Build 26591869

The Big Polish & Redesign Update

This is our biggest update so far: a full round of polishing and redesign across the whole game, plus new features, a big question overhaul and lots of fixes. Thank you for playing DATUM!

New

Steam Cloud saves: your progress now follows you to any computer.

Award tooltips: hover an award in the main menu to see its name, description and the date you earned it.

Patch notes now show once when the game updates.

Redesign & Polish

Panels now open with a smooth blur over the background.

A new loading screen when entering the main menu.

Smoother, cleaner tooltips everywhere.

A redesigned Round Complete screen showing your score, the target and how much you beat it by.

A redesigned boss offer and relic shop.

A smoother score counter for big numbers.

Card borders no longer break up when cards tilt.

Category Mastery now shows the name of the mastery you're playing.

The newest Hand you've unlocked is already selected when you press Play.

You can click to skip The Hand's dialogue.

First-time tips now fade away on their own.

Deleting a save now asks for confirmation.

Questions

Around 220 brand new Sports questions in English and Greek, with much more variety: rules, tactics, legends, famous moments and lots of Greek football and basketball.

Far fewer repetitive "who won in [year]" questions.

Every Sports question now clearly says which sport it's about.

Fixed answer choices that listed countries that didn't exist at the time.

Removed duplicate questions.

Balance

Difficulty rebalanced: a gentler step from Round 1 to Round 2, and the later cycles of every Hand are now much more challenging.

Card slots now start at 5, and harder Hands no longer take slots away.

Boss deals now pay more when the boss asks for 2 cards.

XP earned has been reduced.

The Datum: you can now spin the same button more than once, wheel multipliers add up, and Shields can combine into big multipliers.

Queen: now gives x2 score for every 20 coins you hold (20 coins = x2, 40 = x4).

Floros: reworked: +250 points on Medium or Hard questions.

Spark (Skill Tree) can now be ranked up to +500 points.

Myself, Maisonneuve and Philosopher now gain +1 per upgrade level, so every upgrade counts.

Twins, Raymond, De Haas, Matlack, Bordley and Malady can no longer be upgraded (their upgrades did nothing).

Fixes

Fixed missing letters in some questions and names (for example Vinícius Júnior).

Fixed the relic shop letting you buy the same relic twice.

Fixed Christopher not boosting Self, and Old Man not boosting Heinrich, Rouvierre and Self.

Fixed Heinrich and Rouvierre showing the wrong names in the score breakdown.

Twins now shows when it has nothing to copy.

Fixed John's tooltip showing the wrong number of questions.

The traveller's footsteps now follow the sound effects volume.

Many other small fixes and improvements.