Blood Reaver

Early Access Monthly Update 1!

Hell Byte Studios

First Monthly Update!

This update is the start of our monthly content additions. Keep an eye out for more moving forward!

Featured in this update is our new Ultimate Ability: The Oculus. Available through the nest, the Oculus is an ethereal weapon which balances destructive power with support utility. Its primary attack focuses ethereal energy into a precise beam that can damage enemies and heal allies. Its secondary attack releases a wide blast of energy, killing demons instantly and reviving downed allies.

Alongside the Oculus, we're bringing in a new way to acquire Fates: the Nameless Shrine. The Nameless Shrine will let you test your luck by pulling a random card from the Deck of Fates. The pool includes every Fate currently in the game, which means you'll be able to score cards you could previously only acquire from the Random Fate blessing.

We've also got a new Re-Infusion effect, Penetration +, which lets your shots punch through even more demons, and should help you thin down the horde more effectively. For AOE weapons, Penetration + will instead increase the radius of the splash damage.

Together with the new content, we've also got game improvements, balance changes and bugfixes (detailed in the full patch notes below).

Lastly, there might be something new to discover on the map... Be sure to keep an eye out!

Patch Notes:

Content

  • New Ultimate: The Oculus
  • New Interactable: Nameless Fate Shrine
  • New Re-Infusion: Penetration +

General Balance:

  • Decreased Manticore-81 ammo price 750 - 250
  • Decreased Vulture Mk.VI ammo price 750 - 250
  • Decreased Jackal MK.II ammo price 750 - 500
  • Decreased Demon Sprint & Jog speed
  • Increased Random Fate & Raven Power blessing drop rate
  • Adjusted enemy attack timings
  • Increased demon attack range
  • Decreased demon damage range
  • Improved Chaos Demon ranged attack accuracy and speed
  • Early Wave demon speed adjustments

Ability Balance:

  • Added increased penetration to Bartov's Writ
  • Reduced Blood Splicer healing to 100 HP rather than full
  • Time Splitter now reduces all enemies to the same speed rather than a % of current speed
  • Increased Centrifuse max damage
  • Increased Centrifuse min damage
  • Soul Ember hold does a burst of damage upon demon entering radius
  • Increased Soul Ember hold tick damage
  • Increased Soul Ember tap tick damage

Improvements:

  • Late wave & general game performance improvements
  • Increased enemy footstep volume
  • Improved dismemberment VFX

Bug Fixes:

  • Screen jitter fixed
  • Demon instant hit
  • Demon hitting after death
  • Demon pathing issues in spawn room

This announcement was originally published by Hell Byte Studios on Steam on May 22, 2026.

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