News from the Front: Aegis has Arrived!

Aegis Rises!

The Aegis gods have returned, and Terrene Gall is doomed… We're excited to announce a FREE UPDATE for Dragon Front Adventures. Introducing an all-new faction with four brand-new Champions, each bringing unique mechanics, strategies, and dominance to the battlefield. This update doesn’t stop there. You’ll also discover:

• New missions to challenge your tactics

• New relics to reshape your builds

• Four new Aegis gems usable by any faction

• Quality-of-life improvements based directly on player feedback

This is one of our biggest updates yet, and it will change how you play the game. Whether you're a returning commander or stepping onto the battlefield for the first time, there's never been a better moment to dive back into Dragon Front Adventures.

Prepare your decks. Choose your Champion. Aegis rises.

New Features:

Champions

• Eos Alpha uses the new Blessed tiles to protect herself from damage and buff her units.

• Immortal Banner buffs units in your hand, build up powerful units before placing them.

• Host Immaculate focuses on powerful spells and Cursing the enemy- Curse builds up cards in the enemy's hand and damages them when 4 are in their hand.

• Coal Raker focuses on Steelward, new gem that buffs the next unit you play.

Gems

• Bless- Blesses the tile itself, preventing 1 damage to your champion for each Blessed tile.

• Evolve- When a unit dies, automatically pulls a unit from your hand into combat.

• Curse- Adds a curse card to the enemy's hand, and damages them if they reach 4 total in-hand. It requires mana fragments to remove them from your hand.

• Steelward- The next ally unit that is deployed gains a power and health buff

Relics

• Insolant Moon- When your Champion is damaged, deal one damage to the opposing Champion.

• Platinum Mirror- Start of Battle: add 2 Curse Cards to the opponent's hand.

• Prisms- When an ally Unit respawns in battle DRAW a card (works with Evolve).

• Monad Codex- Your Champion adds a Benediction spell to your hand after taking 2 or more damage from one source.

Battle Mutators (Aegis Specific)

• Triton Turret- All Units gain the EXHAUST condition.

• Radiant Melodies- END OF TURN: Apply BLESSED to a random Battle Point for each player. If all three are BLESSED, gain a Radiant Chorus token. (Heals your champion or damages your enemy's champion)

• Fields of Burden- When a Champion takes damage, deal 1 damage to all Units.

• Henge Nexus- When an Ally unit is destroyed on the frontmost Battle Point, add a Curse token to your Hand.

• Geometric Altar- START OF TURN: Add a Benediction Spell token to your Hand.

Updates and Bug Fixes:

Gameplay Updates & Adjustments

• Right clicking on the mouse now cancels card placement

• Allow the player to view their deck on the victory and defeat screens

• Added a Leave button to all pages of the Trader's shop

• Added 6 new missions

• Added VFX to several effects for clearer communication

Bug Fixes & Updates

• Reworked several VFX and VO interactions for better clarity

  • We're trying to leave the guesswork out of certain abilities that can trigger in the heat of battle by adding an effect or voice line when they trigger

• Updated and fixed several unit VFX and SFX

• Added tags to several units and spells for quick reference

  • Example: Shade Manipulator now displays how many units are in your Discard Pile, so you can quickly reference whether her card ability will trigger before playing the unit

• Updated fitness functions for several units, spells, and gems for more intuitive AI gameplay

• Fixed an issue on controller where players would unexpectedly leave the Trader if they were inspecting a card.

• Fixed a soft lock when respawning with the Shroud of the Allfather relic

• Fixed a soft lock from occurring if the Options menu was closed while in a Choose-A-Card event.

• Fixed the ability to select a faction mask while the Options menu is on screen

• Fixed an issue that would infinitely loop the hover animation on rewards

• Fixed an issue where Endure was triggering off of effects that do 0 damage

• Fixed an issue causing scrolling on the deck view to break when swapping between mouse/keyboard and controller

• Fixed issues with the implementation of Battle Mutators-

  • Glossy Reflection will now randomize the first drawn enemy unit's health and power

  • Roadside Chapel will properly incur a 3 Warscript cost on all cards that do not currently have the Costly tag

• Fixed Legend's (Thorns miniboss) ability to reduced the power of buffed units

• Changed the rarity of Thorns cards to reflect their power level

  • Grizzly Max is now Rare (was common), Terra Whale is now Uncommon (was Rare), and Bark Druid is Common (was Uncommon)

• Increased the size of Brave Soul (August Sultan's ability Unit) to distinguish it from Stronghold Apostle

• Updated Etwas the Jester to randomize power and health between 1-8 (was 1-5)