Booty Battler Combat Update
What's New:
New mechanics and refining existing ones.
3 cards pick 1 effects - The tried and true roguelite sauce. Cards and encounters using this mechanic added.
Abilities - Stat-scaled abilities that will increase in power as the run progresses based on the unit's Attack, Health or Attack Speed.
Regeneration - Stack-able regeneration status effect healing a % of a unit's max HP every second.
Equipment - Attraction-based looting equipment draws in loot based on distance,
Projectiles - Projectiles apply damage upon making contact, have variable flight duration, flight path, and can apply on-hit effects.
Steam integration - save files, leaderboards, achievements are connected. Get the global high score!
Gold balancing - Gold no longer carries over between combats. Use it or lose it! (Some relics reworked to support this)
Lock cards - Cards in the shop can be locked to be found at the next combat.
Improved Visuals and Audio
Card tooltips and textures (as planned from the Pirate Palette update)
Ocean - Combat ocean texture + animation improved to swell and sway with the tide.
Projectiles - Combat projectiles have a brand new system giving them particle effects, SFX and animations.
Damage feedback - Units taking damage make different sounds depending on the % of total HP damage dealt.
New Audio tracks for events, cursed caches, combats have been added and are still in progress. Learning music is tough!
What's next:
Card expansion. Without spoiling too much, here are some of the card/build designs in planning.
Bounties - spells to increase combat difficulty for a reward.
Legendary cards - cards with build-around effects that do not start in the card pool.
Treasure cards - single-use powerful spells that do not start in the card pool.
Spell caster - cards and effects that enhance the power of spells and gain bonuses from spell casting
Toxin - More toxin manipulation effects, conditional effects based on toxin stacks.
Summoner build - summoned unit bonuses, unit death bonuses, permanent scaling summons.
Note on release schedule
Booty Battler's full release date has been extended to allow for additional time to playtest, polish and expand. The release date is yet to be finalized though it will likely come after a demo period on Steam Next Fest.