Tenderfoot Tactics News

• Worm 'Ram' and Polearm 'Charge' now cause knockback in the direction of caster movement, even if the charging unit ends up on the other side of the hit unit.
  
• Fixed a bug with Polearm 'Charge' that was preventing it from displaying tooltips dynamically added by equipment, e.g. the +knockback from a pearl.
  
• Fixed a bug with Polearm 'Charge' that was causing it to 'hit' the targeted unit even if the Polearm's charge would be blocked.
  
• Removed newlines from status effect descriptions. Multiple effects from one status are now separated by commas.
  
• Fixed a bug with Freezing Ray 2's damage not upgrading.
  
• Bewitch 2 and 3 can now be self-targeted and only hit enemies.
  

• Beginning around the level you start seeing trolls, enemy goblins will now have a chance to be any playable breed you've unlocked. Goblins spawned from behemoths will still always be unevolved goblins. As you level up, you'll see advanced goblin breeds more and more often.
  
• Incoming waves will now telegraph their source direction using the same display as 'incoming fog enemies chasing you' (soft red lines).
  
• Newly deployed enemy waves are no longer purely random in their insertion into the turn order, will always make sure the player gets a couple turns mixed into their first few turns.
  
• Fae Tree waves are now slightly harder. Used to be 50% of the player party's normal difficulty level, raised to 60%.
  
• Waves in custom encounters other than Fae Trees are now slightly weaker. Used to be 100% of a normal party strength, reduced to 90%.
  
• Frost Giants had their challenge rating increaseed slightly (you'll get more experience from them and they'll show up in smaller groups on average).
  
• Added Shatter (Lich) and Immovable (Battlemage) as learnable abilities for Frost Giants.
  
• Fixed a bug causing Frost Giants to always have Breaker (it's still a learnable ability as they level up though).
  
• Party Menu music now only interrupts and mutes ambient world audio if you're in the fog.
  
• Healed some cursed objects that were vanishing when viewed from certain angles.
  
• Added a 'retries permitted' setting to the difficulty settings. This is disabled in 'iron' and 'bone' difficulty modes. You'll still be able to cheese retries by closing the game and rebooting it, but that's true on most ironman modes, so I think it's alright.
  
• Added a general warning about (/recommendation against) messing with the difficulty settings on your first playthrough.
  
• It will now rain less on average.
  
• When inspecting/focusing a goblin's abilities during combat, using gamepad, status effect tick counts should show (they hadn't been previously).
  
• The 'Burning' status effect now generates 2x the amount of heat it did previously, to increase the odds that it starts fires under affected goblins.
  
• Fixed a bug where taunted units would have their taunt target changed when someone applied a non-taunt status effect to them.
  
• Minor AI bugfixes.
  

• new: Anesthetize 2 (+25 healing upgrade)
  

• new: Scamper 2 (adds 480 ticks of regen to hit units)
  
• new: Clear 2 (removes status effects, +5 healing upgrade)
  
• Flourish got a +5 healing buff
  

• new: Skewer 3 (+10 dmg upgrade)
  
• new: Repulse 2 (+10 dmg upgrade)
  

• new: Blood Curse 2 (shape upgrade from point to cross)
  
• new: Freezing Ray 2 (+10 dmg upgrade)
  
• Blood Curse tick duration increased from 500 to 1000
  

• Tend 2/3 got a +5 healing buff
  

• 'Flash' base damage raised from 5 --> 10, but now applies 'Burning' to caster.
  

Tenderfoot Tactics is probably one of the best games released this year. An open-world tactics RPG that mixed real-time exploration and turn-based tactical battles, with a really gorgeous simple visual style with bright colours.

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• Keymap / rebinding menus
  
• An option to skip the intro and instead start in a random location, for people returning for a 'new game+' experience
  
• Difficulty settings with some funky challenge modes for people who want to spice up their new game+
  
• Significant improvements to the AI
  
• Improvements to enemy variety, especially in the mid-late game, with enemies now leveling up and learning new abilities
  
• Improvements to major mechanics (fire/burning)
  
• New abilities and ability shapes (long cone!)
  
• The ability to hide tutorials
  
• And a bunch of bug fixes, quality of life stuff, and broad gameplay tweaks
  

• Incoming waves of additional enemies now telegraph their source direction while they're counting down turns-until-entry
  
• Newly deployed enemy waves get inserted into the turn order in a more fair, less purely-random method, to make sure players get a chance to react
  
• Further improvements to enemy variety: beginning around the level you start seeing trolls, fog goblins have a chance to be any playable breed you've unlocked
  

• Fixed a bug causing the (X) close button in the keymapping menu to not show up if you entered the keymapping menu from the pause menu.
  
• Scooched the settings menu slightly to center it better.
  
• Fixed a bug where you could click through the difficulty menu to the pause menu if you clicked in just the wrong place.
  
• Fixed a bug causing the skill tooltip display to remain up indefinitely if you paused while hovering a skill in combat deployment.
  
• Turn order shuffling at combat setup is now pseudo-random, guarantees the player's first goblin goes either first or second, attempts a somewhat more even distribution as the initial order.
  
• Added tooltips to the difficulty settings. (Only accessible with cursor currently, sorry gamepads!)
  
• Fixed a recently introduced bug making scrollwheel not work with memory/affinity selection.