May Patch Notes (The Acquisitions Incorporated Update)

Greeting Adventurers, The Acquisitions Incorporated update is out! This does not only include a new short adventure, but also a bunch of features, updates and fixes!

Features

• "A Golden Opportunity" - A new Short Adventure featuring Omin Dran of Acquisitions Incorporated! Play through a unique quest line alongside the events of Embers of Chaos and receive some golden rewards!

• Find Omin Dran in the Emerald Tavern in Campaign 1 to start A Golden Opportunity, or if you've finished Campaign 1, you can play it as a Standalone Adventure in the selection menu.

• Campaigns can now be played with varying difficulties (Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard). Previous default difficulty matches "Normal".

• Campaigns can now be played with the "No Respawns" setting active. This will apply to the dungeons in the adventure (since encounters don't have respawning enemies)

• Additional optional difficulty settings for all game modes are being explored for a potential future release.

• "Fastness of Green Shadows" is now playable as a One Shot Dungeon.

• A lot of traits have gotten new names.

• Enemies attacking from fog of war will now be briefly visible to make it clearer what is going on.

UX:

• Redesigned Room Browser

• Added optional "focuses" to the room browser so that the host can signal intentions (like "Story", "Happy to help", "Relaxed"). Voice chat language can be explicitly set.

• Added filters so players looking for a game can find one that matches their intentions

• New Recently played with section added to the friends menu.

• Added hover state with detailed info on status effects icons for mouse & keyboard.

• Fixed cause for map marker UI miss clicks.

• Added joining game loading messages.

• Hide multiplayer settings during single player.

UI:

• Main Menu rework

• Fixed Scrap Card clipping with screen edges

• Fixed status effect icons not mirroring in VR when using the opposite hand.

• Campaign 2 multilevel dungeon map markers now use correct visuals.

VR:

• Added laser pointer snapping to UI.

• Fixed laser pointer render sorting error with hovered card.

Balance Changes

• Enemies attacking from fog of war will now be briefly visible to make it more clear what is happening.

• Paladin

  • Divine Smite damage reduced from 7 to 6.

    • Cooldown increased from 1 to 2 turns.

  • Thunderous Smite damage increased from 7 to 8.

  • Wrathful Smite damage reduced from 7 to 5.

    • Wrathful Smite’s Frightening effect area has been increased and it should more consistently hit more targets.

• Bard

  • Glyph of Warding can now be played on objects to protect them. Giving the object the Glyph of Warding Status Effect.

    • Glyph of Warding (Status Effect) - "Warded. Melee Attackers take Lightning Damage."

    • Glyph of Warding damage bounces between pieces instead of being a set area. This is more in line with other Lightning attacks.

  • Magical Secrets can now be used on enemy spell casters as well.

• Fighter

  • Goading Attack cost reduced from 1 to 0.

• Ranger

  • Lightning Arrow damage increased from 3 to 4.

• Rogue

  • Poisoner's Kit - Poison Coating duration has been increased from 1 to 3 turns and damage from 1 to 3.

  • Stealth can be used to move up to 2 tiles, with the Rogue ending up stealthed on the indicated location.

  • Blinkstrike damage reduced from 10 to 8.

  • Sleight of Hand can now be used on most creatures.

• Sorcerer

  • Burning Hands damage increased from 1 to 3.

• General

  • All Psychic damage now ignores physical armor.

• Traits

  • Combat Magic duration reduced from 3 to 1 turn.

  • Unflinching Focus has been changed to differentiate it from the trait Resilient. It will now reduce spell damage by 1 if the player piece is at 80% or higher health.

• Enemies

  • All kobolds can now benefit from Kobold Pack Tactics

    • Kobold Pack Tactic (Status Effect) - "Deals +1 Damage and has increased Hit Chance while other Kobolds are nearby."

Bug fixes

• The Ground Pound card should no longer push around pieces meant to be immovable such as large bosses. Targets hit by it should now animate properly on impact.

• Improved card playing behavior when targeting into fog of war.

• Improved enemy behavior when they are acting from fog of war.

• Enemies with status effects that should block them from performing certain actions should now work properly. For instance, Counterspell should now block spellcasters from using spells.

• Fixed bug on non-VR platforms that could cause some NPC dialogue to not be played at an audible level, such as some of the customers in Emerald Tavern.

• Fixed a bug that could cause levels with a kill enemies objectives to get confused if said target enemies got polymorphed.

• When a piece is transformed such as by Polymorph, status effects already on the piece during the transformation should no longer play a notification as if reapplied.

• Big pieces should now align their base plates better with the ground and clip less with the terrain.

• Smoke Tiles can be removed by some other tile effects.

• Fixed some missing trait trigger notifications.

• Confused Enemies should no longer attack while Paralyzed.

• Frightened enemies should no longer move around if they are affected by another Incapacitated Status Effect such as Sleep or Stunned.

• Vicious Mockery, Bardic Inspiration, Counterspell and Disarm should not be able to target pieces if they have no effect on the target.

• Uncanny Dodge and Intercepted no longer trigger at the same time.

• Fire Charge trait has been fixed to better match the description.

• Combat Magic now only triggers on allies.

• Combat Magic is now removed when getting Downed.

• Bosses and ballistae should no longer directly target player pieces that are stealthed, downed or under the effect of Sanctuary.

• Non-player controllable pieces, including normally stationary ones like ballistae, should no longer be given infinite movement range when a level switches over to free movement.

• Fixed bug where Magic Armor could sometimes absorb more damage than expected.

• Dimension Door should transport allies more reliably.

• Fixed bug that sometimes made bosses do nothing instead of taking an action.

Enjoy!

—Battlemarked Team