Patch 1.41 (04 September 2018)

5 Years ago on this very day, or at least around this day, Hammerwatch was released.

Today we are releasing the 1.4 patch which contains features from the console version released last winter, including the Sorcerer class and twin stick/mouse keyboard support! Several skills have been re-balanced or reworked and a lot of bugs been fixed, we also added a much wanted mana-regen in the combo store. See the list below!

Added Sorcerer class!

Added twin-stick controls!

Replaced Wizards Ice Nova with Fire Nova and Frost Shield with Fire Shield

Priest beam isn't blocked by other players, now it goes through and heals

Replaced Warlocks Lifesteal Nova with Summon Gargoyle

Warlocks Lightning Strike can now hit the same target multiple times for diminishing damage

Wizard can now move slowly white spraying fire

The Lich boss in Castle Hammerwatch no longer instantly shoots after teleporting, there is now an animation so the attack can be avoided

Lives now cost more the more you have

Added a combo upgrade for regenerating mana

Updated visuals of characters

Fixed some small visual issues

Editor no longer runs extremely slowly with modern NVidia drivers

Editor now works with Intel graphics cards

To enable twin stick, enter the control options and set mouse aim, then you will want to rebind the skills to mouse buttons.

Patch 1.3.2 (06 April 2016)

Fixed multiple musics playing at the same time in custom games

Several crash fixes
Patch 1.3.1 (06 April 2016) Misc:

Local multiplayer game saves now show up in the multiplayer load menu instead of the singleplayer load menu

Added slight directional effect to sound effects via panning (can be turned off in options)

Auto-fire is a bit faster now
Technical:

Replaced the OpenAL sound engine with FMOD

Updated Mono on Linux/Mac version
Editor features:

Sound effects can now be .ogg