Its been quite a bit! I will never get over how much love people have shown to this small game. To everyone who tried the game, to everyone who recommended the game, to everyone who made a youtube video, to everyone who left a review, to everyone who competed in the rankings for a high score: Thank you so, so very much. This game was made to share my passion for deck builders, card games and silly references. Maybe too many references, but cant deny there is passion behind them. Now, for todays topic, the big update! 1.4 grew from a couple of quality of life fixes to much, much more.

General Changes:

• Added a new unlockable: Specializations! 51 of them, to be precise. These are perks you can grab before the run even starts, all of them with an upside and a downside, changing how the run goes.
• Ark points got turned into Gold, a currency you can get in game by defeating bosses! And as the Ark Points before, by getting achievements.
• All basic outfits are unlocked by default.
• Added 11 new fighters to the rivals pool.
• A very basic tutorial was added for new players.
• Critical projectiles now have a different effect.
• Reworked the main menu.
• And the character creator.
• Several UI changes, actually.
• Added outlines to characters.

Balance:

• Buffed The Hunt is on.

Bugfixes:

• Added a perk that was missing from Magical Girl: Creative Mind.
• Trial of Wounds no longer allows you to remove wounds when removing cards.
• Now when a player leaves the name field empty it actually changes to Protagonist.

General Changes:

• Reworked pretty much all projectiles in the game. For real.
• The number of unique projectiles went from 59 to 203.

Balance Change:

• Getting negative HP due to Fire, Poison or Antihero now immediately triggers game over for both the protagonist and the rival.

Bugfixing:

• Fixed a bug where the Grow perk will give armor as well.
• Fixed a bug about the Grow, Overpowering and Keikaku perk not triggering due to gaining HP with another perk (Example: Trophy Collector).
• Capped the amount of fused cards into one during Endless Mode using the Keeper of Secrets backstory. This is because there is an edge case that could end up crashing the game.
• Updated Breaking the Limit description to better reflect how it works,
• Fixed negative HP breaking into 2 lines,
• Some typos.

General Changes:

• New Archetype: Undead!
• 20 new cards.
• 10 new perks.
• New Undead Outfit.
• 6 new fighters.

Balance:

• Azalea is now an Undead fighter as well.
• 3 other fighters were modified.

Performance:

• Slight improvement in the performance of "Explore the Ark" events.

• The Codex now has a section to check the Cards in game.
• Added 3 new Trials: Trial of the Betrayer, Trial of the Underdog and Trial of Reincarnation.
• Added a Katana to the Slash Animation of some cards.
• Adjusted all fighting Animations.
• Inspecting cards now can be done with "Right Click".
• You can Inspect Reward Cards.
• Clicking on a card now creates a glow.

General Changes:

• New Backstory: Hopeless Romantic!
• New lines for the Hopeless Romantic encounters.
• Now you can check the global Leaderboards in the game!
• You can inspect cards during fights.
• Now there is a slight delay to the tooltip when you check a keyword.
• General UI Improvements.

Balance Changes:

• The "True Captain" achievement gives more Ark Points.

General Changes

• The regular Card tooltip is no more. Now if you hover a keyword you'll get description.
• You can also hover Statuses and Perks the same way.
• Added 8 new rivals.
• Card Order visuals are improved.
• New Achievement: "One Shot".
• Changed the Statuses' popup.

Balance:

• Trial of Combat: Changed "Double rival's attacks" to "+1 attack to all rival's cards".

Bugfixing:

• Forged by the Gods now gives +2 Power, as the description said, instead of +1.
• Characters no longer can be hurt or heal after the game is over.
• The Archdruid's Headwear is fixed.
• Lambda no longer overalps with her Codex entry.
• Typos.

Performance:

• Explore the Ark no longer causes some small performance issues.

General Changes:

• New Archetype: Magical Girl!
• 20 new cards.
• 10 new perks.
• New Status Effect: Star!
• Fusing cards now generate new names for the card.
• Changed Agent Throne song.

Balance:

• Keiko now has Magical Girl cards along with Electric cards.
• Keiko "Explore the Ark" event can give you Magical Girl cards.
• Mysterious Past was buffed by limiting the pool of cards it can give you.

Bugfixing:

• Chaos orb can no longer be a negative number.
• Clarified in game how double power buff is applied.

General Changes:

• Reworked the Paladin Archetype. Now the Avatar State is no longer divided into Red, Green and Blue. Instead is just one that gains abilities
• The Captain of the Ark now is less random, and should be a greater challenge.
• Added one new Outfit to unlock: The Survivor
• Added 5 new Idle Poses to the character creation
• Added 2 accesories
• Added 2 faces
• Added 1 hairstyle
• Change how the default pop ups look like in game

Balance:

• Toying with the Space Continuum: At the start of the fight add 3 Abnormalities to your rival's deck.
• Avatar of Black: Getting hurt no longer removes the Avatar state.
• Miracle: When you're the Avatar, gain twice as much critical charge.
• Blessed Armor: When you're the Avatar, gain twice the armor.
• Prophecy: When you're the Avatar, gain twice the amount of Power.
• Changed Ascension, Aura of Determinaiton, Aura of Healing, Aura of Light, Channel Divinity, Divine Protection, Martyr and Sacred Relic.

Performance:

• Huge performance boost to cards like "Gamble"

Bugfixing:

• Trial of the Punished now works as intended
• Solved a bug that didn't allow to close deck inspection if you had 3 card selected during a fight

General Changes

• Added "Ultimate Mode". An alternative to Regular and Endless runs. It's like a regular run but with the trials of Endless Mode, and even more of them than usual. Consider it the Ultimate Challenge. (Note: If you can't find Ultimate Mode it's because it requires at least 10 victories or reaching rank 20 in Endless Mode)
• Added 15 new Ultimate Achievements!
• Changed the visuals for Backstories, added feedback if you had already beaten the game with that backstory.
• Updated the Credits

Balance:

• Endless Runs now require you to at least beat the game once before unlocking.

Bugfixing:

• The game no longer skips getting a Perk on the second fight if you reload the game at the wrong time.
• Armored Deck no longer has the icon of Healthy Deck
• Fixed several typos.

General Changes:

• Added Lambda to the game! The last boss to complete the roster
• Added 4 new Perks for the Boss that can be obtained with Mutant or Exploring the Ark
• Added a new outfit to unlock
• Added a new achievement
• Added a special Lambda card
• Added a Codex Entry
• Updated Credits
• Added borders to the main screen for some resolutions
• Removed the Beta category for Endless Run

Bugfixes:

• Wealthy now activates at 15, not only when you have more than 15 gold
• Corrected the description of the "True Captain" achievement
• Dr. Weird appearance was corrected

General Changes

• Added 4 new cards to the Universal Pool
• Added 6 new trials for Endless Mode
• Added 7 new fighters
• Improved the UI in several places
• Replaced the Perk Glow
• Updated the How To Play

Balance

• Buffed Punch and Feint
• Reduced the number of victories needed for unlocking the Secret Boss Codex

Bugfix

• Fixed a bug that auto unlocked the Nightmare backstory

General Update

• Added the final Backstory before 1.0: The Underdog! With the Underdog a whole new type of challange
• Added a Secret Boss at the end of the Underdog run!
• Added 20 new cards for the Secret Boss
• Added 4 Achievements
• Added a new codex entry for the Secret Boss
• Added a new Outfit to unlock
• Added a new Hairstyle and Accessory to the character creator
• Added backgrounds to the archetype buttons
• Created a new button to replace some of the placeholder ones
• General adjustments to the end game screen
• Adjusted the visuals for the Perk Rewards

Bugfixed

• Awaken the Void and Shadow Real cannot be level up anymore

General Changes

• Added 6 new Nightmare Cards
• Changed the "End Game Screen"
• Improved the Perk Pop Up during the fight
• Added a small plus sign that shows that you have more perks than the ones displayed

Balance:

• Touch the Untouchable is now a Rare card instead of an Ex Card

Bugfixing

• Trial perks no longer just look white
• Fixed several typos
• Adjusted the background during Character Creation
• Critical Bar is no longer covered by the character

General Changes

• Added a new Backstory: Nightmare
• Added the Nightmare Cards!
• Added an unlockable headwear: The Pumpking
• Added Horns as a common accessory
• Added 2 new Achievements
• Changed the way Perks are displayed in game
• Added a button to check perks in the hub
• Now you can rename your main character
• The main menu is animated

Bugfixes

• Fixed scroll sensitivity for the backstory selection
• Perks no longer overflow over armor on the UI when you have too many

General Changes

• Added a new Archetype: Paladin!
• Added the "Avatar" system
• Added 20 new cards
• Added 10 new perks
• Added 4 new fighters to the game

Balance Changes

• The Swang deck was adapted to involve Paladin's cards
• Way of the Flaming fist power was changed, and the attacks lowered from 10 to 7

Bugfixing

• Fixed a bug where you could get lower level cards during Endless Mode as rewards
• Fixed a problem with the "Expand your Horizons" event that used to force people to reload the game

General Changes

• Added 10 Boss Cards. You can see those cards used by the respective bosses.
• The new boss cards are obtainable through the "Explore the Ark" event.
• The background in Endless mode will randomly change after a certain rank
• Added a new trial: Trial of the End

Balance Changes

• Boarding Pirate power was reduced

Bugfixes

• Fixed "I've had worse" not loading correctly
• Fixed the Mech disappearing with the character
• "Battle Scars" wasn't calculating the HP correctly, causing negative HP when removing the wounds
• "Iron Price" now triggers when you have 10 gold instead of when you have more than 10
• Text of Skip Trial now actually says Skip Trial
• Corrected the description of the Trial of Unity

General Changes:

• Added online leaderboards for Endless Mode and Regular Runs! Currently they're not displayed in the game but you can check them over here!
• The online Leaderboards for Endless Mode track how high your rank is in each Backstory and on Regular Runs you get to compete for the fastest run on the "Speedrun Leaderboard".
• Now the Endless records are tracked depending on the Backstory instead of globally
• Added the Paladin and Magical Girl outfits to unlock!
• Added 9 new Trials to the Endless Mode
• Added 3 Achievements to Endless Mode

Balance:

• If you play with the Keeper of Secrets backstory you get harder trials in Endless Mode.
• "Trial of the Thief" now takes longer to show up

Bugfixes:

• Solved a bug that made it impossible to continue playing the Endless Mode if you had all the trials (Congrats on the people who managed to get that far!)
• The "Forbidden Powers" perk was not loaded correctly between games. That is fixed now.
• "Trial of Unity" description was updated to reflect it's actual effect
• Changed how perks are displayed to avoid covering the UI if you have way too many of them.

Have you ever played Tournament Ark and thought: "I wish I could play more than 20 fights per run"? Well, I have great news for you! Introducing Endless Run, where now you can play for as long as you can survive! The difficulty will keep on rising to insane levels. If you ever wanted to test how far your multi-fusion build can get you, this is the time!

General Changes

• Added the Endless Run Mode
• Added 20+ Trials, basically additional challenges that you get during Endless Run
• Added a system that keeps track of the rank you reach
• Added Visual Feedback to hovering over options

Balance

• The effect of the Unleashed perk is now: "Each time you level up a card, level it up once more."

Bug Fixes

• Rush and Spores are now marked as "Max Level"
• Boss Perks were removed from the usual Mech Pool
• Fixed typos

General Changes:

• Added a new boss to the game: Agent Thorne
• Added 4 new Perks for the new boss: Life Support, Steel Valkyria, Secondary Weapon, Top Ranking
• Added a new Codex Entry for Agent Thorne
• Added a new Achievement
• Added a new outfit that you can unlock after defeating the agent 20 times

Balance:

• Cold Blooded base power got reduced
• Cold Winds is no longer defensive, has higher base power, applies effect on hurting and has no power against Green
• Cryogenic Cleansing no longer has power, is no longer defensive, it's consumable and heals 200% more
• Diamond Dust power was increased
• Emergency Freeze is no longer consumable, but it's Last Resort
• Ice Barrier Power was increased
• Sub Zero Power was increased

General Changes

• Added a new status: Haste! The next move will have as many additional attacks as you have Haste charges. After that you lose all Haste charges.
• Added a new Universal Card: Rush. This card give you the Haste status.
• Added a Difficulty rating to each archetype. This is mostly for new players to know how complex is to play each Archetype.
• Added 2 new Perks for the Mech Archetype: Multitask and Showtime
• Changed how "Ejecting from a Mech" works. Now it will keep your accumulated MK, while only the Mech getting destroyed will reset it.
• Spawned cards now spawn in the discard pile instead of the deck (For example Relentless).

Balance Changes

• Breakthrough: Higher Critical Charge, now if you don't have a Mech gives you +2 Power Charges.
• Combine Robots: Base Power increased.
• Flying Module: Less Critical Charge, more Base Power.
• Get into the Robot: If you're already inside a Mech it advances the MK of your Mech. Now it has a base Power higher than 0.
• Laser Sword: Loses triple damage on crit. Now if you deal damage with this card it gives you 1 Haste charge.
• Missile Shower: Rarity reduced, now is more common.
• Transfer Energy to Shields: Rarity increased, now is more uncommon.
• Repropose Scrap: Power reduced to 0. Now if you're Outside a Mech it summons a Mech instead.
• The Ranger now haves only 1 healing potion in his deck.

Bugfixing

• The default victory and defeat animation no longer plays if you're inside a Mech.
• The Living Ice card that was removed in the previous patches no longer can randomly show up.

General Changes

• Added a new Archetype: Mech Pilot!
• Added an actual Mech into the game to Pilot
• Added 20 new cards
• Added 9 new Perks
• Added 4 fighters to the game

Balance Changes

• Buffed the "Embrace Change" event. Now it gives you higher level cards of any rarity
• Buffed No Pain No Gain: From giving 100HP to 200HP
• Pirate King no longer can be obtained randomly

Bugfixing

• Moved the Veteran Effect so it happens after the draft
• Fixed "Always Prepared" triggering when it shouldn't
• "Green Man" had an incorrect deck

General Changes

• Added a new boss to the game: The Archdruid.
• Along with the new boss, new unlockable outfits, new achievements, new codex entries and a new "Explore the Ark" event.
• Replaced the song for Andrea's Bossfight

Performance

• Made the projectiles more performant
• IMPORTANT: Had to increase the size of the main texture for the characters. If you feel the game's performance has dropped significantly, please contact me about it.

Balance

• You can no longer get the "True Neutral" perk when exploring the Ark (due to backfiring in most builds).

Bugfixing

• Removed the duplicated "Fire" outfit from the Unlockable Outfits

General Changes

• Added a Draft System. Now you can draft the initial cards instead of having the default starting deck. (NOTE: This option unlocks after you win the game the first time. There is a toggle during Character Creation)
• Reworked how DOOM works, now it gets increased at the start of each turn, it can stack, is no longer irresistible using Hidden or resist perks, and it triggers when the DOOM reaches 10 or more, instead of when going to zero.
• Now you can randomize your Outfit if you're in the Customize Outfit tab, and randomizing the body doesn't overwrite the outfit anymore.

Balance

• Reduced the number of turns before the fight is over to 20.
• Chances have been adjusted. Now you will have at least 6 Fusion events per run. That way, Keeper of Secrets is less unreliable, for example.

Bugfixing

• Fixed a bug where you could get twice the same Boss Perk when exploring the Ark.
• Reflected attacks with On Dealing Damage effects now apply the effect correctly.
• Grammar corrections all around.

General Changes

• Added a new Archetype: Nature
• Added 20 new cards
• Added 11 new Perks
• Added 6 new fighters to the game
• Added new projectiles
• Defeats now don't send you immediately to the menu

Balance Changes

• Changed the starting deck for the Pirate Archetype

Bugfixing

• Fixed a bug that didn't mark certain cards as Max Level even if they were
• Grammar correction of several cards and perks

Performance

• Improved the loading of assets a bit during the fight

General Changes

• Added the backstory: The Ultimate Warrior!
• Now you can check the cards left in your deck and discard zone by clicking on them.
• Changed the look of the Arena and the Event Area!
• Now there is a crowd in the Arena, unless you're in Potato Mode they cheer and move!
• Added the passive: I am the Night.
• Removed the extra step between winning and the reward screen.
• Adjusted the end game screen and play button.
• Updated the look of several fighters.

Balance

• Mutant got buffed: Now you can also get Boss Perks as rewards!

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where the boss Perks gained by "Exploring the Ark" would not load after leaving the game.
• Fixed a bug where some tooltips will show in the reward screen.

General Changes

• Added an option to Unlock new Outfits to use on the character creator!
• Added the "Ark Points" system that you get by completing achievements (You'll bet them retroactivly for the ones you already have)
• Added 6 unique new outfits to the game!
• Added 5 new fighters to the roster and adjusted old ones.
• Adjusted the position of the player's cards in hand.
• Implemented several changes to give support to different screens.
• Changed the background of the Character Creator and the "View Rivals" screen.
• Reduced the delay after beating a rival and the end screen.
• Some animations has been speeded up.

Bug Fixing

• Fixed a bug where fused cards would display the incorrect art

General Changes

• Added the "Antihero" backstory! Unlocking by finishing the game with the "Veteran" backstory.
• Added 2 new Achievements.
• Changed the look of the cards.
• Added a visual drawing and discarding system.
• Consumable cards now visually disintegrate instead of going to the discard zone.
• Improved text quality of the Deck UI.
• "Passives" are now called "Perks".
• Replaced the icon of 5 passives.
• Changed the logo of the game!
• Added a small animation to the main menu.

Balance

• The "Veteran" backstory now gives 2 random passives instead of 1, and 3 random wounds intead of 1.
• The "Hero" backstory got buffed, now it gives +100HP instead of +50HP.
• The Body Building event now gives 25HP instead of 10HP
• Armor events now give 15 armor instead of 10.
• The "Fire Bomb" card is slightly less powerful, but now is "Unavoidable".

Performance

• Reduced the render texture scale of the lights, it could help some users to run the game with those on.

Hi everyone! It has been a couple of weeks without updates but I'm getting back to it. Big changes are coming! Also I'm working on adding a new Archetype to the game, with all that implies.

General Changes

• Added a new way of customizing your characters' outfits, allowing you more options.
• Now, whenever you defeat a boss 20 times, you unlock their outfits!
• Added the final "Main Menu" illustration! Now everyone can have a better idea of what the Ark looks like.
• When fusing "Apply Status" cards now the text with the amount of charges will stack instead of repeating the same lines multiple times.
• Added a new event to the Pool: Body-Building.
• Added 3 fighters to the roster.
• Adjusted the Vs. Screen.

Balance

• The "Maintenance" passive no longer removes Doom charges, since it tended to be more a detriment than a help.
• Removed "Icy Protection" and "Profit" from the pool of passives you can get in the "Explore the Ark" event.
• Fusing 2 cards of the same name will no longer level up the cards. This will be a soft nerf for fusing two "Block" cards, for example.

Bugfixing

• Fixed abnormalities in how copying the rival's status works (For example, the "We're not so different" card).
• Fixed a couple of lines of dialogue.
• Corrected some weirness on how the Audio settings worked.

Performance

• Improved the performance of fusing cards.
• The way Cold charges work is not slightly more performant.

• Added a new boss: The Herald of Winter.
• Added a Codex Entry for the new boss.
• Added new passives for the new Boss.
• Added a new encounter in the Explore the Ark event.
• Added a way to save and load your character appereance, even between runs.
• Changed the main song of the game and added a new one for the boss.
• Added new Passive Icons for Cursed Mark, Heavy Strike and Library of Knowledge.

General Changes

• Modified the "VS" screen right before the fight to display the rival's passives.
• Added a "View Rivals" button next to "Check Cards" for the player to see which rival comes next.

Balance changes

• Limited the card pool of "Exploring the Ark" to only generally useful cards. Now it always gives a higher level card.
• Now you gain Critical Charge per attack instead of just once per clash.

Bugfixes

• The "Iron Muscles" passive now actually works.
• Ambush no longer removes your own armor.

General Changes

• Added several new passives to the game: Skillful, Kata, Iron Muscles, Max Performance, Focused Mind, No Pain No Gain, Raising the Stakes, Draining Power, Energy Sink, Sellsword, Adrenaline Rush, All-Rounder, Bursting Flame, Perpetual Armor, Spiked Armor, Time Heals all Wounds, True Neutral, Maintenance, Mana Absorption, Thinking with Portals, Not Even my Final Form, No Mercy, I am the Night, Hypercharged and The Bet.
• Added art for 55 passives!
• Added feedback to the shuffle.

Balance:

• Weaken now reduces power by 50% instead of 25%, and "Secret Weakness" reduce it by 100%.
• All the passive pools of all the archetypes were expanded.
• Various buffs were applied to Pirate's passives.
• Nerfed "Battle Scars" from giving 50Hp to 30HP per wound.
• Buffed Flurry (Power reduction is now 40% instead of 50%).

Bugfixes:

• Fixed several complications with the "I've had Worst" passsive (Sorry!).
• Fixed a bug where fusing 2 consumable cards would result in the fused card losing the Consumable tag after a fight.
• Fixed some scenarios where you could have "0" charges of a status effect and still show visually.
• Fixed a very awkward bug where the new cards created by "Reckless" were hard to select.
• Added fix to prevent potential crashes when you beat a Boss.
• Added the missing icon from "Plot Armor".
• Fixed Guard Break and Breaking Point removing your own armor instead of your rival's.

General Changes

• Reworked and added art to all the cards in the Edgelord Archetype. With this, all the archetypes are up to date!
• Added a new card for the Edgelord archetype: "Uncontrollable Power"
• Replaced all the art for wounds.
• Added 3 new Wound cards: Aftershock, Back pain and Mortal Blow.
• Added art for 15 passives.
• Added feedback on how much hypothetical power a card will have during the clash of the cards with Power altering effects.

Balance Changes

• All the wound cards now have a base power higher than 0.
• "Not just a scratch" now hurts the user by 5, in addition to the previous effect.
• The "I've worst" passive now applies the wound effects on the rival instead of on the user.
• Changed the starter deck for Edgelord.
• Wounds are no longer Fusion candidates.
• The "Cruel" passive was added to the Edgelord's passive pool.
• Change the rarity of several Edgelord's cards.

Bugfix

• Fixed bugs related to fusions losing some of their effects under special circumstances.

General Changes

• Added a Codex with all the characters! You unlock the entries by defeating them multiple times (Takes at least one new victory over a rival to show in the menu).
• Added the corresponding achievements for defeating each rival 20 times.
• Added a new state "During Clash" that executes right before the clash happens, but after most effects (Except the post-clash ones). They refer almost always to damage modifying effects, allowing different tactics and to have a better feedback on how the card was affected.
• When there is a "power-shift" during a clash now there is a feedback telling you exactly how much of a difference.
• "Defensive" cards no longer can get a "Lifesteal", "Decisive" or "Ignore Armor" tag.

Balance

• "Hacking" lose the "Defensive" tag and some of its base Power. The effect is now post-clash.
• Adjusted several rarities on the Technomancer Cards.
• Changed the starting cards for the Technomancer deck.

Bugfix

• Fixed a significant bug where the card "Relentless" would spawn unusable versions of itself.
• Music will no longer wait until the character is done talking to play.

General Changes

• Reworked the Technomancer archetype, replacing all the placeholder art and rebalancing the cards
• Created the "Last Resort" tag and add it to some of the cards.
• Changed the starting deck of Techomancer and some of the rarities
• Adjusted the general speed of the game
• Introduced a "Fast Mode" for people who feel the game goes too slow with the new animations. You can activate it in the Options menu!
• Dodging now literally dodges, the projectile no longer collides if you're doing it
• Guard animation activates if you hit armor without damaging the character
• Added a border to the HP UI

Balance

• One Punch power was slightly reduced, it no longer gives "3 Doom", instead it has the tag "Last Effort"
• Nuclear Energy gives 1 Poison charge instead of 3 at the start of the fight

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that caused lifesteal to fail introduced during the last update

This one was a long time coming, but I finally manage to redo how the clashing cards works. Ideally this will make much clearer the inner workings of the game with all the extra feedback!

General Changes:

• Reworked the clash System: Now the cards throw literal projectiles representing the attacks
• Introduced feedback on when the cards execute their abilities
• Changed the background and how lights work on it
• Added new art for the projectile
• Changed how the cards are displayed in the hand
• Delayed until the end of dialogues the start of the game so you don't miss the first effects/passives
• Fixed some typos

Balance Changes:

• Multi-attacks are intercepted by single attacks, changing their whole dynamic.
• Fire-Whip effect changed, now instead of applying 2 fire when dealing damage it applies 5 if you have a Critical Attack.
• Wand of fire Power was slightly reduced

Optimization

• Introduced a "Potato Mode" for those having performance problems, you can find it on the Options Menu at the start
• Several changes implemented to cut the number of drawcalls

Bugfixing:

• High negative numbers won't break the text anymore
• Flurry passive no longer will display that a card can attack multiple times if the attack power is 0

General Changes:

• Reworked the Ki Archetypes
• Added 20 new illustrations for the Ki cards
• Replaced the fighting background for a fully 2D one (Work in progress)
• Added light effects to the arena
• Upgraded the art of 10 Passives
• Corrected several typos

Balance Changes:

• "Relentless" now spawns 2 perfect copies of itself (Yes, even taking in account being fused)
• Removed the "Torment" passive from Dangell, added a new passive called "Reaper"

Optimization

• Removed fog effects due to performance issues
• Improved the passive system to make it more optimized
• Removed unused assets from the game

Bugfixing:

• Removed the duplicated resolutions on the options settings

General Changes:

• Replaced the art of 20 Fire Cards
• Replaced the art of 5 Fire Passives

Balance Changes:

• Reworked and rebalance the cards for the Fire archetype
• Changed the starting cards for the Fire archetype (Flamethrower instead of Fireball)
• Inner Flame effect is now the following: If you start your turn with Fire charges you gain 50% critical charge
• Heating Up now gives 7 Power

Bugfixing:

• Fixed a bug that could freeze the game during Dangell's Fight
• Removed an exploit that allowed abandoning a run without losing your game streak

General Changes:

• Reworked the Monster Hunter archetype
• Added 20 new illustrations for the Monster Hunter cards
• Added 4 new passives for Monster Hunter
• Reworked most of the Pirate cards
• Added a preview to fusing cards

Balance Changes:

• "Combine Moves" now gives you a wound, "Unlock the secrets" gives you two
• "Doom" is no longer resisted by Hidden, Iron Will or Protection from all Evil

Bugfixing:

• Now fusing two wounds when you have the passive "Is only a flesh wound" won't result in a card with 0 power

General Changes:

• Reworked all the cards from the Ice archetype
• Replaced the art for 20 ice cards
• Added 2 new passives: "Defense Mode" and "Icy Protection"
• Changed the visuals for the floating text messages
• Changed the critical bar look and feedback once is 100% charged
• Added more feedback in general for passives
• Updated the art of 12 passives

Balance Changes:

• Buffed the passive "Armored"

Bugfixing:

• Cold no longer stops negative status that you're immune against
• Fixed a scenario where "Debilitating Cold" would not trigger

General Changes:

• Reworked all the Arcane cards
• Updated the art for all the Arcane cards
• Added 2 new passives for the Arcane archetype
• Added a new event to the game: "Expand your Horizons"
• Reworked copycat to avoid giving repeated cards on the same reward
• Now reward cards after a battle are not necessarily the same rarity or level.

Balance Changes:

• Chaos Ray is no longer a starting card for Arcane. Mana Burst took its place
• The order of passives for Viktor Valenfort has changed
• "Protection from all Evil" now only works every 2 turns, but with 100% of resistance against negative status
• Buffed "Momentum", now it gives Power every 2 turns instead of every 3
• Added icons for Curse, Ethereal, Randomancy and Winds of Magic

Bugfixing:

• Now you won't get more than once the same passive with the Mutant Backstory
• Corrected typo in the Monster Trap card

General Changes

• Added 15 new Achievements
• Changed the unlock condition of Keeper of Secrets from 5 fusions to 20
• The "Embrace Change" event now gives a pop up explaining which cards turn into which
• Made impossible to Upgrade 6 cards that gained nothing out of being Upgraded
• After triggering a "one time use" passive the icon is now transparent
• Added a Martial Arts passive: "Mastering the Basics"
• Now conversations won't give you Passives with no utility at all for your archetype

Balance Changes

• Second Life boss passive has been nerfed, now it only heals half the boss HP, removing all status charges in the process
• On the Run also has been nerfed, now it gives 1 Power charge per turn intead of 2, and still gives 1 Hidden
• Pirate Code now gives 10 gold instead of 5
• Avalanche is now Consumable
• Freeze is no longer consumable
• Vulnerable charges no longer decay when you're damaged, now they decay per turn
• Added "Always Prepare" to the Monster Hunter passive pool
• Removed hidden charge from Wait for it
• Reduced Shadows Strike base power
• Increased Sabotage base power, made it have 0 Power against Red
• Made one with the shadows consumable
• Reduced "Attack at Midnight" extra damage from 30 to 15
• Reduced Poison Dart base power
• Increased the base power of Karate Chop, Crane Kick, Tiger Style, Gatling Fits, Reckless Attack, Test of Strength, Perfect Defense base Power and Leg Swipe base Power
• Reduced Grappling and Fist of Heavens base Power
• Gave "Lesson Learned" a base Power and made it Defensive
• Increased Roundhouse Kick critical charge
• Changed "Ultra Mode" effect, now it gives 5 Immune to damage charges and you lose them right after
• The Final Door now gives 3 Doom instead of 5
• Counter Force now applies "Weaken" to the user post clash
• Changed the following cards to "Green": Grab, Focus
• Changed the following cards to "Red": Fighting Spirit, Blood Eclipse
• Changed the following cards to "Blue": Neutralizing Attack, Shadow Strike, Scan Weakness, Static Field, Ice Armor, Cold Winds, Cold Blooded, Drain Energy, Meditation, Ashes to Ashes, Sacrifice to the flame

Bugfixing

• Fixed resolution resetting when you got back to the main menu
• Defensive cards no longer trigger Immune to Damage charges, wasting them
• Fixed instance where you wouldn't correctly unlock the Mutant achievement
• Removed italics from one of Dangell's dialogues
• Added a "Back button" to the Upgrade screen
• Changed an instance where transforming all the status could give you a 0 status charge

General Changes:

• Reworked all ninja cards
• Added new illustrations for all Ninja cards
• Added a new passive for the Ninja archetype

Balance:

• Buffed Blind spot (Instead of giving Hidden every 3 turns, now is every 2 turns)
• Removed Dextrous from the Ninja's passive Pool

Bugfixing:

• Fixed a situation where you could lose all your extra Power and Armor due to re-loading the game
• Solved an exploit where you could duplicate the events rewards reloading the game

General Changes:

• Added the "Mutant" backstory!
• Added a new achievement for unlocking the Mutant Backstory.
• Now each of the reward cards after a fight can be of a different level.
• Added images for Andrea's objects of power (Sword, Bow and Shield).
• Updated the art for Mens Sana.
• Updated the icon for the "All In" passive.
• Updated the Samurai art to fix some visual defects.
• Added missing art to Heaven Piercing Drill.

Balance Changes:

• Mysterious Past now gives 5 random high rarity/level cards instead of one.
• Black Market effect has change, now paying the price only gives 1 immortality charge, but has higher power.
• Ernesto passive order changed to make early runs easier.
• Removed all Power from Mens Sana.

Bugfixing:

• Fixed several inconsistencies on the level of the cards, in particular starting a fresh run with level up cards.
• Keeper of the secrets doesn't allow you to duplicate the card you just fused anymore.

It was time for the Samurai to get a bit of a rework, in this patch we have:

• Reworked the Samurai's cards
• Added new illustration for said cards
• Added 3 new passive abilities for the Samurai Archetype
• Changed some factors of the formula when you fuse cards, such as how much critical charge you get
• Added missing passive ability icons
• Changed the cursor config to allow it to leave the game, useful for multiple monitors or when not in fullscreen

Hi everyone! A week as pass since Tournament Ark was published on Steam, quite an exciting one for me! This is the first of many, many updates in a mostly weekly basis to bring the game to the so call "1.0". Without any more delays: What's different now?

Balance Changes:

• Nerfed "Perpetual Interdimensional Engine" from giving 3 Power per turn to 2
• Reduced the max amount of bosses' cards
• Changed the logic on how healing events show up during the run

Optimization

• Reduced 21% the file size of the game and memory use!

General Changes:

• Added options in-game to change "fullscreen" or change the resolution
• "Escape" now not only opens but closes the pause menu
• Changed the typography of the basic card's name
• Changed the blurry text on the fighters display
• Fixed some typos
• Minor visual fixes
• Added the version number to the hub

Bugfixing:

• Fixed a scenario where "Astral Projection" would also remove the positive status instead of just the negative ones
• Fixed the "Getting 0 bleed charges" from Blood Link