We’re super excited to share with you that Evercore Heroes: Ascension, is launching into Early Access on June 19!

The Evercore is shattered, and Lumerea teeters on the brink of collapse. Travel to Castle Everae located in Hydris and meet new heroes, enhance your abilities, and embark on your first missions into Kru- a treacherous region of frozen peaks, glaciers, and monster-infested mines!

That’s right! After a ton of testing, feedback, and polish, we're ready to take the next step. Early Access begins here with more regions, enemies, and of course heroes planned throughout development!

Excited? You can try our demo right now! Click on the 'Download Evercore Heroes: Ascension Demo' button to play!


At launch of Early Access, you can expect:

• 2 high-stakes Co-Op Strike runs for 3 players
  
• Matchmaking support for seamless team-ups
  
• 3 Solo Run maps featuring dynamic objectives and escalating difficulty
  
• 6 Unique Class-Based Heroes
  
• Evolving mission objectives with each run
  
• Abundant in-run upgrades to customize your builds
  
• Permanent Core Powers that persist and enhance your strength

Progress from the Steam Next Fest demo (and the weeks before) will carry over into Early Access!!!


€11.49 / $12.49 / £9.99, with a launch discount of up to 20%.

(Regional pricing may vary - check your local store page!)


At launch we will have servers available in Europe and North America.

Languages supported: French, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese

*More regions and languages may be added during development.


We can't wait to share more with you and will be unveiling our Early Access Roadmap ahead of launch - featuring new heroes, missions, regions, and more!.

Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping Ascension. We look forward to continuing this journey together toward version 1.0, thank you!!

See you in Lumerea.

~Vela Team

*Backers of the original Evercore Heroes (2023) will receive a separate email with instructions on how to redeem their Evercore Heroes: Ascension keys before the launch of Early Access. Thank you for your continued support!

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...hunt Kryoss Thrashclaw.. retrieve Evercore fragment..
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Once a sanction of ancient luum, Stormspire Summit is now raging with dark and powerful corrupted luum upsetting monsters and causing fierce blizzards!

Reports reveal no other than Kryoss Thrashclaw, the troll king, being in the middle of it all holding onto a shard of the Evercore with his giant claws! It's up to you to get that back, but of course..

... in style!!

After the success of our last contest, where winners earnt shards named after them (did you already spot them in-game?!), we are back with yet another competition!

Your mission is simple, queue up for a Co-Op run (either as premade party or solo with others) and get the best time possible beating Thrashclaw on Stormspire Summit!

Prove to us you are the best and we'll mention you and your team on an in-game leaderboard for this run during the start of Early Access!


The contest runs from now until midnight June 16th Irish time after which we'll no longer accept submissions!

Find the ground rules and more information here:
To compete we ask you to make a video recording of the full run including the victory screen that holds:

• The completion time of the run
  
• The amount of gold earnt at the end of the run
  
• The names of all players in the party - you can do this by clicking the 'hero info' at the bottom right.

Once done you can upload this as public/unlisted video on Youtube and share the link in the dedicated space on our Steam forums.

Good luck heroes - you'll need it!

Thanks again for playing the Evercore Heroes: Ascension demo!

We're excited to bring you another patch full of improvements, fixes, and one very special new opportunity for our players. From enhanced controls to shard tuning and stability improvements, this update moves us one step closer to a more polished experience.

• Improved directional accuracy: The on-screen aim indicator now better reflects your mouse position.
  
• No more aim assist: KB+Mouse players now have full control - no more hidden aid!
  
• Better facing logic: Ranged heroes should now reliably face the direction you're aiming when attacking.

This is a big step toward giving all input setups the clarity and precision they need. Thanks for your feedback while we worked on it!

Maxx is back! Castle Everae's fiercest Myti warrior has returned with a brand new challenge - and he's looking for players to step up to the challenge!

Talk to Maxx to learn how you and your teammates can become immortalized in the world of Ascension. It's your chance to make history!

• More to Share: Fixed a bug causing the effect not to apply correctly. Also received a balance update to bring it more in line with other Skill Power shards.
  
• AZ470 Hypernode: Description updated to clarify that the buff applies to all heroes.
  
• Rapid Response Rush: Slightly increased duration, giving you more time to gain stacks - it was a bit too rapid!
  
• Happy Gardener: Bloom effect duration reduced to bring it more in line with its intended power (sorry gardening enthousiasts out there!)
  
• Parting Gift: Fixed an issue where the shard was interacting incorrectly with objectives.

• Fyn's Shield Throw no longer spins out of control - his shield should fly straight now!
  
• Double Dash should now consistently apply to players once the run begins.
  
• Bloom Eternal and Vengeful Spirit had bugs fixed that were causing unexpected behavior.
  
• Beko's Lantern now correctly displaces enemies from where the lantern lands - not from Beko's position. (Thanks to DHaz for the report!)

• Improved onboarding: A few more helpful cues and tips have been added based on player suggestions.
  
• Ultimate keybind fix: You can now properly rebind your Ultimate ability when using Keyboard & Mouse.

• Crash fixes: We've resolved multiple crash causes to improve stability.
  
• Improved network resilience: We've made the game more resistant to network interruptions that previously caused crashes. More improvements in this area are in progress.

See you in-game!

Thanks for playing the Evercore Heroes: Ascension demo!

We’ve seen a lot of you out there playing, and we’re committed to making frequent improvements based on your feedback. This patch includes bug fixes, balance tweaks, and some quality-of-life improvements to make your experience smoother - especially in the early stages of your runs!

Enjoy & let us know what you think and want to see next!

• Made “Easy” enemies easier: Reduced their damage and attack speed to improve early run pacing and to give you a little more space to learn new heroes.
• Reduced base Skill Power and Attack Damage shards. This is in part to make other shards more powerful as they're situational. Part of ongoing tuning for time-to-kill and encounter difficulty.
• Thrashclaw HP slightly reduced in both solo and co-op to balance difficulty.
• Wallumps and large Kru enemies rebalance: Wallumps the Wicked, Yetis, and large Armoured Rollers are now immune to hitstun/displacement but have reduced HP in solo play. Additionally, Golem Tanks are immune to hitstun.
• Parting Gift now ignores barrels: Prevents accidental griefing due to a lack of Luum.
• New Soulbound Ultimate Blooms: You now have a chance to get a Soulbound Bloom that grants a 25% increase of charging speed for their Ultimate abilities.

• Beko’s Lantern Pop Skill now triggers Skill Damage shards. This means that while the ability still doesn't do base damage, the skill will now interact with Skill Damage shards. This should give Beko more build varieties to help the little guy out, especially in Solo runs.
• Beko’s Lantern Pop Detonation is now centered on the lantern target at activation time.
• Beko’s basic attack sequence sped up by ~10%. Helps Beko better dodge enemy attacks.
• Lotus AOE Bright Petals now slightly heals both herself as allies: Adds more clarity and utility to the ability.
• Ranged basic attacks on Cynder and Beko deprioritize barrels more effectively: This should help improve targeting!
• Ultimates are now more reliable: They no longer cancel as easily and won’t consume a charge if interrupted prematurely.

• CloudEE has new messages: Talk to them (hint, it's the little floating robot) in the Hub or in-game to learn more!
• We added some additional messaging to explain how to change your Hero on the Solo Map selection so it's not just Lotus in the spotlight!
• Victory and defeat screens updated: New icons and cleaner formatting.

• Resurrection fixes: You should no longer be invincible after resurrecting in rare occasions. There is still an issue where some heroes might slide slightly during which we'll work on in a future patch.
• Soulbound Bloom fixes: Several Soulbound Blooms were not granting the proper power which you should now see go up!
• Fixed several crash bugs — thanks to everyone who submitted reports!!!
• Fixed issues with card flipping causing input issues and friends list occasionally not closing with gamepad.
• Fixed Wallumps rock throw ending prematurely in some cases. Better hide!
• Fixed Shard Collection UI bugs: Categories should no longer disappear after selection.
• Fixed NPC VO volume playing inconsistently.
• Fixed tooltip mismatches: Shade Slash cost now displaying correctly.
• Fixed “More to Share” shard not applying properly.
• Fixed “Protein Powder” shard not applying Attack Damage buff properly in some cases when interacting with the Golden Strike shard.
• Fixed “Mediport Module” not always applying the proper amount of healing.
• Fixed “Chemical Reaction” not always being active for the correct duration.
• Fixed “Luum Refund” not displaying the correct amounts of Luum granted.
• Fixed “Consolation Prize” not always interacting with Beko properly.
• Fixed “Plague Strike” typo in the tooltip.

Time to save the world heroes ~

See you in-game!

https://youtu.be/NYMIcOTW2io

Have fun and see you in Lumerea!!

~Vela Team

Can our devs beat the feared Thrashclaw? Check out our dev gameplay!

Our Steam Demo is live - add it to your library and play today!

We are excited to announce our next demo is coming to you real soon - yes, very SOON soon! And just like last time, everybody will be able to play!!

Since the last demo we've worked hard on many things you mentioned in your feedback and made many improvements based on it. We hope we can once again lean on your eagerness for adventure and can't wait to hear what you think!

• 3 new heroes (6 in total!) - mix-'n-match roles!
  
• New exciting shards & core powers like double dash!
  
• Steam Input, for seamless controls
  
• Spectator mode after death - encourage your party!
  
• Reworked ultimate system, now with double the charge
  
• Massive update to game balance
  
• Tons of bug fixes & polish

Follow along on our adventure and stay up to date when it goes live by wishlisting if you haven't yet!

~Vela Team

https://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/2586780/Evercore_Heroes__Ascension/

We are two weeks in and have so far revealed both our new support as tank hero! It’s high time we have a look at the new damage dealing hero as well!

Step out of the shadows and into the light with...


Hiding in the shadows, no target who has ever seen Shade has been able to tell the tale. Coming from the dark cyberpunk city of Noktra, she’s a master assassin that does anything to get the job done, even if that means working together as a team!

Shade does not want to be seen and is your assassin archetype hero. She excels at locating high priority targets and dealing high single target damage with multiple ways to get both out-as into danger.

If high damage numbers and flashy skill expression is what you are looking for then Shade is made for YOU!


Shade is all about staying safe, striking when the moment is right and getting out when things get too hot under her feet. Being a squishy character a few hits can prove fatal if dispositioned after all. Luckily Shade has a lot of tools to close the gap and get out of danger.

Where Cynder has a lot of AOE abilities and range to do his damage safely from afar, Shade will have to put herself at risk and jump in and out to be effective. To help you on your mission she has not one dash, but THREE of them! Outside of your normal dash, you’ll have a blink ability that doesn’t just make you dash but also drops all aggro while doing so and you have a jump that damages all enemies you dash through for extra damage. Use them wisely as every misstep can be deadly…

What makes a good Shade player is figuring out when it’s safe to jump in and when it’s better to wait or swap targets. Good targets to go for are those that are weak or critical like shooting enemies or bigger healers that keep enemies alive. There is no shame in playing the objective and assassinating vulnerable enemies in the backline rather than going for the big yeti in the spotlight!

As a melee damage dealer, your main focus will be on direct damage shards to boost her damage even further rather than utility. Being a more melee squishy character with high damage it can also be wise to pick up one or two defensive options to survive the occasional big hits.

Having to pick off targets and dashing in and out grants Shade a unique playstyle that’s very different from any other damage dealing hero!

What is your damage dealing style?


We of course asked our friend DaddyHaz as well to give us his take on damage dealers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEu26mty24

Missed a video in the series he made for us? You can find all previous videos he made in the following playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1JJWmq4eS6xk1x9x-LRMkKN8xAfLc_yX


I hope you enjoyed this little series where we dug a bit deeper into the playstyle of our new heroes and we'll be back soon with more exciting news about the next demo!

~Vela Team

Last week we had a look at our new support hero Beko, the spirit of rejuvenation as well as fan favorite!

This week we’ll go close to the action and have a look at our new tank hero!


Fearless, full of fury & driven by rage, Riiva is a formidable warrior that makes you ROAR! Throwing herself into danger to protect her allies, you definitely do NOT want to be on her bad side!

Riiva is not your traditional tank, wielding twin axes and jumping into the fray - she is the embodiment of offense being the best defense! Where she lacks a level of tankiness and the ability to stun enemies she makes up for it by being able to parry crucial hits and dealing more damage in prolonged fights.

If you like to charge your enemies head-on, deal damage by staying in the fray and go completely wild then Riiva is your hero of choice!


Riiva is all about living on the edge, taking risks and going wild to keep your allies safe! She has quite a few tools to do this like throwing her axe to not only slow and taunt enemies further away but also granting her the ability to jump to it. You can use this to either close the gap, switch enemy targets OR secure an escape path when things get too hot!

What sets apart a good Riiva player from a great one is the ability to parry abilities pitch perfect! Learn the abilities of your enemies and you will be capable of not just avoiding damage mid-fight, but also be able to avoid stunning effects which would leave most heroes powerless!

Where a more traditional tanking hero like Fyn prefers to build more defensive shards to be this unstoppable body, Riiva has more flexible options as a tank/damage dealing hybrid. Offensive shards like on-hit effects for example are pretty powerful on Riiva as her attack speed increases while she fights meaning you’ll get quite a lot of hits in.

Stay on the move, parry enemy abilities and go ham- Riiva is a berserker type tank that’s tougher to learn but will grant more skill expression and power in the right hands!

What is your tanking style?


Just like last week we’ve asked DaddyHaz to give us the run-down on how he plays tanks in Evercore Heroes: Ascension!

Check out how he plays Riiva & Fyn


Last but not least, next week we’ll have a look at our newest damage dealer hero to join the roster. Until then!

~The Vela Team

PS - If you want to watch Daddyhaz live as he plays the upcoming demo, go visit him on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/daddyhaz