King of the Hill Season 32: "Season of Summoners"

26 Sep 2024Developer post

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KING OF THE HILL: SEASON 32

• Seasonal Mutation: "Season of Summoners" •

In Season 27, we introduced "Seasonal Mutations"—significant changes to Despot’s Game that alter the game's perception for one season. Seasons last, on average, 3-4 weeks, and when the season ends, these changes are reverted.

The "Season of Concentrations" has ended! Now altars and the mutations associated with them work as they did before – there will be more altars, fewer rerolls, and both the Curse of Mutation and More Altars are back.
Welcome to Season 32—"Season of Summoners".
In this season, we are buffing the creatures that can be summoned through buttons or mutations (in simpler terms, Purr-Meow and other creatures you can find on the map will become stronger; Tentacles and Towers remain unchanged). Please leave feedback under this post, on the Steam forums, or in our Discord.

• New Features •

The main additions in this season are the "Token of Knowledge" and the ability to sell buttons.

"Knowledge Token": a new item that can be purchased after defeating the Despot, right before your team heads to King of the Hill. The token allows you to buy experience for the whole team with tokens – now you can level up your low-level humans! Just make sure you have enough money.
Buttons can now be sold. Works the same way as selling items – just drag the unwanted button into the bin in the lower left part of the screen – and you'll receive a small amount of tokens for it.

• Quest Balance •

Rewards in tokens for the Tricksters, Cultists, and Shooters' quests have been increased and are now 50 tokens.

• Mutation and Ability Balance •

Mass Taunt — cooldown multiplier increased from 5 ➔ 8
Delayed Pain — duration reduced from 3 sec ➔ 2 sec
Rat-ify — duration reduced from 8 sec ➔ 4 sec
Blinding Lightning — blindness duration reduced from 4 sec ➔ 3 sec
Death Deferred (T5 Healers ability) — duration reduced from 6 sec ➔ 3 sec

• Mode Balance •

In the Sprint mode, on average, the player will receive slightly more tokens on almost all floors.

• Mutation Tree Balance •

The Weighted Dice is cheaper at the first level, more expensive at the second, and its effectiveness at the first level has been reduced:
1. Level 1 25% ➔ 10%; cost 25 ➔ 10
2. Level 2 cost 60 ➔ 75
Topochlorians balance has been changed:
1. Level 1 40 ➔ 15; cost 15 ➔ 5
2. Level 2 80 ➔ 30; cost 25 ➔ 15
3. Level 3 140 ➔ 50; cost 35 ➔ 20
4. Level 4 cost 45 ➔ 70
5. Level 5 cost 70 ➔ 80