Playtest notes 10 Apr 2025
Internal playtest83 entries26 bug fixes19 balance changes15 art updates11 content additions11 interface changes1 wording fix
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
20 cards
Relics, potions and powers
Enemies and events
Osty
Phantasmal Gardener
Seapunk
Soul Fysh
Spectral Knight
Test Subject
Waterfall GiantContent
Ancients
- Added more relics that correspond to the effect of Ancients' blessings:
- Orobas' Refinement blessing now gives Recursive Core relic
- Oroas' Transcendence option now gives Vibrant Halo relic
Enemies
- Added new Underdocks Elite, Phantasmal Gardener
- Reworked Mad Crab
- Reworked Two-Tailed Rats
- Reworked Waterfall Giant
- Soul Fysh is now an Underdocks Boss
Events
- Added new Underdocks event, The Drowning Beacon
- Added new Act 2 event, Amalgamating Anvil
Multiplayer
- Console commands are now networked in multiplayer
Balance
Necrobinder
- Reworked Dredge card: now grabs cards from Discard pile rather than Exhaust pile
- Buffed Pagestorm card: card draw increased from 1(2) -> 2(3)
- Buffed Severance card: damage increased from 17(22) -> 18(24)
Regent
- When you Forge, all Sovereign Blades in your Exhaust pile are now returned to your hand before the extra damage is applied
- Buffed Alignment card: Energy gain increased from 2(3) -> 3(4)
Potions & Relics
- Buffed Shoehorn relic: Block requirement decreased from 20 -> 15
Ancients
- Nerfed Brightest Flame card: no longer deals damage, so type changed from Attack -> Skill
- Changed Retractable Claws relic: now only lets you transform up to 9 cards into Maul
Events
- Nerfed Sword of Stone event relic: defeated Elites requirement increased from 4 -> 5
- Changed Impossible Pyre event:
- "Communion" choice now always heals to full (still djust isplays number of HP healed)
- "Harvest" choice's max HP loss increased from 8 -> 11
- Now only appears if the player is at 55% of their max HP or lower
- Changed Cursed Choice event: "Plain" choice damage increased from 6 -> 9
- Changed Future of Potions event: is now act agnostic
- Changed Hungry for Mushrooms event:
- "Medley" choice's HP healed increased from 75% of HP -> full HP (still just displays number of HP healed)
- "Fragrant One" choice's random cards upgraded decreased from 6 -> 5
- Changed Tempting Bloom event: damage from choice 1 increased from 1-6 -> 1-7
Art
- Added portrait art for the following cards:
- Fixed Enthralled card's portrait art aspect ratio
- Added Seapunk animations
- Randomized Necrobinder & Osty's fire a small amount at the rest site
User interface & experience
- Improved tickbox focus, unfocus, and press down animations
- Updated filters and toggles for Card Library
- Added removed relics to run history (only applies to Relic Trader event)
- Endless Conveyor event now tells you what the dish is going to do
- Potions in Potion Lab now reveal themselves as you find them in runs
- Replaced energy icons for library pool filters with the characters' faces
- Slippery hovertip now includes the monster's name in its description
- Updated blue energy cost on cards + added custom outlines for energy cost text based on the card pool
- Updated death quote sizing in run history and game over screen + adjusted its position
- When hovering over cards in your run history, the room that they came from is now highlighted
Multiplayer
- Powers are no longer ignored by attack intents when the local player is dead
Wording
- Adroit and Rigid enchantment tooltips now accurately reflect changes from relics
Bug fixes
Ironclad
- Rupture power now applies Strength gain after Breakthrough card is finished playing
Potions & Relics
- Fixed softlock between Ruby Earrings and Amethyst Bangle relics
- Fixed softlock when you die again after Fairy in a Bottle potion has triggered
- If you queue a potion for use just before combat ends, the potion is no longer unusable for the rest of the run
- Repeatedly clicking a potion no longer uses it
Ancients
- Forbidden Grimoire card now stacks card removal rewards correctly
- Zlatir's Cape relic no longer blocks card draw if Centennial Puzzle relic procs during the enemy's turn
Enemies
- Fixed mad crabs damage intent amount on turn 4
- The Kin boss now spawns minions from the closest available slot
Events
- Added card select prompt to the Endless Conveyor event's Metamorphic Morsel dish
- Can no longer leave event combats without going back to the event screen
- Fixed an issue where Exterminate event card was only hitting once instead of 4 times
- Fixed typo in The Endless Conveyor event's "Observe Patrons" option
- If killed by Field of the Forgotten event's "Consume" option, you are no longer asked to select a card to enchant
- The Reflection That Wasn't event no longer appears in Overgrowth
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General
- Card library no longer sets cards that you have seen in combat to Unknown
- Fixed backgrounds not rendering properly on Mac in Editor
- Fixed an issue where continuing a climb and then immediately abandoning it could cause a softlock
- Fixed instances where save/loading would cause relics not to show the correct state
- Fixed issue between Spoils Map and the Golden Path
- Transforming cards during combat, playing those cards, then killing Spectral Knight on the same turn no longer causes a softlock
Multiplayer
- Fixed a timing bug where beginning an action just as combat ends would cause a softlock
- Map pings no longer change the hitbox of the map point
- Osty is now placed correctly at the rest site when Necrobinder is on the far side of the log (no more sitting on Osty)
- Test Subject boss now uses correct death/revival animation in multiplayer
- Your hand no longer becomes enabled when another player cancels the end of their turn
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