Faerie Solitaire Remastered news & patch notes

Update 2.1.3d

Addressing issue loading profiles

Update 2.1.3c

Another small update, updating all the save data systems to help prevent errors.

Minor bug fix for when sending data to a card that was deleted.

Update 2.1.3b

This is a small update attempting to address an issue loading location data.

Work on the next Asset Update with some new features is in the works, hopefully it'll be out later this month!

If you're encountering errors when finishing a hand please contact us via [email protected] and provide your save data. You can find your save data here: Windows %appdata%\\Faerie Solitaire Remastered Defold OS X ~/Library/Application Support/Faerie Solitaire Remastered Defold Linux ~/.config/appname/Faerie Solitaire Remastered Defold

And as always thank you everyone who's continued to support us over the years! Hope everyone had a great New Years!

Assets Updated

Pets Baby/Adult

• Warring Dragon

• Royal Guard

• Burning Drake

• Flaming Hexapod

• Crimson Egg

Sethe Howell is the artist who we're working with and did the first set of the new pet art! We're extremely grateful to Sethe for reaching out and doing this amazing job on the art!

If you're interested in seeing more of Sethe's work you can visit their Art Station or Instagram: AS: https://www.artstation.com/waywardfellar IG: @wayward_fellar They also have commissions open and if you're interested you can reach out to their email: [email protected]

Future progress will be slow due to budget constraints but when we have enough to commission another set we will do so.

Characters

• Autumn

• Julia

These were made by a personal friend of mine, Tiny. Unfortunately they don't have time to help out with much else and did these in their free time and I'm eternally grateful for the help they provided.

Backgrounds

• Achievement Screen

• Night Faeland Screen

• Lost Legend Locations 9-15

The art done for these were done by myself, fairly quickly I realized I wont be able to afford to completely redo all the art in the short term. I'm painting very simple versions that try to keep to the theme I originally wanted. I want to stress I'm not an artist so the art for these backgrounds are not going to be amazing. In the future I want to hopefully either commission brand new background or just touch up what I've done.

Lost Legend Locations 6-8 are not AI and are older art my brother had made in the past.

Additional Changes:

• Fixed 2 locations with miss aligned backgrounds.

• Enabled Texture Compression to reduce file size.

Resources

• Abyss

• Lunite

• Emberite

These will most likely be updated again in the future.

Removed Assets

• World Map

• Cutscenes

Removed the world map as it wasn't expressive enough to show the path the player would take in the world properly like the original. I decided to just remove it as it served no real purpose other than to try and fit the classic style. Instead it's been replaced with a simple preview of the next location the player will be going to.

I personally have disliked the cutscene assets the most. It's confusing to players and just didn't look good. These were almost done as the last step before Lost Legends release and I put pressure onto myself to match the classic style cutscenes.

For now the cutscenes are just going to be text on a black background. There is a chance I just completely remove them from the game and put the focus just on the stories of each location instead of the overall arching story I attempted to do.

Future Price Increase Notice

Most likely in the next update we'll be increasing the price of the DLC. The amount isn't decided yet but it'll be a rough estimate for the amount of art that has been replaced. For instance if the amount of art that's been replaced is around 50% done the price will be increased to $11.99.

Once all of the art has been replaced the price of the game will be $14.99.

Closing

This is the first update for updating the AI art with new assets and I'm really happy with the pet art! I personally feel it matches the classic style of pets much closer than what I had done and can't wait to see the rest completed!

The art that I've done or chosen to use from assets I own will most likely all be replaced or touched up in the future. My main goal is to replace the AI art with my own drawn stuff for the short term. Then more professionally done versions later.

I've also added some festive themes for Christmas (these can be turned off in the toggle settings). And I want to give out a heartfelt Thank You to everyone who's supported us! Happy Holidays!

Update 2.1.2b

Grimoire

• Updated the Grimoire screen to auto unlock any missing lore pages based on the highest volume and paged unlocked

General

Added stars to the pause menu and objectives popup to help indicate what difficulty the player is playing on

• Gold: Normal

• Red: Master

• Purple: Impossible

• Green: Iron Mode

Bug Fixes

• Added a few checks to help prevent rare errors

Update 2.1.2

Locations Balanced

Went through and reevaluated most locations to be more fair when not using any powerups.

• Mostly just increased the base deck count

• Some hands got new helpful cards

• Some hands had a reduction in negative cards

• Sunlight Height was mostly remade

• Added more last in lane golden cards

Overall it will be easier but my main goal was that it's more fun to play.

Bug Fixes

• Added a check to clear prompt data for the visual novel system

• Fixed a sanity check system checking for dupe pets for when players imported FSR 1.0 profiles

• Fixed card interactions between various special cards to work together

For example the sword card can now trigger blooms effect

Linux

Should work again.

Update 2.1.1d

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an Ace Ascension bug where the wild value wasn't transferring over to the foundation correctly

Update 2.1.1c

Talent Points

• Players now start with 1 Talent Point

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players were missing 1 Talent Point for the Arcane Tower

• Fixed an Ace Ascension bug where matching with specific cards caused them to break their graphics and become wilds

• Fixed a bug when a dead card was still trying to update its script

Update 2.1.1b

• Attempting another temporary fix and better tracking for a special card bug causing errors for some players

Update 2.1.1

Normal Difficulty

• Now provides a +7 to all decks to allow for a more casual play style

Lost Legends Location Goals

Adjusted the energy required and all goals to be in line with their difficulty

• NORMAL: 4.5 Perfects

• MASTER: 6 Perfects

• IMPOSSIBLE: 7 Perfects

Did a balance pass for all difficulties, generally lowering most requirements.

Bug Fixes

• Spell Fireball now blocks Undo

• Attempting to catch error for rare occasion when cards have bad special data

• Fixed Audio overlap for some special cards

• Fixed incorrectly scaled background for Corrupted Dragon

Removed previous temporary way to unlock achievements.

Update 2.1.0f

Calamity Apex

• Hand 4/9: Adjusted deck size to 27

• Hand 5/9: Adjusted deck size to 25

Other

• Removed the pure cost for retrying a hand.

Update 2.1.0e

Bug Fix

• Fixed issue related to FaeShop not unlocking when only Night Faeland powerups were bought

• Fixed issue related to purchasing the pet boost from the FaeShop and it not being tracked for the achievement progress for making purchases in the FaeShop

Update 2.1.0d

Bug Fix

• Attempting a patch for previous known issues

Steam Achievements

The steam unlocker is now blocked behind the konami code and needing a 100% base achievement progress profile. There is a warning that using it is considered cheating, so use at your own risk. To activate the steam achievement unlocker when you're on the achievement screen tap on your keyboard in order:

• Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter

Note: "Numpad Enter" does not work.

Once entered correctly there will be a warning popup and an icon you can click to show a popup to unlock the achievements.

Edit: This system has been removed as of 2.1.1

Update 2.1.0c

Bug Fix

• Fixed issue where some objects weren't being deleted correctly and was causing a rare error.

Known issue:

• There is an issue with when going to the end of level screen an error can occur

• When failing to complete a hand an error can occur

Steam Achievements

Short term solution: If you have a profile with 100% base game achievement progress you can go to the achievement screen and there will be an icon on the top right of the screen that you can use to unlock the new achievements. Notice about using this unlock method: This is generally considered "cheating" for 3rd party achievement sites so use it at your own risk. This does not effect steam though so if you don't care for that then use it as you see fit. Honestly I didn't expect this sort of backlash to adding new achievements. I personally always liked when games added them with updates. But with the amount of disagreement we've gotten over adding them in with an included update I'm considering just removing them all together from steam and leaving them as in game unlocks only.

Edit: This system has been removed as of 2.1.1 and we have no plans on removing any achievements

Faerie Solitaire Remastered - Lost Legends DLC Released!

This DLC expands the base game of Faerie Solitaire Remastered and follows the story of Autumn and her travels through the lands of Avalon! 

This new adventure includes 40 new locations, over 360 new hands, dozens of new card types, new pets to find, new powers to unlock and secrets to be found!

Use of AI

Currently Subsoap does not have an artist and I am working on Subsoap projects on my own. So to finish this project I decided to use AI to help finish this DLC and most likely will be used for future projects unless an artist is found.

I'm a believer that if you use AI for your product then it should reduce the cost of the product for the user. Our originally planned price was going to match the base game as they're both the same size, however since I decided to use AI the price was reduced from $14.99 to $8.99.

If we find an artist to replace the AI art in the future the price will reflect that and go back up to the planned $14.99.

The majority of new backgrounds, pet art and various graphics use generative AI. If you are an artist and want to replace them with higher quality hand painted organic backgrounds? Contact us!

[email protected]

As of Update 2.1.4 there is no more AI Assets within the game.

Lost Legends

•     40 new locations

•     Over 50 new card types

•     A new story with 9 new cutscenes

•     New experimental visual novel dialog system  

•     Collect 32 new pets with their own resources to find   

•     Over 30 new achievements   

•     8 new Faeland powerups   

•     Brand new card archive to read about each card type once found

•     Brand new card back system

•     Brand new Grimoire archive to read your found lore

•     Some secrets to be found

Originally this DLC was much, much smaller. It was going to be more like a mappack expansion of 5-15 new locations for challenge mode. This was planned that way because I was waiting on my brother to recover from his health issues, as I got close to completely the last location at the time he was still very ill and unable to work on the game with me. So I decided to make it a bit bigger and over time I ended up making it a full length game.

In hindsight this should've been its own game but it's a bit late for that now!

Ultimately my brother stepped away from working on Subsoap so I've been working on this alone with all our other products for the last 4 or so years.

This is the first product I've worked on from start to finish solo doing the programming, art (w/ AI art assistance) and writing. Hopefully the story is interesting enough but will probably be rough around the edges. 

Feedback is welcome!

Version 2.1.0 Patch Notes

Bug Fixes & Improvements

•     Spares added back

•     Fixed theater cutscenes pacing to closer match Faerie Solitaire Classic

•     Fixed miss click bug on \ button when clicking on the last card

•     Improved the backgrounds for all 40 original locations 

•     Improved Zoom Card setting

•     Improved item drop size by 10% larger and now scales with card size

•     Improved the notification system

•     Improved the stat screen to include more stats

•     Balance pass made on the original five challenge locations

•     Updated active pet icon UI when playing

•     Added a helpful Faerie when playing for the first time

•     Added a new highest combo and fastest time for quickplay/challenge modes

•     Added more polish all over

There's a bunch of under the hood changes along with changes I've made to the game pre 2.1.0 that were made originally for this update.

Larger File Size

The game file size is jumping from about 500mb to 1.6gb, this is due to me being unhappy with how the backgrounds looked with the texture compression systems we have. They had artifacts and were overall just unpleasant to look at.

I intend to take a look at how to properly address that to get the file size back down, but the game's overall file size will probably sit around 1gb still even with texture compression enabled.

Translations

We've updated all the text for these languages: 

•     Spanish

•     Deutsch

•     Português - Brasil

•     Russian

•     Swedish

•     Dutch - Netherlands

•     French

•     Japanese

To change languages in FSR click the EN-US text at the bottom left of the main menu. 

These translations might not be 100% accurate so if you'd like to help adjust them or if your language isn't provided we've always been happy to accept fan translation help.

As always if you have any issues or want to help with translations please contact us via the forums, discord or our help email. Thank you for your continued support!

2.0.23b

2.0.23c

• Updated base drop rate for eggs to make it more consistent
• Added drop rate boost to the Faeland Shop
• Lowered the price for pet exp boost 1,000,000 -> 100,000
• Refunded the Puregold cost of the previous pet exp boost cost
• Added a cap to pet exp and drop rate boosts to 20

• The game is not finished yet. The game is still sold as is. That is how Early Access works.
• Dire is closely related to Faerie Solitaire Remastered but with a darker theme and much more focus on challenging content. It can still be played in a more relaxed way if you choose Relaxed as your difficulty when creating a profile. If you have never played any of our previous solitaires you probably should before attempting Dire.
• Our estimated full release date is 2 months from today. If you want to wait to buy until full release please make sure the game is on your wishlist today.
• There will be bugs. There will be lack of polish. There will be some obviously missing content.
• Please opt in to error reporting. It really helps us fix bugs faster. This is the first thing you will see when launching the game.
• We authorize any and all refunds if you are not happy and want one. We want you to be happy with your purchase. Show this to Valve if you want a refund and they for some reason deny you a refund.
• We will be updating as often as we have an update ready, and will do weekly posts on Fridays with lists of changes. You can subscribe to threads in the forum to be notified about specific things that interest you.
• We have a Discord, you can find the invite link on the About screens of any of our recent games.
• For anything we will be adding to the game we don't want to preview it at all until it's in the game and playable. Minus some exceptions, this is how we will deal with upcoming content additions. If you have played our previous games you can have some idea of what is to come.
• If you notice issues you can contact us directly at [email protected] or mention it in our Subsoap Discord or post about it in the forum. Check the known issues thread in the forum first.