Playtest notes 1 Nov 2024

Internal playtest147 entries95 balance changes22 content additions14 bug fixes8 wording fixes5 interface changes3 art updates

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.

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61 cards

Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.

Enfeebling Touch

Ethereal.
Enemy loses 8 Strength this turn.

Unplayable.
Removed from your Deck after 5 combats.

Deal 30 damage.
If this kills an enemy, gain .

At the start of your turn, add 1 Sweeping Gaze into your Hand.

Innate.
Deal 10 damage.
Apply 1 Vulnerable.
Exhaust.

If Osty is alive, he deals 9 damage to ALL enemies and you gain 9 Block.
Osty dies.

Gain 4.
Cards cost an additional this turn.

Deal 52 damage.

Unplayable.
Can be hatched at a Rest Site.

Deal 18 damage.
Exhaust 1 card at random.

Next turn,
gain and .
Retain your Hand this turn.

At the start of your turn, apply 6 Doom to a random enemy.

Ethereal.
Deal 13 damage.

Whenever you play a Soul, Summon 1.

Deal 10 damage.
Upgrade 2 random cards in your Discard Pile.

Put 3 cards from your Discard Pile into your Hand.
Exhaust.

Exhaust your Hand.
If 9 cards were Exhausted this way, gain 1 Intangible.

Gain 9 Plating.

Exhaust your Hand.
Deal 7 damage for each card Exhausted.
Exhaust.

Deal 6 damage for each Attack already played this turn.

Osty deals 12 damage.
This card costs 0 if Osty has attacked this turn.

Lose 2 Strength.
Gain at the start of each turn.

Deal damage equal to the number of cards played this combat.

Gain 8 Block.
Add a Soul into your Draw Pile.

Deal 4 damage.
Put a card from your Discard Pile into your Hand.
Exhaust.

Whenever you play a Soul, a random enemy loses 6 HP.

Howl from Beyond

Deal 16 damage to ALL enemies.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Exhaust Pile, play it.

Gain 2 Strength.

Deal 4 damage for each Skill already played this turn.

Deal 15 damage.
Enemy loses 10 Strength this turn.

Deal 7 damage.
Apply any debuffs on the enemy to ALL other enemies.

Summon 5.
Whenever Osty loses HP,
ALL enemies lose that much HP as well.

Gain 5 Block.
Apply 7 Doom to ALL enemies.

Gain 8 Plating.

Apply 10 Doom, plus an additional 5 Doom for every 10 Doom already on this enemy.

Whenever you play a card this turn, apply 3 Doom to the enemy.

Perfected Strike

Deal 6 damage.
Deals 2 additional damage for ALL your cards containing “Strike”.

Pillar of Creation

Whenever you create a card, gain 3 Block.

Osty deals 6 damage.

Summon 4.
Gain 7 Block.

Pull from Below

Deal 5 damage for each Ethereal card played this combat.

Apply 2 Weak.
Apply 2 Vulnerable.
Exhaust.

Whenever you play an Attack this turn, gain 3 Block.

Osty deals 7 damage.
Hits an additional time for each other time he has attacked this turn.

Summon 20.
Exhaust.

Whenever Attacks deal damage, apply that much Doom.

Unplayable.
At the end of your turn, if this is in your Hand, lose 1 HP for each card in your Hand.

Retain.
If Osty is alive, he dies and you gain Block equal to double his Max HP.

Ethereal.
Transform a card in your Draw Pile into Soul.

Forge 7.
Sovereign Blade now deals damage to ALL enemies.

Deal 9 damage.
Gain .

Whenever you play an Ethereal card, gain 4 Block.

Exhaust your Hand.
Add 1 random card into your Hand for each card Exhausted.

Deal 12 damage to ALL enemies.
Costs 1 less for each Attack played this turn.

Deal 5 damage.
Deals 3 additional damage for each card you created this combat.

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

Gain 7 Block.
Add a copy of this card into your Discard Pile.

Deal 14 damage.
The next Attack you play costs 0 .

Relics, potions and powers

Bound Phylactery

Screaming Flagon

Enemies and events

Content

Necrobinder

The Necrobinder is back and totally redesigned!!
Added new mechanic: "Summon X"
Added new mechanic: "Souls"
Added new built-in power for Osty: Die For You
Added new Attack cards: Harbinger, Bone Shards, Bury, Carve Ghost, Defile, Etherburst, Favorite Stick, Graveblast, Make Use, Misery, Pull From Below, Soulfire, Swipe, Unending Service, You Are Mine!
Added new Skill cards: The Omen, Bone Wall, Collected Legion, Communion, Devour Life, Dredge, Eidolon, Ensoul, Haunt, Marrow, Seance, Soul, Surrender Humanity, Twist, Undeath
Added new Power cards: Guillotine, Necro Mastery, Nine Lives, Read the Bones, Reaper Form
Reworked cards: Backhand, Bodyguard, Borrowed Time, Camaraderie, Death's Visage, Drain Life (now called Drain Power), Fearmonger, Friendship, Grave Warden, No Escape, Oblivion, Poke, Pull Aggro, Rattle, Reanimate, Sacrifice, Slap, Spirit of Ash, Tackle, Tag Team, Transfuse
Deprecated cards: Carve Soul, Ghost Eater, Morph Form, Barbs, Better Than Ever, Big Hand, Binding Chains, Blood Dividend, Caged Rage, Chain Punch, Dark Siphon, Death Grip, Dragged Prey, Encase, For My Own Good, Loyalty, One-Inch Punch, Twist Soul, Heel, Grab, Enfeebling Touch
Renamed Soul Prison card to Enfeebling Touch
Reworked Bound Phylactery relic
Deprecated Osty's Devotion relic
Deprecated Unkillable power

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Regent

Added new card: Seeking Edge
Deprecated cards: Hypernova, King's Gambit

Potions & Relics

Added Sozu relic from StS1

Ancients

Deprecated Cursed Key relic
Added new Pael choice: Liquify
Added new Neow choice: Safety
Reworked Neow Scavenger choice: obtain 2 common relics -> obtain a random relic
Reworked Neow Bounty Box choice: no longer heals, Elites drop 50 additional Gold

Events

Added new eventsDense Vegetation, The Future of Potions

Balance

Ironclad

Changed Cinder card: "Exhaust the next 2 cards played" -> "Exhaust the top 2 cards of your draw pile"
Changed Grapple card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
Buffed Howl From Beyond card: cost decreased from 5 -> 3
Buffed Mangle card: upgrade now also upgrades the enemy's Strength loss from 10 -> 15
Buffed Primal Cost card: cost decreased from 3 -> 2
Changed Pummel card: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
Nerfed Stomp: required attacks increased from 2 -> 3
Buffed Unrelenting card:
Damage from 11(17) -> 12(18)
Next attack you play this turn -> the next attack you play
Rarity decreased Rare -> Uncommon
Buffed Winged Jump card: Vulnerable applied increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

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Silent

Reworked Assassinate card:
Attack - Rare - 0 Energy
"Innate(Retain). Deal damage to the enemy equal to the amount of damage they have already taken this turn. Exhaust."

Necrobinder

Necrobinder's max HP increased from 13 -> 66
Necrobinder's starting deck changed to 5 Strikes, 4 Defends, and 1 Bodyguard
Changed Countdown card:
Energy cost increased from 0 -> 2
Doom applied increased from 3(5) -> 6(9)
Changed Empower card:
Energy cost decreased from 1 -> 0
Strength gain decreased from 10 -> 5(10)
No longer removes Exhaust when upgraded
Changed Flatten card: now deals 5 damage to a single enemy 5(6) times
Buffed Negative Pulse card: Block gain increased from 6(7) -> 7(9)
Buffed Plague Carrier card: Doom increased from 3(4) -> 5(7)
Changed Putrefy card: rarity decreased from Rare -> Uncommon
Changed Sap Will+ card:
Damage decreased from 11 -> 9
Card draw increased from 1 -> 2
Changed Sentry Mode card:
Cost decreased from 2 -> 1
Osty's Strength/Vigor now applies to his Sentry Mode attacks
Sentry Mode power is now applied to the player, meaning it can be played while Osty is dead and it will still trigger after he's summoned

Regent

Changed Knockout Blow card: Rarity changed from Rare -> Uncommon
Changed Convergence card:
No longer upgrades Block
Cards and Stars granted decreased from 3 -> 2(3)
Changed Gamma Beam card: no longer increases card draw, just damage
Buffed Knockout Blow card: damage increased from 30(35) -> 30(38)
Nerfed Mold the Stars card:
Forge decreased from 9 -> 5(7)
No longer gains innate on upgrade
Nerfed Lunar Blast card: damage decreased from 3(4) -> 2(3)
Buffed Solar Strike card: upgrade also upgrades Star gain from 1 -> 2
Buffed Supermassive card: additional damage increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
Buffed Pillar of Creation card: cost decreased from 2 -> 1
Reworked Alignment card:
Skill - Uncommon - 0 Energy, 3 Stars
Gain 2 Energy
Reworked Constellation card:
Upgrade no longer gives you another Star
Now has Exhaust and removes Exhaust on upgrade
Reworked Neutron Aegis card:
Skill - Rare - 1 Energy, 7 Stars
"Gain 20(25) Block. Gain 10(13) Plating. Exhaust."
Reworked Singularity card:
Power - Rare - 3 Energy
"At the end of your turn, lose all Stars and Forge 5(7) for each Star lost."

Colorless Cards

Buffed Contractility card:
No longer has Exhaust
Upgrade gives it Retain
Buffed Gold Axe card:
No longer has Exhaust
Upgrade gives it Retain
Buffed Eternal Armor card: Block gain increased from 10(14) -> 11(15)
Nerfed Omnisclice card: damage decreased from 10(15) -> 10(14)

Potions & Relics

Changed Art of War relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
Changed Bag of Marbles relic: rarity increased from Common -> Uncommon
Changed Dragonfruit relic: type changed from Darv Ancient relic -> Rare relic
Changed Wongos Bargain relic: gives you bonus relic along with the rest of your combat rewards at the end of combat

Ancients

Changed Pael's Lumbering Essence choice: enchant entire deck -> choose 5 cards to enchant
Changed Tezcatara's Wax Choker: Wax relics given decreased from 6 -> 5

Enemies

Damage and HP values tweaked for several act 2 enemies
Increased the number of burly enemy rooms per act from 5 -> 7
Changed Decemillipede: segments do less damage and have less health
Changed Hunter Killer: now applies Weak instead of Frail
Changed Noisebot: now also adds a Dazed to discard pile at the same time it adds one to top of draw pile
Changed Stabbot: now applies Weak instead of Frail
Changed Wriggler: now buffs itself the same turn it applies Infection

Events

Changed Wellspring event:
"Drink" choice now gives 1 Guilty curse card
"Bathe" choice now gives 3 Guilty curse cards
Changed Forsaken Citadel event: Gold gained from "I don't need help!" choice decreased from 200 -> 150
Changed Living Cocoon event: "Stick Your Arm In" choice HP loss increased from 7 -> 9
Changed Perilous Prospects event: third Decipher choice max HP loss increased from 6 -> 8
Changed Room Full of Cheese event: Gorge choice - "Choose 2 out of 8 random Commons to add to your deck."
Changed Symbiote event: "Kill with Fire" choice - "Take (20% of your current HP in) damage. Choose a card to remove from your deck."
Changed Tinker Time event:
"Speed" choice no longer gives Innate to power cards
"Heart" choice energy granted on next turn decreased from 5 -> 3
"Body" choice temporary Strength gain decreased from 5 -> 3
"Stability" choice temporary Dexterity gain decreased from 5 -> 3

Misc

Burly bonus now gives you a bonus of 10 gold per Act number instead of 25% more gold

Art

Added event VFX for Byrdonis Egg, The Legends Were True, Perilous Prospects, Bugslayer, Field of the Forgotten, and The Trail (including interiors)
Created a ground-on-fire VFX
Added VFX for the Ironclad temporarily catching on fire when playing Inflame

User interface & experience

The first combat you ever encounter in your first run is always Nibbit
The Neow node will be replaced by a regular monster for the first run the player plays (or if they reset FTUEs)
Card hovertips in events also include card keywords
Gave visual update to Legendary cards
Tea relics now update their description based on uses left

Wording

Reworded Colorful Philosophers event choice: "Choose 3 X cards" -> "Obtain a X card"
Reworded Sword of Jade relic description: "Start each combat with 3 Strength."
Instances where "ALL" is used now say "all" instead. Goodbye all caps...
Fixed attack intent description spacing
Fixed Finisher card line breaks
Fixed Joss Paper relic punctuation
Fixed punctuation for Eternal Solstice power description
Tweaked wording on Stoke and Fiend Fire cards

Bug fixes

Colorless Cards

Perfected Strike no longer includes strikes in your exhaust pile

Potions & Relics

Circlet relic no longer shows up in relic compendium
Dragonfruit relic no longer lags the reward screen when you collect gold
Relics from a broken save can no longer affect new runs
Screaming Flagon relic now flashes when it procs

Enemies

Decemillipede animations no longer get stuck
Decemillipede segment health is always even and unique
Fixed the Duo HP not set for Tough Enemies ascension
VFX for Fuzzy Wurm Crawler and Flyconid no longer can get stuck

Events

Stone of All Time event is now blocked if you don't have any potions OR valid attacks
Relic Trader event no longer lets you trade event relics
Removed Regret card hovertip from "It's a Trap" choice in The Legends Were True event

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Misc

Fixed performance degradation over long play sessions
Right clicking shop relic no longer hides its hovertips

Newer: 7 Nov 2024 All patch notes Older: 24 Oct 2024

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