Update on the beta this week: Sharable Seeds!
You can now copy/paste a seed that governs the minions, spells, enemies, and rewards you see in a run!
Wondering how a run would have turned out if you had made a different start? Copy the seed and play it again up to that point. Or maybe you want to see how your friend would play a run given the same scenario? Send them the seed and see how it goes!
Given the nature of a drafting autobattler there's some nuance to how seeding works. Here are some of the implementation details:
- Enemy encounters (aside from mimic position) are preseeded, meaning they are created as soon as the seed is selected.
- Spell choices (for Haunted Book and Leveling up) are preseeded.
- Reclamations and the Activity Grid are preseeded.
- The lineups used for Gamble and Training are not preseeded and may change in a given seed.
- Combat will use the same RNG on given seed, but that doesn't mean enemies/minions will make the same random attack choices if there were "upstream" divergences.
- Minion choices (in shops, perfected rewards, and for Necroforager's ability) are preseeded, but there is some nuance here. Whenever a minion choice is needed, (ie: for a shop roll), the choice is read from a preseeded 'shuffle' of a large bag of minions. On the same seed, you and your friend will see the same minions, but there may be a slight shift in when/what turn they are seen, depending on things like locking/rerolling/buying etc.
- The subtyped minion used for Pathways are not preseeded and may change in a given seed.
Content Changes:
Possessor
Was: Dies: Add my Attack and Health to another random friendly Related minion this combat.
Now: Dies: Add my Attack and Health to another random friendly minion this combat.
Bone Butler
Was: Combat Start: Give Improved or Perfected Related minions +1/+1 permanently.
Now: Combat Start: Give Improved or Perfected minions +1/+1 permanently.
The Related restriction on these minions has been lifted on Beta. If it proved more fun and still balanced, it will migrate to main.
A Note on Early Access
I just wanted to take a moment and thank everyone checking out the game during Early Access. It's really awesome to see players excited about the game, and I appreciate all the bug reports/suggestions coming in. Some weeks (like Localization tech last week and the seed work this week), will be more about getting certain features/content into the game that are needed for the 1.0, but I am eager to get back to redesigns, balance, and bug fixing shortly!