It's now exactly two weeks after the release of Nowhere Prophet and from where I stand it looks like I managed to deal with all the really big issues. A lot of bugs and problems are fixed (I'm sure there are more so please keep reporting what you find) and now it's time to look beyond simply repairing things and to making the gameplay experience better.



Coming Updates
So, what's foremost on my mind there?

Equipment Powers
A number of the equipment powers are clearly better than the others, skewing equipment and limiting the choices because some are clearly better. I'm looking at the unit spawn and refresh items for example.

During prototyping I tried out a number of variants of the equipment system. One where items had a number of uses in each fight, or a general number of uses per item. A version where power use cost energy (different based on the power) but I removed all these things that to keep the system simple.

Right now though it feels like the Tool Power design space would benefit from having Energy cost added back into it. Costs could be used to balance some of the powers of course, but this would also make a wider variety of powers possible in the future: Stronger powers for higher costs.

In general I think this is something that will improve the play experience, so keep your eyes peeled for that. We're currently discussing the ramifications of this in the discord #workshop-chat channel. Come join us!

Better Follower Filters
This is the quality of life update the game needs the most right now. I'll ultimately have to see what makes the most sense but my current thoughts are:

Remove all filter buttons on the screen directly. Only keep a button that opens up a filter menu and a simple text-box that allows you to search card names and text. The button opens a small overlay menu where you can select your filters:

• Show Wounded/Unwounded
  
• Show Common/Rare/Legendary/Mythic
  
• Show Factions