Update #11 - new cards, optimisation and bugfixes

Hey there everyone!

We've wanted to increase the variety in the four first carriages, while also giving them more playstyles / synergies to focus on, with this update the Artillery, Protector, Minigun and Harpoon carriages are getting new base cards! Some address viability, synergies, strategies while others make for a fresh experience with a given carriage.

The new cards have been in testing for a bit, it's also an update we've been preparing in the background in conjunction with other parts of the game, some of which have already been released alongside others that are still being worked on. Other than the cards this update brings bugfixes and further optimisations aimed at letting the GPU breathe a little more.

New cards

• Artillery

  • Heavy ordnance

    • Deal 2 damage to target.

  • Junk cannon

    • Pick 1 card to exhaust. Deal 2 damage to target.

  • Flamer

    • Apply Burn to all targets in range.

• Protector

  • Consolation shield

    • Give 1 shield to target for each health point missing and remove negative effects.

  • Patchwork shield

    • Discard 1 card. Add 1 "PATCH" card into hand. Its power is equal to the AP cost of the exhausted card.

  • Patch

    • Give ? shield to target.

  • Mirror sheen

    • Flip the intent of all targets in the area if they have shield.

• Minigun

  • Opening salvo

    • Deal 1 damage to target and apply destabilize.

  • Tungsten shot

    • Deal 1 shield ignoring damage to target. deal an additional 1 damage if the target has shield.

  • Double tap

    • Deal 1 damage to target if that damage would destroy it.

• Harpoon

  • Needler

    • Deal 1 damage to target.

  • Terminal velocity

    • Deal 1 damage per tile between the carriage and the target.

Note: Harpoon's "Terminal Velocity" makes use of grid cell distance as its damage modifier which can result in some pretty surprising results

Changelog

• added a total of 12 new cards for the base carriages (Artillery, Protector, Minigun, Harpoon)

• optimized the rendering of the 3d line that's used for:

  • 3d card target

  • intent visualisations

  • movement visualisations

• improved the illustration for the "Glittering Leaf", giving it more contrast

• all unit cards in the starting screen now show up in a single line

• changed "Choo Choo"'s description to better align with what it does

• fixed YOPO adding exhaust to friendly unit cards

• fixed a softlock caused by a double train ram where heavy units where involved

• reverted a previous fix for edge case wrong modification messages on cards (it created more issues than it fixed)

• slightly tweaked the borders of panels that appear when a card is bought

• fixed random encounter rewards not correctly checking whether they can be seen / used

• fixed reported new random encounter rewards that had issues in their execution

• fortress shield no longer disappears after "turn reset"

• "reset turn" no longer incorrectly wipes temporary effects from cards

• fixed unit spawn sometimes colliding with wave indicators

• fixed sticky bomb's duration label always resetting to 3, regardless of its actual duration amount

• fixed a crash related to playing a locomotive card that would result in the destruction of the locomotive

(Harpoon's new full set of cards.)

(Artillery's new "Junk cannon" card.)

(Minigun's "Opening salvo", ready to deal surprise damage to enemy units on turn start.)

(One of the new cards available when choosing a carriage upgrade.)

That's it for this one, have fun playing!

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