Welcome back to the Abyss, travellers! The team has been hard at work on a MONSTER update, which is so massive it’s almost out of this world. It covers a whole host of new artifacts, cards, boss rewards, and rituals, as well as some balance changes and bug fixes.
ALSO, we're running our deepest discount yet at 30% off! If you haven't yet made the jump into the vast reaches of space, now is a GREAT time!
We’ve got a lot to get through, so let’s start at the exciting bit:
New offerings to the Abyss:
Ten new Counter Horror artifacts:
Cloned Attack: Once per turn, double the next attack
Blood Draw: Once per turn, when this ship kills an enemy, draw a card
Heat Mutator: Whenever you draw a card, lose 2 heat
Recycled Energy: Whenever you draw a card, lose 2 heat
Concealer: Once per turn, when this ship kills an enemy, enter Stealth
Stray Missile: When this ship takes damage, launch a missile at a random target
Revenge: When this ship takes damage, apply 1 lock onto the attacker
Evasive Attack: After this ship attacks, gain 1 evasion
Blast Chiller: Ship starts combat with -2 heat
Laser Interference: Laser cards apply 1 suppress to their target
Four new Counter Horror cards:
One Shot: Deal 14 cannon damage
Flanked Strike: Deal 6 cannon damage, if target was hurt, deal 9 instead
Suppress Fire: Deal 4 cannon damage. Apply 1 suppress to target
Disabling Cannon: Deal 4 cannon damage. Apply 1 engine lock to target
Three new boss rewards:
War Pact: All attack cards have +1 damage
Spoils of the Abyss: Gain 3 credits per kill
Resolve: At the start of rift and boss combat, all ships gain 2 evasion, and all enemies gain 2 suppress
Two new ritual cards:
Divine Instructions : Doubles the damage of a random card in hand for the rest of combat.
Exterminate : Deal damage equal to HP (max 20 HP)
Balance changes:
A buff for Lucid: Each time a defense card is played on a ship, remove 1 heat
A nerf for Astra’s AoE attack from 6 -> 4,
Modifiers offering repairs for free have been removed from the pool
Act 4: Bosses that spawn have reduced HP
Depth changes: D3 bosses are tougher. We’ve also added a new depth modifier that reduces credits gained by 10% from boss and rift combat to D3
Gamma emitter → Adds radioactive stacks directly instead of radioactive cloud
Auto release -> Changed to - when heat reaches threshold,
Dual blades -> Doubles damage for all attacks
Increased probability of Cat Event showing up to help achievement hunters
Launching Mines no longer exits Stealth
Resonance buffed to +5 damage increase
Bugs:
Evade stacks on payload weren't getting removed at the start of turn, this is now resolved
Fixed artifact titles not showing in shop,
Energy spike text --> added draw 2 cards
Fixed temporal overload costing energy when a ship has stasis
Fixed Incorrect text when upgrading ship stats
Overflow removes heat at the end of the attack
Silo can now salvage the offered upgraded as well
CleanBuild fully repairs on upgrade correctly
Cluster mines preview shows correct damage now
Fixed sharpshooter not using correct damage increase value
Fixed a bug related to worm dying mid-attack from reflect damage
Fixed quantum swap with Star Eater leading to a strange interaction,
Fixed shooting mines with zero damage
Slime on ship with Siren’s attack no longer causes a softlock
It is no longer possible to click on a reward then quickly click on salvage (also the other way around)
Fixed Flanker not showing tooltip for double damage
Fixed Credit Card not showing correct damage preview
Fixed Reflective Shield causing a softlock when the enemy dies mid-attack,
When selling artifacts in shop, we fixed that the upgrade panel wouldn't refresh after credits gained
MineField Barrier no longer softlocks when played many times
Fixed the ship upgrade view in stores showing artifacts that have been removed, and were causing a game-breaking bug in subsequent shops
Fixed Chrono-lock, allowing a second stasis to take effect when stasis isn't allowed due to Depth modifier
PHEW.
Told you. A MONSTER UPDATE!
The team have been so hard at work, thank you for your patience! Don’t forget to leave us a review and let us know how you’re finding all your new artifacts, cards, and rituals either here or on Discord.
Keep safe from the whispers, wherever you are~