Hi folks,
We just released a new patch for DemonCrawl that contains a number of improvements for the Arena gamemode!
These improvements include 3 new homelands, 3 arena mods, new emotes/sign parts and various balance changes. Also, we are in the process of fine-tuning the autosweeper code to help it deal with certain boards more intelligently (e.g. it will try to avoid clicking burning cells when possible.) You can expect a follow-up patch sometime next week!
The full changelog for v1.78 is available below.
New Features
- New Patreon rewards: Alien Lifeforms
- Updated GameMaker runtime to the latest version
Arena
- New homeland: Tribe - "Whenever the owner casts a magic item, it is cast here as well."
- New homeland: Sewer - "Whenever you lose an item, send it in a bubble to the owner."
- New homeland: Prefecture - "All heart drops are converted to Dark Hearts. Whenever a Dark Heart is collected, permanently increase the max stage power."
- Island homeland buff: "Any coins lost in this stage are sent to the owner at the end of the round."
- Shrine homeland buff: "At the end of the round, the owner gains souls equal to the amount of damage taken in the homeland."
- Graveyard homeland nerf: "Whenever a player dies, add the minimum power of their homeland to your homeland."
- Brink homeland nerf: "Whenever this stage gains a tier 1 mod, it gains the same mod again."
- New T1 arena mod: Peddler - "Stage contains an additional stranger. Whenever a stranger spawns, attempt to activate it."
- New T2 arena mod: Malice - "Stage contains 3 additional Dark Hearts times the homeland tier."
- New T3 arena mod: Downgrade - "At the end of the stage, reduce your homeland tier by 1."
- Reboot mod tier lowered from 3 to 2
- Updated sprite for Mill mod
- Lowered the re-roll price from 3 to 2 coins
- 12 new emotes
- 32 new sign parts
Quality of Life
- Redesigned sprites for Duster and Moon
Balance Changes
- Nightmare mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
- Lofty mod difficulty rating increased from 3 to 4
- Snowglobe buff: duration increased from 3 to 5 turns
- Capitalism buff: "If you spend at least 25 coins in an Item Shop, it remains open."
- Unstable Compound and its divine variant have an additional effect: "Whenever an aura is removed, the cell explodes in a 3x3 area."
- Troll Cross price reduced from 29 to 23
- Troll Cross mana cost increased from 100 to 150
- Lowered Doctor's debt cost by a few coins
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue related to Human III mastery activation check
- Fixed an issue related to the Arena AI and the Ominous mod