Leaning into the rogue-like genre more with randomly generated environments, randomized enemies and randomized boss fights. A character progression system has been added with level ups where you may choose which chess pieces to upgrade.
Maps
All maps have been revamped and some maps have been removed.
Large maps are split into smaller chessboards. Fight one chessboard at a time. All units will move together to the next chessboard.
You can pick your route as you advance through a map: Avoid certain enemies or seek out better rewards.
Hazardous obstacles are randomly placed throughout the levels, they hinder your movement or damages you if you walk into them.
Player
New playable chess pieces. Witch, Bear, Cobra, Warlock, Crossbow.
Start as a different hero, you no longer need to have a king. (Only kings get instantly checkmated when they die)
You can now gain experience and level up.
When you level up you can upgrade unit archetypes or magical spells.
A lot more opportunities to add chess pieces to your group. The group size is capped at 5, only 4 may advance to the next platform.
Spells & Abilities
All spell-casting is now automated. All you have to do is move your chess pieces and they'll automatically cast their spells when the cool down is available.
Each chess piece archetype has their own special healing ability.
Enemies
All bosses now have one unique ability to themselves and share a pool of randomized abilities between each other.
New boss: Grim Reaper. A ghostly character that teleports around and swings his large scythe.
New enemy: Pikemen. A stronger pawn with double the attack range.
Cannon now damages all units in front of it.
Items
Inventory removed, you now instantly equip weapons and armor off the floor.
+62 weapon items you can equip on your units (swords, maces, staffs, axes). Most weapons have a unique effect that increases damage if a condition is met - bonus damage every 3rd swing for example.
+11 armor items have been added to the game. You can now equip units with an additional item, a armor piece which will make your units even stronger..
Other
Changed name of studio to Bepansrad Studio
Achievements have been added and completing them unlocks more content.
New languages added: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish.
All runs now show up on the leader board, not just 100% completed runs.
Added some game-pad support, not 100% yet. Navigating menus with keyboard is now possible.
Combat log - see what dealt damage to which chess piece.
Interface
Scale UI - Make the interface smaller or larger.
Scale health-bars - Make the hit-points above the chess pieces heads smaller or larger.
Refresh rate - if Vsync is off you can set a maximum frame rate.
Play next song button in sound settings.
Separate tab to rebind input for game-pad
Game-pad movement: Left joystick to select a tile, press A to walk there.