Journey to the West News

[h2]Happy Chinese New Year! [/h2]

This week, we added 5 brand-new side stories, adjusted and balanced 14 neutral cards, some relics, event choices, and bug fixes.

New side stories are now available for Wukong, Holy Monk, and Swine King, and more are coming!
The game is also on Taptap International (Android) and Aifadian (iOS and Android Beta testing), please pick your favorite platforms!

We added two new side stories for Wukong：

1. Prison Break - this was when the Monkey King was captured and sealed in the Furnace of Heaven. The Monkey King must defeat the High Taoist God and beak the Furnace within seven turns to survive.
   
2. Book of Death - In his early days as Monkey King, Wukong went to Hell and stole the Book of Death to protect his kin from death.
   

We adjusted the initial deck, relic, and consumables for “Kill the Skeleton Queen within three turns” and “Desert Kings,” aiming for a better user experience.



We added a new side story, “The Final Trial ”, for Holy Monk.

In the novel Journey to the West, the team finally arrives in Soul Mountains after finishing 80 challenges. However, to complete the journey, they now have one final trial left, making “81” challenges - the ideal number in Buddhist Mantra.

We adjusted the initial deck, relic, and consumables for “The New Story of Lady White” and “Travel with Death.



For White Dragon, we adjusted the initial deck, relic, and consumables for both “The Lantern Festival” and “Furious Dragons.”

Two new side stories for Swine King:

1. At the Spring of Nine Suns - in the Journey to the West, Swine King wants to join the spider sister at the Spring of Nine Suns but ends up in a fight.
   
2. The Bull King Family is a story inspired by Swine King’s inspiration to seek true love. He helps Jade Princess to seek an answer from the Bull King Family.
   

[h2]Balance and Enhancement[/h2]
We adjusted 14 neutral cards to improve the balance of the game.


We added an option (randomly appearing as one of four options) in the initial event - Stop 5 Cards from Appearing. Once selected, you can choose up to 5 cards from the Hero’s deck (75 possible cards that belong to this Hero) and ban them from this game.

[Note: this change might cause some old saves to expire. If you wish to continue with the old save, please switch to the version on 2023-01-12 and finish the game before updating.]



[h2]Other Balances[/h2]

• Bottle of Light and Shadow does not give Apparition.
  
• don't show the tooltip if text is empty.
  
• move dialog in combat if out of the screen.
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Potential bug fix when playing a card after consumable use.
  
• Fix exceptions when provoking NPC without intent.
  
• Transmutation card will change name after copying a target.
  

This week, we opened up trial 20 for endless mode, updated Event images, and made significant adjustments and bug fixes.

Notably, we added a brand-new card, Death Proof, to improve the survivability of Wukong:


We also modified these cards for Wukong:



[h2]Enhance and Balance[/h2]

1. Improve the Status Drop bar in combat.
   
2. Reduce the additional attack damage of Goddess of the Moon to 5% of the target's Max HP.
   
3. Princess Iron Fan is now an Elite.
   
4. Energy Drain now negates preserved energy.
   
5. High Initiative now gives 4 Lengths and 4 Weights.
   
6. Adjust event image of Chrysanthemum temple for Holy Monk.
   
7. Starfall now ignores Block when HP is lower than 50%.
   
8. Adjust Swine King’s Hunger Point mechanism.
   
9. Adjust some cards of the Hungry Pig
   
10. Adjust the passive of Hungry Pig by lowering the factor. 10%->5%
    
11. Add missing sound effect of Cyan Lion.
    
12. Adjusted Dark Unicorn description.
    

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

1. Fix a potential bug when using AOE Fiery Strike and gaining multiple consumables.
   
2. Fix a description bug of Goddess of Cruelty.
   
3. Fix Jade Emperor trait will crash the game when combined with certain relics.
   
4. Fix devouring consumable while using a potion will crash the game.
   
5. Fix descriptions of a few cards and relics.
   
6. Fix White Dragon plot crashes after defeat Emperor of Hell.
   
7. Fix multiple high buddha death will cause endless mode to crash.
   
8. Fix a crashing bug when transmutating Omen's trait.
   
9. Fix transmutation of Sword Dancer does not have any effect.
   
10. Fix Monkey King Bar talent cannot give a High Initiative card when your Hand is full at start of combat.
    
11. Fix a description bug of Goddess of Cruelty.
    
12. Fix player lose dialog for challenge mode.
    
13. Fix a crash when defeating jade emperor.
    
14. Other Bug Fixes
    

This week, we made a lot of adjustments to the newly released Swine King and fixed a set of bugs. We also polished assets and added new achievements for Swine King.

New start event image to reflect the Goddess of Mercy’s look!


Added 2 new achievements


[h2]Enhancement and Balance[/h2]

• To balance the high HP mechanism of Swine King, we adjusted some event choices that reduce HP for fix amount to a percentage amount specifically for Swine king.
  
• Updated some events choices to improve accessibility to the 8 commandments cards
  
• Add option in Swing King start event to give 2 commandment cards.
  
• Transmutation of Buddha of the Future gives 1 deflect every turn.
  
• Add Goddess of the Moon to endless mode.
  
• Oracle is now common.
  
• Improve Tactical Retreat.
  
• Monkey King's Skin now gives hair card at start of combat instead of first turn.
  

[h2]Bug fix[/h2]

• Font fix.
  
• Fix Gold Eyebrow won't change to Buddha form in Swine King's plot.
  
• Fix a bug that saving Queen of Rouge Kingdom and Princess of Sindhu Kingdom won't give Good point.
  
• Fix adamant won't give multiple invincible after stacking.
  
• Fix teamplayer of Ox Head and Horse Face will trigger when enemy is attacked.
  
• Fix No Lies, No Drinking incorrectly fails when using Transmutation.
  
• Fix more than 2 High Buddhas will cause combat to crash in endless mode.
  

[h3]Happy new year! Hope everyone stays warm and healthy during this cold weather! [/h3]

This week, we officially released the Swine King to the public branch! The Swine King has unique storylines with his love of life, Goddess of the Moon. Come to check out their love story and give them a happy ending (or a bad ending)!

The game is also on Taptap International (Android) and Aifadian (iOS and Android Beta testing), please pick your favorite platforms!




Formally known as the General of Galaxy in his previous life, Swine King starts with 2 initial relics. The Bottomless Stomach also grants him special ability to devouring consumables to accumulate hunger points.



Devouring consumables during combat:

1. Click on his “Stomach” next to the Energy
   
2. Pick up to 5 consumables to devour
   
3. Click “confirm”!
   

Similar to other characters, Swine King has to meet certain conditions to enter the final chapter:

• Heaven: No condition needed
  
• Soul Mountains: Collaborate with Golden Eyebrow, Or Good, Or Evil
  
• The Plane of Eternity:Good or Evil
  

Swine King also comes with 2 special companions: The Fat Pig and The Hungry Pig!

• Fat Pig: Available after beating Swine King Trial 0
  
• Hungry Pig: Available after beating Swine King Trial 1
  

Now you can build a dream team like this!


Appendix: compare conditions to enter the final chapter across heroes!

Merry Christmas!

This week, we kept making progress in developing Swine King: added art assets (card icon, status icons), added combat dialogs, made adjustments and enhancements, fixing bugs. Currently, you can try out this character on pre-release branch. We are planning to release Swine King to the public branch!
The game is also on Taptap International (Android) and Aifadian (iOS and Android Beta testing), please pick your favorite platforms!

In addition, we've released a new companion on pre-release branch - Fat Pig!



Endless Mode: we introduced all the NPCs from Chapter 4



Swine King content adjustment:

• Card:
  
  
  
  
• Transmutation:
  Nine-Head Pheonix When you lose 3 HP or Max HP, apply 3 Poisoned to all enemies.
  Carp King: When you receive 60 Attack damage, summon 2 Water Guardians.
  Lady White: Apply 2 Strangled when you attack.
  
  
• Talent:
  Hunger 1: Each Hunger Point gives an additional 5%.
  

Wukong content adjustment:

• Card:
  
  

[h2]Balance and Enhancement[/h2]

• Allow choices in the Yellow Stone event when you reencounter it in endless mode.
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed entrance scene camera near distance.
  
• Fixed a crash of White Dragon in endless mode.
  
• Fix Sinful does not trigger Holy Monk's talent.
  
• Fix Buddha of Joy skill which did not correctly apply Confused.