Hey Troopers! We've just gone live with the weekly update! This one covers most of the remaining bugs that came out of the Steam Early Access launch so next update should have more content additions! Here are the release notes:
The power immunity bug was a big one! It's been around for a while and was hard to track down, but Justin located this week thanks to a clever bug report on Discord! (nerd info: It involved cards that end combat early. Power Immunity was turning itself on/off via script onCombatStart and onCombatEnd which was FINE. But it was checking if combat was active... if you ended combat early, it wouldn't be... doh!) We also addressed the most common complaints regarding turn 1 difficulty. At its core, Doomtrooper is a game about SQUADS OF WARRIORS fighting OTHER SQUADS! This is why the game has rules like Cardinals Gift (to ensure you get a Warrior in your first hand) and Sabotage (to punish your opponent for trying unsuccessfully to build a control deck/forgetting enough warriors) and not allowing attacks during turn 1 of the game. So certain cards were being exploited during turn one to prevent your opponent from being able to play a card on his first turn giving the person who goes first an EXTREME advantage. We have added a new keyword SUSPEND to some cards which means "Cannot be played during turn 1". here are the cards!
We will continue to make balance updates in favor of two things: 1) Keep the game about combat between warriors, something classic Doomtrooper failed at long term due to a few broken cards) 2) Balance the rarities so that ULTRA RARE cards like Cardinal Dominic aren't always better than Common cards like Mortificator. UR rarity cards should be great and more unique, but there should always be a place for Common/Uncommon strategies as much as possible. We are aware that's not the case as the people working on balancing our sets are no longer active with the project so Justin/Steve will be stepping up again with community support to continue the work! Big thanks to our friend Adam who was able to help while Justin was drowning in bug fixes this week and add some new cards to the game!
it's already looking like Expedite is an OP fan favorite so we'll be watching! Last but not least here's a sneak preview of the season rewards from this month of ranked play! You still have until the last day of the month to rise in the ranks and earn these! They won't return for at least 6 months so if you're a fan of Mishima get out there and battle! We're on Discord if you need any help or want to challenge someone directly (we have Discord integration built in!)
Thanks guys and we'll update you again next week! - justin and the doomtrooper team