Playtest notes 7 Nov 2024

Internal playtest98 entries38 bug fixes30 art updates15 balance changes6 interface changes5 content additions4 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.

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31 cards

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

Gain .
Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.

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

Deal 20 damage.
Apply 5 Vulnerable.

Deal 52 damage.

At the start of your turn, add a random Power into your Hand.

Apply 21 Doom and 1 Weak to ALL enemies.

Add a random Skill into your Hand. It's free to play this turn.
Exhaust.

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

Shivs now hit ALL enemies.
Add 4 Shivs into your Hand.

Deal 6 damage for each Attack already played this turn.

Deal 5 damage.
Draw 1 card.

Transform any number of cards in your Hand into Minion Sacrifice.
Exhaust.

Sly.
Apply 4 Poison to ALL enemies.

At the start of your turn, play the top card of your Draw Pile.

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

Deal 3 damage.
Apply 1 Weak.

Gain 8 Plating.

Choose a card.
Next turn, add 3 copies of that card into your Hand.
Exhaust.

Every 4 you spend,
gain .

Draw 1 card.
Discard 1 card.

Gain 9 .
Exhaust.

Deal 8 damage X times.

Draw 2 cards.
Exhaust.

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

Deal 8 damage.
Apply 1 Weak.

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

Ethereal.
Unplayable.
Whenever you draw this card, lose .

Relics, potions and powers

Silver Crucible

Enemies and events

Content

Silent

Added new cards: Corrosive, Cower, Execution, Haze, Rite of Initiation
Deprecated cards: Choke, Distraction, Stall
Reworked Adaptation:
Power - Rare - Cost 1
"Whenever you gain Block, gain 2(3) Dexterity that turn."

Balance

Silent

Changed Adrenaline card: rarity decreased back from Legendary -> Rare
Buffed Flick Flack card: damage increased from 6(8) -> 7(10)
Buffed Sucker Punch card: Weak applied increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)

Necrobinder

Changed Dredge card: if it is played while your hand is almost full, the extra cards are now added to your discard pile
Changed Misery card: upgrade now increases its damage from 10 -> 14 instead of decreasing its cost by 1
Buffed You Are Mine! card: upgrade now also increases its damage from 10 -> 13

Ancients

Nerfed Neow's Silver Crucible relic: cards upgraded decreased from 3 -> 2

Enemies

Changed Axebot: now in the weak combat encounter pool
Nerfed Decemillipede: revives after 2 turns instead of 1
Nerfed Entomancer: Spear move decreased from 16(18) -> 11(13)
Changed Vantom: Dismember move now gives 2 less Wounds

Events

Changed Telepathic Spiders event: "Know Yourself" choice Gold cost lowered from 200 -> 150
Nerfed Toothed enchantment:
Can now only enchant powers
Costs 5 max HP in Infested Automaton event

Art

Ironclad

Added VFX for the following cards:
Limit Break
Stomp

Silent

Added card art for Prepared card
Lightened Silent's shadow
Added purple tint when playing Crippling Cloud card
Added VFX to the following cards:
A Thousand Cuts
Skewer
Neutralize
Fan of Knives
Glass Knife
Finisher
Slice

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Necrobinder

Added VFX for Doom when it kills an enemy

Regent

Added card art for the following cards:
GUARDS!!!
Orbit
Royal Gamble
Venerate

Colorless Cards

Added card art to Void status card
Added VFX for Flash of Steel card

Enemies

Did a pass on the Owl Magistrate enemy's animation blends
Fixed mistakes on Orb Plant and Mecha Knight enemy animations
Updated art for Spiny Toad enemy
Added radial blur VFX when player gets struck by Ceremonial Beast enemy
Created ground spike VFX to Ceremonial Beast enemy's stomp attack
Shrinker Beetle enemy's shrink power now has radial blur
Bygone Effigy enemy's attack now has radial blur

Misc

Made Rare card glow VFX slightly less intense

User interface & experience

When selecting cards from hand, the backstop now fades in
Added hitstop to Ceremonial Beast's Plow attack
Deathbringer card now shows a Doom hovertip
Legendary portrait is now a texture rect to support fallback logic + scaffolding for fallback beta portrait
Made the weakest screenshake more subtle + screen shake intensities now differ based on how much damage is dealt
Made the card backs more washed out in color and differentiated from one another

Wording

Fixed typo in the Dense Vegetation event
Fixed typo in Slap card description
Removed extra space from the Repulsor Mode power description
Room Full of Cheese wording now specifies Common cards

Bug fixes

Ironclad

Unrelenting card tooltip no longer says "this turn"

Silent

Nightmare card now properlyspawns in cloned cards before hand is drawn

Defect

Creative AI card spawns the bonus card before other cards are drawn into your hand

Necrobinder

Fixed Bury power to not be set as a Debuff
Damage from Bone Shards card is now properly dealt by Osty instead of the player
Damage VFX no longer plays on Necrobinder when Osty absorbs all damage from an attack
Fixed an issue where Soul+ card was only drawing 1 card instead of the stated 2
Fixed an issue with the Plague Carrier card where its effect was wearing off if Osty died and was resummoned
Haunt card's text now properly reflects that the enemy will lose 6 HP instead of 3, and properly reflects that upgrading Haunt increases the enemy HP loss to 9
Osty no longer gains extra HP in Burly monster rooms
Osty's health no longer occasionally shows up in the top bar HP counter when playing as the Necrobinder
Sharp enchantment now displays its damage bonus on Osty attack cards even when Osty is dead
Surrender Humanity card no longer has targeting arrow
The "End Turn" button no longer appears beneath the "Proceed" button after winning combat with Doom
Vantom attacking Osty no longer causes a softlock

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Regent

Neutron Aegis card now has Block hovertip
Singularity card no longer incorrectly has Exhaust

Ancients

Neowless first run no longer prevents other ancients from showing up
Added Oddly Heavy Stone relic and Pointed Hat back to Darv's relic pool
Ancients are no longer missing from run histories
Prismatic Shard relic is now correctly classified as an Ancient relic
Tanx relics are now correctly classified as Ancient relics
Tezcatara's Wax Choker choice now correctly reads "5 relics" instead of 6

Enemies

Bowlbug enemy's goop no longer does a multiattack
Fixed Wriggler enemy's intents
Nibbit enemy is no longer always the first encounter

Events

Colorful Philospher event choice description now properly reads "Obtain 3 x cards"
Mad Science transformation cards no longer stay on screen forever
Removed the Transform tooltip from Living Cocoon event
The Trial event no longer softlocks 1/4 of the time
Fixed Dense Vegetation event combat softlock

Misc

Ascension choice is limited by your max ascension again
Deck scrolling no longer breaks when selecting Slumbering Essence cards to enchant
Fixed an issue that was allowing unknown map points to be shops after just visiting a shop.
Having already upgraded cards no longer breaks "view upgrade" button
Healthbars no longer have a chance of not updating after starting a new game
Mayhem-ing a card afflicted with Forced Insight no longer softlocks the game
Queueing two potions for use no longer locks potion use afterward

Newer: 14 Nov 2024 All patch notes Older: 1 Nov 2024

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