Downfall - A Slay the Spire Fan Expansion News

[p]Hello all! There's a new Beta in the works for an upcoming Major update which includes the next character coming to Downfall - the Awakened One. The character is still undergoing art, tuning, and gameplay iterations, but we welcome all to join our Discord https://discord.gg/tFy4Cdts6M and head to the awakened-one-beta channel. Testing in Beta does require using Steam Workshop (meaning launching original Slay the Spire and using the mod support system), but we still wanted to invite the Steam standalone players to join in the beta.[/p][p][/p][p][/p]

Downfall 5.3, featuring the Snecko Revisit, has been released on both Workshop and Steam Standalone! Full Patch Notes here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Py8-vOSr2XKYjj12N3sFWtHShAtHYmZXoG1ASZ3aXw/

This update is fostered primarily by community member Blue Guy, and features:

• Complete top-down rework to Snecko, all new mechanics and cards
  
• Balance & Tuning for all characters
  
• Adjustments to some character bosses
  
• Changes to Champ's Counter mechanic
  
• Changes to Guardians' Defensive Mode mechanic
  
• Changes & many new additions to Boss Cards system
  

Enjoy, and let us know any feedback and bug reports over in Discord!

And while we're at it, shoutout to our own AlexMdle, creator and maintainer of the Hermit character, who's indie title Star of Providence has been massively updated and released on Nintendo Switch! Congratulations!

Fixed Russian localization not functioning in the new update

Silent 1's Poison now triggers after Ethereal (and more importantly, after Afterlife effects)

Fixed a potential crash in the new Watcher 2 fight

Fixed a text issue with Silent 1's Poison

Added some new beta arts

Extra Crispy buffed to 10(14) Soulburn

Buffed Second Seal to 18 (from 15) Gold

Fixed an issue with the Soul Stone relic

Neow's God of Life power can no longer go negative.

Consult Playbook now states the updated cards amount of 3 (instead of saying 4 still)

Added new art for Floating Orbs and Ghost Lash.

Greetings Downfall players! Today we are releasing a long-in-development update to the Hexaghost character, led by contributor Mwalls! This update focuses on reworking our favorite hexagonal hero's Afterlife/Ethereal subthemes and cards.

This update also brings some changes to the final boss of Downfall, aiming to improve consistency, particularly in high ascension play. The Collector is also no longer marked as "beta", though this update does not include any changes. There have been minor updates since the beta launch, and we feel Collector's in an acceptable place.

There are a number of other updates in the patch as well, to some of the Act bosses, some Slime Boss and Guardian tuning, and a handful of other changes. You can find the full patch notes below!

Full Patch Notes

There is also a Tales & Tactics one-time popup notification in this update, which will never appear again on the same save file once closed.

Enjoy, and let us know your feedback and thoughts in Discord!

Tales & Tactics has fully released on Steam, now out of Early Access! This will be the last time I post an announcement here about T&T specifically - thanks for putting up with our occasional self-advertising over the last year.

We're launching with a 30% discount, which will be the most discounted the game will be likely for quite awhile, so grab it now while the deal is up! And if you do, we very much appreciate everyone who does to leave a Steam review, no matter how small. One word is enough. It helps boost our presence in the Steam algorithm more than almost any other form of advertising. Thank you to all of our players!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652250/Tales__Tactics/

And, not to make this fully about T&T - Contributor Mwalls has been working for almost (over?) a year on a Hexaghost update, with the help of many other community members, and it is now available in the Workshop Beta! You can check out the patch notes for that update here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZnsnEi2f2TQ06Z1_yeFky8gs-FRfhnGo5Aoy4D6RRQI/edit?usp=sharing

And can test it out for yourself in Steam by switching to the Experimental branch! We will have an updated Workshop beta link soon.

Thanks all!