The content update is here!
- 11 new and challenging runes.
- New achievements - each of the challenge runes will award an achievement.
- Faster "Fast Mode" and ability to toggle it from combat screen: Skip the boring parts of fights.
- Faster overworld movement speed: Less backtracking.
- Graphically improved battle background.
- "Darkness And Decay": Corrected deck and added an achievement for breaking this rune.
- Runes in the endgame area now break.
- Enemy AI improved.
- New turn start action: Move hand. Moves cards in the hand to the deck.
- Soul now deals 1 damage to the player avatar.
- Instead of refreshing health, Prototype now gains +1 health every turn.
- It's now also possible to conjure by pressing space.
- Pressing ESC now closes UI pages.
Some extra information about the update:
This might be the only content update Magic of Autumn will get. It was never meant to be a large game and I'm running out of design space. To keep things going, I'd need to make new areas and cards - but it's probably better for everyone if I focused on my current major project.
Once it is done, I can think about making a sequel.
But enough about that.
I want to give a warning: Because of the lack of time, I did not test all of the new runes properly - decided to leave that for the players this time. Please report issues and if what - you can use tools to get all achievements. I'm always monitoring the discussions and comments.
I have also made some changes to enemy AI. It's now able to use the new "Move hand" action if it gets stuck.
An even less visible change is how the enemy chooses what cards to play. It used to simply check cards in hand in order and play the card if it's possible. In certain cases that would lead to AI being stuck: E.g.: During the fight against one of the challenge runes, the AI would play Harbinger of Darkness, get it killed, draw it the next turn, and play it again - repeating indefinitely. Making it a very boring fight.
Now AI randomly chooses to read the list of cards from top to bottom, or bottom to top and will no longer get stuck like that.
Finally, this update brings the first nerfs of the game.
Prototype's effect has been changed because it would probably be able to defeat most of the new runes by itself.
The same can probably be said about the Altar of the Eternal Fire > Soul > Soul Guardian combo. This should be harder to pull off now.
That is all for now - thank you for those wonderful reviews =]