January 27, 2024

6.1.0 Update: Launcher, Reforging & Rework Galore!

6.1.0 Update: Launcher, Reforging & Rework Galore!

Hi all.

We're super excited to release the 6.1.0 Update. This is the first of our rework and content oriented updates. This update is quite large.

We're welcoming Lumpian back to the team, as well as ZipZar & Kipp as balancers. We are also pleased to announce that Comfrog & Summer have taken on the role of Content Lead. Waterfiend will be going back to SrMod & developing content.

Launcher

Features

  • Automatic Self-Updating (New versions of the launcher will self patch.)
  • Displays the latest update center panel. Clicking on the post title will lead you to the blog post!
  • Offers easily accessible links to commonly visited places like the wiki, leaderboards, ban appeal/ban tracker, and many more.
  • Introduces a profile selection button for handling multiple accounts (Looking at you elites!). Now, you can create new profiles for alternate accounts and keep them logged in on that profile.

On top of this, client download and patching should now be much faster overall, and the launcher should only download the updated client if there is a client update available.

Fallen Rework

This update, Summer and our spriters BQ, G+, and ZipZar, have completely overhauled the Fallen raid! The designs, visuals and vast majority of the raid's behaviours now present a more challenging and engaging experience for players.

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Highlights of the New Fallen Light Raid:

Crius, The Conjoined

Now an actual boss with fresh mechanics! Crius welcomes challengers with its new LG Jacket, Crius' Embrace.

Chronus, The Guide

Chronus has been fully reworked and his challenges now revolve more around Turrets and dodging. Overcome the challenge and you may find the new LG Wand, Artificer's Focus.

Ascended Fire Wizard

Lava Crawl & the Ascended Fire Wizard have been fully reworked and remapped. Adventurous enough to face the heat? Expect the new LG Ring, Heirloom of the Hellbound, as your reward!


Odeus and Cerynus the Titans

The battle mechanics have been tweaked to be more dangerous, testing the players' abilities. Successfully defeat them for a chance to collect the new LG shield, Rockfall Bastion.


Merganus, The Fallen Titan

The fight with Merganus has been completely re-thought and made significantly harder. Conquer this challenge and be rewarded with the new re-tooled LG Sword, Moonlight Greatsword. In addition, the AR Dagger Poniard of Ghastly Retribution now includes a new passive effect.

The Reforge System

The team has been working really hard on bringing you guys another form of longer-term character progression, the Reforge System! The reforge system is a new piece of content in Valor that is similar to systems from games such as Terraria or Minecraft to an extent, so it should be fairly familiar!

The Reforge Station

Reforges

Every UT/FB/ST/LG/AR item in the game now has a reforge when they drop, and all your existing items will have a reforge on them automatically.

There are 5 tiers of reforges, which all have stats that scale with the tier. Most of the reforges on items are general-use, but some are niche enough to target specific builds!

An example would be the "Titanic" reforge, which is mainly a defensive reforge.

Reforging Costs

To re-roll a reforge on an item, it costs 10,000 gold. By crushing a shine in the Crush tab, you can lower this cost to 50% (i.e., 5,000 gold). If anyone in the server activates a shine booster, the cost of the reforge will be reduced by 70%  (i.e., 3,000 gold).

Leveling Reforges

Reforges can also be leveled (max level 4) through the item crushing system! Crushing items will yield one of 12 essences, dependent on the item crushed. The cost of upgrades depends on item rarity and can be calculated based on the below formulas:

Levelling Formulas

Additional Ways to Gain Essence

  • Crushing 3 onrane also yields 1 random essence.
  • If you lack essence for your upgrade, you can substitute 4 Sor Fragments for every essence you're missing!


This system looks fantastic thanks to Orbit and Bloodqwen, and the animations and sound effects add an extra touch of excitement.
The main objective with the reforge system is to offer a longer-focused progression path that provides one of the best ways to increase your damage, survivability, or utility. We are open to critiques and suggestions, so please visit the Valor Discord's Suggestion channel and let us know your thoughts!

E̶n̶c̶o̶r̶e̶ Masquerade of Doom Rework

Waterfiend and BQ have brought a wacky, doom-themed theatrical rework to Valor!

The dungeon offers a fresh set of challenging behaviours, which brings difficulty to a boss that just wasn't all that difficult.

Tied with the change in the boss's difficulty, a fresh set of paint flows into the dungeon, all done by the fantastic Bloodqwen.

As usual, feedback is most welcome over at our Discord server, and the channel to post feedback in and any possible suggestions would be the Suggestions channel.

Marionne the Masked Maestro awaits you in his theatre!

Anti-Cheat Changes

Orbit and Sebafra have taken the initiative to make necessary alterations to the backend and come up with more systems that aim to reduce in-game cheating. If you come across any DCs or issues launching the game related to these changes (false positives), please open a Bug ticket in our Discord to let us know!

If you notice that there are significantly less cheaters, please let us know!

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Balance Changes

A substantial number of balance changes have been introduced in Valor, all driven by a common theme - undoing the "HP meta"! Many adaptations have been instituted to alter the significance of HP in the game. We're keen to observe how these changes and the refreshed reforge system influence the game balance in the coming weeks.

LG/AR changes:

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UT/FB changes:

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Complete Patchnotes

There's quite a few of them, all split into categories below.

New Additions

Dungeon/Raid/Map reworks

Bug fixes

Changes / QoL

Credits

  • Arcanuo
  • BQ
  • Comfrog
  • Deathmod
  • Faux
  • G+
  • Kipp
  • Liv
  • Lumpian
  • Orbit
  • Sebafra
  • Summer
  • VCC members
  • Waterfiend
  • Zipzar