Patch Notes: 0.9+88 Cathryn Del Hunt

This is our last regular patch before Early Access launch! This patch focuses on high-difficulty game balance, improving the warrior's utility a bit, and fixing a bunch of bugs.

• New Story: Avenger - TamTroll's contest reward!
  
• New loading screen art!
  
• Fixed a bug where certain battles would crash when launched
  
• Adjust several town recruit events
  
• Recruit and Station jobs show LP cost in tooltip, appear disabled if you can't afford
  
• If an event replaces an arm causing a hero to have no weapon, give them a basic weapon.
  
• Improved monster descriptions for spawn cards
  
• Fixed a bug where spectral lantern and spellshard didn't function properly
  
• Spellshard no-longer craftable
  
• Updated some dialogs to put Done or Confirm on the right, for consistency
  
• New FX for concussed, hobbled, and mindwormed.
  
• Renamed Prophet to Shadow Hunter
  
• Fixed a bug with calamity and incursion UI on resize
  
• Removed incorrect history line for Crag Eagle fail case
  
• Job Banners look more clickable now
  
• Fixed several free actions that were preventing the turn from ending
  
• Control the pace of "2 spectiks", "3 spectiks" calamities so they can't happen too soon
  
• Nerf Bard - no longer gives LP per battle. reduces recruit cost by 1 instead.
  
• Fixed bug where heroes could show up naked in gear popups in some cases
  
• Show +3LP on retirement
  
• Increase the cost of wands
  
• Decrease warrior XP thresholds
  
• Warrior: Engage now has no cooldown, grants +1 armor per engaged foe, added particles
  
• Limit free action from water stunt to once per turn
  
• Leaving behind gear now grants a crafting resource instead of a legacy point
  
• Reduce Weldling armor
  
• Added blurbs explaining difficulties
  
• Fixed bug where shackle could affect allies
  
• Fixed bug with targeting in One False Step
  
• Balance monster stats - H.P. Lovecraft monsters don't deal additional damage.
  
• Building Stations now cost 1 LP instead of 2
  
• Friendship buff no-longer stacks
  
• Hurlaxe and Throwing knives now respect cover
  
• Can now view current calamities from "Calamities!" popup
  
• Fix a bug where Through Shot would grant an extra action via Thornfang
  
• 3 New recruit events
  
• Tier 3 weapons and Tier 2 armor cost a bit more now
  
• Swords now correctly give a small accuracy buff
  
• Dueling swords now give +5 stunt chance
  
• Added a healing rate indicator to hero portraits, with tooltip explaining factors
  
• Secure Site now shows a time estimate when choosing party
  
• Fixed a bug where mortal choice sound would keep playing if interrupted to load game
  
• Fixed a bug where winning a battle with riposte caused a soft lock
  
• Tweaked defense jobs - now give class-oriented speed buffs
  
• Fixed a bug where the game would auto-save right before a game over.
  
• Game now defaults to windowed mode for new users