UPDATE 6 | YAENGARD OVERHAULED

Yaengard was always a passion project - we built our own dream RPG. Even though the first salvo of updates post-release is finished, we still always want to make MORE — endless ideas, dreams, and concepts we’d love to bring you. Sadly, we can’t do everything we dream of as a small developer studio. Thank you for caring and playing Yaengard. You’re the greatest there is.

Update 6 - Combat Overhaul

Short version:

• More game, less slog!

• Deeper builds & combat!

• More decisions that matter!

• Ability-system overhaul: cooldowns!

• New entire item type; combat items!

• New encounter type: Rare champion bosses!

• Progression log over multiple runs

• A ton of polish, improvements, and bug fixes.

Objectives:

• Improve the game's speed, letting you play more in less time!

• Deepen the strategic depth of combat, positioning, and builds.

• Add new strategic and tactical decisions throughout the game.

• Completely rework consumables into build-changing combat items.

• Add a sense of progression over multiple runs!

One of Yaengard’s weaknesses is time. It is an incredible journey of builds, personalities, and character development. However, when a ‘run’ takes 5-30 hours, most players barely get to experience their 1st party setup. By adding a ‘combat speed’ setting, reducing the # of encounters per level, and letting you progress faster through the early game - you can enjoy the excellent parts of the game more (and the tedious parts less).

Additionally, an overhaul of combat abilities! Abilities now have cooldowns. This creates A LOT of strategic depth as you can’t build around a single ability and spam. About 30% of abilities have been changed and improved!

Changelog Update 6

New Features & Mechanics:

• Added cooldowns to every ability in the game, including balance changes to reflect this.

• Added a basic attack ability to all weapons.

• Completely re-done the potions and consumables; combat items are way cooler and unlock new potential for multiple builds.

• Added special avenues of attack cards for ALL combats, based on your character’s personalities and skills. Personalities now have a much deeper impact on combat.

• Added a ‘combat speed’ setting to lower combat durations.

• Added setting to increase the speed of combat (primarily through animations)

• Added requirements for some non-combat card options so only adventurers with certain personalities can get/select them.

• Added unique abilities to legendary boss drops.

• Added more rare legendary boss drops.

• Added rare champions you can encounter; defeat them for rare combat items to build your characters around, or die trying.

Progression

Added The Archive, a collection log to track everything you find during your journey. Look up special abilities, design your builds, and embrace your inner completionist. Get that 0% to 100%!

Improvements, Balance, & Polish:

• Reduced XP required to level up, reducing the total # of encounters by 20%.

• Tweaked some enemies, including wasps, to increase consistency in combat difficulty.

• Re-did early-game trinkets to be more impactful by letting them scale per level.

• Many minor balance improvements (especially around might).

Fixes & Bugs:

• Nerfed wasps (which accidentally sometimes were 3-5x as tanky as intended)

• Fixed a bug that caused summons to be on the wrong team

• Fixed major bug causing armor to suck, and bloodcurse not properly countering armor.

• Fixed some outdated tutorial popups

• Re-did HP scaling for units to be less extreme with crazy modifiers, and scale as expected with multiple layers of buffs/debuffs. For Act 2, complete HP-rework for all enemies.

• Updated ~6 trinket perks to behave more intuitively.

• Fixed a bug that caused perks to be swapped out when loading a saved game.

• Multiple fixes (missing icons, typos, logic errors) with challenge modes & enemies might

• Multiple improvements to text and dialogue (editing).

• Updated a ton of ability descriptions for accuracy, language, behavior, and clarity.

Never lose hope!

Adventure onwards, Will

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