What changed in Hero Siege in 2026

Resolved crash issue related to healing and benediction.

Increased damage by 1 per point.

Spell tag added to base skill and augments.

Returned Big Bo-oM to its previous mechanics while keeping fps improvements.

Increased damage by 4% per point.

Ticking 2 times rapidly

Increased from 160px to 240px, adjustable via cursor length slider

Not playing

Increased from 1% to 8% chance

Fixed 2 of the same codex buffs not merging

Always triggering as Viking

Gives 0.5% Chance per Chaos Pillar tier to contain a Prophet’s Wisdom

Look like they don't scale with projectile size

Not proccing benediction from Purgatory (Dark Oath)

Reduced by 50% and removed on blood pacts entirely

Fixed 25% chance to spawn up to 10 not working

Made it slightly faster

Increased from 15% to 40% chance

Fixed not working at all

Caused by the use of wrong textures

Not being affected by AOE Size

Increased from 1% to 3% chance

Corrected the scaling aspect

Fixed losing the spell tag when a major node is taken

Corrected from Deep Frozen Monsters

Not working properly + optimized performance by fixing wrong textures

Not working

Increased from 1 to 2

Sound being too loud

Not working

Now show tags in tooltips for major nodes

Not working correctly

With a melee weapon and close range getting stuck in place

Fixed chests not working if other endrixia node active

Not proccing martyr

Now you can proc multiple at once

Not inflicting arcane break

Localization updates by Cpt Sushi

Corrected an error in the only dot damage node for burning dot.

Resolved a critical issue affecting duration nodes.

Corrected ignore resistances to provide a significant damage buff.

Improved performance related to extra damage to ailments stats.

Corrected functionality of Asgard nodes with specific Ether nodes.

Rabies was not being counted as an ailment, preventing damage to all ailments from being applied.

Corrected a crash issue related to specific mob affixes.

Resolved an issue preventing steam item weapons from appearing in customization.

Corrected issues with certain life replenish procs.

Improved performance when there are many projectiles in monster attacks.

Taunt was causing crashes for both paladin and lancer, possibly affecting others.

Resolved a crash issue involving starstruck and shuriken.

Corrected a crash issue when using Taunt.

Resolved a crash issue related to codex and chaos tower spawn.

Resolved various issues with Tarot stack mechanics.

Optimization increases DPS when projectiles carrying dots hit monsters.

Resolved issue with Maryo's Pipe and aimbot functionality.

Certain weapon modifiers like min damage now work from incarnation gems.

Ricochet from monsoon now works with all ranged projectiles.

Fixed issue with items becoming bricked from chaos pillars.

Damage of ship monsters in boreal island has been reduced.

Temporal Echo now increases the extra cast level by 50% but requires 6 casts.

Resolved bug with back accessories like flags when equipping wings.

Fixed broken node link in ether causing removal of 1 point to kill the whole path.

Resolved issue with Cheapshot not functioning correctly on sand guardians.

SSF and HC SSF chat name colors updated along with basic HC and slot art for SSF HC.

Codex of Chaos now works with eternity tier.

Steam weapon skins now show in their rightful categories.

Resolved bugs related to incarnation gem slots.

Fixed issue with Pirate Cannonball Megashot getting stuck in melee range.

Fixed bug with Uber Damien where one boss became immortal.

Incarnation tree now updates correctly when changing tabs.

Fixed codex stack not consumed in some cases when exiting town to the next zone.

Demolishing Winds now properly inherits attack rating and targets correctly.

Fixed issue with dropping tarot cards from tarot tab.

Fixed all wonky skills like sand guardian orbital sand jumping out of control.

Fixed a bug with group play affecting loot too much.

Added missing dungeon chest in wasps nest.

Fixed market search returning too many results at once causing long wait periods.

Minor performance fix preventing spikes in some situations.

Fixed Exiled Pagans Mantle + Spellslinger + Mspeed converted to total damage causing an infinite loop and bricking the character.

Fixed Tarot Cards not working with the tarot tab.

Fixed Rakhul getting out of bounds with charge.

Blood Surge - Rays of Blood: reduced scale and duration by 50% but increased damage by 50%.

Market 'Sort' button no longer requires secondary refresh.

Blood Surge: Buffed damage scaling from 6.25 to 15 per point to compensate from fix.

Blood Surge: Buffed intelligence scaling from 6.66% to 9.25% per point to compensate from fix.

Fixed Niflheim portal being blocked by a misspositioned tree mask.

Fixed Amethyst drops, debugged diamonds which are dropping just fine.

Fixed Dots dealing less damage.

Added an extra 10% chance to roll for diamonds due to previous RNG issues.

Made cursed spirits cursed ground darker so it doesn't mix with pustules.

Fixed Codex abuse bug.

Fixed Spirit of Hawk when using belt of skulls.

Blood Tendrils skill now has an 18% proc chance and buffed damage scaling from 3% to 8% per point.

Market 'Reset Filters' no longer immediately triggers a search.

Elemental Absorb now regens the absorbed damage back in 0.75 seconds instead of 2 seconds.

Fixed Blood Pact creation confirmation prompt getting stuck.

Fixed Surgical Blood Letting being slow on 144fps setting.

Demonspawn Blood Surge optimization to make it playable; damage reduced due to hitbox overlap fixes.

Fixed Pyrotechnician not proccing strike procs.

Fixed loot filters resetting.

Removed a FPS dropping inheritance chain caused by chainsplosions.

And some proc effects.

Changed to attack proc.

Bounty board no longer has quest chain restrictions.

New effects added in the customize section.

Not saving position when re-entering the zone.

Changed font which may resolve FPS issues due to texture swaps.

Nightmare can roll on D tier items with a small chance.

On Plague Doctor Surgical Blood Letting.

Where you didn't pick up the key and can't get it again.

Adjusted frequency as it was too fast.

Increased magic find to 24% on inferno and 35% on hell.

Reduced chance of crashing on low VRAM iGPU's.

Immune frame increased from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.

Including chaos pillars.

Quests now show the NPC on the minimap with an indicator.

In some inventory UIs.

While moving.

On Nomaid and Puppet Master skins.

Rare crash.

On necromancer poison breath.

Improved jumping mechanics to reduce getting stuck.

Magic skill damage from light radius.

Removed cap of only spawning 1 totem for Shaman Fire Totem.

Not working with more than 1 gem.

Forking Flames.

Not working with spinning shrapnel.

New AI is significantly more aggressive and does not get stuck, resulting in a performance increase.

Zone generation is now significantly faster.

After finishing Normal, players will retain their waypoints in Nightmare. Nightmare is now effectively Hell 1, and Hell is roughly Hell 4.5, followed by Inferno.

Players can now obtain 24 new unique items.

A new free Relic Storage located in the inventory allows players to swap relics out at any time.

Odyssey now gains 40% more ore from mining, and Gold Find no longer has diminishing returns.

New Uber Bosses: Phantom Leviathan, Captain Grimtide, and the Blood Maiden.

Abyssal Chest creates up to five levers to spawn high rarity mobs, with rewards scaling based on lever pulls.

Each slot holds one of each Tarot Card, and duplicate cards automatically stack.

Results in massively increased combat FPS.

Act 8 is now free and part of the natural progression.

An entirely new Act, which is completely free and part of the base game, accessible after defeating Odin in Act 8.

These classes are now part of the base game, with premium skins available for DLC owners.

Kill 1 million monsters for 4 ether points.

Awards the player 500k gold.

Issue when refreshing.

Increased from 1500 > 15000, 4000 > 30000, 8000 > 50000.

Correct masks added to shrines to prevent getting stuck.

Increased from 1000px to 1500px.

System added to prevent skills from getting stuck.

Issue when not playing solo.

Companion teleports to items when out of screen.

Issue with other modifiers causing a loop.

Default option for new players to trade.

Now uses default action Equip/Use.

Characters gain a 300% experience boost until reaching season highest hero level.

Context menu allows moving the DPS meter.

Issue when vote resetting.

Allows resizing and repositioning of the cooldown box.

Charm not working properly.

Damage is increased if the first roll fails.

Kill 100 uber bosses for 4 ether points.

Increased from 3.5 to 5.

Issue with gamepad navigation.

Experience gain increases with more Hero Levels.

Fixed items like Sobek´s Fall.

Issue with Ritual Band or El Patron´s Belt.

Fixed a few borked incarnation nodes such as Power of Mana etc.

Fixed an infinite looping damage bug resulting in crash with Gladiator's Shield.

Fixed Shield Maiden node giving flat 10% instead of total 10% crit.

Corruption now properly bricks your item.

Fixed sub skills not stacking (e.g., peg leg + loaded dice).

You can no longer skip the tutorial by jumping the river downwards, preventing character issues.

Fixed Plague of Rats shadows not being applied the opacity filter.

If you have the unarmed node chosen, auto equipping picked up weapons is disabled.

Fixed Enhanced damage and singular skills not working on jewels in the incarnation tree.

Uber Damien is now Fallen Damien to avoid confusion on vaults.

Fixed a bug with 2nd slot weapons while dual wielding.

Fixed a broken node link in the down middle-right of the incarnation tree.

Fixed Paladin Concentrated Fury not working in groups.

Fixed infinite loop between nodes: Power of Mana > Vital Spirituality > Power Funnel > Repeat.

Fixed Physical Damage Reduction and Magic Damage Reduction not working.

Fixed enhanced damage from non-weapon items now calculated by merging it to the weapons enhanced damage, preventing crashes.

Fixed various smaller crashes and problems.

New Atlas tree with 400+ nodes to buff various game mechanics.

All items and gold are now 100% behind server authority to prevent cheating and duping.

A mechanics tree for boosting game mechanics through special quests.

Samurai, Paladin, Amazon, Demon Slayer, Demonspawn, and Shaman class DLCs replaced with skins; classes made free.

Massive enhancements to controller functionality and local co-op splitscreen UI navigation.

Endless waves of monsters until the timer runs out, with loot based on performance.

Market now suggests default prices based on selling history and allows inspection of recent sales.

A new mage/summoner/shapeshifter/attacker class introduced in Season 9.

Three new skins released this season: Dark Thorn, Nomaid, and Duality.

Complete rework of the Essence Vault system to make it more fun and easier to unlock.

A new uber boss with a unique loot pool, accessible by collecting fragments.

The PlayStation 5 version is now available with cross play support.

Roughly 30-60 minutes of maintenance to implement the server upgrade.

Hundreds of balance changes to make less powerful builds more enjoyable, fixing non-functional nodes.

New class inspired by Diablo 2 druid, thematically aligned with nature's prophet from Dota.

Significant performance improvements through texture optimization and deltatiming for skills and effects.

New passive skill tree with 1600+ nodes, available at level 100, replacing the old hero level skill tree.

New uber boss with its own side zone and collectibles for access, featuring new items in its drop pool.

Doubling the power/capacity of the main server to accommodate more players.

A passive skill tree that opens at level 100, allowing uncapped skill points.

Season 9 is launching with new features and content.