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1.0.26

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Areteion 1.0.26

Overview

  • Reworked the Tutorial as the first Solo Journey.
  • Added Board Tilt, Ink Territory Edges, Card Shapes by Movement, Card Edges and landing dust.
  • Added an End Turn hover list, reasons for refused drags, two confirmations, and History damage entries grouped by dealer.
  • Reduced Hera's Spite to 1 card at every strike.

Features

Tutorial

  • Removed the Tutorial mode.
  • Reworked the first Solo Journey as the tutorial:
    • Led by Sisyphus, the Eternal and Pheidippides, the Marathon. The other draft options are shown but cannot be taken.
    • Played at difficulty 0. The ladder opens once it is over.
    • Challenge 1 is guided: a fixed map and deck, Very Easy as the only bet, and rounds 1 to 4 prompted step by step, from the Domus's Might boon to Sisyphus's first move.
    • Hovering a board card in challenge 1 labels the parts of the card and of its tile.
    • Each lesson is shown once, the first time its subject comes up, in any challenge of the journey.
    • Demeter's decree, The Withering, first strikes in challenge 3.

  • Reworked the lessons as short pages at the top centre of the screen. A click anywhere turns the page.
  • Added the Tutorial Log to the match, which reopens the lessons shown so far.
  • Added Tutorial to the main menu, which replays the first journey after a confirmation.
  • The Solo Journey panel now reads "Starts with the tutorial" and carries the new-player ring until the first journey is played.

Board

  • Added Board Tilt: the board leans back, the far rows a little smaller than the near ones. Off by default without graphics acceleration. Settings > Display.
  • Added Ink Territory Edges: territory edges drawn in ink, and a tile that changes hands takes its new holder's colour for a moment. Settings > Display.
  • Added Card Shapes by Movement: cards with Movement have rounded corners, cards without are square. Settings > Display.
  • Added Card Edges: a thin black edge on every board card. Settings > Display.
  • Added landing dust: a card landing on a tile kicks up dust, spray on water, spatter in rain.
  • Exploring a tile now brushes the fog away in strokes.
  • A terrain change is now painted in under the card on the tile.

Match Interface

  • Hovering End Turn now lists the playable hand cards and every board card that can still act, with what it can do.
  • Dropping a card where it cannot go now shows the reason, as clicking does.
  • Dragging a unit that cannot act now shows the reason.
  • A card carried to the board now stays under the cursor instead of pulling toward the square beneath it, and no longer greys out over a square it cannot be placed on.
  • Added a confirmation before attacking an Encounter, Gift of Nature or Fish, whose function is used by clicking it. Settings > Controls > Confirmations.
  • Added a confirmation in round 1 before giving up the Domus's Might boon by spending the Power it needs or taking another boon. Settings > Controls > Confirm Skipping Might in Round 1.
  • Reworked playing an Invocation with no target: the screen dims around a clear area in the middle, which takes the click or the drop. Double-clicking still plays it.
  • Reworked damage entries in History: one entry per hit, on the dealer's side, listing every card hit with its damage.
    • A card the hit destroyed shows a skull instead of its own Destroyed entry, and the dealer shows the Arete the kill paid.
    • In a fight, the attacker's blow and the defender's counter are separate entries.
    • Hovering an entry shows every card in it at full size and highlights them on the board.

  • History dividers now count rounds instead of turns.

Menus

  • Added a confirmation before deleting a deck.

Balance

  • Solo Journey: Hera's Spite (Hera's decree): Cards offered: 1 / 1 / 2 → 1.

Bug Fixes

Cards

  • Fixed Tiresias's Foresight offering Encounters already on the board, itself included.
  • Fixed Encounters used by Heracles, Son of Zeus not counting as used for cards that react to it.
  • Fixed Penelope, the Faithful's Chase Away Suitors moving characters anywhere on the map instead of into their owner's territory, and moving Barbarians.
  • Fixed Winged Sandals being playable with no character in hand.
  • Fixed Kidnapper taking no enemy when there was nothing to discard.
  • Fixed Waters of Lethe discarding the first card in hand instead of a chosen one, and being usable with an empty hand.
  • Fixed Gifts of Nature placed by Nature's Generosity not counting as Gifts of Nature.
  • Fixed Dark Forests showing no art when it deals damage.
  • Fixed Community raising characters' Health by 2 instead of healing 2.

Match

  • Fixed a drawn card staying face down in the hand.
  • Fixed enlarged hand-card previews staying on screen after the card left the hand.
  • Fixed Elysian card art sliding sideways when a hand card is enlarged on hover and when it shrinks back.
  • Fixed a clicked hand card showing no preview on the hovered square with Carry Cards to the Board on.
  • Fixed a hand card dragged back over the hand and released being played on a tile under the hand.
  • Fixed blessing and curse descriptions listing effects of 0 ("loses 0 Attack").
  • Fixed End Turn not lighting up when the only thing left was a Domus boon too expensive to take.
  • Fixed red move and placement squares ignoring Armor from cards next to the new square.
  • Fixed stat changes counting up faster than intended on some Windows PCs.

Modes

  • Fixed Random Deck building only from owned cards.
  • Fixed the game freezing when starting a Random Deck match.
  • Fixed the Solo Journey decree panel naming a strike past the last round.
  • Fixed the Versus Journey Rewards panel in solo challenges not explaining itself on hover, and its Arete totals running into the reward names.
  • Fixed the journey start screens shifting when changing difficulty.
  • Fixed the menu background flickering when opening or leaving a mode.
  • Fixed a Trial of Knowledge being lost when leaving the journey during it.
  • Fixed the Reset Progress hold completing early on some Windows PCs.
  • Fixed Card Reward offers wrapping onto two rows and covering the buttons at some window sizes.
  • Fixed the journey summary averaging Arete over won challenges only.
  • Fixed journeys in the demo giving no notice when the card limit holds back collection cards.
  • Fixed the Random Deck end screen showing no level result.
  • Fixed Total Level on the main menu and in Solo Match counting the Random Deck level, unlike the deck locks.
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