Hero Update
Author: PurpleButton,
published 9 months ago,
Heroes have gone through a redesign! In place of a few hero characters with a choice of abilities, I've moved to more heroes, but each with a set of 4 fixed abilities.
This has a number of advantages:
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[*]Removes the possibility of picking a combination of abilities that don't work well together..
[*]..and means when designing a hero I can work with a fixed set, allowing synergies to be designed
[*]Each hero can be themed around a certain playstyle or mechanic
[*]Easier to add more heroes - rather than 7 new abilities per hero, I now only need 3-4 (some share the LIGHT ability)
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Along with this change, the HEAVY ability is now available at the start of the Crawl, and SPECIAL abilities are now unlocked as dungeons 1+2 are cleared. Couple of reasons for this - help new players by avoiding everything at once, and the difficulty ramps up with every dungeon in the Crawl, so the player isn't super overpowered. I plan to add Unlocks opening up the SPECIAL abilities earlier for more advanced play.
Heroes planned for 1.0 launch are:
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[*]Warrior
[*]Ranger
[*]Grenadier
[*]Wizard
[*]Blademaster
[*]Eggsterminator
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[h1]Ranger Unlocked![/h1]
To celebrate [b]Steam Remote Play Together[/b] the Range will be included in the Demo and Monster Crawl:Warrior! Limited time only, so give her a try and let me know what you think on my [url=https://discord.gg/93yQh7hfPv]Discord[/url].
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44751994/72471c1a1227a02a48ac9816769ed21168d1e19f.png[/img]
[h1]Other Changes[/h1]
Lots of progress recently, highlights are:
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[*]Challenges improved with tweaked maps, new additions, UI clean up and new Relic rewards.
[*]Crawl screen overhauled as I finalise the design and launch content
[*]Player lobby updated for the new, fixed ability heroes
[*]New art, abilities and animations following hero update
[*]Trees have a small chance to spawn as apple trees
[*]Ranger [b]Recall Arrows[/b] reworked, now [b]Awaken Arrows[/b], and much more satisfying!
[*]Tutorial reworked to replace first dungeon of first Crawl
[*]Many bugs fixes, with special thanks to [b]Aris[/b] for bugs and suggestions
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