Despot's Game: Dystopian Battle Simulator News

[h2]"Greetings, puny humans![/h2]

Despot here. Today is a very important day: I have a major update for you, even though you certainly don't deserve such a treat. But don't worry, you'll eventually earn the right to it down in my dark, damp dungeon. Here's what we added."


[h2]• Stats Screen 📊 •[/h2]

"I adore pie charts, graphs, and watching humans suffer. After a bit of thinking, I decided to satisfy every one of these desires, and added the feature presented below."



"Now I won't need to constantly remind you of how puny you are because you'll be able to see it for yourself as soon as you look at the stats screen 📊. This screen can be found in a new tab of the window that appears when you finish a run. It shows how your humans' stats changed on various floors and the progression of your mutations and buttons, plus gives you economic advice. We'll add multiplayer match stats for King of the Hill sometime, too, but for now, it's just monster fights.

I've been meaning to give my cute little humans, robots, and undead a little more attention recently. So I gave it to them – and ended up with…⬇️"


[h2]• New PvE Mode: Director's Cut 🎬 •[/h2]

"This mode is for anyone who wants to go head-to-head with me and see just what I'm capable of when I, the Despot, am free of all restraints. The interdimensional Despotariat's rules don't apply here, which means I can do whatever I want with you!

I added some powered-up versions of monsters with new abilities and new room configurations, especially for this mode, plus adjusted the balance. No King of the Hill here. And just you wait: I'll add even more sophisticated forms of torture to Director's Cut mode in future updates.

[h3]Want to watch the devs suffer in Director's Cut mode? Watch the live stream now! ⬇️[/h3]
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227280/Despots_Game_Dystopian_Battle_Simulator/

I almost forgot: I did away with Hard Mode. Director's Cut mode is hardcore enough, so it was unnecessary."
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[h2]• Official Merch 👕 •[/h2]



"In the distant future where this game takes place, your filthy human money is worthless. But in the present, it's quite useful for my puny humans, since they still have the gargantuan task of putting me, the Despot, on my cybernetic throne in the next thousand years ahead of them. To help speed up their work, I sent them designs for my official merchandise.

I've dissected your puny brains a hundred different ways in my laboratories already and peered deep into the darkest corners of human consciousness. After picking through your thoughts, I came up with a selection of items that you physically cannot resist!

You, too, can hasten my ascension at the link below ⬇️ by buying some nifty t-shirts, socks, and... something else which will pleasantly surprise you!"

[h2]🛒DESPOT'S GAME OFFICIAL MERCH🛒[/h2]

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"Now, let's return to today's update. As usual, I despotically examined the balance. Let me tell you what's changed.

The interdimensional Despotariat is constantly changing the rules of the game and coming to new agreements on how exactly puny humans should be utilizing each other, so things can get tricky. But we were able to settle on this: I present to you the latest iteration of the Despot's Game " Official Rules™!"

[h3]• Balance Changes •[/h3]

• We're removing Mass Taunt from PvP: this mutation will no longer be offered in King of the Hill modes. We'll bring it back once we rework it
  
• Delayed Pain duration reduced: 4s ➔ 3s
  
• The Egghead Towers now have armor: 10 at level 1, 20 at level 2 and 30 at level 3
  
• Explosive Attack can now be obtained starting on level 5 (previously available from level 9)
  
• Shooters can no longer get Healthy Fat, Last Chance, or Evasion
• Rain of Bullets damage increased: 0.1 ➔ 0.3
  
• Tricksters can no longer get Soul Destruction. However, Shooters can get it now!
  
• All creatures summoned via buttons have had their health and damage significantly buffed
  
• Cost of humans when Curse of Variety is active has been reduced: 5 tokens ➔ 2 tokens
  
• Mage class abilities buffed at levels 2 and 3: 200 ➔ 250, 350 ➔ 500
  
• Percent of damage returned by Spiky Armor reduced: 40% ➔ 30%
  

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[h3]WINNERS:[/h3]


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

[h3]Season 15 starts right now and ends August 31 at 16:00 UTC.[/h3]

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"Someone PLEASE explain to me why the puny human in the GIF above isn't being forced to fight in the despot games? How did he get on the roof of a skyscraper? Puny humans like him should be wandering through my maze! So what's he doing lounging around, playing the guitar, and growing little cabbages?! And those robot minions of his? They should be faithfully serving ME, not carrying out his every demeaning demand! And the man himself? He should be fighting giant flesh-eating plants, not making salad and cooking fish!

Bring me his head this instant! I AM FUTURE here, not him!"

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[h2]Check out I Am Future on Steam![/h2]

We personally know the development team of that game, Mandragora Studio. I Am Future is a survival game in a post-apocalyptic setting. When the whole planet was flooded, civilization dwindled away (just like your units' HP on the last floor of Despot's Game). You take on the role of the above-mentioned survivor as he chills on the rooftop of a skyscraper, does some fishing, and programs cute little robots to help him build his base. In I Am Future, you can create your own farm, automate resource production with robotic minions and generators, plus use a drone to explore the megalopolis flooded by the ocean. The release date is August 8th. Check the game out, puny humans:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1658040/I_Am_Future_Cozy_Apocalypse_Survival/

[h3]If you like it, add it to your wishlist to support the devs ☝️[/h3]




All hail the Despot!

This is a comparatively small patch. The most important new things are that we reworked Bloodletting for Healers (this is a mutation that turns healing into an attack). Mutations that affect Healers' healing now do damage when combined with Bloodletting. We also increased the EXP received in Sprint, reworked Normal and Hard modes, and made balance changes, of course (something got nerfed)!

We have also added a display of your current team's results in the King of the Hill mode. It shows the following stats:

1. The change in your team's position since entering the ranking;
   
2. The total number of battles your team has defended (when the team is "blue");
   
3. The number of victories in defense;
   
4. The number of defeats in defense.
   

Sometimes, the number of defeats may not match the number of positions you have "lost" on the leaderboard. This happens because players who are ranked higher than you can defeat your team any number of times without causing you to lose your present ranking—because the player who defeated you was initially ranked higher than you. Your position changes only when a player ranked lower than you defeats your team.

Our next update's going to be a big one, so keep an eye out for details on these forums and our Discord server!

[h2]• Game Mode Balance •[/h2]

• Changed the order mutations are given in Hard Mode;
  
• Nerfed Catbots a little (let's just say floors 2-3 are now, ahem... beatable);
  
• Changed the pool of enemies you can encounter in Normal mode;
  
• Added a base mutation for Sprint that increases EXP received by 30%.
  

[h2]• Mutation Balance •[/h2]

• When combined with mutations that affect Healers' healing, Bloodletting now transforms those mutations into maiming mutations. For example, Sweet Pill to Swallow becomes Sleeping Pill to Swallow, and instead of increasing ally attack speed, it reduces enemy attack speed;
  
• Nerfed Curse of Gluttony, food requirements increased: 100% ➔ 130%;
  
• Last Chance dodge chance reduced: 35% ➔ 25%;
  
• Health restored by Thrill of Battle reduced: 20 ➔ 15;
  
• Feint damage reduced: 250 ➔ 200;
  
• Attack bonus from Powerful Pill reduced: 50 ➔ 40;
  
• Attack speed bonus from Sweet Pill to Swallow reduced: 80 ➔ 50;
  
• Attack speed buff from Effective Aura reduced: 15 ➔ 10;
  
• Dodge chance multiplier for Most Dexterous reduced: 5 ➔ 3;
  
• Damage bonus from Impostor reduced: 100% ➔ 75%;
  
• Magic Mirror proc chance reduced: 15 ➔ 10.
  

[h3]Here's a teaser from the next BIG UPDATE as a bonus for those who read through our patch notes:[/h3]


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[h3]WINNERS:[/h3]


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[h3]Season 14 starts right now and ends on August 10th at 16:00 UTC.[/h3]

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It's a great chance to pick up the game with all the recent big updates that added two new modes to the game: No Food and Sprint.



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

[h3]Hurry, puny humans: the offer ends on July 13th.[/h3]

In this update, we reevaluated the No Food Sprint mode economy and room generation rules (your humans will get more tokens and XP now!), nerfed a few defensive mutations, and made minor balance adjustments to open up more diverse PvP builds.

We also widened the pool of mutations available at altars on level 1: now you'll be offered mutations that were previously available starting on level 2. We chose to limit this a while ago to avoid forcing experienced players to restart the game repeatedly, but now we have other mechanisms to promote playing without restarting, so we changed this.


[h2]• Changes to the Sprint Mode (Without Food) •[/h2]

• Maximum puny human cost reduced: 15 ➔ 10;
  
• Number of rooms on the last floor increased: 8 ➔ 10;
  
• Amount of tokens received for completing a room on the first floor increased.
  

[h2]• Mutation Balance Changes •[/h2]

• Rubber Bullets ricochet damage reduced: 0.5 ➔ 0.3 (mutation nerfed);
  
• Cursed Armor damage reduced: 110 ➔ 70;
  
• Curse of Variety bonus health reduced: 3% ➔ 1%;
  
• Percent of damage returned by Thorn Armor reduced: 60% ➔ 40%;
  
• Stunning Beauty proc chance reduced: 20% ➔ 10%;
  
• Magic Mirror duration and proc chance reduced: 3s ➔ 2s; 30% ➔ 15%;
  
• Compensation bonus armor reduced: 50 ➔ 20;
  
• Chance to find food and items from Newbie's Luck reduced; food: 10% ➔ 2%; items: 3% ➔ 1%;
  
• Medical Vampirism buffed: 15% ➔ 20%;
  
• Tolerance has been buffed at all levels in the mutation tree: [20%, 30%, 40%] ➔ [30%, 40%, 50%];
  
• Fhtagn bonus in the mutation tree has been reduced at all levels: [30, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500] ➔ [20, 70, 150, 200, 300, 400];
  
• [Brawl only] Mglw'nafh bonus in the mutation tree has been reduced: 100% ➔ 50%;
  
• [Brawl only] Effective Taunt duration reduced: 2s ➔ 1s.
  

[h2]• Other Changes •[/h2]

• The Archived Newbies button in the Sprint mode with food can now be pressed twice;
  
• The mutation pool available at altars on level 1 has been expanded: it now includes mutations from level 2.
  

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[h3]WINNERS:[/h3]


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

[h3]Season 13 starts right now and ends on July 20th at 16:00 UTC.[/h3]

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