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New Hero! New Challenge Mode! New Objectives and much more! Six huge updates since F2P!!!Jun 25, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsSins of a Dark Age just launched its 6th major update since the launch of Free-to-Play in mid-May. Here are some of the highlights from all 6 updates: New Hero Meet Penn the Boy Mage! New Mode The first Challenge mode is ready! New Contracts Gameplay objectives that can be completed at your own pace over the course of multiple games. New Match Making Better skill factoring, team balancing, reduced pre-made party stomping, auto-joins and more. Improved Community Features New methods to deal with AFK players, Virtue farmers, verbal abuse and more. Improved Graphics Faster, more color contrast, better lighting, improved map textures and various unit texture upgrades. Revamps, Rebalances and Redoes Including many Hero abilities, Items, Glyphs, and Quests. Expanded User Interface Options: Including a complete revamp on binding options and the popular "Move to Cast" Advanced Casting option. Loads of Optimizations: Including major graphics and audio speed improvements and more multi-core support. Improved Chest Rewards and Shop Features Including Deep Sea Lithoron and Mad Jester Slag! For the complete details on everything that has improved since the launch of Free-to-Play check out the following links: Update #40 Update #41 Update #42 Update #43 Update #44 Update #45 Hope to see you in game!New Hero: Penn the Boy Mage!!!Jun 19, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsNew Hero: Penn the Boy Mage Penn is a precocious shepherd boy with a talent for magic beyond his years. At the Seeker’s urging, Penn has left his home to be trained to use his gifts. Quick on his feet, Penn supports his allies by conjuring helpful spirit manifestations. Introduction Orphaned from a young age, Penn was raised on his uncle’s farm, north of the Imperial Mountains. It was a quiet, bucolic existence, learning to look after the herd, baling hay, caring for his aging aunt. Even with his failing eyesight, Penn’s uncle could sense something special about his nephew. The way torchflies seemed to swarm around him, or how the sheep would calm at his touch. His aunt soon came to rely on Penn’s help around the farm. But it was not long before all of that would forever change. Following traces of lingering magic caught in the summer breeze, the Seeker discovered the mysterious child from the northern dells, and offered him a choice. To remain on his family farm, or to set off on a course for adventure, and learn to use his gifts as a mage. Abilities Shepherd's Flock (Passive) Penn draws energy from Heroes casting abilities nearby. When enough energy has been absorbed, an ethereal Sheep will manifest, which Penn may collect. Only one such Sheep may exist at a time. Penn gains bonus Special Power for each Sheep he has collected. Torchflies (Q) Penn sends a swarm of torchflies from his staff in the targeted direction, dealing decreasing Magic Damage to any enemies it passes through and granting vision in a larger radius. The torchflies will linger at the end of their path for a short duration before returning to Penn when the effect ends or he recasts the ability. If the torchflies pass through a Sheep, it will be drawn to them and follow the swarm back to Penn. Battering Ram (W) Penn conjures a spectral ram and sends it charging in the targeted direction, trampling minions for Magic Damage, and Slowing and dealing Magic Damage to the first struck enemy Hero. Drover's Road (E) Penn creates a Drover's Road in the target direction and quickly travels along it. While traveling he is untargetable.The Drover's Road persists for a short duration. During this duration, an additional allied Hero may also travel through it. Paddock (R - Ultimate) Penn conjures a fence around target area, trapping enemies within it. Enemies within the area when the fence manifests are dealt Magic Damage. Heroes Torrace Added Torrace's Lore Book. Penn Added Penn's Lore Book. Added new Hero Gear for Penn: Ramhorn Staff: Penn's Battering Ram deals more damage but applies a weaker Slow. Torchfly Lantern:When Penn's Torchflies are recalled to him, a few of them stay at the targeted position and grant vision there for a moderate duration. Quest Balance Divine Lost Army Drop off gold reward increased to 175/195/215/235/255 from 120 for the beacon carrier and to 100/115/130/145/160 from 60 for nearby allies. Drop off experience reward increased to 450/475/500/525/550 from 250 for t...Update #43 introduces the first Challenge Mode and Mad Jester Slag!Jun 15, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsA song, a dance, a blow to the head! The Legendary skin Mad Jester Slag has been released. Features: Custom ability audio effects. Custom ambient sounds during various animations. Bonus insanity: There's regular Slag mad and there's Jester Slag mad...make way for the king! Last Hit Challenge The Last Hit Challenge is a fast paced single player mode where you try to strike the last hit on Horen wave minions before they die. You can play this mode for practice or compete against your friends and the community for the highest score. After the game you can view leaderboards for each hero, and a cumulative score of all your heroes' best scores combined. To see the full details on all its unique features click here. Last Hit Challenge can be played while queuing for a multiplayer match. If you join a match it will automatically save your state and when you return, it will pick up where you left off. Heroes Vallamere Improved the clickability of Battle Standard's mesh. Forsaken Vallamere Added new painting and UI artwork. Shadowwalker Xeros Added new painting and UI artwork. Skylance Torrace Added new painting and UI artwork. Thorndrake Beroth Added new painting and UI artwork. General Gameplay Fixed bug preventing you from moving right next to friendly units. Fixed bug preventing attack move from moving next to friendly units (including yourself) Abilities and items that have both active and passive components are now correctly unusable when Silenced. Actions that remove Silence (e.g. Drengar's Unstoppable, Escapist's Cloak and its upgrades, etc.) are no longer usable during Slag's Out With A Bang, while Atasha is in lotus form, or while waiting to resurrect with Vendetta. Improved collision avoidance and pathfinding. Community Improvements The player punishment system (Vice) has been revamped to be less harsh on players who have issues like intermittent technical problems but more punishing for those who are consistently a negative influence on the community. A pattern of causing problems will quickly accelerate the severity of the punishment. Players are now informed why they received negative reports. Players who are streaming while under Vice will no longer receive Virtue points. We will be actively giving Vice to players who are not actually streaming anything meaningful thus preventing them from receiving free Virtue points for doing nothing. Match Making The match making algorithm has been rewritten to better match skill levels of both individuals and teams. Total skill level differences past a threshold will never match up against each other which will help prevent first time players from being roflstomped. Also, as total skill is better accounted for we have removed the team size match up restrictions. Removed scrimmage match searches as too many players were confused by its purpose. Challenges, Try Hero and Custom modes can still be used while queuing. Challenges even store their state if you join a multiplayer match so you can pick up where ...Update #41 is Ready to Go!May 22, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsNumerous community improvements, better handling of problematic players, Hero improvements, user interface upgrades, performance optimizations and more! Read below for all the details. Community Improvements Improved punishing of problematic players. Punished players are now informed of their punishment with a dialog giving them the option to "Appeal" or "Accept" their punishment. Choosing to appeal the punishment may result in further punishment if our review of the appeal shows the punishment was justified. Do not appeal if you are not confident in your case. Improved AFK detection. The "Thumbs Down" button now flashes if a player was identified as AFK hopefully reminding players to down-vote them. The button's tooltip also informs of the reason for the flashing. Added code to auto-kick players from the server if they haven't picked a hero by the time the countdown finishes. This prevents games from starting with AFK players as the match will be auto-aborted. Players in Scrimmage games will now auto-join any queue pops. This should reduce the number of queue declines and helps reinforce the intent of Scrimmage mode. Added some new Community Contributors and other special titles. Heroes Atasha Fixed a bug with Atasha's abilities where they didn't share cooldowns between their normal and empowered states. Fire Ball (Both Empowered and Normal) Cooldowns were reduced to 9.5/7.0/6.5/5.0 (from 10.0/9.5/9.0/8.5) Wall of Flame Cooldowns were reduced to 18.0/17.0/16.0/15.0 (from 25.0/23.0/21.0/19.0) Range was increased to 7.5 (from 6.0) Vallamere Improved readability by adjusting contrast and saturation on color texture map. Vallamere's Battle Standard has had its casting times decreased to make his Q-W combo much snappier. ExecuteTime reduced to 0.25 (from 0.454) CommitTime reduced to 0.26 (from 0.471) StopTime reduced to 0.33 (from 0.6) Wired up the "on allied hero" effect for Vallamere's Battle Standard. Adjusted dissolve time of Vallamere's Battle Standard. Updated Vallamere's Battle Standard Animation. Bataar Dazing Blows' enhanced attack now gets consumed when Bataar attacks a Structure or a ward. (Note: Towers will not have their attack reduced slowed by Dazing Blows) Slivus Ravage's enhanced attack now gets consumed when Slivus attacks a structure or a ward. (Note: AoE damage will not be procced when attacking structures or wards) Vexie Fixed the slow where Resize was not being dispelled by crowd control removal effects. Ziri Tumbling Blade's enhanced attack now gets consumed when Ziri attacks a Structure or a ward. Skalla Fix Skalla's Predatory Instincts triggering Bleeding more often than intended. Ermuk Improved readability by adjusting contrast and saturation on color texture map. Serewyn Improved readability by adjusting contrast and saturation on color texture map. User Interface In-Game Active items now have indicator overlays. A gold border indicates they can be used and a grey border means they are currently disabled. Items without acti...Update #40 launches with Deep Sea Lithoron and much more!May 14, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsHe came from the deep The Mythical skin Deep Sea Lithoron has been released. Features Custom ability visual and audio effects. Custom ambient sounds during various animations. Rewards Improved the contents of chests that can be opened with purchased keys. Fixed bug where Twitter reward chests were not being delivered. If you re-register your account it will appear in your inventory. Heroes Atasha Updated some of her Ability Icons to match the rest of them. Fixed bug where Atasha's empowered abilities were not respecting the advanced casting settings. Only the normal abilities were. Thanks reddit! Drengar Fixed a bug where he would spam his vocal dialog whenever he was participating in the Valkryn's Watch quest. Khagas Fixed an incorrect piece of text in his Blinding Shot's buff tooltip. Vallamere Fixed an incorrect double description in his Two Handed Sword gear's tooltip. Items Orza's Soulbinder Improved the visual effects of the active. Maps Sunken Forest (Siege Map) The ritual chanting of the Witches in the Horen team's well is now audible. The destroyed Horen tower now looks more "destroyed" to prevent any confusion. Fixed bug where Wisp Queen could continue casting Aqua Jet while Stunned or Silenced. Fixed bug where Heaven Commander in Divine Lost Army quest could ascend while he was disabled. Fixed bug where you couldn't right click to capture a Necromancer's coffin that wasn't detected. Heaven Escort quest now uses the proper capture bar visuals when the commander is channeling. Match Making Improved the match making algorithm so that it should be much quicker for parties to find matches. Fixed some banning issues for clients who can't connect to games through no fault of their own (e.g. network reasons). Tutorials General It should now take less time to complete both tutorials. Your allied Ai Golems will now be "Hard Ai" and the enemy will remain "Easy Ai". A warning dialog has been added to match searching if you haven't completed tutorials as you will be missing valuable Hero Gear. Duel Tutorial Hero kill victory condition reduced to 3 kills from 5 Minion kill victory condition reduced to 100 from 175 Enemy tower Health reduced to 2550 from 4200 Siege Tutorial Now grants XP passively and has increased passive income. Enemy Tower Health reduced to 1200 from 2550 Enemy Keep Tower Health reduced to 1000 from 2200 Quest order is now consistent instead of randomly generated (in order to guarantee shorter quests). Performance Numerous optimizations (with more to come soon!) Disabled voice chat by default as this can be a real CPU hog while streaming. Remove the "recommended" tag on virtual full screen. Many machines will actually perform substantially better with "exclusive fullscreen". If you are having FPS issues give Exclusive fullscreen a shot. Added some loading screen optimizations. This should reduce cases of "Program is not responding". Note that if you do receive this warning the game will most likely still load. Twitch Fixed bug wit...Sins Of A Dark Age Launches Out Of Early Access As F2PMay 11, 2015 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunEven by the time Sins of a Solar Empire folks Ironclad Games announced their MOBA Sins of a Dark Age in 2012, the genre was a little overcrowded. SoaDA was originally billed as a MOBA/RTS, but later dropped bits like base-building. It’s still trying to be more ambitious than you average Dote ‘em up or Loller, though. Now, after a lengthy stretch on Steam Early Access, where it costs $5 (and it was $25 for beta access before that), Sins of a Dark Age is out free-to-play for all to manage lords. It’s on Steam. … Free to Play is Live!May 10, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsSins of a Dark Age is now available as a Free to Play game worldwide! We flipped and switch and also launched a major new update that includes reworks for Atasha, Slag, Khagas and Adventurer's Bounty. We also added tutorials, a Top Rated Replay system, Ai upgrades, tons of new Hero vocals, additional languages and more! You can read all the details on the massive list of changes at http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/613957600529325134/Now Available on Steam - Sins of a Dark AgeMay 8, 2015 - Product ReleaseSins of a Dark Age is Now Available on Steam! Sins of a Dark Age is a dark fantasy spin on the MOBA genre. Explore your inventory, equip your Hero and enter a world full of decisive team battles, tide-turning quests, treasured rewards, crafted goods, and strategic trades. Free to Play Coming May 8th!Apr 29, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsAfter more than a year of Early Access, Sins of a Dark Age will launch globally as a free to play game. Mark your calendars, muster your friends, and prepare for nonstop battles on May 8th PST. Be ready for more surprises! We’d like to extend a huge THANK YOU to our dedicated and patient fans. We appreciate all the help you gave us during Early Access. A special thanks to the volunteers who helped with translation, promotion, the wiki, and QA. Check out our new website! Please help spread the word by directing your friends and clubs to our new website sinsofadarkage.com which showcases the top 10 reasons to play. You’re also welcome to download these banners and post them everywhere. Please link them to the new site. Other ways you can help: Post a review on Steam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcf2JWbrCus Tell streamers and broadcasters to check out sinsofadarkage.com on May 8th Talk about SOADA on Reddit: /r/moba /r/pcgaming /r/gaming /r/sinsofdarkage /r/MMORPG /r/RealTimeStrategy /r/StrategyGames /r/HorrorGaming /r/rpg_gamers Talk about SOADA on Twitch streams Introduce SOADA on forums, especially on Steam Post on Facebook and Tweet the website Create a SOADA clan or fan page on social media Email and message your friends about this new free game Post and comment on SOADA YouTube videos Add a SOADA website link to your signature Email game magazines Recruit sinners at school, work and game shops Plan a game release party The Horen Invade with Update #38Apr 10, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsIntroducing the Horen The Horen are coming… A black cloud falls over the Sunken Forest, a menacing darkness that moves against the wind. As it draws near, it becomes a mass of bird-like shapes, wingtips jutting out of its edges. The hideous cry of carrion-eaters begins to fill the air. A flock of valkryn descends upon the Northern edge of the Forest, savagely squabbling with each other in mid-flight. There are giants among them, with wings near as wide as a blackship's sails. They are savage beasts, clawing, biting, snarling amongst themselves, the giants sometimes spitting up great gobs of acid that sizzle on the ground, the runts occasionally swooping down to take food from their masters. The Horen are coming… Like the sea that crashes against rock-strewn shore, like the waves that drag men down into the depths, so churns the blood of the Horen. Savage, marauding, and dangerous. With great beasts of burden at their sides, carrying pieces of their disassembled blackships, with valkryn overhead, they claim their encampment. They are oblivious to the pleas for mercy from the poor wretches previously stationed there. The Horen are coming… They burn the homes of the southmen and hoist their corpses upon their towers as a warning to their enemies. They feed their scraps to the valkryn and the deathhounds, and from their bones they fashion weapons, armor, and masks. The giant valkryn perch upon the towers, spitting and hissing as the Horen march to war. The Horen are here… Added a ton of new Horen faction assets including a new keep, shop, well, terrain, catapults and towers. More Horen content will be added over the next few updates. Founder Vexie Founder Vexie has now been added to the Founder Bundle. It costs the same price but now includes one extra skin. Anyone who previously purchased the Founder Bundle should now find a free Founder Vexie in their inventory. Heroes Skalla Fixed Skalla's traps not properly refreshing Bleed on targets who are already afflicted with Bleed. Vallamere Fixed a bug where the splash damage from Might of the Empire was damaging Structures and Wards. Standardized attack ranges of all melee heroes. Hero Gear Battleborn Axe and Heart of Valor now show the number of stacks they have in the Active Buffs Window. Items Leader of the Pack Recipe changed to Merchant's Vest + Leeching Vial + Dagger + 800 gold from Short Sword + Leeching Vial + Rapier + 775 gold Total cost reduced to 2715 from 3205 Now grants 250 Health No longer grants Attack Power or Attack Speed Life Steal aura reduced to 10% from 20% Attack Speed aura reduced to 15% from 20% Now has Active: Summon a Spectral Wolf that will seek out the nearest enemy hero within a large range. If it reaches them, it will apply a 40% Slow and reveal them for 2.5 seconds. At Night, 3 Spectral Wolves are summoned instead. 90 second cooldown. Shatterstorm Recipe changed to Long Sword + Piercing Shiv + Short Sword + 620 gold from Long Sword + Long Sword + Short Sword + 950 gold Tota...Check out Replays and more with Update #37!Mar 27, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsGame Replays You can now watch replays of any games played. Browse through any player's game history to download and watch any game played since the last update. While watching a replay you can: Change Playback speed (e.g. slow motion and fast-forward) Rewind Disable Fog of War Change Player perspective Replays from previous updates are not currently viewable. We hope to implement backwards compatibility in a future update. Sins of a Dark Age Soundtrack Added 25 more minutes of Sins of a Dark Age music more than doubling the existing content. The complete listing is as follows: War of the Sunken Forest The Last Idyllic Fae Imperial Decree Vandavari Crusade Far from Grodyk Sand, Fire, and Coin Honor of the Khari Search for the Well of Life Journey from the Dells Beyond the Gatekeepers Reminder: A playlist ready form of the Sins of a Dark Age Soundtrack will be delivered to pre-Steam Founders at the end of Early Access (at the latest). Twitch Twitch Stream Rating system added. You can now rate twitch streams in the game client. The accumulated rating of a streamer will be displayed when browsing streams. Every upvote a streamer gets will give them virtue points leading to virtue levels and rewards. Twitch reward notification string now has a link to Sins of a Dark Age on Steam. Heroes Slivus Slivus's Snake In The Grass description is now "Slivus deals increased damage to enemy heroes while in Brush, and for a short time after leaving it. An additional amount of damage is dealt to neutral monsters." Updated Slivus' strengths to include "Inflictor" at a power rating of 1 Ziri Ziri's Hero Gear Lore for Shadowburst Shuriken is now "The Shadow have trained their elite to angle their shuriken in mid-air." Fixed Ziri being immune to skillshots while tumbling with her Q Khagas Heroic Shot now grants vision along its travel path. Vallamere Added more vocals and Emote sounds to skins that were missing it. Misc Gameplay Improved rendering of Fog of War reveal speed so fast moving things like Khagas's Heroic Shot will grant vision along its path correctly. Fixed a bug where some of the back towers in the Duel map were vulnerable to attack. Items Vendetta Changed from "This armor guards against death" to "When all too often death comes quickly, vengeance must be swifter." Old lore made it unclear that Vendetta does not actually prevent death. Glyphs Clarity Changes: Glyph tooltips now show the Glyph's 'type' just under it's name. (This was done to help new players figure out the intended role of this Glyph, and to be able to recognize the Glyph pairings we have for each glyph 'role') New Glyph Types: (and glyphs of that type) Offense Anguish Cripple Defense Bulwark Refuge (Tactical) Mobility Blink Haste Strategic Portal Sentry Jungle Offering Slaughter Slaughter Slaughter glyph is now disabled in Try Hero and Duel game modes. HUD and User Interface Fixed wrong value displayed for minimum time to get game rewards in post game reward screen tooltip. Revised attri...Early Access Anniversary and Double XP Weekend!Mar 13, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsIt's our Early Access Anniversary! Enjoy Double XP all weekend! 36 updates later and a year has passed. Special thanks to everyone for all your suggestions, bug hunting and exploit discovery! Let's have another great year!Play Update #36 with New Hero Specific Gear!Mar 11, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsNew Hero Exclusive Gear Introducing a new class of Hero Gear that can only be equipped by specific Heroes. Each piece is designed to modify the behavior of one of the Hero's unique abilities adding greater gameplay customization and strategic planning. Fellfury Helm When Berserker's Rage expires, Drengar maintains a small amount of Rage. Bonehollow Blade If Drengar's Lunging Sweep hits an enemy hero, its cooldown is partially refreshed. Dualcrank Crossbow Torrace fires two Rocket Bolts instead of one, each bolt dealing reduced Physical Damage. Enemies cannot be hit by multiple bolts. Scattershot Bolts Torrace's Triple Shot deals reduced Attack Damage against the primary target but deals increased Splash Damage to all enemies nearby. Harvest Horn Serewyn's Seeds of Renewal grant additional Health and Mana over time. Poisonbriar Talisman Enemies hit by Serewyn's Thorn Barrage ability take additional Magic Damage over time. Two-Handed Blade Vallamere's first basic attack after activating Might of the Empire deals additional Attack Damage. Bolstering Shield Vallamere's Chivalrous Defense ability grants his target ally additional Movement Speed. Blade Vane Ziri's Cut and Run ability has a narrower cone but the knives travel farther. Shadowburst Shuriken If Ziri's Trick Shot strikes an enemy after the shuriken has split, it deals bonus Physical Damage. Sunblossom Shell While Renewing Carapace is active Beroth gains bonus Mana Regeneration. Sunderwood Mauler Beroth's Power Crush ability deals bonus Magic Damage against his target, if no enemy units are in range to take Splash Damage Echoing Mantle Lithoron's Aftershock ability deals reduced Magic Damage, but triggers twice in short succession. Shard Plate While Stone Shield is active, basic attacks against Lithoron cause him to deal Magic Damage in radius around himself. All Heroes will be receiving exclusive gear, the rest just aren't done yet. All Hero Gear now plays a unique sound when its selected. Check out the following link for all the other changes made in Update #36: http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/610574394235693924/Play Update #34!Feb 21, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsNew Quest! New Items! Russian and Australian Servers! See below for all the details! New Quest "From the Depths" Objective: Kill the shadow's spawn that emerge when wave minions die to gather their essence and harness the darkness for yourself. Context: Early quest that mixes up and encourages intense lane fights. Reward: Umbral Eye - Corrupt the targeted wave minion with gathered shadow, granting it more powerful basic attacks and tougher defenses. Any last hits it earns will be awarded to you. New Servers in Russia and Australia We are rapidly expanding our international presence and today we are introducing test servers in Moscow and Sydney. These are identified in-game as Russia West and Australia East. Expect more test servers soon. New Item "Faeweave Torc" Builds from Mending Amulet + 325 gold (total cost 820 gold). Grants 3.2 Health/sec, +5% Healing Given and +5% Healing Received. New Item "Oath Shield" Builds from Cloak of Protection + 2x Bracelet of Vigor + 900 gold (total cost 2900 gold). Grants 55 Magic Resistance and 375 Health. Has Unique Passive: gain a Damage absorbing shield that begins to regenerate at 12.5 shield/sec 8 seconds after you last took damage. If you have not received new damage for an additional 4 seconds, the regeneration rate increases to 25 shield/sec. Maximum shield strength is 150. New Item "Vendetta" Builds from Mail Armor + Cloak of Protection + 950 gold (total cost 2950 gold). Grants 55 Armor and 45 Magic Resistance. Has Unique Passive: Upon taking lethal damage instead of dying you will arise after a short delay at half Health and Mana (or Energy). You may move, attack and cast abilities for up to 10 seconds before actually dying. 270 second cooldown. New Match Making Complete rewrite of how the match making algorithm balances teams. It should now produce teams that are much more balanced in skill. Gameplay Fixed bug where Try Hero mode was truncating Hero kits to be PlayerLevel 1. Added correct number of pauses per player. Items that are released now attempt to stop using their active ability if they have one and it is being used. This fixes the portal scroll refund exploit. Vallamere's Heroic Stand now shows the % health that will trigger the shield in the tooltip. Heroes Improved implementation of Rachna's Passive so her dialog will only trigger if Rachna does not already have Cavernlings. Khagas's blind is now affected by crowd control removal and Resilience. Adjusted Strengths (Initiator, Enhancer, Disabler, etc) of a number of Heroes. Fixed an incorrectly aligned Rage Bar value on Drengar. Healing well now properly increases energy regen rate (e.g for Ziri) to be equivalent to the boosted Mana regen rate. Fixed a bug with Torrace's Side Bounties that was causing him not to earn the bonus gold if the target died while he himself was dead. Added new and/or improved vocal dialog for a variety of Heroes. Added custom visual effects for Aftershock and Stone Shield on two of Lithoron's skins. New paintings a...Update #32 is Ready!Feb 5, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsHighlights include: New QuickCast Cloud Keybindings Advanced Casting Unit Targeting Modes New Vexie Lots of Balancing and Performance Options! Check out the entire list of changes at the following link: Update #32 Release NotesNew Update Available!Jan 23, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsThe 31st Sins of a Dark Age update is ready. It includes a new Twitch Starter Chest, Item Shop Undo button, Matchmaking Improvements, Performance Options and more! Click the following link for all the details: http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/613948093873549203/Huge 2015 Update Including Twitch Gifting!Jan 15, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsOur 30th update since Early Access began in March of 2014 is huge! So huge that Steam won't let me fit all the changes in this post. Be sure to click the link below to see the full extent of the update! Full Release Notes Twitch Gifting! Sins of a Dark Age Twitch streamers can now give gifts to viewers! Each official streamer will receive a special button that will randomly select a valid viewer and give them a Sins of a Dark Age gift. These may include crafting material bundles, recipes, or even a Hero Skin! The more viewers you have the better the reward. Once used, the gifting power will go on cooldown. We hope this will help tighten the relationship between streamer, viewer and Soada. Highlights New MatchMaking Twitch Gifting Hero Kit Normalization Slivus Updates Quest Balancing Improved Responsiveness (great for ADC Heroes) User Interface Scaling Performance Options Full Release Notes http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/616198900649117977/ Steam Trading Cards and New Update!Dec 2, 2014 - Community AnnouncementsStream Trading Cards are now available for Sins of a Dark Age!!! Information on Trading Cards can be found here http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/faq/ We also recently launched a new update that includes new Quest Rewards, full team voice chat and more. You can read all the details here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/251970/discussions/7/617320628070923228/Major Update! New Jungling Content and Mechanics, Cooperative Play, Voice Chat and more!Nov 21, 2014 - Community AnnouncementsNew Jungling Content and Mechanics This patch includes the remainder of the systems changes aimed at improving jungling. For more details on what our goals were, visit this Developer Blog. New: Altars Every creep camp now contains an Altar, whose tooltip will display basic information about the camp such as its respawn frequency and available reward buffs. Altars in all of the small creep camps can additionally be activated by the new Offering Glyph described below. New Glyph: Offering A new Offering glyph targets the Altars at cleared small creep camps. Doing so will cause the camp to immediately respawn with a larger "Dire" Creep. Killing this Dire Creep will grant the killer a unique temporary buff that varies based on the type of camp where Offering was used. Upgrade paths for Offering include focusing on increased gold rewards or Offering buff duration and buffs from Beast- or Plant-based camps granting more powerful effects. Dire Creeps Dire Wood Stalker: Kill to receive Thorn Armor - Grants the killing hero bonus Armor and cause them to deal Magic Damage to any neutral monsters that attack them. Dire Dagger Tusk: Kill to receive Predatory Senses - Grants the killing hero lingering vision of the area in which they kill Large or Epic Monsters. Dire Veric King: Kill to receive Plague Carrier - Grants the killing hero bonus Magic Damage on their basic Attacks for a moderate duration. Dire Leaf Scorpion: Kill to receive Sap Venom - Grants the killing hero a buff that causes their damage dealing abilities to reduce the target's Attack Speed and deal additional Magic Damage over time. All Dire Creeps inherit the abilities of their brethren. Horen Camps -> Leaf Scorpions and Leaf Stingers The basic Horen Camps have been replaced with Leaf Scorpions and Leaf Stingers. The Leaf Scorpion has Venomous Lunge: After a short wind up, the Leaf Scorpion dashes forward. The first enemy struck takes Physical Damage and then receives Magic Damage over time. Witch Doctor Camp -> Wisp Queen and Lesser Wisps The Horen Witch Doctor camp is now replaced with the Wisp Queen and her Lesser Wisps. The Wisp Queen has Torrent: After a short wind up, the Wisp Queen channels a jet of water in the target direction, dealing Magic Damage and Silencing enemies in its path. When killed the Wisp Queen grants Wisp Queen's Blessing: Grants the killing hero increased Mana Regeneration and Cooldown Reduction for a moderate duration. Wisps -> Frillspitter The Wisps that accompanied the Troll have been replaced by Frillspitters which are fierce avian predators that spit a potent venom. Troll New ability: Stone Skin - During the Day the Troll's skin turns to stone, granting bonus Armor but reducing Attack Speed. New ability: Clobber - After a short wind up, the Troll strikes the ground with its club. Enemies in the area take Physical Damage and have their Attack Speed reduced for a short time. Old Growth Wood Imp -> Wood Stalker New ability: Seedbearer - The Wood Stalker summons a Se...Ziri the Shadow Initiate and a Major New UpdateOct 29, 2014 - Community AnnouncementsNew Hero: Ziri - The Shadow Initiate Introduction Ziri is a member of the Shadow, a peasant army that fights against corrupt nobles and merchants. Her specialty is cutting things (sometimes nobles, and sometimes their purses). Young and immature, what she lacks in discipline she more than makes up for with attitude. Oh, and knives. Lots and lots of knives. Orphaned at a young age, Ziri grew up on the streets of Vandavar stealing for survival and for fun. Adopted into the Shadow, her nimble fingers have proven adept at slinging blades, earning her a place in battle. Abilities Ziri is a dexterous carry who relies on Energy instead of mana to power her unique abilities: Two-Blade Kata: (Passive) Whenever Ziri uses an ability she gains Attack Speed for her next two basic attacks. These attacks also restore Energy. Tumbling Blade: (Q with auto Quickcast) Ziri dashes in the targeted direction. Her next basic attack against enemy minions, heroes, or monsters deals additional Physical Damage. If the attack is against an enemy hero the ability's cooldown is partially refreshed. Trick Shot: (W) Ziri throws a pair of shuriken in the targeted direction, dealing damage to the first enemy struck. When the shuriken strike a target or reach the end of their path, they split apart at an angle and each deal half damage to the first enemy struck. Cut and Run: (E) Ziri hops backwards while throwing a fan of knives, dealing Physical Damage and Slowing affected enemies. Each knife can only hit one enemy, up to seven total. Knife Flurry: (R) Ziri readies five knives and throws one of them in the targeted direction, dealing Physical Damage to all enemies in its path and stopping if an enemy hero is hit. The ability can be cast again until Ziri has thrown all five knives. Bonus Also included will be Ziri's Lore Book, initial vocal audio and a preview of her first two skins. Energy Energy is an ability resource similar to Mana and Rage. Unlike Mana, a Hero's maximum Energy cannot be increased by leveling up or purchasing items - it is a constant value of 200. This is countered by Energy's quick regeneration speed (10/s), providing players with a steady supply of Energy to spend. Players can still momentarily deplete a Hero's Energy pool, however, so they must time their ability usage carefully. Many Energy based Heroes have abilities that can restore Energy, allowing players to better manage the drain on their resources. Energy is represented by a yellow resource bar instead of blue. Gameplay Fixed Blink bug (or any always quickcast ability) where it may move in the wrong direction. Duel Modes' towers now have more health: (Duel 1v1 Tower): 3200hp (Duel 2v2 Tower): 4200hp Duel 2v2 mode has had its minion kill victory condition increased to 175 (from 150). Duel map added 3d grass meshes. Gold rewards for killing Heroes have been reduced in Duel modes relative to Sunken Forest 5v5. Fixed bug where dropping a Quest item could land the item in a place from which it could neve...
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