Dice Gambit News

[p]Today we are preparing the Campaign Modifier update we talked about last week. Thanks a ton everyone who gave suggestions. There where many more we wanted to add, but we ran out of time. As a reminder the goal of today's patch is two fold.[/p]

1. [p]Create more exciting ways to spice up future runs,[/p]
2. [p]Allow you to remove or tweak elements of the game you'd rather play without,[/p]

[p]Because stability is an ongoing priority, and since many of these modifiers drastically change the game we have decided to release them on an open beta branch. This allows us to test them out a bit before we commit them to live for everyone.

If you would like to help us test the new modifiers early, navigate to Dice Gambit on steam, then right click -> Propertes -> Betas -> and select openbeta in the Beta Participation drop down. Friendly reminder, IF you decide to create new safe files on the beta branch, do not try to load these on the regular branch. Chances are things will break. [/p][p]

If you decide to play test and encounter a bug please join our community Discord and report the bugs, alternatively you can use the steam discussion forums, but it is harder for us to keep taps on them there.
[/p][h2]CAMPAIGN MODIFIERS [/h2][p]All Campaign Modifiers have been sorted into new categories to make browsing easier, these are:[/p]

• [p]Campaign[/p]
• [p]Game Changers[/p]
• [p]Academy [/p]
• [p]Combat Easier [/p]
• [p]Combat Harder[/p]
• [p]Management Easier[/p]
• [p]Management Harder[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Campaign Category Additions[/h3]

• [p]Long Inquisition increases all campaign deadline by 2 weeks. Can be added up to 5 times.,[/p]
• [p]Rabid Deadline decreased all campaign deadlines by 1 week. Can be added up to 3 times.,[/p]

[p]note these campaign deadline modifiers, should not have a big impact on the games difficulty, as all mission levels are based on their respective campaign week. [/p][h3][/h3][h3]Game Changer Category Additions[/h3]

• [p]Added Hacker Lineage: "Swaps all your characters Basic Attack and Basic Defend for Protocol: Attack & Protocol: Defend respectively.,[/p]
• [p]Added Circus Performers: "Swap all your characters Basic Attack for Throwing Dagger.,[/p]
• [p]Added Political Commentators: "Swap all your characters Basic Attack for Straw Man.,[/p]
• [p]Added Leg Day Trainers: "Swap all your characters Basic Attack for Kick.,[/p]
• [p]Added Micro Managers: "Swap all your characters Basic Movement for Direct.,[/p]
• [p]Added Potion Sellers: "Swap all your characters Basic Defend for Brew Elixir.,[/p]
• [p]Added Sharpshooters: "All your characters have Best Defense and Sharpshooter",[/p]
• [p]Added Vengeful Pacifists: "Swap all your characters Basic Attack for Basic Defend, all your characters also have Retaliate",[/p]
• [p]Added Con Artists: Swaps your Basic Defend with Evade.,[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Academy Category Additions[/h3]

• [p]Reformed Schooling System: All academy unlocks are shuffled between the relations.,[/p]
• [p]Spoiled For Choice can now be picked up to 3 times, allowing for even more class unlocks at the start of the game.,[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Combat Easier[/h3]

• [p]Undying: Whenever a character would be killed, they are instead returned to the estate with 1hp.,[/p]
• [p]Stone Armor Players and allies armor now block 100% of incoming damage instead of 80%,[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Combat Harder[/h3]

• [p]Chromatic Strength max stacks increased from 5 -> 10,[/p]
• [p]In Media Res all enemies appear on expeditions from Act 1. (Portal Heralds a still locked by act),[/p]
• [p]Paper Armor Players and allies armor now block 20% of incoming damage instead of 80%,[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Management Easier[/h3]

• [p]Debt Free: You family has no debt and can keep gold between expeditions.,[/p]
• [p]Good Form: Reduce all stamina lost after missions by 25% (Can be picked 3 times),[/p][p][/p]

[h3]Management Harder[/h3]

• [p]Bad Form: Increase all stamina lost after mission by 25% (Can be picked up to 10 times),[/p]
• [p]Gone but not forgotten: Dead and Retired characters still take up family capacity.,[/p][p][/p]

[p]Many have suggested the ability to change modifiers mid run, and while we think this is an exceptional idea, unfortunately we did not have time to do it this time around. Sorry![/p][p][/p][h2]Studio Notice and Future Plans[/h2][h3]Studio Vacation[/h3][p]Now that the launch rush is behind us, the team will be winding down and going on vacation soon. Next week most of the team will already be gone, so only expect minor bug fixes and the eventual shipping of the full modifier patch once we deem it stable. After that the team will take some time off for approximately 1 month. We may still decide to fix some critical bugs, but don't expect anything really.

As you can imagine, the Dice Gambit launch and the last many months where quite rough, so we long for a bit of a distance away from game development. [/p][p][/p][h3]Future Plans[/h3][p]Once we are back we will be taking stock of the situation and where we are at. I think it is unlikely that we are completely done with Dice Gambit, but I also won't promise you the world. There is a none zero chance that we have to move towards game 2 in a fairly short order. Time will tell, expect more updates when we a back in action!

As always we try to be as transparent as possible, if you have any questions leave them on this post or preferably ping us on the community discord. Always open to chat.

Thank you so much for the incredibly launch week, your amazing support and your patience as fix all last weeks issues!

See you in Neo-Talis
Nicos, Nina & Joshua - The Chromatic Ink Team[/p]

[h3]Bugs[/h3]

• Fix Blade barrage being able to hit self if you have knife pass
  
• Fix Fierce attribute giving too little damage
  
• Fix retired characters getting back in the game if they remarry when their spouse is dead
  
• Fix various softlocks related to breaking anchors
  

[p]New Patch: Still Balance and Bug Fixes
Mutations [/p]

• [p]Anchor base hp reduced from 28 -> 20.,[/p]
• [p]Anchor break damage reduced from 16 -> 13.,[/p]
• [p]Anchor "faction" changed from Chromatic to Destructible Neutral. This means that enemy AOE's will also destroy the Anchor and they will not be counted as required enemies to kill for the purpose of Elimination & Kill race.,[/p]

[p] Abilities [/p]

• [p]Evasive Assault, dash range increased from 3 -> 4.,[/p]
• [p]Evasive Assault, now allows you to dash less tiles than the maximum.,[/p]
• [p]Tether signature now contains the keyword as a tooltip,[/p]

[p] Passives [/p]

• [p]Yatzy number of dice rolled on trigger reduced from 4 -> 3.,[/p]
• [p]Uneven Swings is no longer unique,[/p]
• [p]Uneven Swings now stacks with itself,[/p]

[p] Campaign Modifiers [/p]

• [p]Yatzy difficulty scoring decreased from -5 -> -10.,[/p]

[p] Combat Training [/p]

• [p]Added a new base price of 10 gold, meaning it will now cost level 1 character 15 gold to train, but a level 2 character will cost 20.,[/p]

[p] Bugs [/p]

• [p]Fix Yatzy sometimes not working with chroma dice,[/p]
• [p]Fix Spur of the Moment being able to trigger on neutralized damage(mainly to stop infinite loops on invulnerable enemies),[/p]
• [p]Fix Direct being able to target units that cannot move(such as "civilians"),[/p]
• [p]Fix Secret Meeting being able to target units that cannot move(such as "civilians"),[/p]
• [p]Fixed Spoiled for Choice not being able to select several late game classes.[/p]

[h3]Stat Unlocks[/h3]

• [p]Stat increases unlocked via relations will now also apply to existing characters and not only future recruits.
  "We considering applying this effect retroactively, but unfortunately we do not have an easy way to distinguish which character has received stat bonuses and which have not. And obviously applying this to all characters in your family could through the balance completely out of wack. Sorry!"[/p]

[h3]Chroma[/h3]

• [p]Enemy Health, Damage and Armor Increased by Chroma level reduced from 10% -> 8%[/p]

[h3]Bugs Fixes[/h3]

• [p]Fix (Act 3 end) Alexi dialogue triggering multiple times from multi-hit attacks[/p]
• [p]Fix (Act 3 end) Alexi fight softlocking if you did a large amount of damage to him[/p]
• [p]Fix case where killing people by teleporting them would softlock the game[/p]
• [p]Fix anchors timing out if there was nowhere to put them[/p]
• [p]Fix Sharesies not being able to target damageables(barrels, cores)[/p]
• [p]Fix a case where Vettius would show up in a dialogue box instead of Alexi[/p]

[p][/p][p]That's it for today! See you tomorrow ^^ [/p]

[p]As outlined in yesterday's post we are focusing on stability and balance issues. More to come the next couple of days!
[/p][h3]Infirmary and Recovery Facility[/h3]

• [p]Recovery Facility base cost increased from 25 -> 30[/p]
• [p]Recovery Facility cost per level decreased from 20 -> 5[/p]
• [p]Recovery Facility Stamina amount increased from 25 -> 50[/p]
• [p]Infimary cost per level decreased from 5 -> 2[/p]

[h3]Experience Tresholds[/h3]

• [p]XP Required per level decreased from 300 -> 200 for levels 11, 12, 13, 14, 15[/p]
• [p]XP Required per level decreased from 400 -> 300 for levels 16, 17, 18, 19, 20[/p]
• [p]Xp Required per level decreased from 500 -> 400 for levels 21, 22, 23,24,25[/p]

[h3]Combat Training[/h3]

• [p]Price per level decreased from 10 -> 5[/p]

[h3]Expedition Relation Rewards[/h3]

• [p]Relation XP for Expedition Completion increased from 9, 11, 13 -> 10, 12, 14 for "Easy, Medium & Hard" expedition respectively[/p]

[h3]Relations[/h3]

• [p]XP Relation requirements now plateau once reaching level 8, 9 and 10 instead of continuing to increase. [/p]

[h3]Restoration Pod Encounter[/h3]

• [p]Healing changed to now be 25% of the characters
• *Maximum** Hp[/p]

[h3]Act 3[/h3]

• [p]The health of the last two final fights have been reduced. (Details vague due to spoilers)[/p]

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• [p]FIxed a bug allowing you to get multiple
• *Reckless Swings** even though they don't stack.[/p]
• [p]Fix saves not loading if the campaign file got corrupted[/p]
• [p]Fix softlocks with applying stagger at the same time as applying stagger[/p]
• [p]Fix kill bounty triggering multiple times if you damaged an enemy after killing it(such as multi-hit attacks)[/p]
• [p]Fix Apple and Lemon vendors having bad portraits[/p]
• [p]Fix many typos in the english text[/p]