Steam News15 November 20232y ago

Death Roads: Tournament - Final Update Changelog

First of all, thanks for all your feedback folks! With it, we’ve been able to rework a lot of balance and difficulty issues.

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1 fix21 additions12 changes1 removal

Balance
Gameplay
Maps
Events

addedFirst of all, thanks for all your feedback folks! With it, we’ve been able to rework a lot of balance and difficulty issues. We’ve also added a bunch of new stuff that hopefully will improve your game experience and let you blow up your foes in new exciting ways.

addedMajor ChangesFlexible movement range - You can now choose a distance you want to travel while performing movement actions stronger than 1. You can also skip any move action entirely while playing a card. This allows for more freedom with positioning.

addedMajor ChangesHandling regeneration - Enemies now regenerate handling at the start of the Player’s turn instead of their own. This way you can now limit the amount of cards the enemies will play during their turn, by reducing their handling without making them skid.

addedMajor ChangesWeapon range highlights - When hovering over an enemy vehicle, you can now see the potential range of all its weapons. The highlighted range of a weapon card is also displayed on the board while hovering over a given weapon card in hand, so you no longer have to activate a card to see where it hits.

removedMajor ChangesTwists and turns on the world map - The roads on the world map are no longer straight, and now look more like actual routes.

changedMajor ChangesUnique body cards - The cards from the body components of all playable cars are now unique to each vehicle, and won’t appear in other components like engines, wheels or accessories. We’ve also reworked most of them to better emphasize different playstyles.

Death Roads: Tournament changes

addedFlexible movement range - You can now choose a distance you want to travel while performing movement actions stronger than 1. You can also skip any move action entirely while playing a card. This allows for more freedom with positioning.

addedHandling regeneration - Enemies now regenerate handling at the start of the Player’s turn instead of their own. This way you can now limit the amount of cards the enemies will play during their turn, by reducing their handling without making them skid.

addedWeapon range highlights - When hovering over an enemy vehicle, you can now see the potential range of all its weapons. The highlighted range of a weapon card is also displayed on the board while hovering over a given weapon card in hand, so you no longer have to activate a card to see where it hits.

removedTwists and turns on the world map - The roads on the world map are no longer straight, and now look more like actual routes.

First of all, thanks for all your feedback folks! With it, we’ve been able to rework a lot of balance and difficulty issues. We’ve also added a bunch of new stuff that hopefully will improve your game experience and let you blow up your foes in new exciting ways.

Let’s run through the details below:

Major Changes

Flexible movement range - You can now choose a distance you want to travel while performing movement actions stronger than 1. You can also skip any move action entirely while playing a card. This allows for more freedom with positioning.
Handling regeneration - Enemies now regenerate handling at the start of the Player’s turn instead of their own. This way you can now limit the amount of cards the enemies will play during their turn, by reducing their handling without making them skid.
Weapon range highlights - When hovering over an enemy vehicle, you can now see the potential range of all its weapons. The highlighted range of a weapon card is also displayed on the board while hovering over a given weapon card in hand, so you no longer have to activate a card to see where it hits.
Twists and turns on the world map - The roads on the world map are no longer straight, and now look more like actual routes.
Unique body cards - The cards from the body components of all playable cars are now unique to each vehicle, and won’t appear in other components like engines, wheels or accessories. We’ve also reworked most of them to better emphasize different playstyles.
Different driver cards and starting gadgets - All playable drivers now have slightly different cards and starting gadgets, that create better synergies for a given playstyle.
Reworked cards and components - Many of the existing cards and components were changed to be clearer and focus more on a given function in specific decks.
Reworked events - Events now offer better rewards and are less punishing for the Player.
Reworked Challenger AI - Challengers in free for all battles can now attack each other instead of focusing only on the Player.

Rebalance

Vehicles now have different equipment slot types, as well as new starting values of Condition, Armour and Bash Damage.
Many components now give different modicator values.
Some Gadgets values and effects have been changed.
Weapons should now deal more damage in general.
Block and Grip status effects now appear more frequently on different cards.
Rumble status effect stacks amount has been reduced, and its damage is now subtracted from the Block.
Action to move in all directions now appears more frequently on cards.
Action to redraw cards now appears more frequently on cards.
Push action now appears more frequently on cards.
Players now gain more experience points overall, and can progress quicker.

Added Content

New Components

A lot of new Engines, Wheels, Weapons, and Accessories were added. All tuned up, to fit and enhance a specific strategy.

New Gadgets

Quite a few new options to gain MORE POWER!!!

New Drivers

Tetsuo “4rg0” Yamauchi - The Wiz Kid, master of manipulation.
Alberto “Flamingo” Felluci - The ex-Mafia chauffeur, here to deliver pain.

New Playable Car

Torcia Olympic - Light yourself up in class, with this vintage recreation of the good old days just waiting to be ignited.

New Enemies

Three new Sedan type enemies
Two new Buggy type enemies
New Hot Rod type enemy
New Pickup type enemy

New Road types

Swamp Roads
Mountain Roads

New Status effects

Web - Take 2 Condition damage each time this Vehicle moves. Lose 1 Web at the end of your turn.
Flat - Take 2 Condition damage whenever a Skid card is resolved by this Vehicle. Lose 1 Flat at the end of your turn.

Source

Steam News / 15 November 2023

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