Hey there! Were entering the home stretch on development for Superstar Strategy, and to celebrate, heres a new patch before we go live into Steam Next Fest! Check out the changes below, and remember to https://store.steampowered.com/app/1756730/Superstar_Strategy?snr=2_9_100000_\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">play the demo ! This will be the last major demo update before release. Stay tuned for an announcement on when you can expect to play the FULL RELEASE later this year!

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New Features

• New Villager portraits. Adjusted how villager portraits are displayed to reduce duplicate portraits being shown in the same mission.

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• New animations and polish for various skills.

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• New contextual info when selecting invalid units in-game.

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• Progress indicator for Campaign Progress in the Main Menu.

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Balance Changes

Player Units

• Rogue

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• Assassinate command skill now a Free Action.

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NPCs

• Units that lay traps now prioritize placing traps under unexhausted units before placing them on top of entities or random spaces.

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• Archers

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• No longer cast Poison Arrow.

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• Are now less likely to consistently place traps when they could have attacked an enemy in range.

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Misc

• Recruitable Units should always start with Player Statlines and never NPC statlines

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Rework + Polish

• Adjusted intro screen animation.

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• Adjustments to the HUD to make it less busy. Objectives are now shown as icons next to the Round counter window in the top-left. You can re-enable the expanded view in the Options menu.

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• Rewrite the particle system to a custom implementation to improve performance.

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• Redrew some unit portraits and made adjustments to others.

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• Adjusted display of Rogue Steal and Trade menus to make it more obvious whats being given/taken.

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• Added new particle effects during Combat to show healing effects (e.g. with Mettle, Drain, Guillotine or Execute).

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• Replaced Lucky Clover item with Lucky Die. This is just an aesthetic change.

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• Adjusted visuals of Loading Screens, System prompts and Start of Round notifications.

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Quality of Life Changes

• Adjusted how the rotary menu behaves when using a thumbstick to reduce risk of double-moving or counter-moving, causing the menu controls to feel finnicky.

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• Improved performance of just about every system in the game.

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• Allow the ability to pause and exit a mission from the drafting screen.

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• Added hazard notifications when using a Launchpad or Booster to land on a trap tile when opening the action menu.

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Bugfixes

• Far too many to list out here, but please report any new ones you find!

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Misc

• Renamed Context menu to Interact

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• Adjusted font and display of New Round and Victory transition banners.

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