Release Notes for Astria Ascending

Patch 1.0.123 (16/12/2021)

Achievements

• Fix “Completionist” achievement.
• Fix “Heart of magic” achievement.Fix hunt related achievements.
• Fix item related achievements (retroactive unlock).
• Retroactively fix "Level 100 reached" achievement.

Audio

• Add battle victory Foley.
• Add cancel SFX upon abandoning target/skill selection.
• Add cursor SFX on quantity change in shops.
• Add missing cursor sound on cosmo break selection action in fight.
• Add missing cursor sound when moving the cursor on J-STER board.
• Add SFX crate_slide_off on statue + Scorpio crate.
• PC 1.0.107 → 1.0.1232Add SFX on certain character animations in battle.
• Add SFX to free_explorer.Add SFX to monster bait.
• Add SFX when selecting node stat type.
• Add SFX to wolf's Omni fire.
• Fix "wall_to_run" SFX being played while navigating between rooms.
• Fix Aerima SFX not playing on item_051.
• Fix audio occlusion issue in Virgo temple.
• Fix cut out sound on voices in cutscenes.
• Fix double greeting voice on Meryo item seller.
• Fix double music when resuming the intro.
• Fix duplicate cursor sounds playing in J-STER.
• Fix issue that caused the background music to stop working when loading asave game under specific circumstances.
• Fix issue when placing a statue before a block of ice; pushing the block with thewind power-ring wouldn't activate the sliding sound.
• Fix issues with footsteps playback in cutscenes.
• Fix male voice on female coliseum NPC.
• Fix missing SFX on MP received.
• Fix missing sound during Aries fight.
• Fix missing train sound from orchard to other Harmonia locations.
• Fix music suddenly stopping in the Peyska spring incident scene 7 cutscene.
• Fix music/sounds lag when alt tabbing in battle.
• Fix NPC voices in upper Harmonia.
• Fix overlapping musics in Leo temple (coliseum & battle).
• Fix rain ambience being heard in Leo temple's prayer room.
• Fix rain at -127db in earth road / Capricorn & Taurus temple.
• Fix resurrect/resurrected voices.
• Fix reverb issue in a cutscene.
• Fix SFX enemy_resist being played when the enemy gets killed.
• Fix SFX not playing on Aerus crystal.
• Fix sound glitch with united town BGM's loop.
• Fix sound on some monster's apparition.
• Fix start screen SFXs.
• Fix validation sound played erroneously in the equipment screen.
• Fix voice-over missing when replaying cutscenes from the journal after switchinglanguage.
• Fix wind loop ring.
• Fix music played in battle during Arpajo's dark knight quest.
• Removed music from a cutscene.
• Update bullet SFX in SHMUP.Update city NPC voice.
• Update ring SFX.
• Update SFX on invalid selection in equipment.

Exploration

• Add a visual blocker in Aries' temple; conditional to chapter 12.
• Added a new spawn point to ancient wasteland; set after SHMUP sequence.
• Correction of dungeon maps and update of chests.
• Fix an issue in Capricorn's temple which you could leave you stuck if you had leftthe area or reloaded your save game after activating switch without solving thepuzzle.
• Fix an issue in Gemini temple.Fix an issue in Scorpio temple.
• Fix autosave trigger overriding position and level when loading a save in Geminior other levels.
• Fix bug with traps.
• Fix cases where slashing animation could appear delayed.
• Fix free explorer monster vanishing.
• Fix Gemini temple puzzle getting you stuck sometimes.
• Fix issues with player respawn.
• Fix noises in archipelago move while the game is paused.
• Fix Scorpio map not being available.
• Fix swamp camera focus delay.
• Fix tower dungeon map.
• Fix water issue in some rooms.
• Remove quest chest from Pisces completion.
• Ulan animation updated in exploration.

Gameplay

• Change number of side quests from 42 to 44.
• Fix Arktan mages being transformed and blocking the game.
• Fix bosses getting an extra turn when changing stance while under the effect ofpoison.
• Fix bug HP/MP accessories in stats calculation.
• Fix enemy effects from previous battles lingering into other fights.
• Fix enemy from hunt 15 not receiving any damage.
• Fix stat star node in black mage's ascension tree doesn't unlock properly.
• Fix Triple slash / Omni triple slash kill registers 3 times.
• Fix Wushu's "gate of heaven" repeatedly takes Eko's HP in one turn.
• Fixed quest "the legendary blacksmith": talking to Cyrah after finishing the gamewouldn't validate the first objective.
• Fixed the battle arena challenge #8 where Lums and SP rewards were reversed.
• Fixed the drop rate of the side quest item "molten core" from Picrites (it wasweather-based and never dropped).
• Forcerima being incorrectly flagged as AoE; it is now single target as intended.
• Reduced level required to learn some summon skills for Mig, Anun and Shala.
• The following skills were not working as intended and have been corrected:
• Prevention (white mage)
• Rejuvenate (white mage)
• Updated characters stats (slight increase of some stats like STR or MAG).
• Using guardian transfer ability twice would set MP to 0

General issues

• Fix a case where vibrations could be triggered by loading a save game
• Fix accessory quantity decreasing to -1 when selling the one from a lockedcharacter.
• Fix Alasia's Ophiuchus summon not unlocking correctly.
• Fix an issue that allowed you to a character's accessory if it was equipped in twoslot.
• Fix an issue with autosave.Fix arena NPC disappearing between J-STER challenges.
• Fix issue where controller vibration could stay active when going through aloading screen.
• Fix issue with controllers not responding when multiple devices were detected.
• Fix issue with side quest objectives requiring the player to talk to Cyrah inWindam during post-game (the hunt menu would open instead).
• Fix quest items not being received when [item gain] is turned off.
• Fix soft-lock when opening menu and map at the same time.Retroactively reward missing boss tokens.

Interface

• Reordered monsters in the journal and adjusted displayed numbers so theyrange from 001 to 264.
• Fix a visual glitch in the J-STER token selection.
• Fix accessories equipped by Zimar not displaying properly in the equipmentscreen.
• Fix archipelago's dungeon map.
• Fix Arpajo dark knight kneel glitch in menu.
• Fix blurry text on dungeon maps.Fix button overlap in the navigation footer when exiting the party menu bypressing start.
• Fix buttons display moving when notifications are displayed.
• Fix cannot quit J-STER game even when cancel button instruction is displayedat the bottom of the screen.
• Fix case where the game timer could reach negative values (existing saves willbe automatically adjusted upon loading).
• Fix empty token selection when when changing tab.
• Fix explorer's weapons not showing up in journal.
• Fix incorrect timing on notifications.
• Fix keyboard pixel mode using the incorrect input icon.
• Fix map logs in journal.
• Fix missing token amount from trading.
• Fix Mygmy hunt portrait.
• Fix Nahei's missing name when interacted to in Taurus temple.
• Fix rank 5 token selection.Fix scrolling list movement when adding/removing FP.
• Fix selection in settings menu not looping.
• Fix side quests counter.Fix skill tree stat node selection text going out of screen / being misplaced.Fix skipped category when scrolling backward in journal menu.Fix snapshots in menu.
• Fix start screen confirm text.
• Fix sub menus vanishing (in-game menu).
• Fix UI selection issue when cancelling skill target selection.
• Fix wrong monster numbers in the journal menu.
• Fix wrong opponent displayed in the J-STER arena.
• Fixed order and location of some bosses and hunts in the journal.
• Reordered the list of summons and all their skills in the battle menu so there issome logic to it (summons by element, skills by type, power and number oftargets).
• Skill list now support mouse scrolling via the slider.
• Text quality has been increased to be readable on both low-end and high-endresolutions.
• Update monsters log id (starts at 1 instead of 0).
• Update weapons icons.

Localization

• Corrected a line of Kress, replaced "ascension" by "transcendence" in the entext to match the voice.
• Corrected the load save/loaded text in Spanish from "¡partida guardada!" To"¡partida cargada!".
• Fix overlapping text (FP cost) in the ability screen [German].
• Fix start screen localization.
• Texts have been updated.

Performance

• Add resolution options to game settings.
• Fix application performances issues when VSync is off.
• Fix black screen occurring after entering the swamps.
• Fix game freezes when you click on second monitor in combat only.
• Fix issue that would break animation and VFX playback in battles.
• Fix soft lock when saving progress in the Arktan valley quest while in Arktanvalley.
• Fix unresponsive game after defeating Seryn.

Visuals

• Add missing feedback (SFX/VFX) when token transform is successful.
• Adjust text spacing globally.
• Dark mage bounding box on stance 1 adjusted.
• Fix dark shadow on Scorpio chests.
• Fix dd box size.Fix free explorer's death animation.
• Fix version number at title screen defaulting to 0 when changing language.
• Fix Alasia vanishing too late in a cutscene.
• Fix Virgo skill consume without feedback animation.
• Kaydin cs idle explorer in menu polished.
• Kaydin fight idle explorer polished.Updated fight animations for all characters.
• VFX update - fix Ophiuchus.
• Withering VFX now only plays on the target.

Patch 1.0.107 (28/10/2021)

Added / Improved

• Decrease of the escape success rate
• Possibility to hide the mouse cursor while using gamepad
• Added a trap to prevent inifinite falling in Sagittarius Temple
• Collision added at the end of the dungeon in the Virgo Temple and active display adjusted
• Increase XP output when playing on Hard mode
• Cursor visibility now hidden when using controller

Fixed

• Fixed the Monsters order in the journal
• Fixed the Monsters IDs in the journal (ROUGE)
• Fixed the monster's name of the Hunt 15
• Fixed equipment bonus stats (percent instead of value) (ROUGE)
• Fixed the Hunt 20 difficulty
• Fixed the fight loop when fleeing from hunt 16, 17 and 19
• Fixed the Hunt 19 (being immune to WEAK)
• Fixed the issue with the Wandering Merchant's name/position in the shop
• Fixed achievements "Star-Crossed Lovers" (Aries Chapter 11), "The World After" (finishing the game) and reduced difficulty of the shmup score achievement
• Fixed the issue of being able to play J-Ster before getting the tutorial
• Fixed the clouds disabled in towns
• Fixed off-camera collision
• Fixed the side quest Motivation Sought that puts you into an infinite loop
• Fixed the issue of using a charged water stockage with a charged water ring makes lose your charge
• Fixed the Smoke VFX in Vetira
• Fixed the clouds that weren't appearing properly in Ranta
• Fixed the issue of the Eko Wushu's weapon not updating in the menu
• Fixed the duplicate Guild in Arsion
• Fixed the spelling mistakes in hunts descriptions
• Fixed the side quest "Weakness of the Noises" that couldn't be completed in some cases
• Reordered some monsters in the Journal that were incorrectly displayed at the beginning of the list, and corrected the displayed location of some of them
• Fixed the HP Spend which don't work when cast by a summon
• Fixed fleeing position The player will not be blocked when spawning after fleeing the Hunts 3, 4, 9, 12 and 14.
• Fixed a J-Ster trigger in Zeft Heights (activated it at chapter 14 instead of 2)
• Fixed the "Accumulate" Loop on Hunt 8
• Fixed the bug with system language set in turkish
• Fixed job entries in journal
• Fixed missing sounds on monsters
• Fixed graphic bug in Dagmar's cutscene
• Fixed the target of a summon's skill : the summon skill "Courage" could only be cast on the enemy instead of the summon
• Fixed the skill "Gate of Heaven" which was not working as intended
• Fixed balancing of several enemies
• Fixed the water ring position in the Scorpio Temple
• Fixed Missing Token (168 / 169 / 166) loot on Wilkyte, Wilkyte the Mediator & Chimera bosses
• Fixed the side quests counter in the game settings (since the removal of Aries Temple part 2 as a side quest, the number was wrong)
• Fixed a bug in Taurus map (hunt appearing from rift)
• Fixed a missing dialog for Belza during the quest "The Dark Spirit"
• Fixed possibility to do Aries temple before objective "go to Dagmar house"
• Fixed "entrance" on all save slots on PS4/5
• Fixed ach skill/status values
• Fixed the bug of the spider web bridge reappearing in the Taurus temple
• Fixed feedback with quest dialogs
• Fixed enemies reappearing in air road
• Fixed the calcul of gears stats
• Skill restore mp is now only available in battle
• Fixed analyse reseting monster log details
• Fixed the missing quest achievements
• Fixed achivements for the J-STER
• Fixed physic on create scorpio
• Fixed time rift bait ability
• Added various other minor fixes