Cascade Tactics (tuxdb.com)

Monsters Have Arrived!

New Monsters
- Take on missions that put you up against a variety of monsters. Monsters have less Block and a smaller set of abilities, but have increased HP, Magic, and Strength.
- 6 Monster sprites that make up 40 possible new enemies.
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Beastiary
- A new option appears at Recruitment Center that displays all monsters you've run into. As you expand your bestiary, you'll earn rewards (Epic Mode Only).
New Missions
- Creature Cull: Defeat a random set of monsters
- Monster Hunt: Take out the powerful monster-boss. Rewards a Treasure.
- Titans: Post-game mission sequence where you must defeat an extremely powerful Titan (a monster-boss with overpowered abilities).
New Items
- Dragon Armor: Gain ability Summon Dragon
- Scorpion Staff: Gain ability Summon Scorpion
- Ring of Arachnids: Gain ability Summon Broodling
- Storm Shield: Absorb Lightning Damage
- Demon's Ring: Gain ability Acquire Strength
- Venon Blade: Gain ability Venomous Strike
- Poison Staff: Gain ability Poison
- Pyromancer's Mask: Gain Rage: Flames
- Arcane Cloak: Increase Magic upon Rage trigger
Steam Cloud
- Players can now open a save file on Steam Cloud.
- Unfortunately, cannot transfer existing files to the cloud
Survival Mode Fixed
- Removed Party Upgrade missions. Was never intended to be part of this game-mode.
- Missions levels will rise to 90% of the next story mission. So there will no longer be lingering easy-missions.
- As a result of these two changes the game mode should be more difficult, I'll reset the leaderboard closer to the release date.
Color Changes
- Terrain across the game is less saturated
- The UI is less saturated
- All characters' colors have been redone. Colors are lighter and saturation is more consistent.
- Black colors on characters have moved closer to dark-blue, dark-green, or magenta.
New Features and Improvements
- Turn Panel Hover: Hovering over a character in the turn-panel with a mouse will show an effect over the corresponding unit
- The UI Turn Panel now works properly with Pyromancer's Gem and Kings' Crown
- First few job-levels provide double the Job-Points (Upgrading jobs felt too slow early on)
- Improved Commander and Pyromancer Sprites
- New Mercenaries for hire. Larger of variety of mercenaries to hire at the Recruitment center.
- Players can now trade special items (Treasures). The treasures are divided into a handful of buckets.
- Rogue's "Strength and Magic" passive skill (Use the max between the two) now works during battle and not just before battle. It will also work with Arcane Staff.
- Speed, Focus, Strength, Magic and other job-upgrades have more description
- Arrest Warrant Mission will show the next enemy to defeat as the character in the Mission List screen
Bug Fixes and AI Improvements
- Fixed Astromancer's lack of ability to use Meteor
- Disease Icon is removed when character no longer has disease
- No longer a slight delay in summoning units. Sprites are loaded before battle
- Fixed issue where Curse was not always working as intended (some skills avoided the effect)
- Fixed Holy Cloak + incorrectly reducing wearer's speed
- Fixed Champions Crown + and Mystic Pendant + (weren't increasing stats)
- Rock Armor affects Teleport-Move and not just Move
- Reinforcements have names
- Removed final Blacksmith Rarity mission that would crash the game
- Fixed issue where Triple-cast was not indicated as needing to be unlocked for Sorcerer
- Fixed issue where cure was indicated as needing to be unlocked for Paladin
- Fixed crash that could occur with Archer and Plague
- Fixed Bug/Crash with Kings' Crown description
- Aligned characters on Load Game button
- Fixed price of Celestial Pendant +
- AI will cast less often when enemies are nearby
- AI Melee units with Range abilities will not behave as though he were a range unit
- AI will use Fireball more often
- AI will stop using Ice Shield on enemies and use it on allies
- AI with Deflect or Ice Shield are less likely to cower away from Ice Shards
- AI Mystic Knights are a little smarter and will not use Mystic Blade as often
- AI will avoid attacking bombs or earth pillars for little reason
- AI will choose better targets for Summon Bandit and Summon Lancer
What's Next?
- New Trailer
- Achievements overhaul
- Set a release date

[ 2025-01-17 12:47:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Cascade Tactics

Mythic Machine Software LLC Developer

Mythic Machine Software LLC Publisher

November 2021 Release

Strategy RPG Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 34

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Positive (40 reviews)

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Cascade Tactics Linux [790.83 M]

Cascade Tactics is a tactical RPG full of interesting and interactive abilities. You are a novice mercenary in a war-torn world. Hire your team, choose your classes, upgrade your equipment, and see how long you can survive.

Whether you want to hack your way to victory with powerful soldiers or strategically maneuver in the battlefield to maximize your profits, you can enjoy Cascade Tactics.

Interactivity is a major component of the game: move enemies or allies into or out of danger, stop an opponent from executing an action, or protect an ally from an incoming attack.

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 14.04 64-bitMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
Memory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 2 GB available space
Storage: 2 GB available space

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