Hey Everyone,

Looks like quite a few people are winning and breaking the game in various ways! Hope you're all having fun!

We're currently working on Balance Patch 1 to improve effects, upgrades and perks that don't get enough play, as well as nerfing a few that give way too high exponential growth.

We're capturing data on effects, upgrades and perks that players take, but we'd like to supplement that with actual player feedback. So, if you have any feedback please pass it onto us in the Steam forum (https://steamcommunity.com/app/3481360/discussions/) or feel free to directly send it to us at otterpawpress(at)gmail.com

Some questions to get you thinking about specific feedback are:

• Are there any effects, upgrades or perks that you think seem cool and want to use, but for some reason don't?

• Are there any effects, upgrades or perks that you think should synergise, but don't?

• Do you have any ideas for new effects, upgrade or perks that fill a niche that's missing or would be a cool interaction?

• Are there any effects, upgrades or perks that seem to just be trash or are an instant pick?

• Any ideas to improve the Mirror Shard tier up bonus option?

GL HF!

This patch fixes a memory creep issue/leak, makes some blocks softer for landing, and fixes several other minor issues.

0.851 change list:

• now reuse opengl buffers (cuts down a lot on creeping up memory usage)

• now only take half damage when landing hard on soft surfaces (mud, snow, sand, slush, & tar)

• fixed cloth hats, staves, and wands not giving their mana boost to player (Impus)

• fixed potted plants and trophies not transitioning to new world correctly visually

• made item on ground effects match item rarity more and be bit larger

• evil god power bar will now glow when close to full

• good god power bar will now glow when close to full

• quest threat bar will now glow when close to full

• dead bodies now have more flies

• can no longer use higher end vials if don't meet the min requirements

• changed north/south signs to up/down

• added a shadow behind markers on maps to make them stand out a bit more (ScrObot)

New Features:

• Bots now have certain difficulty increases as you fight them in a match.
  
• Lobby now features character portraits.

Adjustments:

• Prism Passthough weapon modifier update. To better give options for landing shots through walls, now certain walls and objects will become translucent while you are holding the ability.
  
  • Also adjusted the angle of passed through shots to make directly aiming at your target more effective.
• Overhauled the VFX of hazard trail modified beam shots to further emphasize their impending hazardousness.
  
• Added new SFX for rebound and prism passthrough weapon modifiers.
  
• Map geometry and look update, further building on the laser tag and futuristic roots, fleshing out the fidelity of more objects, and updating the look of the lighting.
  
• Fans now spin.
  
• Lighting adjustments to improve overall performance.
  
  • Also, through the use of more emissives, reflections, and a higher base level of illumination, improved visibility at low graphics settings.
• Lowered brightness of rotating objective spotlights so that they are less blinding, and hopefully more helpful.
  
• Updated the look of the lobby in a similar style to the map updates, such as adjusting lighting, and adding a display of the winner’s trophy.
  
• Performance improvements, such as using more efficient methods of animating the objective nodes on the charge lines.
  
• Adjusted weapon firing and other opponent/ teammate view movement animations.
  
• Revamped win and lose screens with UI animations, and added a new lose track to chill with before running it back.
  
• Updated weapon colors to match each other.
  
• Updated look of match stats readout (accessible with left bracket [ ).
  
• Added additional clarifying text in the lobby UI to show how to start a match.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed bot players not being able to aim at players vertically.
  
• Fixed an issue where players could not rejoin matches they left, and certain cases where an improper player count for matches would be displayed in the server browser even after refreshing.

A quick update to fix an issue with text display in the UI. Also updated some of the channels to have additional camera angles that cycle.

Change Log
Features

• Added additional camera angles to the Sunset and Sky channels.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where text would display with artifacts when displayed in different resolutions.

Hello Ironhoofs!

We’ve received a large amount of feedback since the demo launch, and it’s been extremely helpful in reshaping the core mechanics of Heroes of Magic & Cards. This update focuses on addressing two major themes: stronger synergy between decks and abilities, and increasing turn-to-turn pacing and excitement. Version 0.2.1 introduces a broad set of improvements to card flow, abilities, enchantments, and overall combat dynamics.

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• All hand cards are now discarded at end of turn.

• Draw +1 card per turn for every learned ability (increasing total card flow as you progress).

These changes significantly increase card flow and add more surprise and decision-making each turn.

Abilities now have a Uses counter, visible in the ability shortcut bar. The goal is to make each turn to have more interesting choices and flexibility.

Added new abilities to help players build powerful hands that are otherwise unlikely to occur by chance (e.g., 3-of-a-kind, straights) and interact more directly with poker enchantments.

New abilities:

• \[Battle Preparation] - Add 2 Ace with \[Omni Suit] to the draw pile.

• \[Combat Roll] - Exchange a card for a new one.

• \[Warrior Dance] - Create a card of the same rank in hand.

• \[Uplift] - Rank up a card in hand.

Updated abilities:

• \[War Cry] and \[Force Charging] now include card-draw components.

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New Enchantment

• \[Anchored] – The enchanted card remains in your hand (it is not discarded at end of turn).

Reworked Enchantments

• \[Mirror] – Now adds 2 copies of the card to your draw pile.

• \[Hot Sausage] – Bonus hand score now scales with your current Rage.

• \[Berserker] – Removed the drawback of taking 25% extra damage while this card is in hand.

Removed Enchantments

Removed due to providing generic combat effects rather than interesting poker-hand interactions:

• \[Guardian]

• \[Spike]

• \[Iceburst]

• \[Shell]

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You can now open the full map at any time by clicking the map icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

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• Elite and Boss enemies now drop 2 enchantment packs.

• Fixed hover issues on enemy intents and statuses.

• Improved visuals for the Event encounter scene.

• Great Web Weaver, Thugs, The Golden Burrower, and The Stoneborn now apply their enchantments to cards in the draw pile instead of the hand.

• Adjusted activation patterns for several Warrior abilities.

• Boars and Gnolls now apply a negative status for their stealing effect instead of performing a direct action.

• The Golden Burrower during burrow stage is now damageable (with 75% damage reduction) instead of being untargetable.

• Damage dealt while under Rage Infusion no longer generates Rage.

• The guaranteed rest node before the Boss has been moved earlier so players can learn a new ability sooner.

• Random rest nodes are removed.

• Fixed several description typos.

• Fixed multiple localization issues.

• Updated many relic effects to match the new card-draw rules.

• \[Ginseng Tea] now adds +1 Use to all abilities this turn.

• Maps will now generate with slightly more paths.

• Temporarily removed relics that alter ability activation requirements.

The new Craft System in Void Phantom 2.0 takes crafting to a whole new level. Collect materials during waves, combine components, and create unique modular weapons that reflect your playstyle.

Modular weapons: choose the body, barrel, and accessories to build your perfect weapon.

Dynamic system: Material combinations affect damage, rate of fire, and bullet type.

Real-time strategy: Decide on the fly how to adapt your arsenal to the challenges of the dungeon.

Meaningful progression: Upgrade your skills and increase your chances of finding rare and epic components.

Experiment, combine, and dominate. Every game is different. Every weapon is yours.

1.0.0.1

• Fixed issue preventing rapid gear shift when using hardware H-shifter.
  
• Fixed glass on Bavarian and Landchooner player vehicle.
  
• Fixed issue preventing driving tips from being disabled.
  
• Fixed flickering fuel gauge UI and incorrect fuel usage on certain vehicles.
  
• Fixed blank taxi job giver map marker tooltip when doing taxi job.
  
• Fixed issue that could cause taxi passenger from spawning with negative X scale.
  
• Fixed issue where player vehicle could collide with trash in the Patty Queen parking lot, causing an accident.

The "Buddy System" will let you switch into any member of the Toxic Crusaders that you want to play as! Wait for your Tag Out Meter to fill up, then switch away!

Simply tap on the designated button to call in a new character, and they'll jump down onto the scene! Your current character will disappear as your Buddy does a lethal jump attack that can follow-up on your combo strings to catch enemies by surprise!

You can also CHOOSE which character you'd like to have jump in! Scroll through the character icons, pick a character that isn't already active on the field, and Tag them in!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2303850/Toxic_Crusaders/

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We're proud to present you another episode of "Making Barony". This time, Josiah conjures up arcane details for upcoming revisions to the magic system for Barony. In addition, we have some developments to share about the release plan for the Deserters & Disciples DLC, and the Instruments of Destruction major free update that you won't want to miss.

For more information about Barony's upcoming schools of magic, how it'll impact both DLC and vanilla classes, and our development timeline, check out the video dev diary below!

Magic has always been a fundamental component of Barony. With Instruments of Destruction, we're excited to offer even more to your magic-slinging heroes!

More reveals are coming about the Deserters & Disciples DLC, and the Instruments of Destruction free update, so stay tuned for those exciting announcements.

If you missed our previous preview of the Dryad Scion, check that out here.

You can also learn about the Gremlin Sapper and its cooking abilities in the previous entry of Making Barony, or in Barold Jenkins' reveal!

You can also check out the first Instruments of Destruction dev diary here.

Hello again!

The full version's development is still in progress. Update v.0.1.9 comes with little language and bug fixes. Also, Russian is added. 🎉

The Halloween costume is still available and unlocks after completing the platformer mini-game.

Customize your Ai feature is coming...

Thank you for your interest. 👁️