Version 629 changelog

• Fixed an issue where ranged characters couldn’t hit Ratbo the Terminator when enlarged
  
• Fixed an issue with the boon “I have a Hulk” not displaying values properly
  
• Fixed an issue with the card “Predator Tech” using the wrong description.
  
• Fixed an animation issue that caused the Stormbringer’s bow to not bend when stretching
  
• Unlocked the Raging Denver skin for Subscribers
  

• A new Contestant - Settsu. An ex-soldier wearing a powerful mech suit, she brings high tech weaponry to demolish anything in her way.
  
• A new world - The Drone World. This environment will be part of the normal rotation, so it appears in all campaigns and has a collection of all-new enemies and mechanics. Get ready for the bullet-hell!
  
• A new mode - The Mentor’s Maze. With more exploration and choice in which path to follow, you now get the chance to be confused!
  
• A new boss - R3-KT, aka The Mentor. This mysterious AI uses Gun Fu and deceptive movement to confuse and obliterate any Contestants not worthy of his teachings!
  
• New cards for deckbuilding, new modifiers, new boss cards, new EVERYTHING! (okay I got a little excited there, maybe not everything)
  

• French
  
• Italian
  
• German
  
• Spanish
  
• Russian
  

Balance

• Contestants:
  
  
  
  • Squire of Light damage on Lightbeam stages up from 4/6/9 to 4/6/10
    
  • Volco Magma shield default radius up from 3 to 4
    
  • Stormbringer default slowdown when stretching for basic attack up from 2 to 3
    
  
  
  
• Cards:
  
  
  
  • Major change: Replenish consumables no longer replenish charges that were triggered by rationing. This means you cannot gain more charges of replenish consumables with Rationing or similar cards.
    
  • Unstable Hammer proc chance down from 25% to 20%
    
  • Rage potion no longer stacks with itself. It will display on cooldown for the duration and will not spend it’s charge until it wears off
    
  • High Roller’s Swagger mana cost down from 2 to 1
    
  • Volcanic Reach mana cost down from 4 to 3
    
  
  
• Boons
  
  
  
  • Who’s Next damage bonus down from 15% to 10%
    
  
  

Quality of Life

• Polished Smoke Bomb VFX
  
• Updated Burning Aura’s FX so they are more visible in e.g. Garden world 1
  
• Improved Floating Snake mages feedback on Ugly but Fast
  
• Removed Addon text from Deadly Impact buff (to reflect change to card) - no change to gameplay
  
• Updated our engine to Unity 5.3, this will fix a number of outstanding bugs and provide performance improvements.
  
• Gang of Rats Boss ability icon is now using the correct illustration
  
• Implemented a lot of sounds that were missing from the Emblem and Bonus Stages
  
• Fixed some layouts to have proper holes in the ground when low walls were placed
  

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Fly spitter rotating around himself instead of idling
  
• Fixed an issue with the Snow Rat world Proximity Rats shield looking weird after having been summoned by a portal
  
• Fixed an issue where C-SAR announced “Rare!” on a common boon
  
• Fixed an issue where Poison Winds would cause massive performance drops
  
• Fixed an issue with enemies not switching targets when switching teams
  
• Fixed an issue where you couldn’t change some graphics settings on certain quality levels
  
• Fixed an issue where the Card Tooltips in the deckbuilder were displayed beneath the cards
  
• Fixed an issue where the Arbalists would gain speed from the player being close when on player team, instead of using correct targeting
  
• Fixed an issue with massive lag from Orbiter Rat spawns
  
• Fixed an issue where Flash Sale would not trigger after the first arena
  
• Fixed an issue where Stormbringer would have multiple Stormy’s in the first arena of a battle
  
• Fixed an issue where Chasing Ghosts and Ghost Turrets could not be hit by Stormbringer when he was enraged (and sized up)
  

Features

• Bonus battles!
  
• Squire of Light visual update
  Squire of light has been given a visual upgrade. The goal was to bring him up to par with the other characters when looked at up close, but not change the overall look especially from a distance. He still needed to look and feel like the old Squire of Light. Here is the new model.
  
• Steam Controller native support
  
• New card made by the community:
  Smoke Bomb Consumable, 4 mana, 2 charges.
  Cloak you and allies for 4 sec. Attacking reveals you and deals +100% damage, healing you and allies for 50% of the hit.
  

Balance

• Programs:
  
  
  
  • Prevented Copy machine Battle Rule from applying to Chamber Keeper battles
    
  
  
  
• Contestants:
  
  
  
  • Volco Lava Strike damage up 20% (used to be going 17 to 45 now it's 20 to 54)
    
  • Volco Flamenado movement speed reduction down 1.5 -> 0.75
    
  • Ravager Leap base damage up from 10 to 20
    
  • Ravager Leap cast speed up 25%
    
  • Ravager Strafe cast speed up 18%
    
  • Ravager Claw Strikes base attack speed up 16%
    
  • Ravager Claw Strikes movement speed reduction down from 3 to 2
    
  • Ravager Enrage now grants 1 movespeed per default, in addition to eliminating the Claw Strikes reduction
    
  
  
  
• Cards:
  
  
  
  • Elbow room detection range increased from 3 to 7
    
  • Hammer Time damage bonus down 50% -> 40%
    
  • Anti-Barrel boots rebalanced: Costs 1 mana, makes barrels explode for damage by default
    
  • The Nuke reworked: Has a cast time of 25 seconds before it destroys all minions. Aggros all enemies when cast. Mana cost down from 6 to 5.
    
  
  

Quality of Life

• Updated visuals of the Proximity Rats, to make a clearer distinction between level 1 and level 2 versions
  
• Renamed the BugTracker to FORCED SHOWDOWN BugTracker
  
• The Twitch ID is now clickable in the leaderboards
  
• Reduced delay of portal spawning in the tutorial before the Jahun arena
  
• Updated Emblem GUI for better overview
  
• Made it clearer when quests can only be completed in certain Programs
  
• Colour-coded cards in deck editor, to clearly display type and Contestant type while editing
  
• Shortened Short Battle description
  
• Changed lighting on Normal and Summoned enemies’ healthbars to give a greater distinction for colour-blind players
  

Fixes

• Fixed a number of issues with daily connections, they should be more stable when switching now
  
• Optimized score fetching for daily leaderboards
  
• Updated engine version, which should provide lots of smaller fixes and optimizations
  
• Fixed an issue with pressing back from dailies returning you to campaign menu
  
• Fixed an issue with the Phoenix Boomers spawning too many eggs, especially when on different teams
  
• Fixed an issue where C-SAR said you got a boon when you didn’t
  
• Fixed Flow Surge tooltip to be up to date with the recent change
  
• Fixed an issue with some Garden World 2 destroyables not deleting properly
  
• Updated Flash of anger Card description to reflect 100% chance to proc
  
• Fixed an issue where Mordar could resurrect the Snake Priestesses armor piece
  
• Fixed an issue where having more than 20.000 gold gave overlapping text in the fortune menu
  
• Fixed an issue with the companion not choosing targets properly after switching teams
  
• Fixed an issue where Recurring Hero would resurrect you with less than 30 health if you had lost max health
  
• Fixed an issue where Stormbringer couldn’t hit Sniper Rats if enraged
  
• Fixed an issue with performance loss in loading screens
  
• Fixed an issue where you could make the Equality daily pick your own deck
  
• Fixed an issue with strange formatting in the fortune menu in 16:10 aspect ratio
  
• Fixed an issue where using Leap or Strafe with the Ravager in a new arena used the old arenas Frenzy counter
  
• Fixed an issue with some maps now spawning the correct low walls in a 3x4 setup
  

Hotfixes for 42

• Fixed the campaign screen displaying the wrong gold gained when you were defeated
  
• Fixed an issue with Demonic Spawner Shrines causing the game to crash.
  
• Fixed an issue where resuming a campaign with an emblem did not unlock new emblem slots.
  

Contestants!

Features

• Emblems are now in the game! Add extra challenge and reward to any program you have completed on basic difficulty. Push yourself through tougher challenges to unlock new emblems and more emblem slots.
  

Balance

• Programs:
  
  
  
  • The Grand Return now unlocks as soon as Frontline is completed
    
  • The Grand Return battles now have 2-5 modifiers, up from 1-4.
    
  
  
  
• Champions:
  
  
  
  • Volco Volcanic Strike base damage increased from 25 to 30.
    
  
  
  
• Cards:
  
  
  
  • Masochistic Blade can no longer proc self damage when hitting barrels.
    
  • Rage Potion mana cost increased from 1 to 2.
    
  • Vampiric Thirst reduced to 1 charge.
    
  • Adrenaline Boost duration reduced from 15 to 10 seconds.
    
  • Recurring Hero now clears Stormy's target.
    
  • The Nuke returned to 6 mana. (Reverted last week's buff of it. Considering a wider rework of the card if it proves necessary for daily balance.)
    
  
  
  
• Boons:
  
  
  
  • Heal Up reduced from 10% to 8% healing after each arena.
    
  • Flow Surge now gives +1 mana for the first 2 arenas, down from the first 3.
    
  • Bloody Finale explosion radius increased from 3 to 3.5.
    
  
  
  
• Bosses:
  
  
  
  • Fixed that Ruby was not scaling her health with difficulty like other bosses. She will be a lot tougher to bring down now.
    
  • Ratbo's boss arena has 25% of normal arena spawns, up from 15%.
    
  • Jahun's boss arena has 20% of normal arena spawns, up from 15%.
    
  
  
  
• Enemies:
  
  
  
  • Phoenix Boomers now respawn in 5 seconds, down from 8.
    
  • Floating Snake Mage spawning cost reduced from 4 to 3.
    
  • Lynx spawning cost increased from 5 to 6.
    
  • Knight spawning cost reduced from 6 to 5.
    
  • Proximity Rat 2 spawning cost increased from 8 to 9.
    
  
  
  
• Quests:
  
  
  
  • The former Grand Return questline now awards 2k gold.
    
  
  

Quality of Life

• Clearer animations for the leaping garden world enemies.
  
• Clearer feedback on Ravager enrage.
  
• Masochistic Blade tooltip now clarifies the damage is unavoidable. Clearer feedback on damage.
  
• Ratworld 3 is no longer as dark on Ugly But Fast setting.
  
• When the daily ends, players now have 1 hour to finish any runs that are still in progress.
  

Fixes

• Fixed a crash bug from an obsolete file that had made its way into U41. (Sorry about that)
  
• Fixed a bunch of issues with Infused Blocking and Infused Strikes (stats were showing incorrectly in card phase and changing in later arenas)
  
• Fixed a bug where some 0 mana cost cards could not be played with no mana left.
  
• Close One quest had its counting disrupted by immunity frames between hits. It should be easier to complete now and the
  
• Soul Link now has a sound on hit and destroys barrels.
  
• Quests to kill a boss without taking damage no longer fail by card phase damage (blood pact, curse of excess, unstable mana) in the boss arena.
  
• Allied Phoenix Boomers no longer spawn an enemy respawn tombstone.
  
• Emergency Spleen now triggers when something else than an attack (e.g. Masochistic Blade) brings you below the threshold.
  
• Fixed some cases where bosses would say 2 lines on top of each other.
  
• C-SAR would sometimes incorrectly say you'd earned a boon.
  
• Copy Machine modifier should now work correctly in dailies that use a themed deck.
  
• Fixed several daily and leaderboard issues.
  

• Raff’s Son tooltip reworded to be shorter.
  
• Supplies: Ability bolts title and tooltip now reflect the Ability Bolts name change to Aeselator.
  
• Stormbringer can now properly shoot over low walls
  
• Haunting Ghost turrets (the blue ones) now properly fire their projectiles
  

Contestants!

Balance

Cards:



• Taunt is now 2 charges with 3 health per enemy, instead of 4 charges with 2 health per enemy.
  
• Poison Winds mana cost reduced from 4 to 3.
  
• The Nuke mana cost reduced from 6 to 5.
  
• Call The Sun mana cost increased from 1 to 3. Damage increased by 50%. (was in this update, not in 40 as previous patch notes suggested)
  
  
  Battle Rules:
  
  
  
  • Chain Reaction reduced from +200% to +150% portal speed.
    
  • Delicate Summons reduced from +200% to +150% portal speed.
    
  
  
  Quests:
  
  
  
  • Bend it Like Beckham mana requirement lowered from 10 to 8.
    
  
  
  Enemies:
  
  
  
  • Garden Lynx health down from 200 to 150
    
  
  
  

Quality of Life

• Better feedback for the explosions of Combustion Corpse and Aftershocks. The different size should be more visible now.
  
• Clarified Raff's Son tooltip
  
• Search function in deck builder improved
  
• Clarified Magnetic Weapon description
  
• Updated Volco's Volcanic Strike tooltip
  
• Updated some card titles
  
  
  
  • Extreme duplicator 9000 renamed to Extreme Duplicator 9K (title was too long)
    
  • Scroll Of Raining Daggers renamed to Scroll Of Daggerfall (title was too long)
    
  • Ability Bolts renamed to The Aeselator (Kickstarter reward to name a card finally came through)
    
  
  

Fixes

• Performance and stability improvements.
  
• Fixed an issue where armor pieces could fail to spawn for priestesses and Apep.
  
• Fixed some cases where the replenish mechanic could bug.
  
• Fixed quests for completing Grand Return with specific contestants.
  
• Fixed Caaareful quest.
  
• Gotta Go Fast's speed buff was not stacking.
  
• Raff's Flame Swords should no longer leave any permanent fire trails.
  
• Blood Pact now interacts correctly with the Soul Break rule
  
• Fixed some bizarre issues with Fairy Bottle.
  
• Fixed a bug that could make Scroll of Steel last forever
  
• C-SAR no longer yells that you've earned a boon during the victory cinematic
  
• Fixed an issue where Ruby could stop spawning bombs because of damage that penetrated her shield
  
• Quest reward popups no longer say gold when you earn shards.
  
• Allied priestesses shields are no longer hostile.
  
• Added a safety for Garden priestess’ shields being untargetable, they should now expire after some time
  
• Denver should no longer try to charge through walls.
  
• Infused Blocking and Infused Strikes should now give the correct base value when received from the artifact rule.
  
• Can no longer bypass gold reward by skipping through defeat screens with esc.
  

Contestants!

Features

• Ruby's bosscards are now in the game.
  

Balance

Champions:



• Speed of Light duration increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
  
  
  Cards:
  
  
  
  • Scroll of Raining Daggers: Fixed that damage was not being dealt to the player. Clarified the tooltip and corrected it to the right damage number (50).
    
  • Taunt: Now only gives health for enemies that were not already aggroed. No longer gives movement boost to enemies.
    
  • Masochistic Blade: Mana cost reduced from 4 to 5, damage bonus reduced from 65 to 60%, risk of taking damage increased from 10 to 20%.
    
  • Great Balls of Fire: Fireballs now do fixed damage like ability bolts or consumables, instead of scaling the damage with Spin To Win and the player's normal damage bonus + crit. Can no longer hit an enemy with all the fireballs at once by spinning into the middle of it.
    
  • Spin To Win: Duration increase reduced from 0.75 to 0.5 seconds.
    
  • Flash of Anger: Can no longer build up multiple stacks. Damage increased from +20% to +30%.
    
  • Fairy Bottle mana cost increased from 3 to 4.
    
  • Call The Sun mana cost increased from 1 to 3. Damage increased by 50%.
    
  • Snipe now has correct tooltip and values (+30% stretch).
    
  • Aftershock: No longer requires overkill. Clarified tooltip to elaborate that the explosion is larger than Combustion corpse, scales with player/Volcanic Strike damage and can cause chain reactions.
    
  • Dropkick of Persuasion: Mana cost reduced from 6 to 5.
    
  
  
  Boons:
  
  
  
  • Not Today nerfed from 100 to 80 healing.
    
  
  
  Enemies:
  
  
  
  • Allied bannermen no longer heal the player. Other buffs still apply and allies are still healed by him.
    
  
  
  Bosses:
  
  
  
  • Jahun's Stone Prison now spawns a third stone when no stones already exist.
    
  
  
  Battle Rules:
  
  
  
  • Stayin' Alive reworked: "Lose 10 health every 10 seconds. Kill: Heal 4."
    
  • Desperate Survival rebalanced and clarified: "Enemies start aggressive. +400% summoning portal efficiency. Win arena after 30 seconds (45 for boss arena)." Fixed that bosses were not being aggroed immediately.
    
  • Gotta Go Fast reworked: "Collecting point pickups gives you +1 (stackable) Movement Speed for 8 seconds."
    
  • Chain Reaction increases summoning portal speed by 200%, up from 100%.
    
  • Delicate Summons increases summoning portal speed by 200%, up from 100%.
    
  • Made harder (enemy count): Patchwork, Slippery Cards (made neutral), Gotta Go Fast, Magnetic Weapon, Puff Party, Two Toys, Rebel Musketeer, Left And Right (gone from negative to positive rule)
    
  • Made easier (enemy count): Companion Curse, Soul Break, Magnificence (made neutral), Supporting The Winning Team, Necromancer, Soul Link
    
  
  

Quality of Life

• Clarified several card tooltips and boon descriptions.
  

Fixes

• Fixed 2 quests that involved companion kills. (hotfixed in streamer week)
  
• Multiple fixes to daily mode.
  
• Fit as a Fiddle Quest now checks for max health rather than current health.
  
• Spare The Rod quest can now be completed.
  
• Caaareful quest no longer auto-completes.
  
• Fixed an obscure and super difficult way to complete some 'take no damage' quests with a different champion than listed.
  
• Some boons had obsolete buff tooltips, though their descriptions when picking them were correct.
  
• Spare the Rod quest should no longer incorrectly complete.
  
• Flash of Anger should no longer make your character's shots miss enemies.
  
• Fixed a bug where temporary buffs could become permanent when using Flash of Anger.
  
• Fixed some issues with Righteous Replay.
  
• Soul Swap should no longer leave a strafing Ravager invisible.
  
• Fixed some issues with saving graphical settings when quitting.
  
• Fixed a situation that could cause music to disappear.
  

Contestants!

Pre-release event now live

Super awesome event trailer

forcedshowdown.com/watch/

Features

• Twitch integration for easy streaming setup.
  
• Leaderboards now show a 'Twitch' icon for players who were streaming while setting their score.
  
• 64-bit version with extra performance and stability gains (Steam should handle this switch without any action on your part)
  
• Notification pop-ups for completing quests and for the rewards you unlock.
  
• More varied arena layouts.
  

Balance

Features

• New daily mode: 'Equality' - Everyone plays with the same (random) champion, companion, deck and card draws.
  
• New Twitch features
  
• UI improvements
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Steam achievements for the quests you complete
  

Balance

• General:
  
  
  
  • Shard rewards and crafting costs increased.
    
  • There is a cap to how many shards you can have (so it makes sense to spend them as you go along).
    
  • Minimum enemies in an arena increased from 2 to 3. A side effect is that more difficult enemies are now more gradually discovered as you get further in the game/battle.
    
  • Arenas have less spiky difficulty variation.
    
  • Bosses rebalanced to make them more consistent in damage and difficulty.
    
  • Some quests that require playing lots of cards of certain types have had their requirements reduced.
    
  • Season scores are now based on the rank you achieve for a daily, rather than which score you got.
    
  
  
  
• Shows:
  
  
  
  • Slightly more enemies in tutorial battles. (not changed since 37)
    
  • Increased difficulty/enemy count of all Crucible battles: Chamber 1 +14%, Keeper 1 +10%, Chamber 2 +22%, Endboss +8%. (not changed since 37)
    
  • Increased difficulty/enemy count of all Grand Return battles
  • particularly for the later chambers and the endboss.
    
  • Boss health scales more dramatically. They will have lower health in Crucible + early Frontline and be tougher than before in late Frontline and mid-late Grand Return.
    
  • Increased Crucible gold gain by 50%.
    
  • Increased Frontline gold gain by 25%.
    
  • Daily gold gain reduced by 30%. The bonus gold from One Try Daily has not been reduced.
    
  • Daily now gives time bonus for the first 90 seconds per arena completed, rather than the first 60 seconds. The time bonus is still 1 point per second saved.
    
  
  
  
• Champions & Companions:
  
  
  
  • Stormy's max distance increased from 9 to 10 (to match default arrow range).
    
  • Brutus' attack changed from a flat heal to 15% of his damage.
    
  
  
  
• Cards:
  
  
  
  • Fairy Bottle now correctly heals 3 per enemy hit, instead of 1. Damage reduced from 15 to 10 (making it a more powerful healing tool but slower group clear).
    
  • Duobot duration reduced from 20 to 15 seconds and bots shoot slightly slower (10 DPS per bot, down from 13.3 DPS).
    
  • Deadly Impact now hits its targets a lot faster.
    
  • Wrecking Ball changed from +100% damage for 3 seconds to +70% damage for 5 seconds.
    
  • Flash of Anger has 100% proc chance (up from 50%). Damage bonus reduced from +25% to +20%.
    
  • Murder Pals damage increased from 8 to 10. Can damage each enemy 2 times per second, down from 4 times. Now also kills barrels.
    
  • Murder Pals can now stack the buff multiple times for additional damage.
    
  • Deadly Impact deals its damage more swiftly, so you can better rely on it to interrupt enemies at your destination.
    
  • Mass Effect should no longer move yourself by pulling enemies into you.
    
  
  
  
• Boons:
  
  
  
  • Who's Next!?: Move speed decreased from +2 to +1. Duration increased from 3 to 4 seconds.
    
  
  
  
• Enemies:
  
  
  
  • Treasure goblin drops are now random and scaled with the difficulty the battle.
    
  • No more than 3 boomers can spawn in one arena.
    
  • Spawning costs of ratworld and dungeon enemies tweaked.
    
  • Jahun's Stone Prison ability had cooldown reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.
    
  
  
  
• Battle Rules & Bosscards:
  
  
  
  • Delicate Summons reworked: "Summons take double damage. +100% summoning portal efficiency."
    
  • Direct damage from battle rules, bosscards and player cards (e.g. Curse of Excess, Stayin' Alive and Masochistic Blade) can only bring you to 1 hp but not kill you. Indirect damage (e.g. Magma Storm and Raff's Son) can still kill you.
    
  
  

Quality of Life

• There is now a tutorial popup about shards and an early quest reward, giving you enough to craft a common.
  
• Quests have names
  
• Cleaned up quest menu and reward display a lot.
  
• In-game mouseover tooltips (buff icons, modifiers, stats etc.) now only pop up when paused or in card phase. This tradeoff was made because disabling it midfight gave a huge FPS boost for all users.
  
• Stormbringer aim line now indicates when the basic attack is fully charged.
  
• Several battle rule descriptions streamlined.
  
• Boss cards more clearly display their type and how long they are in effect.
  
• Chain Reaction clarified to say that the explosions only hurt enemies.
  
• Cards that use the same tooltip multiple times (e.g. Paranoid with 'Shield') only list the tooltip once.
  
• Fortune menu: The card spin animation speeds up if the player presses any keys meanwhile.
  
• Fortune menu: The process of receiving cards is faster.
  
• Fortune menu: Sharding duplicate cards no longer takes extra time.
  

Fixes

• Fixed a number of issues that were causing crashes.
  
• Daily score should now be consistent in-game, on victory/defeat screen and on leaderboard.
  
• The gold reward countup when ending a campaign now shows how much each win actually gave, rather than just dividing the full reward.
  
• Snappy Stormy works correctly again.
  
• Health Up boon works correctly again.
  
• Just A Sip boon works correctly again.
  
• Reaction effects should now occur correctly when taking many hits at the same time.
  
• Fixed some attacks that were causing reactions more often than they could actually damage you.
  
• Dailies now offer boons of all the same rarity.
  
• Daily boon choices are now the same for everyone playing.
  
• Fixed some issues that were knocking enemies out of the arena.
  
• Reanimation shrines, Spawn World Minion and Clone were not making zeppelin tanks and spawner shrines active after respawning them.
  
• Alden no longer leaves a flame trail when there is no solid ground beneath him.
  
• Trip Drone will no longer punish you for movement outside your control (e.g. knockback).
  
• Quests that required a certain number of actions in a limited time were not resetting progress correctly.
  
• Quests that required reaching a certain stat value were not completing correctly.
  
• Cleaned up some obsolete questlines that were still showing up in the menu.
  
• Spellweaver Puff was not showing its buff icon when only one of them was cast.
  
• Bloody Finale no longer displays its damage on the enemy that explodes.
  
• Not Today no longer shows Emergency Spleen icon when triggered.
  
• The "Win 100 battles quest" was requiring 200 wins.
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause points to disappear or be transported to you immediately.