Changelog for Version 1.02

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Reduced monetary rewards across all story and contract battles
  
• Additionally: included difficulty modifiers for money, bestowing only 80% monetary rewards for Harder, 100% for Standard, 120% for Relaxed, and 140% for Story
   - (Updated text to reflect this change in Options screen with the HELP button)
   - No more dragons sitting on their hoards of gold!
  
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• Rangers/Hunters/Reavers[/h3]
  
• Nerf: Reduced Bow Attack DMG by 15%, affecting all skills
  
• Nerf: Reduced Crossbow Attack DMG by 15%, affecting all skills
  
• Updated item descriptions for all Bows and Crossbows to reflect this change across all languages
  
• Ranger [Nimble] - increased EVA for LVL 1 to +5 EVA, and LVL 2 to +10 EVA
  
• Ranger [Equipment Limited Skills] - removed all Equipment Requirements for Ranger Skills (and their bonuses and usage are now completely equipment agnostic and apply to all advanced classes fully)
  
• Updated all skill descriptions to reflect this change - Be free! Choose your own character adventure!
  
• Ranger [Bow Training] - altered LVL 2 to be +2 ATK, +5 EVA
  
• Ranger [Crossbow Training] - altered LVL 2 to be +2 ATK, +1 SPD
  
• Reaver [Elite Evade] - increased EVA for LVL 1 to +15 EVA, and LVL 2 to +20 EVA
  
• Hunter [Projectile Guard] - increased EVA for LVL 1 to +15 EVA, and LVL 2 to +20 EVA
  
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• Warmancer[/h3]
  
• Nerf: Reduced Spell DMG for Warmancers, Druids, and Sorcerers by 15%, affecting all skills
  
• Standardized SP cost across all levels of Fire Ball (5SP), Lightning Bolt (5SP), Ice Shard (5SP), Flame Wall (7SP), Freezing Cone (7SP), and Shatter Bolt (6SP)
  
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• Cavalier/Inquisitor[/h3]
  
• Buff: Buffed all Shield EVA bonuses
  
• Cavalier [Equipment Limited Skills] - removed all Equipment Requirements for Cavalier Skills (and their bonuses and usage are now completely equipment agnostic and apply to all advanced classes fully)
  
• Updated all skill descriptions to reflect this change - Be free! Choose your own character adventure!
  
• Inquisitor [Rapture] - reduced damage dealt at both levels to 100%, reduced stun chance at LVL 1 to 15%, at LVL 2 30%
  
• Inquisitor [Silencing Ray] - reduced damage dealt at all levels, to 10% DMG at LVL 1, 25% DMG at LVL 2, and 40% DMG at LVL 3. Reduced range of skill to 3 tiles from Inquisitor instead of previous 4.
  
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• Equipment[/h3]
  
• Increased base EVA bonuses for all Light, Medium, and Mage armor classes
  
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• Bosses[/h3]
  
• Increased HP on certain bosses throughout the story
  
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• Enemy & Ally Level[/h3]
  
• Increased LVL of all enemies and allies in chapter 2 by +1, and in chapter 3 by +2.
  

[h2]Features[/h2]

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• Steam Cloud Saves are now available![/h3]
    - Please back up your save files on your primary device.
    - In order for Steam Cloud Saves to work correctly, boot up the game on your primary device and then exit before attempting to play the game on a secondary device. This will ensure that Steam has a proper record of your save files!
  
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• Flank / Back Attack Crit Bonus[/h3]
  
• Attacking a unit's back now bestows a +30% chance to critical, and attacking their flank has a +10% change to critical
  
• Updated text to reflect this change in Tutorial screen for entry on Facing Direction
  
• Target of Delayed Skills in HELP Turn Order Details
   - You can now view the target name (unless an empty tile is being targeted) for any delayed skills in the Turn Order Details HELP overlay
  

[h2]Art[/h2]

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• More expressive flinching animations for all units, including:[/h3]
  
• All apothecaries, shamans, monks, cavaliers, inquisitors, ronins, warmancers, druids, sorcerers, rangers, reavers, and hunters.
  
• All bosses
  
• All monsters
  
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• More expressive attack animations for sword strikes for all units, including:[/h3]
  
• All uniques (Desmond, Vashti, Eda, etc.)
  
• All cavaliers, ronins, and inquisitors
  
• All monsters that use swords
  
  [h3]
• More expressive attack animations for bow shots for all units, including:[/h3]
  
• All uniques (Desmond, Vashti, Eda, etc.)
  
• All rangers and hunters
  
• All monsters that use bows
  
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• More expressive cast animations for magic classes, including:[/h3]
  
• All druids, shamans, sorcerers, and warmancers
  

[h2]Script[/h2]

• Altered wording of Flame Mastery, Ice Mastery, and Lightning Mastery (Warmancer) skill descriptions to clarify the increase is 5%, 10%, and 15% per level for their elemental DMG increases - altered across all languages.
  
• Fixed typo in chapter 1 script where quickly was missing the "l."
  

[h2]Input[/h2]

• Increased polling rate on gamepad to make controls more responsive.
  

[h2]Loading[/h2]

• “Press to Continue” after loading screens has been removed. Loading screens automatically continue to the next screen.
  
• Load times have been slightly improved.
  

[h2]Achievements[/h2]

• Localization has been added for all Achievements.
  
• “Book Worm” Achievement should now properly unlock when all chatter items have been read
  
• Players with the chatter count hanging may need to read through all Chatter once more to trigger
  
• “Two for One Deal” Achievement should now only unlock via player-controlled units.
  

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed height tolerance not working for certain basic melee attack skills.
   - So Cavaliers can no longer attack units on above a sheer cliffside above them
  
• Fixed attack announcement box not appearing during enemy skills.
  
• Fixed Steam Deck appearance for certain screens being cut-off due to 16:10 aspect ratio.
  
• Fixed issue with Ronin animations not displaying correctly while using shield skills.