Biome effects + player feedback
- Negative biome effects now only start from exploration level 10.
- A suggestion box is now available in the village :)
- Three in-game forms have been added for the playtests, to gather players’ impressions.
The first lesson
- New tutorial: the first lesson. When you arrive in the village, the Trainer teaches you to play step by step, in a real fight.
- Settings: “Report a bug” now comes first, followed by Current game, Game, Legend and Audio.
- Updated English, Chinese and Japanese translations, and a touched-up energy icon.
Icon overhaul
- New icons, tooltips, a card glossary, and a Legend button in combat.
Multiplayer fixes
- Several fixes for multiplayer games.
Icon legend and chances as percentages
- New “Legend” tab in Settings, during a game: every combat icon explained.
- Hidden dice rolls now show as a percent chance (biome effects, skills, talents, affixes), and the combat log shows the chance and its outcome.
- Rule clarified: an attack is something that deals damage; applying a status effect is not an attack. Seal of Judgment therefore adds a stack of Judgment without triggering it.
- Blind: Support cards lose their orange glow. Same for a potion or an action that would have no effect.
- A monster’s unchosen skills only reappear after its attack: the action being played stays lit on its own.
- Summon at maximum: a summon already in play takes a turn instead. The log says so (“maximum already in play”) and a tutorial tip explains it.
- Hovering a card on cooldown shows its description in color.
- A card’s evolution tree always opens at the top.
- Percentages better aligned and readable on dark backgrounds; combat log texts translated.
Early-game adjustments
- Torn Map relic: generic description, valid in exploration as well as on islands.
- Targeted buff to level 1 elites.
- Balance: the cost of a level now scales (15 → 45 XP), but each level gained grants +2 max HP.
Leaderboard and FX fixes
- Leaderboard fix.
- Fixed the death FX sequence when playing a card.
Audio and gameplay fixes
- Audio: impact sounds no longer have a cooldown.
- Combat: “if …, the target suffers +N” now adds to the hit instead of dealing a second one.
Steam overlay and hero descriptions
- New hero descriptions.
- Leaderboard fixes.
- Steam overlay enabled.
- Translation fixes.
Set Out to Sea mode
- New game mode: Set Out to Sea, available once all your heroes have reached level 8.
- From the Coastal Waters to the Far Reaches, each sea is dotted with common, rare or legendary islands. Each island has its own archetype and element: no two are alike.
- Clear them for a chance to tear out their Island Heart.
- An Island Heart is set at the Blacksmith on a skill: it gives it a bonus and a drawback.
Evolution tree, simultaneous events and Harmony
- Cards not taken along now show a button on the Trainer screen to view their evolution tree.
- Fixes to the Chinese and Japanese translations.
- Simultaneous events in multiplayer.
- KENSAI: Harmony is now lost only when SHEN-LONG takes damage.
- Biomes no longer deal raw damage during exploration.
Creature balance
- Creature balance: 11 monsters adjusted.
- Translations: fixes to the English and Japanese translations.
- Discord: permanent invitation link (https://discord.com/invite/pERJT9NgZA).
Creature skill fixes
- Three creature skills (Feral Beast, Centaur and Lord of Flames) that did nothing: fixed.
Complete Chinese and Japanese fonts
- Chinese and Japanese fonts: the full character set instead of a subset, and unused weights removed.
- Translation fixes.
KENSAI finds her Harmony
- KENSAI’s passive: Harmony is lost with every hit taken, and SHEN-LONG vanishes as soon as it reaches 0.
- Two stacked talents now show a combined description.
- Fixes to the combat log, Obsession, start-of-turn DEF and the menu.
Fear feeds the Reaper
- Fear no longer fades when it hits its cap: it strikes, and feeds the REAPER.
- Two phrasings that meant the same thing are now unified, in all four languages.
- A lighter main menu.
HEARTREAVE speaks four languages
- The whole game is now available in French, English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
- Many fixes.
- A new background video for the main menu.
The Demo Season is open
- The Demo Season has begun.
- A run appears on every leaderboard it qualifies for: Exploration, and the Great Journey.
- On equal scores, whoever got there first ranks higher.
- New: “Report a bug” in the settings.
First build on Steam
- Online co-op through Steam: lobbies and direct connection between players, up to four.
- 33 Steam achievements.
- The Great Journey opens after exploration 100, with its affixes.
- Balance: the Fire Acolyte hits less hard.
- Fixes: Pact no longer doubles its stacks, and a summon survives resuming a saved run.