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Steam News26 January 20265mo ago

[Update] Version 0.5.2

⚔️ Event Encounters are back! The battlefield grows richer with new choices, new risks, and new rewards. This update reintroduces event encounters, enhances troop management, and fine-tunes the balance across the board.

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What changed

0 fixes3 additions12 changes1 removal
  • Maps
  • UI and audio
  • Events
  • Balance
added⚔️ Event Encounters are back!The battlefield grows richer with new choices, new risks, and new rewards. This update reintroduces event encounters, enhances troop management, and fine-tunes the balance across the board.
changed⚔️ Event Encounters are back!Event encounters are back, featuring a better UI and interactions!
changed⚔️ Event Encounters are back!🔥 Campfire – Heal your warband or upgrade relics 🍻 Tavern – Recruit fresh troops to bolster your ranks 🚚 Caravan – Discover rare weapons for daring builds 💉 Lifebroker – Trade lives for powerful relics ❄️ Frozen Statue – Unlock a one-of-a-kind relic
changed⚔️ Event Encounters are back!⚔️ Troop Management
added⚔️ Event Encounters are back!🔔 Troop Retirement – Retire units to make room for new strategies ➕ Expanded Limit – Command up to 7 troops (up from 4)
changed⚔️ Event Encounters are back!⚖️ Balance Updates
Phantom Dagger - HP Restoration on kill30%/70%/100%30%/50%/70%Momentum (Attack) - Reduced Critical Chance per kill10%8%Momentum (Attack) - Reduced Critical Chance per kill decreased, nerfPack (Attack) - Reduced adjacency buff54Pack (Attack) - Reduced adjacency buff decreased, nerfMana Storm (Magic) - Reduced adjacency buff2018Mana Storm (Magic) - Reduced adjacency buff decreased, nerf

⚔️ Event Encounters are back!

The battlefield grows richer with new choices, new risks, and new rewards. This update reintroduces event encounters, enhances troop management, and fine-tunes the balance across the board.

Event encounters are back, featuring a better UI and interactions!

🔥 Campfire – Heal your warband or upgrade relics 🍻 Tavern – Recruit fresh troops to bolster your ranks 🚚 Caravan – Discover rare weapons for daring builds 💉 Lifebroker – Trade lives for powerful relics ❄️ Frozen Statue – Unlock a one-of-a-kind relic

⚔️ Troop Management

🔔 Troop Retirement – Retire units to make room for new strategies ➕ Expanded Limit – Command up to 7 troops (up from 4)

⚖️ Balance Updates

Relic

  • Added Rune Grimoire (Uncommon)

    • On start of the battle, +12% Cooldown Reduction and +4 Mana Regen to all Necromancer Troops.

  • Removed Recruitment Scroll

Weapon

  • Phantom Dagger - HP Restoration on kill reduced from 30%/70%/100% to 30%/50%/70%

Traits

  • All traits that has adjacency buff effect now also affect the trait owner.

  • Momentum (Attack) - Reduced Critical Chance per kill from 10% to 8%

  • Pack (Attack) - Reduced adjacency buff from 5 to 4 Attack damage.

  • Mana Storm (Magic) - Reduced adjacency buff from 20 to 18 Initial Mana.

Source

Steam News / 26 January 2026

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