Downfall - A Slay the Spire Fan Expansion News

[p]Beta German translation has been added.[/p][p]Hexaghost[/p][p]Radiant Reverb+: +2 damage[/p][p]Rain of Embers: +1 damage[/p][p]Nightmare Vision: Upgrade changed from 0 cost to exhuming 2 cards[/p][p]Searing and Crushing ghostflames split into two hits to benefit from Intensity more[/p][p]Red Candle: -2 Soulburn [/p][p]Guardian[/p][p]Stasis Engine buffed to 1 cost because there are fewer 0 cost cards[/p][p]Awakened One[/p][p]Talon Rake+ increased by 1 damage.[/p][p]Awakening upgrades spells in all piles instead of just the ones in the spellbook[/p][p]Aphotic fount: Now 1-cost, grants 1 (2) plated armor[/p][p]Darkness Falls: +1 block[/p][p]Champ[/p][p]Buffed Set a Trap: +1 Block.[/p][p]Bugs — [/p][p]Haunted Curse modified: Now only deals damage at the end of player turn (basically meaning if it exhausts via Ethereal), meaning you can targeted exhaust it at no penalty.[/p][p]Watcher 3 nerfed: Less maximum HP, 2 less starting Strength.[/p][p]Fixed a bug where "No Draw" would prevent Conjure.[/p][p]Fixed a bug where the Gem Mine Event would allow for infinite mining of Gems[/p][p]Fixed a bug where obtaining the Pick of Rhapsody on floor 1 would crash the game[/p][p]Fixed a bug where using Feather Flare with Rising Chorus would draw 3 cards instead of 2[/p][p]Fixed a bug where Ward didn't have beta art[/p][p]Fixed a bug where Mantis didn't preview Plume Jab[/p][p]Fixed a bug where Archmagus had incorrect powertext[/p][p]Fixed a bug where buying Sack of Gems would reload the shop[/p][p]Fixed a bug where using Dejection to finish a combat would softlock the game[/p][p]Fixed a bug where Lil Guardian would not care about cards that were Muddled to cost 2, or Muddled down from 2[/p][p]Fixed a bug where Mystical Octahedron had an incorrect description [/p][p]Fixed a bug where removing a bottled card would crash the game if you tried to upgrade a card.[/p][p]Made the Mystical Octahedron event less wordy, stopping it from overflowing the event box with text when playing with Large Text.[/p][p]Fixed Awakened One Alternate Dimension cards appearing with Prismatic Shard.[/p]

[p]Thanks to the efforts of new community contributors - primarily Blue Guy - Downfall returns to the scene with a brand-new playable boss! The Awakened One arrives, with a full suite of custom card art from our amazing art team!
[/p][p]Play as the leader of the Cult of Mazaleth itself - a powerful spellcaster in a former life, turned into an avatar of dark magics through a ritual of sacrifice. Awakened One’s mechanics include:[/p][p][/p][p]Conjure - Draw powerful Spell cards from your Spellbook and unleash them on your enemies.[/p][p]Power cards - Play tons of Power cards to activate Chant effects on your cards to make them stronger for the rest of the fight. If you play enough Powers, you enter your second phase, empowering all of your Conjured spells![/p][p]Voids - Turn the negative of losing energy into a potent but highly risky upside. This archetype is high risk, high reward but allows for a lot of strategy to evade the downsides of losing energy entirely or even turning it into a pure positive given enough support and effort.[/p][p][/p][p]The Awakened One also represents a new general target of balance for Downfall characters. Much like the original cast of characters, playing the Awakened One successfully requires experience and understanding of mechanics. We have had a history of releasing characters a little too strong and then have needed to backpedal in post-launch updates, and we’re trying to avoid that going forward. The Awakened One has been in testing and has had more runs than any character we’ve ever made, and we’re confident that it is reasonably close to the “core 3” (Ironclad / Silent / Defect) in terms of power. Success is most definitely possible, as we have A20 Awakened One streaks on record, but does not come without understanding how the draft comes together and how to shore up any weaknesses you encounter.
[/p][p]We look forward to seeing everyone’s reaction to the Awakened One!

In addition, this patch includes a suite of balance changes, as well as core game changes to the starting floor layout and the Key break mechanics.[/p][p][/p][p]Full patch notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pj2tFBOjFUn-labSzO5l_bME8kH1k-ed6916kdtvtNM/edit?usp=sharing

Join us on Discord to chat on the update and share your experiences.

And as an extra bonus announcement, if you didn't hear, Downfall is heading to the tabletop! The Slay the Spire board game by Contention Games is receiving a Downfall expansion! We couldn't be more honored by this and encourage everyone to follow their Kickstarter campaign here to be alerted when the campaign begins: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/contentiongames/sts-downfall[/p]

[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.