Dog And Goblin news & patch notes

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Game Introduction

Dog and Goblin is an auto-battler Roguelike deck-building strategy game where you assemble a mixed army to stand against humans. With nearly 150 units across 19 different types, build your ultimate army and conquer their castles!

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• Fixed an issue where the hammer had an abnormal stacking effect on the Priest.
• Fixed a bug in Endless Mode where the Engineer could reduce the castle's health to zero.
• Fixed a mismatch between the Gravedigger's description and its actual effect.
• Fixed an issue where the Infernal counter was not functioning properly.
• Fixed the damage in Endless Mode being excessively high, which caused an integer overflow with experience points.
• Fixed an issue where Poison and Windfury randomly were not saved in the card attributes.
• Fixed an issue where the Slime’s piercing effect did not work.
• Fixed an issue where the Lich used a fixed attack value of 2 instead of its actual attack stat.

• In the main game interface, click the Mods option located in the bottom left corner to enter the Creative Workshop interface. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44739576/4904f978811c928171b1c4435243852f7d6e88da.png
• Click on the Tutorial in the top-right corner to review the process for creating and testing Mods. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44739576/3691c19078e5e007699e6b40ec5afb48423c032c.png
• Mod Range： Currently only cards and recipes, most of original cards in game can be implmented. More APIs might be provided. Join the Discord channel to discuss：https://discord.gg/3mdkDpurNn

• Fixed the issue with Wizard counting.
• Fixed the problem where Giant Golem and Frost Giant could merge.
• Fixed the issue where Dark Ranger could not merge.
• Added tools and debugging features related to the Workshop. The Workshop is coming soon!
• Gaia now gains Spell Caster attributes.
• Berserker applies Cleave and Pierce effects with each attack.

New Content

• Added 3 new challenge modes: "Another Round","Corpse Explosion," and "Mechanical Frenzy"
• Added 3 new challenge achievements

New Content

• New card added: Toxic Dragon Turtle
• New enemy added: Saintess

Fixes and Optimizations

• Dogs can now prevent surrounding cards from being stolen by thieves
• The attack boost order for Mechanical Sabertooth is now the same as the Dragon Turtle's
• Reduced the number of enemies that insert cards into the player's deck
• Campfires now ignite bombs
• Fixed issue with spores automatically merging after splitting
• Optimized some text-related issues

Optimizations and Fixes

Optimizations and Fixes

• Control the maximum cap for settlement scores to prevent the panel from freezing due to excessive scores.
• Fix an issue where the excluded coin count was recorded incorrectly when saving recipe plans.
• Fix an issue where card counts were reset when continuing the game.
• Added a display for enemy resurrection upon death at difficulty level 6.

• Optimized memory leak issues and resolved crash problems that occurred in certain scenarios on Steam Deck and laptops.

Fixes and Optimizations

• Issue of stuttering on the main interface
• Fixed the issue where Dragon Slayer and Two-Headed Dragon do not interact
• Adjusted the attack power absorption value of the Overfiend from Imps
• Fixed the interaction issue between Kodo Beast and enemy skills triggered upon death
• Modified the Glutton skill to only affect food in the same column
• Fixed the issue where Challenge Mode achievements were not being triggered
• Phoenix Egg transforming back into a Phoenix now gains an attack power boost

• New enemies and new cards
• Four new challenge modes
• Endless mode

Update & Optimization

• Fixed the bug with the effect of "Golden vs. Dragon."
• Updated the descriptions for Engineer, Enemy (Shaman Link), Wolf, and Wolfgang.
• Added an effect when Blademaster’s clones exceed the limit.
• Salt no longer affects other salt effects.
• FungiKing's card copy attack effect is now half of the permanent attack value.
• Wolf Pack's attack power now only comes from cards on the field.
• Fixed the animation speed of Crossbow and Arrow Tower, and the bug when there are too few targets.

• The recipe display for the card itself is always shown as '?'.
• Card descriptions no longer show the description for itself.
• Added a '???' description for synthesis cards when the recipe is not unlocked.
• Cards that cannot be selected in the card gallery are now shown as semi-transparent, with a quantity of 0.
• Updated race icons.
• Shortened the duration of splash attacks and flying attack animations. Fast animation settings will now affect more animation options, such as enemy skills.
• You can now delete multiple cards in a row, and manually close the window.
• Added the shortcut key "Space" to skip the shop.
• Fixed the issue where deleted coins were not counted in the score.
• The score UI is now more prominent on the victory screen.

• Right-clicking now allows cards to be locked, preventing them from being used in synthesis; click again to unlock.

How to Participate in the Playtest:

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Playtest Content:

• Heart display problem after loading
• Commander skill bug of unlimited times of changing card position
• Gallery edited card pool numbers now is also saved and loaded
• Buff animation speed now can be influenced by animation speed

• Satan's description changed to permanently(it was, but the description is wrong)
• Wolf Raider now counts as beast
• Crossbow is an uncommon card
• Dragon turtle added to the pool

• Right top corner fog particles adjusted to make icons stand out.

• 60+ new cards, 30+ cards remake
• With Left Alt key, you can check related card in a nested tooltip
• Challenge pick and extra infinite mode
• Recipe system, hidden powerful cards for you to explore!

• new difficulty and challenge mode
• victory panel
• Recruiter has better chance in the shop, after deleting cards
• UI display of shop rarity
• gallery can be chosen for rarity and categorize

• Enemy Shaman link bug leading to game stuck
• Night Elf Ranger keeps attacking until game ends
• multiple click with Cleric adds damage multiple times
• many consumables has wrong counter mechanism like Dragon Blood, Beer.
• Victory screen display
• delete coin usage stuck during turn
• Character screen cant unlock new chracters
• enemy queen doesnt return heart when dead
• Gallery panel changes card pool does take effect now
• Some enemies' skill description of retreating to backline was added
• Difficulty 4 stuck bug fixed. Change the decrecated design of diffciulty 4.
• Make 5 queen loss simpler and straight forward.
• 3 or more golems will only get 1 bigger golem bug fixed.

• Now cards attack order is simpler: from left up corner to right bottom corner, instead of ordering by damage and turn damage dealt.
• Damage Panel now shows extra info about real damage after armor.

• PandaMonk, Lizard, Wheel, Bread and more stats balance
• Beer gain of Brewmaster is now temporary
• Duergar has a timer of 2
• Reaper's skill damage and Ballista's fort damage ignores armor
• 'Dragon Blood makes Dog become Wolf' now changes to 'Dragon Blood makes Lizard become Green Dragon', and 'Bear becomes Wood Elf Druid' is fixed.
• Silver Sword now add 1 counter and 1 damage per buff

• The whole stats system is reworked and balanced. Hopefully you will find the game not too hard or too ez. But still, feel free to come to Discord and tell us the cards you like or not!
  • Weak build like poison are buffed (poison damage now ignores armor).
  • Legendary cards are less important, they still need a good deck to release the full power
  • Try it out in the game!
• Coin UI Remake.
• Some VFX and SFX added.
• Attack Animation timescale reworked so low damage cards attacks faster and high damage cards slower.
• Heartlosing Mechanism reworked: you lose heart only when you have exceeded enemies at the start of a turn.

• Tutorial display bug fixed.
• Sometimes players cant return to main menu.

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