Development Progress Update

Development Progress Update

Week 16

This Week’s Development Progress

• Added new character unlock rules and new characters, batch updated and optimized equipment and new affixes; launched Steam achievement system. Fixed multiple bugs and improved visual and control experience.

Content Expansion & Adjustments

New Character Unlock System

• Except for initial characters, other characters can only be used at the start of future runs after being unlocked in battle and reaching max level.

• Unlock Dwarf at Round 20.

• Unlock Elf at Round 30.

New Shop Character

• Added new shop character: Repair Master

• Repair Master: Dwarf Knight; scales through equipment quality, featuring physical DPS, tank + true damage, and large-scale resistance reduction paths. It has a unique equipment quality upgrade system. It can either provide strong team-wide buffs at battle start or choose a global continuous buff route, making it a versatile core unit combining damage, durability, and team support.

  

New Equipment

• Sword of Judgment: Knight weapon; deals true damage based on target stacks (Human “Dough” stacks / Dwarf “Beer” stacks / Elf evasion points).

• Short Sword & Buckler: Knight weapon; -20 base attack, +30 parry chance, +1 base guard range.

• Battering Hammer: Knight weapon; ignores armor, damage equals 10 + target parry chance.

• Magic Gloves: Armguard; -50% cast time but removes 10 extra dual-cast points.

• Extendable Sleeve: Armguard; +1 multi-hit count.

• Mechanical Armguard: Armguard; +2 multi-hit count, but +10% cast time, -5 evasion, -5 dual-cast.

• Reinforced Armguard: Armguard; every 8th non-strong attack becomes a strong attack, dealing +0.2 AD physical damage and +0.2 AP magical damage.

• Arrow Arm Device: Armguard; strong attacks ignore 20 enemy dual defense.

• Holy Scepter: Priest weapon; +40% skill damage against undead units.

Equipment Adjustments

• Mage weapons Chain Staff and Fire of Joy are now red rarity and only drop from S-tier loot.

• Chain Staff: skill damage now includes one instance of basic attack physical damage.

• Fire of Joy: damaging skills increase target temperature by 30.

• Thorn Staff: 30% chance for skill damage to apply Thorn (reflects one stack of self-physical damage equal to attacker’s ATK when attacking).

• Nature Staff: 10% chance on cast to heal the lowest HP ally for 1 AP.

• Furnace Blessing renamed to Iron Heavy Shield: -0.2 base movement speed at battle start, +20% shield block chance.

New Affixes & Adjustments

Helmet Affix Pool

• AdjustedBuffer CushionWhile shielded, damage taken from skills and attacks is reduced by 20.

• Forced Awakening: When HP first drops below 50%, removes 5 debuffs.

• Duel Vision: Targeted enemy deals 20 less damage to you.

• Periscope: +0.5 attack range, -0.1 attack speed.

• Memory Palace: Each time a different skill is cast in a battle, subsequent skills gain +5 AP.

Weapon Affix Pool

• Abstinence Doctrine (Priest): Attacks destroy 1 Beer stack on target.

• Holy Retribution (Priest): Strong attacks deal +0.8 AP magic damage.

• Divine Overflow: 20% chance to additionally heal the lowest HP unit.

• Power of Long Spear (Spear unit): Attack range becomes base attack range.

• Piercing Thunder Strike (Spear unit): The 13th attack becomes a strong attack and deals true damage equal to 1× enemy magic resistance.

• Banner Tactics (Spear unit): After throwing the flag, gain 10 evasion for the next incoming damage instance.

• Steppe’s Sorrow: After throwing the flag, negate the next damage instance if it comes from nomadic factions.

New Achievement System

• Steam achievements are now live. Players can unlock achievements through battles. More achievements will be added in future updates.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where boss pre-fight rounds were incorrectly increased.

• Fixed character/effect misalignment issues.

• Fixed cases where damage could become negative.

• Fixed an issue where unlocked characters still had access to their unlock dungeons.

Game Optimization

• Improved tag display sizing in equipment affix UI.

• Updated attack skill effects for several characters.

• Improved codex filtering rules.

• Optimized some equipment icons.

In Development

• Class Skill Boss Battles (40%)

Thank you for your continued feedback and support. Please report any issues or suggestions in the community.