The Shattered Isles Playtest · public · first seen
NEW SPELL
- Merl's Force Barrage: spend 1 to 3 actions to fire 1 to 3 force shards that never miss. Pick a target for each shard, and the same target can take more than one.
NEW ACTIONS AND RULES
- Administer First Aid: a hero with a healer's toolkit can stabilize a dying ally standing next to them.
- Sylvian gets Lay on Hands, once per fight.
- Create a Diversion: pick Gesture, Trick or Words.
- Barbarians can take Moment of Clarity.
- Step has its own card on the action bar (Crawl when prone).
- Maneuvers: no prone penalty, Shove weapons add their bonus, and bare-handed Dirty Trick takes its penalty.
- Enemies: archers pick a different hero once two enemies are already on one, whoever sets off Retributive Strike goes after the Champion, and bow skeletons shoot faster.
LOOKS AND FEEL
- Fights get a new picture finish: soft focus at the top and bottom, a gentle glow and a few floating specks. Each can be turned off.
- Heroes duck when they're missed. Misses bounce off a raised shield, and arrows stop at it.
- A potion fed to an ally flies to them and they drink it.
- Dead enemies and the gear they drop fade away after a few seconds.
- Fights open more zoomed in, and meadow grass and flowers are smaller. Holding Alt fades the grass so the squares show through.
- A creature hidden behind a bigger one shows a small map pin with its portrait.
- Heroes no longer turn see-through for a moment in some animations (Arthur's helmet, Crusher getting hit, and more).
- A new Hero Point gets a gold light, and reaction cards get new gold text.
- The gold map-edge line now reaches only a short way into the map.
MENUS AND CONTROLS
- New Choose Your Battle page: a big painting of the map, its story, and the enemies in the corner.
- One Options box on the title, setup and pause screens, with a new Controls tab for rebinding keys.
- New options: "Show every roll" and "Popup words stay".
- Hold Alt (RT on a controller) to see every hero's reach and every enemy's conditions.
- Controller: reach Take All on the loot screen (Y takes everything), pick Heal's 1 to 3 with L1/R1, Step with the d-pad, close tips with B, and change maps with L1/R1.
- Chat log: Shield gets its own card, the log marks which bonus or penalty decided a roll, and tall chat cards no longer vanish.
- Bless stays on your Favourites bar while it's sustained, and the spell picture leaves the pointer once you click.
- Heal and the other 1-to-3-action spells now say "1 to 3". The Skills drawer lists each hero's best rolls first, and dead enemies leave the turn order.
- Quick Start Arthur has Vicious Swing back. Sylvian is now an elf, and the camp screen says who comes with you.
- Some world map places have new names.
FIXES
- The pause menu's Options box now looks right on Steam Deck.
- A saved fight where a hero holds a healer's toolkit now loads.
- Lots of smaller fixes.
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