Alpha Update 21 - GUI upgrades and more cards!
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It’s been a while since we last updated the game, because we have had a bunch of challenges with our shaders. That being said, we have not been lolling in the grass (as Mark Twain would say) all the while. Rather we’ve made a bunch of changes and improvements to the game. For example the first “real” companion is in. Say hello to Brutus the Man’gar, a big slicin’ beast who’ll help you bring reckoning to the swarmers, the rats and the swarms of rats. A bunch of new cards as well. You should be able to build more diverse decks and play around with the playstyle that suits you the best. We hope you have a ton of fun, and as always feedback in the steam forums are much appreciated!
Features
- More skins! Yes, you read it! Now you can change skins so the champion of your choice will reflect the innermost color of your soul.
- New companion: Brutus the Man’gar. Try this big slicin’ beast out!
- Massive card changes: Tons of new cards added, some old cards removed, bunch of polish/rebalancing etc. Lots of new playstyles and ability upgrades to try out.
- Virtually all unlockable cards are now available by default (until a better progression system is added).
- New boss passive. Spare Goons (not boss specific): Summon two random environment enemies at the start of the arena.
- Improvements to Companion AI. They should behave better in general and the individual companions should have more distinct behavior.
- Improved sorting! Should be much more convenient to use now.
Minor Features
- Various card and upgrade descriptions made more clear.
- More card mechanics are elaborated in the mouseover tooltips.
- Parrots!
Balance & Changes
We have removed events from the game to take some more time to balance them in development. We found them to spoil the fun a bit too often, and we’d rather wait until they are a bit more polished to share them with you again.
- Squire of Light's Speed of Light passive reworked. It now gives a short burst of movement speed whenever you are attacked.
- Flamenado changed from 6 hits per second at 4 damage to 5 hits per second at 5 damage. Duration increased by 0.5 sec.
- Charging Olaf's damage against enemies has been buffed. He's as high risk as ever, but should be higher reward when used well.
- Treasure goblin gold drops reduced.
- Greed Hurts boss passive now increases gold duration to 8 seconds rather than 10. Normal duration is 6 seconds.
- Fiery Frenzy boss active reduced to 70 healing and 25 wrath cost. Tooltip clarified.
Bug fixes
- Cosmic Cleaver no longer multiplies all damage by 175% but now correctly stacks additively with other global damage increases (e.g. 2 Cosmic Cleaves = +150% damage, not +206% damage).
- Clone boss active no longer targets bosses (hopefully for real this time).
- Fiery Frenzy no longer targets bosses.
- Gift of Life legendary tier upgrade now correctly adds the described card to the deck.
- Treasure goblin gold duration is now affected by Greed Hurts.
- Text no longer disappears after 7 matches
And as usual lots of other stuff has been added, follow our daily development at:
https://trello.com/b/m8udgXeV/forced-2-main-board
Enjoy!
-BetaDwarf