With this patch, we're bringing you the ability to choose your path and encounter random events through our new CROSSROAD feature. We also completely reworked the final invasion levels, changed the butterfly effects, created new agent traits, added achievements, and implemented quality of life features.
Message from the developers
As we approach Steam Next Fest and our Early Access launch, we've been looking into improving replayability even more, making each mission unique with its own twists and turns. Divergence was already great at that, but now with the Crossroad, players will be able to choose their path and encounter even more unique outcomes. Another key aspect that was missing was allowing players to get a sense of the difficulty and the meta. Previously, there was no way for players to easily compare themselves to others and correctly evaluate their performance against a given difficulty. Now that should be possible with the newly added Leaderboard. We also added a feature that lets you inspect leaderboard entries to see their squad composition and gear. It should help newer players learn synergies and good team compositions. Following these improvements, we are confident in the strength and stability of our core gameplay systems. Going forward we'll mostly be focusing on adding new content, polishing the game, and balancing.
Demo Patch #2
Crossroad
- 5 times per mission, you'll arrive at a special location with a crossroad.
- Crossroad allows you to pick a special destination that triggers an event.
- Some events give an instant reward while others change the next level.
- Each event has a custom visual and fantasy themed around the historical period you're in.
- You're guaranteed to encounter at least 2 accessory events during a mission.
- Includes a tie-breaker mechanism: if players vote for different destinations, the choice is resolved with a random roll.
- Crossroad divergence is turned off for now, but will be added in the future.
- We might tweak the amount and rules guiding what you encounter. Let us know what you think!
Leaderboard
- Players can now compete on a leaderboard to see who can get the best score.
- Score is equal to the number of monsters defeated during the invasion, which begins after the final combat.
- Invasion has been reworked into multiple levels instead of one endless fight.
- Enemies and reinforcements always come from the right in the invasion levels.
- After the final combat, you can no longer shop, and gadgets from your nuclear machine are disabled.
- In the HQ, a leaderboard panel is visible at the top left showing the best score for each category (1-2-3 players).
- Each entry in the leaderboard can be inspected to see the squad setup of the players at the end of the game.
- You can filter out public entries and only see the score of your friends and yourself.
These are fake entries to showcase the feature.
Butterfly Effects
- General butterfly effect passives have been removed.
- Instead, butterfly effects will give random accessories to enemies each combat.
- Enemy accessories start at Lvl.4 and can even upgrade to Lvl.5.
- Butterfly effects are hard capped at 3 per mission.
Achievements & Progression
- Upgrades are now entirely personal and not shared with other players.
- Some upgrades have been removed and new ones have been added.
- Added achievements which unlock new content and some bonuses.
- Bonuses unlocked through achievements need to be unlocked by all players present in the task force to be active.
Agent Trait
- Added minor agent traits obtainable during a mission.
- Improved the Agent Trait list displayed at the bottom left of the HUD.
- Added a crossroad event that asks players to choose their minor trait from a selection.
General Improvements
- Added a button to select a random agent
- Added a mission history allowing you to inspect previous runs.
- Updated the area of effect display.
- Added a bunch of new sound effects.
- Added a bunch of new visual effects on some gear.
- Nuclear now starts at 0. The maximum now starts at 2 and will never increase. You get 1 nuclear per combat (meaning 1 new gadget every 2 combats).
- Reworked how combat start effects resolve for better predictability and less chaotic outcomes.
- The list of unlocked gadgets is now shown in a new tab in the Codex.
- Moved UI buttons related to meta progression and profile into a panel at the bottom of the screen (also available in the escape menu while in a mission).
- Reworked Mad Agent Trait. Now allows you to stack speed each time you suffer enough damage.
- Reworked Flamethrower. Now only applies burning on attack and doesn't have any gear abilities.
- Backpack now allows you to keep items outside your bag.
- Accessories now start at Lvl.3.
- Non-recurring gold rewards from combat are now shown as in-world loot.
- Added Steam/Discord in-game status (Rich Presence).
- Improved player color selection in the HQ.
Balance Changes
- Capped some effects that could stack infinitely.
- Nerfed Spear by removing its Gear Ability.
- Buffed Tommy Gun to account for the fact that most bullets miss.
- Adjusted the difficulty of Italy (it was too easy compared to Egypt & New York).
- Adjusted difficulty based on the number of players (Solo vs 2 or 3 players).
- Adjusted Fortune in certain levels.
- Adjusted incorrect health scaling for Deployable Wall.
- Crozier Staff speed no longer scales with mastery.
- And other little changes we might have forgotten.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed many localization issues
- Fixed issues when using gamepad or Steam Deck
- Fixed Sniper gear ability now correctly gives energy on kill
- Fixed Chicken consumable buff on allies that was not permanent
- Fixed Grappling Hook that was causing a delay before combat prep
- Fixed Scientific Flask that was not making you invincible
- Fixed Necktie description that incorrectly stated it buffs you too, when it only buffs your Buddy
- Fixed Jetpack now correctly stacks with other gadgets, will jump in place if the destination is unreachable, and its effect is better centered
- Fixed Abacus gold refund that was miscalculated across upgrade levels
- Fixed Crozier Staff that was triggering its support heal/buff effect twice
- Fixed various animation issues with the nuclear gadget machine
- Fixed Laser Sword could get you stuck without completing
- Fixed issues with Genius, Rebels and Inventor that weren't triggering their item generation correctly
- Fixed animation issues with all anvils
- Fixed missing Piercing damage icon on allied floating damage numbers
- Fixed being able to manually target a character you don't own
- Fixed a simultaneous team wipeout that always counted as a win instead of a loss
- Fixed missiles that were being reflected off allies instead of only enemies
- Fixed status effects like Burning that weren't being cleared correctly at the end of combat
- Fixed a potential crash in the weapon ability system when abilities triggered chained effects
- Fixed characters that could get stuck and fail to move during combat
- Fixed ability targeting filters that misbehaved against enemies with 0 max HP
- Fixed various issues with the Codex
- Fixed various issues with the Combat Replay
- Fixed tip popups incorrectly appearing during level transitions
- Fixed layering problems in the HUD elements
- Fixed "Sell All" interaction that wasn't handling all resource types correctly
- Fixed incorrect drag-and-drop behavior when grabbing a free item
- Fixed various problems with sound effects
- Fixed stat tooltips rounding errors and incorrect color-coding
- Fixed various problems with level cap and experience bars
- Fixed gifted items that weren't showing the gifting player's name/color
- Fixed floating combat text rendering at the wrong layer
- Fixed shop offers that displayed "x3" instead of "+3" for bonus gold/nuclear
- Fixed text font for input fields (feedback survey, profile name, task force rename)
- Fixed issue with transitions between levels
- Fixed various issues related to music
- All gold sources should now be correctly listed in the gold bag tooltip
- Fixed gadgets that weren't always being properly refunded after a rewind
- Fixed consumables that weren't applying all stat boosts correctly when multiple were granted
- Fixed a potential crash when swapping item families without a matching tier
- Fixed large gold drops slowing down the transition out of combat
- Fixed a potential crash on squad spawn when level spawn points were misconfigured
- Fixed an error/crash when placing a ping
- Fixed a Steam Cloud save problem where it would silently fail when quitting the game
- Fixed being unable to hover/inspect visible characters during combat prep transitions
- And so many more!!!
Thank you, Commanders, and we'll see you on the battlefield!
Over.
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