Hive Blight-ed!

major update

Hive Blight · build 24088328 · published

On SteamNotes only · this build shipped before we watched the app

As night falls upon the forest, the hive shivers. Horrible stories have reached the capital, keeping the young awake with tales of terrible creatures and incomprehensible abominations. Tomorrow, the valiant warriors of the kingdom will face the blight once more. No one knows what they will come across, or whether they will be able to prevail...

Hello everyone!

As you might have guessed, this new update comes with a much darker tone. The Fungomancer has brought forth his strongest lieutenants! Three new bosses and their minions are entering the rotation, hopefully adding plenty of variation to your runs.

Without further ado, let me introduce you to these terrible foes!

Judas and the Doom Horns!

Giving Grandmolder some well-deserved rest, the blind behemoth Judas stumbles onto the battlefield. Guided by his minions, the Doom Horns, he will force you to prioritise your targets if you want to overcome him!

Brambleback and Cortex and their minions the Scally Wardens and the Mindflyers!

Allowing the Herald to take a breather from his studies, the dynamic duo of Brambleback and Cortex takes the fight to the hive! Accompanied by their followers, the Scaly Wardens and the Mindflyers, what will you choose to fight first: an impenetrable obstacle and a rain of projectiles, or pesky mages and a wall of thorns?

The Tainted Tyrant and the Sappenergies, Alluring Dryads, Venomites and Trichodermas!

Finally, relieving the Puppeteer from his role as the last line of defence, the roots of the Tainted Tyrant rise to block your way! With its mind-controlled minions, the Sappenergies, the Alluring Dryads, the Venomonites, and the Irritodermas, it spreads a hellish disease throughout the grove. Unfortunately, you will have to endure the symptoms of its corruption if you wish to defeat it!

Alongside these three new bosses, we have worked on many other things, most notably quality-of-life additions for the map, as well as the usual bug fixes and balance changes.

I hope you will love these new additions to the game. You can read the full patch notes below.

Enjoy!

Balance patch:

New content & Changes

  • 3 new bosses bringing the total different bosses to encounter to 6

  • 8 new enemies showing up depending on the boss you will encounter

  • New keyword “Incubation: While this unit has allies, it is untargetable and does not attack. Instead, it triggers the listed effect.”

  • New keyword “Structure: Structure can't be targeted and do not count as a unit”


Some buff to existing bosses

  • Grandmolder: health increased 750 -> 1000.

  • Mycelium Herald: health increased 200 -> 300, attack power gain 4 -> 5, chitin gain 20 -> 25

  • Crimson Puppeteer: attack speed 1 -> 1,2

Trinket Buffs

  • Toxic love heal: 4 -> 5

Trinket Nerfs

  • Finale: charm inflicted 2 -> 1. Held limit 1 -> 2.

Equipment Buffs

  • Stone shield: Chitin gains 60 -> 100. Health gain 60 -> 50

  • Haze Cloak: Ambush gain 10 -> 14

  • Bramble Suspenders: damage inflicted 2 -> 3

  • Rotten food: health gained 60 -> 70

Equipment Nerfs

  • Walnut Banjo: Attack power gained 3 -> 2

Unit Nerfs

  • Ivo: Overheat broken gain 1 -> 2

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issue where unit wouldn’t drop if you don’t place them exactly in the middle of the tile

  • Unit card don’t show anymore during versus screen

  • Fixed a bug where you could select multiple reward at the same time

  • Fixed nectar and elixir particle not going over top bar UI

  • Fixed some drag and drop issue when you left and right click at the same time

  • Improved general performance for players with high resolution screens

Visuals and Quality of Life 

  • You can now show the map during fight or when selecting reward from fight.

  • You can now decide to not engage in any fight at Ominous Aura event

  • You can now train at Reinforcing party and Rallying Banner as long as you have enough units for your current unit limit.

  • Static boss can’t be pushed anymore

  • Added progression stats on achievements

  • Fixed some translation for french, japanese and chinese

  • You can now see your advancement in the run on the map