Cobalt Core News

What might be the year's best deckbuilding game launched last month, to little fanfare, with the release of Cobalt Core. It's a mechanically rich and well-developed little game that brings out the best of the roguelike deckbuilding genre by combining its own twist: Tactical positioning that means every attack comes from somewhere and goes somewhere, allowing you to dodge enemy attacks—or have the enemy dodge your own...
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GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• Some Max cards got some cool new art!
  
• “Autopilot” icon art change
  
• “Clean Exhaust” icon art change
  

BALANCE CHANGES:

• swapped the rarity of two Riggs cards:
  
• “Selective Memory” is now Uncommon
  
• “Second Opinions” is now Rare
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bug that allowed cards to be played while they were still animating into your hand
  
• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Perpetual Motion Device to not draw a card
  
• Fixed a niche case where you could click the on-screen left/right arrows to move when you weren’t supposed to be able to
  
• A few mid-combat shouts require slightly more specific scenarios to trigger
  
• Fixed a rare bug that was causing players’ saves to break right as they beat the zone 3 boss
  
• ESC no longer steps through run summary screens
  

MISC:

• “DEFEAT” and “VICTORY” screens now display those words in red/gold (fancy!)
  
• When you flip a card, it now stays flipped for the rest of combat
  
• Zone three’s “???” name is now replaced once you see a cutscene where its name is mentioned
  
• Made some headway on some new content 😎
  

GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• Made “Reduced Background Motion” setting reduce more backgrounds’ motion
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a bad interaction between Mitosis and Prototype 22 that was created last patch (oops)! Mitosis now correctly triggers BEFORE Prototype 22, not after.
  
• Fixed a case where RNG was not seeded correctly
  
• the status “Cheap Fix” correctly adds “Affected by timestop!” to its description while you have timestop
  
• On controller, the map screen’s “BACK” button correctly displays the button icon for how to go back
  

MISC:

• Fracture Detection’s random brittle point will no longer target cockpits if you have Cockpit Targeting
  
• The shop’s “Repair X hull” text now factors in Heal Booster into the text value. (It was always healing correctly, this is just a clarification thing)
  
• You can no longer be offered Safety Lock if the only exhaust cards in your deck are trash
  
• Table Flip no longer grants Flippable to cards whose only left/right actions are random (no point!)
  

GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• The logbook now marks each character combo with the hardest difficulty you’ve beat it at
  
• Selective Memory and Second Opinions both have unique background art
  
• Fixed a rare graphical error that would make Gemini’s artifact show the wrong color (this was purely visual)
  

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed a weird interaction between Mitosis and the zone 1 Needler elite fight
  
• Made a few shouts trigger less often
  
• A certain optional superboss now interacts more fairly with Missile Malfunction. (The old way wasn’t even technically a bug, but it didn’t feel fair!)
  
• Saving the game while you have 0 hard drive space available can no longer corrupt your save
  

BALANCE CHANGES:

• Table Flip and its upgrades are all 1 energy cheaper
  
• Quick Thinking B now draws +1 card, but exhausts
  
• Math.Max B no longer gives -1 energy next turn, but exhausts
  
• 00-A Mining Drill now caps at 9 shots per cannon
  

GRAPHICAL CHANGES:

• Gave 00-A Mining Drill a unique pilot
  
• Put back a pixel that went missing
  

BUG FIXES:

• Progress bar fixes!
  
• Artifact #87 is correctly marked in the codex now. (If you’ve already seen the game’s finale, you may need to do it again to properly mark this as seen.)
  
• three cards have been removed from the codex temporarily, as they're not accessible at this moment
  
• added one card to the codex that should have been there already
  
• Event #26 has been correctly added to the pool
  
• In total, this should mean players can properly get 100% on all progress bars now
  
• Spawning objects inside of a wall now immediately destroys them
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Scrap Armor to sometimes not trigger correctly
  
• Shield and Temp Shield are no longer considered statuses.
  
• Mechanically, the only impact of this is that Boost’s “add X to your next status” will not be added to Shield or Temp Shield
  
• Fixed a crash from doubling Total Cache Wipe’s effect with Zero Doubler. Feel free to double this card all you like, now
  
• Fixed a weird niche bug where Buried Relic’s self-boost could sometimes be unstunnable