Ok, the first news is that Children of Zodiarcs is NOW AVAILABLE ON MAC! Woo! Please note that there is a known bug where the option to Disable Controller resets to its default value each time you launch the game. It's not desirable, and we're still trying to figure out how to fix the underlying problem.
The other news is that Patch 1.0.3 is now released. It contains:
BALANCING
- Late game Story Missions are now guaranteed to drop specific dice
- Reduced the difficulty of several Skirmishes and Elite Skirmishes
- Increased the number of guaranteed dice given after completing missions
TEXT
- Properly localised text (Italian, German, Spanish) in the options menu and new game menu
BUG FIX
- Completing Story Mission 5 by defeating all enemies now unlocks both "This is OUR turf" and "Children's Stories" achievements
- One of Xero's cards now has the correct key word text
PATCH NOTES: Patch 1.0.2 is now available!
Howdy, players.
Patch 1.0.2 for Children of Zodiarcs is now live for everyone.
The big focus of this patch was adjusting the game's difficulty, making fast-forward available during hero attack animations, more camera control so walls are blocking your view, added some quality of life features, and adjusting XP so Nahmi's levels doesn't out-pace other heroes.
There was also a bug where enemies were always too weak in Skirmishes which meant that they were giving way less XP then they should have.
Here are the full patch notes:
CONTROLS
- Feature: Added the ability to fast-forward hero attack animations by holding LMB or A (X360 controller)
- Feature: Added the ability to change the pitch of the camera by holding RMB and moving mouse up/down, or R-Stick up/down (X360 controller). Zoom on controller is moved to LT and RT
- Feature: Separate options to invert camera Y-axis or X-axis can be found in the Options Menu
- Feature: Added the ability to browse a unit's cards while viewing their stats when playing with a controller
- Feature: You can scroll the World Map with the arrow keys when playing with mouse+keyboard
- Feature: You can now cycle through your heroes with TAB when playing with mouse+keyboard
- Feature: Wrap around list of cards in deck builder when playing with controller
BALANCING
- Feature: Added an option that adjusts the levels of enemies in Story Mission to your party level to alleviate grinding. Available only in Normal Mode.
- Feature: Scaling of enemy levels is now set to average between your highest and lowest hero levels
- Tweak: Adjusted the way XP is given when using multiple cards in a row. Nahmi will no longer sky rocket in levels ahead of the other team members!
- Tweak: Adjusted the difficulty of Side Missions 2, 3, and 4
- Tweak: Adjusted the difficulty of some Skirmishes that were near-impossible to beat without 1 or 2 heroes dying
SAVE SYSTEM
- Feature: Suspend is now called Mid-Battle Save and returns you to the ongoing battle instead of the Title Screen
BUGFIX
- Fixed Game Ending being sometime triggered at the end of a Skirmish of map 11
- Enemies in Skirmishes are 1 level higher so now they give proper XP. Before they were giving 50% of the XP they should have been giving.
Patch 1.0.2 is available for beta testing
Hi all,
Patch 1.0.2 is ready to go and available on the test branch first!
Those of you who wish to test the new update before it goes live for everyone, will be able to do so by accessing it on the dedicated testing branch. This branch is available to everyone who owns the game. You can access that via this method:
- Right click on 'Children of Zodiarcs' in your library
- Go to properties > BETAS
- Click on the 'select the beta you would like to opt into' from the drop down menu chose 'testing - Public beta test branch' and huzzah the testing branch should begin to update, ready for you to play.
**Note that if you use the test branch, you should back up your saves for safety. You can find the save files at this location on your PC:
C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Cardboard Utopia\Children of Zodiarcs\Saves
The purpose of this test branch is to verify that the changes we’ve made to the game don’t negatively impact any of the rest of the game experience. It would be great if you want to jump on and take a look! This branch will be taken offline shortly after the main branch is updated tomorrow (assuming everything goes according to plan with the build on the test branch). If you do help us test the patch, please let us know. If you have any feedback from the test, then please let us know in the technical support forum!
PATCH NOTES
Controls - Feature: Added the ability to fast-forward hero attack animations by holding LMB or A (X360 controller)
- Feature: Added the ability to change the pitch of the camera by holding RMB and moving mouse up/down, or R-Stick up/down (X360 controller). Zoom on controller is moved to LT and RT
- Feature: Separate options to invert camera Y-axis or X-axis can be found in the Options Menu
- Feature: Added the ability to browse a unit's cards while viewing their stats when playing with a controller
- Feature: You can now cycle through your heroes with TAB when playing with mouse & KB
- Tweak: Wrap around list of cards in deck builder when playing with controller
Balancing - Feature: Added an option that adjusts the levels of enemies in Story Mission to your party level to alleviate grinding. Available only in Normal Mode.
- Feature: Scaling of enemy levels is now set to average between your highest and lowest hero levels
- Tweak: Adjusted the way XP is given when using multiple cards in a row. Nahmi will no longer sky rocket in levels ahead of the other team members!
- Tweak: Adjusted the difficulty of the Side Missions and some of the Skirmishes
Save - Feature: Suspend is now called Mid-Battle Save and returns you to the ongoing battle instead of the Title Screen
Bug Fixes[
- Fixed Game Ending being sometime triggered at the end of a Skirmish of map 11
Thanks![
PATCH NOTES: Patch 1.0.1 is now available!
Howdy, players.
Patch 1.0.1 is now live for Children of Zodiarcs. Here are the patch notes:
Tweaks and adjustments
Fast forward enemy turn feature has been added. Hold the buttons down shown in the top-right corner to speed up the game during Enemy Phase.
Difficulty adjustments in Story Missions 4 and 5. Be aware that if you have Suspend saves in missions 4 or 5, these difficulty changes will not show up. Your manual and Auto save slots are fine so if you want these changes, start missions 4 or 5 from the beginning.
Tweaked XP system so it's now easier to level-up your under-leveled heroes. Now when you do 0 HP damage, you will get proper amount of XP.
Reduced the strength of the beige background during dialogue
Bug fixes
Fixed the bug where enemies in Story Mission 8 do not level scale in Hard difficulty
Fixed the bug where if Xero is heavily under-leveled and he gains XP from attacking /counter-attacking an enemy, he gains thousands of XP and it takes several minutes for all of it to count up. However, if he has massive amounts of XP overflow, it will still count it each time but it will slowly deplete each time he gains XP and levels up. It's not a perfect solution, but with this bug fix it'll eventually end and he'll return to normal.
Fixed duplicate text in the art book (Collector's Edition / Upgrade only)
If you encounter any problems or bugs with CoZ ver1.0.1, please post the issues in the Technical Support subforum.
Thanks!
1.0.1 Patch goes live soon! Includes Enemy Turn Fast-Forward and more
Hello everyone! We would like to thank each and every one of you for helping to make Children of Zodiarcs the fantastic success that the game is shaping up to be. Even during these early days, the game has remained toward the top of the New & Trending list on Steam and we'd like to thank you all for your continued support!
Your positive impact on the game doesn’t stop there. Over the few days since Children of Zodiarcs release, we’ve been keenly trawling the forums, social media and streams/youtube videos for all kinds of feedback from you, our community. A few items have come up that we’re eager to address and thanks to your feedback we're able to make the game a better experience for our players. ! Let’s take a look at a few of the items.
Enemy Turn Speed Quite a few of you have mentioned that the duration of the combat can sometimes be a tad frustrating. To tackle this we are going to implement a feature where you can hold down a button to increase the game speed x5 during the enemy turn. This will allow you to spend more time focusing on your own tactics. Please note that in the next patch (1.0.2) we will make it so you can fast-forward more than just the enemy turn.
Difficulty Adjustments The difficulty curve wasn’t quite where we wanted it to be. We’ve made progress through missions 4 and 5 slightly smoother.
!!! - IMPORTANT SAVE GAME INFO - PLEASE READ - !!! In order to make these changes, some of Children of Zodiarcs game state elements will update. This will result in “Suspend” saves in missions 4 and 5 becoming corrupt. Manual (non-Suspend) and Auto saves will remain safe. In order to avoid losing progress, please ensure that your most recent game save is either an automatic or manual save, as any Suspend saves will likely be lost. Please ensure that you’ve done this before 9AM BST/1AM PDT on the 21st of July 2017.
Testing Branch Those of you who wish to test the new update before it goes live for everyone, will be able to do so by accessing it on the dedicated testing branch. This branch is available to everyone who owns the game. You can access that via this method:
- Right click on 'Children of Zodiarcs' in your library
- Go to properties > BETAS
- Click on the 'select the beta you would like to opt into' from the drop down menu chose 'testing - Public beta test branch' and huzzah the testing branch should begin to update, ready for you to play.
**Note that if you use the test branch, you should back up your saves for safety. You can find the save files at this location on your PC:
C:\Users\[YOUR USER NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Cardboard Utopia\Children of Zodiarcs\Saves
The purpose of this test branch is to verify that the changes we’ve made to the game don’t negatively impact any of the rest of the game experience. It would be great if you want to jump on and take a look! This branch will be taken offline shortly after the main branch is updated tomorrow (assuming everything goes according to plan with the build on the test branch). If you do help us test the patch, please let us know. Any bugs you encounter with the patch, please post them here.
BUG FIX: No enemy scaling in Story Mission 8 Hard difficulty Only occurs in Hard difficulty. Wrong setting. Will be fixed. Changes will not carry over to Suspend saves in mission 8 on Hard, but won't cause any corruption or problems.
(Possible) BUG FIX: Xero XP We're still looking into this one, where Xero gains 1m XP and you have to wait for it to finish counting. This will not be in the testing branch but we're working to get it into the final patch 1.0.1 release.
Thank you all for your support and feedback. We can’t wait to get this update out to you and make Children of Zodiarcs even better!
Children of Zodiarcs is now available!!
Greetings, everyone!
Today marks the culmination of 3 years of hard work by our humble indie studio in Montreal: the release of Children of Zodiarcs!! This game being released into the wild for everyone to play and enjoy is seriously a dream come true for us. It’s been an extraordinary adventure, one that we’ve been so honoured and proud to have shared with all of you, from the early believers of the United Collective of Square Enixia, to the locals here at Steam-landia, the People’s Republic of Kickstartra, the ephemeral and always chatting Twittonians and their rivals in the Facebookburgs, and finally the nomads of Montreal….town. :2016popsicle:
But seriously, we’ve been so lucky to have the support of such a great community. We hope you’ll enjoy playing this crazy little dream we’ve made. And if you haven’t seen it yet, please check out and pass around the game’s launch trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAQ6zMkCURQ
For those of you interested in the music or art of Children of Zodiarcs, please check out the Collector’s Edition or Collector’s Upgrade.
And finally, we’d love to hear what you have to say about the game, so please, let us know what you think over in the game’s Community Hub. For any bugs or problems, please visit this thread.
Again, from the whole team of Cardboard Utopia, THANK YOU!
Children of Zodiarcs Release Date!
Good news, everyone!
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And by "good news", I mean "GREAT NEWS!"
We are happy to announce that Children of Zodiarcs will be coming out on July 18th, 2017. Mark the date, and in the meantime, make sure to take a look at our updated trailer with all new gameplay footage!
Just head on over to the Children of Zodiarcs store page.... or just click the video below :2016popsicle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6c18mgFfMA
CoZ Beta Update (ver 0.0.7.1)
Howdy howdy people!
Last night (April 16) we updated the Beta build. You should see v0.0.7.1 in the bottom right of the title screen.
French, Italian, German, and Spanish language support! Please try it out and let us know if there are issues!!!!
Now contains all missing lines of story dialog. Hurray!
Go here to post bugs: http://steamcommunity.com/app/436290/discussions/0/133261907135064214/
Go here to post feedback: http://steamcommunity.com/app/436290/discussions/0/133261907145499929/
Go here to post text errors: http://steamcommunity.com/app/436290/discussions/0/133262848298139809/
This update includes a number of fixes:
Black background behind the white text in the prologue
Removed the floating text in all the Skirmishes (please report if you see any)
No music in some missions when you skip the cutscene (M4, M5, etc)
Slint's "Dust to Dust" card's Hold ability now lasts the proper 1 full turn
Dice are no longer hidden behind the caster and target UI elements
Stalker and Zealot have their ragdolls now
Replaced the game's Unity logo with a proper CoZ one
Mission 7: the light ray turning black at certain camera angles is fixed
Zirchhoff's "Get. Back. Up." and "You're in My Way" and "Crashing Down" now have correct descriptions
There are several other fixes in there, but there's been a lot so it's a bit hard to remember them all.
Children of Zodiarcs X Square Enix Collective!
Hello. For those that may not know, Children of Zodiarcs will be published by Square Enix Collective!
