Alrighty! We’re finally close enough that I can set an official release date: The new build, which adds 3 new Tower floors and related content, will be released on October 4th!

This’ll give me enough time to finish up the last bits of work, as well as do a decent amount of testing to make sure things’re solid.

I’ll see if I can think of any other interesting preview material to show before then, but most of the remaining work isn’t very visual (mostly bug fixes, a new option for skipping the main menu by default, some other minor bits.)

Hey folks. Not much new to show: I’m working on the last bits of details that need to be finished up before I begin testing: things like putting the new abilities in appropriate Modifiers, making the new Modifiers for the new Uniques, bug fixes, and feature requests that accumulated. Good stuff, but doesn’t make good show material for the most part.

Hopefully I’ll be able to give a release date for the new build soon. I’ve got a three day weekend coming up that I hope to use to make a pretty big chunk of progress: I should be in a position to pin down a release date for the 27-29 build after that. Cheers!

Part of why this update’s taking a bit is because I accidentally made it 2nd only to the Matter build in terms of the number of new characters. Here’s another preview to tide you over as I continue working towards release.

By an odd quirk, three of this week’s preview demons have the Rhino Charge ability. It’s a popular choice among late game melee fighters, it seems.

As promised, a preview of some of the new demons, which I suspect (and hope) will be quite productive at making new wraiths. Demons with new abilities have one of them shown in a tooltip.

I’ve finished the icons for the new abilities:

…and since with these, Demon will be passing the 800 mark on total abilities, I can’t resist the excuse to paste the entire atlas again.

Next up: implementing these and getting them onto demons. After that, all that’ll be left is implementing new encounters and testing!

I’ve finished the ability set design for the new demons: it looks there will be around 30 or so new abilities, barring any late additions or removals. :)  As with the last upper Tower build, not all of these will be found only in upper floors. Some will appear on modifiers (or, possibly, even demons) that appear in earlier encounters as well. I’ll provide more details about some of the new abilities once their icons and implementation are complete and I start showing full demon previews, but I think there are some pretty interesting ones in the mix.