Ancient Kingdoms v0.9.21.0 - The Controller Update

Greetings adventurers!

Today we're releasing The Controller Update, a major quality-of-life patch focused on improving controller support throughout Ancient Kingdoms. Whether you're playing with a gamepad, on Steam Deck, or simply prefer controller gameplay, this update should provide a much smoother experience.

🎮 Controller Improvements

• Improved controller support across the game

• Fixed an issue where touch screen devices could disable controller input

• Character creation can now be completed using a controller

• Character selection is now fully supported with a controller

• Fixed a bug preventing attribute points from being assigned with a controller

🏰 Guilds

• Added Guild Registrars to all major towns

Guilds are currently in their first phase and mainly serve as a social and account-wide feature. Even solo players can create a guild for themselves and their alts.

⚔️ Gameplay & Balance

• Increased reputation gains from bosses and elites

• Increased drop rate for Ethereal Hide, Ancient Cyclops Bones, and Black Dragon Scales

• Increased drop rate for key fragments from Druvina and Morwyn

• Increased gold rewards from bosses and elites in Molten Sanctuary and Temple of Valaark

• Adjusted stats for Vaeltharos

• Reduced Radiant Aether critical multiplier from 3x to 2x

• Old Valorath progress now at 20%

🖥️ UI & Quality of Life

• Added a new Lock UI option in Settings

• Added item icons to all tooltips

• Armor Set Bonuses now always appear in tooltips, even when inactive

• Holding Shift while hovering over an equipment item now shows "Changes if Equipped" for your mercenary when the mercenary equipment panel is open

• Backpack hotkey now opens the main inventory as well

• NPC repair windows now display mercenary equipment

🐉 Fixes

• Fixed Valaark's Scourge tooltip

• Fixed a bug where ranged mercenaries could leave Zarothak's room in Krom Razz

• Fixed a visual issue with Thalrakar's dragon breath

📦 Items

• Added NO-TRADE tag to Radiant Aethers

• Molten Sanctuary armor is now sellable

Thank you for your continued support, bug reports, and feedback. Every update helps make Ancient Kingdoms a better adventure for everyone.

See you in Eratiath!