Deck of Ashes News

Hello everyone, friends! This update will not be as big as the previous one, but it's very important. This patch will prepare the game for the next very important update :)

After changing the balance of the in-game economy, we received a number of your feedback. We are glad that you enjoyed what we did. Based on this, we present to you the following balance changes.

• Impartial Fire: Then: Deal damage to an opponent equal to its Health points. You take as much damage. Now: Strain. Destroy the enemy. Strain is always equal to current health;
  
• Inferno: Then: Non-playable. Ash: At the start of your turn, you have a 25% chance to destroy all opponents except the bosses. You need 666 Ash to craft this card. Now: Non-playable, Ashe. At the beginning of your turn, destroy one random opponent (except Bosses) with a 15% chance. This card respawns at the end of each battle.
  

• Snake Shiv: Then: Phoenix.Deal 6 damage. Now: Phoenix. Deal 4 damage;
  
• Secret Set: Then: Phoenix. When this card is played, add 4 Fragile Throw Dagger cards to your Battle Deck. Now: Phoenix. When this card is played, add 2 Fragile Throw Dagger cards to your Battle Deck;
  
• Bouquet of Blades: now this card does not affected by Strength for sure. Spirit of Despair now casts Phoenix correctly on this card too;
  
• Knockout: Now: Preparation. Deal 8 damage. Apply Stun on an opponent. (Min. cost: 2);
  
• Double Dodge: Echo. Increase the players dodge by 2 for 1 round.
  

• Tome of Wrath: Choose an effect: Deal 7 damage 2. Draw a Periodic Damage card. Costs 2 mana;
  
• Champion’s Pauldron: Choose an effect:. Apply Regeneration on yourself. Restore 10 Health points. Gain Shield. Costs 2 mana;
  
• Occultist’s Pauldron: Choose an effect: Apply Bleed on an opponent. Apply Poison on an opponent. Apply Burn on an opponent. Costs 1 mana;
  
• Tome of Envy: Lifesteal. Deal 3 damage. Costs 1 mana;
  
• Scales of Avarice: Then: Choose an effect: Draw a card with the highest Mana cost. Draw a card with the lowest Mana cost. Now: Choose an effect. 1. Spend 1 mana. Deal 3 damage. 2. Spend all the remaining mana. Deal 3 damage for each mana spent.
  

• Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?
  Now voices tormenting Sly's mind will come more often;
  
• Now the Lich applies the Defender property to another undead, and not to himself;
  
• We have 13 reasons why the Fanatic will stop choosing the suicide. Now he will be able to summon the assistants;
  
• The chance of getting the game event is reduced;
  
• Attacking the Titan: the maximum health pull of the Bosses is reduced, and the minimum is slightly increased.
  

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Hello friends! It was great to watch your activity in the contest! Thank you so much!



In a fierce battle for mindfulness, we have the winners:

1. Natalya Kuznetsova - gets a T-shirt ^^
2. Roman Ryndin - gets the game key
3. Ivan Koscheev - gets the game key

Thank you all for participating! In the future we are planning to make more contests, so stay tuned :)

We will contact the winners by return letter before the end of this week.

The Buck's release is coming, which means it's time to unveil the veil of secrecy and tell you a little about our new characters archetypes.

Unlike the fast and dexterous Sly, Buck using less cards in the battle, but his strength and fury knows no bounds. Buck's cards cost significantly more mana, but the effect will make your enemies shudder.



The less Health Buck has, the more powerful his attacks become. The cards of this archetype receive more substantial bonuses for Strength, and Strength, in turn, increases with a decrease in Health.
This tactic encourages you to play on the edge for the sake of inflicting huge damage.
An integral part of this archetype is a new type of periodic damage - Inflammation. The effect of this skill is enhanced with each move, but unlike Bleeding, the effect of Inflammation has its limit. In addition, the rate of inflammation can be reset, for example, by healing.



The cards of this archetype receive bonuses for killing enemies and attacking monsters with a small amount of Health. If Berserker pushes you to play “on the edge”, the Execution offers a different strategy: first weaken the enemy, and then bring down the full power of the Execution on him. By the way, you can not only increase your attack for striking dying enemies, but also get a Shield for killing or Stun creatures remaining on the battlefield. It is worth mentioning that this archetype also has a synergy with the Inflammation effect.



Oops, it seems we overdid in some way: the bug on the levels of difficulty Adventurer and Martyr with a critically small dropp of keys for a chests was fixed. Now you'll get the keys you deserve!



If you defeat the boss with a 25% chance you can see how Sly and Lucia perform a special dance to enchanting music :) Make sure to share a screenshots with us!

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Hello everyone, friends!

For a long time we worked hard to produce as much new content as we can trying to make your game's opportunities as wide as possible. As a result, the Deck of Ashes became much larger which affected the game balance. So the in-game economy was most affected feature. Let's begin! :)



The main problems associated with the economy disbalance, we considered an excessively large number of resources available to the player and duration of a storyline campaign. A lot of work was produced.

• The number of chests, especially with 3 keys was reduced;
  
• The amount of Ash storms is slightly reduced;
  
• The ratio of the number of teleports has been changed. Now you will see more teleports in the red zone than in the yellow one;
  
• Slightly reduced the number of battles and the chance of Ambush;
  
• Fights rewards was reduced;
  
• An amount of extractable resources was reduced;
  
• The size of the dungeons in all chapters and the amount of resources, battles and chests inside were reduced;
  
• The duration of the second chapter is slightly reduced;
  
• Creating cards on a camp now costs less ash than the Blacksmith in Camp.
  

Despite such a big changes, the updated economy balance is an improved and more sparing version of the one that was when the game came out in early access. And, as a good game is supposed to be, the updated economy balance is friendlier to the new players, but now it is quite capable of challenging the masters of the Deck of Ashes :)

An important note:

The new economy balance is available only at the difficulty levels Adventurer and Martyr. Difficulty levels Wanderer and Raider will maintain the previous balance of power, taking in itself only a decrease in the duration of the second chapter and the size of the dungeons.



You asked a lot about this, friends. We have heard you. Thank you :))

The general pace of the game has been increased, as well as its individual elements:

• The speed of changing of turn was accelerated;
  
• The speed of playing cards by the enemy was accelerated;
  
• The interface animations were accelerated;
  
• Moving around the in-game map, as well as a large number of small details were accelerated.
  

You still can turn off the Quick mode in the settings. It would return the speed of the game that was before the update.



And here is the cherry on the top! More than 60 new animations were added in the game!

With this update, characters, bosses and all monsters will receive unique animations of non-attacking abilities that trigger during summoning, healing, and power-ups.



THANKS FOR READING AND DO NOT FORGET TO UPDATE THE GAME!

FACEBOOK - fresh content everyday!
DISCORD - discuss your deck with the community
INSTAGRAM - plenty of animated monsters :)
TWITTER - stay in touch with us!

In anticipation of Buck, we want you to be as interested as we are, so we have prepared a contest for you! All you here need is attentiveness and a little of activity :)



You have to collect the heroic image of Buck, which consists of 6 pieces of puzzle.



The pieces of puzzles will have been placed in our Facebook group, Twitter and Steam's forum.

But be attentive: after the pieces of puzzles gets to the network, you will have about 10 hours to save it on your PC. After passing this time, the pieces of puzzle will be deleted.



Here you can show your imagination. You can compose a picture in any graphic editor or print puzzles on a printer, put them on the floor and take a picture of this image. Any option is accepted that proves that you have found all 6 pieces of puzzles and put them together :)

Here's a tip how Buck should look like:





The first winner will receive the Deck of Ashes T-shirt. The second and third winners will receive a digital copy of the game :)





The list of winners will be announced as a separate post on September 11

The first 3 people who will send the image of Buck to us by mail will become the winners: [email protected]
The fastest winner will receive a T-shirt, and two less fast will receive a digital copy of the game. The list of winners will be announced in another seppareted post.

The T-shirt will be sent at our expense no matter where you live. If the winner does not contact within a week after being contacted, we reserve the right to choose another winner.

AN IMPORTANT LINKS FOR THE COMPETITION:

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