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Masters!
This week we’re bringing some very requested changes to the game - the Prowler card and balance changes to the Crossbow Dude cards.
NEW Card
- Prowler This monstrous hunter hails from the garden world where the Snake Gods rule. Its powerful pounce will not allow any enemies to escape.
Balance
- Crossbow Dudes - Damage up from 10 to 15, Attack cooldown up from 1.5 to 1.6 sec. --- Developer comments --- The Crossbow Dude card took a heavy nerf some time ago, since it was a very overused card. However, the state of the card ended up so weakened that most players don’t even include it anymore, which certainly wasn’t the intention. This change increases their DPS significantly, but maintains a relatively slow attack speed for such small units, which still sets them apart from the Plasma Marines in more than mana cost.
- Shielded Crossbow Dudes - Count down from 4 to 3 --- Developer comments --- The buff to Crossbow dudes inevitably affects the other cards that utilize them, and a buff to them would need to be accompanied by changes to Shielded Crossbow Dudes to not unbalance that card. At the same time, we’ve been seeing the Shielded Crossbow Dudes used heavily in King Puff decks, while not seeing much play elsewhere, mostly because of their great synergy with Inspire. Reducing their count but increasing the power of each Dude as per the other change, rebalances the card to have slightly higher dps in total, but with less health on the board and less synergy with Inspire.
- Raging Reinforcements - Crossbow Dude group count down from 4 to 3 --- Developer comments --- With the increased power of each Dude, we had to reduce the counting in Raging Reinforcements to maintain balance.
Misc
- Reworked the entire text system for the game for a higher quality text with fewer visual glitches
- Call To Arms is no longer a Defensive spell (can be cast anywhere)
- Fixed a small issue with Elite Swarmers animation during placement
- Fixed an issue with some currencies displaying as ??
- C-SAR now has a bunch of a new voice lines for crafting, level up and more!
- Users can now use /syncachievements if acheivements in Steam and in-game are out of sync
- Snake Druid now has a different death sound from Crossbow Dudes
- Added spectators to the default arenas
- Fixed a visual glitch with Stormbringers arrows appearing from his chest rather than his bow.
- Improved Shields in preview models
- Assassin now uses a different animation for his attack when not dealing critical damage
- Living Statue now has its own SFX set
- Added SFX on Boomer in the preview
- Added SFX on Shielded Crossbow Dudes in preview
- Changed SFX on Cannon Rollers preview
- Overhauled all shaders, making for an improved visual expression overall.
- Stormbringer has received an updated Master Icon
Cheers from BetaDwarf!