Hey everyone, This week we have updates to the animations, art, and interface!

Animations

• Book of Stabbing
• Darklings
• Fungi Beasts
• Nemesis
• Orb Walkers
• Shelled Parasite
• Snake Plant
• Snecko
• The Champ
• Time Eater

Rest Site Backgrounds

Content

• Adding Cultist + Chosen encounter into City.
• Adding new Ancient Potion.
• All 3 Egg relics (Molten/Toxic/Frozen) are now reworked. New eggs are Uncommon.
• Frozen Egg: Whenever you add a Power card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
• Molten Egg: Whenever you add an Attack card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
• Toxic Egg: Whenever you add a Skill card to your deck, it is Upgraded.
• Removed Elixir Potion from the game.

Balance

• Awakened One buffed to be on par with other Act 3 bosses:
  • Soul Strike: 6 x 3 -> 6 x 4
  • Slash damage 10 -> 20
  • Echo damage 32 -> 40
  • Tackle: 10 x 2 -> 10 x 3
• All 3 Darklings can never do 8 x 2 dmg at once now.
• Backstab buffed: Cost lowered to 0. Damage decreased to 11.
• Bite is now a Colorless card.
• In the 3 x Sentry elite combat, all of the sentries will no longer attack at once. (Currently broken, working on hotfix)
• Reducing 3x Cultist spawn rate as there's a cultist + chosen encounter now.
• Shiv and J.A.X can no longer spawn from effects like Jack Of All Trades and Transmutation.
• Warcry tweaked so the unupgraded form is buffed (cost 0, draw 1 place 1).

UI and Effects

• Abandoning from the Main Menu gets a confirmation popup. Rather than the hacked label update button.
• Discard/Draw panels can be viewed during screens such as Survivor, Headbutt, and Gambling Chip now.
• Player and monsters now update while hand card select screen is up and the screen is now 50% (lets you see intent!).
• Removing 'Spend all [R].' from all X-cost cards for consistency.
• Skip button is moved from far left to the center for Card Reward screens.

Bug Fixes

• Bouncing Flask no longer loses bounces to dead enemies.
• Darkling AI now utilizes aiRNG.
• Fixed bug where cost X cards do not work with energy gain cards if played too fast.
• Fixed issue where Ascension Multiplier wasn't multiplied with Ascension Level.
• Fixed issue where Regret/Decay/Doubt/Burn fails to exhaust via Blue Candle and Medical Kit.
• Fixed issue where save/load after Neow would make some cards disappear.
• Fixed issue where thorns would secretly affect ModeShift for TheGuardian.
• Vajra flavor text typo fix.

Localization

• Turkish is now available!
• Updates for Chinese (Simplified).
• Updates for Chinese (Traditional).
• Updates for Italian.
• Updates for Japanese.
• Updates for Korean.
• Updates for Russian.

Performance

• Event images are now all JPGs.
• PNG compression for card textures.
• PNG Compression for Level BGs and Title Screen.
• PNG compression for most VFX textures.
• Torch VFX on Act 1 utilizes smaller textures.