Aces & Adventures news & patch notes

Hello Adventurers!

Regency Solitaire II

Aces & Adventures

• Added better support for missing font characters in player names on the leaderboards.
• Fixed a bug which could have the player's hand end up above the map after certain transitions.
• Fixed bug which had certain enemies not properly being affected by “By the Numbers” daily modifier.
• Rogue’s Hidden Blade ability is now Async and also keeps the existing natural value of card available as wildable.
• Updated localizations.

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• Added new game mode: Daily Challenges. Contains 3 adventures: A shortened version of War of the Branches and Invernal Spiral, and a new adventure: Gauntlet. Gauntlet is a short, but brutal, procedural challenge mode meant to be completed in 15 minutes or less. All adventures will have their random seed locked based on the day and have a corresponding daily modifier associated with them. Compete against other players on the new Daily Leaderboards! The Daily Challenge mode is unlocked by either completing the story campaign, or completing Fall difficulty in one of the non-story modes.
• Added new abilities for Mage and Enchantress.

• You can now view abilities in an ability deck at the adventure table by right clicking it.
• You can now click the enemy’s draw pile to view cards left in it (sorted by value).

• Fixed a rare bug which could cause progress of an adventure to fail to save correctly.
• Fixed bug which could cause Health gained via a full rest to not be accounted for correctly when Health was adjusted by another event.
• Fixed bug which had ability tag text spilling out of card bounds for certain languages.
• Fixed bug which could occur when you had the Mirage trait and your hand contained only Jokers and Aces. (Previously failed to correctly wild into a full house)
• All character abilities which require a top deck in order to be able to use now correctly handle the case where 0 cards remain in your draw & discard piles.
• Fixed bug which could cause certain applied abilities which required top decks to fail to apply if 0 cards were in your draw/discard pile at the time of application.

• Added Invernal difficulty level for War of the Branches and Invernal Spiral game modes.
• Added several new enemies and items to procedural modes.
• Added a new node type to Invernal Spiral which allows you to add up to 5 abilities to your deck.
• Improved deck editor search functionality for when keywords like “summon” were searched to not fully exclude non-summon abilities that had interactions around summons.
• HP, Shield, and Attack additional abilities costs are now searchable in deck editor search text.
• Added a new “Safe Mode” launch option which can be accessed by holding F8 when you first see the Splash Screen. This will launch into the game with minimal graphical settings.
• Added a “Finish” button for Experience Vial / Ability Pack steps that will show up when the “Quick Mana Vial” option is enabled. Clicking the button will skip the display of all remaining vials and ability packs, but you will still receive them.

• Optimized performance of several special effects.
• All debuffs should now correctly be affected by Resist and Nullify traits.
• Mage’s Omega Sigil should now work correctly on abilities which deal damage multiple times.
• Fixed bug which had enemy name’s overflowing out of their card slot in certain languages.
• Fixed bugged interaction between Mage’s Cyclone buff and Blade Storm abilities.
• Fixed bug which would incorrectly clear offset of enemy’s combat hand cards when mousing over an ability which targeted them.

• Dual Wield +2 now removes Guard traits from the defender on successful attack.
• Shadow Emissary now also taps the enemy when you successfully defend with a Club, but no longer deals +1 damage if your attack hand contains a Club.
• Mage’s Inevitable abilities can no longer be resisted.
• Mage’s Flame Blade abilities now have combat damage also reduce Max HP instead of preventing healing. (Same goes for Rogue’s Acid Edge abilities)
• Hunter’s Repeater trait now also grants Safe Attack.

• New game mode Invernal Spiral has been added. (More info in update announcement)
• Added several new pieces of equipment and enemies that can show up in War of the Branches and Invernal Spiral modes.
• Several minor balance changes across all classes. (More Details Below)

• Pause Menu can now be accessed via clicking the Gear Icon on the top right corner of the screen. Gear Icon can be hidden via Game Options.
• Added option to go back after selecting an item to purchase from the Merchant.
• Added button to view all of the selected character’s level up traits in the Deck Editor.
• Added button to view abilities you have not yet unlocked for the selected character in the Deck Editor.
• You can now click on the top card of the adventure discard pile to view all cards in the pile.
• Boss Encounter nodes will now show a preview of which boss you will face.
• You can now right click on a character card to view all level up traits for that character. Traits which are not yet unlocked will have their images desaturated.
• The Foliage Quality video option will now disable trees as well when set to “Off”. This should significantly improve performance in the forest environment for low end machines.

• Abilities which change turn order positions will now properly show potential damage accounting for turn order changes that would occur.
• Fixed bug which did not clear potential damage on mouse exit for abilities which could target multiple enemies with repeat targeting allowed.

• Ability Balance Changes
• Vlad's Daggers
  • Max Health Removed
  • Added 1/2 Health Condition
  • Cost Adjusted to 1 Attack
• Stalk 0, 1, 2 (costs adjusted)
  • 0 = Black
  • 1 = Club
  • 2 = Club Black
• Raven Wing Clips
  • No longer triggers off passive abilities like Opportunity.
• Murciela (Elite)
  • Added 1 Heart to cost (Heart HP)
• Quick Draw
  • Instead of drawing 1 card after using an ability, draws cards equal to Black cards used when casting an ability.
• Headhunter
  • Now doubles combat damage per Face Card in your standard combat hand.
• Spacing (costs adjusted)
  • 0 = Red
  • 1 = Red
  • 2 = Red Red
• Conscript +2
  • Fixed bug where the effect could carry over to the following encounter.
• Wild Bolts (Basic)
  • Reduced to 2 shots
  • Adjusted cost to
• Mage Armor +1
  • Reduced cost to 2 Diamonds
• Arcane Aegis
  • +1 Defense
• Unfettered Jinn
  • +1 Offense
• Superior Siren Song
  • Should not trigger off hero abilities now
• Amber
  • Now Async
• Blaze
  • Now triggers at end of turn
• Radiance
  • Draws an ability if your combat hand is all the same suit.

Features:

• Bespoke artwork provided by @boba_witch
• Cat breeds include: Scottish Fold, Siamese & Sphynx
• Unique cat characters for each face card
• Jester cat featured as the Joker card

• Added option to set Multisample anti-aliasing that will override the amount used by Quality Preset.

• You can now view all abilities in your deck by clicking your ability draw pile.
• You can now view all abilities in your discard pile by clicking your ability discard pile.
• You can now view all cards in your deck by clicking your draw pile.
• You can now view all cards in your discard pile by clicking your discard pile.
• You can now view all cards in the enemy’s discard pile by clicking the enemy discard pile.

• Enemies now have mouse over tooltips for their traits. (Can be disabled in options)
• Potential Combat damage is now also shown when you mouse over an enemy before committing your combat hand.
• Abilities which are having an effect on potential damage now highlight their names while potential damage is being displayed.
• Improved mouse over logic for playing cards during player defense phase. Intent lines and potential combat damage are now updated upon mouse over.
• Improved mouse over logic for Playing Card wild value selection tabs.
• Applied buffs and debuffs now have mouse over tooltips.
• Hero Ability and Trait piles now have mouse over tooltips.

• Obsidian Blade should now work correctly with Shadow Duel.

Hello Adventurers!

Aces and Adventures – Road Map

• View all abilities in your deck by clicking on your ability draw pile. Abilities are sorted alphabetically while being viewed.
• View all cards in any discard pile by clicking on it.
• Show potential combat damage numbers on pointer over of suggested and custom attacks.
• Video option to set MSAA separate from Quality Preset.
• Time-to-next-rank tooltip for adventure decks to help clarify the completion ranking system.

• Ability to view unlocked Level Up traits for a character in the Deck Editor.
• Show starting Level Up traits for a character in the Level Up scenes card pile.
• Ability to view abilities you have not unlocked in Deck Editor.
• Add a small button to access menu with the mouse (no keyboard required).

• Handcrafted Challenges

  Take on unique challenges presented by custom-made adventures. These are designed to favor new decks and strategies. Some will be epic, long-form adventures, containing a bit of randomness; while others will remain tightly focused gauntlets meant to test your strategic creativity.

• Share Decks

  Post and share your own custom decks with other players via the Steam Workshop. Other players will be able to use your deck immediately if they have the cards; otherwise, they will be allowed to pay a “mana” (experience) cost equivalent to the number of cards they’re missing to unlock the deck.

• Fixed bugs which would occur when you removed almost every card from your deck via Card Shrines and Events in War of the Branches mode.
• Fixed bug which occurred when 2 enemies had Conduit +1 applied on them which caused damage to infinitely loop back and forth between them.
• Fixed bug which prevented canceling Night Market Bolt abilities after entering the targeting phase.
• Fixed bug which had pause menu render outside of screen bounds when beyond ultra wide aspect ratio.
• Fixed bug which had abilities received from ability packs affected by certain buffs causing them to display altered information.
• Fixed bug which made Full Bloom achievement require restarting the game to properly unlock.
• Fixed a few ability typos and Updated Localization.

• The cards actually being used for enemy attacks and defenses are now nudged forward in the enemy's hand to improve clarity.

• Added “Minimum” setting to Particle Quality settings that even further reduces complexity of particle effects.
• Optimized Blizzard ability particle effects.

• Ascendence +2 now raises max health before healing.
• Simon’s Beacon +2 no longer triggers when you deal damage to yourself.
• Grip of Power +1 will now fallback to overdrawing an ability in the case it has been made free to cast.
• Haste +2 now immediately adds an additional attack.
• Frozen Heart can now also be used on enemy cards.
• Desert Rose trait should properly affect cards that were turned into diamonds after it was applied.
• War of the Branches events which disallow Flushes should now properly affect the Mirage trait.

• Added the following new Video Options which can be changed to further improve performance.
• Animated Lighting: Whether or not adventure table lighting will have its color and intensity animated by small looping videos. Disabling this option can significantly improve performance.
• Shadows: Whether or not lights will cast shadows. Disabling this option can increase performance a good amount.
• Added “Extremely Low” quality option for “Particle Quality”. This option should be a notable performance increase for more complex particle effects.

• Updated Localization.

• Fixed bug which prevented ability search from functioning properly in certain languages.
• Fixed bug which prevented Seasoned Adventurer - S achievement from being properly unlocked in certain cases.
• Optimized a few visual effects.

• Fixed bug which occurred when casting a single target damaging ability which had its cost temporarily set to free, that would otherwise not be able to be casted.
• Inverted healing should now correctly be able to deal lethal damage to an enemy.
• Inverted healing is now treated as ability damage dealt by the entity which inverted it.
• Several enemy healing Traits which would not trigger at full health now correctly trigger if healing will be inverted.
• Fixed bug which prevented Warrior from being properly unlocked if the game crashed before the save file was written.
• Optimized several visual effects.

• Fixed bug which caused enemies with negative HP to infinitely attempt to attack.
• Fixed a bug which made events which changed ability card costs not affect flexible card cost abilities in some cases.
• Fixed bugs found in the following abilities:
• Brunhildr's Kiss (Normal and Legendary versions) incorrectly being restricted to adjacent targets.
• Ebb +1 bug which occurred when its cost was reduced.
• Ace Shot (All versions) bug which occurred when its cost was reduced.

Here's what's in today's patch:

• Shadows, spotlights, animation! Get ready for a whole new level of immersion with our improved lighting system!
• Improved translations for various languages, traditional and simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, and German -- these are all still ongoing development!
• Fans of the Rogue rejoice! New abilities have been added.
• Improved tutorialization and usability: Don't forget to check the help menu for references to poker hands and basic rules
• Bug Fixes and Balance: Found a bug or want to suggest a change in the balance of an ability? Let us know on Discord!
• Additional Artwork: Including new adventure, enemy, and ability images