Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator News

"When it comes to numbers, you really like to brag about them for whatever reason. And I, the Despot, really like to watch you fight each other to the death over those numbers! That's why I added another leaderboard to the game—to keep track of the aforementioned numbers in the 'Brawl' mode. Besides that, there's fresh content you've been begging me to give to you!"



[h2]• Unique Tier 4 Weapon Abilities •[/h2]

1. Tank: “Demoralizing Blow”. During an attack, gives a Tank chance to deal damage to a specific area and reduce an enemy's attack;
   
2. Fencer: “The Force”. Gives a Fencer a chance to deflect an enemy's attack. Applies only to ranged attacks;
   
3. Trickster: “Pain Lover”. A Trickster receives a damage bonus each time they take damage (Max.: 100%);
   
4. Fighter: “Black Swan”. If a Fighter's health is at 50% or lower when they receive damage, they summon a Black Swan: a decoy clone of themselves with lesser attack and weaker damage resistance. A maximum of one Black Swan can be summoned during a battle;
   
5. Healer: “Shock Therapy”. When healing teammates, a Healer receives a 20% chance to deal damage equal to the healing value to enemies within the range of the healing target;
   
6. Thrower: “Fish Slap”. Each third time the Throwers' class ability is triggered, poisons enemies with the explosion;
   
7. Shooter: “Railgun”. Each fifth attack deals additional magical damage;
   
8. Cultists: “Tiny Tentacle”. When a tentacle is summoned, spawns an additional tiny tentacle;
   
9. Mage: "Final (uni)Form". After several active abilities are triggered in a battle, a Mage takes the "Final Form" and receives stat bonuses;
   
10. Egghead: “Build A Turret”. Places a sentry turret.
    

[h2]• 'Brawl' Mode Leaderboard •[/h2]

As promised, we've added a rating system to 'Brawl.' It has a difference or two from the 'King of the Hill' one, though. Here's how it works:

• Your rating determines the league you are sent to. The league, in turn, determines how many points you gain or lose depending on the number of wins in your run.
  
• The higher the league, the more PvP wins you need to go up and not down in the rankings.
  
• If you hadn't finished your run (hadn't spent all three lives) and then started a new game, overwriting your older save, your rating will change: the number of wins from your previous run will be counted. For example, if you had started a 'Brawl' run and then decided to start anew without ever finishing it, you risk losing your rating since a start with zero wins is what's going to be counted.
  
• Unlike 'King of the Hill', there is no regular change of seasons on the 'Brawl' leaderboard. Perhaps the day will come when we decide to reset the leaderboard and start rewarding leaders. However, there are no plans to do that so far.
  

[h2]• Other changes •[/h2]

• Mutation altars now show what mutations are available at the current level;
  
• Random mutations now can be unlocked by defeating other players' armies in the 'Brawl' mode;
  
• Items found using the "Newbie's Luck" mutation can now be sold in the store for 12.5% of their cost;
  
• The "Hypochondria" mutation now gives puny humans a universal dodge ability (a chance to avoid taking damage from enemy attacks/abilities) for the duration of the mutation;
  
• Changed icons for some statuses that had previously had a generic icon.
  

[h3]• Balance changes •[/h3]

• “Newbie's Luck”: the chance to find an item: 1 -> 3%. Both Tier 1 and Tier 2 items can be found;
  
• “Topochlorians”: damage bonus at latter levels: 570; 700% -> 550; 650%.
  

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[h3]THE WINNERS:[/h3]


Congratulations, puny humans! Special medals have been added to your nickname on the KotH leaderboards.

[h3]Season 8 starts now and ends on March 23rd at 4 pm UTC.[/h3]

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We have a small seasonal update for you today: some buffs, and some nerfs, as always. But in the next update after this one, we'll have some truly meaty content for you, ya faithful servants ov the Despot!

[h2]• Plans for the upcoming (8th) season •[/h2]

Level 4 item abilities ↓



The "Brawl" multiplayer mode ranking system ↓



List of random mutations available on a level
A whole bunch of minor changes and additions we've been stockpiling

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[h3]• Balance Changes •[/h3]

Expand to read the (as always) despotically huge list of changes ↓

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• Some starting teams have been buffed. Thanks to our long-time community member and moderator-in-training Puny spudiiman for his insightful suggestions!
  
• In the Mutagens difficulty mode, the price of More Altars has been raised to 20 tokens
  

Random mutation changes:



Mutation tree changes:

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[h3]THE WINNERS:[/h3]


Congratulations, puny humans! Special medals have been added to your nickname on the KotH leaderboards.

[h3]Season 7 starts now and ends on March 2nd at 4 pm UTC.[/h3]

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Hey there, punies. Nothing special here, just us still improving the game balance for all of you ungrateful hums.

[h3]• Balance Changes •[/h3]

Random mutation changes:

Mutation tree changes:



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[h3]THE WINNERS:[/h3]


Congratulations, puny humans! Special medals have been added to your nickname on the KotH leaderboards.

[h3]Season 6 starts now and ends on February 9th at 4 pm UTC.[/h3]

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[h3]To celebrate, the Despot prepared 9 Fun Facts about his game you've never heard of. Let's dive into them, shall we?[/h3]

[h2]- FACT 1/9 -[/h2]



[h2]- FACT 2/9 -[/h2]

PLAY DIE BACK IN YOUR BROWSER

[h2]- FACT 3/9 -[/h2]



[h2]- FACT 4/9 -[/h2]

DRAW CHILLY - Meatbags 3k DLC on Steam

[h2]- FACT 5/9 -[/h2]



[h2]- FACT 6/9 -[/h2]



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Visit the official Despot's Game Discord server

[h2]- FACT 8/9 -[/h2]

Check Calvares's games out on Steam

[h2]- FACT 9/9 -[/h2]


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Alright, punies, there you have it—10 facts about the greatest villain of all time and his game, which also happens to be the greatest. Let us know what you think about these facts in the comments below. And speaking of the greatest games: they tend to last. This is precisely the case with Despot's Game: we will continue to roll out updates, deliver new content and nurture our puny human community. So the last thing we want to talk to you about this year is our studio's plans for the future.

[h3]KONFA GAMES'S FUTURE PLANS[/h3]

We continue improving Despot’s Game and would like to share some of our plans. This isn’t a roadmap or a public offer but a set of tasks that we’ve already started working on or that we’ve decided to work on.

THINGS WE WILL BE WORKING ON IN THE NEAR FUTURE:

• Run stats and specific battle stats. These are two significant and interrelated UX tasks. They should make it easier to understand the efficiency of different classes and different mutations and make it easier to identify strategic mistakes.
  
• Abilities for tier 4 items. We’re unlikely to bestow unique abilities on all items, but we’ll certainly do it for tier 4 items, similar to the tier 5 ones.
  
• Fine-tuning the UX of the Challenges DLC. Some features, like searching for the required mutation in the store with infinite reroll, need more work. This fine tuning really needs to be done ASAP.
  
• New text events. Cause, you know... Why the hell are we not doing more of them?
  
• New mutations, of course! Yes, we still don’t think there are enough mutations, so there will be more.
  

In addition, there are many minor tasks left to do, i.e., polishing the game. For example, limiting which text events can appear in the first biome, finishing the sound effects for some of the mutations, and adding quirky idle animations for all the humans.

We’re also planning to experiment with new game modes. The first on the list is a mode with no food at all. It’s pretty hard to make such a mode well-balanced, but we’ll try. Some future updates won’t contain any new content—only balance changes. We’re trying to move on to less frequent but more extensive content updates, since every content update takes a lot of time to upload, localize and test (updates are published not only on Steam but also on EGS and mobile platforms now.) So if you see an update that only contains balance changes, this doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped developing new content for Despot’s Game—we’re just saving up the new content.

You might have noticed that no new monsters are being announced. That’s right, we’ve decided that there are enough already. There might be new ones in the future, but for now, we’ve paused continuously generating new opponents. Why? Because it’s time for a NEW PROJECT! A new uNaNnoUnCeD project in the Despot universe! We’re going to expand our team in 2023 so that there are enough Despot's minions to work on Despot’s Game and that new title. But don’t ask us about it, alright? Just wait for the official announcement!

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And that wraps it up for this year, hums. It's was a damn awesome year, and we're grateful to each and every one of you for fearlessly crawling Despot's dungeon, tossing toxic feedback at our unsuspecting butts, sh*tting on the game's balance, asking us to buff Healers and just for being with us.

Merry Desptmas, Happy New Year and see you all in 2023, puny humans! If you want to wish the Despot something for Christmas, go ahead and use the comment section under this post.

P.S.: Your feedback is not toxic at all: it was a salty joke in the Despot's tone of voice. You're the best community ever, punies.

The game, the Challenges DLC and the soundtrack are all discounted.

[h3]Despot's Game:[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227280/Despots_Game_Dystopian_Battle_Simulator/

[h3]The Collector's Edition:[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23149/Despots_Game_Collectors_Edition/

[h3]Already have the game? Gift it to a puny friend![/h3]

The offer ends on January 5th, so hurry up, hums.