Today, Scarlet Aldrich is joining the cast of Restless Parish, completing the area's encounter table. Her signature card is Scarlet Libation, a new card specifically designed to interact with Powers without disabling them outright. High-impact Powers may still be worth playing against Scarlet, but this fight discourages the use of cheap and low rarity Powers.
Scarlet also makes use of Revenge, a card that was previously exclusive to players. The damage dealt by Revenge scales with the amount of Aura and Health lost by the user, so its presence encourages the player to finish the fight all at once. Normally, this would encourage stalling via Powers, but Scarlet Libation makes that much less viable. Our hope is that this fight will uniquely encourage the use of non-Power-based scaling methods, giving those cards a niche that otherwise wouldn't exist.
This update also contains a batch of new cards and equipment primarily aimed at increasing variety in the early and middle game. A large number of the new cards are memorable commons and uncommons which we'll include more frequently going forward. In next week's update, we also plan to take a look at some of the preexisting enemies. We've received some feedback that certain encounters feel unnecessarily Status-heavy, so those enemies will receive most of the focus.
Normally, an update like this would pass through the beta branch before being sent to the main branch. However, we'll be participating in Deckbuilders Fest in a few days, so we've decided to test the update thoroughly and release the patch to both branches. We hope you enjoy the new content!
Version v0.73.4
-Scarlet Aldrich has been added to the easy pool for Restless Parish. (This encounter is guaranteed for this patch only.)
-New cards: Faded Inscription, Sanctify, Elegance, Craftsmanship, Combat Reflexes, Mystical Fire, Rain of Arrows, Press the Attack, Empathic Bond, Royal Decree, Prosperity, Think Twice, Take Aim, Solid Rock, Prevailing Winds, Repulsion, Scarlet Libation, Enthrall.
-Altered equipment: Princess Gown, Numismatic Charm, Hemlock, Crown of Atlantis, Wintry Gloves.
-Added 250 new pieces of equipment to the generic pool.
-Added smart AI for Revenge and Memory Stream.
-Added VFX for Discharge.
-Relentless Assault no longer triggers multiple times if you copy your third Attack.
-Fixed an issue where piercing attacks would not interact properly with Survivor and similar effects.