From the messy desk of Slugbait:
Seasons greetings everyone. For this end of the year patch, I've focused almost entirely on additional quality of life features in the game client. There are also some map tweaks and a couple of minor changes.
We hope everyone is having a happy holiday. Next year Pox Nora will be entering its twentieth year. It's old, I'm old. We're all old here. As always, I appreciate you all.
~slugbait
Client
Game UI
The tile info above the lower hud now shows location effects such as Dead Magic Zone, Unstable Ground, Hallowed Ground, and many others. Please call attention in the discord to any effects that are not visible that it would be useful to have in this list.
Fixed an issue with the name of equipment on a champion being potentially cropped on the Rune Details window.
Lobby
After leaving a game, you will now be returned to the screen that you were in before entering the game (i.e., ranked play, custom games).
Fixed an issue that could cause the client to get stuck in a "Validating Deck" state when entering the ranked or custom games screens before the deck information had been loaded from the server.
Fixed an issue in which the incorrect art was being used for newer foil runes in the rune/deck manager.
Fixed an issue in which the incorrect unit sprite was displayed on the rune details window when viewing a rune in the rune/deck manager.
Art & Effects
Added an enhanced foil effect to many foil runes. This is a work in progress as the image mask has to be created manually. Additional foil runes will be given this enhanced effect over time.
Added hundreds more pieces of high resolution rune art
Improved a performance issue that could cause low framerates when many units with Immobile (.g., mission 2 of the Madness in the Mountains campaign). Please note that this issue still exists and will require some further refactors for performance improvements, but it should be better
Added a new effect and sound for the ability Desecrate Earth.
Controller Support
Pressing R3 (right stick in) on a controller while in game will now toggle the combat log.
Steam Integration
Added support for Rich Presence in the steam friends list. This will show when you are in a match, playing a campaign game, etc.
Maps
Removed Brood Pits from the ranked map pool.
Made adjustments to the ranked maps for Shores of Maljara and Lost City.
Balance Updates
The list of balance changes can be found on the Pox Nora website.