Ash of Gods: Redemption Update 1.1 Available

Quality of life improvements, fixes to both singleplayer and multiplayer content, adjustments to the game's text, and tweaks to its difficulty are all present in the latest sizable update for AurumDust's narrative RPG Ash of Gods. You can check out the complete patch notes below, along with an overview of what the team is currently working on:

CHANGELOG:

SINGLE PLAYER
  • Added a setting of the Reaping (difficulty) in the main menu.
  • Added a displayed numeric value for the level of morale.
  • Added skills and walking distance preview during the positioning phase.
  • Changed font size on the character selection screen in the Chinese version of the game.
  • Fixed the desynchronization of voice over and onscreen text for the Chinese version of the game.
  • Fixed combat units’ sound with the animation speed set to X3.
  • Added an option to disable voice over in settings.
  • Thorn’s party is now healed by 1 upon arriving to Opacum.
  • Added a lit campfire to Thorn’s camp.
  • Adjusted Hopper’s final enemy stats if he is fighting alone, the player did not develop him and skipped optional combat.
  • Changed multipliers for chapters 6 and 7 for Thorn’s team if there are only 4 characters left in the party.
  • Fixed the problem which prevented damage preview from showing for some skills and classes.
  • Changed the AI settings for the encounter after leaving the jail in Ursus if there are many injured units in character’s party.
  • Changed the animation for opening/closing the watch in combat (thanks to an artist and our player Oleg Knyazev).
  • Removed the preview when using cards with random effects.
  • Quest with the table in Unda’s house is made simpler.
  • Fixed “White Tower” not showing on the map in the English version of the game.
  • Fixed the logic for the dialogue on Druket’s death.
  • Fixed the problem with saves in Steam that occured when using slow internet connection and cloud save syncing turned on (sometimes the game would not save or the saves would disappear upon quitting with Alt+F4).
  • Fixed the receiving of the achievements “We are saved (Rit)”, “Makt survived”.
  • Fixed the description for cards disappearing in some cases.
  • Fixed the problem on the 7th level of Hopper’s skill “Vamprirism”.
  • Fixed Doom showing on Lo Pheng’s camp screen even when he is not in the party.
  • Fixed the issue with same random events happening several times on the way to the Marsh Watch and Triple Menhir.
  • Fixed the arrow showing “to the right” in the store.
  • Fixed the mouse scroll input allowing the pan in cutscenes.
  • Fixed the text alignment in some quests for Hopper in the Italian language.
  • Fixed team management screen to work correctly on 1600х900 resolution in Windows and Linux.
  • Fixed a glitch with a bush on the Ursus screen.
  • Fixed odd language and tone errors in the English translation in Thorn’s and Hopper’s storylines in Ursus, Marsh Watch, Firga, White Tower.
  • Fixed various typos and textual errors in various languages.
MULTIPLAYER
  • Unit upgrade added.
  • Opening battle chests and arena chests added.
  • Daily chests giveaway and opening added.
  • Added 14 new templates and locations for combat (different teams positions, obstacles, locations).
  • Added skills and walking distance preview during the positioning phase.
  • Added skills preview during opponent’s turn.
  • Added ability to see own cards during opponent’s turn.
  • Added information about injuries on the profile screen.
  • Added “Quit” button to change the user in the GOG version of the game.
  • Displays the treatment of units over time online.
  • Corrected the behavior of passive skills, items and the system of injuries.
  • Changed the format of the time online (as you have asked - we have changed to exact diaplayment of hours and minutes).
  • Reconnects after the disconnect now work properly.
  • Fixed the problem with desynchronization and spontaneous deviations from the server on hub and during search for a fight on an unstable connection.
  • Fixed the timer synchronization for players from different time zones.
  • Fixed the resource management screen localization for German and Chinese languages.
  • Fixed the issue when “Auto-combat” would display in multiplayer.
WHAT ARE WORKING ON NOW
  • We fix errors, add options that you ask for and work on the multiplayer.
  • We have finished and are testing the integration of GOG Galaxy (achievements, overlay, cloud saves). We are very sorry, dear GOG players, that it took us so long.
  • You have asked us to write a “postmortem” after the final video. We did it and are translating it now.
  • We have created the concept for, selected a mockup (with your help on Discord) and are working on the battle log.
  • Adding clans to the multiplayer.
  • Creating an option to turn off dynamic camera.
  • Creating a mode “Iron Man” with high difficulty.
  • Further editing the English text.
  • We plan to start LQA for the Polish language. If you speak English and can help us out - please let us know in a comment.