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v0.1.3 Update!

DRONES Playtest · published 24 Jul 2026, 20:35 UTC

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## [0.1.3] - 2026-07-24 - Secret Locations, crystals, special stores.

### GREETINGS/NOTICE!
- Welcome to the Alpha (0.1.x) playtest of DRONES! You're participation is EVERYTHING for the game.
- NOTICE - this is an early Alpha version of DRONES There WILL be bugs and LOTS of missing features.

### Added
- Modulator - TARGET - Enemy is targetd by all drones.
- Modulator - Static Coil - Applies the static stamp to an enemy card. That enemy now takes 2x energy damage and 10 energy damage on discard.
- Component - Solar Array - Give your drones bonus energy damage the closer the encounter is to the sun and a penalty for being too far away.
- Hack - Beacon - All enemies target this drone.
- Crystals - Acquiring makes more sense and you can spend them!
- Store - New "special" store section! You unlock new store sections by investigating the "special" event reward given by planets
- Store - Restock/Reroll - You can now restock each section if you dont like what you got. Coupled with the special section it's VERY powerful.
- Store - All items are in an "item" section now. Not garanteed to get one of each item type now.
- Store - Store stock varies by planet chosen, this way the daily seed has more variation on your planet choice
- VISUAL - Drones are alive! - Drones move around based on what's going on and use little thrusters to show you that they're doing it! Neat!
- VISUAL - Give fireballs and spores explosions on death, give spore a trail to highlights their movement

### Changed
- Drones - After wave completion all drones face "up" so that they are ready for the next wave. This matters and was super annoying that it hadn't done this.
- Balance - Starting money reduced to $0 again, cause we have more money making stuff and I want the first couple waves to have more consequence.
- Balance - Drone - Thumper. Added back a bit of damage so we dont get into a forever shoving match. Also shoves a bit different again.

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