Talisman: Digital Classic Edition News

Hello Talisman fans! ːbluetalismanː

We’re excited to share an update regarding the upcoming free Challenge Update for Talisman: Digital Edition. As always, we want to keep you as up-to-date as possible when it comes to the exciting things that are happening to your favourite digital board game.

[h2]The Challenge Update[/h2]

We’re pleased to announce that The Challenge Update will be coming to the Steam, iOS and Android versions of Talisman: Digital Edition on March 1st, 2021! And as always, this new update will also include a heap of bug fixes and improvements to the game.

Hopefully you’ll have already seen our sneak peak at what this free update will add to Talisman, but if you haven’t… check it out here! We’ve been playing with this update internally for a good while now, and we can already see how much it adds to the game. Having different goals to reach for is one thing, but being able to show off your Talisman skills to your friends with titles and exclusive avatars adds a whole new level of fun to playing the game.

We’re including a whole heap of exciting challenges with this initial release, but since finishing up the update we’ve already started looking at how we can expand and add to this feature going forward. If you have any suggestions - we’re all ears!

We’re also going to be doing some exciting developer streams to celebrate the update launching, so stay tuned to our social media to find out when we’ll be going live. Speaking of, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord - or sign up to our newsletter!

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Right now, we're hosting an AMA over on the r/BoardGames subreddit!

If you've got any burning questions for the Nomad Games team, throw them our way over on Reddit right now! We're happy to answer questions about Talisman, future updates and anything else Talisman related you might be wanting to ask. We're also happy to answer questions about digital board games, our other titles or anything else you can think of!

Join the AMA here.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hello Talisman fans!

Today we’re going to be giving you a sneak peek at what we’ve been working on for Talisman: Digital Edition over the last few months! Back in September we rolled out the Profile Update which added a bunch of exciting new profile features, including avatars and stat tracking.

As part of our continued commitment to making Talisman: Digital Edition the best game it can be, we’ve been working on adding even more features to the game. Which is why we’re excited to announce that our next free update for Talisman will be the Challenge Update!

This update includes a heap of additions to the profile system we added in September, so we’ve gone over some of the exciting additions you can expect to see below:

[h3]Challenges[/h3]

The most obvious addition with this update are challenges themselves! These are in-game challenges that you can complete whenever you play Talisman: Digital Edition. There are challenges for almost everything you can do in the game, along with some harder to earn challenges too. Getting toaded finally has a use!

As long as you’re signed into your Nomad Account, these challenges will be persistent across all your devices as well - so you can work towards your challenges on mobile while you’re away from your computer!

[h3]Timed Challenges[/h3]

We wanted to give all our players a good range of different challenges to complete when we were designing them. That is why we’ve split the challenges into four different types:

• Daily
  
• Weekly
  
• Monthly
  
• Ongoing
  

As you can probably guess, the first three types of challenges reset every day, week and month, respectively. Ongoing challenges will never expire, so you can keep making progress on them without having to worry about completing them within a certain timeframe. These challenges are also colour coded so that you can easily see at a glance what challenges you still need to complete.



If a challenge expires before you complete it, don’t worry - these timed challenges will come around again, you just might have to wait a while! However, any progress you made on that timed challenge will be reset once they roll back around. So if you have to cast 100 spells in a week and you get to 50 then the week ends, that challenge will come back at some point and you'll be on zero.

And as you work on your challenges, you’ll receive a notification at the end of your turn to let you know your current progress. You can see it in the bottom right of the screen, and is an easy way to keep track of your progress as you play!



[h3]Challenge Points[/h3]

Also new with this update are Challenge Points - a special reward you can receive for completing challenges.

You’ll probably also notice that a lot of these challenges have rosettes next to them. This signifies the kind of reward you’ll earn for completing that challenge! If you take a look at a lot of the timed challenges, you’ll see that they have a rosette with a number inside it. That number signifies how many challenge points you’ll earn for completing that challenge.



Different challenges will reward different numbers of points, depending on how difficult the challenge is. But what are challenge points for we hear you ask?

[h3]Challenge Rank[/h3]

As you earn challenge points, your challenge rank will increase. As your challenge rank increases, your standing in the monthly Talisman Challenge ranks will go higher and higher!



The Challenge rank is a monthly leaderboard that will reset at the end of every month - we’re hoping that you’ll compete against other challengers and your friends to be the highest rank each month!



[h3]Avatars[/h3]

Want to deck out your profile with a cool new look? Back in September we added profile avatars to the game, so you could show off your favourite character. As of this update, you can now unlock new avatars by completing challenges!



A number of challenges award exclusive avatars that can only be earned by completing those specific challenges. Not every challenge will reward you with an avatar, but you can tell which ones will by the ‘avatar’ symbol next to them! We hope you all enjoy unlocking new ways to customise your avatar and show off your Talisman prowess!

[h3]Titles[/h3]

Alongside avatars, the Challenge Update also includes a new way for you to customise your profile - titles! Just like Challenge avatars, these can be unlocked by completing certain challenges. These are all related to the challenge you’ve completed, and we spent a long time making sure there were titles that all Talisman players would appreciate. If you want to be known as the ‘Toad King’ to all your Talisman friends, you’re going to have to work for it!

Unlocked titles appear in a new tab on the profile screen, and will also tell you how you earned them if you unlocked them by completing challenges. We can’t wait for you to see them all!



And finally, this is what your friend list looks like with the new avatar and title system! Like we said, it’s a great way to show off your Talisman achievements or favourite characters to your friends as you play.



[h2]So when can we expect to play with this?[/h2]

We’re still working on adding the finishing touches to the Challenge Update and need to make sure our internal quality assurance team are happy with it. We’ll then need to roll it out on all platforms.

Once we’re close to releasing the update, we’ll shout about it on all our different social media channels, so follow us if you want to be in the know! If you want to stay up to date with the latest Talisman news, follow us on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Discord - or sign up to our newsletter!

Hello Talisman fans! :BlueTalisman:

If you follow us on any kind of social media, chances are you'll have seen that over the past year we've been hard at work on our next game, Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition! Just like Talisman: Digital Edition, this is another digital adaptation of a much loved Games Workshop board game.

You can check it out on Steam below:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/958530/Fury_of_Dracula_Digital_Edition/

As thanks to all the Talisman: Digital Edition players who have supported us over the years, we've worked with those lovely folk at Valve to offer a 10% launch discount to all Talisman: Digital Edition owners.

Combined with the 10% launch discount, this means you can grab the game this week for 20% off and join the hunt! If you're looking for a new addition to your digital board game collection, with think Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition will give you something nice to sink your fangs into.

Hello Talisman fans! ːblueTalismanː

We've got another update for you all, this time adding a heap of different fixes and updates to the game to make it a smoother experience for everyone!

[h3]We've rolled out a heap of logic and mechanical fixes, including:[/h3]

• Moving by using Eyes of the Hawk / Clockwork Owl has been fixed
  
• Cancelling a burn action cancels properly now (It was incorrectly using either option to proceed)
  
• Chanter type cards have been reworked to use the correct player order
  
• Power Overwhelming now properly checks players have enough Spells when activated
  
• Elixir of Life usability improved (sometimes it'd prompt people to use it when they actually couldn't, e.g. when someone else was losing a life)
  
• Totem Warrior's ability has been fixed
  
• Taking Spells from Arboreal Dragon is now optional
  
• Barbarian can now replenish fate at the Crags, as he should!
  
• Simurgh Feather no longer affects cards drawn by Ifrit Hoard
  
• Legendary Goblin King stats have been fixed
  
• Vengeful Guide was misbehaving when conscripted, we've made it behave itself now
  
• Divine Priestess logic now matches the printed text
  
• Snowdrifts no longer stop if the 'current player' dies
  
• Hand in for trophy related warlock quests fixed
  
• Warlock Quests that are completed immediately (when acquired) no longer prevent you from passing through the Portal of Power
  
• Numerous AI loops and crashes fixed
  

[h3]We've also made some changes to the user interface:[/h3]

• Active cards area moved slightly
  
• Base game 'token places' choices have been modified (e.g. 'Encounter' is now 'Gain 1 Strength')
  
• Dice Bonuses are now more consistently display in combat when given in certain ways (e.g. things that increase your 'roll value')
  
• 'View Board' option added to several cards and spaces
  
• Fireball now shows stat as modifier
  
• All warlock quest cards use their full description in large text mode
  

[h3]And a few other fixes and changes too:[/h3]

• Chat filter less strict (in the last update it seemed to have gone overboard, so we've adjusted it)
  
• Users with names that can't be displayed will display their Character name instead
  
• Some of the new stats weren't triggering correctly - they should be now though!
  

If you spot any issues or have any feedback, feel free to reach out to us here on Steam! We're keeping an eye on the forums here for issues that come up, and we're always happy to hear from our fans.

Remember, stay safe, wash your hands and don't get turned into a toad! ːheartː