Dandy Ace Open Beta - Patch Notes
Greetings Magicians!
Since the end of Beta #1 we have been working hard on taking that feedback and translating it to improvements for Dandy Ace. We want to thank everyone who participated, joined in the Dev Talks on Discord, and helped us improve. It is thanks to your help that we are here now ready to introduce the improvements we have been working on for our second open beta test!
Everyone is welcome to join and we are excited to hear what you think about our new content!
This beta test will run from December 4th until December 14th. With a special Dev Talk on the Official Discord on Saturday, December 12th at 19:00 (UTC).
If you have any feedback or thoughts on Dandy Ace please let us know by filling out this survey!
Beta Feedback Survey: https://forms.gle/mmrhLQhniw1NGVcB8
Or simply join the Mad Mimic Community Discord and let us know what you think!
IMPORTANT: All save data will be wiped once the beta begins. [h2]1. New Features[/h2]
[h3]Palace Map[/h3]
- At the start of each level we’ve added a new intractable object, the Palace Map. This shows an overview of the Palace layout.
[h3]New Trinkets[/h3]
- We’ve added 5 new trinkets into the game.
- Discharged Shoes: After 5 seconds without taking damage, Ace's Main Cards deals more damage. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace.
- Protagonist Fist: After killing an enemy Ace's Main Cards deals more damage for 10 seconds. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace.
- Invocation Mastery (Blueprint Required): Increases all Condition's damage. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace. This trinket effects: Bleed, Burn, and Poison.
- Blue Deck (Blueprint Required): Blue Skills deals more damage. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace.
- Cloak of the Virtuoso (Blueprint Required): When Ace's HP is full, his Main Cards deals more damage. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace.
- Discharged Shoes: After 5 seconds without taking damage, Ace's Main Cards deals more damage. The damage increases as Ace progresses through the Palace.
- We added a machine next to all shops which is able to upgrade a card’s tier.
- The machine will be broken to begin with and can be fixed by purchasing an upgrade with Shards.
[h3]Shop Reshuffle [/h3]
- Players can now reshuffle the cards available at a shop.
- Players start with 1 free reshuffle and can purchase additional free reshuffles through Shard upgrades.
- After all free reshuffles have been used, players must spend gold.
- Players start with 1 free reshuffle and can purchase additional free reshuffles through Shard upgrades.
- The Boss Fights now have their own unique visual environments.
- We have enabled Twitch Mode for Twitch streamers to use.
- Twitch Mode adds the ability for streamers to have their viewers interact with them through chat. They can vote on things such as the next level, which cards the player receives, and one viewer can even play as LeLe. They will be able to choose from a variety of dialogue options to support or taunt the streamer as well as activate different skills.
[h2]2. Balance Changes[/h2]
[h3]Character movement[/h3]
- We’ve adjusted and improved Ace’s movement.
- Players now can access and teleport to the various portals on the level from both the Portals themselves and the Map.
- Players can also teleport to unused Cupcakes, Cards and Blueprints directly.
- Shooting Stars: We added some slight AoE damage onto the first two stars.
- Skills with Hold mechanics: We reduced the Cooldown and Recovery time for skills with these mechanics to improve the overall feel of those skills.
- Bubble Trouble and Sim Sala Beam: Have had their damage increased.
- All Blink Skills: Reduced cooldown time.
- All Dash Skills: Increased the hitbox area.
- Blue Cards Skills: Reduced the CC duration effect of Blue Skills
- Upgrade effects used on a Blue Card have also had their duration reduced.
- Stun / Fear / Charm / Slow / Bind
- Upgrade effects used on a Blue Card have also had their duration reduced.
- Offensive Yellow Cards: Damage has been increased
- Deadly Cleanse / Consume Power / Packet Trick / Cosmic Vortex / Vanish
- Starburst: Size of has been increased
- Toxic Veil Rework: We have reworked this card and it is now called Toxic Spray.
- Changed the skill from a line in front of Ace to a frontal cone AoE attack.
- Minor Lightning Effect: Size of the AoE has been increased.
- Lightning Reflexes and Combat Casting:
- Both of these Trinkets now give 15% damage reduction for their respective damage types.
- Removed the negative effect from each.
- Both of these Trinkets now give 15% damage reduction for their respective damage types.
- Trap Senses: Increased the hazard effectiveness on enemies and decreased the hazard effectiveness on Ace.
- Vampirism: Reduced the amount of healing Ace received.
- Spiked Shoes: Increased the duration of the effect.
- Increased all enemies attack and move speed.
- Slightly increased all enemies HP.
- Increased the range the enemy starts to chase the player.
[h2]3. Other Changes[/h2]
[h3]Languages[/h3]
- Additional languages are now available in the game.
- English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Russian and Polish.
- Improved the UI and added various Icons.
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