Hello Adventurers!

After yesterday's patch we got your feedback that some issues were remaining in the game, we did our best to fix the first batch of them ASAP!

- Fixed language selection in the game for Vietnamese and Tradition Chinese
- Demonic Craze was not properly triggering when falling below 100 HP
- Kugelblitz (Peak) Trait now properly adds movement speed to the ability
- Movement Speed of the Beast Huntress now scales properly with level ups

Thank you for the feedback and your support!
Also there have been exactly 666 Soundtracks being sold on the first day of release 👏

Stay Fresh
- Chasing Carrots

We have an array of news for you today. First of all, we’d like to thank you for the feedback regarding our newest update. It helped us improve the experience, find issues and fix them.
Besides the already mentioned new update, we have a whole package of additional little things for you:

• Free Update with new items, artifacts, balancing adjustments and QoL features
  
• Supporter Pack DLC & Original Soundtrack in a bundle with the main game
  
• New community items such as animated backgrounds and profile images in the Steam Points Shop
  
• Adding Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese localization to the game

This update marks the beginning of the post-1.0 updates. We intend to bring more and bigger updates later this year. They will consist of two parts: the first being free updates that introduce smaller features and improvements, the second being bigger paid DLCs containing new maps, characters, abilities, and features. Stay tuned for more updates!

Available for everyone from now on!

• Added the possibility to upgrade abilities a 3rd time (Sage with Sage Mark and Signets).
  
• Added a total of 4 new item types.
  
• 6 new artifacts to mix up your gameplay.
  
• Balanced the game to enable more playstyles on higher torment levels.
  
• QoL: DPS-meter, pickup range indicator, VSync option, more character stats.
  
• A few dozen bug fixes.
  
• Stability and performance fixes and changes.
  
• Full patch notes: https://steamproxy.net/app/2218750/discussions/0/758394165818106534/

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/bundle/49776/Tormented_Supporter/

Will contain the Supporter Pack DLC and the Original Sound Track:

• The soundtrack contains 8 songs with a playtime of 49 minutes in total and will be updated with tracks that will be added in the future.
  
• The Supporter Pack will contain only cosmetics and the Training Grounds area. It won’t give any actual advantage in the game.
  
• Alternative character skins for each of the 1.0 characters.
  
• Three additional HUD themes.
  
• The Training Grounds area to test specific builds and setups.

• Animated profile background (normal & mini version).
  
• Three animated avatar frames.
  
• Three animated avatars.

We are grateful for such an incredible community that has made Halls of Torment possible and we’ll share details for more content soon. In the meantime you can see our current progress, including the new content (potential spoilers!) on our public Codecks page:
Codecks – Halls of Torment 1.0[open.codecks.io]





PS: As a small extra preview from the future! (WIP)

In roughly 2-3 weeks we intend to release our first proper post-release update with the Supporter Pack and Original Soundtrack. The Store pages for both will be coming online within the next few days, but the accompanying free update will be available today on the “Experimental” branch.

If you are new here, we usually update our content on the Experimental branch early to gather some feedback and do readjustments before the release on the main branch. If you want to join the Experimental branch, right-click on Halls of Torment in your Steam library, select “Properties…”, go to “Betas”, and set the beta branch to “Experimental”.

The full change log with a feedback collection thread can be found here:
https://steamproxy.net/app/2218750/discussions/0/758394165818106534/

• Pickup Range / DPS Meter options.
  
• 4 new items.
  
• 6 new artifacts.
  
• Balanced Shrine of Torment. (values and artifacts)
  
• Introduced ways to upgrade abilities 3 times per run.
  
• Balanced Block/Defense of players and Damage of enemies.
  
• Adjusted monster spawns, generally a bit lower but tougher monsters.
  
• Performance / Stability updates.
  
• Several smaller balancing adjustments especially to projectile based abilities.
  
• Dozens of bug fixes.

Stay Fresh!
- Chasing Carrots

We’ve teamed up with our friends at Bippinbits (Dome Keeper), Mega Crit (Slay the Spire), and Pugstorm (Core Keeper) to bring you a bundle of Steam games that you can easily take with you and play during your holidays!

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/bundle/48219/Steam_Deck_Stars/

All of our games are Steam Deck Verified for your enjoyment during a quick break, while traveling, between events, or when you’re in need of some quality alone time.
We hope you enjoy the rest of the year.

Stay hydrated, stay fresh, and stay healthy!
- Chasing Carrots

We hope you all are doing well so far. As for us, we’re happily working on things to come and making plans further down the road. As previously announced after the last update, we decided to take it a bit slower. The next update will take until early next year, probably late January or February, mostly because we’re going to take a little break during the festive season.

But still, we have some progress to share with you. This is a quick preview of things to come.
We’re currently working on two things in parallel. The first one is a smaller free update with some new items and artifacts. Balancing, bug fixes, and performance improvements are coming as well. Further below you’ll find a small excerpt. If you’re interested in the full list, you can find it here: https://open.codecks.io/hot

The second part will be a paid DLC: the Supporter Pack. It will contain mostly visual changes to heroes and the in-game HUD, and also a small training area to test out some of your favorite builds in a controlled environment.

In 2025 we will keep working on Halls of Torment. Besides working on console support for Halls of Torment we’re also planning to work on content DLCs that will bring new stages, characters, and abilities. But more about that next year.


Six new artifacts for additional challenges, including a smaller rebalancing of the Torment Levels.
Torment Levels will have a reduced increase in Damage and Movement Speed for enemies.

• New Artifact: Enemies will gain Block Strength with each player level.
  
• New Artifact: Reduce elemental chances but increase elemental damage.
  
• New Artifact: Make enemies bigger, fewer of them spawn but they have more health.
  
• New Artifact: Chance for each regular enemy to spawn as an enhanced version, dropping goodies.
  
• New Artifact: Reduce the maximum number of abilities.
  
• New Artifact: Reduce crit and effect chance with bigger area and range.

There are also four new items coming. One will be a bit special as it will not have a common version. You’ll only ever get the uncommon version of it.

• Elemental Capacitor (Necklace): Apply Damage bonus to Burn, Spark and Frost.
  
• Beast Master’s Hide (Body): Spawns beasts fighting for you. They despawn once they’ve taken too much damage.
  
• Demonic Grasp (Footwear): When moving spawn summoned hands that grab enemies, XP, and items.
  
• Ability Signet (Ring): Enables the wearer to upgrade an ability three times. (can’t be unequipped)

With the Ability Signet we also updated the Sage’s Mark that upon equipping it with the sage it allows the sage to use the 3rd upgrade of an ability on his main ability.

Other changes coming:

• Many smaller technical performance improvements.
  
• Changing the spawn pattern of waves to reduce lag spikes.
  
• Additional information in the character stats about things like burn, spark and frost damage.
  
• Shrine of Archeologists will now be teleported to the player like the well after defeating a lord.
  
• An option to make the pickup range visible.
  
• Vsync On/Off option to enable higher FPS.
  
• Vault will spawn champions after 30 minutes.
  
• Live DPS overlay.
  
• Some additional things we’re still working on!

• We’ll add an alternative cosmetic skin for each character.

Those are purely visual and do not change the gameplay of characters.

• Three HUD designs that can be selected via the settings.

• A training area to test setups in a controlled environment.

We also want to say a big thank you for all the support the community has shown. Your feedback is always very helpful for us! We wish you all a good end of the year 2024! See you soon!
- Chasing Carrots

We want to shout out a huge THANK YOU! We reached a huge milestone by having sold a million units on Steam. It’s a great achievement for us so close after the release, and we’ve decided our journey won’t end here. We want to move further after leaving Early Access. We are currently working on some additional free content, fixing more bugs, and improving the game’s performance. You can have a peek at our current work progress here: Codecks – Halls of Torment 1.0[open.codecks.io]

Aside from that, we’d like to release a Supporter DLC which would include character and UI skins, the soundtrack, and maybe an additional surprise. This will be a test balloon for us to check the DLC integration for Halls of Torment. If things go well we might add more extended content along with some more free updates.

See ya soon!
- Chasing Carrots


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Hello Adventurers!

We just released a small hot fix for players not playing in English fixing the Shrine of Torment description. Please note that the additional "defense" line will be fully translated in a future update.

Stay Fresh
- Chasing Carrots

After having the latest patch tested on the Experimental branch we just made it available for everyone. We'd like to thank players active on the branch and giving us feedback and reporting bugs. We made some additional changed including some new Bug Fixes.

• Every hero now has their own Torment Shard pool.
  
• Holding the button to spend a shard will continuously increase them.
  
• Right-Click removes shards from a single stat.
  
• Collecting one Torment Shard will increase the shards for all characters.
  
• The amount of used Torment Shards can now be seen in the end screen.

• Agony will add 1 Defense to each enemy per rank.
  
• Changing the scaling of Torment Levels and the Vault past 30 minutes.
  
• Health will be changed to scale x1.12 instead of x1.2.
  
• Defense scaling will be added with x1.12.
  
• In Vault the Torment Levels will add 0.33 base defense to enemies each level.
  
• Damage scaling will be changed from +4% to +5% per level.

• Scaling of the Max. HP effect will be limited from 100 3 000.
  
• Blood Catcher gains proper Diminishing Returns application.
  
• Blood Catcher has been changed back to only give a modifier bonus when the player is on full health.
  
• Blood Catcher now triggers every 5 seconds and applies its effect then based on the damage within that time frame.

• In the Quest Board, one can now always see the required character for the next main quest/tracked quest on the top.
  
• Turning off flash intensity also deactivates the flashes when the player is hit by enemies.
  
• Hailstorm can now handle negative movement speed.
  
• Astronomer’s Orbs can now over-crit.
  
• Adding the current Game Version to the End Screen.
  
• The targeting range of Summons now adjust with their attack range.
  
• Beast Huntress' Dedication was adjusted so that the base range does not scale so much, making it more likely for the Hound to attack more enemies.

• The Widescreen Pillar Box setting was not saved when leaving the game.
  
• Fixed the Artifacts "Restless Wheel" not accelerating Agony increase.
  
• Hunter’s Garb (Hawk Eye) is now modifying the Crit values.
  
• Hunter’s Garb variants now show the info Icon on the right side of the screen.
  
• Phantom Needles traits gave Crit Chance instead of Base Crit Chance.
  
• Archer’s Dedication was unlocked by the wrong Trait.
  
• Spectral Fists would not react to Attack Speed upgrades for melee/summon modifiers when Consecutive Punches had been activated.
  
• Values of uncommon and rare Plated Boots had been mixed up.
  
• Fixed an issue were the Cyclops from the Ember Eye would trigger Artifact quests to be completed.
  
• Quest “Tank I” had a wrong number in its description.
  
• Rank frame of Norseman's WP IV (Storming) was wrong.
  
• End screen congratulation text was sometimes truncated.
  
• Compendium did not update used Torment Shards in the info area.
  
• Scars of Toil had the wrong tooltip on its Icon.
  
• Warlocks character description said he should have only 350 instead of 500 HP.
  
• Cleric was stronger than their information made appear. (regeneration, Defense and Block Strength)

Thank you for everything!
- Chasing Carrots

Update 2024-10-10

Latest changes:
- Movement Speed per Torment Level has been changed back from 2.5% to 2.0%
- Blood Catcher bonus has been slightly reduced, but heal was increased on higher rarities.
- Polishing the shard display in the End Screen.
- Adding the current Game Version to the End Screen.
- Fixed the Artifacts "Restless Wheel" not accelerating Agony increase.
- Fixed an issue were the Cyclops from the Ember Eye would trigger Artifact quests to be completed.
- Fixed Plated Boots (Boost), uncommon and rare values were swapped.
- The targeting range of Summons now adjust with their attack range.
- Beast Huntress' Dedication was adjusted so that the base range does not scale so much, making it more likely for the Hound to attack more enemies.

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We are working through your reports and feedback and today we are going to implement a few required changes on the experimental branch for testing them out. Please let us know what you think.
If you would like to join testing the coming changes, please change in the game properties -> betas the testing branch to “experimental”.

Codecks – Halls of Torment 1.0[open.codecks.io]
Experimental Update: 2024-10-08
Scheduled Release: 2024-10-10

• Agony will add 1 Defense to each enemy per rank.
  
• Changing the scaling of Torment Levels and the Vault past 30 minutes.
  
• Health will be changed to scale x1.12 instead of x1.2.
  
• Defense scaling will be added with x1.12.
  
• In Vault the Torment Levels will add 0.33 base defense to enemies each level.
  
• Damage scaling will be changed from +4% to +5% per level.
  
• Movement Speed scaling will be changed from +2% to +2.5% per level.

We’ve decided on this change for two reasons. One is that now and probably in the future, items and effects that scale with damage do scale much stronger with the big HP pools. Secondly some enemies were approaching and hit the highest HP possible in the game, causing bugs. With this change we can easily go up to Torment Level 40+ and the Vault is quite some time longer after the current 95 minutes after which it starts breaking.

• Scaling of the Max. HP effect will be limited from 100 - 3 000.
  
• Blood Catcher gains proper Diminishing Returns application.
  
• Blood Catcher has been changed back to only give a modifier bonus when the player is on full health.
  
• Blood Catcher now triggers every 5 seconds and applies its effect then based on the damage within that time frame.

In the 1.0 patch we changed that Blood Catcher has been always applying its buff, even if the player was damaged. We changed this back but also applied the normal Diminishing Returns mechanic from other items in the game. The limitation of the scaling based on one's Max. HP has been introduced because the Blood Catcher had many Edge Case scenarios with almost no HP. These changes have been made to bring the Blood Catcher down to a level of other items, the Blood Catcher was so much stronger that making “everything else stronger” was not an option without entirely breaking the game’s balance.
Lastly the 5 second refresh has been added to avoid lag because of multiple modifier updates and heal events per second/frame from the item. The modifier strength is not influenced by this change.

• In the Quest Board, one can now always see the required character for the next main quest/tracked quest on the top.
  
• Every hero now has their own Torment Shard pool.
  
• Collecting one Torment Shard will increase the shards for all characters.
  
• The amount of used Torment Shards can now be seen in the end screen.
  
• Turning off flash intensity also deactivates the flashes when the player is hit by enemies.

• The Widescreen Pillarbox setting was not saved when leaving the game.
  
• Hailstorm can now handle negative movement speed.
  
• Astronomer’s Orbs can now overcrit.
  
• Hunter’s Garb (Hawk Eye) is now modifying the Crit values.
  
• Hunter’s Garb variants now show the info Icon on the right side of the screen.
  
• Phantom Needles traits gave Crit Chance instead of Base Crit Chance.
  
• Archer’s Dedication was unlocked by the wrong Trait.
  
• Spectral Fists would not react to Attack Speed upgrades for melee/summon modifiers when Consecutive Punches had been activated.
  
• Values of uncommon and rare Plated Boots (Growth) had been mixed up.
  
• Quest “Tank I” had a wrong number in its description.
  
• Rank frame of Norsemans WP IV (Storming) was wrong.
  
• Endscreen congratulation text was sometimes truncated.
  
• Compendium did not update used Torment Shards in the info area.
  
• Scars of Toil had the wrong tooltip on its Icon.
  
• Warlocks character description said he should have only 350 instead of 500 HP.
  
• Cleric was stronger than their information made appear. (regeneration, Defense and Block Strength)