The story continues! You can now play lunge cards in all directions, not just orthogonal and diagonal. Unfortunately, this makes past-me a liar because he wrote about his reasons for restricting lunge cards to those directions, but I found a way to make your final lunged position intuitive. Hopefully this makes longer-range lunge cards like Surging Tide more fun to play! In response to feedback, enemies that are about to push or pull you now show a knockback preview on the target party member. Currently only Paper Hydra can ever do this (after it witnesses one of your push/pull cards), but this opens up the design space to future enemies that incorporate knockback into their standard kit. In addition, you can now hover over a specific status icon to get a description of just that icon. No more being overwhelmed by the list of every status a unit has.

Changelog

BUG FIXES

• You can no longer push your ally off a ledge.
• Fixed rare cases where Paper Hydra would copy a lunge card and then appear to lunge to the edge of the universe.
• Fixed rare cases where bridges would draw mid-air.
• Fixed rare cases where special terrain effects would fail to draw.
• Playing cards too fast no longer causes incoming damage previews to be incorrect.
• Fixed issue where damage preview for knockbacks would be incorrect on enemies with exactly 1 stack of Vulnerable/Parry if the knockback card does no direct damage.
• Items for locked memories no longer appear in the Cauldron.

STORY

• Added a new main story conversation.
• Redid a few art assets to illustrate what the Scourge actually looks like.

VISUALS

• Special behaviour status icons now show potency if applicable.
• Buffer stacks being consumed now shows text above the unit.
• The time dilation effect no longer applies when defeating the split copies of the Wildfire Exemplar.
• Items that deal with Overheat/Discard now have tooltips for these effects.

AUDIO

• Made hit sounds punchier.
• Added sound for defeating bosses.
• Updated conversation theme.

GAMEPLAY

• Lunge/Retreat cards are no longer restricted to cardinal and intercardinal directions.
• Lunge/Retreat cards no longer trigger "on move" effects if they didn't actually move you.
• The incoming damage preview now shows when an enemy is about to push/pull a party member.
• Some enemies now prefer to move even when they're already at their ideal range.
• Added more enemy special behaviours.
  • Metallic: Gains 1 Parry when targeted by a Skill.
  • Fibrous: Gains 1 Parry when targeted by a Spell.
  • Noxious: Inflicts 1 Poison when attacked.
  • Spiked: Deals 3 damage when attacked.
  • Abrasive: Inflicts 2 Exposed when attacked.

QUALITY OF LIFE

• You can now hover over a status/behaviour icon above a unit to get an explanation of just that status/behaviour.
• You no longer have to wait for the camera to finish rotating before you can pan again.
• More tutorial messages now highlight the thing they are focusing on.
• Special behaviour tooltips now also explain any status effects mentioned.
• Settings can now be changed by dragging the fill bar.
• Vsync can now be set from 0 to 4 times (formerly just 0 or 1).
• Save files now show story progress.
• There is now a small greeting describing the game on startup.

CARDS

• Butterfly's Joust now has a cooldown of 2 instead of 0, to balance out its direction no longer being restricted.
• Cricket's Dropkick now Exhausts, to balance out its direction no longer being restricted.

ITEMS

• Reworded many item descriptions for clarity.
• Metal: Roborant now only heals for 15 rather than also giving 15 max HP.