Anniversary Update - Patch Notes

It’s wild to think that it has already been a full year since Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers first released! 

In that time we’ve been working hard to make the game the very best it can be, and this update is another big improvement. It adds anniversary celebration cosmetics, a new Tarot deck, 10 new cards, a ton of improved animations, balance change, and changes to the game’s music. 

Thank you to everyone that continues to play and support the game, it means the world and it's why we can keep improving the game. We’re really excited to bring this update to you, so here are the update notes! 

- Mike

1 Year Anniversary!

• The Birthday Card in the Birthday Deck now starts with 1 candle

• Adds 3 party hats and a sparkler accessory to the id card portrait customisation options

• Adds 3 party horns as customisation options for when you have cards in your hand

New Card Back

• Adds a new card back celebrating the launch of The Royal Writ!

New Tarot Deck Option

• Brand new Tarot Deck option from Discord community member Zypter!

  

New Animations

• New animations for dealing damage at the end of a round

• New animations for gaining chips, gaining shields, and healing. These animations should make it much clearer which card was responsible for gaining chips/shields/health

• New animation for foresight

  

New Cards

• Fight Club 

  • On play: Lock

  • On stand: Take 1 damage. Deal 1 damage

• Heart of the Cards

  • On play: Move a card to the top of your draw pile

• Blockbreaker Card

  • On stand: Lock. Add 1 token

  • At the start of next round: take 1 damage per token. Move to foe's side

• Proxy Card

  • At start of encounter: Transform this card into another card

• Licence to Kill

  • On gaining chips: Deal 3 damage

• Card Number 52

  • On spending chips: Deal 5 damage

• Fake ID

  • Exploit: Lose 21 chips. Permanently transform into Your Fake ID

• Your Fake ID

  • Before taking damage: Gain shield equal to incoming damage. Permanently transform into Fake ID. Burn

• Gold Card

  • On playing a Diamond: Steal 10 chips from your foe. Deal 3 damage.

• The Agile Agenda

  • On play: If value is 21 or more, permanently set value to 1

  • On exploit: Lose chips equal to value squared, deal damage equal to value, then permanently set value to next Fibonacci number

• Treasure Vault

  • On gaining chips: Add 1 permanent token per 10 chips gained

  • On winning with max score: If there are 5 or more tokens double all suit effects for this blackjack and remove all tokens

Card Changes

• XIX The Sun

  • On play: Wish for a card from your draw pile, then foresight 1. Deal damage equal to value of revealed card

• Trump Card

  • Is now Handy

  • On stand: Instant blackjack

  • On discard: Shred this card

• Jackpot

  • On play, exploit, or stand: Add a random Jack to your draw pile

• Blood Donor Card

  • Drains health/value from cards that are All Suits At Once as well as cards that are Hearts

• Lightning of the 4th Kingdom

  • Increased damage dealt to 5 (was 3)

• Jimbo

  • Now repeats gaining 4 chips for each played card, rather than gaining 4 chips per played card

• Justice VIII

  • Never “downgrades” a special Jack into a standard King

• Temperance XIV

  • Loses 14 chips on play

• XX Judgment

  • Moves the created card to discard pile instead of draw pile

• King of Gold

  • Added an animation to more clearly show which card has been targeted by it

  • Will not change the suit if the newly played card is All Suits At Once

Suit Changes

• IV The Emperor is now Clubs (was Nothings)

• V The Hierophant is now Hearts (was Nothings)

• XIV Temperance is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• The Emperor IV is now Spades (was Nothings)

• The Hierophant V is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• Temperance XIV is now Diamonds (was Nothings)

• 4 of a Kind is now All Suits (was Nothings)

Deck Changes

• Signature Diamonds:

  • Swaps the 4 of Diamonds for a Negative 4 of Diamonds

Event Changes

• Sofa Sleeper

  • Shows the card you will get from Grab a Card

  • Rebalanced the chances to wake

  • Tweaked layout and art

Foe Balancing (All Difficulty Levels)

• Psychologist

  • Adds a Reverse Card

• CEO 

  • Removes 1x Time Card

• Deity of Hope

  • Removes Death XIII

  • Add a standard copy of every other card in their deck

• Knight of Cardonia

  • Adds a Fight Club

• Cultist

  • Adds a Diamond of 6’s

• Moved Executioner to the Easy dungeon pool

• Moved Cultist to the Hard dungeon pool

Foe Balancing (Triple Down! and Below)

• CEO

  • Adds a Cardecu

• Cardian Angel

  • Adds a 5 of Swords

Foe Balancing (Quadruple Down! and ALL IN!)

• Racer

  • Replaces 3 of Nothings with 4 of a Kind

• Knight of Cardonia

  • Replaces Jack of Spades with Bat Credit Card

  • Adds Foil Bat Credit Card

  • Cardiovascular Exercise is no longer Foil

  • Replaces 5 of Spades with Spade of 5’s

• Floorperson

  • Replaces Queen of Chess with Throwing Card

  • Replaces Diamond in the Rough with Vaccination Card

  • Replace 5 of Cups with Spade of 5’s

• CEO's Deck

  • Foil King of the Hill is no longer Foil

  • Foil XIV Temperance is no longer Foil

  • Time Card is now Foil

  • Removes 1x Fingerprint Card

  • Adds Gold Card

  • Adds Licence to Kill

• Deity of Hope's Deck

  • Replaces 7 of Nothings with Lucky 7

  • Replaces both 7 of Diamonds with Licence to Kill

• Deity of Despair

  • Ace of Spades is no longer Foil

• Zombie's QD+ Deck

  • Adds a Jackhammer of Clubs

• Final Boss Spoiler: Bastard's Deck

  • Adds Foil Blockbreaker

  • Adds The High Priestess II

  • Replaces 10 of Clubs with Gold Card

• The Dealer

  • Deals a Blockbreaker to both sides as part of the softlock prevention phase

Music

• The music has all been rebalanced and remastered, as well as volumes being rebalanced across the board to be more consistent. 

• Adds a new alternate music track for the Final Boss floor! 

           You can swap between Alternate and Original in the settings menu.

• There is now new music that plays after the boss but before the elevator, including a special track for the Fortune Teller.

QoL Improvements

• Event tooltips now better highlight chip and health costs and show tooltips for card descriptions when cards mentioned in event tooltips (e.g. Card Printer giving Misprinted Card)

• Add a restart run button to the pause menu

• Removes holding right thumbstick to restart the run (was causing issues for Steam Deck users using the right trackpad)

• Allow the Stand hotkey (keyboard Enter, gamepad West) to make card selections as well as the Interact hotkey (keyboard E, gamepad South)

• Adds an option to the settings menu that lets you turn on Stretch Pixels to Fit when in fullscreen. For some monitor sizes still will allow the game to take up more of the screen, and gives the pixel persists the option to keep everything on Pixel Perfect mode.

• Localisation and text improvements

Godot 4 Upgrade

We’ve upgraded D&DG from using Godot version 3.6 to using version 4.4. We’ve done this for a few reasons:

• Make console ports easier

• Get updates to the engine as they come out (Godot 3 is being updated much less than Godot 4) means the game is more future proofed

• It’s just such a nicer engine to work in!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where a Glitched Card with a stand effect would enact that effect twice

• Fixed a bug where a foe's King of Gold created by Booster Pack would target the Booster Pack

• Fixed bugs where some on stand effects wouldn’t trigger when the player forced to stand by Rorschach Card, King of Space and Time, VII The Chariot, The Chariot VII, The Hermit IX, Strength XI

• Fixed a bug where King of Space and Time would not trigger its effect if a foe played it, even if they had a Jack in play

• Fixed a bug where very large numbers from ID Card could get hidden under the Score Card

• Fixed Trade Offer to use the correct card back customisation when collecting remaining player cards on event end

• Fixed a bug where when using controller or keyboard the left choice of next encounter or event would sometimes not start hovered

• Fixed a bug where you could softlock during a choice by using the peek button at the wrong time

• Fixed the initial peek button position being different to its position in subsequent choices

• Fixed a bug where changing from mouse/touch to keyboard/controller input could leave things incorrectly hovered