Playtest 3 is Available Now!
The third Alchemortis playtest is now live for everyone! This build is focused on addressing some of the major issues of the previous playtest, but also contains a lot of new content. Below are the complete patch notes for this playtest.
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Patch Notes
Alchemy Overhaul
Legendary cards will now have a random legendary ability added to them.
Card stability: cards will now accrue negative abilities as a result of alchemy in accordance with their sizes. Large cards are more stable, and will accrue fewer negative abilities.
Alchemical residue introduced as a currency. Players gain alchemical residue by engaging in alchemy.
Default alchemy board size set to 3x3, which can be temporarily increased to 4x4 with the Death Orchid reagent.
Added several new reagents to make alchemy more controllable and predictable.
Gameplay Changes
Player board now starts at a size of 4x4.
Player board now starts with locked cells, which can be unlocked with alchemical residue.
The grow board event now locks the new cells that are added to the board.
Combat encounters now offer cards as rewards.
New card overflow system which will allow you to receive cards that are offered from artifacts or other events, like Spiderlings.
Resurrection mechanic now resurrects player with health percent based on size of cards offered up for resurrection.
New in-game interactive tutorial to educate players on the mechanics of the game.
Added obelisk event which will change nodes on the map to new nodes of the player's choosing. Obelisks also apply buffs to nodes when activated.
Added roaming Inquisition Eyes which increase the notoriety penalty of nodes within their radius.
Upon clearing a region, it will be overrun with Inquisition Eyes.
Inquisition node blessing system which will randomly add 1 debuff and 1 buff to nodes immediately visitable by the player.
Reworked Swarm. Now, individual abilities are wrapped with the "Swarm" modifier. When a swarm ability executes, it will trigger one other random swarm ability on a random card.
Balance Pass
Nerfed Longbowman.
Nerfed Iron Gauntlet.
Nerfed Pilgrim Path Sign.
Buffed bleed duration from 5 to 10 turns.
Flattened blood economy scaling.
Reduced card sell prices.
Ensured generated enemy boards always have damage.
New Cards
Tapeworm
Nautilus Cup
Flagrum
Explosive Flask
Rusty Spoon
Alkahest
Eyeball
Skeleton Dragon
Pond
Corpse pile
Acolyte
New Artifacts
Unicorn Horn
Thorns
Primeval Hand
Apprentice Wand
Fleam
New Enchantments
Convert damage to bleed
Paralysis immunity
Increased sell price
Make all abilities affect and affected by the entire board
Increase ability target limit by 1
Convert fire to healing
Increase applied paralysis duration
Exhaust a random enemy card when this card exhausted
Music
Added new second region music.
Added new third region music.
Fixed various music transition issues.
Sound Effects
Full SFX pass across combat, UI, alchemy, and map, replacing lackluster sound effects and generally filling out the soundscape.
Added shop sound effects.
Added new alchemy SFX, including a legendary sound effect to get the dopamine flowing.
Added unique ambience SFX for each region.
Replaced SFX for grow board event.
Visual Polish
Added new alchemy animations and particles.
Added legendary card animation.
Added unique art for post-combat card rewards.
Added card hover animation.
Tuned camera shake.
Replaced grow board event art.
Added ambient visual effects for each region.
Updated UI tooltip panel art.
Reworked frog art (again).
Tweaked art of several artifacts.
UX Improvements
Added speed control labels.
Added recenter camera button.
Improved map node tooltips with icons indicating negative and positive event effects.
Merged alchemy and inventory buttons.
Indicated when effects are applied to self in the combat log.
Optimized card placement for dynamically-sized boards, like boards associated with booster packs. Now, boards that are dynamically generated for the purpose of offering rewards will feel more organic.
Bug Fixes
Fixed various incorrect Echo interactions.
Fixed cases where player could die with nonzero health.
Fixed turn cooldowns not updating in some cases.
Fixed fog of war inconsistencies.
Fixed damage tracking ability logic to ensure consistency.
Fixed scenarios where speed controls could softlock the game.
Fixed map tooltips getting stuck in certain situations.
Misc Changes
Refactored ability system to improve ease of adding more complex abilities.
Updated engine version to Godot 4.6