Hadean Tactics
0.5.01
-- Fixed Alliance conjurer description.
-- Fixed Warlocks Variant's not showing working.
-- Fixed Card Bloodshot description.
-- Fixed Frostbite skill description.
-- Fixed Card Amp description
The Warlock Update
The Warlock update is finally here, bringing you the third and final main Hero for the game! We know you've been waiting for this, so we're very excited to finally share it with you.
We also want to let you know that we're participating in #TurnBasedFest and the Game Development World Championship! As part of the festival, we're running a special 25% discount for 5 days, until December 12th. This is a great opportunity to grab the game at a discounted price and try out the new Warlock Hero.
We're also asking for your help in the Game Development World Championship! We need as many views, likes, and shares as possible to boost Hadean Tactics' ranking in the event. Every view, like, and share helps!
For the future, we want to focus on bringing controller support and officially adding localization to a few languages. After that, we will be polishing the game and gearing up for the 1.0 launch, where we will be bringing you the final two Circles and the last battle against the true boss.
Finally, we want to thank you all for your support and patience. A very special thanks to the fantastic beta players here on Steam and on our Discord who have helped us a lot during this process. And a big thanks to all the beta players who have sent reports using our new in-game feedback tool! <3
Without further ado, here are the highlights for this update (more detailed patch notes will be coming soon!):
Have fun!
THE WARLOCK UPDATE
Highlights
-- Added Alatar, the Warlock.
-- Added Warlock deck (75+ cards).
-- Added 7 new units, totaling 34 recruitable units.
-- Revamped events.
-- Added two game modes: Hardcore Mode (makes unit death permanent), and Solo Mode (start the run with only your Hero, unit banners won't appear).
-- Added Random Heroes: Traditional Random (a Hero will be randomly picked amongst your unlocked Heroes and Variants), and Dynamic Random (a random Hero and Card Library will be created for this run).
-- Added weekly Hero: play with a new, randomly generated Hero every week!
-- Added unit ban: if you don't like a unit, you can ban it and it will never show up in your runs.
-- Added Wanderer units: save them from enemies to recruit them! Wanderer units can't be removed from your party, and their death is permanent.
-- Added small dialogues for when you defeat each boss.
-- Added the shopkeeper.
-- Added unit actions: in addition to manually selecting a target for each of your allies, you can now move them to another tile during battle. Each unit has two actions per battle.
-- Added in-game feedback tool: press F9 at any moment to send us a report with your feedback.
-- Added gameplay data sharing: this will help majorly with balancing the game using actual gameplay stats! You can toggle this in the Options menu.
-- Max Corruption level is now 20.
Cards
-- Added Orb Harvest.
-- Added Puppetry.
-- Added Magic Forge.
-- Added Arcane Master.
-- Added Invoker.
-- Added Unbury.
-- Added Foul Energy.
-- Added Reaper's Trade.
-- Added Clear Mind.
-- Added Prophecy.
-- Added Overthink.
-- Added Spellbinding.
-- Added Sorcery Shield.
-- Added Focus.
-- Added Refresh.
-- Added Elementalist.
-- Added Aptitude.
-- Added Cataclysm.
-- Added Banish.
-- Added Revitalize.
-- Added Undead Strike.
-- Added Heart Snack.
-- Added Mind Snack.
-- Added Sleight of Hand.
-- Added Restoration.
-- Added Burst.
-- Added Reminiscence.
-- Added Healing Wisp.
-- Added Will o' Wisp.
-- Added Shock Wisp.
-- Added Ice Wisp.
-- Added Betrayal.
-- Added Draugr.
-- Added Recharge.
-- Added Overload.
-- Added Shock Flush.
-- Added Energy Shield.
-- Added Light Shield.
-- Added Amp.
-- Added Static Shock.
-- Added Lightning Bolt.
-- Added Jolt.
-- guys there's so many of these lol
-- Added Ice Storm.
-- Added Ice Shatter.
-- Added Freeze.
-- Added Icy Weakness.
-- Added Freezing Shield.
-- Added Frost Armor.
-- Added Ice Spear.
-- Added Frost.
-- Added Scorch.
-- Added Flaming Hand.
-- Added Fire Wall.
-- Added Cauterize.
-- Added Blast.
-- Added Fire Cross.
-- Added Burning Strike.
-- Added Incinerate.
-- Added Fireball.
-- Added Pyro.
Units
-- Added Dahlia Dryad (deals damage each second to the target, heals for the amount of damage dealt for the rest of the combat; gains Lifesteal for a time).
-- Added Lily Dryad (applies Charm to a random non-Boss enemy; restores Health to all adjacent allies).
-- Added Orchid Dryad (summons a Healing Wisp; consumes a random Ephemeral unit to gain Shield and more damage).
-- Added Gray Owlian (copies all Enchants of the target and applies Weak; summons the Guardian).
-- Added Blue Owlian (gives Mana and applies Shield to random allies; creates an aura that gives Mana to adjacent allies).
-- Added Red Owlian (deals damage and applies Blidness to the target; applies Fear to all enemies).
-- Added the Guardian.
-- Added Purification Totem (removes all Ailments and applies Shield to all allies).
-- Added Debuff Totem (removes all Enchants from all enemies and applies Decay).
-- Removed Small Piglet.
-- Removed Piglet.
-- Removed Dark Piglet.
-- Added Beary (gains more damage).
-- Added Support Beary (applies Shield to all allies).
-- Added Protection Beary (applies Weak and Fracture to a random enemy).
-- Added Demon Hunter (jumps and attacks a random enemy a few times).
-- Added Grave (summons Zombie).
-- Added Zombie.
-- Added Lionidas (gains Shield, Carbon Skin, and Shield Bash).
Alliances
-- Added Vampire alliance (Vampires Lifesteal on attack).
-- Added Prophet alliance (draw extra cards in the first turn).
-- Added Healer alliance (all healing effects are stronger).
-- Added Enchanter alliance (every time you play an Enchant card, all units in your party gain Mana).
-- Added Wizard alliance (amplifies the damage of Spell card).
-- Added Sorcerer alliance (allies have a chance to gain more Mana when attacking).
-- Added Shaman alliance (Ephemeral allies gain Might and Shield when created).
-- Added Necromancer alliance (at the start of the combat, clones random units).
-- Changed Mystic alliance (every time a Mystic casts a skill, all allies adjacent to them gain Mana).
Relics
-- Added Idol of Lust (gain a party slot. Allies can no longer heal).
-- Added Crystal Shard (whenever you draw a Spell, deals damage to a random enemy).
Events
-- Added The Cemetery (add a random Wanderer ally monster to your party).
-- Added Idol of Sloth (remove a card from your deck, all allies get Sickness; gain gold, all allies gain Sickness).
-- Added Yes Man (sell a random unit in your party for gold).
-- Added Spooky Scary Skeletons (trade all Draugrs in your party for 1 random relic).
-- Added The Duplicator (duplicate a card; duplicate a non-Hero unit).
-- Added Card Eater (remove a card).
-- Added Well, Well, Well... (lose all runes, receive a random common relic).
-- Added Rune Lab (use gold to create a random rune).
-- Added The Old Ways (teleport directly to the Boss).
-- Added Card Forge (upgrade a card, all allies receive Burn).
-- Added The Vat of Acid Event (remove a card, all allies receive Decay).
-- Added Money or Life (lose all your gold; fight bandits).
-- Added Biting Booth (all current allies become a Vampyr).
-- Added Time Shenanigans.
-- Added The Secret Academy.
-- Added The Demon Hunter.
-- Added Pick a Card, Any Card.
-- Added River of Souls.
-- Added The Black Market.
-- Added Netherbank Agency.
Runes
-- Added Rune of Binding.
-- Added Rune of Banishing.
-- Added Rune of Terror.
-- Added Rune of Stunning.
-- Added Rune of Fracturing.
-- Added Rune of Muting.
Quality of Life
-- You can now see the target line by hovering over the unit.
-- You can now pan the camera by pressing the arrow keys.
-- You can now use Esc to close the pile windows.
There are lots of other small changes so your feedback is crucial, please share your experiences and thoughts with us! You can do it in-game with the new feedback tool, here on Steam, or on our Discord. We'd love to hear from you!
Autumn Sale 2022
The Steam Autumn Sale starts today! Hadean Tactics will be 25% off until November 29th. It's another good opportunity to grab the game on the discounted Early Access price before 1.0!
We are working hard on the Warlock update, and it's getting ready to be released soon. As we stated before, besides the new Hero, his cards and playstyle, it will feature new units, new game modes, the event revamp with 40+ new events, and more.
If you can't wait until the update is officially finished, you can play it right now in the game's beta branch.
In the beta, we have added an in-game report tool that allows you to send feedback directly from inside the game, so if you encounter anything during your runs or have any comments, just press F9 to access it.
You can also join our Discord if you want to chat about it directly with us or with other awesome folks who enjoy the game.
We will post the update announcement date here soon, so keep an eye out!
Thank you all so much for your continued support and love! ❤❤❤
Happy Autumn!
Cheers!
Doug & Lili @ Emberfish Games
Beta 0.5 Now Available
Today's the day! We've just put the Warlock update up on the beta branch!
This initial beta release includes the Warlock Hero with around 70 new cards, the Events revamp with 40+ new events, two different Random modes for runs, etc.
We've changed a few things that we believe will make it better to handle balancing in the future. The most impactful were Boss relics and non-Hero units' upgrades. Those things were tweaked to prevent the player's power spike after the first Circle that was causing a lot of trouble. Keep in mind that these are not set in stone, so if you have any feedback about them please feel free to share.
Right now everything is very fresh so it may feel a bit rough with loads of bugs, but we will work on it together to finetune it. We also will be adding the remaining content gradually in the next couple of weeks to the beta branch that includes Alatar's variants (the Spellslinger and the Necromancer), more cards, new units to recruit, even more events, and such.
How to access: Switch to the beta branch on the game's properties on Steam.
The game should update automatically to the beta branch.
You can report bugs and give us suggestions on our Discord.
Have fun!
Thank you all for the patience and believing in us, it means a lot.
You guys are the best!
Cheers!
Doug & Lili @ Emberfish Games
Hadean Tactics on Tacticon + 0.5 Beta tomorrow
Today we've got a couple of news for you.
First, Hadean Tactics is participating in Tacticon! Tacticon is an online event featured right here on Steam, all about tactical and strategy games, and we are very happy to be a part of it!
To celebrate, we will be running a 25% discount for the duration of Tacticon, from September 22nd to September 26th. Now's your chance to grab the game before the 1.0 release!
Next, after the long wait, we want you all to know that, tomorrow, we are dropping the beta version for the Warlock update, version 0.5! We apologize for the delay - we ran into some office space issues that slowed us down considerably. Now that we are almost all set up, the final stretch of development to launch should run smoothly.
After this update, the plan is to focus on polishing, balancing, QoL, official localization, the true final boss, and the ending of the game. The game will achieve it's final form around February 2023.
We will be posting another announcement here on Steam as soon as the beta is up, and will also be pinging all Beta players on our Discord, if you want to be notified directly.
Thank you all for the patience and see you tomorrow!
Cheers!
Doug and Lili @ Emberfish Games
Patch 0.4.24
-- Fixed Cheese sometimes overstaying their welcome.
-- Fixed units sometimes having negative damage after an upgrade.
Patch 0.4.23
-- Fixed The Sacrifice Pit event showing up without the name.
Patch 0.4.22
Patch 0.4.22
Hadean Tactics on Tiny Teams
Today we've got a couple of news for you, and more info on the Warlock update!
Tiny Teams
We are happy to announce that we will be participating in the Tiny Teams event this year! As some of you may already know, we are a self-published small team of 2 people working hard to bring this game to its full potential.
The game will be 25% off during the event!
The awesome people at Yogscast have also selected Hadean Tactics to be featured in an official livestream, so tune into twitch.tv/yogscast on Thursday 4th 11AM - 2PM BST if you want to join in.
Development
We've been doing some research and after lots of fiddling around we've finally implemented a way to patch the current build while working on the new stuff.
No more waiting for a major update before getting your bugs fixed! This will greatly benefit the game in the long run.
With the new change in workflow, we've just pushed a build with a few fixes for you!
Major Update
Warlock's Update, although taking a bit more time than we anticipated, is coming along nicely. I know you guys are excited to get your hands on the new Hero so, to go along with the sneak peeks from part 1, here are some more previews of it!
Warlock's Gameplay
Defeat your enemies using combinations of Fire, Ice, and Lightning spells, summon elemental Spirits from the underworld, or raise the dead to fight for your side!
More events!
In addition to regular text events, we've added a number of in-battle events as well. Throughout your adventure, you may find creatures in need of assistance, or maybe some rare enemies...
Moving your units
To give you even more options to control the flow of the combat, you can now move your units during battle!
All these and much more will be coming soon to the beta branch, so if you want to be notified as soon as it drops, make sure to join our Discord!
Thank y'all for the support!
- Doug & Lili @ Emberfish Games