Demo Update 0.6.4.8

Here is another small update for you, bringing a handful of Quality of Life improvements, balancing, and bugfixes.

>> On June 15th, we'll release a Major Demo Update featuring new battle scene visuals, new Decklings, new battles, the save functionality, and much more! Mark on you Calendars!

What's New

• Unique Starter Decks: Every starter Deckling now comes with a unique starting deck.

• AddedBetter Loading ScreenGame loading has gone through a total overhaul. We optimized memory and GPU usage and added funny phrases to the loading screen.
• AddedBetter Transition ScreensWe replaced the default transition screen and added transition between start screen and main game.

Combat Balancing

• AdjustedBonus Health upon leveling upDecklings now gain bonus health as they level up! We've also reduced the evolution health bonus to compensate.
• AdjustedUpdated Charged Status EffectCharged has been reworked. Now it resets at the end of the turn instead of upon triggering.

• Reduced Static Charge Skill cost to 0.

• Changed Spike precedence to last so heals and other passive triggers happen before it lands.

Crafting, Taming, and Survival Balancing

• AdjustedFoil Hunting tweaksAdjusted foil drop rate to be rarer and added a pity system.
• AdjustedSoil, Planting, and FarmsSoil is now consumed when used for planting. To compensate, we've reduced planting time to 30 seconds. We've introduced the Farm as a permanent alternative to soil that produces fruit which helps automate the base.

• Recipe Unlock: You now unlock recipes by either crafting or buying the item.

• Changed Berry Salad recipe to make it easier at the beginning.

• RemovedChanged QuestsRemoved the "Reach day 5" quest and introduced "Craft Stick" Quest.

• Added quest to craft Stick and reordered recipes to bring stick earlier.

• Added new craft stick tutorial quest.

• Added new art for Loamy Soil/Soft Soil.

Quality of Life:

• Added a pointing hand to the time manager tooltip to make it stand out more.

• Improved Card Snapping logic to make cards resulting from crafts and collect stack properly on similar cards nearby.

• Items from Gem Shop and Location Shops(Forest and Eerie Lake) now snap to similar cards nearby.

Bugfixes

• Holding control now correctly skips cutscenes.

• Fixed a bug where players were stuck at the Dark Lizard Games logo screen.

• Added missing text for ACTION_EVOLVE and a couple of other typos and localization issues.

• Spike now doesn't interrupt Skill when the attacker is knocked out.

• Foil is now being rerolled when hatching eggs.

• Zappup is now correctly spawning from electric eggs.

• Recipe dialogue now mentions selling cards and that stacking the card isn't required.

• Fixed issue with certain quest rewards causing crashes

• Welcome letter text now doesn't go out of bounds in Brazilian Portuguese.

• Fear Extra Damage effect is now working correctly.

• Packs now spawn in the center of the screen.

• Fixed a bug with card snapping based on card position instead of shape.

• Location Shop(Forest and Eerie Lake shop) now shows the correct number until next battle.

• Fixed a bug with game triggering error messages on certain scenarios with selling food.

• Fixed Eerie Lake unlock condition text.

• Fixed Water Card sprite.

• Fixed Hearty fruit skill target.

Thank you for playing the game and sharing your feedback!

-- Oli