Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts Steam news

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• Release dateJun 6, 2025
• DeveloperWICKSITECH
• PublisherWICKSITECH

Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Early Access

Company pages: Developer: WICKSITECHPublisher: WICKSITECH

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Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts Steam news

Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• ABOA v0.94.8.3 (Client) - 14 September 2026

  -Added 5 more solo POI's around the wasteland map -Now every player starts on white team (as solo survivor) -You can activate any riftstone and change team at any time. Riftstones now take friendly fire (make sure to build around your team's riftstone to protect it from other people). -Added a brief damage indicator for projectile type wand spells -Magic wand's Healing spell now recovers not only health but food, drink and energy too -Magic wand's chaos/ice wall spell does not last forever anymore -Fully reworked Role Selection screen -Playable area/height limits. Added blocking volumes for the Wasteland map. KNOWN BUGS: team window does not update after team change.

• ABOA v0.94.8.2 (Client) - 13 September 2026

  -fixed exit menu by adding additional show cursor and UI mode nodes -magic wand boxes are now fixed (wands are still an experimental artefacts) -enabled single player (experimental) -switched back to hardcoded admins

• v0.94.8 - 14 March 2026

  - Added Spectator Mode. Players joining after the Fracture Boss has been killed (during the collapse phase) instead of being killed will be allowed to spectate the remaining players. - Added Motion Blur toggle in Graphics Settings. - Added Admins and Main Admins to server config file. Now Dedicated server hosts can select who is admin by adding additional steam IDs to server cfg. - Main admins now require to start the game. If Main Admin does not enable the game start when the server is started - players will not be able to start playing. Main admins can also be added via servercfg.

• Ptach v0.94.7 - 13 March 2026

  Removed singleplayer map travel for now (will be updating Hub map so there is enough activities there). Adjusted Bow, Crossbow and Legendary Bow arrow trajectory and range effectiveness. Updated Score Saving (kills and death should stack instead of restarting) Reworked Shop and Facility building logic. Instead of shops and facilities requiring coins to build, and resources to operate, now it requires resources to build and coins to operate. This allwos builders to be always busy by building the base and making sure that all remaining players on the team are well geared at all times. May be more stuff, but its hard to keep track of all minor fixes (yes, I am a bit disorganised) We will be amining for multiplayer mode testing, therefore single player mode for now will be removed (we will be adding different maps for single player mode which would ensure cinematic experience instead of MP…

• WE ARE BACK: The Rebranding, The "Riot", and The Birth of Aethergate - 11 February 2026

  Hello Aetherials (formerly Rifthunters),It has been a long time since our last transmission. Too long. Today, we are breaking the silence to explain exactly what happened, where we are going, and why the game you knew as Riftbound is now evolving into something much bigger. 1. The Elephant in the Room: Why the Silence?For a long time, development was paused. This wasn't because we lost passion—far from it. We ran into a significant legal hurdle.We were hit with a trademark conflict regarding our previous name by Riot Games. As an indie studio, we faced a choice: spend our limited resources fighting a legal battle we couldn't afford, or take the hit, regroup, and evolve. We chose to evolve. We are proud to announce that Riftbound: Legacy of The Surge is officially dead. Welcome to Aethergate: Battle of Artefacts. 2. The New Direction: Extraction RogueliteWe didn't just change the name; w…

• Major Update v.0.8.3 - 30 June 2025

  print( "Hello World!" );and Hello to Our Awesome Community!For the last month, we've been quiet, but we've also been incredibly busy. So busy, in fact, that we've leaped from version 0.7 to 0.8 of our Early Access build of "Riftbound: Legacy of The Surge" - our crazy RPG multiplayer massacre!Here's a detailed list of: a) what's fixed, b) what's new, c) what's still waiting to be fixed, and d) what's next:a) FixesGame Mode Rework - No More "Game Over"! Players no longer need to assign themselves a team and can now respawn at the main spawn location if they don't have a Riftstone or team selected.Respawn Logic Rework: When players spawn in, they can now choose a spawn location based on the Riftstones they possess.Reduced the amount of foliage in the Wasteland map to improve performance and balance gameplay.Reworked First Person/Third Person Camera Switching: Instead of using "Num +" to sw…

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