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[h3]Card Craft[/h3]
Early Access Update v0.6.2

[h3]ACHIEVEMENTS[/h3]
Card Craft has 27 Steam achievements now! More to come in future updates.

[h3]BALANCE CHANGES[/h3]

• Reduced the overall randomness in relics effects.
  
• Redesigned several Hero Powers to have no randomness. Most notably the two of the starter heroes had powers that randomly applied neutral/negative effects of positive effect to every number and this was not a satisfying player experience.
  
• After beating the first boss you get a relic immediately and get relics normally for the rest of the run.
  

[h3]QUALITY OF LIFE[/h3]

• Augment menu in the start screen where you can change or undo augments.
  
• The tutorial now waits for actions to finish before advancing.
  
• Tooltips for tile cards.
  
• Added graphic to wall tiles.
  
• Hero powers don’t cost you a charge if they wouldn’t do anything.
  
• Cards you can’t buy are grayed out.
  
• Automatically take players to the perk menu after their first run.
  

[h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• Various tooltips used to remain sometimes after the end of a match.
  
• Brew Potion never used to grant potions with symbols. Plus the wording for this hero power was improved.
  
• Potion relic triggers weren’t working for hero power potions.
  
• Walls were counting as enemy cards for certain relic conditions.
  
• Various small fixes.
  

This patch fixes a problem with navigation on the map for players that have not unlocked relics.

[h3]Card Craft[/h3]
Early Access Update v0.6.1

[h3]QUALITY OF LIFE[/h3]

• Potions now appear in a draw next to the player's deck instead of in the top bar.
  
• Game over stats histogram updated to account for walls and in general be more flexible.
  
• Improved the sequence of events that occur after defeating a boss.
  
• Card hover effect.
  
• Experience doesn't show for opponent's cards.
  
• Experience for starting Epic cards sped up only for that hero.
  
• Hide the player relic bar when empty.
  
• More button-like feedback in quest buttons.
  
• Don't show food particles from a chest if you're already at max supply.
  
• Move campaign button to top of start menu after tutorial is finished.
  
• Other minor timing improvements.
  

[h3]BUG FIXES[/h3]

• Sorcerer's Fire no longer fails if all card values are 0.
  
• Fixed the images for hero power potions.
  
• Fixed several related bugs caused by non-standard attacks and combos.
  

We would like to present a brand new feature we're excited about. Cards now gain experience from being used in a match (getting played, capturing, comboing, and blocking), and once they gain enough you'll be able to select a permanent augmentation. Augmentations give your cards special abilities that act similar to relics, but in a single direction. For example, the Spear Thrust augmentation enables that card to additionally attack a distance of 2 away in the augmentation's direction.

In light of our efforts with previous updates and this new feature, we've decided to increase the price to $8.99 and plan to increase again for the 1.0 release.

We hope you enjoy this latest update!

Below is the full list of changes:

[h3]New Features[/h3]

• Cards gain experience.
  
• Permanent card augmentations that you can choose after a card gains enough experience.
  
• Wall cards (2 in each match).
  
• Upgrade tiles in worlds 2 and 3 that act like a potion when a card is played on that tile.
  

[h3]Quality of Life[/h3]

• Abandoning a run still grants you shards and shows run stats.
  
• Improved potion UI: always show +/- and completely ignore 0.
  
• Added supply icons when chests give supply.
  
• Redid hero selection UI.
  

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• Made the beginning enemies more random.
  
• Generally made the beginning easier.
  
• Nerfed most cards.
  
• Got rid of a relic chest in worlds 1 and 2.
  

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

• Music off is actually off instead of just being very quite.
  
• Made it so relic order doesn't effect relic trigger dependencies.
  
• Fixed infinite gold sound in some cases.
  
• Can no longer start a run with a hero you haven't unlocked.
  
• Cleaned up the tutorial.
  
• Fixed some problems with particle layering.
  
• Various other minor bug fixes.
  

Card Craft Early Access Update v0.5.2

BALANCE CHANGES

• Non-boss enemy powers! Enemies in worlds 1 and 2 now have powers much like bosses, but weaker.
  
• Increased base difficulty to account for perks (lose 15 supply by default, above enemy powers, and other tweaks).
  
• More bonus shards for beating the final boss.
  

JUICE and UI

• Player map token, better indication of next and reachable nodes.
  
• Changes to the title page UI, and call outs to access the Hero and Perks tabs.
  
• Extra dialog box to check if you want to abandon a run.
  
• Stay on the previously selected hero after abandoning or completing a run.
  

MISC

• Added fullscreen and board opacity toggles to settings.
  
• Better wording in quest options.
  
• Brew Potion hero power now does what it says.
  
• Various other small bug fixes.