Journey to the West News

This week, we are making good progress on developing endless mode and the final chapter! Major updates are:

• Endless Mode: Almost finished all the logic and functionalities implementation; working on map hookup
  
• Chapter 4: Working on the new map and combat scene drawings
  
• Keyboard shortcut: You can now press the E key to end your turn
  

Jade palace: One of the final battles will happen inside the Jade Palace - where the Jade Emperor resides



Soul Mountain: Wukong will face one of his final challenges on top of Soul Mountain



Heaven Map: Check out the preview of Heaven. What happened when Heaven was chopped in half? We will reveal it later!



New character with corresponding effects



Card UI: We plan to redesign card UIs to provide a better experience. Here is a candidate for the new Wukong card UI design - please leave us your feedback!



[h2]Enhancement and Balancing[/h2]
Relic:

• Vampire's Handkerchief now gives 2 Max HP when you defeat someone
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

Game logic bug fixes

• Fixed a bug in the skip dialog
  
• Fixed scaling problem of the Celestial of Wisdom
  
• Fixed Spirit Shifting not showing the description correctly when a relic modifies a copied card
  
• Fixed Demon Bones still damaging the player after the target is dead
  

Localization and text bug fixes

• Corrected Palm Leaf Fan’s description
  
• Fixed some expressions in event and dialog
  

Other Bug Fixes

• Other small adjustments
  

This week, we are making good progress on developing internal tools and the final chapter! Major updates are:

• Internal tool development:
  
  • Improved in-game analytics of player data
    
  • Working on a brand new plot editor for modding future story and events editing
    
• Side Story: Working on a new challenge - Spider Queen’s revenge
  
• Chapter 4: Adding effects for each character; working on new background music and content drawings. Adding animations for characters.
  
  Jade Emperor
  
  
  
  Goddess of Mercy
  
  
  
  The Spiritual Realm
  
  
  
  Soul Mountains
  
  

[h2]Enhancement and Balancing[/h2]
Wukong card

• Reduce the requirement of Acupuncture Hair to 5 and increment to 2
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]
Game logic bug fixes

• Fix the issue that many relics will be triggered by the trader
  
• Fix a Peach Fairy charm card will not charm anyone after using it with zero energy once
  
• Do not show trader in the compendium
  
• Fix a bug where spirit shifting will not remove keywords after combat ends
  

Localization and text bug fixes

• Fix some expressions in event and dialog
  

Other Bug Fixes

• Other small adjustments
  

Hotfix 1.7.60

This week, we are making good progress on developing endless mode and the final chapter! Major updates are:

• Implemented a new feature that a merchant is added in some important combats to provide you an opportunity to buy a consumable before combat gets started. For example Black Hurricane, Son of Fire, Dream Walker, Centipede Monarch, Voodoo Elder, Emissary of Heaven, Nine-Head Phoenix
  
  
  
  
• Largely improve the user experience of picking combat objects
  
  • Resolve the issue of picking the wrong combat objects due to occlusion
    
  • Picking area is now aligned with the sprite of combat object instead the bounding box
    
• Endless Mode: Support random endless mode
  
• Chapter 4: Finish all the implementation of NPC of chapter 4, working on the testing
  

[h2]Optimization[/h2]
Optimize UI to improve user experiences:

• Adjust the size of the current Guardian Sword indicator
  
• Add copy map seed button
  
• Adjust arrow location
  
• Add support for backup files
  

[h2]Enhancement and Balancing[/h2]
NPC

• Increase the turn requirement of thief rabbit escape by 1 to avoid early escape
  
• Lady Green’s handkerchief can be stolen
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

Game logic bug fixes

• Don’t show status tooltips when potion picker presents
  
• Fix a potential crash of miracle silk wrap
  
• Fix a potential bug when hovering the status icon but combat is already ended
  
• Fix a freezing bug caused by reusing projectile effect
  
• Fix minion thief rabbit does not return gold when defeated
  
• Fix a bug when Double Down will not stop after using it twice
  
• Fix whimsical name issue
  

Localization and text bug fixes

• Adjust description of Sinful
  
• Fix some expressions in event and dialog
  

Other Bug Fixes

• Other small adjustments
  

This week, we are making good progress on developing endless mode and the final chapter! Major updates are:

• Added data analytics to improve future game experience. Please consent to share play through data with us so we can improve the game more effectively!
  
• Endless Mode: we are testing and adjusting the algorithm, smoothing difficulty curve, etc
  
• Chapter 4: we are adjusting AI patterns, mechanisms, values for newly implemented NPCs. There will be 3 main storylines in the final chapter, each has multiple endings; choices you made along the journey will impact your final ending for this run!
  

Sharing work in progress maps of the Spiritual Realm and the Soul Mountains!

• The Spiritual Realm: can you find the path to the final truth among these abysses?
  
  
  
• Soul Mountains: Wukong noticed dark shadows surrounding the Soul Mountains. Something is not right.
  

[h2]Optimization[/h2]
Optimize UI tooltips, additional info, and simplify description of Relics to improve user experiences:

• add a detailed description for Monkey King's Skin
  
• Explain “Amused” card in event choices
  
• Explain Evil Barrier in additional card information
  
• Center status tooltips for better display
  

[h2]Enhancement and Balancing[/h2]
Neutral Card

• Centipede Monarch's Eyes: Energy cost 3-> 1; now uses remaining energy after each turn to charge eyes
  
• T Worm Seed: can only target Companion or Minion
  
• Living Wood Tripod: can only target Companion or Minion, Energy cost 3->2
  
• Paralyzed: Reduces 5Max HP ->3 Max HP (before Trial 17)
  

NPC

• Hell Judge: Silence will only add 1 Paralyzed card
  

Consumables

• Painted Brush: now copies HP and Max HP of target for 3 turns, does not add a curse card anymore
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

Game logic bug fixes

• fix card tooltip and additional info
  
• Fix effect duplication of Essence of Metal
  
• Fix Carp King swallow AI bug
  
• Fix a bug where protect will cause the game to freeze when there is no one to protect
  
• Fix the bug where Deadly Poison card learnt by Dragon Princess will increase Poison count after game loading
  
• Fix a potential crash from playing card from the Draw pile
  
• Fix a bug where playing Spirit Shifting from the Draw pile will double energy later
  
• Fix tooltip on iOS build
  

Localization and text bug fixes

• Fix card description bugs
  
• Fix description of Love Knot
  
• Adjust description of X energy cost cards
  
• Fix some expressions in event and dialog
  

Other Bug Fixes

• Other small adjustments