Hello everyone! Today marks exactly one year since the release of the Hero's Story action game. During this year, the game has received two major updates, as well as several hotfixes. New game mechanics, as well as new locations and items were added. Many new players set foot on the lands of Teandria for the first time, and I would like to thank everyone again for their support of the game and your feedback! To celebrate this significant date, I decided to release another fairly large anniversary update - it fixes some long-standing bugs, adds new settings and slightly improves performance. I hope you will enjoy this anniversary update!

You can find full list of changes below.

General

• Hidden "What's New" block in Main Menu

Additions

• Added "Display Mode" option instead of "Fullscreen Mode" in the Options Menu

• Added sound when trying to switch weapons when the player has not picked up a weapon

• Added a separate effect for the Cleric's Greater Heal

Balance

• Slightly increased the chance of poisoning a character from mushrooms

• Anti-Magic Potion duration decreased from 600 to 300 seconds

• The amount of energy restored by Watermelon increased from 20 to 25

• The amount of stamina restored by Swamp Mushroom increased from 5 to 10

• The amount of health restored by Potato decreased from 40 to 35

• The amount of energy restored by Magic Mushroom increased from 5 to 10

• The amount of health restored by Apple increased from 10 to 20

• The amount of health restored by Fish increased from 15 to 20

• The cost of Old Goblet decreased from 100 to 50 coins

• Now Rotten Flesh will restore a little health (but can poison the character)

• The Ghoul's Eye will also restore a little health (but can poison character)

• True Fire will now restore a little energy (but can set the character on fire)

• Ectoplasm will also restore a little energy (but can scare the character)

• Queen's Posion can no longer be used (like other quest items)

• All quest items will now cost 1 gold

• All quest items can no longer be dropped

Optimization

• Removed redundant calls to various methods and functions from the program code

• Disabled unsupported lighting mode on game levels

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where consumables would not heal the player completely when their health was increased

• Fixed a bug where the character's health would be restored after reaching 0

• Fixed a graphical bug where the loading screen background did not take up all of the available area

• Fixed a graphical bug where the fire effect in the Cultist's hands continued to burn after his death

• Fixed a bug where the "I'm helpful, am I not?" achievement was not counted

• Fixed a bug where changing mouse sensitivity or invert was not applied immediately

• Fixed a bug where changing mouse invert was not saved when reloading a level

• Fixed bugs with some items not being displayed correctly in the game logs

• Minor fixes

Other

• Removed game maps not used in the game

• Removed music tracks not used in the game

• Updated in-game credits

Have a good one! Silent.