Campaign Showdown

The wait is over. Astroloot's main campaign is now complete!

• Face off against the final Guardian bosses and claim their powerful Boons

• Unlock the third Spirit-Animal Token to take your build customization even further

• Embark on new adventures with Kiki and Carlo, each with their own surprises

• Earn 7 brand-new achievements as you explore the final chapter

• Descend into Nihalor's Chamber for the ultimate showdown, an epic boss battle that will push your build to the limit

Enemy Damage Overhaul

The enemy damage system has been rebuilt from the ground up to make combat feel fairer, smoother, and more predictable. Without losing the challenge.

• Reworked Damage Curve to better scale difficulty across all stages of the game

• Completely overhauled enemy weapon logic - all enemies now operate from a shared damage baseline

• Enemy weapons are now always common rarity, removing random affix rolls that could previously lead to wild damage spikes

• The Corrupted Area has been tuned to be a little more aggressive, so watch your back!

Boss Exhaustion

A new mechanic that flips the power dynamic in long boss fights: Boss Exhaustion rewards endurance with huge damage potential.

• 5 seconds after being damaged, bosses start accumulating Exhaustion Stacks - one per second while taking damage

• Each stack causes the boss to take 3% more damage, up to a max of 30 stacks

• New skill tree nodes let you invest in and enhance this effect even further

• This system goes hand-in-hand with the enemy damage rework: Enemy damage now scales more slowly at extreme monster levels, making tanky builds viable, even in the deepest Abyss.

Minion Builds Overhaul

Previously, only skills that explicitly mentioned Minions could affect them. This made Minion builds feel narrow and one-dimensional. Not anymore.

• Minion Power now grants a portion of your offensive stats to your Minions, enabling more synergy-rich builds

• Base Minion Power depends on the Mod: Drones have 50%, while Bulwarks have 70%

• Tons of changes to minion-focused skill tree nodes to support new strategies

• Raise your Minion's power with the all-new Necromancer Mod, perfect for commanding your swarm

New Mods

Four powerful new Mods have arrived, ready for new fun builds:

• Hop: Activate your engine to leap across the battlefield in a flash. Each hop consumes Dash, but as long as you've got charges, nothing can pin you down.

• Crush: Become a close-combat menace with more melee damage and a chance to deal double damage.

• Necromancer: Empower your Minions like never before with a direct boost to their Minion Power.

• Agility: Crank up your Engine Damage and gain extra Dash Slots.

Empowered Chips

A new tier of power has arrived.

• Empowered Chips can now drop from level 70 onward and are limited to 3 equipped at a time

• They come with a brand-new pool of ultra-powerful affixes, that are exclusive to Empowered Chips

• Existing Chips with now-exclusive affixes remain unchanged, but can be converted to Empowered Chips using a Blank Dice

Item Enhancements

A wave of upgrades and reworks is herebuffing favorites, refining mechanics, and introducing something brand new.

• Broodfire: A brand-new unique that unleashes long-lasting projectiles which bounce off the Corrupted Area

• Plasma Nova: Melee tag removed and damage boosted for more explosive impact

• Orbitron: Range tag removed; now fires constantly, even without enemies nearby

• Grand Finale: Now also grants more damage the longer the rocket has been flying, up to 80%

• Zeds Pact: Now can roll up to 250% more Bulwark Damage (was 150%)

• Warp: Melee tag removed

Balancing

• Limit shock stacks to 100

• Thermal modifiers count only 33% during damage conversion

• Minion Commander on skill tree now also grants +1 to Level of all Minions

• Imperial Legion on skill tree now also grants 10% Minion Power instead of 16% increased Armor

• Add new unique skill "Umbra"

• The unique skill "Fist of the Endbringer" now grants 60% more damage against Bosses (was 50%)

• The unique skill "Necroblast" now grants 800% corpse explosion damage, scales with offensive Minion stats and Area of Effect (was 50%)

• Add new skill cluster "Necrotic Power"

• Add new skill cluster "Assembly Line"

• Add new skill cluster "Phantom Step"

• Add new skill cluster "The Untouchable"

• Add new skill cluster "Tyrant Cruncher"

• Add new skill cluster "Burden of Collapse"

• Add new skill cluster "Stressed Overlords"

• The skill "Army of Greed" now also grants the effect of "Sidekick's Boon"

• The skill "Sidekick's Boon" has been removed

• Buff the skills "Horde Resilience", "Pack Savagery" and "Swarm Frenzy"

• Grim Bulwark and Titan Bulwark now have 20% more damage (was 10%)

• Guardian Drone now also grants 10% less damage taken

• Drones now gain +1 Drone at level 4 and then every 6 levels (was at level 5 and every 5 levels)

• The spirit animal skill "Mastermind" now also grants 25% increased Minion Power

• The spirit animal skill "Guardians" no longer grants Minions have 20% to all Resistances. Instead, it now grants 10% increased Minion Power and 40% of Minion Power also applies to defences

• The spirit animal skill "Bodyguards" now also grants 20% increased Minion Power

• Reduce increased attack speed on chips, maximum is now 12% (was 20%)

QoL & Bugfixes

• Allow to zoom further out of the skill tree

• Skill tree search also finds items placed into the tree

• Multiplayer reject reasons are now displayed directly on the alert screen

• Multiplayer invitations are no longer automatically rejected during other screen interaction

• Fix horizontal cut-off item info text

• Shock preview calculation now considers "non-critical strikes deal no damage"

• Blind preview calculation has been fixed when multiple items are used, that each have a chance to cause Blind

Localization

Astroloot is going global - this release is a huge step towards that goal.

• All previously hardcoded text has been fully extracted into localization files, paving the way for languages besides English

• German is now fully supported as a second language

• Simplified Chinese is unfortunately not quite ready yet, but it is on the way. Huge shoutout to moulei for the incredible work on this!

Huge thanks to everyone who's been part of Astroloot's journey so far. Your feedback, bug reports, and ideas have been invaluable. This game wouldnt be the same without you.

We're still deep in Early Access, and there's much more to come.

But for tonight? I'm cracking open a beer and starting a personal-stash co-op run.

See you in the Abyss!