Astral Ascent 2.0 “The Outer Reaches” DLC / update announced, patch notes and trailer

Hibernian Workshop today fully unveiled a new Astral Ascent DLC / update known as “The Outer Reaches”. Nintendo Switch owners will have access soon.

For the paid DLC, players can access new worlds, a new boss battle, and more. New free content is also available with the imprint system and much more.

The full rundown is as follows:

Astral Ascent version 2.0 patch notes

Major Features

• • New Alternative Worlds (Paid DLC): 4 new worlds to explore
  • 5 new musical tracks
  • 16 new traps and elements
  • 32 new enemies
• Andromeda’s Return (Paid DLC): Experience an exciting new battle
  • Earn Andromeda’s respect and the ability to summon her
  • Witness Andromeda’s Ending
• New Intro Room: The First Room is now separated in 2 rooms to have a less overwhelming experience
• The Void Imprints: – New reward loot in exploration rooms, featuring 90 unique imprints – A way to improve your spells with unique activations – Players start with 25 different imprints, the rest are unlocked by finding Blueprints during runs – A new interface in Andromeda’s bar to reuse the imprints you looted
• Bonus Room System: Added New system to world selection, which adds a bonus room to the world twice during a run.  
• New Rooms: Added Aura selection room, which allows the selection of an aura
• New Rooms : Added Echo selection room, which allows the selection of any echo

Small Features

• In Event Horizon you now move faster using the rail between islands
• community inspired: Transitions between rooms in now faster when entering a portal
• New visual FX for each weapon when hitting the enemies
• Enemies are now bumped up when hit by weapons
• Some enemies are now bumped higher when hit by upward attack
• The Small Dragon now triggers automatically to give your Auras faster
• Slimes were not impacted by the Opacity effect
• Yalee Kingdom: Yalee’s reset is now located high up on a platform and the camera zooms out to get a direct view of all auras.
• Echo Island: Echo Island now shows all echoes at once and icons above Echoes help seeing what the echoes are about without needing to check them.
• The Zodiac Challenge Chest for Summons can be purchased with Sun Pieces from Destiny Level 6+
• Intro and boss rooms are shorter
• New interface for Gambit loot, slot unlocker and Pavo feathers
• Portal to next rooms are now closer in The Void and The Reckless Void
• Ghost Enemies from Destiny Level modifiers are removed upon room or Zodiac Fight completion.
• Added Jump Crystals in the Cursed Telescope room and it’s also a little smaller now
• community inspired Andromeda’s Bar changes
• Andromeda’s bar for drinks has is now higher to always see the drinks
• Drinks reappear much faster
• Drinks distance of interaction is bigger now
• Andromeda animation plays directly and stat equip appears directly
• Visual Effects have been reduced

Balancing

• community inspired: The cursed telescope now only has astral rarity bonuses (all other rarities have been removed). To compensate, penalties are more dangerous.
• Auras: Unique Tag Context: Due to the increased availability of duplicate Astral Auras, a number of Auras have received the “”Unique”” tag if it was determined that stacking these could be stronger than intended.Carve Mastery
  On critical hit, creates 1 Ice Idol: reduction of the cd from 5 to 3 seconds
  Increases critical hit chances: Increased critical chance from 10% to 15%Spark Conductor
  Spark bounces an additional time: unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)Boots OfThe Herlad
  On lightning orb hit, 25% chances to create 1 spark: unique tag addedWarchief Bracers
  On spell refresh, restores 2 mana: unique tag added

  Sword Of The Warrior
  Increases strength: Damage increased from 20% to 30%
  Increases attack speed: Attack speed increased from 20% to 25%
  Increases critical hit chance: Critical hit chance increased from 15 to 20%

  Twin Calibur
  On spirit sword, creates 2 missiles: unique tag added

  Fire Propellant
  Massively increases combustion size unique tag added (No change in functionality, it always worked this way)

  Raw Force
  Increased combustion damage from 75 to 100%

  Absolute Zero
  Increased Frostbite damage from 50 to 75%

  Prowess Of The Sky
  When hero it hit, gains a random bonus effect for 5 seconds: Reduction of cd from 12 to 5 seconds
  When gaining a bonus effect, create 5 thunder strike: Reduction in the number of thunder strikes created from 5 to 4

  Rustling Fall
  On fall attack, creates 4 ice fragment: reduction of the cd from 10 to 6 seconds

  Polar Venom
  Added a new effect: Increases poison limit by 5

  Balance Master
  On critical hit, gains velocity for 2 seconds: Increased duration of the buff from 2 to 3 seconds

  Blade Storm
  When dashing through enemies, casts slashing squall: Reduction of cd from 7 to 4 seconds

  Homing Embers
  On critical hit, creates 2 embers: Reduction of cd from 3 to 1 seconds

  Incandescent Rain
  Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%

  Blinding comets
  Increases combustion damage from 50 to 60%

  Bigger Body Initiative
  Missile have 25% chance to become explosive missle: unique tag added

• community inspired: Spells: AylaUnrelenting Tornado: Increased damage from 141 to 192
  Psy Trap: Increased damage from 123 to 165
  Blade Tempest: Increased damage from 110 to 156
  Fatal Trigonometry: Increased damage from 146 to 186
  Endless Blows: Increased damage from 110 to 152KiranExplosive hug: Longer duration of invulnerability
  Lightning Dance: Increased damage from 102 to 160
  Hadoken: Increased damage from 88 to 120
  Energy Projectiles: Increased damage from 83 to 120
  Earthquack Kick: The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 180Calie

  Topaz gladius, onslaught:The spell inflicted less damage than the indicated damage, now the damages are correct and deals more damage: 210

  Common spell

  Meteor blade: Reduced mana cost from 3 to 2
  Aqua ball: Increased damage from 89 to 140

• Weapon passives: AYLALunar Daggers
  Parting gift: damage increase by 50%
  Gliding star: damage increase by 50%Moonlight Blade
  Judgment cut: added mana steal tag and damage increased by 30%Eclipse Shards
  Hunter x Hunger: Increased stack time from 1.5 to 3 seconds

  Throwing Knife
  Charge Knives: damage increase by 200%

  KIRAN

  Burning Bo
  Magnetic Personality: damage increased by 30%

  Fiery Falchions
  Santoryu: Increased damage by 100%
  Hit Maker: damage increase by 50%
  Sword Juggling: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds

  Nutcracker
  Kaio-Bam: Increased the chance from 10 to 15 percent, increased duration from 5 to 10 seconds and max stacks from 5 to 10 max

  CALIE

  Unbreakable Rempart
  Siege Breaker: damage increase by 30%
  Avenging Shield: Increased damage by 50%

  Scythe Claw
  Surprise Element: Increased damage by 60%

  OCTAVE

  Pistor Vocatis
  Coniicio Iocor: Increased damage by 50%

  Magnum Cupitere
  Miseria Labrum: increased chance of applying the mark with the dash from 30 to 100%

  Exterminatus Exemplaris
  Priora Signa: Increased damage by 250%

  Wrenching Whip
  Ictus Tempestas: Reduced cooldown from 10 to 6 seconds
  Potentia Amplificatio: incresed the number of charge from 4 to 6

  Yamat

  Fighting Spirit
  Spirit Rising: Increased damage by 30%
  Obsidian Wyrm: Increased damage by 70%

  Oblivion Greatsword
  Destined Death: increased the number of mark from 3 to 5

  Symmetrical Lance
  Detonation Seal: Increased damage by 100%
  Chaotic Surge: Increased chance from 20 to 30%

Music & SFX

• New music rearranged for the hub
• Octave: The sound of the “”Wrenching Whip”” weapon has been lowered
• Added FX for when stat stones are lost by the player

Visuals

• New title screen with new artwork

Miscellaneous

• A number of effects were not being added to the damage meter, these have been added where possible. (Thick Yalee, Snow Day, Glacier’s Fall, Maddening Darkness)

Bug Fixes

• community inspired  Taurus Sword FX could remain on the ground after being defeated
• community inspired  Leo rocks could remain on the field after being defeated
• community inspired  Aries Red Feedback could remain on the field after being defeated
• community inspired Pisces could keep her invincibility bubble (visual only) when getting in Phase 2
• community inspired  Yamat second down attack had one frame not aligned with the other frames
• Auras: Fixed an issue where the “”spread ice”” effect was not dealing the correct damage (damage too low)
• Narration typo in French in Telescope descriptions
• Enemies could attack more frequently or less frequently depending of framerate
• community inspired Resilience Mode was wrongly Labeled at different places
• Unlocking Gambit Slots were not working correctly for the 4 small gambit icons (example if you had unlocked slot 4 while slot 2 was still locked, it wouldn’t show the icon correctly)
• Music was very loud in hub when exiting Telescope menu
• Octave’s Bellator shooting SFX was not playing
• Burn and Combustion stacking: Combustion was unintentionally triggering twice if two or more combustions occurred subsequently. To compensate for the damage loss, the base damage of Combustion has been increased by 50%. Additionally, a number of Astral Auras related to Combustion have had their damage increased.
• Auras: Maddening Darkness was not scaling with strength or critical chance, this has been corrected
• Text correction: Yalee effect text updated from 3 to 4 projectiles. No change in functionality.

Get a look a trailer for Astral Ascent’s 2.0 “The Outer Reaches” update below.

The Outer Reaches Trailer

Thanks to Hibernation Workshop for the patch notes. Keep track of other Nintendo Switch updates here.