Fairtravel Battle News

• Fixed a critical lobby bug that kept players from being able to play together in the official server
  
• CPU logic improvements
  
• Reduced starting renown reward to 2000 (down from 10000), due to giving too much at the start
  
• Replaced Booster Box with 3 Card Pack Bundle
  
• Added Lan Discoverability to local lobbies
  
• Added Profile Sync to profile menu, so that players can sync their non-steam saves between devices
  

• Changed Whispering Book to trigger once per turn but affect all essences
  
• Changed The Shadow's cost to 6 (up from 4)
  
• Changed Cursed Beast to 2/2 (down from 2/4) and it no longer has Tactician
  
• Changed Darkness Lookout to 1/4 (from 3/2)
  
• Changed Enrage to buff attack only and based on half the Passion essence
  
• Changed Crustacean Celebration and Golem Factory to require 1 mana to trigger at end of turn
  
• Changed Crustacean Recruit to summon a crab token when entering the field
  
• Changed Numbing Sphere to 3-cost and 1-justice 2-darkness (down from 4-cost 2-justice 2-darkness), and added draw on enter the field
  
• Changed Struggle darkness cost to 1 (down from 2) and added draw on enter the field
  
• Changed Parched Hound to trigger from hero heals instead of everything
  
• Changed Lireziel, Fledgling Adventurer to trigger from opposing followers and to no longer have tactician
  
• Changed Chains darkness cost to 2 (up from 1)
  
• Changed Enfeeble darkness cost to 1 (down from 2)
  

• Brand new battle soundtrack by crisp!
  
• French language!
  
• Improved mod setup experience!
  
• Big fixes to Steam Lobbies!
  
• Accessibility improvements!
  
• 36 new avatars!
  
• 23 new card backs!
  
• 27 new playmats!
  

• Added missing Adventurer tags to Anthe, Hon Sweetperson, and Shadow Assassin
  
• Lifestream Ritual now heals both the follower and the hero
  
• Justice Core was changed to "3 [COST], Exhaust: Give target follower +X/+X until end of turn, then summon a [JUSTICE] 1/1 Guardian Soldier follower token with Guardian, where X equals half your [JUSTICE] rounded down.
  
• Darkness Core was changed to "3 [COST], Exhaust: Give target follower -X/-X until end of turn, then summon a [DARKNESS] 2/2 Undead follower token, where X equals half your [DARKNESS] rounded down.
  

• Added support for modding with loose audio files (wav, mp3, ogg)
  
• Added support for mod file picking and for unzipping zip files
  

• Added animation multiplier setting
  
• Reduced motion is now finalized
  
• Added team text coloring to in-game player names
  
• You can now skip most animations by clicking (card previews, turn message, player defeat)
  
• Added settings button to the onboarding sequence
  

• Added missing Adventurer tags to Anthe, Hon Sweetperson, and Shadow Assassin
  
• Lifestream Ritual now heals both the follower and the hero
  
• Justice Core was changed to "3 [COST], Exhaust: Give target follower +X/+X until end of turn, then summon a [JUSTICE] 1/1 Guardian Soldier follower token with Guardian, where X equals half your [JUSTICE] rounded down.
  
• Darkness Core was changed to "3 [COST], Exhaust: Give target follower -X/-X until end of turn, then summon a [DARKNESS] 2/2 Undead follower token, where X equals half your [DARKNESS] rounded down.
  
• Added support for modding with loose audio files (wav, mp3, ogg)
  
• Fixed scroll sensitivity in the shop
  
• Fixed Raging Phoenix not triggering from resurrecting an elemental with Varlari Necromancer
  
• Adjusted multi move animation sound to be less overwhelming on big moves
  
• Removed Dina (Barrel) card style
  
• Fixed demo intro not respecting the local language
  
• Fixed several networking issues with steam lobbies
  
• You can now customize the hero for readonly decks
  
• Modded decks can now be successfully share with non-modded players as long as only the hero becomes an invalid card
  
• Copy-Pasting custom game modes and decks no longer requires the clipboard to change
  
• Added support for mod file picking and for unzipping zip files
  
• Fixed avatar picker on rewards screen not being in sync and not picking correctly
  
• Card pack card previews now properly zoom into the card style you got
  
• Changed Steam Lobby into its own lobby mode
  
• Added concede confirmation prompt
  
• Onboarding messages can now be advanced by clicking anywhere on the screen
  
• Fixed Shadow Assassin's 2nd ability never being selectable in some cases
  
• Added team text coloring to in-game player names
  
• You can now skip most animations by clicking (card previews, turn message, player defeat)
  
• Added animation multiplier setting
  
• Fixed Explorer multiplayer not setting player names and avatars
  
• Re-added Player is CPU game mode setting
  
• Picking a hero now shows the full hero card instead of the field image
  
• Added French translation
  
• Updated font for headers/titles due to localization issues
  
• Added settings button to the onboarding sequence
  
• Improved shop product preview screen
  
• Updated in-game player avatars
  

Fairtravel Battle now has an additional game language: Portuguese!

You can enable it by going to the game settings and swapping the language there. It will also auto-set itself to portuguese if it detects your operating system running in portuguese!

• Updated Dina Hero field art to be less zoomed in
  
• Changed Justice Core's effect to "3 COST, Exhaust: Put X + 1 +1/+1 counters on target follower, then draw a card."
  
• Adjusted Hon Sweetperson's targeting to no longer have restrictions
  
• Full Art card styles now remove most reminders from the card text so the art is more visible
  
• Simplified rules text to make it nicer to read and simpler
  
• Disabled Ranged from Flame Master (was accidentally set)
  
• Changed Darkness Sword to always return if you don't control a weapon, rather than ask every time you destroy a follower
  
• Fixed Empowered Fire Ball having two play modes
  
• Changed "Follower - Token" to "Token Follower - "
  
• Renamed Lireziel Denizen, Adventurer-in-training into Lireziel Denizen, Fledgling Adventurer
  
• Renamed Dark Hunter to Darkness Hunter
  
• Renamed Dark Lookout into Darkness Lookout
  
• Changed Grip of Darkness into Dark Grip
  
• Changed A Dark Past to calculate its trigger since the player's last turn
  
• Changed Darkness Core to also draw in addition to its effect, like Justice Core
  
• Renamed To The General Store into Let's Get Some Geqar
  
• Changed Redan Thief to choose a target to discard on deploy rather than when hitting the first time
  
• Changed Thulari Mercenary's effect to "This gets +1/+1 for each Lari you control"
  
• Changed "restore health" to "heal" to simplify clarity in rules
  
• Clarified Siphon Essence's healing effect
  

• Fixed pack indicator in lobby screen going over the deck customization screens
  
• Added interaction between +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters (adding one of the other kind will cancel out both)
  
• Added weekly Booster Box bundle to the shop, to help players who want to complete their collection faster (but at a reasonable rate)
  
• Fix deck section not resetting its state
  
• Added New Player rewards
  
• Fixed resolution handling when having multiple refresh rates
  
• Added support for debugging translation strings (in launch options: use "--debug-empty-strings" to force empty text to turn into the translation key, use "--debug-all-strings" to force all text into its translation key)
  
• Fixed missing translations causing a bad state (every text in the game would be the translation key)
  
• Added shadows to sprites in fullart card style
  
• Added support for system language to auto select a language when creating a new profile from scratch
  

Today, 22nd july 2024, marks 7 years since Fairtravel Battle started being developed! It's been quite the journey, and we're reaching a very important milestone!

Only 14 card arts are missing for the base set (Adventurers of Fairtravel) to be fully art complete! This is a huge milestone, as 1 year ago we were missing over 130 card arts!

I can't thank The Pixel Buster enough for all his help this past year, and I can't wait to see how far we can come further!

Additionally, I received a physical prototype of the game a few weeks ago, which turned out very well!



Anyway, let's talk about the changes in this update!

• Added card art for Lifestream Ritual, Nalari Grove Gatherer, Siphon Essence, Soldier Training, Defender's Hammer, Lasher Chestplate, Greatsword of Agility, Nalari Skyseeker, Numbing Sphere, Reinforce the Guard, "Flareo, Aspect of Fury", Golem (that's an entire 12 new card arts!)
  
• Changed Shadow Assassin's 2nd effect to "This gains evasive until end of turn"
  
• Disabled Tab shortcut for ending turns
  
• Improved daily chest reward drops to 1 pack and 50 gold per 5 levels (down from 8 levels)
  
• Updated mass pack open experience to be simpler
  
• Simplified foil effect to be less obtrusive
  
• Optimized card textures to be more performance-efficient, while reducing the game's install size by around 100MB on all platforms and allowing lower end devices to run it better as well
  
• Renamed Greatsword of Agility to Swiftwind Slasher
  
• Redesigned team list screen
  
• Changed the Flying keyword into "Non-flying guardians can't defend from this. Can attack tacticians directly"
  
• Renamed Evasive to Stealth and Clairvoyance to Scout
  
• Updated card rules to use symbols when referencing to stat changes and cleaned up rules in general
  

• Fixed Explore not revealing cards properly in multiplayer
  
• Fixed mulligans not cleaning up properly in dedicated servers due to timeout
  
• Fixed several issues with Steam Lobbies
  

That's a lot of changes, and I feel that we're getting ever so closer to an actual launch! Thank you so much for everyone who has been a part of the community or tried the game so far, I want to hear more of your feedback and make this the best game I can!