TEXNOPLAZM Demo 1.2 UPDATE (June 8th 2024)

• Delay between punches increased to 0.325s
  
  
• Blaster max ammo further decreased to 40
  
  
• Enemy counterattacks cannot be interrupted by the player
  
  
• Added crosshair HUD elements showing melee weapon durability, firearms ammo and alt-fire cooldowns; the crosshair HUD can be toggled in the Gameplay (previously "Input") options. Default option is set to "OFF"
  
  
• Added 4-hit combos for Punch and Ranged mode primary attacks.
  
• Punching an enemy will open up the full combo; the fourth hit launches the enemy in air (Heavy enemies can't be launched) and deals the base damage for punches.
  
• Hitting an enemy with a melee weapon will open up the full Melee combo; the fourth hit deals 1.5x the damage inflicted by the current weapon with its primary attack.
  
  
• Punch or Melee combo are reset upon killing an enemy if the last damage received was inflicted by a basic attack with punches or a melee weapon.
  
  
• Downed enemies are briefly invulerable to punch or melee basic attacks and to thrown weapons; gun attacks are unaffected.
  
• A successful block in Punch mode now correctly awards 100 points instead of 10.

And maybe other things that I am probably missing at the time of this writing, but nevertheless this will be a cool update.

Be patient with bugs and have fun
-ML

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• Play a shortened version of the campaign that goes up to round 6.
  
• Face off against 4 unique bosses out of the full game's 13.
  
• Master two different factions, Kingdom and Shogunate, each with their own distinct decks.
  
• Draft new cards, gambits, and upgrades to become strong enough to claim the throne.
  
• Take on optional challenges for extra rewards, like unique piece promotions.

Watch developers play Silly Billy.

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We would like to thank each one of you who has been following us, for helping to make the game even more fun, and for this great achievement.

Don't miss the chance to check out our game, available from June 8th to June 15th!

Hey Oracles,

More beta test for reworks/balancing!
In this beta patch we focused on reworking/balancing out actions/mechanics from Sothis :sothis:, Orion :orionastrea: and sentinels.

Important Note: All new actions currently have temporary icons/names and all of the new text is currently only available in English. All of the changes in the beta version are subject to change.

To access Astrea beta version:

• Right-click Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles in your Steam Library
  
• Select Properties...
  
• Select the Betas tab
  
• Click the Beta Participation dropdown and select the "beta" branch

• Removed Fast Purification score.

Neutral

• Decreased sentinels prices, now every level costs 150 Star Shards.
  
• Reworked Sentinels break mechanic, now when a sentinel breaks it will be repaired after 1 whole turn, at the start of Draw Phase, before drawing dice, which means it will draw dice normally on the turn that it is repaired. For instance, if a sentinel breaks Turn 1, it will be repaired at the start of Turn 3 Draw Phase.
  
• Buffed Solar Plexus Level 5, increased Discharge from 1 to 2 and die minimum Area Purify value from 1 to 2.
  
• Buffed Armillary Sphere Auto-turret to 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8.
  
• Buffed Astrolabe Level 5 die to 2 x Inventive 3, 2 x Inventive 2, 2 x Inventive 1.
  
• Buffed Unknown Device Replicate action, now it increases the chance of its die becoming an epic each level, 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100%.
  
• Buffed Protostar Level 5 Max Corruption from 10 to 12.
  
• Buffed Colossus Hand, increase Max Corruption by 1 on all levels. Added starting Empower from level 2 and on, 0, 1, 2, 3, 6.
  
• Balanced Charged Pylon, changed Auto-turret to be 3 on all levels.
  
• Nerfed Dice Drive, removed Healbot from all levels. Changed Max Corruption to be 3 on all levels. Added 2 Draw 1 die faces to Level 5.
  
• Balanced Autonomous Beacon, changed Auto-turret to be 3 on all levels.
  
• Buffed Punch dice values. Added 1 Draw 1 die face on Safe Die. Added 2 Draw 1 die faces on Balanced Die.
  
• Buffed Reroll Purify, now it triggers whenever a die is rerolled (even when sentinels reroll die).

Hevelius

• Defiant Alarm can appear on Chapter 1 again.

Austra

• Updated Apian Lamp description to make it clear that Purification coming from Random Confuse also is dealt twice.
  
• Updated Resonant Buzz description to make it clear that Purification coming from Random Confuse also triggers Resonant Buzz.
  
• Buffed Celestial Dew, now it also works with Hex Die. Now it also increases Critical Multiplier by additionally 2 if the action is Random Confuse, which means that it will increase by 2 because the action is a Confuse action of any type and 2 more because it is a Random Confuse. Changed its description to make it more clear that the Critical Multiplier will be increased for each matched criteria.
  
• Buffed Electrostatic Field, now it also works with Random Confuse.
  
• Buffed Aerial Needle, now it also works with Random Confuse.
  
• Nerfed Clarity Whirlwind, now it deals Purification for each Random Purify action on player's hand before turning Purify action of any type into Random Purify action.
  
• Nerfed Wind Glide Safe Die values. Changed Balanced Die to be Risky Die.
  
• Nerfed Rising Gust dice values.
  
• Removed Confuse Balanced Die.

Sothis

• Balanced Behenian Chakram, now whenever the player receive Corruption from Affliction, Light Shield is ignored.
  
• Buffed Bone Khopesh, now the Corruption dealt to player is not increased by any Corruption modifier, but it can be blocked.
  
• Buffed Chanting, now Starter Die doesn't make the player lose all Chanting anymore.
  
• Buffed Sunny Flares Safe Die values. Added 1 Draw 1 die face.
  
• Buffed Glass Daggers Safe Die and Balanced Die values. Added 1 Draw 1 die face on Safe Die. Added 1 Glass Daggers 2 die face on Balanced Die.
  
• Buffed Relief Safe Die values. Added 1 Draw 1 die face.
  
• Buffed Sun Ray, now it increases Soul Heat by 2 when below 10 Soul Heat.
  
• Buffed Soul Intensifier, now it applies 2 Relief to the target when below the required Soul Heat.
  
• Buffed Spread Essence, now it applies 2 Relief to the target when below the required Soul Heat.
  
• Buffed Solar Lullaby, now it applies 1 Relief to the target when below the required Soul Heat. Now it doesn't reset reset player Soul Heat anymore.
  
• Balanced Refreshing Mantra, now it increases Soul Heat by 2 when below the required Soul Heat. Now it decreases Soul Heat by 1 when equal or above the required Soul Heat. Changed Balanced Die to be a Safe Die.
  
• Buffed Precision Mantra, now it increases Soul Heat by 2 when below the required Soul Heat. Changed Balanced Die to be a Safe Die.
  
• Balanced Void Mantra dice values. Now it increases Soul Heat by 2 when below the required Soul Heat. Now it decreases Soul Heat by 2 when equal or above the required Soul Heat.
  
• Balanced Astral Mantra dice values. Now it increases Soul Heat by 2 when below the required Soul Heat. Now it decreases Soul Heat by 1 when equal or above the required Soul Heat.
  
• Buffed Cleansing Conflagration, now it also applies 1 Affliction to a random enemy.
  
• Buffed Purging Eruption, now it also applies 1 Affliction to an enemy.
  
• Buffed Fiery Projection, now it also applies 1 Affliction to player and it deals Purification equals Soul Heat amount multiplied by half the amount of Affliction the player has.
  
• Buffed Eclipse Blast, now it is not a Mandatory Action anymore. Decreased Balanced Die Eclipse Blast 7 die face to 6.
  
• Buffed Spiritual Burst, decreased Minimum Soul Heat 0 action Area Corrupt 2 to 1.
  
• Buffed Desert Protection, changed Minimum Soul Heat 0 action from Area Reinforced to Player Reinforced.
  
• Buffed Ghastly Fire, decreased the amount of Soul Heat decreased by playing it from Reset to 0 to decrease by 5.
  
• Nerfed Forge Chanting, now it has 5 Forge Chanting die faces and 1 Dissolve Life die face.
  
• Buffed Soul Stigma dice values, added 2 Affliction 1 die faces.
  
• Buffed Hourglass Mastery dice values. Now it has the Timeless keyword on itself.
  
• Hourglass Mirage Risky Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.
  
• Fire Breath Safe Die and Balanced Die won't appear on Chapter 1 anymore.

Orion

• Buffed Cosmic Orb, increased Purification dealt from 2 to 4.
  
• Buffed Karma, now the Corruption dealt to player is not increased by any Corruption modifier, but it can be blocked.
  
• Reworked Comet Convergence, now it applies 1 Cosmic Dust to player and deal Purification to any target for each time Cosmic Orb was Cast during the battle.
  
• Removed Comet Shower Convergence dice.
  
• Reworked Catalyst, now it applies X Astrium to player when Astrium is triggered.
  
• Buffed Catalyst Convergence dice values, changed Balanced Die to be Safe Die.
  
• Balanced Volatile Reaction. Nerfed dice values. Increases Catalyst gain from 1 to 2.
  
• Buffed Ultranova dice values. Changed Area Purify action to Ultranova action that deal X Purification to all targets and has the Timeless keyword on itself. New dice values are 1 x Ultranova 80, 1 x Ultranova 5, 1 x Ultranova 4, 1 x Ultranova 3, 1 x Ultranova 2, 1 x Ultranova 1.
  
• Buffed Nebula Cascade dice values. Now it also applies 2 Astrium to player.
  
• Nerfed Devotion Cascade dice values. Removed Safe Die values. Now it also applies 2 Astrium to player.
  
• Nerfed Prediction Convergence, now it moves player Orbs Clockwise 1 time.
  
• Nerfed Magistral Replication, now it decreases Astrium by 4. Changed Safe Die to be Balanced Die, now it has 5 Magistral Replication die faces and 1 Dissolve Life die face.
  
• Buffed Conflicted Purging dice values.
  
• Buffed Celestial Regret dice values. Added 2 Draw 1 die face on Safe Die.
  
• Buffed Stellar Synthetization dice values, added another Stellar Synthetization die face. Now it also applies 1 Astrium if player has less than 9 Astrium.
  
• Buffed Order Synthetization, now it also applies 1 Astrium if player has less than 9 Astrium.
  
• Removed Vow Reinforcement die.
  
• Changed Fragility Pact requirement from Karmic Orb to Cosmic Orb.
  
• Buffed Merciful Convergence dice values, changed Balanced Die to be Safe Die. Now it also Casts Karmic Orb once.
  
• Buffed Karmic Exchange, now it also Casts Karmic Orb once.
  
• Buffed Conjure Safe Die values, added 2 Draw 1 die faces and 1 Purify 1 die face.
  
• Buffed Equivalent Conjuration dice values. Added 1 Equivalent Conjuration 1 die face to Balanced Die.
  
• Buffed Unstable Conjuration dice values.
  
• Buffed Cleromancy, now it applies 1 Light Shield to player for each die discarded.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Nocturnal Updraft dealing more Purification than it should.
  
• Fixed Augmented Welding setting current Corruption wrongly when applied.
  
• Fixed Trident of Depths not applying additional Wave when playing High Tide.
  
• Fixed Resonant Buzz triggering with Purification coming from any source.
  
• Fixed Duplicate Dice skip button softlock.
  
• Fixed Bond Duplicator not applying Link: Boost if sentinel already had Link: Boost.
  
• Fixed Link: Boost not being applied to Hevelius if sentinel already had Link: Boost.
  
• Fixed softlock when player had Charged Body and Dicesmith Hammer would defeat the last enemy of a battle, then Charged Body was triggered by Dicesmith Anvil.
  
• Fixed softlock when player had Charged Body and Lacertian Beam would defeat the last enemy of a battle, then Charged Body was triggered by Stardust Garb.
  
• Fixed player not being able to play Amplify die when player didn't have any Purify 1 in his hand, but a sentinel or enemy had a Purify 1.
  
• Fixed Bottled Aurora not triggering Reroll Purify.
  
• Fixed Obscure and Blighted Soul triggering on the first turn of the battle.
  
• Fixed Player Vorpal Plate not being applied and dice getting stuck to mouse.

May Astrea bless you 💙 ❤️
- Leonardo Castanho, community manager and lead dev of Astrea

Dear loyal and devoted bookworms,

What you heard at Wholesome Direct is true! The time has come! Your pleas have been answered!
🎉 🎉 🎉
We are so excited to finally share some of the new gameplay with you all! If you'd like some more info on what that demo entails, here is all you need to know:

• How do I play the demo? — Download it right here on Steam!
  
• When can I play it? — Right now! Until the end of June.
  
• What languages will it be available in? — English and German.
  French and Spanish are added as well, but they have not been thoroughly tested, so please feel free to give us your feedback!
  
• Is there gamepad support? — Yes! And we are quite proud of it!
  
• How long is it? — You can play for 3 days in-game, which equals to about 30 minutes in real time. And after the credits, you can still continue decorating your bookshop!
  
• What can I do in it? — Firstly, you will be introduced to the game mechanics with our brand new tutorial. As always, you can explore locations, talk to our characters, browse the newspaper, customise your bookshop, and of course sell books.
  For the first time, you can also learn more about locations in your journal, master challenges and quests, and recommend specific book titles to your customers!
  
• Where can I go if I have questions? — We have set up a brand new community Discord server for our marvellous fans right here! Join your fellow book worms in discussing the game and share your feedback with us, the developers!
  
• How can I help improve the game? — Since the game is still in development, this demo may contain some bugs, typos, mistranslations, or inconsistencies. If you notice any, it would be helpful if you could report them via our custom bug reporting tool, by pressing F2! We will provide a more detailed guide to bug reporting in a follow-up post today.
  We'd also love to hear your ideas, suggestions, concerns, or praise ;) over on the Tiny Bookshop Discord.

We are so excited to hear your thoughts on the game, and thank you all for your incredible patience! We hope you have fun with our little demo, and would love to see you all soon over on Discord. <3

Lots of love,
Your neoludic Team

Improvements
- Restructuring in Spectator Mode;
- Added the possibility for the player to join as a spectator if they enter the lobby after the match has started (just press the confirmation button to watch);
- If the player disconnects (due to an external factor), they will be sent back to the lobby but can enter again to watch the match;
- Added the possibility of speeding up the match as a spectator; just press and hold the confirm button;
- Added Replay Mode (temporary UI; improvements will come during the next updates);
- Fixed time duration during a match;
- Fixes in the blocking alert system;
- Fixes in the subtitle system for Hector with the mask.

Nuno
- Elemental 4 has been changed. It is now possible to extend the combo after hitting the opponent. However, this attack does less damage.

Mingmei
- Minor adjustment in the juggle points of "Flying Dragon" super.

Sho
- Fixed his Divekick. I'ts not possible to block during the crouch state anymore;
- Fixed an issue that makes his grab fail in a specific situation.

Cerberus
- When the player is hit by Cerberus, they will gain more elemental and regular meters (useful for using Aerial Breaker when hit in the air).

Mars


Which planet should humanity go to? Of course to Mars! In the game Spaceship Commander people fly to Mars like they go to their grandmother's village, some for work, and some as a tourist.
Why to Mars? Because for a people he is the most favorable from the planets closest to us.
Mercury is not an good decision, it is too hot there (+427°C on the sunny side and almost -170°C on the dark side).
Venus - landing there is a sure suicide (pressure 100 atmospheres and temperature +464° C).
Earth - well, we are already here :)
The moon - although it is close the conditions there are not very good (there is no atmosphere, harsh temperature drops from +100°С to -170°С), and low gravity.
And then Mars - the planetary traveler's best choice. The force of gravity is 30% of the Earth's, more or less acceptable temperature conditions (about them later), as well the atmosphere, though it is of carbon dioxide (CO2). Another bonus is that the length of a day on Mars is 24 hours 37 minutes 22.7 seconds, just like on Earth.
Our gas giants Jupiter and Saturn also have interesting satellites, but they are much further than Mars.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun


Solar system. The bunch of planets in the center are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars - also called the "Inner Region of the Solar System". Next up are the gas giants.


The mass of Mars is 0.10 of the mass of the Earth, and the diameter is 0.53 of the diameter of the Earth. Mars is called the "red planet" because of the reddish hue of the surface, given to it by the mineral maghemite - iron (III) oxide.

Size comparison


The relief of Mars has many features - impact craters like on the Moon, volcanoes, valleys, deserts and even polar ice caps like on Earth.
The Martian extinct volcano Mount Olympus is one of the highest known mountains on the planets of the solar system, its height is 21 km. The grandiose Mariner Valley has a length of 4500 km (a quarter of the planet's perimeter), a width of up to 600 km (an average of 200) and a depth of up to 11 km. At the north pole of Mars is the Great Northern Lowland - a plain that occupies 40% of the planet's surface, which lies 4-5 km below the average radius of the planet, and is essentially a crater from a colossal collision with another celestial body.
Mars is a godsend for "space archaeologists", because Geologically, it has remained almost unchanged for 3 billion years! And on Earth during this time, violent tectonic processes took place, which erased almost all traces of the early history of our planet.
Previously, Mars had rivers, lakes and seas and reminded the Earth. However, a billion years ago, active processes in the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere of Mars is stoped, and it has acquired a modern look. The fault of the global catastrophic changes in the Martian climate is considered to be the large eccentricity of the orbit and the instability of the axis of rotation, which cause huge, up to 45%, fluctuations in the flow of solar energy incident on the surface of the planet. And also weak influx of heat from the bowels of Mars, due to the small mass of the planet, and the high rarefaction of the atmosphere.
Mars is a quite harsh place, although there are a more worse places. The atmosphere of Mars consists of 96% carbon dioxide, and oxygen here is only 0.1%, which is clearly not enough for breathing. Also, the atmosphere here is very rarefied, how much? Approximately 100 times more rarefied than on Earth! Therefore, walking on Mars without a helmet you will very quickly get air out of your lungs and you will feel yourself very bad.
And Mars is also famous for its dust, it is able to cover any apparatus or building very quickly, by the way it is very toxic, since it contains perchlorates.
There is more bad news about the very powerful radiation that comes from the Sun, because Mars does not have a magnetic field and nothing stops it, unlike Earth, for example. To date, the best way to hide from this radiation is to sit in caves (lava tubes). But in the game Spaceship Commander people use a special nanofiber that effectively shields radiation (used in buildings, ships and uniforms).

Somewhere in the wastelands of Mars


Oddly enough, it cannot be said that Mars is catastrophically cold. Of course, it is better not to go to the surface of Mars without a heated spacesuit, but on a good summer day the planet can be warm. Since the atmosphere of Mars is very rarefied, it does not smooth out daily fluctuations of surface temperature. Here there is a temperature below -120°С, and sometimes +20°С, it also depends on the season, but on average it is somewhere around -60°С, which is comparable, for example, with the Arctic regions of the Earth, so if you are a Siberian, then Mars will not surprise you much with frost.
On Mars, the color of the sky is reddish. This is due to the size of Martian dust, which is suspended in the atmosphere, as well as the composition of this dust - it consists of iron oxides. There is an interesting point - at sunset, the color of the sun on Mars ... red? Very red? No blue! The physics of this process is not very simple, but in short it is again due to the size of the dust particles.
Mars in the game Spaceship Commander is the main transport hub. It has many supply bases and most of the personnel of these bases work on a rotational basis.

Supply base


Working days on Mars


Inside the Martian base (plants are highly valued here)


Landing window


So, Mars although not a paradise, is quite suitable as an initial base for humanity on another planet. After the infrastructure is built, it is already possible to go to other, more distant planets from here more efficiently than from Earth. There are also ideas about terraforming it, but that's a completely different story.

🪲 The best way to report a bug is when encountering it. Pressing F2 in-game to bring up our in-game bug-reporting tool.


This allows us to learn where the bug occurred, along with automatically taking a screenshot, and collecting info on which type of device this happened on. You’ll still have to give our six-legged friend a good name and a detailed description of how you got there, to better help our team find it.
In case we have follow-up questions, it would be fantastic if you could share a way to contact you, but no pressure!
Lastly, you can tell us how urgent this bug is, so we can get to the really bad stuff first.



🪲 If this is somehow not an option for you, or you’d like some help from us because you can't continue the demo, or you’d like the community’s help in figuring something out, then you are welcome to share it on our brand new community Discord server (join here). In this case, please include a screenshot/video/gif of what happened, a detailed description, some information on your current device, whether you played with mouse or with gamepad, and how we can replicate it.

Thank you for taking the time to help us out! It's the best way to ensure an amazing finished product. We wish you lots of fun with continuing the demo! 🧡

Cheers,
Your neoludic Team

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