Economy and Readability Demo Update:
Hello gamblers. We are overhauling the economy to shift the odds back in your favor and make the game feel more balanced, readable and more strategize-able.
We also spent time to polish and develop the visuals, readability, and communication problems players experienced, to make them more precise and impactful during the gameplay.
The economy:
WE rebuilt the economy settings. Rewards now scale with interest and shop pricing instead of overkill and inflated pricings.
+30% more Blood Tokens for winning.
New interest feature: gain 10% of your total chips in bank after winning a table (shown in table win screen)
Dealer's Debt perk now grants +5% interest
Cheat and relic slot pricing behaviour adjusted
Full perk Changes Below:
Perks now unlock by clearing acts:
Perks used to unlock through the Skill Tree. They now unlock the first time you clear a new act on Chump or Gambler. Chump / Gambler / High Roller multipliers were returned alongside it.
Reading the board (Visuals and UI/UX):
The slot you're about to drop into is now highlighted before you commit a move
Nexus has new visuals and effects, so it's clearer when your hands intersect
Victory panel and chip-line breakdown reworked. You can see where every token came from
New difficulty screen (Betting Tables), plus a copy and layout pass on the Ascension option and new run popup
You can now hide UI elements while playing, from the settings menu
Perk changes
Suit Phalanx: dominant-suit bonus raised to +5
Croupier's Cane: destroyed-card slots deal +5 (ghost slots)
Closing Bell: +20% damage when the boss is below 40% HP
Vegas Glow: +1 damage per owned perk on non-face cards
Blackjack 21+: grid shields replaced with +2 card damage
Pocket Aces: pair of Aces gives the bottom row +1 shield, and now works for every pair created
Snake Eyes: pair of 2s gives 2 random cards +2 shields, now also works for every pair created
Seven Eleven: playing a 7 or a 4 costs no play
Life Insurance: 10% chance destroyed cards return to your deck.
Lead Lining: on purchase, all J/Q/K get +1 shield for this run
Dealer's Debt: gain +5% interest
Grease the Palm: now a shop-wide discount rather than marked-card only, with reroll rules adjusted.
Iron Curtain, Iron Lung and Cold Heart said "permanently" and now says "for this run"
removed:
Tax Collector relic taken out of the pool
Reroll rules tightened alongside the Grease the Palm change
Bug Fixes:
Shifting jokers from act 4 boss could race victory clear and drop player cards from the deck between stages. We hardened the grid reclaim, stopped the joker from moving after victory, and added safety reclaim on reshuffle.
Fixed an issue where cards would disappear in Act 4 between stages.
Fixed the dealer attack animation
The update is live now. Gamble with care.
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