BETA v0.2.1 Patch Notes

• Permadeath/Roguelike Functionality:
  • DEFEAT === GAME OVER
  •  Saving during combat (largest implementation in this update)
  • Health persists across encounters
  •  Augments persist across games
  • Reputation persists across games

• Unlockable Content:
  • 3/5 heroes now available at game start. Unlock 2 more heroes and alternate powers/ultimates throughout gameplay.
• UI Changes:
  • Most UI elements have been changed.
  • A black/white/yellow theme is now present throughout most UI elements.
  • Most clickable elements now have a background highlight.
• Improved Loading:
  • Asynchronous loading implemented. Game starts loading in background immediately.
  • Scenes that don’t load anything skip the loading screen entirely.
  • No longer causes “Drifter.exe has stopped responding.”
  • Loading bar implemented.
• Combat Difficulty:
  • Increase/decrease the difficulty before each combat for increased risks and rewards.
• Extended Tutorialization:
  • Tutorials now cover various scenes (i.e. World Map tutorial).
• Enemy Surges:
  • Every X turns, the enemy **Surges**, drawing X cards and reduce their cost by X (i.e. Surge 1, Surge 2, Surge 3...), where X is the number of times they've surged.
• Related Cards:
• On zoom card popups, related cards are now displayed (i.e. a card that refers to card X would display card X as a related card).