What changed in Hero Siege in 2025

Patch 6.8.7 brings the xmas event to Hero Siege with a questline to bring xmas to the town of Tarethiel.

New skins for various classes will be available for free, including access for collectors edition owners.

A new character class, The Prophet, a Summoner/Mage/Shapeshifter, has been added to the game.

Players who bought the old class DLCs will receive special skins automatically.

Amazon, Paladin, Samurai, Shaman, Demonspawn, and Demon Slayer will be free.

Moving towards visual, optional, and fairly priced microtransactions instead of locking content.

The upcoming Act 9 expansion will be paid, with plans to release new classes as free over time.

Initial design of the Incarnation Tree is complete with 1200 nodes, with plans to add 200-300 more.

Introduction of socket slots for placing socketables, with plans for unique socketables in the future.

Players can use black holes to navigate the tree without following the normal path.

New features include optimal pathfinding, bulk allocation of points, and search functionality for nodes.

A new Ether tree will be introduced at level 100 to boost mechanics, incorporating old glyphs and new options.

Stat sheet will display gained stats in blue text and non-obtained stats in gray.

New skill tree replacing the current hero level tree, allowing infinite scaling passive skills post level 100.

New skill tree designed to buff mechanics for farming.

Family Share has been disabled to prevent exploitation by cheaters bypassing bans.

Players who used Family Share may need to re-link their PAS accounts to their personal Steam accounts.

This is the single biggest patch ever, with notes up to 1600 lines detailing numerous changes.

Season 8 is set to launch on September 12th, 2025.

New hires include community members for QA and itemization roles to improve development efficiency.

Announcement for the start of Season 8.

Fixed a potential issue that was affecting game launch.

New protection measures have been implemented this season to address cheating issues.

Players can fix the game launch issue by reinstalling the game or verifying game files on Steam.

Season 7 has started!

Players can now sort stash tabs, and the container is scrollable with tabs scaling in size.

Ruby Garden now features a boss, Endrixia, an ancient dragon with a unique pool of items.

New mage/warrior class (lightning / Phys / Fire) introduced.

Added session based waypoints in the last boss dungeon floors, disabled after session reset.

New skin bundle for Pirate, Illusionist, and Stormweaver Capybara companion.

Proper Korean and Japanese localizations added, done by community member Rupers.

Sheep King has been re-worked into an actual boss.

Codex of Chaos can spawn a rogue chaos tower with its unique item drops.

Loot chaos keys from monsters to unlock chaos pillars spawning monster packs with random modifiers.

Fixed a bug with teleport skills getting stuck in walls

Kill procs now have a 0.5 second internal cooldown due to heavy fps drops causing disconnections.

Amun Ra now spawns portals for the minibosses and portals out of the minibosses

Fixed Liquor Holster when having a mercenary

Geras SS tier chance on inferno lowered from 10% to 3% per item

Increased item pickup range when clicking an item from 32px to 64px

Fixed how 4 sockets are drawn on codex

Nerf the sunder mobs casting shockwave (only one shockwave can now be effective at once + lowered the size and amount of waves from 10 to 6)

Increased item pickup range when clicking a quest item from 8 to 64px

Fixed a few nasty bugs.

Crematus - Spiraling Cremation now ignores hard walls.

Fixed the Slicing Throw - Slicing Vortex skill being scuffed the more points you put in.

Fixed mana replenish and life replenish being swapped and removed combat text from the mana replenish.

Fixed crash with mercenaries when they summon totems.

Made monster affix text color be white and changed the monster name color to its affix color if there is one.

Fixed proximity tangible monsters and increased the range from 96px to 128px.

Additional server optimizations to address the networking performance issues.

Added an 8% increased probability to drop unique items.

Clan Leader´s Pride returned to its original stats.

The tab needs to be open for the game to recognize the action.

Every floor of the chaos tower now provides a buff and a choice of 3 different debuffs.

Gain 1 buff/reward and choose 1 of 3 random debuffs per floor. Boss accessed by key fragments dropped from floors.

Major optimization to network packet behaviour causing disconnections.

New shrine on Inferno difficulty with a chance to drop random SS tier items.

Introducing private leagues with customizable options, requiring players to create a 'Blood Pact' character.

Major optimization to overall game performance.

Access to King Rakhuul now requires colosseum fragments obtained from monsters within the chaos tower floors on Hell 5+ difficulty.

A new challenging difficulty beyond Hell 5, with Hell 5 uber drops moved behind inferno and additional boss drop chances.

Optimized text rendering for lower resolutions.

Final QA build for Hero Siege's PS5 version is being submitted.

Season 6 is starting with new content and features.

Introducing private leagues with customizable options for 10, 20, or 30 players.

New very hard difficulty for late end game challenge, with bosses dropping exclusive loot.

Users can now select their chat region from a dropdown menu when logging into their account region.

New game list displays server region flags, ping to each server, and allows filtering by various preferences.

Players can choose their preferred game server when creating a game, with servers sorted by lowest ping.