We are happy to announce that Striving for Light has now entered Early Access featuring a massive amount of new content and improvements.

Here are the full patch  notes for the Early Access Version 0.3

Game:

• Bow weapon has been added to the game
• Flail weapon has been added to the game
• New Portal system has been added to the game, making it possible to return to the town during runs
• A new save system has been implemented which allows saving your runs in the town and returning to them later
• A new progression system has been implemented which allows unlocking new skills and weapons
• A tutorial area has been added to the game
• First story snippets have been added to the game
• A dialog and NPC system was implemented
• A localisation system was implemented
• Improved skill tooltips with improved skill descriptions
• Added first iteration on a enemy scaling system for endless endgame mode

Art:

• Added sideways animations to the player character when walking or attacking sideways
• Improved Player animations
• Redesigned main menu
• Redesigned dagger, shorts word, great sword and dark staff
• New opening cinematics
• A light shard bar has been added to the player UI to indicate your current amount of light shards
• Town environment has been added
• 3 NPCs have been added to the game
• Added a new town portal to the game
• Added new imaginary to the opening cinematic

Tech:

• Added an performance option to set game resolution
• Added an performance option to set fxaa on or off
• Added an performance option to set vsync on or off
• Added an performance option to set high quality weapon animations on or off
• The load system was completely overhauled which drastically reduces GPU memory usage and lead to significant performance improvements on lower end GPUs
• Background texture sizes have been reduced to decrease overall game size, loading times and to improve performance on lower end hardware

Sound:

• Added new soundtrack for the town
• Added voice acting for all NPC dialogs
• Added new SFX for bow and flail

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a bug which caused boss enemies to actually “freeze in the state” of spawning AoE effects permanently when freezing with a cold weapon
• Reduced collider size of skill nodes which lead to accidentially spending skill points when panning the camera in the skill tree
• Fixed a bug which caused audio clipping on max volume settings
• Fixed a bug which caused ranged weapon not beeing saved when teleporting back to town
• Fixed a bug which caused the portal and key state not beeing saved when closing the game from town and returning to the active run
• Fixed angle offset for the boomerang attack replacer skill
• Plenty of smaller bugfixes