2026-05-19 09:28 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
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 -> s
2026-04-29 12:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
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 a
2026-04-28 12:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
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
2026-04-27 10:18 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
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
2026-04-25 09:16 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
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 f
2026-04-24 17:51 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
Even though Season 2 version 1.1 was just launched a few hours ago we have already supplied an array of hotfixes tackling arising bugs and issues. Here are the consolidated patch notes: Improvements Sandfall world event now grants additonal sand on higher map tiers Sandfall rewards prices have been lowered slightly Charge: Range Attack Modifier can now as well trigger effects with lower than 100% spawn change like totems up to 3x on full charged attack (v.1.1.0.0f) Bugfixes Fixed sandfall reroll cost being wrongly displayed with 50 (was 100) Fixed a potential crash on steamdeck when navigating
2026-04-22 18:07 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/51b05064f0dc8c8d1e1fa49815a278c29d3b9582.jpg Welcome back wanderers! The wait is over, after many months of hard work we are hyped to share the full patch notes for the FREE Season 2: Era of Darkness content update. Official Season 2 Trailer Stay a while and listen ... and read of course ... This content update is massive and turned out to be much bigger than initially planed and expected. So we included some of the new music coming with Season 2 to set the vibe for reading through this massive patchnotes. Season 2: Era of Darkness Release 24th of April 2026 at 7pm
2026-04-20 16:41 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/639f151e92de6bd75fbac3ae6f96eaf0b6bb24b9.png Season 2: Era of Darkness - Release Event With the Era of Darkness content update release we will also kick off the Season 2 release event! Duration 24th April -1st May, 7pm CEST Pricepool 1st Place Seasonal Challenges Normal Leaderboard: Design Cosmetic with Devs 1st Place Seasonal Challenges Hardcore Leaderboard: Design Cosmetic with Devs 1st & 2nd Place Leaderboard Normal Tier 1: Supporter Pack DLC 1st & 2nd Place Leaderboard Hardcore Difficulty Tier 1: Supporter Pack DLC 1st & 2nd Place Leaderboard Normal Darkness Tie
2026-04-14 18:21 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will share the exact release time for Season 2 and the supporter pack DLC and share the official trailer and unveil the new Era of Darkness season lead mechanic. In case you have missed Part 5 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529874682677036185?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release. Season 2 Release Date Season 2: Era of Darkness and the Supporter Pack DLC will both be releasing at: 24th of A
2026-03-20 21:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/45190d12e9cda912c9096d06175ff8684eccd896.jpg Welcome back wanderers! In this announcement post we will unveil the Season 2 release date and a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 4 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/537754717717005670?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release. Season 2 Release Date We are currently aiming to relea
2026-03-06 16:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/bb08450357d0092bd5b7655ce8bf812ff99cc987.png Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 3 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529872149958100158?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release. New Maps As the vast worlds around Ankerath remained undiscovered for qui
2026-02-20 17:48 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/ef2c453d24a603c20282e7db7a159cb0f9f71a01.jpg Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 2 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/498345684383040147?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release. New True Roguelike Mode: Darkness Modes You might have asked yourself why
2026-02-06 14:40 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/b9372a433a7db44467c626db32b21fd4dda9c515.png Welcome back wanderers! At this announcement post we will unveil a major segment of the new content coming to the Era of Darkness - Season 2 content update for Striving for Light. In case you have missed Part 1 of the Era of Darkness - Season 2 announcement you can read it here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1646790/view/529869613052200406?l=english Please keep in mind that everything presented is still subject to change until its release. New Character Class: Druid {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/aa39b9fa614bdf64d2
2026-01-23 18:30 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40787868/a6ec4d764b1a436babec36a8c79b17a1778132d8.jpg Welcome back wanderers! It has been a while since our last post regarding the next major content update for Striving for Light. As the content update is nicely shaping up we are happy to share some first details about what to expect from our next major content update. Era of Darkness - Season 2 The release of the content update "Era of Darkness" will mark the start of Season 2! As you might already suspected based on our timeframe, the Era of Darkness will be, bigger than intially planed (who might guessed it...?) and wil
2026-01-23 12:28 UTC · Community Announcements · Deventide
Balancing Dark Wanderer: Initial character attackspeed malus was reduced to -10% (was -25% before) Bugfixes Fixed fast successive projectile hits not triggering hit effects. Changes to lyxara awakened endboss attacks to prevent invisible obstacles.
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