Solace Inc v1.9 Prerelease Beta

This is a pretty sizable update, so I figured it would be best to put out a pre-release build prior to releasing it so that I can get some feedback, if you'd like to try it out head over to the game properties on Steam and go to Betas > Beta Participation > Prerelease and then verify game files to make sure it downloaded (it should say v1.9 on the title screen)

I'll go into more detail when the update is out, here is the work in progress patch notes for v1.9:

• added a bunch of new recruits

• added new fusions

• added new synergies

• added new enemies

  • added imposter recruits, which appear as normal recruits but are slightly different and will transform into enemies if you upgrade their passive

• added Element Types

  • both recruits and enemies now have an element assigned to them, they will take more damage to elements they are weak to

  • Fire Types take no damage from burning, and Water Types take no damage from poison

  • Earth Types have reduced knockback

  • Air Types have better control when mid-air

  • Light Types are boosted longer and attack faster when boosted

  • Metal Types have larger parry windows

  • Love Types receive more healing from healing projectiles and regenerate faster

• Added Battle Power & Reworked Difficulty

  • Battle Power is calculated by a recruit's/enemy's max health and damage, representative of their overall combat effectiveness

  • Average Recruit and Enemy Battle Power is now displayed on the top left during missions, and individual recruit battle power is shown on the pause menu

  • mission battle power scales with how many recruits you have unlocked, it will be capped on missions you haven't beaten yet

  • max level of damage, defense, and health research now scales with how many recruits you have unlocked

• Added Chrono Spheres

  • in Chrono Corp Mode, you can now unlock certain enemies as playable characters by throwing a Chrono Sphere at them

• added in-mission recruit dialogue

  • some recruits will now react to other recruits appearing (or will just say random stuff occasionally)

• slight balance changes

  • some of the newer recruits have a bit of scope creep, so i adjusted some of the older ones to make them a bit more useful

• burning and poison damage now scales with the target's health/max health

• buffed Chrono Corp mode mechanics

  • energy bar now fills up much faster

  • buffed some of the potions (i.e. health potion now heals 25% of max health per tick)

  • all chrono corp troops are now playable

  • chrono corp troop base levels now scale with rarity (i.e. legendaries start at lv. 7)

  • increased max energy from 10 to 20

  • chrono corp troops take reduced damage for every troop on the field

• added a regeneration delay after taking damage

• regeneration and healing effects from recruits now scale with max health

• minibosses now spawn at a random angle instead of to the right

• Subways Of Your Mind by FEX is now properly credited

• added more art and fanart to the art gallery mission

• added new achievements

If you run into any issues feel free to DM me on Discord (@aplove) and I'll try to get back to you asap, if you like bug hunting here's some thing I'm looking for:

• how does the new difficulty/battle power system feel? do solace inc and chrono corp feel about even?

• do the elemental weaknesses work properly? (on the damage numbers it should say "weak" above it)

• can you unlock all of the recruits?

• does the main menu music cut out randomly? (that occurred to me a few times, just want to make sure)

Enjoy! Update will be out in a few days probably