Character 4 Progress Report #3

Time for another progress report,

We're still working on compositionally and thematically adjusting the Watcher's cards but we also brought in a slew of new potions & sparkles!

Next week we'll probably still be changing a lot of cards, make some visual effects for cards, and maybe polish up some relic arts.

Shiny!

Golden Joystick Awards

We're on the shortlist for Best Indie Game and PC Game of the Year! Vote for Slay the Spire on the Golden Joystick Awards :)

Community Fan Art COSPLAY?!

The Silent looking really menacing by @xiaozhuo_wu

A short break from fan art to appreciate some hard work on these costumes by @MissMariaCos

Patch Notes

Content

• CosmeticNew Defect Rare Potion/Essence of Darkness.
• CosmeticNew Defect Uncommon Potion/Potion of Capacity.
• CosmeticNew Ironclad Rare potion/Heart of Iron.
• CosmeticNew Ironclad Uncommon Potion/Elixir.
• CosmeticNew Silent Uncommon Potion/Cunning Potion.
• CosmeticNew Watcher Common potion/Bottled Miracle.
• CosmeticNew Watcher Rare potion/Ambrosia.

Balance

• Adaptation card is now rare.

• Adaptation nerfed. Cost increased by 1. No longer upgrades to Innate.

• Battle Hymn reworked.

• Block Actions now still occur post-combat, allowing Blocking of Beat of Death and others.

• Blood Potion is now Common.

• Blood potion nerfed from 25% -> 20%.

• Brilliance card is now Ethereal.

• Brilliance card reworked.

• Cloak Clasp relic Block lowered to 1.

• Collect card reworked. Now gives Miracle+ instead of energy.

• Crush Joints card damage lowered by 1.

• Deva Form card reworked.

• Empty Mind card is now Uncommon.

• Eruption+ no longer gets a damage buff. Costs 2 -> 1 instead.

• Flow State card is now Uncommon.

• Focus Potion is now Common.

• Ghost in a Jar is now Rare.

• Master Reality card reworked.

• Meditate card reworked.

• Mental Fortress card values nerfed from 4(6)->3(4).

• Nirvana card reworked.

• Poison Potion is now Silent only.

• Sash Whip card damage lowered by 1.

• Through Violence card now retains.

UI and Effects

• Beta art added to 50+ cards.

• Polished art added to 20+ cards.

• Class-specific potions now render a colored outline in the Potion Lab screen.

• Outlines for both relics and potions in the compendium are now more visible.

• Potions hovered in Potion lab screen now have their tips displayed in a fixed position (rather than cursor).

• Updating Windmill Strike, Sands of Time and Perseverance card descriptions to be shorter.

• Uncommon and Rare potions now emit particles in card reward and shop screens.

Localization

• Enable manual and auto line breaking mode for ZHT.

• Fixed NL clashes with auto line breaks for ZHS, JPN font rendering.

• Implementing more logic to remove period-only lines from CJK languages.

• Scrawl only uses UPGRADE_DESC if it's not empty now.

• Updates for DEU, ITA, JPN, KOR, POL, RUS, VIE, ZHS, ZHT.

Bug Fixes

• Card Library screen no longer scrolls up on first open.

• Card Library screens cards were smaller for Purple, Colorless, Cursed. Fixed.

• Fix for Power tips being offset when there are a lot of Powers.

• Fixed Just Lucky card doing its effects out of order.

• Fixed Spirit Shield card applying wrong values when played in non-standard ways (eg Wish).

• Halt card's additional Block is now affected by Powers.

• Lesson Learned card can no longer spawn from card generating effects mid combat.

• Potential fix for stance potions + touchscreens not interacting correctly.

• Removing Truth and Wisdom cards from Card Library as they're deprecated.

• Swapping action orders for Empty Mind so it follows the card's description.