Character 4 Progress Report #4

The Watcher has been available on the beta branch for about 18 days now!

This patch continues balance and design work while also integrating new and polished artwork to various assets!

We're still tweaking cards to improve the overall flow and have increased the Watcher's base health as the low health made non-combat interactions unnecessarily punishing. Lots of great feedback from various communities! We encourage discussion and we're most active at our Discord server but we read all the feedback in our inboxes and sites like Reddit even when we aren't responding to everything.


While we know that our beta testers enjoy placeholder artwork, artwork is getting cleaned up and polished as we continuously get improved card portraits in.

Details!

Some relics get polished and others get shiny assets



Watcher by /u/NightmareRoach who also did the beta art for Sash Whip!

This pixel Snecko and Merchant by @BstojaGraphics

We can't really link to the source for the safety of the artist.

Patch Notes

• Beta art added to about 20 cards.
  
• Adding art for Horn Cleat relic.
  
• Adding asset for Captain's Wheel relic.
  
• Adding polished art for Tungsten Rod.
  
• Cleaning up the Watcher's corpse asset.
  
• Updating art for Watcher campfire asset.
  
• Updating Empty Fist, Mind, and Body cards to have more recognizable silhouettes.
  
• Remove GlowColor Enum to allow mods to have custom card glow easier.
  
• When a card is in Stasis by Bronze Automaton, the card name is now Gold color in the power tip.
  
• Added VFX for Just Lucky card.
  

• Adding Rare Watcher relic: Golden Eye.
  

• Watcher's Max HP Increased from 65 -> 72.
  
• Mantra in excess of 10 now rolls over when you enter Divinity instead of being lost.
  
• Adaptation card removed and replaced by Rushdown.
  
• Cleanse Evil card removed and replaced by Conjure Blade.
  
• Metaphysics removed and replaced by Indignation.
  
• Step and Strike card removed and replaced by Wheel Kick.
  
• Master Reality card reworked.
  
• Tantrum card reworked.
  
• Wave Of The Hand card reworked.
  
• Wish card's effects are now on Omniscience card.
  
• Wish card reworked.
  
• Conclude card damage increased 10 -> 12.
  
• Conclude+ card damage increased 14 -> 16.
  
• Establishment card rarity changed Uncommon -> Rare.
  
• Face Trader event can no longer appear past Act 2.
  
• Halt card additional Block increased from 7 -> 9.
  
• Halt+ card additional Block increased from 9 -> 14.
  
• Intangible nerfed for the player. Now only affects Attack damage.
  
• Melange relic rarity changed from Common -> Shop.
  
• Neow Colorless card choices now let the player choose 1 of 3 colorless cards.
  
• Omega card buff. Now deals its damage at end of turn.
  
• Pray now gives Insight instead of Miracle.
  
• Step and Strike unlock is now Foreign Influence card unlock.
  
• Windmill Strike card damage decreased from 8 -> 7.
  
• Windmill Strike card ramp increased from 2 -> 4.
  
• Windmill Strike+ card damage decreased from 12 -> 10.
  
• Windmill Strike+ card ramp increased from 3 -> 5.
  

• Centennial Puzzle and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Colorless card option at Neow will no longer contain duplicates.
  
• Fixed memory leak in Blight initialization. Thanks to Quincunx.
  
• Fixed memory leak in Merchant initialzation. Thanks to Quincunx.
  
• Fixed Rare Potion sparkles not occurring in some instances.
  
• Fixing Path to Victory beta art not showing up.
  
• Fixing typo in Master Reality power tip description.
  
• Plated Armor and Tungston Rod now correctly interact.
  
• Purple Cards custom/daily mod now actually adds purple cards.
  
• Runic Cube and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Rupture and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Self Forming Clay and Tungsten Rod relics now interact correctly.
  
• Storm of Steel+ card now shows upgrades Shivs for the card preview.
  
• True Grit card now Exhausts randomly again.
  
• Tungsten Rod and Emotion Chip relics now correctly interact.
  
• Typo fix in Golden Eye relic.
  

It's quite incredible that we have community translators that make the game available for so many people by keeping the beta branch translation updated daily in 11 languages.

• Updates for DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, ITA, JPN, KOR, RUS, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.