Patch Live!

Hello Archfriends!

We’re very proud to be able to deliver another patch!

While this patch has a lot of improvements and balancing adjustments, there are some larger balance considerations that require more time for the dev team to get juuuust right! The current balance around framing another Archfiend for attacking Pandaemonium (and becoming excommunicated as a result) is one of our biggest focuses behind the scenes – we’ve got a few potential resolutions that we’re testing out that should hopefully make it into an upcoming update! And that’s just one example of the many balancing considerations you wonderful folks have brought to our attention.

Now, onto the show!

Big Wins

• Fixed issue in Belial's chronicle that prevented you from getting gold
• Lots of AI improvements across the board! We’re making strides here
• Targeting a vassal now contributes towards vendettas against their blood lord, AND the vassal of your enemy can now be targeted by rituals… Spicy

Tutorial / Chronicles

• Fixed issue in Beelzebub's chronicle that prevented you from buying certain items from the backroom.
• Fixed issue in Belial's chronicle that prevented you from getting gold rank.
• Fixed issue that would cause the chronicles to get out of sync when using the chronicles arrow buttons.
• Fixed payment hotkeys being available in Tutorial before the payment sequence.

AI

• Tweaked AI animosity to preference wars against neighbours.
• Tweaked AI to use Dire Dissipation a little bit more.
• Tweaked AI to use canton capture vendettas a little bit less.
• Tweaked AI purchase Rank logic to encourage AI to rank up sooner.
• Tweaked AI purchase Rank logic to discourage ranking up in the late game.
• Tweaked AI so it is less inclined to request Vassalage in the early game.
• Tweaked AI to de-prioritize economic goals when attacking or defending.
• Tweaked AI to not offer Armistice to players it doesn't consider a threat.
• Tweaked AI action cooldowns to reduce action spam (Loot the Vaults, Diplomatic Demand, Diplomatic Insult, and more).
• Tweaked AI to consider stealing / destroying tribute as a means of removing enemy legions with upkeep.
• Added additional constraints on Vassalage Proposal to stop the AI from surrendering too early in the game when there is no cause to do so.
• Astaroth AI will no longer attempt long term aggressive planning during Draconic Razzia.
• AI will no longer cast ritual if the ritual is already ongoing.
• AI will no longer attempt to use Paperwork Reshuffle to end its own vendettas.
• AI will no longer target banished game pieces with rituals.
• AI is now able to use framing when targeting its nemesis with rituals.
• Fixed AI not using Corrupt Tribute, Convert Legion, and Enfeeble rituals.
• Reduced the initial delay before the first diplomatic action can be triggered by the AI.
• AI will no longer attempt to redeploy legions into combat.

Optimisations

• Optimised resource unload (this should speed up returning to menu).
• Optimised shader, UI data, and prefab loading (this should reduce game load times!).
• Optimised video player to be more robust.
• Optimised videos to play correctly on more systems.

Gameplay / Balance

• Adjusted Place of Power spawn locations to be more evenly spaced out.
• Targeting a Vassal now contributes towards vendettas against their Blood Lord.
• The Vassal of your enemy can now be targeted by rituals.
• Infernal Monsoons now affects the Angelic Host and Abyss Leviathan.
• Fixed an issue where dead Abyss Striders could spawn new Abyss Striders on adjacent cantons.
• Praetors submitted for duels will now randomize a move if their move is invalidated before the duel starts (such as by being overwritten by a training manuscript).

UI

• Fixed message scrolling.
• Fixed universal back actioning not closing the Praetor move select.
• Fixed Ritual Card VFX from triggering forever.
• Fixed icons for +X resistance abilities.
• Fixed white flash in Encyclopaedia when parallax images are loading.
• Fixed white flash in Item Lists when parallax images are loading.
• Fixed Sanctum showing prestige values that should be hidden.
• Fixed Praetor Duel Arbiter widget showing at the wrong times.
• Fixed errors when toggling enemy Domains with hotkeys.
• Added Praetor Combat Tutorial Popup that appears when you hover the move key at the top of the Praetor Duel screen.
• Added Selection count to Enfeeble Target UI, so you know how many stats you can effect.
• Added Autosave toggle to save/load screens.
• Added Prestige gain to Places of Power in the Encyclopaedia.

Turn Logs

• Fixed battle prestige not being visible to all players.
• Fixed incorrect logs when attempting to Extort an item that the player loses control of before the diplomacy actions are processed.
• Fixed Bazaar purchasers being revealed when multiple items are bought simultaneously.
• Added Assertion of Weakness and Blood Feud witness logs to the Adversaries Bicker turn log group.
• The Turn Log notification that says “this game item has been assigned to this Legion/PoP/Titan” now has the full card displayed for the attached item
• Added Diplomacy button to several Diplomacy events for convenience.

Turn Playback

• Fixed an issue causing camera stuttering.
• Fixed Praetors not being visually removed if dismissed during/before a battle.
• Fixed Praetors not being visually removed by rituals.
• Fixed Praetors not being visually removed when transferred.
• Fixed Praetors visualizing on Titans.

Audio

• Fixed turn timer sounds playing during the post-game screens.

Localisation

• Fixed localisation of message to correctly read "No Free Slot".
• Cleaned up alignment for different languages on game setup widgets.
• Localised Scrying Bowl.
• Localised Stratagem Cards.
• Localised tutorial speaker name.
• Fixed localisation errors in Attach order tooltips.
• Added bullet points and other missing punctuation marks in several languages.

Misc

• Autosaves no longer count toward save slot limits.
• Fixed Vassalize Player objectives not triggering when players request to be vassalized.
• Fixed rare bug where the terrain features wouldn't render.
• Fixed One Sided Argument scheme not completing on the turn Infernal Negotiations ends.
• Fixed Abyss Strider spawning and roaming idly into lava.
• Fixed visual issue with territory redraw around bridge intersections.
• Fixed rare error when returning items to the player vault.
• Fixed universal rank resistance not accounting for ranks given by modifiers (such as relics).

That’s all for now!

<3 Chan + the LoG Squad

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