Mage Tower: Call of Zadeus
Patch 2.1.2.2.1 Notes
-Fixed an issue where a change from the previous patch was causing Miniboss monsters to not be shuffled near the bottom of the monster deck like they should be.
Update 9: Improved New Player Experience, New Cards, & Roadmap!
There are also some new cards, some performance enhancements, and lots of bug fixes. Let's get into it!
New Animations
While the game had a lot of animations to show the player what was going on, many effects still lacked visual indicators. This could lead to the player playing a card, then being unsure about what exactly it did. In this patch we fix that by adding a ton of new animations to communicate the game's effects better to the player. Remember... "Show, don't tell!":
Level Up Cards
Gamestart Effects
Banishing Monsters
Bosses Now Appear and Chase You!
Huge Card Text Revamp + Tooltips
Almost every card's text was rewritten. New keywords were added, unnecessary stuff was removed, and everything just makes a lot more sense! We've also added card tooltips to help make things more clear!:
Toxic Flood used to have so much text that its text box covered part of the artwork. Now its effects have been condensed into three simple keywords that the player sees often. This lets the player immediately recognize what the card does without having to reread a bunch of text.
New Cards
This patch also introduces some new Black Market cards, and a Legendary card!
Ferocity makes arrows do more arrows! Very good for monster kill!
This Legendary card can only be found in dungeons, and lets you use your class's Battle Skill more often. This can drastically alter your deck's strategy.
It's finally time to put that all-Battlement deck together!
More Complex Cards (for advanced players!)
Some spells deal with magic so forbidden that they tend to Attract Attention. Illegal duplication magic is of that sort, though it IS tempting to fill your hand with Venom Blasts...
You can't wield the lost blade without Attracting Attention from the Insidious Four. The blade is incredibly overpowered, but can you fight off those who wish to steal it from you?
Performance Improvements
The patch also has performance improvements. The game should now use less memory, and there is an option to turn off effects so that it uses even less. This may make the game work better on some devices.
The full Patch 2.0.2.2 Patch Notes can be found here: Pach 2.0.2.2 Notes
2024 Roadmap
Here is our tentative Roadmap from now until the 1.0 release! As you can see we are getting close, we just have to implement Kickstarter rewards, a few features, and fill out the game with additional cards/events/potions/enemies/etc.
After that's done who knows? We might see a new card pool, or maybe some (non-DLC) expansions, or perhaps even a new mode with a new card combat system. We're excited to see where the game takes us!
Until next time!
-Brett Brimmer
supermegagames.net
Patch 2.1.2.2 Notes
New Cards
-1 new Legendary card added: Fount of Sorcery.
-5 new Black Market cards added: Ferocity, Last Stand, Lost Blade of Erimos, Lightning Grove, and Architect.
New Player Experience
(We've added new features and animations that better communicate to the player what is going on in the game.)
-Card tooltips have been added! There are tooltips for most major effects (Arrow Damage, Poison, Enflame, etc.) Some effects that had no keyword are now keyworded.
-When your deck is empty and your discard pile is shuffled into it, you'll now see the cards fly out from your discard pile and into your deck.
-Removing a monster from the monster deck with a card like Banish now makes the monster pop out of the deck, float, then disappear. (Like with Enflame cards.)
-Level Up animations now have an animation when they level up.
-Barrel Toss, Fermented Grimberries, Drakkan Twinblade, and some new cards have new visual effects at the start of battle that show you the cards they're creating for you.
-When a boss appears there will be some visual effects, and the boss will appear up and chase you down. (Previously you'd just be sent to a static pre-battle screen, which could be confusing.)
Card Text Updates (Also part of the New Player Experience)
-Text was changed on most cards to simplify wordings, or to add keywords. Too many changes to list everything here, but the changes should be intuitive, especially along with the new card tooltips.
-Any card that is one-use-per-battle now has the "Deplete" keyword instead of the "Void Stone" icon. (The icon didn't end up being as intuitive as a keyword for most players.)
-All Wizardry cards were changed to Ability cards and given the "Deplete" keyword.
-All Treasure cards were changed to Ability cards and given the "Unplayable" keyword.
-"Permanent" cards had the name of their card type changed to "Ongoing Effect". (A "Permanent" is a long-lasting hair wave produced by mechanical and chemical means.)
-Arrow Damage is now worded as "Deal X Arrow Damage" instead of "Deal X damage —>." This should make the syntax more understandable for new players. It also makes more logical sense to read out loud as it's written. It's also easier to remember what it's called, since the term "Arrow Damage" is only mentioned in the tutorial.
-"Hulking" (the ability that said a monster is immune to Destroy/Transform/Purge effects) was removed. This keyword was confusing since it introduced *three* additional keywords to describe itself, without defining those keywords. The few cards that cared about Hulking were reworded so they still can't hit big monsters. Essentially we saved a lot of text box space, removed a confusing keyword, and the gameplay is pretty much the same.
-The term "removed from the game" is no longer used. Instead, the term "removed from this battle" is used.
Performance
-Many unused sprites were deleted so that the game uses less memory and runs smoother.
-A new setting was added to the Settings menu called "Disable Glow Effects". It disables animations for things like cards glowing, zadeus tentacles glowing and animating, and more. Using this setting will make the game use less memory and may make load times faster. It also may make the game work better on devices where it formerly had issues. This is just the start of future performance options.
Card Changes
-Golden Golem now has an extra effect: If it's discarded from your hand, you gain 1 gold.
-Gate Guard (a Black Market card previously called Strong Man) has had its health increased by 3. (It's now a 0/7 instead of a 0/4.)
-Cosmigorius now deals 6 damage to all non-angry monsters instead of destroying them. (Generally intended as a buff compared to the previous build, since before it couldn't hit large/"Hulking" monsters, and now it can.)
Mastery Changes
(The TLDR here is that there was too big a difficulty jump from Mastery 4 to 5, so we're making Mastery 5 a little easier.)
-Masteries 5+: Enemies no longer spawn faster. Enemies are no longer more aggressive. Your starting gold will not be reduced more than it was at Mastery 4.
-Instead of buffing "normal" enemies at Mastery 5, we're now buffing boss/elite enemies at Mastery 5, and moving the "normal" enemy buffs back to Mastery 6. This is to make Mastery 5 easier since "normal" enemies were already buffed at Mastery 4, so doing it twice in a row made things really tough.
Other Changes
-The Bazaar's Black Market cards had their costs reduced from 300 Bloodrunes to a range of 225-300 Bloodrunes.
-Bazaars now sell 4 non-Black market cards instead of 5.
-Cosmigorius and Irko's Tome are unlockable again, through the Beastiary achievements. (They were not unlockable for a while due to an oversight.)
-Artwork was updated on many cards. Black Market cards were originally going to be themed around a demonic carnival, but we decided not to go with that theme. So the art and names of those cards were updated to traditional fantasy.
-Slay and Stupefy, which can be used on Goblins, can now also be used on Goblin Blowpipers and Goblin Guards. (Monsters in the Cave Goblins fight.)
-You can no longer get Fara's Commnad as a random starting rare card. (Some very niche cards like this are excluded.)
-Irko's Gift now asks if you're sure when you pick a card to remove from the battle.
-Reality Shift can no longer duplicate Wisp (a card you get from an artifact.)
-Some cards that have several other cards associated with them (such as Irko's Tome, Argatamos's Bargain, and Lost Blade of Erimos) now show those cards on mouseover. Also, Irko's Tome will only show which "Irko's" cards are left so you know which ones you'll get to pick from.
-Build was replaced with the identical card Gem Mine. This was just so we could use Build's art for the new Architect card since it was such a good fit.
-The names of the game speeds were changed from "Normal/Fast/Very Fast/Super Fast" to "Very Slow/Slow/Normal/Fast". Since the 3rd speed is the default it made more sense for that to be "Normal".
Enemy Changes
-Enchantress's "Cold Snap" card now only gives Frost Drakes +1/+1 instead of +3/+3. (Frost Drakes are already powerful, and giving them +3/+3 was too often a run-ending effect. Frost Drakes are annoying enough without it.)
Notable Bug Fixes
-Fixed a bug that was preventing the player from drinking Health Potions at the Bazaar and on some other screens.
-Fixed a bug where Ferocity Serum on Beast Companion caused the companion to not heal at end of turn.
Minor Bug Fixes
-Hunter's "Time Stop" will now update your "Death Imminent" status after you play it.
-Fixed an issue where, when the card Rogue's Dagger showed up as a dungeon reward, it showed a picture of a non-existent artifact instead.
-Fixed a bug where the cards from Search wouldn't be aligned correctly.
-Fixed a bug where monsters would continue walking around while you were at an Event.
-Fixed an issue where Bazaars, Events, and Obelisks were only spawning on the bottom half of the map, and could occasionally spawn outside the map.
-Fixed an issue where map locations (towns/bazaars/obelisks/etc.) were able to spawn top of each other.
-Fixed an issue where the glow around Stalwart Knight when it levelled up was the wrong size.
-Fixed Outpost and Otherworldly Draught tooltips saying they'd work in Elite battles.
-Fixed an issue where Poison Daggers said it dealt Enflame damage equal to double the Poison on the monster board instead of just the amount of Poison (i.e. there is no doubling.)
-Fixed a bug where Poison Bomb could damage The Tidebringer.
-Fixed a soft lock that could happen if you tried to play a Poison card while the only monster on the board was The Tidebringer.
-Fixed a bug where the game log said Poison damage was happening at the end of your turn instead of the start.
-Fixed a bug where Artifacts could be attached to Flame Blast, causing them to be lost. (Flame Blast is received from an artifact and can't be upgraded or enhanced with artifacts.)
-Fixed an issue where the message telling you to pick a card from Lost Cities would say the wrong card count.
-Fixed a bug where Enhance Magic would cause costless cards to say they now costed 8.
-Fixed a bug where when trying to play an Equipment card with no Defenders in play it would incorrectly say "Not Enough Energy".
-Fixed a bug where Irko's Gift could soft lock the game if you used it while your deck and hand were otherwise empty.
-Fixed an isssue where Constellation Mirror's tooltip went off-screen on the dungeon clue screen if it was a dungeon reward.
-Fixed an issue where Ice Strider would incorrectly say it was removing a card from your deck when your deck and discard pile were empty.
-Fixed a bug where the "Poison" icon on a monster card would be misaligned if the monster had Slow as well.
-Fixed an issue where Element Cannon couldn't be activated if the closest monster was a monster that used to have the "Hulking" ability.
-Fixed a bug where monsters who had received an attack bonus were having their attack bonus calculuted twice when checking if your death is imminent.
-Fixed a bug where River Stalker and Grimgut's Maul damage wasn't counting when deciding whether death is imminent.
-Fixed a bug where Brewmaster's Boast ability to fight a harder enemy didn't work against Glade Nymph.
-Fixed 20+ more minor bugs not listed here.
Temporarily reverting to the more stable 2.1.2.1.6
This is because the UI enhancements weren't ready and caused the tutorial to break and caused some crash bugs. I thought I could release the patch for the minor balance changes but the UI features should have been tested more.
2.1.2.1.6 is very stable and has had many many hours of testing. I've personally watched someone play over 40 hours on this version and it works great and is stable.
A new more well-tested update with all the UI enhancements from 2.1.2.1.7 and 2.1.2.1.8 (and more) will be coming in the next few weeks.
Patch 2.1.2.1.8 Notes
Major Bug Fixes
-Fixed a crash bug that could happen very rarely when playing a card.
Quality of Life
-New visuals and sound fx were added for when you level up a "Level Up" card.
Patch 2.1.2.1.7 Notes
Quality of Life
-When a boss spawns, it will now spawn on the map and chase you down, making it much more clear what is happening. (In previous versions you would just be teleported to the boss's pre-battle screen, which could be confusing.)
-A notification was added for when a player tries to play a card they don't have enough energy for.
-The process of searching for cards in your deck (via certain effects) has had some interface improvements to make things more clear.
Mastery Changes:
(Mastery 3 and 4 have had some adjustments to give them a smoother difficulty transition from Masteries 1 and 2.)
-A few enemies were more difficult at Masteries 3 and 4 than they should have been (i.e. Gold Knight would get +8 health at Mastery 3 when he shouldn't have.) This has been fixed.
-Previously at Mastery 4 there was a sharp increase in enemy spawn rate, and a sharp decrease in starting bloodrunes. These changes now happen incrementally from Masteries 4-8. (So Mastery 4 will not be such a huge jump upward in difficulty.)
Card Changes
-Element Cannon now deals 7 damage to the closest monster instead of destroying it. (Generally a buff because now it can hit Hulking enemies which are immune to "Destroy" effects.)
-Element Cannon now has a Cancel button after you activate it if you change your mind about using it.
Miscellaneous Changes
-The time passed after a dungeon battle has been increased very slightly.
-Bazaar artifacts you can't afford will now be tinted in red.
Enemy Changes
-Temple Guardian has had 1 additional Thorn Mage added to its monster deck.
-Rock Pile is now more difficult at masteries less than 5.
-Skulk's Bogle monster is now a 2/1 at Mastery 1 and 2 instead of a 3/1.
-Skulk's enemies will now tell you how much of the resource you have left after they steal some from you.
-Skulk was saying it stole 25 bloodrunes, but it actually stole 75. Changed both values to 50.
-The Headhunters' Sylla's hp was increased by 1 at Masteries 1 and 2.
Notable bug fixes
-Fixed an issue with Chain Lightning where it was incorrectly shuffling the Spell Charcoals into your deck instead of putting them into your discard pile.
-Enflame is now correctly able to damage Agile and Carapace enemies.
-Fixed a bug where the arrow that guides you to a dungeon could sometimes get stuck pointing right.
-Fixed a bug where the dungeon buff that reduced a card's cost to 0 wasn't working.
-Fixed a bug where Enhance Magic's cost reduction effect wasn't doing anything.
-Fixed a bug where the legendary Enchanted Bow artifact wasn't working with Fireball.
Minor Bug Fixes
-Fixed a bug where it was possible to activate a class skill while other actions were happening, which might cancel the skill activation.
-Fixed a soft lock bug where Summon Artifact could be activated when you had no Permanent cards (it was counting Scheme cards as Permanent cards, then not letting you actually get them.)
-Fixed a bug that could make some cards in your deck glow green right before the Zadeus battle.
-Fixed a bug where when looking at the "Map" boss artifact, it would sometimes choose the map artifact as your final choice even though you were just trying to click the "See Dungeons" button.
-Hopefully fixed an issue where Bazaars and Obelisks could spawn below the bottom of the map.
-Fixed a bug where Thug, which steals Scrolls, was saying on hit that it steals Trade Resources (which no longer exist.)
-Living Mountain will no longer warns of monsters in X turns when the monster deck is empty, since there won't be any more monsters.
-The "Stash of Riches" artifact was still showing up as an unlockable in achievements even though the artifact doesn't exist anymore. Removed it.
-Corrected the Trebuchet artifact's description to note that Siege has Enflame 4.
-Fixed an issue where your artifacts and the day timer weren't showing up on some screens.
-Fixed an issue where, when Wicker Man was in play, some direct damage cards would look like their damage was buffed by having purple text when the damage was not buffed.
-Fixed a bug where The Headhunters' Sylla would be delayed in updating her attack value.
-Fixed a bug where Freezing Breath's cost increase debuff wasn't working.
-Since the Temple Guardian's Thorn Mages buff Sproutlings at end of turn, it wasn't adding that potential damage to the incoming damage counter. Now it does.
-Fixed a bug where Summon Artifact was able to grab Scheme cards.
-Hopefully fixed an extremely rare crash bug that could happen when playing Fireball.
-Fixed an issue where the count of cards unlocked on the Achievements screen was off.
-Fixed a bug where Summon Comet wasn't gaining life if you used it on the last monster.
-Fix an issue where Silence didn't have a prompt telling you to click a monster.
-Fixed a bug where the game would pop up the dialogue box to equip Wax Mask to The King's Banner, even though it couldn't be equipped because The King's Banner is a costless card.
Patch 2.1.2.1.6 Notes
Major Bug Fixes
-Fixed a major bug with Beast Tamer that made it so she couldn't get attachable artifacts from Bazaars.
-Fixed another bug with the Beast Tamer that made it so that sometimes random cards would fly across the screen when she activated her Bolster ability.
Quality of Life
-You can now drink Health Potions outside of battle by clicking on them.
Enemy Changes
-The Gorgon's "Death Gaze" monster card is now a 12/9 or 15/9 at lower masteries, while it remains a 99/9 at higher masteries.
-Death Gaze no longer has its ability, which made you lose the run if you left the battle and reloaded the run. (I don't want people's runs to be ruined if they leave the game for any external reason.)
-The Gorgon's "Minotaur" monster card is now near the very bottom of the monster deck so it's not possible to get multiple waves of monsters stuck behind it (maybe just a few monsters.)
-Death Gaze is now shuffled into the top half of the monster deck, so now it's impossible for it to get stuck behind Minotaur.
Bug Fixes
-Fixed a potential crash bug in the extra boss battle with the secret final monster.
Patch 2.1.2.1.5 Notes
Miscellaneous Changes
-Health gained from the Inquisitor Knight event increased from 10% to 12% of max health.
Mastery Level Balance
(Evening out Mastery level balance from levels 2-4.)
-Mastery 3 was overloaded with too many enemy buffs, so we moved the Fel Wyrm stat buff to Mastery 2 and the Goblin stat buff to Mastery 4.
-Incorrectly, Mastery 3 was increasing monsters-per-turn on Days 3+ when Mastery 4 was supposed to do that. This effect has been correctly moved to Mastery 4.
Enemy Balance
-These changes are for the Vixiloth fight *at low masteries*. There is now one more Vixiloth in the deck (instead of some basic monsters) and the Vixiloths are now 4/6 instead of 5/5. The Portal Spawn are now 2/3 instead of 3/2.
-The Necromancer's Zombies now get +1 health at low Masteries and +1 attack at higher masteries.
-Gold Knight's starting health at low masteries increased from 30 to 32.
**Bug Fixes**
-Fixed a bug where the game could get stuck if you had a Wallering Gaduille that was forced to attack, but The Tidebringer was the closest monster and couldn't be attacked.
-Fixed a bug where Beast Tamer's achievements were not unlockable.
-Fixed a bug where the achievements incorrectly said they were unlocking the removed Rune Warrior class (which will be replaced or reworked.)
-Attempted to fix a bug where a player could end up at the top corner of the dungeon when entering or loading a dungeon. (If this does happen to you, try going to the menu and resuming your run and it may fix it.)
-Fixed a bug where Magic Scroll's cost reduction effect wasn't working.
-Fixed a bug where Meteor was starting with 7 counters instead of 6.
-The text on the class select screen saying what each Mastery does was incorrect at some levels, this has been fixed.
-Fixed a bug where Gold Knight was getting a stat buff at Mastery 2 when it should be at Mastery 3.
-Fixed a bug where the Inquisitor Knight event incorrectly said it had taken 100 bloodrunes when it was only 25.
-Fixed an issue where the "20 card threshhold reached" text on The King's Banner would be cropped on the edges.
-Fixed a bug where an Achievement said it unlocked Volley. In actuality, Volley starts unlocked.
-Fixed a bug where monster attack buffs or debuffs (from monsters like Cold Snap, or cards like Silence) would be doubled when they hit a Defender.
-Fixed a bug where Silence didn't work sometimes on an already Silenced enemy.
-Fixed text of Constellation Beast to correctly say it maxes out at +8/+8 instead of +10/+10.
-Fixed an issue where Intricate Web's 2nd ability name wasn't bolded.
-Fixed a bug where Vixiloth would have more difficult monsters at Mastery 2 instead of at Mastery 3.
-The incoming damage number will now count Xyonith Swarmlings correctly, and that value will now be correctly considered when checking if death is imminent.
-Fixed a bug where Boast could fail if used on a Level 0 enemy 1/8th of the time.
-Fixed an issue where you couldn't Boast for a mana buff against bosses/elites/dungeon enemies. (Now you can't Boast to switch to a harder enemy against those enemy types, but you can still use the mana buff.)
-Fixed an issue where the deck size warning for Day 5 would say your minimum deck size was increasing to 14, when the max is actually 13.
Patch 2.1.2.1.4 Notes
-Updated the text box of "Scout" so it says that after War Camp you get Raiding Party. Getting Raiding Party is the whole point, so people probably weren't drafting Scout because they didn't know you get anything after War Camp.
-Added a tiny time buffer between allowable clicks on the Achievement screen so it's less likely you'll accidentally click through an unlocked achievement without seeing what it was.
Bug Fixes
-Fixed a bug where, while attaching a Bazaar artifact that would buff a Defender's stats, it wouldn't show the correct stats for the Defender.
-Fixed a bug where Lost Tome wasn't shuffling the discard pile into the player's deck.
-Fixed a bug where the mountain icon that appears over Gideon's head while he's in mountains would appear while on the minimap.
-Fixed a bug where Stupefying the same enemy twice would reset its attack.
-Fixed a bug where Forge and Purge token tooltips would appear while at the Blacksmith, while the icons were hidden behind the deck.
-Fixed incorrect text for upgraded Summon Reinforcements and Trade Routes that said they can get up to 6 counters, when it's actually up to 8.
-Fixed a crash bug that could happen when leaving a town from the tooltips trying to check info about a non-existent town.
Patch Notes 2.1.2.1.3
Enemy Changes
-Stone Golem (from the dungeon enemy Rock Pile) stats increased by +2/+2 at all Mastery levels.
Bug Fixes
-Fixed a bug where sometimes dungeon clues wouldn't be displayed in a town.
-Fixed a bug where Stupefy's upgraded cost was 3 instead of 2. (It's now 2.)
-Fixed a bug where Venom Blast wasn't getting the Poison damage increase from Wicker Man.
-Fixed a bug where Concentrate was showing the wrong cost and its text didn't fit in its text box.
-Fixed a bug where Gold Knight's second spell would say that it was destroying its own Golden Tome when that is impossible.
-Fixed Golden Tome's text box to correctly say that the discard and Spirit summoning are part of the same spell. (It wasn't originally planned to be this way, but that's how it's worked in testing and it's going to be left that way because it makes turn four of the battle really exciting.)
-Fixed the text in Stone Golem's text box being misaligned.
-Fixed a bug that would cause a message appear at start of game for no reason that said "Grim Monument" (related to an old card.)
-Added a tooltip in the Artifact Merchant to make it clear that Scrolls are obtained from defeating Elite enemies.
-Fixed an issue where Beetlemorph's prompt would incorrectly it's changing the monster into a 4/1 Beetle instead of a 4/2 Beetle.
-Fixed an issue where the Inquisitor Knight event would say the card it gives out is called "Dark Summoning" instead of "Cultist's Summoning".
-Fixed a bug where the Eye of Sol'Mo's cost reduction effect wasn't working.
-Fixed Healer building tooltip to state that the healing only takes effect for the first five turns.