Hi everyone! It's been a very busy and exciting past several days with the Early Access release. First, a big thank you to everyone who bought and played the game! As a first-time game dev building the game solo, I appreciate it very much.
I've been hard at work improving the game and making it more fun to play. This update should fix a number of things, but the two most important are:
- TOOLTIPS! They should be way less annoying now.
- Enemy balance - enemies are less of damage sponges/tanks now, so combat encounters should move along a bit quicker. There's still a lot to do in the area of game balance, so I'll keep working on improving this!
Also - thank you to everyone who has reported bugs and given feedback. If you'd like to talk to me directly about the game, please feel free to join the discord community!
There's still much more to do during Early Access, so thank you in advance for your patience as I keep working on improving the game. I'll be posting some information about the upcoming dev schedule for Early Access, so keep an eye out for that.
There's a lot more, here are all the patch notes:
General Game Improvements
- Improve logic around setting slot effect levels/headers
Game Balance
- Change T-rex/Allosaurus/Triceratops playable character initial stats for more variety and balance
- Carnotaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (lower defense stats, raise attack)
- Corythosaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (lower defense stats, raise attack)
- Protoceratops: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (lower defense stats, raise attack)
- Pachycephalosaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (lower defense stats, raise attack)
- Velociraptor: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (lower defense stats, raise attack)
- Rapid Assault now deals moderate Kinetic Plus damage
- Cryolophosaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack
- Gallimimus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (increase shield, decrease armored/HP)
- Styracosaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (HP/armored increase, shield decrease, more attack)
- Camarasaurus: balancing changes to defense, stats, and attack (HP/armored increase, shield decrease, more attack options)
- Carcharodontosaurus balancing and card changes (mostly buffs)
- Diabloceratops balancing (lower shield/armored, raise HP/attack)
- Dilophosaurus balancing (lower defense stats, increase damage dealing options)
- Gigantoraptor balancing (lower shield/armored, increase HP/attack)
- Kentrosaurus balancing (lower attack a bit, remove initial killing machine, improve attack options)
- Minotaurasaurus balancing (lower shield, raise armored/HP, lower max armored, improve attack/attack options)
- Nerf BATTERY's max armored (250 -> 150), was resulting in massively OP armored crush attacks
- Nerf Negative Base Status attack cards, reduce the quantity encountered per wave of attackers
UI Improvements
- Totally new tooltip system, should be much better than previous tooltip system
- Improve messaging regarding starting character stats on the character select screen
Bug Squashing
- Fix typo on Danger Warning
- Fix non-integers on Biological Escalation card description
- Fix soft-locking Sector map bugs when exiting out of a combat encounter or base defense instance before it ends
- Fix incorrect calculations happening when applying status effects to attack damage (panicked, dazed)
- Fix some possible bugs with challenges not unlocking when enemy has x of certain statuses