Striving for Light

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• Patch Notes·19 May 2026Official

  Update 1.1.1.0 Public Beta available now!

  We took some time compiling all the feedback we received during the Season 2 launch and are happy to bring some substantial changes to Striving for Light. Including balancing changes, improvements and bugfixes (even for some seldom occuring crashes). As Update 1.1.1.0 contains bigger changes we are are rolling it out into the public playtest branch before it will go live. We invite everyone to engage with the changes and give us feedback so that we can fine tune everything until it will go core. How to join the public beta Steam -> Striving for Light -> Properties -> Game Versions & Betas -> select public-beta branch Upcoming Race Event: Depending on the feedback we receive on the public beta we plan to host a race event very soon. Balancing Changes to Dodge: Dodge in its current state sets a fixed invulnerability time, where when chaining multiple dodges with shorter/interruped dodge duration will keep the invulnerability on going for ever. Furthermore, the dodge invulnerability had overwritten vulnerabilities by a recent hit that could lead to multiple hits taken in a very short duration. We want to make some changes to the dodge behaviour to prevent a state of permenent invinibility that renders the entire game mechanics obsolte and fix the issue that dodge resets the longer invincibility from a recent hit taken. Therefore dodge invincibility is now decoupled from main invincibility that got activated from a recent enemy hit. It will not reset the current ~2s of invincibility after a hit taken. This should solve a lot of frustrating moments where multiple consecutive hits after suboptimal dodges appear. To fix the permanent invincibility, dodges now have a dynamic invulnerability time that matches the dodge duration with a short vulnerability window attached. So that when ending a dodge inside an enemy AoE field or trap you will receive damage as intended. Our ultimate goal here is to keep all dodge builds viable, spaming dodge all day is fine, it should just not...
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• Patch Notes·29 Apr 2026Official

  Update 1.1.0.4

  Hotfix 1.1.0.4 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Improvements Improved new bone vulture attack pattern to indicate projectile shots more prominently. Bone Vulture projectiles have improved visibility and collider has been reduced in size. Bugfixes Fixed echoes of fate unlock discount increasing endlessly on map tiers above 20. Fixed a crash when unlocking goladir on spanish localisation settings. Fixed not being able to switch weapon or toggle minimap overlay when approaching and NPC and triggering dialogue from too far away. Fixed light fragment UI indicator being overed up by skygems if you got a lot of light fragments. Fixed an issue where when having less than 10 light fragments on the tree of light when spending it got applied twice (v.1.1.0.4a) In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord. You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
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• Patch Notes·28 Apr 2026Official

  Hotfix 1.1.0.3

  Hotfix 1.1.0.3 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Improvements Melee attack replacers Cyclic Might and Colossal Strike can now apply weapon weakening effects to enemies. Bugfixes Fixed rift rank not being displayed on completed rift UI and the rift leaderboard entry Fixed permanent companions not triggering player effects In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord. You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
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• Patch Notes·27 Apr 2026Official

  Hotfix 1.1.0.2

  Hotfix 1.1.0.2 brings an array of improvements and critical bugfixes for the season 2 content update. Thanks everyone for reporting and sharing your feedback! Bugfixes Fixed abysal hunger melee weapon not applying base weapon endurance cost to your attacks Fixed sandfall event setting marking the aeodra arena world event as complete Fixed sanguine chest ending early on high map tiers Fixed reward chests spawn arc on descent defense and rifts that could trap you, when spawing a big bunch of chests Added missing awakened gatekeeper achievement images for new maps In case you encounter any issues never hesitate to report them i.e. on our discord. You are invited to join our official discord. Chat with fellow SfL Players, discuss builds, the new content update or just hang out with us.
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• Patch Notes·25 Apr 2026Official

  Hotfix 1.1.0.1

  Hotfix 1.1.0.1 bring further fixes and improvements based on your player feedback for the new Season 2 content update. Thank you for being part of season 2 and for reporting occuring issues! Improvements Echo Weapons without upgrades are now displayed as Tier 1 instead of showing empty brackets Minipet cosmetics are now not affected by player effect transparency setting (as you can deactivate the pet manually if it distracts from gameplay) Exiting world events (with despawned enemies) now properly reduces enemies on map counter again Fine tuning of the overgrown monstrosity jungle gatekeeper fight Specialisaton granted weapon condition damage is now working with melee attack replacer skills like cyclic might, colossal strike or trembling ground (v.1.1.0.1a) Damage numbers font size is now slightly bigger matching the pre 1.1 size (v1.1.0.1b) Reduced visual size of sunderbow range weapon (yes this weapon was very huge) (v1.1.0.1b) Bugfixes Fixed a crash when entering the skilltree while an elite enemy dies and the sanguine cosmetic finisher effect present on map Fixed echoes of fate light fragments unlock cost being removed from wrong darkness/normal stash Fixed sandfall event after completion not interactible with controller input Fixed not directly updated available map shards in darkness/normal mode in the pathfinder Fixed missing translation in the druid specialisation Fixed Attack Range stat on craft echo weapon window showing large numbers Fixed grip button not being interactible for certain conditions in the echo weapon crafting UI Fixed wrong druid specialisation description for firefly specialisation nodes (v.1.1.0.1a) Fixed interrupted trembling ground attack animation leading to cutoff attack effect each second attack (v.1.1.0.1a) Added missing echo fragment localisation (v.1.1.0.1a) Fixed a server side issue that prevented updating gatekeeper and rift leaderboard scores. Fixed exiting skilltree could trigger barrage skill only firing one bullet and could ...
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