February Update Part 1: Hero Ultimates

For the last month, we’ve been focusing on adding unique skills for our characters and giving players more choices when tackling different situations. In this update, we’d like to introduce some of the new and interesting skills we’ve been working on.

Queen’s Order

Lyndal has been one of the most popular units in the alpha. She’s able to deal heavy Pyro damage with her dragon, but the fact she can’t manipulate enemy positions is a drawback in some situations. To address this issue and make her skills more interesting, we developed another skill: Queen’s Order commands an ally to act on behalf of her. With this skill, Lyndal gives up her current turn to replenish an ally’s action points and movement, so the ally can use their skills twice in that turn.

Assassination

As an assassin, Shadow loves to show up out of nowhere and surprise the enemy! Shadow’s Ultimate positions him behind the target enemy, where he stabs them in the back for high damage. The definition of “behind” depends on the enemy’s attack direction, indicated by the yellow arrow.

Ninja’s Escape

That’s what ninjas do, right—throw a smoke bomb and disappear when they need to escape. Allies can also use Slink’s skill to dodge an enemy attack in the smoke.

Cyro Rain

Aster the mage utilizes Cryo energy to deal magical damage and assist allies in battle. When her skill targets an enemy, she deals burst magical damage to the enemy, but if she targets an empty square, the Cryo energy will form an ice block. Similar to rocks and other small obstacles, allies can hop over the ice block to dodge enemy attacks, so this skill can serve as either an attack or support.

Alternatively, her Ultimate can deploy a Cryo-snowman, which will attract the enemy’s attention, and also has its own skill.

Power Up

While facing the undead army might make others nervous, Darius sees it as nothing but another boxing match! His basic attack is like a boxer’s Right Hook: punch and push the target to the left. We think it will be interesting to see how his Ultimate interacts with his basic skill.

When Darius is powered up, he pushes targets in adjacent squares and increases the damage of his next Right Hook!

Electro Hook

This skill is a revision of “Eagle's Talon.” When Sorine, our Electro mage, uses her Electro Hook on an enemy or ally, she pulls that target towards herself.

When she uses the hook on an immovable object, she’ll pull herself towards the object. Useful when you need to get out of trouble!

Flying Blade

Kalar is a mage who can manipulate objects in space. His favorite weapon is his sword, but his special skill puts a different spin on things—he launches the sword to stab a target in the distance. After the attack, the sword flies back to him and faces the target towards himself.

Take note that if you target a ranged class enemy with this skill, they will target Kalar in turn. It’s less risky to use this skill against a melee enemy, but when it’s necessary Kalar doesn’t mind taking damage for an ally!

As you may have noticed, some Ultimates are quite powerful—these skills will have a usage limit. Typically this is once per battle to start, but players can perform