King of the Hill Season 34: "Season of Underdogs" | More PvE Content

[h2]• Seasonal Mutation: "Season of Underdogs" •[/h2]
[h3]Reworked "Director's Cut" mode[/h3]

The "Season of Synergy" has ended! The changes from it are reverted.

[h3]Welcome to Season 34 – "Season of Underdogs".[/h3]

🎬 The main feature of the season is the reworked "Director's Cut" mode. We've completely revamped the level balance and re-evaluated the core fundamentals of Despot's Game in this mode: Units cannot be lost in battle—fallen puny humans are resurrected after the fight. The only way to lose is to have your entire team obliterated in a single battle.

The fact your punies can't die doesn't mean this mode has become easy, lol. We believe this is the hardest mode in Despot's Game. There's no PvP, and it’s designed for players who felt the game lacked hardcore PvE content.

Additionally, we've rebalanced many mutations and abilities in this mode and aimed to create the ultimate single-player rogue-lite adventure based on the mechanics of our game. Hail Despot!

We've also prepared a pretty corporate-looking Google Forms survey—we’d love to hear your thoughts on the updated "Director's Cut." Please fill it out after playing—it will help us make the game better. 👇

Share Your Feedback on the "Director's Cut" mode

Seasonal Mutation: This season, we’ve significantly buffed all Tier 3 items. You guys have often mentioned that these items didn’t stand out enough from Tier 2 items but were almost as expensive as powerful Tier 4 items. We've tried to increase one or two stats for each Tier 3 item, and we hope this will raise their value.

[h3]• Modes Balance •[/h3]

• Curse of Restraint no longer appears in the Hunger Games mode.
  
• Curse of Magic now reduces less health: 40% ➔ 30%.
  
• Curse of Might has been buffed: damage 150 ➔ 200; self-damage chance 7% ➔ 5%.
  
• Enemy damage increase from Curse of Puniness has been reduced: 30 ➔ 15.
  
• Curse of Gluttony has been buffed: the damage cap has increased: 150 ➔ 300.
  

[h3]• "Brawl" Balance •[/h3]

• "Health Bonus" in the mutation tree has been buffed at levels two and three:
  
  1. Level 2: 100 ➔ 200
     
  2. Level 3: 200 ➔ 300
     
• The balance of "Magic Defense Bonus" in the mutation tree has been adjusted at levels one and two:
  
  1. Level 1: cost 10 ➔ 5; magic resistance percentage 30% ➔ 15%
     
  2. Level 2: magic resistance percentage 50% ➔ 35%
     
  3. Level 4: magic resistance percentage 90% ➔ 80%
     
• The first level has become significantly easier; other levels remain unchanged.
  

[h3]• Mutations Balance •[/h3]

• The effectiveness of the following mutations has been halved:
  
  1. Guard
     
  2. Cult Leader
     
  3. Guardian of the Order
     
  4. Serum of Strength
     
  5. Thrower Talisman
     
  6. Healer Talisman
     
• "Impostor" has been nerfed: damage bonus 75% ➔ 50%.
  
• "Strike a Light" now deals damage for 4 sec ➔ 2 sec
  
• "Armor Link" now gives more armor: 50% ➔ 60%
  
• "Final Aid" has been buffed: Now units receive 150 ➔ 200 damage bonus
  
• Damage bonus from "Skillful Link" has been increased: 20% ➔ 30%
  

[h3]• Items Balance •[/h3]

• Elden Charmed Ring (T3 for Mages) now grants +40% attack speed.
  
• Candle Skull (T3 for Cultists) now grants +25 armor.
  
• Pitchfork (T3 for Tricksters) now grants +70% attack speed.
  
• Sanuzzi Fridge (T3 for Tanks) now grants +25 health per level of the human.
  
• Plague Mask (T3 for Healers) now grants +20 damage per level-up.
  
• Yoga Pants (T3 for Fighters) now grants +130 damage and +60% attack speed.
  
• Grav-Gun (T3 for Eggheads) grants +100 damage, and its damage increases by 7 per level of the human.
  
• Sucker Gun (T3 for Shooters) grants +30% attack speed.
  
• Hidden Leaf Shuriken (T3 for Throwers) grants +50% attack speed.
  
• Chainsaw (T3 for Fencers) now deals 140 damage.
  

[h3]• Bug Fixes •[/h3]

• The descriptions of sacrificial pits now differ in modes with and without food.
  
• The tooltip on the shop upgrade button now displays correctly.
  
• The secret room now appears correctly on the mini-map if the conditions for its opening were met while the map was expanded.
  

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[h3]WINNERS:[/h3]




Congrats! Your victory medal has been added to your name on the leaderboard.

[h3]Season 34 starts right now and ends on December 5th at 16:00 UTC.[/h3]

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