The first major content update for RAIDBORN is now available. For an introduction of the highlights you can watch this video. Below you can find the full list of changes:

Highlights:

• Possessed enemies and crystal hearts now deal possession damage
• Skeletons now deal more damage the higher your possession value (Death's Grasp trait)
• Goblins now have a small chance to steal consumables from your inventory (Thievery trait)
• Hunger now deal disease damage that reduces your maximum stamina (Infection trait)
• Boggarts now deal poison damage (Poison trait)
• Zombies now slowly regenerate health (Regeneration trait)
• Orcs now deal more damage the less health they have (Frenzy trait)
• Implemented new armor system that allows you to break enemy armors and shields
• Recreated the item spawning algorithm from scratch affecting merchant inventories, loot, quest rewards and more
• Equipment now has a chance to spawn in puzzle and boss chests
• Destroyed crystal hearts can now be looted and have a guaranteed equipment spawn
• Level generator rooms can now select a random entrance improving dungeon variety
• Improved HUD to display new features and effects
• Added new death screen showing your lost XP and Gold (see improvements)
• Added note items to read previous tutorial messages
• Added new cure potions for possession, disease and poison
• Added new buff potions for damage, protection and XP gain
• Added new respec potion
• Added five new bows to balance the equipment selection
• Improved apperance of five existing bows
• Added five new two-handed blunt weapons to balance the equipment selection
• Added four new shields to balance the equipment selection
• Added one new armor to balance the equipment selection
• Added some new loot items including statues, caskets and more
• Added Dark Knight equipment set as free DLC (can be claimed here)

Improvements:

• Lockpicks now spawn in batches of two
• Changed the layout of some castle corridores for performance reasons
• Replaced gem meshes to make them easier to discover and pick up
• Replaced bracelets with nuggets to make them easier to discover and pick up
• Replaced key mesh to make it easier to discover and pick up
• Improved Iron Hammer mesh
• Skeleton, Hunger and Zombie mages now have unique spell colors
• Draw sound now syncronizes with the speed of the bow
• Resurrecting enemies now don't awake if you are sneaking
• Added button to trade menu to sell all valuables
• Quickslots now support all number keys from 1-0
• Enemies now have a short attack cooldown after you parried them
• Pressing the sprint key now cancels bow drawing
• Removed buff for possessed enemies (due to possession damage)
• Quests can now alternatively be accepted and denied with enter and escape
• Added mouse smoothing option (as requested by Koordinator O on Steam)
• Added tutorial messages for new features
• Removed item notification now indicated in red
• Slightly increased item glow intensity
• Improved or added item icons for arrows, torches, armors and more
• Increased quest and merchant restock frequency
• Added option to reset level when an update changed the XP requirements

Balancing:

• Death penalty changed to 20% of your current XP and Gold (formerly 30% of your XP only)
• Adjusted XP curve to slightly increase lower and decrease higher level XP requirements
• Slightly decreased enemy health and damage
• Slightly decreased bow damage
• Increased maximum speed factor of bows
• Rebalanced melee weapon damage
• Increased per dungeon loot count
• Decreased gold value of valuables
• Decreased damage of Chief, Berserker, Defender and King
• Slightly decreased quest reward loot and gold
• Decreased enemy spawn count of medium and large crystal hearts
• Changed shield block damage to be dependent from handling not protection
• Slightly decreased kick damage
• Slightly increased equipment level requirements

Fixes:

• Fixed bug that prevented quest locations from spawning when no spot was available on the map (thanks to Zaar152 for reporting)
• Disabled collision of dropped enemy gear to prevent the player from getting stuck
• Fixed bug that made revived enemies reset their corpse loot
• Fixed bug that allowed you to wear shields with incompatible weapons (thanks to Alio for reporting)
• Fixed bug that made the enemy Berserker go into rage mode only once
• Fixed bug with the default armor having no attribtues
• Fixed stamina excess error notification
• Fixed letter and dialog menu not showing the correct keybindings
• Fixed out of sync bow load animation
• Fixed randomly deflecting projectiles (thanks to Alio for reporting)
• Fixed broken key item sparkle effect
• Fixed some minor level architecture issues
• Fixed a bug that could lock you in the boss dungeon
• Fixed a bug with enemy projectile velocit