Hello everyone,

This week's patch brings further visual polish and improvements to controller support while we continue work on Steam Trading Cards and Workshop support. We also have some announcements!

Slay the Spire will be out of Early Access on January 23, 2019.
We'll reveal more on the future of Slay the Spire and Mega Crit Games on release.

Anybody reading this probably owns the game. With the upcoming full release, there will be a price increase shortly after the upcoming Winter Sale so if you were planning on buying or gifting, it's a good time to do so!



The Defect by @MoronisMcDude


These excellent monster drawings by @RedDyeNo5


The Silent facing off against The Guardian by Marce Ricardo

Patch Notes

• Maw Bank relic will no longer spawn at Shops.
  
• Enchiridion relic now triggers earlier so its card is prioritized over some other relics.

• Updated relic asset for Ancient Tea Set.
  
• Updated relic asset for Pandora's Box.
  
• Updated relic asset for Red Skull.
  
• Updated relic asset for Regal Pillow.
  
• Updated relic asset for Strange Spoon.
  
• Updated relic asset for Sundial.
  
• Updated relic asset for The Specimen.
  
• Updated relic asset for Toolbox.
  
• Updated relic asset for Tough Bandages.
  
• Adding VFX for Clash card.
  
• Adding VFX for Feed card.
  
• ESC button can cancel out of several screens again.
  
• Twitch integration icon moved to a location that does not overlap the Timer.
  
• Adding support for LS, RS button assets when remapping controller inputs.
  
• Adding support for Right Stick up down left right assets when remapping controller inputs.
  
• Inputs that have crossover between keyboard/controller can now be remapped without crashing.

• Duplicate cards will no longer appear on reward screens with Prismatic Shard.
  
• Fixed crashes when reassigning various hotkeys.
  
• Fixed issue that allowed player to throw Smoke Bomb in some rooms to no effect.
  
• Fixed issue that caused Frail and Dexterity to inconsistently interact with each other.
  
• Fixed issue that caused Shovel, Girya, and Peace Pipe to incorrectly spawn when they should not.
  
• Fixed issue where Beta Art toggle sometimes appeared in the incorrect spot.
  
• Fixed issue where Beta Art toggle was available for cards which did not have Beta Art access.
  
• Fixed issue where cards from Unceasing Top were offset on the far left if using a controller.
  
• Fixed issue where highlighted room in map screen changed if you scrolled up using controller.
  
• Fixed issue where navigating up/down on the dungeon map using controller can move your cursor out of the game window.
  
• Fixed issue where Pandora's Box relic couldn't transform cards to Rare.
  
• Fixed issue where Save & Quit via controller also ended the turn if you were in combat.
  
• If you Save & Quit then immediately continue using a controller, the audio no longer bugs out.

• Updates for DUT, FRA, IND, JPN, KOR.

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Greetings,

This patch brings some balance tweaks, visual flourishes, bug fixes, and support for Dutch!

We're also working on Steam Trading Cards and Steam Workshop support but they aren't ready just yet.


The Beyond's background now has some animated objects



Various silly enemies of the Spire by @RedDyeNo5


Defect lost in thought by @BlueStorm4WG


The Silent taming a beast by @noestringfound

Patch Notes

• Ascension no longer increments if the run was seeded.
  
• Writhing Mass enemy's attacks deal slightly less damage.
  
• Darkstone Periapt relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Dream Catcher relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Egg relics no longer spawn beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Girya relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Juzu Bracelet relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Matryoshka relic no longer spawns beyond floor 40 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Maw Bank relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Old Coin relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Omamori relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Peace Pipe relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Potion Belt relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Prayer Wheel relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Preserved Insect relic no longer spawns beyond floor 52 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Question Card relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Regal Pillow relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Shovel relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Singing Bowl relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Smiling Mask relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• The Courier relic no longer spawns beyond floor 48 (excludes Endless mode).
  
• Tiny Chest relic no longer spawns beyond floor 40 (excludes Endless mode).

• Playtester Art toggle added in Settings menu (Accessible after "The End?" achievement is unlocked).
  
• Adding beta art for Bane, Charge Battery, Fission, Choke, Corpse Explosion, and Equilibrium.
  
• Updated relic art for Bag of Preparation.
  
• Updated relic art for Mark of Pain.
  
• Updated relic art for Orichalcum.
  
• Updated relic art for Ring of the Serpent.
  
• Updated relic art for Ring of the Snake.
  
• Updated relic art for Whetstone.
  
• Added a max cap of 2 for bg objects that float around in the Beyond.
  
• Floating background objects in the Beyond are now animated.
  
• Floating background objects in the Beyond are now colored similarly to the bg's color randomization.
  
• Capitalization consistency improvements for messages when choosing cards from hand.
  
• Capitalization consistency improvements for some run mods.
  
• Capitalization fixes for Magnetism power description.
  
• Courier relic description clarified.
  
• Disabling particle effects now hides the runic objects in the Beyond.
  
• Foreground elements for the Beyond's bg are now colored similarly to the bg's color randomization.
  
• If a high res beta card portrait is missing, now the low res version is rendered scaled up in single card view screens.
  
• Increasing distance between bonus label and its amount in score screen to accommodate wordier languages.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Augmenter event.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Face Trader event.
  
• Minor text cleanup for Vampires event.
  
• No longer rendering a relic's counter when viewing them on a Reward screen.
  
• Plated Armor power wording improved when enemies have the power.
  
• Removed extra space on flavor description for Eternal Feather.
  
• Reworded Emotion Chip relic to be more accurate with its actual behavior.
  
• Upon sorting by A-Z, the first click is now ascending order.
  
• Wording improvements when relics or UI mention the Merchant.

• Accuracy power now correctly works with Shivs played from the top of the deck via cards like Mayhem or Havoc.
  
• Burn cards no longer trigger Time Eater's ability at end of turn.
  
• Fix crash issue when viewing run history if a run utilized the the deprecated Colossus modifier.
  
• Fix some situations where run history would display incorrect rooms.
  
• Fixed a false Unlock option which appeared on death if Defect was not yet unlocked.
  
• Fixed Corpse Explosion card's portrait using incorrect card type.
  
• Fixed issue when Writhing Mass enemy would sometimes not change its intent when hit.
  
• Fixed issue where Black Star relic was always returning two relics of the same rarity.
  
• Fixed issue where Jaxxed achievement was obtained when enemies gained 50 Strength.
  
• Fixed issue where stacked Thorns on Spiker enemies was not interacting correctly with relics and powers.
  
• Fixed issue where starter cards weren't be marked as seen.
  
• Fixed Panache Power not exhausting.
  
• Fixed Self-Forming Clay relic triggering incorrectly off of prevented damage from Buffer power.
  
• Fixing memory leak caused by undisposed textures for several VFX.
  
• Medical Kit relic will no longer cause Slimed cards to glow as if they could be played when you have no energy.
  
• Medical Kit will no longer allow the player to sometimes play Slimed when out of energy.
  
• Muzzle blight was applying twice to Lizard Tail and Fairy Potion.
  
• Negative Strength power typo fix.
  
• Nloth's Gift was flashing at incorrect times.
  
• Rebound card no longer puts Burns on top of your deck.
  
• Reptomancer's Daggers and Philosopher's Stone relic now correctly interact.
  
• Secret Portal event no longer says Ignored in run history. Run history rows capped at 20 elements.
  
• Spire Shield's intent was incorrect for one of its moves. Attack -> Attack + Debuff.
  
• Throwing a Smoke Bomb at the Final Act boss no longer crashes the game.
  
• Typo fix in Augmenter event.
  
• Wing Boot relics were still spawning beyond certain floors when they should not.

• Compressing a few card ui assets.

• Adding Dutch language (DUT) + credits.
  
• Portrait frames now dynamically resize if the card type name is long (affects non-English).
  
• Updates for EPO, DEU, DUT, EPO, FRA, ITA, POL, RUS, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.

Announcement next week?!

The final act is now available.

For those who wish to avoid spoilers, simply skip over the section below.
This week's patch also includes some other news!

This content is accessible in Standard and Ascension runs after completing the game with each character (not including retroactive completions).

This content includes:

• A special Final Act beyond Act 3
  
• 1 Elite
  
• 1 Boss
  
• 4 Achievements
  
• Special endings for each character
  
• Bonus card portraits used during playtesting and extras by the community

Because new music was added into the game, it is now also available in our Official Soundtrack.
Newly added tracks include:

• Mind Bloom
  
• The Ending
  
• The Heart
  
• The Spire Slain
  
• Bonus (Launch Trailer)

Did you know Slay the Spire was released into Early Access November 14, 2017?

We're aware that in our Early Access blurb it said the game would be released by now. Well, too bad- we decided to add much more than initially planned. Also, thank you for playing the game, spreading the word, and being genuinely awesome.

I'm taking a vacation so the next patch is December 6.

So many drawings! It's really great to see all these characters drawn in different ways, doing different things. We're going to keep sharing it with everyone else :).


The Ironclad by /u/VaultHunt3r


The Cultist, Slime, and a Slaver by Red Dye No. 5


Neow by Marce Ricardo

Patch Notes

• Lots of Final Act related content.
  
• A Note For Yourself event is now out of beta.

• Ascension 20 now correctly works on Endless mode.
  
• Awakened One and Orb Walkers were not shuffling their status cards into the player's draw pile, but into a fixed position.
  
• Damage taken per turn checks for cards like Masterful Stab were not correctly resetting.
  
• Fix for Mummified Hand relic targeting cards with costs lowered by Setup or Forethought.
  
• Fixed issue where Nloth's Face relic consumed both relics from Matryoshka.
  
• Fixed issue where the seed wasn't displaying after it was set in Char Select and Custom Mode screens.
  
• Fixed issue where viewing relics with Nilrys Codex' popup caused issues with controllers.
  
• Fixed softlock caused if you can't remove cards in: Back to Basics, Cleric, and Living Wall events.
  
• HP loss amount is now blue for Neow's Lament relic description.
  
• Red Skull relic's Strength gain is now correctly applied to the cards in your hand at start of combats.
  
• Turnip and Ginger relics now prevent Artifact from triggering when they nullify debuffs.

• Daily mods that alter the starting deck like Sealed Deck and Draft now eliminate Pandora's Box as it does nothing.
  
• Wing Boots relic no longer appers after floor 40 (except with the Endless mod on).

• Controllers can now view Exhausted cards during combat.
  
• Controllers have better behavior when navigating up/down when viewing card screens like Draw and Discard piles.
  
• Energy icon now rendered on Single Card View screen for Curses with energy costs.
  
• ESC key now closes the map and deck view screens again (if able).
  
• Exhaust Pile now uses a scroll bar when there are enough exhausted cards.
  
• Hovering room elements in Run History now make them 2x size rather than 1.5x.
  
• Icons used in Run History screen's path nodes are now sharper.
  
• Regret card wording improved to clarify interactions with cards like Rupture.
  
• The term Orb Slot(s) within descriptions is now lowercased to Orb slot(s).
  
• Title capitalization for Cloak And Dagger -> Cloak and Dagger.
  
• Title capitalization for Hand Of Greed -> Hand of Greed.
  
• Title capitalization for Riddle With Holes -> Riddle with Holes.
  
• Updating elite path node icon in Run History screen. Now color blind accessible.
  
• Claw card gets VFX.
  
• Maw enemy's bite attack gets VFX.
  
• Rip and Tear card gets VFX.
  
• Scrape card gets VFX.
  
• The Champ's sword attacks get VFX.

• Reorganizing RUS credits a bit.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, JPN, IND, POL, RUS, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.

Hey everyone,

This week we spent time finishing and tweaking up some content while sorting through and incorporating beta art.

This will be available in the main branch next week. The additional music brought in with this content will also be added to the Slay the Spire - Soundtrack next week, along with the special track used in the Mind Bloom event.

A ton of submissions were received, thank you! The beta art submissions will be open for 1 more week as we identified some cards with missing portraits. For information on participation and what this entails, please see the previous weekly announcement.


Full Heal! by /u/Zixzs


a Transient redesign by MrKrane


Gremlin Leader by @l3w15911


Patch Notes

• Philosopher's Stone buffed: Enemies gain 2 Strength -> 1 Strength.
  
• Removing Careless daily mod.

• Adding a new line so Innate keyword is on its own line for Machine Learning+.
  
• Colorless card mod now correctly interacts with Shiny mod.
  
• Colorless card mod was causing colorless cards to be added to the card pool twice as often as they should.
  
• Dead Adventurer event was not giving the gold correctly (just showing the effect).
  
• Fix for boss treasure rooms incorrectly showing in the run history screen.
  
• Fixed cards like Blood for Blood and Masterful Stab being affected outside of combat.
  
• Fixed issue where Ambient SFX in the main menu played double upon loading a profile.
  
• Fixed issue where you couldn't Retain if it was your only card (controllers).
  
• Fixing several display issues with the run history screen.
  
• Mind Blast card now correctly works with Controlled Chaos mod.
  
• Minor Snecko Eye description fix.
  
• Painful Stabs power will no longer give wounds if the damage was prevented by Buffer.
  
• Potential fix for card + end turn button hover causing an annoying sound issue.
  
• Preventing crashes for saves that used deprecated run mods like Careless or Colossus.
  
• Reptomancer enemy was receiving the Ascension 18 boost at Ascension 17.
  
• The Flight daily mod now properly works with controllers.
  
• Top Panel heal effect will no longer play when enemies heal or gain max HP.
  
• Wheel of Change event no longer makes you stuck if the only removable cards in your deck are bottled.

• Philosopher's Stone wording improvements.
  
• Can now open the Settings menu while in special card obtaining screens like from Calling Bell or All Star daily mod.

• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, ZHS, and ZHT.
  
• Updating credits for RUS, and ZHS.

Happy Halloween (yesterday)!

This week we mainly worked on the final content which is now being tested in the beta branch! However, various fixes and improvements while working on this has carried over as well.

It's currently being tested in the beta branch. It's on track to make it into the main branch this month (November)!

When implementing cards throughout the development of Slay the Spire we drew and received a lot of placeholder art before our talented artists gave us finalized artwork. We've decided to share this artwork in the game but there's a problem: Not all of our cards have placeholder art.



We need your help to fill in the missing art or the beta art feature may not make it into the full release :(.

To help us resolve this crisis, please take a look at this secret document which indicate what cards are missing beta art.

For contributions, we need a 500 x 380 PNG image that match a card template based on the card's type (templates below). Anything outside of the template will be removed. Note: Status and Curse cards utilize the Skill template.


Attack template


Skill/Status/Curse template


Power template

Submission Guidelines
Though we encourage any kind of art, please keep in mind that suggestions may be rejected for the following reasons:

• Suggestive or offensive content.
  
• Too little effort.
  
• Too much effort, you're making us look bad.
  
• Too many submissions from a single person (let other people have fun, too!)
  
• There's already art for that card, we can only have one slot. Sorry :(.
  
• The art is not related to the card at all.
  
• It's too late (noooo).

Once your submission is ready, either post the image and tag us @Developers at our Discord server, or email us at support@megacrit.com. We cannot accept submissions through Twitter as the image will be severely compressed.


The characters cosplaying each other by /u/Dragonclaude


The Silent by @nick_jeez


Deca and Donu Redesign by Mr. Krane

Patch Notes

• Removing the Colossus mod to be reworked.

• Adjust margin for run history's path elements to match relics and cards.
  
• Blizzard gets improved size, velocity, and SFX pitch scaling logic (now up to 50 Frost).
  
• Checkbox to view upgrade in single card view is now much larger.
  
• Improved Dagger Spray VFX readability and no longer flashes a sprite for 1 frame at the start.
  
• Thousand Cuts power' now displays its VFX faster (0.25s -> 0.2s and 0.25s -> 0.1s FAST MODE).

• Added logic to remove the Strike tip from Pandora's box (attempt 2).
  
• Bonfire Spirits event now works if the only remaining cards are bottled.
  
• Capitalization fix: Jack Of All Trades -> Jack of All Trades.
  
• Certain enemies no longer gain extra strength when removing Piercing Wail or Dark Shackles from themselves.
  
• Electrodynamics' passively triggered Orbs now resolve in the correct order and flash the orbs
  
• Fixed issue where Bottled icon wasn't showing in card upgrade screens.
  
• Fixed issue where Dagger Spray VFX wasn't spawning in the right spot for some resolutions.
  
• Fixed issue where Maw enemy was considered elite in the back end.
  
• Fixed issue where relic outlines were rendered twice in reward screens.
  
• Fixed issue where seeds stopped working after completing a run until restarting client.
  
• Fixed several events modifying eventRNG values, causing future events to be inconsistent.
  
• Fixing some errors with event logging in Run History.
  
• Gold Shrine was logging an incorrect amount of gold received on A15+ for Run History.
  
• Grammar: Aside -> Beside for Black Star's flavor text.
  
• Insanity and Diverse mods now work together.
  
• Resolution fallback now affects Fullscreen only, allowing higher resolutions for vertical multi-monitor setups.
  
• Shiny mod and Diverse now work together correctly.
  
• The Lab event now shows up correctly in the Run History.

• Compressing various over-the-shoulder and character corpse assets.
  
• Removed various unused assets.

• Adding a name to DEU credits.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, JPN, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, ZHS, and ZHT.
  
• Updating REFERENCES.txt

Greetings,

This week's focus was on prepping the final content for next week, visual updates, and bug fixes.

It's coming to the beta branch on Monday! (October 29). We won't be giving out too much details in order to prevent spoilers. However, localization for this content will be available 1 or 2 days prior.

For information on the beta branch, click here! Keep in mind that save files must be transferred manually if you switch to the beta branch. This is to prevent save file incompatibilities.


We're incorporating more visual effects!


Fat Gremlin and Ice Cream by by Katie Daniel


This amazing Donu patch by /u/JonChinaMan


Deca & Donu by 昂拉克

Patch Notes

• Fixed issue where incorrect RNG was utilized to create reward cards.
  
• Fixed issue where daily scores weren't uploading.

• Council of Ghosts event now only gives 3 Apparition on Ascension 15+.
  
• Prismatic Shard now sets your max orbs to 1 only if you have 0 max orbs and you aren't the Defect.
  
• Smiling Mask relic will no longer spawn on Hoarder daily mod.
  
• Standard Runs with set seeds now always give you Neow's Blessing.
  
• Wing Boots relic will no longer spawn on Certain Future daily mod.

• Adding a hit react animation for the Ironclad.
  
• Adding an updated idle animation for the Ironclad.
  
• Adding VFX for Blizzard Card (scales with Frost channeled).
  
• Ironclad's combat sprite updated (more color and contrast).
  
• Updating VFX for Searing Blow card (now scales with upgrade count).
  
• Adding 0.1s animation blend between Hit and Idle animations for Ironclad, Silent, and Defect.
  
• Closing out of a Card Reward screen using controller will now reset your selection position for combat reward screens, hand position, etc.
  
• Custom mods no longer have overlapping hitboxes, this allowed the player to select two at once.
  
• Evoking Orbs is now 0.15s faster per orb in Fast Mode.
  
• The Silent's idle animation speed is slowed by 10%.
  
• Updated description for Preserved Insect for clarity.

• Adding more information to bottled card saves to prevent incorrect card being bottled when loading a save.
  
• Defect and The Silent unlocks now reuse existing character instances.
  
• Fix for a scenario which upgrading cards affected by Snecko Eye would sometimes give negative cost cards.
  
• Fixed a memory leak whenever player returned to the main menu.
  
• Fixed bug where playing Mayhem card would alter your card rewards.
  
• Fixed issue where displayed seed value was calculated every frame.
  
• Fixed issue where Neow did not give anything to players who first encountered her.
  
• Fixed issue where seeded runs allowed ascension unlocks and uploading to leaderboards.
  
• Fixed issue where The Specimen's Poison transfer failed if the target died before the transfer.
  
• Fixed issue where True Grit card was not behaving correctly with seeded runs.
  
• Fixing issues with Writhing Mass displaying the incorrect intent on turn 1.
  
• Game now handles monitor resolution changes more gracefully.
  
• Mind Bloom event combat now correctly gives appropriate gold for the battle.
  
• Poison transfer target for The Specimen is now seeded random.
  
• Random Curse generating effects were marking the wrong curse as seen in the card library.
  
• Reboot and Deep Breath cards no longer trigger shuffle-based relics twice.
  
• Relics with counters like Pen Nib and Girya no longer display the counter offset incorrectly when the player has too many relics.
  
• Thank you message in the credits was appearing at the wrong time.
  
• The discard pile will no longer incorrectly shuffle into the draw pile when having a full hand prevents all of the card draw.
  
• Typo fixed in Colossus mod's name (extra space)
  
• Typo fixed in We Meet Again event.
  
• Updated energy orb rendering logic on cards to scale properly for high res monitors.
  
• Vintage modifier now correctly drops cards on bosses.

• Fusion card works better for modders now
  
• Removed rendundant dungeon scene foreground rendering.

• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, TUR, ZHS, and ZHT.

Hello!

This week we updated and added some enemies in Act 3, added various visual effects, made Neow changes, and worked on some performance improvements.

Several changes were made in Act 3. Some stronger jaw worms and a wriggly monster have been introduced into the enemy pool.



Reptomancer has been buffed and designated as an elite monster.
The elite encounter featuring 2 orb walkers have been removed from the elite pool and are the new guards for an Act 3 event.



Yep. Various cards and an enemy attack have received some special effects to make them feel better to use! Some animations were added and improved for The Silent and Defect as well. More animations and effects will be coming!

We created Neow with the intent to foster creative deckbuilding. However, many have felt that the game was considerably harder without a blessing from Neow and the threshold to receive her blessing was too high (especially in higher Ascensions).

To compensate, we've added a fixed set of choices for those who don't reach the Act 1 boss (Neow's Lament or HP bonus).

Additionally, two new Colorless Card-based blessings were added as these cards weren't seeing much play as they only appeared in shops and certain events.

Such amazing art. I will try to get better, too! If you want to be featured, just mention @MegaCrit on Twitter!


Silent with a Treat by Lunamazey


Ironclad by Zan the 35th


YOU CALL THAT A WEAPON? by Cweeperz

Patch Notes

• A Writhing Mass wriggles into Act 3.
  
• A horde of Jaw Worms can now be encountered in Act 3.
  
• Two new Neow starting bonuses involving Colorless cards.

• Ascension 16 shop price increase lowered from +15% -> +10%.
  
• Colorless cards price decrease. 1.3x -> 1.2x price compared to regular cards.
  
• Deflect+ card buff: 6 -> 7 Block.
  
• Double Orb Walker elite encounter removed from the game.
  
• Experimenting with how Neow reacts to the player not reaching the boss.
  
• Good Instincts card buff: 4 -> 5 Block. Good Instincts+: 7 -> 8 Block.
  
• Grand Finale card buff: 40 -> 50 damage. Grand Finale+: 50 -> 60 damage.
  
• Hand Of Greed card buff: 15 -> 20 damage. Hand of Greed+: 20 -> 25 damage.
  
• Reptomancer and her daggers receives various buffs and is now an Elite encounter.
  
• Reptomancer's heal move is replaced by a high damage attack.
  
• Swift Strike card buff: 5 -. 6 damage. Swift Strike+ buff: 8 -> 9 damage.
  
• The Bomb+ card buff: 36 -> 40 damage.
  
• The Mysterious Sphere event in Act 3 now uses the Double Orb Walker combat.

• Energy orb now rotates at fast speed when it has energy.
  
• Feed now correctly works on the Awakened One when it is in its second form.
  
• Fix for proper behavior when duplicating cards like Rampage and Genetic Algorithm with effects like Echo Form.
  
• Fix for Saving and Loading on Elites in event rooms with Deadly Events mod.
  
• Fixed issue where health bar of bosses remain after they're defeated.
  
• Fixed issue where Transient had HP/damage buffs at incorrect Ascension levels.
  
• Fixed punctuation in Augmenter event.
  
• Fixed various save bugs when saving and loading at Neow.
  
• Hitting ESC with Singing Bowl no longer automatically chooses the Singing Bowl option on card select screens.
  
• Hitting ESC with Singing Bowl when viewing an upgraded card in a reward screen no longer causes softlock.
  
• Preserved Insect and Sling should now work in all elite combats including elite battles from events (like dead adventurer event).
  
• Purchasing Bottle relics after removing the last possible card to bottle out of your deck will no longer softlock.
  
• The Bomb card's buff icon now correctly displays numbers in blue.
  
• The game is no longer stuck in a continue/abandon loop after changing slots and winning a run.
  
• When viewing old run histories of runs with Brewmaster, the game will no longer crash.

• Improved performance for text rendering. (Greatly reduces idle CPU load)

• Adding VFX for Adrenaline card.
  
• Adding VFX for Grand Finale card.
  
• Adding VFX for Offering card.
  
• Adding VFX for Rainbow card.
  
• Adding VFX for Searing Blow card.
  
• Adding VFX for Spit Web attack by Louse enemy.
  
• Adding VFX for Whirlwind card.
  
• Forethought card wording improvements.
  
• Heart icon in top panel now pulses if HP < 25%.
  
• Purity card wording improvements.
  
• Run History can now show what happened in events. (Only for future runs)
  
• Run History path now displays 1 Act per row.
  
• Sped up boss death timings in fast mode.
  
• The Defect gets a hit react animation.
  
• The Silent gets a hit react animation.
  
• The Silent gets an updated idle animation.
  
• When the Colossus daily mod is active, enemies are rendered 30% larger.
  
• When using Preserved Insect, affected enemies are rendered 30% smaller.
  
• Whenever the player heals, the heart icon in top panel now flashes green.

• Updates for DEU, EPO, IND, ITA, KOR, POL, RUS, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.
  
• Updating POL credits.

Hey again,

This week's focus was on refining upcoming content, prepping for mod support, various bug fixes, and a new option to disable particle effects for low performance machines.



We added a new option that removes particle effects from backgrounds and various effects.
This should improve performance for slower devices and decrease battery consumption for laptops.

When we leave Early Access, outdated translations will need to be removed. If there are any outdated languages that you want to see in the game, support and instructions for translation is always available at our Discord channel.


The Merchant by inkywavves


The Silent by /u/cubey1234


The Silent Fire by Nick D.

Patch Notes

• Midas mod wording made to be more consistent with Fusion Hammer relic.
  
• Particle effects can now be disabled in the Settings. (disables environmental effects)

• All Out Attack card's discards now utilize seeds.
  
• Confusion power will now work on Curses and Status cards that have costs.
  
• Defect's starting relic is marked as seen.
  
• Diverse mod and Colorless Cards mod now can correctly work together in Custom Mode and Dailies.
  
• Draw Pile no longer indicates that it is a shuffled view order when viewing it with Frozen Eye.
  
• Fix a bug where setting a card's cost to 0 wouldn't work on 0 cost cards.
  
• Fix for colorless cards appearing too frequently for Colorless Cards mod.
  
• Fixed exploit that allowed player to circumvent hand card confirmations (like Survivor).
  
• Fixed issue that made enemies more common in ? rooms since some new mods were introduced.
  
• Fixed Run History screen crash if the run contained 0 relics.
  
• Fixes for how Eviscerate incorrectly worked with cost reduction effects like Enlightenment.
  
• Flight's power description now correctly resets at the start of turn.
  
• Neow max HP gain and take damage option no longer overlap (dealt lots of damage).
  
• Neow's transform options now utilize seeds.
  
• Some events like Pleading Vagrant did not correctly remove remaining event choices when selecting the leave option.

• Improvements for rendering energy orbs and icons for JPN, ZHS, and ZHT (notable Run History)
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, ITA, KOR, SPA, UKR, ZHS, ZHT.

Hello!

This week brings a few more daily mods, several bug fixes, and we worked with a few people to update the wording for many many cards, relics, and powers. Also, some content is still planned to come into beta this month :).


This week brings 3 new daily mods! Combined with last week's mods, we think this brings in quite a lot more variety into Daily Climbs and more options for Custom Mode.

• BUG FIX: Fixed a save incompatibility crash for some custom runs.
  
• BUG FIX: Certain score bonuses and achievements are no longer checked when beating the first final boss on Ascension 20, but correctly check after the second final boss is defeated.
  
• BUG FIX: Curl Up power on Louse was displaying incorrect text.
  
• BUG FIX: Red Skull relic now correctly loses bonus strength when healing above 50% HP.
  
• BUG FIX: Timer no longer stops on beating the first final boss on Ascension 20.
  
• UX: Reverting wording for cards, powers, relics: At the start of each turn -> At the start of your turn due to feedback.
  
• WORDING: Frozen Core description coloring is now consistent with other starter replacement boss relics.
  
• WORDING: Improving consistency for Flame Barrier and Thorns wording.

So this will be a bit of a long one. We received a huge list of suggestions and feedback pointing out inconsistencies and potential improvements to wording. While it would be hilarious to list them all out, listing out the general rules and style changes would probably be best for all of us. So here it goes:

• Cards, Powers, and Relics that have a recurring effect or applies a recurring buff have been changed from "At the start of your turn" -> "At the start of each turn" for clarification.
  
• The term "attack damage" is now lowercase, this differentiates it better from Attacks, which refers to the card.
  
• Attack and Skill cards are referred to as Attacks and Skills in descriptions. However, when referring to a specific card, cards of a specific color, cards of a specific rarity, or specific types that aren't Attacks or Skills, they now have the word "card" appended to the end. e.g. Power cards, Status cards, Colorless cards, Uncommon cards.
  
• Keywords are now always gold in descriptions. Block, Vulnerable, etc.
  
• Boss and Elite are now capitalized in any descriptions
  
• Card, Cards, Relic, Relics, Buffs, and Debuffs are now lowercase and not colored in descriptions.
  
• If a relic that has counters is used up, it now has a consistent message across all relics, "This relic is used up."
  
• Certain keywords on cards are now ordered so they're easier to identify. This order is: Unplayable > Innate > Ethereal > Card Description > Exhaust.
  
• The word "all" is all-caps in certain scenarios. These scenarios are: When it refers to all enemies and when referring to cards that are outside of your hand (Apotheosis).
  
• Updated instances of "take damage" vs "receive damage" based on who the target is, how the description is formed (condition vs effect), and a few special cases. e.g. "Whenever you receive damage, do X." is now common for player Powers and Relics.
  
• Draw Pile, Exhaust Pile, Deck, and Discard Pile are now lowercase in descriptions.
  
• Numbers and percentages should always be blue when seen in power and relic descriptions. However, numerical multipliers like twice and double should not be.

While we understand that the language on these items won't ever be perfect, we hope this improves clarity and readability so the game is easier to play. As always, we welcome feedback and discussion!

Inktober brought us some Poisonous fanart.
Don't forget to tweet us @MegaCrit or ping us on Discord if you want to be featured!


Poisonous by @Augustanna


Poisonous by /u/Dragonclaude


Flying Poison Daggers by /u/ScruffyHuski

Patch Notes

• New Custom Mod - Daily Mods. Allows starting a run with 3 random daily mods.
  
• New Daily Mod - Colossus. Enemies have bonus HP but drop better rewards.
  
• New Daily Mod - Controlled Chaos. Start with Frozen Eye. At the start of your turn, add 10 random cards to the bottom of your draw pile.
  
• New Daily Mod - Deadly Events. ? Rooms can now contain Elites but Treasure room chance is increased.

• All sources of random temporary card generation in combat (like Dead Branch) can no longer generate cards that provide healing.
  
• Augmenter event transform option now allows choosing 2 cards to Transform instead of selecting 3 at random.
  
• Book of Stabbing enemy on Ascension 18+ now does a single stab sometimes, but still increases its multi-stab count.
  
• Brimstone relic buffed. Now gives the player 2 Strength and enemies 1 Strength.
  
• Meal Ticket relic buff: Heals 7 HP -> 10 HP.
  
• Membership Card relic nerf: Only applies a discount now.

• 250+ Consistency and wording improvements for cards, powers, relics, and events.
  
• New tip added to indicate that healing cards cannot be generated randomly during combat.

• Adding controller support for Wing Boots relic map navigation.
  
• Bonfire Spirits event now correctly handles offering them a card with the Special rarity (like Bite, or Apparition).
  
• Colorless Cards mod now correctly interacts with shops. Prevents Courier causing cards to appear in incorrect places on the shop screen.
  
• Corruption and other cost reducing cards no longer make X cost cards like Transmutation and Malaise display cost 0.
  
• Diverse mod and Red/Green/Blue mods in custom mode now exclude each other when choosing them.
  
• Effects that trigger on damage like Masterful Stab now interacts properly with damage prevention effects like Buffer.
  
• Fix for crash caused when entering the DAILYMODS seed.
  
• Fix for issues caused by using the Sealed Deck mod several times in a row.
  
• Fixed an exploit that allowed playing the same card multiple times using controller or keyboard.
  
• Gremlin Wheel event no longer causes you to get stuck if you have no cards to remove.
  
• If you have nothing to offer the Bonfire Spirits, the game will no longer crash. The Spirits will just be sad.
  
• Keyboard confirm button now works in card selection screens (like choosing what to discard).
  
• Mushroom event now correctly shows card preview for Parasite curse.
  
• Saving and Loading with Membership Card relic no longer generates a new map.

• '.' can now be localized (for Asian languages) and fixes issues where those languages used an english '.'.
  
• Mutagenic Strength, Meal Ticket, and Abacus now support more flexible descriptions.
  
• Updates for DEU, EPO, IND, ITA, JPN, SPA, ZHS, ZHT.

Hello!

We're introducing some new mods for the Daily Climb this week (and next week, too). There's also good progress going on other content which we're on track to get into beta sometime in October.

We're cleaning, changing, and adding more for Daily Climbs! There's still a few missing assets for the new daily mods but they'll be in soon. The many mods added to the Daily Climb are also accessible via Custom Mode.


Everybody's Favorite Merchant by @inkywavves


The Ironclad by @Kairekirei


The Ironclad, The Silent and The Defect by @Victor_Sama

Patch Notes

• Red/Green/Blue/Colorless Daily mods will now correctly work on Daily and Custom modes.
  
• Adding icon for Blue cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Colorless cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Flight mod.
  
• Adding icon for Green cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Red cards mod.
  
• Adding icon for Sealed Deck mod.

• New Daily & Custom Mod - Careless.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Chimera.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Flight.
  
• New Daily & Custom Mod - Sealed Deck.
  
• Colorless/Red/Green/Blue Cards Mod are now Daily Mods.

• A Daily Climb now always consists of a card-related mod, system changing mod, and a difficulty altering mod.
  
• Prismatic Shard now gives 1 empty orb slot to non-Defect characters.
  
• Prismatic Shard relic no longer spawns when the Diverse daily is activated.
  
• Removed Brewmaster mod.
  
• Specialized daily mod now allow cards of any rarity.

• Adding icon for Chimera Daily Mod.
  
• Bottled relic images in deck view screen now scale with the card scaling.
  
• Large relic assets are no longer pre-loaded, slightly increasing load times.
  
• Reducing the volume of the card draw SFX from 70% -> 25%.
  
• Removing card hover SFX from the game.

• Can no longer skip cards when choosing a card via Discovery.
  
• Fixed issue where bottled relic UI caused a memory leak on the deck view screen.
  
• Fixed issue where items restocked via Courier weren't applied discounts.
  
• Fixed issue where loading a save after beating a boss you have never seen before would crash.
  
• In Custom Mode, fixed issue where Ascension was on if not set to level 0. (Even if toggled off)
  
• Mind Bloom event now correctly shows curse previews for its event options.
  
• Viewing a relic popup no longer has memory leaks.

• Updates for DEU, EPO, FRA, IND, ITA, KOR, RUS, ZHS, and ZHT.