Hey everyone!
We hope you've had a lot of fun playing in and/or watching the first ever Athelan Battlegrounds e-sports tournament! Congratulations to Aristocatt who sweeped the competition and walked away with the 150$ cash prize.
As we head into Steam Next Fest, we wanted to add more quality of life features and a few final touches on champion balance based on our top players' feedback.
Lastly, we attached a teaser image for the next upcoming champion: Guardian-0. Our second construct and first ever defensive champion. Learn more about its lore and stats here: https://www.athelan.com/guardian-0
Here are the patch notes for demo build #43:
Features
Added a setting option to increase game speed to 1.5x, 2x or 3x.
When holding ALT, colored health bars and status effects will appear above champions' heads. You can also toggle this option in settings.
Diana's actual health is now displayed in her tooltip. This will be useful for when a Singular Mind transforms into Diana.
When hovering an ally with an attack, it will now display the number in red and mention friendly fire.
Added a button in the main menu tutorial to replay the main tutorial with voice acting.
Displacing an ally outside the range of a paralysis skill will now unparalyze them.
Added support for Linux. If you're using it, please let us know if everything works fine.
Added more details in bug reports.
Balance:
Increased Erlic HP to 38
Increased Ming HP to 44
Decreased Ryker HP to 40
Bugs
Fixed an outlier issue that caused board layouts to disappear.
Fixed an issue where icicles breaking next to each other could sometimes damage a champion twice.
Fixed an issue where paralyzed champions were giving way to allies. They should now correctly be paralyzed instead of...pretending?
Fixed an issue with the battle request system for queues that occasionally made one player play with two instances of his team.
The Singular Mind can no longer morph into itself.
Teleporting in drone lightning now correctly applies damage.