New Alchemortis Playtest Live Now!

Playtest 3 is Available Now!

The third Alchemortis playtest is now live for everyone! This build is focused on addressing some of the major issues of the previous playtest, but also contains a lot of new content. Below are the complete patch notes for this playtest.

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Patch Notes

Alchemy Overhaul

• Legendary cards will now have a random legendary ability added to them.

• Card stability: cards will now accrue negative abilities as a result of alchemy in accordance with their sizes. Large cards are more stable, and will accrue fewer negative abilities.

• Alchemical residue introduced as a currency. Players gain alchemical residue by engaging in alchemy.

• Default alchemy board size set to 3x3, which can be temporarily increased to 4x4 with the Death Orchid reagent.

• Added several new reagents to make alchemy more controllable and predictable.

Gameplay Changes

• Player board now starts at a size of 4x4.

• Player board now starts with locked cells, which can be unlocked with alchemical residue.

• The grow board event now locks the new cells that are added to the board.

• Combat encounters now offer cards as rewards.

• New card overflow system which will allow you to receive cards that are offered from artifacts or other events, like Spiderlings.

• Resurrection mechanic now resurrects player with health percent based on size of cards offered up for resurrection.

• New in-game interactive tutorial to educate players on the mechanics of the game.

• Added obelisk event which will change nodes on the map to new nodes of the player's choosing. Obelisks also apply buffs to nodes when activated.

• Added roaming Inquisition Eyes which increase the notoriety penalty of nodes within their radius.

• Upon clearing a region, it will be overrun with Inquisition Eyes.

• Inquisition node blessing system which will randomly add 1 debuff and 1 buff to nodes immediately visitable by the player.

• Reworked Swarm. Now, individual abilities are wrapped with the "Swarm" modifier. When a swarm ability executes, it will trigger one other random swarm ability on a random card.

Balance Pass

• Nerfed Longbowman.

• Nerfed Iron Gauntlet.

• Nerfed Pilgrim Path Sign.

• Buffed bleed duration from 5 to 10 turns.

• Flattened blood economy scaling.

• Reduced card sell prices.

• Ensured generated enemy boards always have damage.

New Cards

• Tapeworm

• Nautilus Cup

• Flagrum

• Explosive Flask

• Rusty Spoon

• Alkahest

• Eyeball

• Skeleton Dragon

• Pond

• Corpse pile

• Acolyte

New Artifacts

• Unicorn Horn

• Thorns

• Primeval Hand

• Apprentice Wand

• Fleam

New Enchantments

• Convert damage to bleed

• Paralysis immunity

• Increased sell price

• Make all abilities affect and affected by the entire board

• Increase ability target limit by 1

• Convert fire to healing

• Increase applied paralysis duration

• Exhaust a random enemy card when this card exhausted

Music

• Added new second region music.

• Added new third region music.

• Fixed various music transition issues.

Sound Effects

• Full SFX pass across combat, UI, alchemy, and map, replacing lackluster sound effects and generally filling out the soundscape.

• Added shop sound effects.

• Added new alchemy SFX, including a legendary sound effect to get the dopamine flowing.

• Added unique ambience SFX for each region.

• Replaced SFX for grow board event.

Visual Polish

• Added new alchemy animations and particles.

• Added legendary card animation.

• Added unique art for post-combat card rewards.

• Added card hover animation.

• Tuned camera shake.

• Replaced grow board event art.

• Added ambient visual effects for each region.

• Updated UI tooltip panel art.

• Reworked frog art (again).

• Tweaked art of several artifacts.

UX Improvements

• Added speed control labels.

• Added recenter camera button.

• Improved map node tooltips with icons indicating negative and positive event effects.

• Merged alchemy and inventory buttons.

• Indicated when effects are applied to self in the combat log.

• Optimized card placement for dynamically-sized boards, like boards associated with booster packs. Now, boards that are dynamically generated for the purpose of offering rewards will feel more organic.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various incorrect Echo interactions.

• Fixed cases where player could die with nonzero health.

• Fixed turn cooldowns not updating in some cases.

• Fixed fog of war inconsistencies.

• Fixed damage tracking ability logic to ensure consistency.

• Fixed scenarios where speed controls could softlock the game.

• Fixed map tooltips getting stuck in certain situations.

Misc Changes

• Refactored ability system to improve ease of adding more complex abilities.

• Updated engine version to Godot 4.6