We're excited to announce a free new expansion to Matching Meadows, featuring a new world with 7 new levels and a few new gameplay features to boot.
Levels in the new Cassini world contain new features such as 0.5x and 3x multipliers, instant pool/draft level-ups and perhaps most importantly, placeable Landmark cards.
Landmarks are very powerful thanks to the points bonus they can provide to adjacently solved puzzles. They come with a wide variety of unpredictable puzzles to solve. It's important to give your placed landmarks some room to breathe if you wish to extract the maximum amount of points from them. You will need to adapt new strategies to make it to the top!
Besides the new world, there are plenty of other quality of life changes to celebrate. See the changelog below for a more exhaustive list of changes introduced by this update.
Important notice regarding level savestates from v1.4
The saved levels from the previous version no longer work with the new version. We have added a legacy branch for the old version, which you can use to finish any levels you were still playing and want to continue. Your overall level progression & challenge completions are not affected and carry over to the new version. To complete levels in progress on the old branch, right click on Matching Meadows in Steam, go to Properties, Betas, and select the v1.4 branch from the beta participation dropdown menu. This branch will be removed a month from now.
v1.5:
- Added a new world Cassini featuring 7 new levels
- Added single use placeable landmark cards (Landmark cards come with a wide variety of possible puzzles and are automatically destroyed on placement)
- Added new stadium landmark (remains in construction phase until puzzles are completed in 4 adjacent tiles)
- Added 0.5x and 3x score multiplier grideffects
- Added grideffect that levels-up your scorebar (upgrading your deck in Pool mode, initiating a card draft in Draft mode)
- Added a counter under the scorebar that keeps track of the current tier of your deck in Pool levels, or of how many drafts you have unlocked in Draft mode
- Added 3 new achievements:
- Complete all Cassini levels
- Complete all Cassini challenges
- Reach a personal highscore of 1,000,000 across all levels
- Added japanese localization for achievements
- On the leaderboard, the top 6 is now shown if your own score is within the top 3 (this would only display the top 3 before)
- Landmark upgrade highlight plays the same animation as the combo highlight & the color is no longer different when the landmark is part of the combo
- Various bugfixes and improvements for Steam Deck & controller support, including:
- While inside menus the back input on controllers wasn't triggering on pressing the button for the default configuration
- Using more than one controller at the same time or connecting an external controller to your Steam Deck didn’t work as intended
- The game now displays button glyphs of the controller that was used as input in most recently instead of being based on which controller was plugged in first/last.
- Controller glyphs for selecting the next or previous card were not displayed in the correct position next to the hand cards for some resolutions
- Various small improvements & bug fixes