Hi! We’ve mentioned before that a big priority is expanding the game’s content with more spells, quests and maybe even a wizard, and that’s exactly what we’ve done! Be sure to check out our roadmap for more info. You can find the patch notes right here:

🧙 A new Wizard: Star Mage
👕 2 new Outfits: Starfish Mage & The Starblight
✨ A new Spell: Chthonic Charge
✨ A new Spell: Scepter Mesh
✨ A new Spell: Aether Beam
💫 9 new Augmentations
📜 11 new Quests

🤝 Side-Objectives now count retroactively for the Bountiful Quests Relic.
🤝 Added visual feedback to the Healing Augmentations in the Solar Pulse, Hex Bomb, Necro Whirl and Phantom Blades.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the challenges menu scrollbar visual was not updated when using the mouse scroll wheel.
✅ Added latency indicator in the gameplay UI.
✅ Implemented new VFX for bouncing Lightning.
✅ Added sound FX for Falling Stars.

✨Spells
🤝 Increased Magic Missile's Damage and Lifetime by 10%
🤝 Reduced Lifetime decrease by 25% when splitting Astral Orb or Magic Missile
🤝 Increased the Rocky Road’s Range by 15% and reduced Cooldown by 15%
🤝 Decreased the Hex Bomb’s Cooldown by 10%
✅ Increased the Boomerang’s Damage by 10% and reduced Range by 5%
✅ Increased the Falling Stars’ Cooldown by 5% and decreased the Damage boost for additional Stars by 10%
💪 Augmentations
✅ Offensive Defense: added Decrease Move Speed by 0.25% per Armor

🤝 Improved general Matchmaking stability.
🤝 Various performance improvements.
🤝 Fixed an issue where players couldn't cast after unpausing the game.
⚙️ Fixed an issue where picking Archmage's Blessing while being revived would revive a player 2 times.

🤝 Improved German localization.
🤝 Improved Portuguese localization (both European and Brazilian).
🤝 Improved Russian localization.
🤝 Added Ukrainian localization.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback


We’ve also got a new bundle for you, this time with Soulstone Survivors! If you haven’t yet (how?!), be sure to check that game out, as we take a lot of inspiration from this giant in the survivors-like genre. It’s very fun, and the amount of content the game already has inspires us greatly.

https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@store.steampowered.com/bundle/46037/Soulstone_Brigade/

And speaking of exciting news - we're happy to announce that we plan to add two of your most requested features in our Black Friday update: Endless Mode and No-Friendly-Fire Mode! Stay tuned for more details coming soon.

We hope you’ll enjoy the new stuff we’ve added! Have a great Halloween and enjoy Steam Scream next week!

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🤝 Fixed an issue where players could reroll unlimited times in multiplayer
⚙️ Multiple stability improvements

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

We’ve got another update for you! We’ve included many fixes and improvements as well as some new stuff! Nothing too fancy because we’re also working on new content for upcoming updates. You can read the patch notes below (and scroll a bit further down for our updated Roadmap).

📜 A new Relic: Fist of Support
📜 A new Relic: Bountiful Quests
📜 A new Relic: Offensive Defense
📜 A new Relic: Savior Focus
📜 A new Relic: Alchemic Pull
🤝 Added Tooltips for Stats and Elements so players can understand more clearly what they do.
🤝 Added a special Reroll option for Spell Augmentations and Relics that require HP payment.
🤝 Added indicators to the player’s Spell Slots that show what Spells are affected by the selected Upgrade.
✅ Slightly improved the generating of Upgrades, Relics and Augmentations, so the choices are more relevant.
✅ Streamlined the Spell Cards in the Level Up Menu by removing double info about the level of the Spell or Upgrade.
🤝 Improved the colliders on some obstacles in the Verdant Meadows and the Frozen Ancients, removing some “safe spot” exploits for players.
✅ Reduced Magnet drop chance by 20%.
✅ Reduced Ice potency by 10%.
✅ Increased the Ice resistance of Sol’phish, the Long One by 50%.
RELICS
✅ Hard Lessons: Gain 15% -> 25% more XP when below 150HP -> 200HP.
✅ Go-Getter’s Grace: Your Revive Speed is increased by 25% -> 33% for every Objective you complete.
✅ Power of Friendship: Your Damage is increased by 10% -> 12% for each teammate nearby.
✅ Evasion Mend: You regain 50HP -> 75HP every time you dodge an attack.
✅ Pacification: Reduce Friendly Fire by 20% -> 50%.
✅ Delayed Fate: Your Luck is increased each time you don’t reroll (Max 8 -> 10).
✅ Healthy Growth: You regain 50HP -> 100HP every time you Level Up.
✅ Sudden Revival: Your Revive Speed is increased by 10% -> 20% each time you help revive a teammate.
SPELLS
✅ Increased the Rune Burst’s Base Cooldown by 10%.
✅ Reduced the Falling Star’s Base Damage by 5%, and increased Base Cooldown by 5%.
✅ Increased the Magic Missile’s damage by 10%.
✅ Reduced the Moonerang’s Cooldown by 6%.
AUGMENTATIONS
✅ Increased Critical Damage on the Moonerang’s furthest point by 5%.
✅ Increased Size of the Moonerang when lingering at its furthest point by 10%.
✅ Increased Damage of split Magic Missiles by 30%.
✅ Increased the value of the base stats included in the Aim at Highest HP Augmentation by 2-3%.
🤝 Fixed an issue where some enemies couldn’t move through certain gaps in the Frozen Ancients.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the Golden Flesh Crab Objective would break the audio when failed.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the Quest for Ludwig the Accursed was unlockable with any Spell (instead of the Arcane Broadsword).
🤝 Fixed an issue where the Quest for Supernova Sun Mage was unlockable with any Spell (instead of the Solar Pulse).
⚙️ Fixed an issue where the host player could get stuck in the “Dead” state when teammates disconnected.
⚙️ Fixed an issue where some players would join a Lobby that was already full.
🤝 Fixed an issue where entering matchmaking with 4 players would freeze the game.
⚙️ Added save file backups to revert to when the save file gets corrupted.
⚙️ Added a visual to indicate when the game is saving.
🌎 Improved some descriptions so they’re more accurate.
🤝 Improved the translations for Simplified Chinese.
🌎 Improved the translations for Dutch.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

Many people have played the game and shared their thoughts with us, enough so that we have made a new revision to our Roadmap! It addresses some things we’re working on to release soon, and some new additions inspired by you guys!

Oh and one more thing… We have a new bundle with our friends from Embers and Oro, the peeps behind Murky Divers! If you haven’t already, be sure to check it out. It’s hilarious co-op madness (you can see why we like it).

https://node2.projectplanet.cn/@store.steampowered.com/bundle/45750/Wizards__Divers/

That’s all! You can find a new countdown to our next update in the game (won’t spoil that one). We had some issues with the timezones for this update, as some people’s countdowns were a day early and were asking us about the update. But that should be fixed now!

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The Spell Brigade has gone through the review process and we are officially ✨Steam Deck Verified!✨

Does this change anything? Basically, no. We made sure that the game was a fun time on the Deck from release, but we just had to wait for Valve to review it and bless us with that awesome green checkmark. You can read more about it in this previous post we made.

We made sure the game is playable with different kinds of input, though we DO recommend playing it with a controller, or a Steam Deck (if you have one), for the best experience. Anyway, that's all for now! Stay tuned for another small update tomorrow (and maybe some more news as well).

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🤝 Reduced the chance of Archmage’s Blessing appearing in the Level Up Menu for downed players to incentivize more player revives.

🤝 Improved the targeting for the Necro Whirl and Falling Stars Spells to ensure that Statues are prioritized.
🤝 The Pause Menu can now be closed by pressing Back (ESC/B button).

🤝 Fixed an issue where music didn’t change dynamically for everyone except the Party Leader.
🤝 Disabled screenshake for the explosion Augmentations of the Falling Stars and Magic Missile.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the game was still paused after closing the Pause Menu.
🤝 Fixed an issue where the settings would be changed outside of the Options Menu.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

It’s been a little over a week since we unleashed The Spell Brigade on all of you. We’ve released some small patches to get out some of the most prominent bugs and improve on some things like the matchmaking and the balancing.

In the meantime, we’ve also made some more stuff we wanted to release in a quick larger-than-the-last-but-relatively-still-small update! Check out the patch notes below:

🌟 Falling Stars: a new Spell
🪽 Archmage’s Blessing: a free Revive for dead Players to choose when leveling up.

✅ Increased the Damage interval on Players from 0.4 to 0.8 seconds, so walking through hordes won’t kill you instantly.
✅ Increased the Pickup Distance for Health, Magnets, Mushrooms and Relics by 10%.
🤝 Decreased the Health of Statues by 10%.

✅ Projectile-based Spells like the Astral Orbs, Rune Burst and Phantom Blade can now destroy each other on hit, reducing collateral friendly fire damage.
🤝 Improved Enemy position syncing slightly (we are working on a better solution).
🤝 Improved obstacle layout in the Verdant Meadows to avoid exploits and players avoiding damage.
🤝 Fixed a visual issue where the Buffer enemy didn’t show the freeze effect when applied.
✅ Improved the VFX and Animations for the Statues Objective.
🤝 Added the option to open the Player Stats when choosing an Upgrade.
🤝 Fixed a visual issue where the level meter on a Spell Card would reset to 0 after reaching level 14 (second infusion).
✅ Redesigned the objective icons for the Sacrifice, Golden Crab & Statue Objectives so they’re more accurate.
✅ Added Player name tags to downed Players, so you can see who you are reviving.
✅ Localized the Logo in the Start Menu.
🤝 Your choice for enabling/disabling the Fill Up Squad toggle is now remembered.
🤝 Improved the flow between the Game Over and Lobby sequences.
✅ Added a prompt for canceling matchmaking, with a confirm popup for both hosts and clients.
✅ Improved the locked icons in the Wizard and Outfit Menus, teasing the content.
✅ Updated the icons on the Threat Level Quests so they’re more accurate.
🤝 Added a Controls section to the Options menu.
🤝 Added a Reset Save Data button in the Options menu.
✅ Improved some button prompts for keyboard input.

🤝 Fixed an issue where challenges weren’t synced properly with in-game Quests.
⚙️ Fixed a visual issue where the Revive effect had a weird/buggy transition.
🤝 Fixed an issue where exploding ticks would keep dropping XP when being damaged during their death sequence.
🤝 Fixed an issue where canceling matchmaking as the host would terminate the Lobby.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

We hope you’ll enjoy this update! It’s not a whole lot, but we wanted to offer something new quickly to assure you that we’re constantly working on this game and want to make it as good as we can!

We’re still very actively analyzing the feedback we’ve gathered from our players, and we’re close to getting a pretty good idea of what it is we want to make and what you guys want to see! So, you can expect an updated version of our roadmap soon.

There are still many requests, bug reports and improvement suggestions to go through, so we’ll leave you now and get back to work immediately!

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Did you miss the livestream?
We made sure to record it for you!

BALANCING
✅ Rebalanced the Upgrade spawn rates for Armor, Luck, Dodge, XP Gain and Critical Chance.
✅ Increased Phantom Blades Lifetime by 6% and reduced Projectile Speed by 6%.
✅ Increased Rune Burst Damage and Cooldown by 5% and reduced Lifetime by 5%.
✅ Added a maximum limit to the Luck increase through the Delayed Fate Relic.
✅ Rebalanced the XP requirements when playing with other Wizards so your team levels faster.

STABILITY
🤝 Fixed an issue where Steam Cloud data didn’t sync between PC and Steam Deck.
🤝 Fixed various music stuttering issues.
🤝 Fixed various unexpected error when playing co-op.

🤝 = changes inspired by community feedback

We’ve made sure that from day 1, The Spell Brigade would be playable on the Steam Deck. Games like these work particularly well on handheld devices, and being big Steam Deck appreciators ourselves, this was a big focus for us!

While waiting for Steam to review our game and bless us with that green checkmark (they have literally thousands of games to review, so we’ll wait patiently), we figured we’d provide some information regarding Steam Deck compatibility.

It’s pretty simple, actually. There’s a list of requirements your game must meet to be eligible for getting Steam Deck Verified:

✅ Has controller support
✅ Shows correct controller icons as button prompts
✅ Cloud saves sync between PC and Steam Deck
✅ Supports the Deck’s resolution natively
✅ Has a playable framerate with the default graphics configuration
✅ In-game text is legible
✅ No device compatibility warnings
✅ No 3rd Party Launchers
✅ Both Linux (natively) and Proton are supported
✅ Is a great experience on the device

As you can see by these cool checkmarks, we should meet all criteria! It should only be a matter of time until the fine folks at Steam will grant us the green check (we’re hopeful).

If you have any additional questions or problems regarding playing the game on your Deck (or any other problems), please let us know, either on Steam or our Discord! We (or our fine community members) would love to help you out!

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