Hi folks! Hold on to your scrap! 🤖
Patch Notes - 0.60 "In This Economy"
🖨️ Dev Notes
I think the recent changes to the draw speed calculations went well and were received positively. But they also buffed players somewhat. Decks now have more room to stay at a 2s cooldown and between 2s and 3s the speed penalty per additional Load is a bit lower. Therefore I think it's only fair to give the alien side a bit of a general buff this patch. Also it's not like most of them were super scary before.
Now, buffing enemies might take a Core more from you here and there, but if you have a run that gets to a broken synergy state, it won't really stop you. So to make things harder on higher difficulty, I need to come at it from the other side and cut down on player power gain too. Instead of outright removing broken synergies, I instead want to make it a bit harder to become broken in the first place. There should still be the same satisfying payoff when you do, it just shouldn't be guaranteed every run.
This is the reason why many pieces of this patch are focused on keeping the player economy, and thereby the number of additional cards and Modules you get per run, in check. This should make it more challenging (or luck-requiring) to put together super broken builds early into a run and, hopefully, introduce some tougher choices on what to get when. Of course, tuning the balance of this is an ongoing process, so let me know how it goes! 🙏
Changes
tweaked (mostly buffed) enemy stats across the board
Weather effects can now be active on day 10 (watch your boss fights!)
reduced Scrap gain from skipping cards (5 -> 2)
reduced Scrap gain from skipping Enhancements (5 -> 3)
Power Bracer: 1 -> 2 Strength
Core Splinter: gained Consume
Finders Keepers: gained Consume | Load 2 -> 1
Makeshift Shield: Shield loss 2 -> 1 | Scrap 2 -> 1 | Load 2 -> 3
Jagged Torus: epic -> common | Scrap 1 -> 0 | Damage based on total deck Load
QOL: added "Load Gauge" element to the deckbuilding UI for easier Load management
QOL: added Curse indicator to cards in the deck list
QOL: added flying robo helper as a reminder to check the boss tooltip
renamed Corrosion to Infection (cause it works for both bots and organic actors)
added new card art
various fixes
Thank you!
I once again want to thank everyone who participated in the playtest and gave feedback via the forums, email and the constantly active Discord group. We've also had a few more creators (like the German "Frohnatur" Malterus or FaintlySaintly) pick up the game, which is so great to see at this early stage. ♥️
All the best,
Fabian