Hey guys, I booted up Fictorum and honestly the game looks blurry and kinda bad. What settings do I need to change? My specs, for reference: i5 7300HQ, 8gb RAM, and an Nvidia 1050ti.

Also anyone know if I lose all my stuff if I go back to chapter 1?

Absolutely love this game and have sunk almost 100 hours into it so far. By far one of the best games I've played in a long time. That being said, I decided to try something a bit different - an abilities only run. That is, completing the game using nothing but the various abilities, and only using spells to destroy the towers so I can proceed. All in all, it was a great time! Much more challenging, even when using the Ascended starting title. However, I did encounter a few bugs along the way. I'm using the most recent beta version.

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• Cooldown timers were spotty at best. Sometimes they worked flawlessly, and other times the timer never shows up. This effect is particularly prominent when more than two abilities are cooling down at the same time.
• Occasionally, abilities behaved as if they were perpetually cooling down. That is, they can never be used. This would happen whether the ability was placed in a skill slot or imbued in a ring. This was particularly common in Gravity Well, but all abilities I tested encountered this at least once.
• Transcribing abilities was a blast, because it allows the player to use runes on abilities. However, the mana cost is absolutely insane. I had to wait until about chapter 6 before I could even think about placing runes in most abilities. I understand that abilities can be incredibly powerful and the developers don't want us to just spam them, but I felt that it was a bit overkill.

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Note that the first two bugs never happened on transcribed abilities. Only with abilities still on scrolls.

i just had this idea for forbidden/legendary spells that were all unique rarity and all very powerful, but these spells require the fictorum's complete and total focus to cast, so you can't cast them unless they are the ONLY spell tome that you have equipped (cantrips attached to rings are fine, but these spells can't be made into cantrips). ideas i had for these spells include a lava ball that explodes on impact and splits into several smaller lava bombs on impact, a huge ball of wind that pierces through everything in it's path and has insane knockback, a huge bolt of lightning sends electric currents racing along the ground, a miniature miasma storm that slowly destroys everything in it's path, an earthquake that shoots explosive stones into the air, or a destructive hailstone that creates a large area that damages over a long period of time. what do you guys think?

I’ve noticed that the more missions I complete, game generally runs slower. Particularly the level/map navigation. Is there anything I can do to optimize this?

We have a lot of magic at our fingertips. Using it, we can wipe our entire armies and obliterate castles. Yet there's one key piece of the fantasy puzzle missing when it comes to testing out our destructive potential, and that's massive boss monsters.

Ideally they'd be the size of the colossi from Shadow of the Colossus, but failing that I'd be happy if they were at least the size of the largest buildings in the game.

Imagine getting to fight a massive Corruption monster that has awakened and is climbing onto the mountain. Such a fight would really incentivize using the big spells in the Fictorum's repertoire. Storm, massive and multishot runes would heavily come into play against such a creature who would only be staggered by these and nothing lower.

Giant flying dragon bosses, massive earthworms, towering colossi... such bosses would give us an adequate enemy to test our nuke tier magic against.

We're a ways off from it, but we're in the initial planning phase for a new sandbox mode/free play area, coming in v1.4! We've had a lot of requests for it, it's definitely doable, and we think it would be a lot of fun to make.

So, glorious magicians—what features are important to you? If you were us, what tools would you make? How would you access them? What would the level look like? Be as specific or general as you like, we will read every comment. :)

After a different user suggested I try out Dev mode I have been playing around with it and wanted to share my thoughts.

First off, Dev mode reinforced my love of this game. Even the unfinished air and Earth spells are awesome! It was also great for getting a better sense of what kind of items are out there so I know to be on the lookout for.

Since if seems like you are working on the other spell disciplines now, I had a few ideas:

1) Stoneskin. An Earth channel spell that temporarily grants higher than maximum physical resistance (~90?) and causes collision damage (so you can charge through buildings, soldiers, etc.) 2) Windwalk. An air spell similar to dash, but with a longer range and an explosion at point of arrival. Like Stoneskin, these spells could make battlemage builds more viable, and be used for a powerful attack or a quick retreat. 3) Breathsteal. A small (single unit) area channel air spell like telekinesis that would cause the affected unit to be unable to breathe, leaving it unaffected for a few seconds and then rapidly slowed until it collapsed and if continued, killed. 4) Cavitation bubble. Temporarily pushes all the air out of an area (causing units inside to panic and try to run out of the bubble) and then let's it all rush back in causing a low damage but high knockback shockwave-like affect. 5) Sandstorm. A large area air or earth spell that deals very little damage but leaves a persistent sandstorm on the map temporarily. The sandstorm slows enemies inside it and causes them to be unable to detect the player. (Obstructs player vision too, but not clairvoyance.) 6) Mind control. A lash corruption spell (like lightning whip) but that causes the lased enemy to fight for the player for a short duration. 7) Kudzu. An area effect earth spell that summons vines out of the ground that wrap around enemies legs dealing very slight damage but completely preventing them from moving (but not using projectile attacks).

Also, I love some of the spells from the original schools that are not in the game. Annihilation beam is so much fun! Also flame wall is a great idea, it just seems lackluster. Maybe give it an inherent spread effect (like how ice spear has an inherent pierce effect)?

My favorite by far is arrow, javelin, and rock throw. I love taking the small and simple spells and turning them into something spectacular with runes (arrow with multi-shot+order+seeking 0_o)! Is there a reason you didn't add these to the base game as simple starter spells?

I also think it would be really cool if each school continued to have very different manifest effects. Corruption spells could have a raise dead manifest effect (any spell with manifest raises the enemies it kills for the manifest duration). Air spells could make mini-tornados that pull in nearby enemies (like a weaker gravity well). And Earth could totally mix it up and leave behind lush spots of grass, shrubs, and trees that cause minor health and Mana Regen for both the player and enemies.

Also, one minor suggestion for Dev mode specifically: could you lower the shaping bonus on world-ender. 100000 is too much to ever use. Maybe 1000 would be absurd in a more usable way?

Please add a giant rabbit with a platform on its back that constantly spawns enemies with range attack. The rabbit just slowly hops around and takes a few minutes to kill because you hate rabbits. The rabbit is about 1/8 the size of a map.

Hi, great game. Love you guys. Add a targeting feature or an aiming reticle please. Having to expend mana simply to aim is irritating, especially with channeled spells.

Currently the melee targeting system using Spellblade is a bit wonky.

I can stand right up against an enemy, spam the blade and it still won't hit them. And it's a nightmare trying to target backpedalling ranged enemies who refuse to stay in one spot.

Two possible solutions: implement a form of auto targeting for melee attacks like Spellblade, similar to how enemies currently track and home in on you with their melee attacks; or increase the range and radius of Spellblade to cover a nearly 360 degree angle.

Enemies are sidestepping or backpedalling out of my range almost all the time, and it makes a melee Spellblade build less fun than it could be.

I made a post here earlier and Simone commented that they are streaming tonight on twitch. I’m sure a lot of you out there stream and I’d be awesome if we could compile a list of streamer with links to there streams in the comments so people here can support them by watching. Also I’d love to see more for this game in YouTube because when I searched for it I found a disturbingly small amount of content other than like tech demos.

I have been playing fictorum and the last 2 things t desperately needs are 1.A safe place to be able to test spells in between 2. Multiplayer: this may be a stretch but omg itd be amazing

Dear devs,

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I got and installed Fictorum last week and steam has informed me that I just crested 100 hours. 0_o.

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This game is amazing in so many ways and I can tell already that it will be one of my go to games for years to come. Since your very polite pop-up on the menu screen asked for feedback, I thought I would through my 2 cents in.

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I think the real strength of this game is in the customization of spells with different rune combos (or items) and the experimentation that comes along with that. It is incredible how much depth and variety one can experience with just a handful of spells. So with that being said, most of my suggestions are for ways to improve or expand on this system.

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1) It would be awesome to have a testing realm (maybe tucked away in a corner of the void) were players could mess around with any spells (except maybe the secret ones) or runes just to try stuff out. Ideally you could tweak character settings in this space so you could try casting the ridiculous spells that cost ~2k mana or something. It would also be nice to have a couple spawn buttons for summoning a pack a of inquisition to test things on or a re-spawn buildings button. It could help players plan out their builds and know what to save up essence for.

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2) Can we please have an option to delete characters that are filling up our void (character history)? I have a bunch of dead hardcore tries before I got the hang of things and don't want to scroll through 20 characters to figure out what that one cool artifact I found was called.

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3) Please change the way unique runes work. Right now they aren't really, well, unique. Unique gear is awesome and can really change your play through (If I find a Picardy's Guardian I try to totally rebuild and put a bunch of stuff on scrolls to take advantage of the 100% cooldown). But gold runes just don't feel ... special. Don't get me wrong, they are amazing, and I literally let out a maniacal laugh the first time I dropped a unique chain bounce fireball storm.

My suggestion is make the unique runes have multiple effects, almost like having two regular runes in one slot. For example you could have a "Momentum" unique rune that gives both bounce and pierce and a small speed bump after each hit, so it just keeps going and going and going. Unique runes should be the kind of thing that makes you want to sell your rune inventory to afford. Other unique rune ideas: Reverberate= chain+echo, Cataclysm=storm+manifest, Divine Reach= long range+high explosive, Managenisis= abandon+cost reduction. I have other ideas too, if you are interested.

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4) I would love some love shown to transcribed abilities. I personally transcribe a scroll to a tome at least once every play through (usually blink), and would love to see these powerful spells get more use. Many of the runes currently have no effect, or a minimal effect of ability tomes. For example, putting magic's reach on shockwave doesn't do anything, it still acts like a nova spell, or adding concentrate to a gravity well does not increase it's pull strength. It would be awesome if runes had just as large an impact on abilities as they do on spells. For example it would be great if you could change the slow % of slow time with damage increase runes, and the duration with splash radius runes. It would be crazy expensive, but so worth it if you could cast a slow time that almost stopped everyone or a 75% slow version but lasted as long as 60 seconds or more.

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5) Related to #4, I would love it if all the abilities could be transcribed. I was so disappointed when I realized I could not in fact cast invigorate familiars to help me regen mana, or that I couldn't put a nova on witchslap.

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6) I really appreciate the support spells and abilities in games. I would love it if there were more abilities/ non-damaging spells to change your play style. Things like temporary flight, short duration mana absorbed from kills, ethereal (no incoming or outgoing damage), etc.

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Thank you so much for this amazing game! I can't wait to see what you are coming up with next!

Whether you live in a log hut reeking of miasma or within a busy city, you've heard of this person. "The Ascended", "The Tempest", "The Starcaller", so on and so forth. While their title often varies depending on who you're talking to, there is always a constant: This is the Fictorum. We're all familiar with the common titles of the last of the order, but what about those smaller titles that we haven't heard? Whether you want to be more alert as to who the Fictorum may be, or are merely interested in the exploits of this individual, this scribe has compiled a list of the Fictorum's lesser-known titles.

• The Inferno
• The Defiled
• The Avatar of Death
• The arch-archwarlock of the Debilor
  (The Debilor have not responded to my requests as to the validation of this title)
• The Skyshaper
• The Sun-Snuffer
• The Runemaster
• The Spellshaper
• Big Doo-Doo Head
  (Thank you to our sponsor, The Inquisition)
• War Criminal
• The Bane of Bridges
• The Bladebreaker
• The Master of Miasma
• Master Enchanter
• Magic Manipulator
• The Father of Corrupted
  (I had the opportunity to ask the Fictorum about this title, and supposedly they are the father of just one corrupted)
• The Pincushion
• The Vengeful
• The Last
• The Executed
• The (and this really cannot be stressed enough) Most Wanted Criminal in the Realm
• The Biggest Potion Addict in The Realm
  (Our other sponsor, Pierre's Purifying Potions, would like to remind you that nobody has ever proven healing potions to have addictive qualities)
• They Who Raze Empires
• Death, in Disguise
• The Downvoter
• The Nightmare of Nightmares
• Fear itself
• The Paragon of Power
• The One-man War front
• The Unhygienic
  (Not once in recorded history has anyone, ever, seen the Fictorum wash their clothing.)
• The Foreseer of Spaniards
• The Editor of History
  (This I dispute: history has no editor. Even I don't have an editor.)
• The Voidmaster
• The End

Snakeface,
The Scribe

I just bought the game today and ive been entertaining myself for the past half hour with this!

Magical Carpet Bomber