Changes:
💀 Changed Cavalry behavior to no longer run too far away from the player and reduced their aggro distance on enemies.
💀 Added option to change DirectX version in Options under the Display tab.
💀 Changed default DirectX version from 12 to 11 due to frequent crashes caused by DirectX 12.
Kingdom Balance:
💀 Decreased Cavalry damage by 10% on all difficulties.
Note: Cavalry is still too powerful compared to Knights; it will be changed in the upcoming, bigger balance update this week. We can't change it quickly, as a bigger nerf requires rebalancing of all higher-tier units and the boss.
💀 Lowered the difficulty of early-game events in Kingdom 1 and Kingdom 2.
💀 Significantly lowered enemy Damage and Health in Kingdom 2.
💀 Reduced the number of higher-tier units in Kingdom 4 and Kingdom 5.
💀 Increased King's Basic Attack Damage to minions by 25%.
💀 Increased King's Health scaling on higher difficulties.
Hell Balance:
💀 Significantly reduced lava damage and the amount of lava on lower difficulties.
💀 Lowered the difficulty of early-game events in Hell 1 and Hell 2.
💀 Reduced the number of special events such as Tornadoes and Bombardment on Hell 1 and Hell 2.
💀 Reduced the number of higher-tier units in Hell 4 and Hell 5.
💀 Reduced Directors' range by 20% to make enemy Directors less oppressive.
💀 Reduced Devil's Health by 25% on all difficulties.
💀 Increased the time player has to move to a safe spot during Dance with the Devil attack from 10s to 12s.
💀 Fixed issue with the Dance with the Devil attack causing significantly more damage than intended on Hell 1 and Hell 2.
Perks Balance:
💀 Significantly buffed upgrades of Bonds of Torment, Corpse Explosion, Fires of Abyss, and Magic Missile.
💀 Fixed issue with Aura of Decay damage upgrades not stacking when taken together.
💀 Increased Corpse Explosion damage by 66%.
💀 Significantly increased number of spawned Sheep.
💀 Increased range scaling of Bonds of Torment.
💀 Sheep now spawn together with units of the appropriate tier for that time.
💀 Increased the chance of Undead Brigade perks to appear.
Fixes:
💀 Fixed the issue that allowed Graves Tier 4 to be unlocked without unlocking Tier 3 first.
💀 Fixed the issue that prevented players from obtaining the “Catch Me If You Can” achievement.
PRAISE BE MORIANA!
The Polished Games Team