Salutations, Duelists! As of Tuesday, October 1st, 2024, a new patch has gone live for NeoDuel: Backpack Monsters. To experience the most recent and up to date build of NeoDuel on Steam, make sure you update your game. Here's what to expect in this patch note:

NEW FEATURES AND CONTENT

• New game mode: Casual runs: Last week's patch was the preparational work for introducing a new mode that allows Duelist to try new builds, combos and more without the fear of losing Elo. That mode is now live, called simply Casual mode: you'll be able to start a "normal" run (Ranked) as well as casual one, and eventually give up or continue both or neither. So go wild, try your freakiest builds without fear of losing your coveted rank or medal win streak.

• Galewings: Gain 2 clarity.
• Parryplus: Base shield value lowered from 90 to 70. New Link effect now will be to gain 20 Shield.

• Nikola 7: Base damage has been raised from 27 to 30.
• Voltroost: Based damage range upped from 22-25 to 25-30
• Voltrex: Upped value of link effect from 1 to 2 Max Energy. Based damage range upped from 45-65 to 50-70
• Shock Duck: Lowered energy consumption from 2 to 1.
• Belestra: Upped critical chance damage from 25% to 50%. (technically an Electric/Nature Cosmion)
• Tokmak: Energy cost lowered from 2.5 to 2.
• Shoal: Upped Haste on stun from 3 to 5.

• Ifry: When opponent is below 50% health, Ifry will now increase enemy Burn effect by 30%. That's upped from previously 10%. Cost in shop upped by 2.
• Ifraltus: When opponent is below 50% health, Ifraltus will now increase enemy Burn effect by 50% and heal the same ammount. That's upped from previously 20%.
• Pyrofur: Upped possible links by 1.
• Cinderjaw: Upped possible links by 1.
• Houshan: Cooldown upped from 3.5 to 4.
• Blaze Duck: Energy cost lowered from 3 to 1.5.
• Fire Khepira: Base damage range lowered from 12-14 to 11-12.
• Cinderjaw: Accuracy upped from 85% to 95%

• Isvasal: Cooldown reduced from 6 to 7 seconds.
• Suat: Base damage lowered from 18-24 to 17-23.

• Ziran: Effects on links changed from +1 Spike to +15 Shield.
• Monofloa: Upped possible links by 1.
• Ansham: Start of game effect now inflicting 7 Acid instead of 5.
• Verdentclaw: Upped shield gain from 10 to 15.
• Trifloa: Upped possible links by 1.
• Liskers: Upped cost in shop from 7 to 8
• Sapprion: Link effect upped from 1 to 2 Spike.
• Maestoad: Accuracy upped from 90% to 100%. Base damage upped from 14-16 to 15-19

• Knod: Upped possible links by 1. Accuracy upped from 75% to 90%.
• Pedro: Upped possible links by 1. Base damage range lowered from 6-9 to 6-8.

• Arthur: Reduced cost in shop by 1.
• Aqualith: Upped the number of random buffs per link from 1 to 2.
• Serenius: Based damage range upped from 30-35 to 35-40. Energy cost lowered from 4 to 3.

BUGFIXES AND KNOWN ISSUES

• Cosmion link effect bugs - FIXED : A handful of Cosmions had visual bugs in terms of what their link effects meant. We've done some cleanup on those and made sure they work as intended thanks to our community.
• Verdantclaw's shield gain bug - FIXED : Our beloved starter Nature evolution shield gain didn't used to increase with the Bloodlust upgrade. This should be fixed now according to our testing.
• Steam Deck bugs - KNOWN ISSUE : Steam Deck running on Linux means that lots of those OS bugs are affecting Neoduel "on the go". Expect to see black bar in places where some animations are not loading correctly, and there's small instances of cloud save not working as intended, creating a different instance of your save on the machine. We're currently investigating a fix.
• Achievements - KNOWN ISSUE : We recieved small reports of certain complex achievements like "Fusion Complete" are not triggering upon completion. We're currently investigating a fix but require more data so don't hesitate to open a support ticket on Discord.