Valor Of Man News

Hello Wardens,

The Champion difficulty is here! Many of you wanted a tougher challenge, and we've delivered. Knight difficulty will seem like a breeze compared to this, and we can't wait to hear how it goes!

We’ve also revamped the demo, with more variety and easier access to cool abilities. The tutorial is clearer now, and after you defeat the boss, there’s a new cutscene with more story, playful banter, and some unexpected twists.

Once again, we couldn’t have done it without your feedback. Huge thanks to everyone who’s supported us; especially content creators and our amazing community.

Thank you!
Florian & Traian

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General:
- Added a harder Difficulty: Champion.
- Overhauled content available in Demo for better variety and cool builds.
- Improved tutorial.
- New Cutscene after Boss.

UI, Texts and Usability:
- Group only move and weapon abilities in the action bar.
- Show enemy action by default in portrait.
- Improved UI feedback when an enemy fails to react.
- Rewrote Intro cutscene for more juicy banter.
- Improved event descriptions.
- Streamlined fight flavor text.
- Improved Town Quarrel event.
- Improved Staff melee icons.
- Added special icons for weapons with multiple hits.
- Added free move description for relevant abilities.

Balance:
- Reduced artifact cost for Artificer's Expedition event.
- Nerfed gold rewards.
- Nerfed Blade Dancer Health.
- Nerfed Paladin Bless ability.
- Nerfed Gladius damage and added double-hit cooldown.
- Reworked Poison Dart.
- Buffed Soothe Pain range.
- Buffed Firebolt upgrade damage.
- Buffed Inspire Others range.
- Buffed Holy Blast range.
- Rebalance Zephyrath fight.
- Nerfed Beholder Toughness, buffed life to compensate.

Bugfixes and Stability:
- Game will not pause when it is out of focus.
- Improved Skeleton animations.
- Fixed Champion Brace ability description.
- Fix Ability stats tooltips over other tooltips.
- Fixed a bug where some Critical cards did not apply some effects correctly.

Greetings, Wardens,

The free Demo is LIVE! And it comes with major gameplay improvements: Threat Markers and Increased Difficulty.

A huge thank you for the incredible support on our demo launch! As always, we appreciate all your feedback. We're super excited to see what you think of the new changes!

Threat Markers
Threat Markers appear on the ground for dangerous Reactions, making it easier to control positioning. When planning an attack, you can see where the enemy will move and strike, helping you strategize more effectively.



Increased Difficulty
We heard your feedback and made Knight difficulty tougher! You can now choose your difficulty for each run. On Knight, enemies hit harder and have stronger traits. Squire mode offers a more relaxed experience for those who just want to smash monsters and have fun.



Until the next watch, Wardens!
Florian & Traian

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[h2]Full Patch Notes 0.6.0:[/h2]

New features
- Threat Markers now appear on the ground for dangerous Reactions.
- Increased Difficulty, allowing you to customize your experience.

QoL Improvements:
- Shorter Cutscenes.
- Improved feedback when a hero can't do something.
- Smarter Action Bar auto-select for actions that go off cooldown.
- Show Reaction card when hovering enemy Intent.
- Steam overlay now opens the Demo page.
- Raised hero Health & Buff overlay to fit the new, larger icons.
- Limit FPS to max 60.

Balance:
- Reworked ability: Fossilize.
- Reworked ability: Abyssal Flick
- Buffed Shields.
- Nerfed Dull Scimitar dual-hit damage.
- Nerfed Celestial Hammer.
- New Enemy Card: Banshee Lamentation.
- New Enemy Card: Spider Hiss (Replaces ReactiveDash)
- Reworked Ogre Chieftain design.
- Reworked Tormentor Fast Cleaver reaction.
- Zephyrath Bite reaction no longer moves.
- Buffed Ogre Chieftain health.
- Nerfed Beholder damage scaling.
- Nerfed Toxic Mushroom Hop action damage.
- Nerfed Royal Assassin Taunt.

Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where the grid was not displayed correctly when hovering action bar buttons.
- Vampire Bat Sonic Wave action is now faster.
- Fixed Zephyrath Dark Stomp sound not playing.
- Fix AOE sound not playing for Berserker Leap in some cases.
- Fixed Beholder Static Discharge fail bug.
- Fixed Longsword Double hit cooldown.
- Fixed a bug where Stun sometimes wouldn't stack properly.
- Improved ability descriptions.

Hello there Wardens!

Today is a very important day for us, because we're finally ready to share Valor of Man with more people!

Releasing a Demo wouldn't be possible without your constant feedback and support, so we wanted to thank you again - we wouldn't be here without you.
Please, leave your feedback and impressions for the Demo as well after you try it out:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3222870/Valor_Of_Man_Demo/

Important note: We are officially closing the Beta, but don't worry, your progress is available when you start the Demo.

Looking forward to your Feedback!

Traian & Florian

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Hello Wardens,

Here are the latest changes as we approach 10 February when we will launch the Free Demo.
We made the starting heroes a little more special so they are aligned with their philosophy, Theurg has a free heal, Blade Dancer starting weapon has an additional attack with 2 hits, and the Archmage has a new Firebolt spell.

Traian & Florian

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Starting abilities:
- Cleric Theurg Minor Heal now costs 0 action points.
- Rogue starting weapon now has a 2xHit attack.
- New starting ability: Archmage - Firebolt.
- Nerfed Archmage starting weapon: Arcane Dart.

New artifact:
- Burning Bush

UI:
- Added 2x in double-hit attack names.
- Added numpad Enter as an alternative shortcut for end turn and others.
- Improved Impervious and Invulnerable keyword descriptions.
- Recurve Bow cooldown instead of charges per turn

Balance:
- Status Effects (Stun, Immobilised, Terrified etc) no longer stack for multiple turns.
- Toxic Mushroom always applies Fumble when it reacts.
- Buffed Scorpion damage.
- Nerfed Volatile Bug damage.

Fixes:
- Fix Boasting blade dancer ability.
- Fix Gladius both attacks having double hits.

[h3]Hello Wardens! [/h3]

Thank you very much to all of you who showed interest in our project. Seeing the support and the feedback we are getting keeps us determined to continue improving our beloved game on our exciting path to launch!

It has been a long road to this point, but we are very proud of the journey so far, and really excited for what's to come.



We should probably close this post with a deep and epic quote but all we can say is:
From the bottom of our hearts, Thank you!!

Florian & Traian

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