Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator News

“Back up! Enter the bioreactor the labyrinth in an orderly fashion, there is enough space for everyone!"
Breaking News: the free demo is now available for everyone, we have published a new trailer, and you're welcome on our Discord server right now!

Check out this trailer:
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[h2]Despot’s Game Demo is LIVE![/h2]
Despot's Game demo is now open to everyone! Which means even more people will die on the way to Octoboss, even more people will die fighting him, and even more will hilariously kill each other trying to become the King of the Hill.
As a part of the Steam Game Festival, we'll be hosting live streams and Q&A sessions with the devs, so stay tuned! And of course ..

[h2]Join our Discord & Share your feedback [/h2]
Everybody starts their own public discord servers, and we started one too! There you can chat, communicate by voice, get banned by a moderator for posting NSFW pictures - well, you know, I love Discord! Few people know, but Konfa is a derivative of Conference, our company takes its roots from a small channel of friends on Skype, which has turned into a server in Discord. So not all chats are a waste of time!

• Discord: https://discord.gg/qfjYMk8D48
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Despotism_3k
• VK: https://vk.com/despotism3k
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DespotsGame

We usually just ask you to Wishlist us, but this time we want you to Follow us too!

Enjoy the ultra-hardcore gameplay stream with expert tactics and useful tricks from the favorite d'Spot's Russian streamer VitecPlay!

Join our Discord for more stuff!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227280/Despots_Game/

[h2]The news in brief[/h2]
Today we're closing down the playtest, but only after we've opened the public demo! You'll have to install the demo separately, and it will be available on this page. And there'll be more news soon!

[h2]Best human commander![/h2]
The most merciless and cunning human leader in the second season of the playtest was Wolzly! They took first and third places in the rankings! In first place, they assembled a team of Dodgers, Mages, Eggheads and Shooters with some mutations for the latter. In second and fourth place were GemeneRick and Peterson respectively.
As previously, we'll be giving the winners keys to Despotism 3k. We haven't released any other games, so no surprises here.

[h2]Update[/h2]
The updated version will be available today in demo, which will be posted a bit later.

• We've fixed the combination of Perforating Shots and Rubber Bullets with other mutations
  
• We've added information about all items and their drop rate (check the question mark in the top right-hand corner)
  
• We've added information about the drop rate of different items when you hover over the Upgrade button in the store
  
• Now when your humans have started moving towards a door, but you manage to click quickly on another door, they will change direction. We've given you the chance to change your mind. That's how generous we are!
  
  [h3]Balance changes:[/h3]
  
• We've completely changed the mutations purchase tree. Why? Because we can!
  
• At the same time, we've significantly altered randomly dropping mutations. Check the stats carefully!
  
• We've increased damage from the throwers' skill: From 50/180 damage ->80/260 damage
  
• We've lowered the price of Lightsaber and Dragon Slayer (9/14->8/12)
  
• We've reduced the ATK of all mages (80/130/180/230 -> 60/100/150/190/)
  

The winners of the second playtest season will be determined tomorrow at 15.00 GMT. We will announce them by 16.00 along with a list of balance changes for the next update and some more news. See you soon!

If you have never passed the playtest version of Despot's Game - you may skip this news and go play! Or wait to be given access ;) Playtest is not closed, it will last until February 2 when the Steam Game Festival starts, which we will participate in. Then anyone will be able to play the Despot's Game demo for a whole week!

[h2]The winner[/h2]
of the "0 playtest season" is tata_live! They took 3 positions in the leaderboard and killed the octoboss 10 times! The second place is taken by Desist, and the third place by fuchs080! This is not a contest with prizes, but we decided to give each of the winners a key for Despotism 3k, so that they can either activate it themselves, if they haven't played yet, or give it to one of their friends.
We also want to thank Wolzly, Nyek, Boshed and others who beat the octoboss many times! We are very glad that even an early version of the game got some players so excited.

[h3]Balance update[/h3]
We're doing a very small balance update today, but don't feel like we're ignoring the feedback. We are collecting it to draw conclusions for the release version. The main thing I would like to say right away: the release version will have a lot more content and a different rating system in multiplayer.

List of balance changes:

• Decreased Tentacle’s physical size: it is getting stuck less
  
• Increased Tanks’ HP by 30%
  
• Increased the HP of Fighters by 50%
  
• Slightly increased Fencers’ HP
  
• Lightsaber is now of higher quality (cannot be found in a level 1 shop)
  
• Reduced the price of the "Plague Mask"
  
  
• Eggheads: nerfed the Emitter. It has less health at all levels, buffs/debuffs for attack and attack speed are weaker, the duration of the buffs/debuffs is shorter at level 2 and 3 of the ability
  
• Throwers: Greatly increased the damage of Bomb ability (30/100 -> 50/180)
  
• Mages: nerfed damage from Thunderbolt level 2 (1000 -> 700)
  
• Shooters: nerfed Attack Speed Aura level 2 (50% -> 40%)
  
  
• Evasion mutations (from the altar) nerfed: 30/60% -> 20/40%
  
• Mana Burn, Fury and Vampirism mutations are no longer dropped for Medics and Cultists
  
• Fast Reload mutation nerfed: 1.5-> 1.3
  
• Weighed Dice mutation nerfed: 1.5-> 1.3
  
• Super Punch can be dropped for a limited list of classes
  
• Splash can be dropped for a limited list of classes
  
  Mutations tree:
• Swordsmen Vampirism nerfed: 20/50/100% -> 5/10/30%
  
• Medics' Evasion nerfed: 40/60% -> 30/50% and level 2 now costs 15 tokens
  
• Tentacle armor bonus buffed: 15/25/40 -> 20/35/60