Hero Lodge news & patch notes

Another little patch, fixing up a few more blitz issues. Added a few Blitz only accessories too. Patch 2.0.4E 10/1/2025

• Fixed a bug if Goblin Enforcer tried to challenge a target that had a delayed death (IE blitz Anvil effect).
• Guard Cost +1 accessory power font color changed to red.
• Barbarian Temper advanced skill now also lowers guard cost by 1 to make it a bit more useful.
• Blacksmith advanced training Warm Hearth no longer requires BS to be adjacent to anvil to give allies the bonus AP for being next to anvil.
• Fixed a bug with cryo blast + Cryokinesis vs allies that was only triggered in built versions of the game so I never caught it in testing...
• Fixed a bug with lizard defenders canceling charge when it went off the map.
• Fixed (another) snow Hammer punt bug (hopefully...)
• Fixed a layer issue with check team and removing/adding individual perks.
• Hide/Show locked heroes button will no longer show in Sacrifice Altar when you have all 25 heroes unlocked in Blitz Mode.
• Added fix for Blitz Rat Queen spikes that would get stuck showing open: will now always reset with next spikes.
• Fixed a bug where Spear Goblins not only could apply Chilled to chill immune targets, they would even apply it through guarding.
• Holy One with adv skill Venerated Magic tooltip on levelup now properly shows nova dmg +2.
• Pessimist and Optimist Blitz Perks will now gain bonus damage from excess negative perk removal points.
• Pessimist and Optimist scaling info will now show in combat log.
• Barbarian Fury skill will now refund half the HP cost when the first attack kills the target and the second attack is canceled.
• Added 3 new Blitz only accessories with the 1 in 6 chance to refund basic attacks AP passive.

A few mostly minor bug fixes and some blitz balancing. 9/18/2025

• Shortened the text when you skip and Advanced training blitz choice so it doesn't overflow.
• Vampire Jailor Dusk Blast will ignore guard direction (was possible to be hit "from behind" even when that was clearly not the case).
• Enchantress secret skill Meteor no longer does friendly fire damage!
• Nightshade accessory bonus stacking poison damage will now stack with special Alchemist Passive Chemistry's bonus 40% vs single targets.
• Holy Dragon can no longer use Soulbind when killed on its turn.
• Fixed a bug where if lizard zerker was going to use Spin Attack while in fog of war it would be stuck in the animation of preparing to spin.
• Fixed crash when goblin lancer used ray of frost and died mid skill use.
• Fixed crash with Gspider webbing when only player alive is a jumping dragoon.
• Fixed crash with Gspider (and MANY other enemies) in a very specific situation.
• Added an extra cancel condition to Snowman Hammer for if its Punt bugs out.
• Team Size - 1 perk (non havoc version) now gives 15% bonus xp instead of 4%.
• Havoc Team Size -1 perk no longer gives bonus gold and now gives 15 Max HP to heroes.
• Added Ferv's Bane accessory.
• Fixed up some guard cost issues with Alchemists and the new guard cost accessories that are usable by everyone.
• Fixed a bug where Cosmic Knight ultimates increased range from last patch broke as soon as they transformed.
• Fixed a bug where level up available arrow wouldn't show on hero portrait if you had exactly the required amount of experience to level up.

Patch 2.0.4C Couple of little buffs 9/11/2025

• Fixed bestiary entry for Golden Skeleton's Umbral Sweep to say Blunt not Slash.
• Buffed Enchantress secret skill Meteor to have a 4 turn Cooldown instead of 5.
• Buffed Dwarf BS secret skill anvil magnet to deal damage based on the range the anvil travels, also increased the range of the skill to 7 from 6.
• Cosmic Knight ultimates buffed: now all have 5 Range instead of 3/4.
• Starfield secret skill Dark dmg now scales with strength for Frost Ninja.
• Fixed a bug where accessories that modified Hunt Values could show in Weapon Glossary.
• Buffed top end tier of Act 4 store.
• Added a new epic tier 4 accessory for Max :)

Patch 2.0.4B Couple of minor bug fixes and a pseudo nerf to Gold Manacle. Thanks Max for playing! 9/8/2025

• Fixed a tooltip bug in bestiary where it said Ash Shark was immune to blind.
• Fixed a newly implemented bug where icons form floating damage text would be the wrong color based on pos/neg resists.
• Fixed a new "high res" font issue.
• Lion Badge accessory buffed to 3 AP.
• Fixed special item tooltips going above top of screen in blitz item glossary.
• Fixed a bug with the havoc perk that heals nearby enemies on enemy death to not try to heal Dracula when his bats were killed.
• Fixed a bug where holy one atonement could heal you after you were dead.
• Alchemist's Holy Water will now put out Lizard God flames (as it should).
• Gold Manacle is now rare (with a higher gold cost)
• Fixed game crash when snow man (sword) dropped icicles off map.
• Fixed game crash when dragoon jumped on a final enemy goblin shinobi in blitz mode and it seppukud to cause a victory.

Small little patch, thanks to Max for finding some issues.

• REWORKED Alphabet reader (aka the text engine) to work off dictionaries, should run much better when large amounts of text is on the screen.
• Skipping a gain hero reward will now give 2 Philo Stones instead of just 1.
• Skipping an Advanced Training reward will show a message at bottom that you skipped a choice to gain Stone.
• Fixed a bug in Hero Select where swapping between heroes would sometimes show the wrong text on the Cooldown line if the hero's skill had no cooldown.
• Fixed a Blitz Bug where you could occasionally get a pebble choice off a tier 8 accessory reward when item 'Warm Coat' was chosen.
• Fixed 'Warm Coat' for all game modes (and slight buff to the item).
• (Hopefully) Fixed bug: when chained/webbed heroes die right as they're rescued, movement boxes should reset.

Patch 2.0.3c --Blitz--

• Fixed a bug where Goblin Enforcer's Challenge wouldn't be 'answered' when Goblin Enforcer had been healed on player turn (like from enemies heal others on death perk)
• BFF Bracelet gold cost increased.
• Fixed the Hero Mastery achievements earned through Blitz Mode to show up immediately instead of when next visiting Mission Select.
• Fixed a bug when post Blitz Victory you'd exit to menu without starting up Endless mode and the save file could still try to show a minimap.
• Changed wording on Load Menu from 'Unclaimed Reward' to 'Unclaimed Choice' (since sometimes it could be a negative choice you haven't claimed yet.
• Added a new package unlocked on beating Havoc 13.
• Changed some things with Static Armor Havoc perk: can no longer be refreshed when damage cap is reached.
• Static Armor Havoc perk will now have orange font when damage is capped.

--Base Game--

• Buffed Swordman passive to require no allies within 2 range so that he can still utilize the Bond System from the base game, as well as have it be more useful in general.
• WW Brigand will now longer retain particles when killed through dodge (like from Arcane damage, or from special turn start damage like Grim Visage, Divine Piroutte, or Sand Storm)
• Monk END GAME accessory will now reduce the AP cost of Divine Palm in addition to lowering cooldown.
• SFX added to guardian skill Sanctuary.
• Goblin Shinobi ninja star will no longer float around after hitting target in fast forward mode.

Patch 2.0.3b --Blitz--

• Final Perk added (perk number 300!): boosts the effectiveness of Execute effects to trigger at 50% hitpoints instead of 30%.
• Fixed a bug where if you had 0 potions from perk and then gained bonus potion uses from alchemist's advanced training the potion could bug out when used.
• Fixed a bug where portraits to left on beating a Blitz Mode mission would disappear if Warden changed suit colors after winning the mission.
• Fixed a conflict between Boulder and Rat Executioner's Chains.
• Fixed an animation issue with Holy Dragon that was only present in Blitz Mode.

--Base Game--

• Fixed a loadscreen tooltip: the tooltip for locking on was missing a part of a sentence.
• Fixed a bug with Arcanist Advanced Skill Arcane Beam where certain effects could reset the cooldown.
• Rapid Jab fixed with Fast Forward (was now too slow at low jab counts).
• Fae Magic Advanced Skill will now give the +2 AP instantly instead of after a delay.
• Fixed bug with death dragon + right click bestiary opening to Holy Dragon.
• Fixed bestiary enemies slain to not show 'Defeated -2' in certain circumstances.
• Fixed a bug where Guardian's Sand Storm could trigger Werewolf's X Slash if Sandstorm dealt damage more than 1 second into player turn.
• Fixed a bug with Alchemist's Field Mixer passive where if you split up on a turn where you gained a bonus potion it could trigger the passive an extra time giving you double bonus potions.
• Fixed a Lizard God bug when Alchemists Split Up while targeted by Holy Bomb.

Patch 2.0.3 11/8/2024 --Blitz--

• Fixed a bug that probably wasn't even possible to reach (if you had every single negative perk, negative perk stores would hard lock your game when you weren't able to gain -2 value of perks as is required by one of the negative perks).
• Updated some of the Blitz Exclusive weapons to have a second modifier:
• Blitz Dust now has Dark resist shred.
• Blitz Wand now gives retaliate damage.
• Blitz Bow arrow damage +1.
• Blitz Bokken bonus damage vs Undead.
• Blitz Bident bonus damage vs Beasts.
• Blitz Arm bonus Execute damage.
• Blitz Focus accessory buffed to 7 HP per Magic instead of 5.
• Fixed a bug where bonus healing to potions perks weren't always working.
• Fixed a bug where reroll button could show up when selecting Havoc Negative perks.

--Base Game--

• Sand Wurm's Sand Flurry ability combat log vs dodging heroes now just says Sand Flurry not Devourer's Sand Flurry. (was pushing text off the edge and wasn't always right about enemy name because of Blitz)
• Fixed issue with Alch Master's Master (Strong) hurrricane cancel not removing the animation.
• Fixed glitch when Giant Spider tried to web up when there were no attackable targets (only living target was jumping Dragoon for example).
• Fixed Rapid Jab + fastforward (if you had enough jabs it would sometimes deal damage slower than if you weren't in fast forward).

Patch 2.0.2b 10/28 --Blitz--

• Holy Dragon annilation damage now reduced by 10 when head is damaged (it already did this in base game by 5, it just didn't do it in Blitz Mode prior to this patch).
• Death Dragon annilation damage increase at 75% HP breakpoint reduced.
• Fixed bug where certain packages wouldn't unlock when earned on a high Havoc difficulty by winning Act 3-6 but then not completing Act 4.
• Fixed a blitz History issue where failing against bosses would show the wrong information. For example: deleting a file mid progress against act 1 boss would show Act 2-0 instead of Act 1-6 in blitz history.

--Base Game--

• Fixed a bug where Galaxy Charm Accessory's Star Field spell would deal double damage to the middle target.
• Fixed snowman patrol aggro movement bug.
• Cultist transfuse mouse icon is now the heal icon instead of the Dark damage icon.
• Fixed a situation where right clicking on a hero that was targeted by a special enemy effect (rat assassin,
• Lizard Trapper, etc) when that enemy was dead would still open bestiary to that enemy.
• Put in a catch for rare bug where Wood Golem who died while on fire could be resummoned with fire weapon still active.

Patch 2.0.2 10/16/2024 --Blitz-- -Skip advanced training button will now always be available, not just when all choices are for heroes that already have advanced training. You'll now also gain a philo stone when skipping an Advanced Training. -Fixed bug with skip advanced training button staying clicked if you gained multiple adv trainings and skipped it would skip all of them and skip adv button no longer is muted. -Fixed Map info words layer to be below reroll map button highlight. -Reroll map button (from perk) will now update Philo Stone Count in the top right properly. Fixed up patch notes readability: some sentences were going off the screen. --Base Game-- Added new function to previous/next hero hotkeys when heroes are at 0 Action Points: Shield Maiden with zero cost Inspire (because she is already blocking) will still be selected when using these keybinds. While frog has zero cost leapfrog he'll still be selected when using these keybinds. If Archmage has zero cost Study off cooldown and any other spell on cooldown he'll also still be selected. If Frost Ninja has her endgame accessory that lowers Clone Swap cost to zero and it is off cooldown she'll still be selected. Fixed a bug where Ice Clone's clone swap cost/cooldown weren't being reduced by Frost Ninja endgame accessory. Advanced Training Cosmic Knight Astral Aid - Reworked, now makes changing forms cost zero AP instead of giving bonus sun/moon power. Treasure Chests will now always be revealed on already beaten missions: this doesn't directly address some Treasure Chest feedback but does fit with the design of Treasure Chests being a replay mission activity. Fixed bug where the bottom of Rat Queen's Dress wouldn't be greyed out in fog.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/c1e505bc9930a95aa3504bd6063df0e65de6aeb7.png Patch 2.0.0 9/30/2024 Brand New Blitz Mode - A roguelite mode with procedural battles and rewards. Designed to be replayable, challenging, and satisfying. --Blitz Features--

• -Packages: Start each Blitz run with a set of complimentary Perks. Unlock more packages by playing the game and completing certain goals in Blitz Mode.
• -Health is preserved between battles and dead heroes stay dead. Your team will be healed for a small amount at the end of each battle and if a hero sits out for a battle while injured they'll be healed to full. (There are heal Nodes on the Blitz Map that will let you heal your team or revive a fallen hero.)
• -Fight in battles against the enemies from the base game including all the base game enemies and bosses and all the non boss enemies from new game plus (featured in Blitz Mode as very difficult Elite Battles).
• -Acts will be structured similarly between play throughs, but will be different each time you play (IE in act one map nodes on the top half of the map will more often have rat type enemies and enemies on the bottom will more often have goblin type enemies)
• -Bosses will have one of three empowerments that will make some of their moves more dangerous and important to pay attention and respect to.
• -Epic Blitz Only weapons (tier 2-5) that will either cost more or less than is normal for their weapon types to attack and will have powerful skill boosts attached as well.
• -Some Blitz Only specific enemy rebalancing (Bosses especially).

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/198af50df0f8568fa16e1ca9d4159285d6d07455.png --Reward types--

• -Choose from powerful rewards after each battle. Come up with your own broken combinations of heroes and perks.
• -Perks: almost 300 negative and positive perks that will have a heavy impact on battle.
• -Advanced Trainings: each hero has 3 different advanced trainings that will change how they play.
• -Heroes: have heroes join your team in the middle of a Blitz Run: 15 unlockable heroes that will stay unlocked for future Blitz Runs once you've had them join your team.
• -Weapons and Accessories: choose an Item usable by living heroes on your team.
• -Gold/Exp bonus rewards.
• -Perk store: buy positive perks for gold, or take negative perks to gain gold.
• -Perk Trash Cans: positive Perk trash cans force you to either get rid of some of your positive perks, or gain new negative perks. Negative Perk Trash Cans let you remove negative perks and can be saved for later.
• -Permanent Stat Boosts: gain strength, agility, magic, or faith for a hero of your choice, or save this choice for later when you know who'll need what stat.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/f85f7913f0c15306307fd2cb7493fc697df00b30.png --Blitz History--

• -Up to your 100 last runs are recorded in Blitz History, including deleted save files.
• -Track which of the about 300 perks you've seen.
• -Track weapons and accessories you've seen in the Item Glossary.
• -Track Enemies battled and killed in the Blitz Bestiary
• -Tracks Blitz Wins, Losses, Deaths, Longest Win Streak, Etc...

Blitz Mode should be a good experience and lots of fun if you learn the game and force yourself to adapt. There are also some changes made to improve the Game for Blitz Mode that will also affect the base game listed below: --Improved Bestiary--

• -In the Bestiary, enemies weapons and base damage of those weapons will be listed per page: makes it easier for players to remember what damage type an enemy will do with its basic attacks.
• -Enemy skill descriptions more complete: damage types of skills will always be listed in a stand out font with a damage type symbol, negative debuffs will also show symbols to make them pop out of the walls of text.
• -Enemy skill descriptions will only be hidden when playing on Hard difficulty in the base game, they won't be hidden in Blitz, Normal, or Easy.
• -Right Click an enemy to open the bestiary directly to them! This new functionality has been added to 2 load tips and Alex the Archer will tell you about it in the base game. It will even open directly to the move an enemy has prepared.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/cb8bc212ee77d90e818ca1efec2452ab3dd1b6a3.png --Target Lock Keybind--

• -Press L (rebindable) to lock in an enemies movement/attack range. Very useful vs AoE attack you want to escape.
• -Right click or press lock keybind while not targeting an enemy to clear the Lock or it'll clear at end of turn.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/5391f2dbc00e1feb90ac10e829038e0e18fba1ee.png --Random Exp Refund-- If you level up a random stat for a hero, a portion of the cost will be now be reduced. But beware, if you refund experience from a randomly leveled hero, you'll refund less as well. --Buffed Advanced Trainings--

• -Holy One Venerated: now also gives 2x magic scaling to Holy Nova Damage.
• -Holy One Savior: Now sets revive to a 5 turn CD instead of a 6 turn CD.
• -Fairy Fairy Bomb: Fixed a bug where fairy bomb area of effect was bigger than intended.
• -Frog Strong Legs: now also gives one free Leapfrog use per turn.
• -Alchemists Demolitionist: now also reduces base AP cost of bomb trap from 3 to 2.
• -Alchemists Potion Master: now restores a potion every 10 turns instead of 15 (was very ineffective in quicker Blitz battles and I don't mind buffing it for regular mode).
• -Dancer Spin kick: base damage +2.
• -Arbormancer Burnt Timber: advanced training gives Wood Golem +3 AP now instead of +2.
• -Shield Maiden Inspire All: base CD -1: this skill was mostly worse than the +2 AP on interrupt advanced training, this should make it a more competitive choice.
• -Archmage Geomancer: both the Fire and Ice damage can now be triggered at the same time if archmage and target are standing on different burnt/ice ground.
• -Archmage Arcane Energy: now gains an additional 1 damage per empowered element every 10 levels (basically doubles the base bonus multiplier scaling of Magic Dart)
• -Archmage Bookworm: now additionally heals self for faith each time Study is used.
• -Huntress Double Shot: Cooldown reduced to 3 turns from 4.
• -Arcanist Arcane Smash: Strength scaling increased to 3x from 2x.
• -Cosmic Knight Dualism buffed: requires opposite ultimate to be charged rather than
• requiring maximum of the opposite power.
• -Holy One Revive vs Undead now has a 6 second CD (or 3 second CD with the advanced Revive Skill)
• -Cultist Hematologist: changed to be 25% more healing rather than 20%.

--Weapon Scaling Changes--

• 4 Cost weapons that scale with a damage type other than Slash will now gain an extra 1 damage for every 4 of the stat they scale with (Shown as Stat X 1.25 on weapons)
• 4 Cost Slash weapons will now gain 1 extra damage for every 10 agility (Shown as Agility x 1.1 on weapons)
• 3 Cost weapons that scale with a damage type other than Slash will now gain an extra 1 damage for every 5 of the stat they scale with (Shown as Stat X 1.2 on weapons)
• 2 Cost weapons unchanged.
• Some weapons (mostly late game Blunt weapons) had their damage values adjusted.

--More Stat Colors--

• -Stat colors have been added to tooltips throughout the game, from skill scaling tooltips, to weapon scaling.
• -There is also a new color for skill boosts on equipement and all stat boosts on equipment.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/e25167a8606a89006e38fb7e6c3e2ba423e92a9e.png --Hero Changes--

• -Frost Ninja's Ice Clone damage dealt to self when using Ice Shuriken no longer scales with magic, now flatly scales with Ninja's level. (Huge buff for Magic build Frost Ninja)
• -Pirate Pistol now also scales off magic (base line +3 damage).
• -Pirate Rally starting CD is reduced by half of Pirates Item based Rally CD reduction.
• -Toxic Flask will now poison for less when hitting an enemy with an AoE reduction (and hitting more than 1 enemy).
• -Swordman passive changed to give the damage buff whenever no allies are within 3 range: this makes him more powerful on average, but less powerful when running low hero count gimick compositions...
• -Alchemist Apprentice Counter primary resist increased to 25.
• -Martial Artist Counter primary resist increased to 35.
• -Barbarian base HP +10 and Witch base HP +5(Rage based heroes).
• -Dwarf BS gains 5 secondary Block value while Anvil on back.
• -Alchemists Split Up starts on 1 turn CD so you can no longer double flask throw on turn one (without a perks anyways).
• -Arbormancer's Nourish, Dancer's Rescue, and Cultist's Transfuse can now also destroy skeleton bones.
• -Nourish can now be used on the Alch Master and Alch Apprentice while they are seperated (though they are technically not summons, Nourish does mention heroes in fifth column).

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/79a3ec4446e82c2de3f4cf41721d2d7a60263fb5.png --Enemy Changes--

• -Rats summoned by Giant Rat, Glacial Rat, Sewer Rat, Hell Rat now have lower HP values (a rat getting off a call for help was one of the most punishing game mechanics, now it is still important to handle but should be less likely to result in an autowipe if it happens).
• -Lizard Stalker -1 base agility.
• -Skeletons minimum health after repeat revives set to 30 instead of 50 (golden skeletons in Blitz Mode minimum HP also set to 30).
• -Abomination spawns Dredges less frequently.
• -Lots of minor enemy adjustments

--BUG FIXES--

• -Added new initial load screen to reduce first opening lag.
• -Fixes to quite a few holy dragon bugs.
• -Divine Piroutte, Void Zone, and Sand Storm will no longer be unable to trigger Goblin Shinobi's Kwarmi.
• -Void Zone, and Divine Piroutte will no longer be able to trigger Brigand's Cross Slash.
• -Grim Visage can now trigger Gator Brutes Claws (doesn't seem like that big of a deal vs the other enemy special counters).
• -Skills that ignore block direction will no longer be able to deal trigger bonus behind damage.

Mountains of obscure bug fixes and other changes not mentioned here.. this is a HUGE patch. You can delve in the Blitz Development Patch Notes History in game to find out more on those....

Patch 1.1.00 This patch includes a big block of changes: mostly focused on making the base game play better. Some setup is being done behind the scenes for a new rogue like game mode that will be released at a later date. TLDR: Can swap weapons between heroes in equip menu. Can equip directly to heroes when crafting or when buying for a specific hero. Mouse over resists have a background and resist type Icons. Confirm movement route is now a more pronounced Pinkish arrow instead of a thin yellow dotted line. 3/31/2024

CRAFTING/SHOPS/ITEMS
• Added the ability to swap weapons with other heroes in the equip menu: was very awkward if you wanted to swap weapons between two heroes: you'd have to swap one of them to a different temporary weapon. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/ebc7dc302fbf71183accb8b42963be47e7b6e94a.png
• Swap weapon options will always show up first in the list regardless of sort method.
• Save/Load Teams will now swap weapons if both heroes can use a weapon when loading a team.
• MASSIVE improvements to Hero Specific Store buying/selling: you'll be able to see currently equipped items and current hero you're shopping for on the right, when you click an item while in Buy mode the item's bar will replaced with an "equip this item?" bar that upon clicking will equip the item to the current hero (this way you don't have to go equip items each time you buy items for a specific hero!) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/88aff8d97ad62954a73b64fe579396b231270106.png
• HEFTY optimization: crafting/equipping/store should all load options faster.
• New icons added to crafting menus to show where weapons start and where accessories start. (also added to hero specific store options)
• Crafting: Own count now shows in the top left (to make room for weapon/accessory small icons)
• Crafting: items that take 6 + materials will now have their material words scrunched up a bit to make room for the Own Count of the item below.
• Crafting will now let you equip a crafted item directly on a hero by clicking on their portrait while on the craft confirm screen. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/9145f576e7480941758d1ab298eb9993183ce572.png
• Crafted message will now color match to items rarity.
• Philo store now says "Transmuted -Item Name-" instead of "Bought -Item Name-".
• Philo store, regular store will now have color matching to items rarity in their bought/transmuted messages.
• Philo store sorting added, weapon/accessory icons added.
• Philo store dupe glitch fixed.
• Player main stats will also show in bottom right equipment preview for crafting.
• AWAY label added to the red portraits on equipment usable by portraits when a hero is unavailable but not dead. AWAY and DEAD labels added to hero specific button in crafting/shop when appropriate.
• Fixed a bug where the hero specific button highlight layer would sometimes be behind the button.
• Crafting: confirm page will now show missing/dead strings over red portraits.
• Fixed bug where crafting an accessory wouldn't show the E for equipped on heroes if crafting an accessory usable by all heroes and the crafted accessory had a space in it's name.
• Added Stat colors to weapons/accessory tooltips. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/b8366584c7cbf435060edf43381a471f39ccefb8.png
• Strength stat color changed to a nice Salmon instead of a red that was too similar to the
• "negative red" color.
• Magic stat color changed to a darker blue to differntiate it from the rare item blue color.
• Stat gain tooltips for weapons/accessories reworded: Instead of "Strength +2" it would
• now say "+2 Strength".
• Early game Epic Bone crafted weapons have had a 2nd modifier added to them to make them more exciting: if this stat boost would increase the weapon damage the weapon damage has been reduced by the same amount. (examples: bone blade now raises magic by 1, bone g axe now raises str by 1 but has 1 less base damage)
• Fixed Omega Tachi weapon tooltip to show the bonus Full HP damage that it was giving.
• Wooden sword (Swordman and frost ninja starting weapon) damage type changed to slash: didn't like that they started with blunt damage but switched to slash later: could've caused some confusion.
• Katana weapon now gives 2% Critical Chance.
• Iron Hammer now gives +1 elemental smash damage.
• Lycan Crest accessory buffed (Cosmic Knight's t10 unique)
• Crafting/equip menus new highlights added for if you're looking at weapons/accessories/materials.
• Bone Cutlass now also reduces Rally CD by 2.
• Added new accessory power: increases damage with basic attacks by a %. This bonus is multiplicative. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/8cdfbae2494cb671e84e181ef38e89831f57a11d.png
• Appears on three new accessories that have been added to monster loot tables in the base game (tier 3, tier 8, tier 10)
• Changed how rounding works with selling items at store.
• Fixed store/crafting to not 'Spoil' the names of locked heroes when trying to buy/sell/craft for a
• specific locked hero with no items available.
• Weapon loot tooltip if in the 4th column and having an extended tooltip going off screen fixed.
• Excute and Mercy Modifiers on gear are now seperate multipliers: very rare to have gear with both Execute and Mercy equipped but it would create a problem where enemies below 30% HP but above 25% HP wouldn't gain execute bonus because of the negative overall execute number.
• Items with negative execute chance will now say -XX% Mercy instead of -XX% Execute.
• Changed tooltip for Execute to say "Separate Multiplier" rather than "calculated before damage" to more clearly explain how execute functions (and what makes it potentially more impactful than some of the other damage types that are additive with resists)
• Items when buying/selling for a specific hero will now show only boosts for the current hero instead of cycling through different skill boosts (the old way was making it hard to see what a given item would do for current hero).
• Bonus dmg vs allies on accessories shows as red now, and minus damage to allies shows as green. ----------------- SKILL FIXES/CHANGES
• Can create arrows with archer on the body of Dead Arbormancer.
• Fixed Arcane Energy> archmage advanced skill tooltip to properly show the bonus damage: This was a Tooltip bug only.
• Updates to some of the potion big art: color contrast + capacity for some mid potions.
• Field Mixer advanced skill can now exceed potion max capacity (but can never fill potion over 3 charges)
• Fixed bug with move + skill and certain skills.
• Fixed bug with Sandman self destruct on map edge.
• Arcane Swap Arcanist skill won't unlock until level 2.
• Some advanced skill tooltips would show up on characters that weren't yet level 5.
• Fixed One of the witch advanced skills that would trigger only at level 6 not at level 5....
• Warden tooltips changed to say "friendly damage/dmg" instead of friendly fire.
• Barkeep passive tooltip visual bug fixed.
• Stat gem sprites updated.
• Arcanist passive tooltip now includes Spellblade scaling off level info.
• Arcanist Arcane Swap base CD lowered to 3, cooldown with Arcane Master advanced skill is now zero!
• Added special dual element cursors to Archmage dual element skills and some other character dual element skills.
• Dragoon Jump marker will show up much quicker (and canceled jumps will have the Dragoon return to party much quicker)
• Assassin hero unlock bio Energy Pill wording changed. ----------------- UI FIXES/CHANGES
• Changed the sorting order of resists to match the order of resist types when guarding: helps with readability.
• Changed fire damage icon size to more closely match size of other damage type icons.
• Changed frost damage icon to more closely match size/theme of other damage type icons.
• Added damage type icons to moused over target resists, detailed hero resists etc.
• Added a grey backing box to moused over resists to make them easier to read. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/b6c7a526d7888f7e0c0a17317ec86f5a6314463b.png
• Guard icons will now swap for the new resist icons on moused over resists and detailed stats resists.
• Reworked the movement path lines into a thicker red arrow (for confirm movement mode). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/5f6a5a99868b6be98d7e2990dd98b1c376d31068.png
• Move to use skill range 1 skills also uses the new visual path code.
• Enemy bottom left will no longer show barrier/shell amounts (it had some problems when late game bosses with over 1000 max HP had a barrier and it never really showed up for a useful amount of time anyways: barrier amount can still be seen when mousing over targets next to their bottom right large life bar.
• Load Menu: hero level will now show up in the top left of current teams portraits.
• Enemy special words now have a background bar to make them more legible on bottom right portrait: will fuse with the resist background once there are at least 4 resists revealed (resist positioning adjusted when 3 or less resists are revealed to be more centered). {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41643925/cc0a435706f3d745dc612fef256f7b3941bcfbf4.png
• Fixed bug with enemy's bottom left portrait on their turn showing guard type in red as well as showing ??? instead of current block type.
• Stat mouseover tooltips in Organize Team properly aligned.
• Advanced Ability training screen: left most skill will now have 2 pixels between it and the next skill just like the pixel count between middle choice and the choice on the right.
• Fixed bug where NG+ Campaign 8 outro materials screen would sometimes fail to show.
• Fixed a bug where if you booted up a save file with food buffs and started a mission, and then when to a save file without food buffs, the escape menu would show the previous save's food buff tooltip (this was a visual bug only, had no effect on player stats).
• Confirm attack arrow indicator position fixed up and no longer doubled up in specific situation.
• Fixed tooltip bug for respec amount to properly show 80% when 90%/100% haven't been unlocked.
• Fixed issue with alchemist apprentice organize team declaring guard type as dodge when it is supposed to be counter.
• Fixed issue with guard cost reduction when hero was in the first Team Slot.
• Added new tooltip when unlocking heroes that will show damage types the hero can deal in the top right.
• Bestiary formating changed: will fill left page and then right page rather than cutting across the top. Also added special formating for final page of NG+ Bestiary.
• Fixed a bug when selecting Golden Skeleton (NG+ enemy) in Bestiary.
• Difficulty selection screen buttons moved left to better center them as a whole.
• Added big hero portraits left of the Unlock hero button when unlocking new heroes.
• Recruiting new heroes will show damage types of that hero in a new tooltip in the top right of screen. ----------------- Misc Changes/Bug Fixes
• Fixed some references in Campaign 4 premission: Blood Farm was sometimes refered to as Blood Banks.
• Rat Queen rat wheel squeak SFX volume lowered.
• Rat Queen spikes will now slightly open when they are the next spikes to be activated.
• NG + Rat Queen spikes are arranged in lines instead of a checkers pattern.
• Put in a catch to find broken saves: any games saved using this version will still cause problems with older version of the game
• Fixed a bug where spawning new dummys on the training dummy level and then killing them would mess with the count of overall training Dummys.
• Training Dummy level: spawn stat gem tooltip will now update to say unusable based on conditions.
• Fixed a bug where if Randall was surrounded on mission 1-3 when he was released, his smoke bomb effect would show up not centered on his character.
• Fixed minor bug that a brief load screen would flicker when trying to access organize team at the very beginning of the game before you have it unlocked as an option.
• Fixed some font issues in specific tooltips.
• Fixed a bug where rat mission 2 was sometimes unbeatable when replaying it after already beating it.
• Most enemys with a stun can no longer stun an already stunned target.
• Stunned floating text is now purple instead of white.
• Some wording/spelling issues fixed.
• Added special zoomed in TOME art when reading the secret Tome in Dracula's Chambers.
• Fixed dialogue bug with secret Tome in Dracula's chamber.
• Fixed an extra pixel on barbarian's Shredder weapon idle frame 0.
• Fixed Demon's Bane weapon unlock to auto update weapon info.
• Fixed bug where some protect objectives (caliburn, jeno gates) would take damage at end of turn from having negative ap for the AP to HP conversion.

Minor patch, fixing a few bugs and making a few changes for a new game mode I'm working on. 2/1/2024

• Fixed bug where clicking delete after deleting a save file would highlight the already deleted save file instead of greying it out.
• Save File name color now reflects game difficulty.
• Save file bar color changes based on if its a new save slot, a base game save, or a Blitz/Roguelite save (coming soon).
• Skipping the tutorial will now properly update team rank experience (visual bug only) before starting first mission.
• Fixed bug where organize team tutorial could glitch, missing part of the tutorial and delaying explaining to player how to Hide Mission Select UI.
• Changed the Can Level Up message in hero select to no longer include an Equal Sign.
• Added a tip to first two times you have dialogue with the Barkeep explaining how to speed up dialogue.
• Minor updates to Copy Save file: now shows save file difficulty color and the message about the save file currently being copied should stand out more.

Patch 1.0.16f 2/20/2023 Changed the unlock message when beating Jpeak and Jpeak NG+ to mention not using Checkpoints instead of 'not using shortcuts'. Should be less confusing this way. Fixed the food unlocked from killing vampires to give a different buff than the food from giant spiders: will now give a small crit damage boost.

1/5/2023

• Poison Claws Accessory buffed (1 all stats instead of 1 str 1 agi, costs more mats to craft)
• Fixed a glitch between already opened chests and HB/DO knockbacks: the offending knockbacks will now destroy opened chests.
• HB 'looking for blood' will now face the closest player.
• HB will stop tracking lowest HP during its turn after Beak Peck is used.
• Fixed a camera glitch on 5-2 and 10-2 when you're replaying the mission.
• Removed 2 x trees from H Bear mission.
• Removed some debug lines from crafting menus.
• Put in a catch to fix very rare broken HB situation to auto end turn much quicker.

Patch 1.0.16f 12/1/2022

• Fixed bug where the 'No Enemies' banner would reappear and stay stuck on screen if you changed font styles.
• Fixed back stab dagger indicators to not show once stabbers have been killed.
• FIXED Barbarian passive spelling: changed from beserk to berserk.
• Fixed a small font issue where right parenthesis with the white text was 1 pixel off.

11/4/2022

• Snake Cleric and Priestess will now have indicators for their Holy Fire moves. (It was asking too much for players to figure out and remember 3 vastly different AoE attacks)
• Rat Stabbers will now have a backstab indicator when mousing over them: a flashing knife will show behind their marked target showing where they will try to backstab from.
• Manual Camera Speed scaled down when in fast forward mode (moving with Cam with WASD and zooming speed slowed down to 1.25 x faster than normal rather than 3 x faster than normal)
• Applying Death Palm to a Snake Cleric/Priestess that has a holy fire Icon over their head will now shift the holy fire icon so they don't overlap.
• Fixed glitch where Cultist's transfuse on a hero that then dies before the heal hits would heal the dead target.
• Fixed glitch where Cultist Profane advanced skill wasn't working for certain enemies that explode on death.
• Hell Overlord on NG+ Campaign 6 Level 2 will now keep NG+ bonus unless his natural powered up amount is higher than 2.
• Fixed Gargoyle Soul item typo that said all party members would benefit from the bonus end of turn AP to HP ratio.
• Holy One portrait rework: no longer has a prominent nose on bigger sprite art, smaller portrait now has a visible mouth line to match in game animation.

Patch 1.0.16e 10/28/2022

• Crafting Menu sorted by tier and then rarity rather than purely by alphabet. (will still always show all weapons and then all accessories)
• Philosopher's shop will now sort by tier and then rarity rather than low to high tier.
• Fixed issue where level 1 Enchantress could have access to Infuse Crystal Skill while not having her passive.
• Store Sell All by right clicking has been changed to only sell 10 per right click.
• Fixed problem with special hero selects and the new refund XP amount tooltip.
• Fixed a few bestiary loot mistakes.
• Items crafted from Chicken Feathers will now abbreviate the Chicken Feather to C Feathers to prevent text from going off screen edge when Feathers would be purchased from the Shop.
• Dyrnwyn, Daliburn gold value increased.
• Crafting Omega Tachi required ancient bones reduced to 2 from 4.

Patch 1.0.16d 10/25/2022

• Added turns remaining numbers for Chill and Poison effects. Mousing over a character or selecting them will show numbers for how many turns these debuffs will last.
• Poison word coloring changed to be less pink/bright.
• Death Palm turn tracking will stay showing when Enemy is taking turn.
• Death Palm turn tracking number color changed to have a tint of red.
• New limit added to Bobby's Boon, Horazon's Seal, and Strange Magic level for killing summons: can now only boost skills 10 times from killing summons (regular enemies still have no limit).
• Fixed tooltip for equipment with skill boosts to Martial Artist's Elemental Fist: now says E. Fist dmg +x instead of Ele P. dmg +x.
• Fixed glitch where you could move+attack into disabled spaces/walls in a specific situation(example level 1 of Campaign 4's spider cavern).
• Fixed issue where Not Enough AP message/AP cost to attack messages on mouse over were sometimes incorrect when rapidly swapping moused over target.
• Added No Path mouse over messages/click messages when trying to target someone with a one range skill/attack that is surrounded on all sides.
• Added a 'choose skill location' message when using the 'skills can move' menu option and you click any target rather than choosing a location to move to.

Patch 1.0.16c 10/24/2022

• Added skill scaling tooltips onto hero tooltips for each stat: these will be the same tooltips you would normally see when going to level up a hero: Example: Mousing over Strength for Shield Maiden will show the damage Shield Bash gains per point.
• Reworded arbormancer passives scaling info: was too big for tooltip box.
• Fixed Hero Select summon resist values (weren't matching actual in game amounts).
• Hero Select stat tooltip colors will now match proper stat colors.
• Skill Scaling word for these tooltips (in level up and hero select) is now green.

Patch 1.0.16b 10/20/2022

• On the craft confirm screen, you can now mouse over usable hero portraits to see what item they currently have equipped (in the bottom right of screen).
• When crafting an item usable by all heroes, the 'Everyone' bar in the craft confirm screen will be replaced with every unlocked hero's portrait so you can compare equipped equipment.
• When crafting items w/ more than 6 ingredients that also required gold, the gold cost tooltip will no longer be covered up by the craft confirm message.
• Crafting menu buttons now instantly mouse overable instead of the old strange delay (should also be less laggy).
• Fixed a spelling mistake with Apocalypse enemy skill.
• Fixed a glitch when Terrify advanced skill would proc the auto burrow on an Ash Shark.
• Fixed 'Back to Crafting' button (was working off if you had hero 20 instead of 21 for detecting if it should show or not).
• Fixed a pretty serious glitch where crafting with a philo stone that needed to be bought from store wouldn't decrease the philo stone count in store.

10/17/2022

• Reaching 50% through Rank 8 will now increase the amount of EXP refunded when refunding EXP from 80% to 90% of total spent EXP. This will be retroactively added to anyone Team Rank 9 or higher.
• Barkeep conversation about leveling up will now include information about refund amounts.
• Refund amount % will now be included below Refund Exp tooltip.
• Hitting Exit game in escape menu will now just say 'Exit Game?' instead of the confusing 'Save and Exit Game?' that made some player think there was a suspend save option.
• Fixed a bug where Exit Game wasn't properly rewarding exp from monster kills.
• Moved 'Map' words from map tooltip to not overlap with the bonus campaign words.
• Added new back to crafting buttons to all 3 crafting types: will only show if at least 1 other crafting type is unlocked.

Patch 1.0.15e 10/14/2022

• Enchantress secret skill Meteor no longer damages self when Warden with Insulate Advanced Skill is present.
• Fixed glitches on Lizard Wars 3 (and LW NG+ 3) where certain glitch areas were accessible when knocked back.

Patch 1.0.15d 10/6/2022

• Changed Rat Reaper bestiary entry to say Shadow Crash instead of saying Execute.
• Guarding when going back to campaign 1 and 2 missions after completing the first mission of campaign 3 will now show all guard options.
• Fixed it to no longer say 'Chains has died.' in combat log when destroying chains from Rat executioner/reaper.
• Fixed an issue where scripted highlights behind some objects in Hero Lodge interior were glitched if the base object had been rotated.
• Added 'World Map' word tooltip when mousing over the clickable map in Hero Lodge interior.
• Fixed bug where you could mouse over certain enemies while on click to continue load screen and
• 'T to expand' tracker tooltip would show up.
• World map will now show current location as an X (whether at Hero Lodge or on an Away Mission).

Rushed a patch to make all resolution options visible even if the game cannot detect that your monitor will support them: if the game thinks it isn't supported it will show as a red button and have a warning tooltip but will still let you try it out. Hit escape to cancel any changes from the options menu if a resolution isn't working.

• Changed campaign 1 checkpoints to save when exiting a level: these check points will be cleared if any level is beaten, or if any other checkpoint is saved.
• (these types of checkpoints are only present in campaign 1 on normal or easy difficulty)
• A small flag icon will show on the mission's bar to show there is a checkpoint.
• Added 2 new higher resolutions in the options menu: these higher resolutions should only show if your monitor is capable of running them.
• Added new pixel filters for the new resolutions.
• Options menu will now have a background while in menus to make it easier to read.
• 1 range skills can move option now has tooltips.
• All resolutions now have tooltips showing the pixel ratio.
• Fixed some campaign one checkpoint bugs: turn wasn't updating in top left, some levels had corner case glitches that should be fixed, etc.
• Allies that cannot be targeted changed to have purple text name and class on mouse over.

7/11/2022 Lots of minor obscure bug fixes and a few small accessory rebalances.

• Fixed an issue where getting Alex the archer below 30% health with Shield Bash when interrupting actions is being explained would cause a minor glitch.
• Reduced height of tallest tree type 2.
• Fixed a frame drop during opening Shieldmaiden car cutscene.
• Evil Trinket craftable accessory buffed to give +2 Faith.
• Fixed a visual font bug with items that remove AP to HP conversion (Evil Trinket and Zen Waistband).
• Skoot Boots reduced to -30% behind penalty from -25%.
• Random character button will now be force highlighted when selected.
• Fixed a glitch where exiting out of the opening mission and then later skipping it would give Shieldmaiden a blank name (will now default her name to "Lena" in this specific situation).
• Fixed glitch with taking the checkpoint on the caliburn level while only having 1 - 2 heroes in party: sword would be invisible (facing the wrong direction).