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Major Update 4 - Full Controller Support, New Champion, New Biome & more...

Please note that your current save files will be deleted, as they are incompatible with the new updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.

In this update4

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Full Artifice: War Tactics update

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What changed

7 fixes5 additions6 changes0 removals
  • Gameplay
  • Maps
  • Balance
  • Compatibility
  • Fixes
  • UI and audio
addedPlease note that your current save files will be deleted, as they are incompatible with the new updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
changedArtifice: War tactics Demo will now be available with the updated gameplay changes.
addedHIGHLIGHTSAdded New Biome – Forest Forest hazard – Poison Ivy: Whenever a character is attacked while they are adjacent to the Ivy, it will spew and apply Poison to ALL nearby characters. Poison deals 2 damage per turn for two turns. If the character dies under this effect, they will explode and apply Poison to all nearby allies.
addedHIGHLIGHTSAdded new Champion - Trickster (Traits and Abilities) Trait – Battle ward: Summons a ward that increases the damage of allies by 25%. The ward disappears on getting hit. Max wards = 1 (Upgradable) Ability 01 – Life Swap: Swaps health with another character. Not applicable on Bosses. Ability 02 – Teleport: Allows a Champion to be directly teleported to a tile up to a range of two tiles.
changedHIGHLIGHTSLoot Drops! – Enemies will now have a chance to drop loot on death. There are two primary types of loot – Items and Resources.
addedHIGHLIGHTSAdded Full Controller Support

Artifice: War Tactics changes

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addedPlease note that your current save files will be deleted, as they are incompatible with the new updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.
changedArtifice: War tactics Demo will now be available with the updated gameplay changes.
addedAdded New Biome – Forest Forest hazard – Poison Ivy: Whenever a character is attacked while they are adjacent to the Ivy, it will spew and apply Poison to ALL nearby characters. Poison deals 2 damage per turn for two turns. If the character dies under this effect, they will explode and apply Poison to all nearby allies.
addedAdded new Champion - Trickster (Traits and Abilities) Trait – Battle ward: Summons a ward that increases the damage of allies by 25%. The ward disappears on getting hit. Max wards = 1 (Upgradable) Ability 01 – Life Swap: Swaps health with another character. Not applicable on Bosses. Ability 02 – Teleport: Allows a Champion to be directly teleported to a tile up to a range of two tiles.
changedLoot Drops! – Enemies will now have a chance to drop loot on death. There are two primary types of loot – Items and Resources.

Please note that your current save files will be deleted, as they are incompatible with the new updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Artifice: War tactics Demo will now be available with the updated gameplay changes.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Added New Biome – Forest

    • Forest hazard – Poison Ivy: Whenever a character is attacked while they are adjacent to the Ivy, it will spew and apply Poison to ALL nearby characters. Poison deals 2 damage per turn for two turns. If the character dies under this effect, they will explode and apply Poison to all nearby allies.

  • Added new Champion - Trickster (Traits and Abilities)

    • Trait – Battle ward: Summons a ward that increases the damage of allies by 25%. The ward disappears on getting hit. Max wards = 1 (Upgradable)

    • Ability 01 – Life Swap: Swaps health with another character. Not applicable on Bosses.

    • Ability 02 – Teleport: Allows a Champion to be directly teleported to a tile up to a range of two tiles.

  • Loot Drops! – Enemies will now have a chance to drop loot on death. There are two primary types of loot – Items and Resources.

  • Added Full Controller Support

BALANCE

  • Reworked Secondary Objectives – Eliminate “Shade” objective has been replaced by a set of feats that need to be completed during battle to earn the reward. More objectives are soon to follow.

  • Dodge mechanic has been reworked – Dodge check is now applicable individually for both target and adjacent champions for any AOE or multi-target attack. These include attack from the following enemies:

    • Deathcap

    • Red cabal

    • Siege breaker

    • Frost Rogue

FIXES

  • Fixed a bug where Queen Mycella would try to mind-control the Spectre.

  • Fixed a bug where Shrine buffs showed incorrectly on HUD.

  • Fixed a bug where Shrine buffs would be removed if you repositioned a champion.

  • Fixed a bug where Martyr's rite could heal the Ember bomb.

  • Fixed a soft freeze resulting from a Pathfinder and blood mage combo.

  • Fixed a hotkey issue with spells.

  • Other minor bug fixes

POLISHES

  • Updated Boletuza Queen Boss Model

  • Added a new Interaction ability – To interact with key characters and loot.

  • Minor UI Polishes

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Source

Steam News / 7 May 2024

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