Death or Glory
Bug fix
Minor Bug Fix
Trick or Treating in Version 1.2.0
Patch Highlights
• New Adventure Map: Qian Shou returns for the ultimate challenge in an adventure through the Otherworld.
• New Boss Encounter: X’athky the Spider Priestess will appear randomly as a boss encounter in various maps across Corum.
• New Cards: Over 20 new full art cards will be unlocked automatically after the update!
• New Skins: Seven new skins and an alternate art celebrating the champion of the grand tournament will be available in the store.
• Matchmaking Update: New matchmaking settings for Dueling Mode.
• Clan Feature: Clans are now open to all players.
• Battle Stage Customization: Players can now freely customize battle stages.
• Card Balances: Adjustments made to Card Cache cards.
• Bug Fixes: Various improvements and text enhancements.
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New Adventure Map – The Otherworld
Qian Shou returns to Corum to issue her final challenge. Face the Living Legend in The Otherworld, where every card you draft matters and every choice you make creates a unique deck for the fight of your life. This pocket dimension houses the most challenging opponents, equipped with X cards and game-changing mutators that will push you to make bold plays and unique combos for victory. Don’t fear, as a mysterious energy in The Otherworld will grant you extraordinary power and enhance the drops you receive as you traverse its lands. Unveil the mysteries as you delve deep into the abyss.
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New Adventure Boss – X’athky the Spider Priestess
Escape the webs of destiny spun by the Spider Priestess from the northern tribes, where she has woven her domain of arachnids throughout the caverns of death. Her army's tunnels connect different continents across Corum, allowing her passage wherever she desires. Starting this update, X’athky will appear randomly as a boss encounter in Adventure Maps. Be cautious—her deadly legs can pierce the very soul from your body!
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A Gift from Us – 23 Full Art Cards Available Now!
After the update, all players will have access to 23 full art cards across all 11 champions in the game. Enhance your deck with stunning artwork and enjoy your combos even more with a hand full of delight!
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New Seasonal Collections Ready in the Shop
With the holiday season approaching, the shop is stocked with new skins and alternate art:
• Roxxor – Van Gogh: Paint, splash, create! Don't judge a book by its cover. The robust giant of the forests may have large hands and cumbersome movements, but his dexterity rivals that of the masters. Showcase your combos with Roxxor in his new Van Gogh outfit!
• Sora – S Pop: Shoot for the stars and aim for the galaxy! Sora dazzles with her spells and wands, while her voice melts hearts with every beat. Take the stage with Sora, the upcoming top idol!
• Taj – Undertaker: The cycle of life and death mirrors a journey through the Nile—quiet, peaceful, and solemn. Join Taj on his path of redemption as the undertaker of life.
• Enryu – Nidhogg: Be reborn as nature’s judgment against mankind in the spirit of destruction. Rise
from the flames to abolish greed and restore Mother Nature to its perfection.
• Lee and Redeye – Deathmatch: Capture the essence of Death or Glory in stunning artwork as Lee and Redeye face off in a climactic battle. Collect the dynamic duo in an alternate ink style to complete your collection!
• Susan – Artemis: Congratulations to Outer Heaven, the winning clan from last month’s Clan Wars event. Victory shines upon you, and the heavens praise your glory. Susan, embodying the spirit of Artemis, will join your celebration as the top clan of the Arena! Every member of Outer Heaven will receive this skin for free after the update!
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Alternate Art – Force Multiplier (A.T.A.C.R)
Congratulations to Majstor, the top Champion of the world! After numerous hard-fought battles, we celebrate all players who joined the Grand Tournament with an alternate art card of Force Multiplier, the trophy card our champion has chosen. All contenders will receive a code through Discord to unlock this special prize in-game.
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New Matchmaking Settings
New matchmaking options are now available in the options menu, allowing players to control the type of queue they wish to enter for PVP. These settings will override existing conditions and matchmaking rules.
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Clans Feature
Clans are back! After this update, all players can create their own clans and gather members into their team. Players can also leave their current clan and join another one if they choose. All controls will remain accessible within the clan leaderboard tab from the top bar.
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Battle Stage Customization
A new feature allows players to customize the appearance of the battle stage during combat. Over 10 backgrounds from across the game have been added to the library of selectable battle stages, including some new ones as a special treat.
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Card Balancing
Lee – Like the Wind and Like the Wind X
The “Like the Wind” mechanic enhances Lee’s flexibility for combos, providing both resources and driver options. However, these benefits weren't always worth the slot in the deck compared to other cards. To make this card more special and enable its use, the action point cost has been removed:
• Action Point Cost: 1 > 0
Taj – Ethereal Projection and Ethereal Projection X
This powerful card in Taj’s kit gains the most benefits when running a 3-worship deck, translating into significant damage. To balance this, we are reducing the base attack damage by 1:
• Attack Damage: 7 > 6
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Bug Fixes
• Fixed a bug that caused perpetual attacks not to discard a card when reacting to a missile at speed 3.
• Fixed a bug with fast reactions leading to an overflowed discard pile when dazed.
• Fixed various typos and wording inconsistencies in the card cache.
New Card Cache and Infinite Rank!
Patch Highlights
- New Card Cache - brand new set of cards to enhance your playstyle
- New Infinity Rank Visuals
- Tori - Mercy X changes
Card Cache
Get ready for new combos to the most familiar faces in Death or Glory! We are releasing a card cache of 10 exciting new cards for the 10 champions released across early access. Gain access to new combos from a variety of new mechanics ranging from Lee’s transforming Upper and Lower strike and Tori’s permanent Blessings. Every one of these new cards will also come with their upgraded X versions, introducing a new dimension to experiment for the best choices in your deck.
How do we unlock the cards?
All 20 new cards (normal and upgraded) will be available immediately after the card cache is acquired without the need to grind levels and challenges.
How much will it cost?
Card Caches will cost 150 Diamonds. Founders will automatically unlock access to the Card Cache.
What will happen if I don’t have all the champions yet?
Even if you don’t currently own a certain champion, you will still unlock it in your collection and be playable immediately after you unlock the champion.
Infinite Rank
New visuals and UI elements have been added to Infinite Rank, the top rank for champions in Death or Glory. Fight to the top to gain the most scores in Dueling mode to become the best at what you do.
Character Balancing
Tori the Paladin
We are making changes to the perpetual ability of Mercy X due to the introduction of Permenant Blessings.
Mercy X
Removed Card Text : If you have a Blessing, consume it, this attack becomes Perpetual and you are granted Forcefield until the end of turn.
New Card Text : If you have a Blessing, consume it, you are granted Void Shield and Forcefield until the end of turn.
Ver 1.0.8 Patch
Patch Highlights
- Roxxor Upgrade Cards Balancing
- Bug fixes and Performance Improvements
Character Balancing
Roxxor the Giant
Roxxor falls behind other champions in his diversity of playstyles with a narrow range of playable upgraded cards. As one of the earlier characters which we designed upgraded cards for, we admittedly started off rather conservatively with the power levels of his cards that can change up the pacing of his strategies.
Spine Pull X
This grapple was designed as the fastest but weakest one out of Roxxor’s kit. But as an upgraded card with a high rate of failure, it doesn’t make the cut unless it has more of a set up potential to boost other cards. The added Momentum can make Roxxor’s playstyle faster as it is only for a single action point opening up a more aggressive rate of play.
Momentum Value : 1 < 2
Monster Pummel X
This is a small but rather important stat buff as usually champions will have access to blocks with a value of 7. This buff makes Monster pummel essentially a 50% health check where as long as his set up cards has chipped away half or he plays pummel twice, it will be a sure kill.
Attack Damage : 26 < 27
Head Twist X
Momentum is decreased to make the card more playable earlier into the game as choke is a damage mechanic that is stronger the faster it is played.
Momentum Cost : 4 > 3
Trunk Whack and Trunk Whack X
Trunk Whack is an interesting reaction card where it is not designed as your typical answer to your opponents, but instead it is a punishment for forgetting that it exists. The nature of Trunk Whack is to be a sabotaging card where the damage it can deal could potentially be game winning with one big strike. This attribute was probably too hidden with a rather generic damage value so we increased the damage and replaced determined in the upgrade version with a damage boost that can further this mechanic to bigger extremes.
Trunk Whack
Damage Value : 5 < 3
Trunk Whack X
Damage Value : 5 < 3
Removed Card Text : You are granted Determined
New Card Text : The damage of your next attack this turn is increased by 8.
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
- Fixed a bug with Vampyric Familiar where Blood Feast is consumed regardless if the condition is met
- Fixed a bug concerning Crow Ascendancy where crows no longer are created after an alpha crow
- Improved memory flushing logic to improve performance when switching rooms and game modes in game
Ver 1.0.6 Patch
Patch Highlights
- Redeye and Ardelean balancing
- Lifesteal and Fortune Reversal Clarification and Mechanic Updates
- Various Bug Fixes and changes
Character Balancing
Redeye the Werewolf
Redeye has been at the top end of the meta for a long time now and the proprietor of the aggressive pacing that the meta needs to answer in order to stay competitive. Redeye by design is a boom or bust character where he either wins quickly or struggles to recover from bad turns. We’re toning down Howl to limit the amount of damage that can be dished out in a turn and making it easier for the opponent to regain control through reactions to stop the rampaging werewolf.
Howl
Bloodlust requirement : 1 > 0
Damage boost value : 2 > 1
Howl X
Bloodlust requirement : 1 > 0
Ardelean the Vampire
We are making several more changes to Ardelean in this balance patch to limit the amount of flexibility his deck has access to. From consistent draws to powerful blood feast effects, the combination creates a very stable experience with the vampire where as long as he gets his resources going, he quickly snowballs to become unstoppable in both offensive and defensive aspects. We are targeting these 3 cards to limit the snowball effect on good turns when he has all the pieces at once.
Ulterior Motive and Ulterior Motive X
Bonus Speed Value : 2 > 1
Primal Thirst and Primal Thirst X
Bonus Attack Value : 3 > 2
Death Awakening
Blood Feast requirement : 4 < 5
Death Awakening X
Bonus Cards Drawn : 4 > 3
Nocturnal Hunter X
We are changing the effect of this card because of the changes to LifeSteal and Fortune Reversal not being affected by the bonuses and limitations of Healing effects. As Ardelean already has many survival options, we opted to change the effect to an offensive tool to help Ardelean land attacks and blood feast generators more reliably.
Card Text Removed : You are granted Double Heal
Added Card Text : The damage of your next attack is increased by 3.
Lifesteal and Fortune Reversal clarifications
We have updated the keyword text of these two mechanics to clear up confusions and change their interactions with Heal enhancers and limiters. These two mechanics will not be affected by bonus heal effects moving forward nor will they be affected by mechanics that will prohibit them as they are considered a Steal and Recovery. We will be designing and balancing cards under this philosophy moving forward when Ardelean and other champions receive changes.
Life Steal : At the end of turn, take X lives from your opponent
Fortune Reversal : You will temporarily lose 5(X) lives to draw X cards. For X turns, you will recover 5 lives at the end of turn.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that causes the splash art in the character selection screen to not reflect the selected skin
- Fixed a bug that causes the game to crash when perpetual is blocked
- Fixed a bug that disables the flashing function when a missile is intercepted with an attack with daze
- Fixed a bug that causes the discard pile to shuffle incorrectly and become stuck at the top of the screen
Ver 1.0.5 Patch
- Fixed incorrect damage calculation for Icicle Trap X
- Fixed incorrect lightning damage from Judgement
- Fixed a bug that caused trauma damage to occur when false field is active
- Fixed a bug with Omniscience that caused the game to crash at the start of the game
- Fixed a bug that with Item cards in Default graphics mode
- Fixed an issue with the purple playable aura to not dissapear when conditions are met
- Fixed various typos
Version 1.0.4 Patch Update
• Character balancing
• Bug fixes and gameplay optimisation
Character Balancing
Ardelean the Vampire
The launch of the dark lord has been an amazing one. Learning from our previous mistakes, we’ve carefully designed the interactions of Blood Feast and Blood Rush to create a new Monster experience. Due to the mechanic, Ardelean is atypical in his playstyle where he has to first collect blood then choose what abilities to upgrade with strategic card ordering. With a high ceiling and potential, we felt we had made certain elements of his set up a bit too easy. The following changes will lower the floor of Ardelean to balance out his potential compared to other champions.
Vampiric Familiar and Vampyric Familiar X
Unleashed cards are non-interactable for the opponent and generally balanced as a turn-by-turn win condition where the benefits don’t typically spread to subsequent turns. However, the almost inevitable lifesteal this card applies for just 2 blood feast, essentially sets up Ardelean for the whole game. We are adding in an additional condition for lifesteal to activate to require Ardelean to make more daring and bold plays to set up.
Vampyric Familiars
New card text : If you have already dealt damage this turn and you have Blood Feast, consume it and you are granted Lifesteal(1) and Cure.
Vampyric Familiars X
New card text : If you have already dealt damage this turn and you have Blood Feast, consume it and you Heal 5 lives, granted Lifesteal(1) and Cure.
Ulterior Motive X
Similarly, we felt that a powerful mechanic such as lifesteal should be conditional and require timing to play out.
New card text : If neither you nor your opponent has any cards in play, attack speed is increased by 2 and you are granted Lifesteal(1).
Breathless Embrace and Breathless Embrace X
We’re tuning down the damage of this card to make it easier to stop and reducing the base amount of blood feast that can be gained.
Attack damage : 7 > 6
Crimson Mist
Dodge is the best type of reaction in game and normally its speed value is the major inhibiting factor of it. We’re removing the second tier of speed buff to limit its effectiveness and all rounded capabilities.
Removed card text : If you have Blood Feast(3), consume it and your reaction speed is increased by 2 instead.
Tori the Paladin
Some small changes across cards to balance out the card choice in decks.
Invocation and Invocation X
Attack damage : 10 > 9
Judgement and Judgement X
Attack damage : 8 < 9
Lightning damage : 8 < 9
Doubled lightning damage : 16 < 18
Salvation and Salvation X
Added new card text : You are granted Regen(1).
Lee the Dragon Master
Lee’s only interrupt card is on Dragon Pounce, which is a 2 action point card, making it hard to be effective against spells. We’re adding interrupt to one more card in Lee’s arsenal.
Inch punch and Inch Punch X
New card text : this attack can interrupt your opponent
Redeye the werewolf
Endless hunger and endless hunger x
We’ve restructured the card text of this card to make it more playable by making the card more powerful at base.
Endless hunger
Removed old card text
New card text : You are granted Feeding(3). If you opponent is Bleeding, Heal 3 lives.
Endless hunger X
Removed old card text
New card text : You are granted Feeding(3). If you opponent is Bleeding, draw 2 cards.
Scent of Prey X
The additional damage from the upgraded card has made this card slightly above the usual balance level for a setup and control card. We’ve decreased the damage so Redeye will have to combo off with other cards such as Howl to boost damage and break defences.
Attack Damage : 7 > 6
Uncontrolled Aggression and Uncontrolled Aggression X
Although niche, when used properly these cards are extremely powerful and perhaps too punishing to opponent’s that relies on smaller cards to set up.
Uncontrolled Aggression
Next Damage Boost : 4 > 3
Uncontrolled Aggression X
Block Value : 5 > 4
Next Damage Boost : 4 < 5
Crystal the Ice Faerie
Shard of Eternity and Shard of Eternity X
To make this card more flexible, we are decreasing the Mana requirement for a little damage to allow aggressive Crystal playstyles to be able to start doing damage earlier.
Mana Requirement : 4 > 3
Attack Damage : 9 > 8
Enryu the Gargantusaur
Feral Defienace and Feral Defiance X
Feral Defiance is defined by it’s strong defences capabilities but has been often overlooked due to it’s health restriction. This has made it a dead card in many decks when it is drawn early on. We have added in a Level Up mechanic to the card so it can get stronger and stronger when drawn early on, making it almost the ultimate reaction card in the late game.
Added Level Up Mechanic to both cards
Block Value at different levels : 6 – 8 – 10
Added new card text : You are granted Fortify and Persistence.
Fortify and Persistence Value at different levels : 1 – 2 – 3
Feral Defiance X
Remove card text : This card is only playable if you are Enraged or when you have 25 or less health.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved a bug that will crash on Spell resolution when a previous match was ended during an opponent’s spell casting.
- Resolved a bug that causes the missile animation to continuously loop
- Changed Crystal’s Level 24 card achievement to be achievable due to the latest card changes
- Fixed a bug in Lee’s Tempo Advantage perk that caused action points to inconsistently add
- Fixed a bug which caused Transient Enchantment cards to not work as intended
- Fixed a bug that caused the Rampant Growth Ally card to not resolve
- Readjusted the depth of Map hints in Adventure Mode
- Improved networking code to prevent crashes with server errors
- Fixed a bug that prevented Howling Gale X to increase Arcane Resonance
Death or Glory is launching NOW!
Get ready to dive into the epic world of Death or Glory! We at Distilled Gaming are thrilled to unveil the ultimate dueling card experience that’s about to redefine your battles!
Unleash your inner warrior as you face off against formidable Mechs with a flurry of fists, counter magic with relentless bullets, and bring down towering giants with razor-sharp claws! Each champion and class brings unique mechanics and decks tailored to their fighting style, ensuring no two matchups ever feel the same. Every card is an action, and every action demands a counter—stay sharp and adapt to seize victory!
Champions Await!
At launch, you’ll step into the arena with 11 champions from 5 distinct classes. Ten of these champions are returning favorites from our Early Access phase, sporting fresh balances, exciting changes, and brand-new mechanics. But the real star of the show? Ardelean the Vampire! This cunning creature wields blood as his ultimate weapon, empowering his cards with every drop consumed. Unlike other Monsters, Ardelean thrives on strategy, playing a game of wits before striking when least expected.
Launch Celebration!
To celebrate our epic launch, everyone who jumps into the action during the first week will score a free champion and 20 diamonds to kickstart your arena journey!
The Ultimate Dueling Experience!
In Death or Glory, every card represents a powerful action—be it an attack, reaction, spell, missile, or grapple. Control shifts between players, allowing for intense back-and-forth battles where a single turn can turn the tide. With our revamped battle page, featuring a sleek new layout and improved aspect ratios, you’ll experience fluid action and clarity like never before.
New Features at Launch!
Leaderboards: Track your win/loss record and dueling scores for each champion. Get ready for upcoming events and seasons that will refresh and elevate the competitive spirit in the arena!
Clans: From 9/24 to 10/10, join our first Clan Wars! Team up with your favorite creators for exclusive rewards and even a chance to design a unique skin for any champion of your choice!
A New Dawn!
Whether you’ve been with us through the trials of the past year or are just stepping in, this update is a fresh start. We acknowledge our past missteps and thank you for your patience. We’re committed to delivering an extraordinary experience for card game enthusiasts everywhere.
The arena awaits—join us and claim your glory!
Team Up, Duel, Win!
We are very excited for the launch next week and we want to share with you the cool events that will be happening at launch!
Clan Wars
Team up with your favourite creators by joining their clans to rise to the top. During the 24th of September to the 10th of October, every point you score in duelling mode will count to the score of your clan. Bonuses from win streaks and protection from score shields will also be in effect throughout the event. All players will earn an exclusive commemorative card back when they join a clan and the top 3 clans will be gifted a bronze, silver or gold card back respectively.
But it doesn’t end there, the winning clan will be choosing their favourite champion to design a new skin and alternate art! We will be working closely with the winning clan leader to bring to life their designs and dreams of what their ideas of a perfect champion is. We can’t wait to start working on the new skin and you will be the one to decide.
AND... all players who play during the first week of launch will be gifted a free champion pack! Stay tuned for some surprise announcements during clan wars which will be held between 24.9 ~ 10.10!