• Redone tutorial, now covers almost all mechanics and anything else you need to know.
  
• Tons of new armors and weapons
  
• Polished and re-done many areas
  
• The talented Turingsghost has Included more musical tracks and polished existing BGM!
  
• 7 Sins mini-bosses
  
• dozens of new mobs
  
• post-game content
  
• and much more

more details on what's changed coming soon

Major changes include:

• The ability to play through the entire main story campaign by following the quest book.
  
  
• Featuring all-new music by Turingsghost
  
  
• All-new combat HUD and battle portrait interface.
  
  
• Many visual updates/polishing:
  - Protagonists
  - Enemies
  - Tiles/ world backgrounds
  - Combat backgrounds
  - Combat FX
  
  
• Complete quest log for the entire main story campaign
  
  
• Combat Balancing
  
  
• Complete mob re-distribution and balancing
  (mobs will now be in areas where they belong & enemy toughness
  will reflect the area they are in)
  
  
• All-new mobs!
  
  
• Item/weapon/armor/skill dispensers distributed across all areas
  
  
• New skill vendor system: you don't automatically learn skills.
  Instead, you buy 'skill pills' from vendors for your specified class using credits and
  learn skills at your leisure for complete character customization and strategic choice.

The development team is still hard at work and steadily churning out content and improvements that will hopefully bring us closer to a proper release. Either way, expect another update batch in the coming months!

We hope you enjoy all the new content and improvements, don't forget to discuss and send us your feedback at the official Phantasmata discord:
https://discord.gg/nEcRWEQ

Hey deep dreamers,
The city of Phantasmata is proud to announce some new big changes before going gold:

Combat system overhaul:
- Tmed hits system ( with multiple mechanics for different skills )
- Smaller damage/health values/digits (most combatants won't be over 100HP)
- Combat balancing
- combatant order cycling

Updated main quest content:
- Updated story dialogue
- added riot chapter
- fixed later chapter discrepancies
- beefed up story told through NPCs and environments

New areas:
- Fixed Forest area
- Added desert border area
- Updated subway to hell areas
- Added riot area
- Added new areas in the hell chapter

GFX:
-Implemented new animated battleback effect
-Added location-based battlebacks
-Added and updated new character dialogue busts
-Added new sprites for some denizens/citizens
-finished animating most character sprites

Music:
Randomized battle music ( battle BGM will be randomized from a playlist of currently 3 battle songs, more to be added )
Added music by Klava


All of these changes will be implemented in the next build, estimated to be uploaded to steam the first week of December.

Thank you for your continuing love and support<3
-Xenon

Xenon here,
just to keep you all in the loop -
I am aiming to complete development
and go off early access Q4 (December esimate)

Currently handling all the non-gamedev stuff (marketing, visual content, merch,visibility outreach)
so hardcore development is on hiatus
till Mid-July/August
soon after there'll be more periodical updates so stay tuned!


Don't forget to hit up the Phantasmata discord
https://discord.gg/xv96qPW

Love,
Xenon