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Genre: Strategy, Indie

Hero Lodge

Patch 1.0.16f - Very small changes

Patch 1.0.16f
2/20/2023
Changed the unlock message when beating Jpeak and Jpeak NG+
to mention not using Checkpoints instead of 'not using shortcuts'.
Should be less confusing this way.
Fixed the food unlocked from killing vampires to give a different buff than
the food from giant spiders: will now give a small crit damage boost.

Patch 1.0.16e - Minor bugfixes, Poison Claw accessory buffed

1/5/2023

  • Poison Claws Accessory buffed (1 all stats instead of 1 str 1 agi, costs more mats to craft)
  • Fixed a glitch between already opened chests and HB/DO knockbacks:
    the offending knockbacks will now destroy opened chests.
  • HB 'looking for blood' will now face the closest player.
  • HB will stop tracking lowest HP during its turn after Beak Peck is used.
  • Fixed a camera glitch on 5-2 and 10-2 when you're replaying the mission.
  • Removed 2 x trees from H Bear mission.
  • Removed some debug lines from crafting menus.
  • Put in a catch to fix very rare broken HB situation to auto end turn much quicker.

Patch 1.0.16f - Minor Bugfixes

Patch 1.0.16f
12/1/2022

  • Fixed bug where the 'No Enemies' banner would reappear and stay stuck on screen
    if you changed font styles.
  • Fixed back stab dagger indicators to not show once stabbers have been killed.
  • FIXED Barbarian passive spelling: changed from beserk to berserk.
  • Fixed a small font issue where right parenthesis with the white text was 1 pixel off.

Patch 1.0.16g - bug fixes, buffs to campaign 9 legendary weapons, and more


  • Added new bonus item for getting all chests in bonus campaign.
  • Legendary weapon Slammer buffed: base damage +6 but no longer gives strength, also now gives a whopping 30% crit chance.
  • Legendary weapon Misery buffed with 10% more crit chance.
  • Chests no longer briefly show an 'expires in 3 turns' message when moused over after opening them.
  • Fixed a bug where ranged attacks could sometimes prevent ending Turn when used on targets in a specific context: skills targeting an enemy who's position is bugged to be VERY far away will now target the ground instead.
  • Fixed a bad bug with ice clone's ice shuriken and the new chilled turn count mechanic.
    Updated a few bestiary descriptions: Skeletons now mention their fire vulnerability.
  • Fixed a few H Dragon issues.
  • Fixed a bad bug with ice clone's ice shuriken and the new chilled turn count mechanic.
  • Updated a few bestiary descriptions: Skeletons now mention their fire vulnerability.
  • Added new bonus item for getting all chests in bonus campaign.
  • Chests no longer briefly show an 'expires in 3 turns' message when moused over after opening them.
  • Fixed a bug where ranged attacks could sometimes prevent ending Turn when used on targets in a specific context: skills targeting an enemy who's position is bugged to be VERY far away will now target the ground instead.
  • Fixed a few H Dragon issues.

Patch 1.0.16f - Small Changes and bug fixes

11/4/2022

  • Snake Cleric and Priestess will now have indicators for their Holy Fire moves.
    (It was asking too much for players to figure out and remember 3 vastly different AoE attacks)
  • Rat Stabbers will now have a backstab indicator when mousing over them: a flashing knife will show
    behind their marked target showing where they will try to backstab from.
  • Manual Camera Speed scaled down when in fast forward mode (moving with Cam with WASD and zooming speed slowed down to 1.25 x faster than normal rather than 3 x faster than normal)
  • Applying Death Palm to a Snake Cleric/Priestess that has a holy fire Icon over their head will
    now shift the holy fire icon so they don't overlap.
  • Fixed glitch where Cultist's transfuse on a hero that then dies before the heal hits would heal the dead target.
  • Fixed glitch where Cultist Profane advanced skill wasn't working for certain enemies that explode on death.
  • Hell Overlord on NG+ Campaign 6 Level 2 will now keep NG+ bonus unless his natural powered up amount is higher than 2.
  • Fixed Gargoyle Soul item typo that said all party members would benefit from the bonus end of turn AP to HP ratio.
  • Holy One portrait rework: no longer has a prominent nose on bigger sprite art, smaller portrait now has a visible mouth line to match in game animation.

Patch 1.0.16e - Crafting Menu sorts by tier and rarity rather than by alphabet

Patch 1.0.16e
10/28/2022

  • Crafting Menu sorted by tier and then rarity rather than purely by alphabet.
    (will still always show all weapons and then all accessories)
  • Philosopher's shop will now sort by tier and then rarity rather than low to high tier.
  • Fixed issue where level 1 Enchantress could have access to Infuse Crystal Skill
    while not having her passive.
  • Store Sell All by right clicking has been changed to only sell 10 per right click.
  • Fixed problem with special hero selects and the new refund XP amount tooltip.
  • Fixed a few bestiary loot mistakes.
  • Items crafted from Chicken Feathers will now abbreviate the Chicken Feather to C Feathers
    to prevent text from going off screen edge when Feathers would be purchased from the Shop.
  • Dyrnwyn, Daliburn gold value increased.
  • Crafting Omega Tachi required ancient bones reduced to 2 from 4.

Patch 1.0.16d - Track poison/chill turns remaining with a mouse over + bug fixes

Patch 1.0.16d
10/25/2022

  • Added turns remaining numbers for Chill and Poison effects. Mousing over
    a character or selecting them will show numbers for how many turns these debuffs
    will last.
  • Poison word coloring changed to be less pink/bright.
  • Death Palm turn tracking will stay showing when Enemy is taking turn.
  • Death Palm turn tracking number color changed to have a tint of red.
  • New limit added to Bobby's Boon, Horazon's Seal, and Strange Magic level for killing summons:
    can now only boost skills 10 times from killing summons (regular enemies still have no limit).
  • Fixed tooltip for equipment with skill boosts to Martial Artist's Elemental Fist:
    now says E. Fist dmg +x instead of Ele P. dmg +x.
  • Fixed glitch where you could move+attack into disabled spaces/walls in a specific situation(example level 1 of Campaign 4's spider cavern).
  • Fixed issue where Not Enough AP message/AP cost to attack messages on mouse over were sometimes incorrect when rapidly swapping moused over target.
  • Added No Path mouse over messages/click messages when trying to target someone with a one range skill/attack that is surrounded on all sides.
  • Added a 'choose skill location' message when using the 'skills can move' menu option and you click any target rather than choosing a location to move to.

Patch 1.0.16c - added skill scaling per stat tooltips to hero select

Patch 1.0.16c
10/24/2022

  • Added skill scaling tooltips onto hero tooltips for each stat: these will be the
    same tooltips you would normally see when going to level up a hero:
    Example: Mousing over Strength for Shield Maiden will show the damage Shield Bash gains per point.
  • Reworded arbormancer passives scaling info: was too big for tooltip box.
  • Fixed Hero Select summon resist values (weren't matching actual in game amounts).
  • Hero Select stat tooltip colors will now match proper stat colors.
  • Skill Scaling word for these tooltips (in level up and hero select) is now green.

Patch 1.0.16b

Patch 1.0.16b
10/20/2022

  • On the craft confirm screen, you can now mouse over usable hero portraits to see what
    item they currently have equipped (in the bottom right of screen).
  • When crafting an item usable by all heroes, the 'Everyone' bar in the craft confirm screen will be
    replaced with every unlocked hero's portrait so you can compare equipped equipment.
  • When crafting items w/ more than 6 ingredients that also required gold, the gold cost tooltip will no
    longer be covered up by the craft confirm message.
  • Crafting menu buttons now instantly mouse overable instead of the old strange delay
    (should also be less laggy).
  • Fixed a spelling mistake with Apocalypse enemy skill.
  • Fixed a glitch when Terrify advanced skill would proc the auto burrow on an
    Ash Shark.
  • Fixed 'Back to Crafting' button (was working off if you had hero 20 instead of 21 for detecting
    if it should show or not).
  • Fixed a pretty serious glitch where crafting with a philo stone that needed to be bought from store wouldn't
    decrease the philo stone count in store.

Patch 1.0.16 - Respecializing Heroes now costs less Exp at higher ranks.

10/17/2022

  • Reaching 50% through Rank 8 will now increase the amount of EXP refunded
    when refunding EXP from 80% to 90% of total spent EXP. This will be retroactively
    added to anyone Team Rank 9 or higher.
  • Barkeep conversation about leveling up will now include information about refund amounts.
  • Refund amount % will now be included below Refund Exp tooltip.
  • Hitting Exit game in escape menu will now just say 'Exit Game?' instead of the confusing
    'Save and Exit Game?' that made some player think there was a suspend save option.
  • Fixed a bug where Exit Game wasn't properly rewarding exp from monster kills.
  • Moved 'Map' words from map tooltip to not overlap with the bonus campaign words.
  • Added new back to crafting buttons to all 3 crafting types: will only show if at least 1 other crafting
    type is unlocked.