Backdraft · published
New: Versus Mode
- Versus is now live in the demo: play online against a friend or offline against bots
- Both players start with 80 HP and 3 lives
- Every hero brings their own fixed deck
- Each match is fought in a random world, and you each get different cards from that world's element, so no mirror matches
- A random player goes first; the player going second starts with 10 Block and 1 extra energy
- Lose all your HP with a life to spare and you respawn in place at full health
- After each death you draft 1 of 2 artifacts, and the one you pass goes to your opponent
- First to 3 kills wins
New Playable Hero: Elric
- Elric, the Frozen Prince, is now playable in the Gauntlet alongside Tara
- Both heroes are available in Versus
Gauntlet Changes
- Lives now respawn you mid-combat instead of returning you to the shop with a loss, so you can fight your way back into combats you would have lost
- Flawless Gauntlet runs now earn a gold badge and a dedicated summary stat
Visual & UI
- New hints for shopping, basics, enchants, and kill bonuses
- Full localization in 19 languages, with a language dropdown in Settings and auto-detected defaults
- Lives are shown as hearts on the health bar in both Versus and Gauntlet
- New Kill Cam when you defeat an enemy hero or take one of their lives
- New combat log across the top of the screen shows everything that happened
- Health bar scrolls continuously during multi-hits
- Artifacts animate into your inventory on purchase
- New VFX for respawns, blessings, minion rallies, and more
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Cascade interacting incorrectly with Flow
- Fixed a Backlash win/loss discrepancy
- Fixed duplicate artifacts appearing in the shop
- Fixed gold and HP effects playing when nothing actually changed
- Fixed Escape on the Gauntlet continue prompt risking your run
- Fixed the settings button while the settings menu is open
- Smarter Versus bots
- Fixed Cauldron's Arm animation