This week, we kept making progress in developing Swine King: added art assets (card icon, status icons), added combat dialogs, made adjustments and enhancements, fixing bugs. Currently, you can try out this character on pre-release branch. We are planning to release Swine King to the public branch! The game is also on Taptap International (Android) and Aifadian (iOS and Android Beta testing), please pick your favorite platforms!
In addition, we've released a new companion on pre-release branch - Fat Pig!
Endless Mode: we introduced all the NPCs from Chapter 4
Swine King content adjustment:
Card:
Transmutation: Nine-Head Pheonix When you lose 3 HP or Max HP, apply 3 Poisoned to all enemies. Carp King: When you receive 60 Attack damage, summon 2 Water Guardians. Lady White: Apply 2 Strangled when you attack.
Talent: Hunger 1: Each Hunger Point gives an additional 5%.
Wukong content adjustment:
Card:
Balance and Enhancement
Allow choices in the Yellow Stone event when you reencounter it in endless mode.
Bug Fixes
Fixed entrance scene camera near distance.
Fixed a crash of White Dragon in endless mode.
Fix Sinful does not trigger Holy Monk's talent.
Fix Buddha of Joy skill which did not correctly apply Confused.
Dev Log #039: 2022-12-09
This week, we released the new character Swine King for beta testing on the pre-release branch. We have finished all card logic, key mechanisms, animations, and effects; while art assets, storylines, events & dialogs are still in progress. Please opt-in to the pre-release branch to try it out! (Please note that English localization is also work in progress).
How to Opt-in:
Also, we prioritized Holy Monk and Swine King as top choices on the character selection screen as these heroes are more friendly to players who are just getting started with the game.
Balance and Enhancement
Clarify the requirement for Wukong to enter Soul Mountains.
Dragon Princess will be reborn at the start of the player's turn instead of end of the player's turn.
Allow Endless mode to unlock cards, consumables, relics, etc.
Monkey Kings Roar will double Burning even if it's not a Debuff.
Hostage does not give you a curse card before trial 17.
Improve Half Moon Shovel and Dagger of Sirius.
Bug Fixes
Fix a potential bug that Scarlet Bracelet will block potion use in combat after one round in endless mode.
Fix an issue that high buddha's passive good cannot be deflected.
Fix a bug that Like a Fortress cannot keep Rupture on target.
Fix a bug that Furnace of Heaven cannot correctly recognize when card type changes during play.
Warning: Currently all balancing and bug fixing are pushed to pre-release branch, the main branch does not have these changes yet.
Swine King is now available for testing on the Pre-release Branch!
Swine King is now available on the pre-release branch for testing! We have finished all card logic, key mechanisms, animations, and effects; while art assets, storylines, events & dialogs are still in progress. We are also making numerous adjustments, balances, and bug fixes based on your feedback!
How to opt-in:
Choose "pre-release - Release Candidates"
Dev Log #038: 2022-12-02
This week, we continue working on Swing King and fixing bugs, and plan to start beta testing Swing King on pre-release branch next week! Please stay tuned!
Check out some skills! Swine King has a "Bottomless Stomach" - he can eat any consumables to gain hunger points and additional buff and damage.
Optimization
We completed the controller support and continue developing hotkey support.
Enhancements and Balance
You can still play On the Verge when there is no power card in the draw pile
Heaven Earth Beads gives 1 Invincible every 3 turns.
Medikit gives 1 Artifact every 3 turns.
Add sound effects for Imp of Wicked's skill.
Adjusted HP for some NPCs in Chapter 4 to improve player experiences.
Bug Fixes
Fix a bug that Medikit and Heaven Earth Beads save/load their counts incorrectly.
Fix the issue of dragging and pointing targets on the edge of the screen on mobile devices.
Fix the bottom location of the Fake Buddha by Gold Eye Brow.
Fix death effect of Fallen Phoenix when caused by Goddess of Cruelty.
Fix a energy cost bug of Spirit Shifting.
Fixes a couple of localization bugs
Dev Log #037: 2022-11-24
Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you very much for your bug reports, feedback, and suggestions; you are why we can keep polishing the game little by little! Don’t miss the 10% winter sale that ends on 11/29; it will be an excellent gift for family and friends!
Moreover, please nominate us for the “Labor of Love” award if you enjoy this game and trust our commitment to continuing to improve it!
This week, we continued working on Swing King, enhanced for White Dragon and Wukong, and fixed some bugs.
Take a peek at the Swine King card design:
We improved these cards for Wukong:
For White Dragon:
Other Improvements
The Listener will no longer trigger his power when disabled.
Treasure Bowl does not prevent you from seeing intention anymore.
Futon of Wind and Fire
Bug Fixes
Change a duplicate card name in Chinese.
Polish description of Jade Emperor.
Fix a description bug of adding status to target.
Fix a bug that causes the journal of the game to end too early and player cannot get certain achievement
Please Vote for Us! THE STEAM AWARDS - Labor of Love
To our dearest players:
It has been an exciting and productive 8-month journey since Divinity Chronicles: Journey to the West launched as early access on Mar. 10th. Thank you for your bug reports, feedback, and suggestions.
For the Steam Award this year, we decided to participate in the “Labor of Love” award. If you enjoy this game and trust our team’s dedication to continue to improve it - please vote for us!
Since the EA release, we:
Continued updating weekly for 36 weeks on the streak
Published the final chapter that completes the story mode!
Added 15 new NPCs for the final chapter
Developed 36 different story endings
Added 12 new BGMs and released the music album
Fixed over 720 bugs
Added 4 trial levels
Optimized front and UI
Added 4 side stories
Released endless mode
Optimized the game performance
Started mobile beta testing
Added 6 brand new special companions
Improved, balanced, and adjusted hundreds of cards and NPC actions for a better game experience
... are working on more characters!
That said, we want to continue this beautiful journey with you and make Divinity Chronicles: Journey to the West a great game!
Thank you very much!
Z Studio
Dev Log #036: 2022-11-18
This week, we continued making progress in designing cards and animation, implementing combat logic, and developing story plots for Swing King. We also fixed a couple of bugs, continue improving mobile UI, and improved the talent tree to be more helpful.
Health Spell Vol 1: Gain 10 MAX HP -> gain 15 MAX HP
Health Spell Vol 1: Gain 15 MAX HP -> gain 25 MAX HP
Bug Fixes
Fix Imperial Seal of Hell popping up unwanted text.
Fix the bug that Dragon Princess failed to learn a few upgraded companion cards.
Fix trial level panel order issue on-screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Fix a bug of protecting a hostage when a hostage is Sleeping or Stunned.
Fix a potential bug that empowers the Team cannot correctly add Strength.
Fix a permanent constitution bug in the Lantern Festival event.
Dev Log #035: 2022-11-11
This week, we continued making progress in designing cards and animation for Swine King, optimizing UI for mobile; we also added four brand-new relics and made adjustments and improvements.
Preview of the attack action of Swine King!
Here are some previews of Swine King card design!
We also added 4 new relics:
Hedgehog Skin Vest
Ice Storm Scroll
Monkey King’s Heart Protector
Snake Skin Ring
Optimization
We adjusted the mobile UI based on beta testing feedback that the window will appear for at least 1 second after the release of the long press gesture.
Improving and Balancing
Polarity Stone: Your team heals 15% HP when you enter the camp.
Lantern: When your team is larger than 2, gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn.
Demonic Rope: Deal additional 25% Attack damage to the elite and boss.
Divine Armor: When your HP is not below 50%, gain 1 Energy at the start of each turn.
Willow Branch Bottle: Gain 1/2/3 Artifact at the start of regular/elite/boss combat respectively.
Imperial Seal of Hell: Add Immune to damage for this turn after you trigger the relic.
Phoenix Feather Fan: gives 3 Burning instead of 1.
Shockwave Grenade now affects all enemies.
Phantom Swords vulnerable now can be applied by all teams instead of just player
Adjust the rarity of Bloodstone to Boss relic.
Bug Fixes
Fix an incorrect target issue when an attack is deflected.
Fix a sprite issue of Lohan of Peace.
Fix a White Dragon dialog bug.
Fix a case where Poison is not negated when Blood of Nine Head Phoenix is used.
Fix a bug that Dragon Princess fails to learn an upgraded True Evil card
Fix the bug that Avici card of Evil Monk removes evil before dealing damage.
Fix learned Artifact spell by Dragon Princess cannot be used after reloading.
Fix the issue that Breeze the Apprentice does not leave your party after chapter 2.
Dev Log #034: 2022-11-04
This week, we added multiple platform data synchronization, game saves restore, adjusted some NPC skills to fit into team battles, and implemented a lot of other balances and improvements. Now we have mobile versions available on Aifadian; please check it out!
Multiple platform data synchronization
Step 1: open “Settings” -> “Game” on one of your devices.
Step 2: click the “Upload” to upload the game save, and a key will be generated and copied to clipboard.
Step 3: click on “Download” and enter the key from another device (mobile or PC).
Step 4: once the download process is completed, you can continue the game from this device with the same data as the other machine.
Game save restore function
Click on the “restore” on the same menu to restore the game file to a backup version 1 days, 3 days, or 1 week ago. This function is a good solution if your current game save is broken.
Optimization
Clicking on the NPC name on the detail window can jump to the compendium page.
You can use “All” button to instantly pick all card from Hand.
Balance and Improve
Adjusted Mighty Monkey’s cards: Twist the Knife -> Defensive Offense
Bloodstone can deal damage even if your HP is full.
We adjusted some NPC skills to make them more useful when they are on the player's side.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a bug that Memory Keeper and Master of Thunder Tower won't drop relics in endless mode.
Fixed little monkey attack delay issue during Omen fight.
Fixed sprite of goat hunter.
Fixed enemy of enemy and good monk companion summoning undefeated enemies.
Fixed a bug that Black Market can purify NPC you didn't defeat.
Fixed deadly poison incorrectly removing debuffs.
Fixed damage of Ready to Die.
Fixed learned Artifact spell by Dragon Princess cannot be used after reload.
Dev Log #033: 2022-10-27
This week, we added another new companion: Mighty Monkey(Wukong’s shadow of strength), added 2 new relics, and finished English localization for chapter 4 and endings. We also continue working on the development of the new Hero, the Swine King.
Mighty Monkey
- Wukong’s shadow of strength. Mighty Monkey is good at stacking up damage using Rupture debuff. - Unlocks after finishing Wukong’s trial 1 in story mode.
We also add 2 new relics:
Iron Breaking Scroll - you can find it on Mighty Monkey!
Bloodstone
Optimizations
Skipping is not allowed for plot-based characters to enter combat to ensure the game's stability.
We are optimizing the click gesture on mobile platforms, as well as the cross-platform saves synchronization.
Improve and balance
Life Stealer now affects the entire team
Allow most of the summon cards to be played even when there is no spot to add new characters in combat.
Hunting Beauty
Confusing Spell: Exhaust. Apply 1 confused to all enemies. Apply 1 apparition to elite or boss
Shadow Fairy
Artifact: apply 1/2 Artifact to the team。
Cleanse: Retain, Exhaust. Remove all debuffs from the team
Purify: Retain, Exhaust. Remove all buffs from the target
Celestial of Wealth
Gold Strike: costs 15 gold, deals 20/30/40 damage
Gold Armor: costs 15 gold, gives 12/16/20 block to the team
Relic
Lotus Platform: Now each card in the deck grants 1 HP to the team whenever entering an Elite or Boss location.
Nine-Petal Maces: Now grant 2/3/4 strength to the team when Normal/Elite/Boss combat starts.
Bug Fixes
Fix a potential stuck bug when using a consumable while a card is playing from the Draw pile.
Fix Accumulation damage does not increase after an upgrade.
