scarab, Storm Raven, Altera Marauder, Sand Slime, Electric Slime, Hipicus, Gargoyle.
• Reduced attack boxes in Altera Punisher’s attack and Dark Razor combo and jump attack.
• Reduced damaging box size of Babylon’s wheel and Beigon’s cut attack.
• Removed stun property in Aguinox attacks.
• Added some gold when defeating Birk.
• Remove Hipicus damage reflection while firing, and changed invulnerability to elemental resistance.
• Changed Kyut’s invulnerability when armored to elemental resistance.
• Removed Scarab invulnerability.
• Revised Golems’ max projectile distance.
• Revised hitboxes of some enemies (Altera Marauder, Mothena, Gargoyle, Pyramancer, Altera Punisher, Storm Raven, Avalerion, Dark Claw, Beastaurus, Guardian of Anubis)
• Increased Enchanter delay between spawning minions, reduced maximum of simultaneous minions.
• Reduced size of Galath grab attack box.
• Increased Gargoyle delay after landing.
• Increased HP items dropped by Lion Tree.
• Slowed startup of Minotaur’s direct axe attack.
• Reduced duration of Storm Raven and Electric Slimes’ electrified area.
• Readjusted enemies of one of Fire Temple enclosed encounters.
• Removed some flying enemies in Tempes Plains and Spider Lair.
• Removed some ledges in Spider Lair’s torch puzzle.
• Removed 2 rounds in Tempes Mines challenge.
• Removed some Salamanders in Fire Temple.

Other changes:

• Added Traditional Chinese localization.
• Restore health after Brigard and Beigon combats.
• Increased visual size of Wizard healing tree skill to better match the healing zone.
• Removed time freeze when effective attacks hit.
• Enlarged Pig Bomb’s contact zone with switches for better feedback.
• Readjusted sand platforms in Royal Scorpion combat for clarity.
• Player-tracking turrets in Floating Module don’t fire if outside the camera.