Playtest notes 26 Sep 2024

Internal playtest64 entries24 bug fixes19 balance changes11 interface changes7 art updates3 wording fixes

This is a pre-release internal note from the closed playtest, quoted as it was written for testers. It describes a build that no longer exists; treat it as history, not as a description of the current game.

Items in this note

11 cards

Burn

Status

Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 2 damage.

Cruelty

Power

Vulnerable enemies take an additional 25% damage.

Folly

Curse

Ethereal.
Innate.
Unplayable.
Eternal.

Infection

Status

Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, take 3 damage.

Kingly Punch

Attack

Deal 8 damage.
Whenever you draw this card, increase its damage by 4 this combat.

Pale Blue Dot

Power

If you play 5 or more cards in a turn, draw 1 card at the start of your next turn.

Storm of Steel

Skill

Discard your Hand.
Add 1 Shiv into your Hand for each card discarded.

Tear Asunder

Attack

Deal 5 damage.
Hits an additional time for each time you lost HP this combat.

The Gambit

Skill

Gain 50 Block.
If you take unblocked attack damage this combat, die.

Tools of the Trade

Power

At the start of your turn, draw 1 card and discard 1 card.

Toric Toughness

Skill

Gain 5 Block.
Gain 5 Block at the start of the next 2 turns.

Relics, potions and powers

Hex

Enemies and events

Balance

Ironclad

Nerfed Tear Asunder card: cost increased from 1 -> 2

Regent

Nerfed Pale Blue Dot card:
Cost increased from 0 -> 1
No longer Innate

Potions & Relics

Changed Courier relic: rarity upshifted from Uncommon -> Rare

Enemies

Changed Burrowing Buddies encounter: can now also feature the Rock Workbug
Buffed Bygone Effigy: strength scaling increased from 5->10; initial damage lowered by 5 to compensate
Buffed Byrdonis: Territorial power strength gain increased from 1 -> 2
Buffed Entomancer: HP increased from 136 -> 155
Buffed Flyconid: HP increased from 44-49 -> 49-53
Buffed Hunter Killer: Bite move damage from 15 -> 19
Buffed Nibbit: Slice move damage and Block gain increased from 7 -> 8
Buffed Ovicopter:
Bite move damage from 16 -> 19
HP increased from 122-129 -> 132-138
Buffed Phrog Parasite: Infection cards given from Infest move increased from 3 -> 4
Buffed Thieving Hopper: now also attacks for 19 damage on its Theft turn

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Misc

Legendary cards are now rarer to find, especially when not at Elites or Bosses
The Merchant can no longer generate Legendary cards

Art

Added card art for The Gambit

Enemies

Updated boss map node animations
Added art for The Insatiable and The Queen map nodes
Added a player-eating animation for The Insatiable
Added Spectral Knight animations
Added fire VFX For Spectral Knight and revised VFX for Mecha Knight
Updated map pencil cursor

User interface & experience

Silent

Storm of Steel is now faster

Enemies

Thieving Hopper now shows the stolen card as a hovertip

Misc

Added scroll functionality for patch notes screen
Added a scrollbar to the rewards screen for when you have a lot of rewards
Map nodes are now highlighted when you hover over them in the legend
Map nodes no longer pulse when being hovered over
Increased the speed of gold gain animation for large amounts
Re-added the combat reward FTUE
Cards are now scaled down a bit when they enter the play pile
Tweaked card bundle spacing
Updated large scrollbar size, color, anchoring logic, and assets

Wording

Fixed Curl Up and Sandpit power descriptions
Tweaked Tezcatara's Ember description now that Eternal is its own keyword
Fixed typo in Cruelty card's description

Bug fixes

Regent

Fixed Mold the Stars power counter
Kingly Punch card now correctly ends combat

Silent

Fixed softlock when card play gets canceled by Tools of the Trade

Colorless Cards

Toric Toughness card now applies correct amount of Block even if you can't apply Block this turn

Potions & Relics

Dolly's Mirror relic can no longer clone quest cards
Mummified Hand relic no longer can pick Tezcatara's Ember cards
Necrobinder and Defect cards are now prevented from showing up via Prismatic Shard relic
Screaming Flagon relic no longer triggers if your hand is only Burn cards

Ancients

Added "gain 999 gold" to Zlatir's Perpetual Coin relic description
Folly curse card now only deals damage if it is in hand when a card begins play
Wax Choker relic now melts wax relics from left to right

Enemies

Amalgam now properly plays its death animation when Queen dies first
Generated cards like Shivs are now excluded from Thieving Hopper's theft pool
Spectral Knight's Hex move now applies Ethereal to cards generated in combat

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Misc

Abandoning run/losing run and returning to main menu no longer sometimes softlocks at a blurry screen
Battle Horn no longer sends you to an empty rest site on normal combat nodes and elite counter is now incremented
Disrupt power now displays the correct partial amount in description
Fixed softlock at refinement choice
Hovertips with details about the current combat situation (like Strength 2 saying "Increases attack damage by 2") are no longer overridden by hovertips without details (like the amount-agnostic "Strength adds additional damage to Attacks" version of the Strength hovertip)
Map no longer plays circle animation for previous nodes when you reload a save for the first time
Previewing non-upgradable cards no longer causes an error
Star UI now appear for characters that get star cards
Transforming cards no longer messes up deck card counter UX
Upgraded card names are now always displayed with a "+"

Newer: 3 Oct 2024 All patch notes Older: 19 Sep 2024

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