Greetings,
If you've been reading these, hopefully you know what this is so I'll get to the point:
Adventure Mode Update is now live!
Here's what's in it, in 3 quick bullet points
ADVENTURE MODE:
A new way to play the game - streamlined single player experience with asynchronous multiplayer
-Travel across the land, beating 40 areas in a linear map to reach the Champion.
-Beat the Champion to have a chance to fight the Player Champion! Beat the Player Champion to take their place as the final boss!
META PROGRESSION:
A persistent player level that you increase by doing stuff
-Unlock more character skins and name frames by levelling up!
AUTODOX CHECKMARKS RETURN:
Pretty self explanatory, no? Just look at this screenshot
And here's what's in it, in dozens of long bullet points:
More about Adventure:
Beating the game will unlock a higher difficulty level. Beating that will-- oh come on, it's just ascension system from Slay the Spire, do I need to explain it?
Gyms are optional, but every 10 nodes, you'll fight a ghost of another player. Player ghosts are slightly nerfed to prevent an ambush from a level 20 2-star Ladybuff from someone who got really lucky. You get healed before and after these fights
Areas 36-38 are a boss rush against the Pretty Good Three. There is actually 6 possible bosses there, but 3 are chosen at random. Then another PvP area, then finally, the mysterious Champion. Then, if you beat that, the Player Champion! Beating the NPC Champion is enough for the run to count as a win
You only have 2 lives in this mode, but you only lose 1 per battle lose
The run is saved as you go so you can quit and return to it. This feature isn't implemented in BR yet because there are a few more things to consider there
Gameplay:
Release is now available to do pre-battle
Wonder Trade and Dump rewards improved. Dump now also can't roll the fight outcome when you're at 1 life
Refusing a capture now grants EXP equal to turn number, not static 3 per Automon anymore
Alpha Meishowl, Tongo and Frenmon abilities changed
Balance changes to multiple Automons
Steel type bonus buffed, Water bonus nerfed
Automons at Mercenary Camp cannot be commons now
Enemy scaling in BR mode is now matched to the highest AVERAGE of 4 highest-level Automons among players, instead of just the one highest level Automon (it was stupid to get a really high Automon in wonder trade, then see all enemies matched to that level, making the rest of your team violently underlevelled)
Increased the number of event nodes in BR
All Automons get 1 more EXP for each enemy fainted
QoL:
All gym leaders and the Pretty Good Three have unique sprites, dialogue and voice sounds
Extra tutorials were added when you're about to do a significant blunder, like submitting without a full team, going to a difficult area too early or capturing more duplicates that won't cause an upgrade
You can now reset the tutorial in the settings in the main menu
The tutorial for the game is now an Adventure game. The tutorial now assumes you are playing that and only shows up in BR to mention differences in that mode
There are now a total of 4 skins to unlock and choose, and 8 name frames. Your player level is also displayed whenever anyone sees you in any mode
Areas with confirmed NPCs don't show their types anymore, that was confusing because it has nothing to do with the types that the NPC has
Changed icon for areas with NPCs in them
Dump outcomes now show what stats changed instead of just saying "Stats changed"
Other:
Play section in the main menu looks arguably better and shows the current Player Champion
Fixed "Type master" achievements being granted incorrectly if you clicked on stuff too fast
Fixed Graciel's ability not working most of the time
Fixed "Tie" achievement being granted on an empty area
Fixed revived Automons granting kill credit against wild Automons (causing Eatoad to heal on a revived Stunflor, for example)
That's it.
If you run into bugs (other than Ladybuff and Butterage), quickest way to reach me is the Discord server Discord Server . Email is also quick. Steam discussions are fine, but I don't get notifications so I only check those manually. If you want to be really slow, send me a courier pigeon.