BURNING DOWN and NECROCHESS update!

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BURNING DOWN and NECROCHESS update!

Posted by Stopsignal - February 7th, 2024

Thanks for the warm welcome you all gave to the Burning Down demo!!! Your feedback is amazing, and some of you left a big smile in my face with such thoughful responses! Truly, every critique feels great!

I will continue touching up the game in the future, and i hope one day we have a full on story, with a hub level, compelling characters, and an actual storyline! But for now it's just an arcade game, hahahaha

Also i hope you all like Barb the firefighter! She's trying her best!

As for necrochess...

Another small balance update!

-Royalist CHANGED: +1 life, +1 bottle throwing damage, now receives full ranged damage, doesn't evade! This dude was quite the troublemaker it seems like. Now he is overall stronger, and is more like his Snitch counterpart in terms of overall damage, but it's less of a pain in the ass for ranged builds!

-Summoner BUFFED: He was a bit weak for the third tier. Now the Imps he summons have +1 stats for every level. Also, it now summons a third imp on level three! I hope. i didn't test it. But it should work! It's a bit strong, but tier threes are hard to get to level three anyways, so it's a reward!

-Archer CHANGED: This is a "kill two units then die" kind of unit, and i want to reinforce that identity. So now he has more damage, 3 at level 2 and 8 at level 3! However, his attack is reset to 1, like the viking, every time he levels up. I hope this works better now!

-Randomness! Attacks that targeted a random unit had a... questionable, let's say, way of choosing who to attack. Now it's truly random! I hope it doesn't crash!

That's all for now! Thanks for playing!!!!

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Remi-le-Oduen 2024-02-07 23:07:29

New quest added! Beat the new build of necrochess without taking damage.

Stopsignal 2024-02-07 23:07:29

Hah, good luck! It might be easier o:

Remi-le-Oduen 2024-02-08 00:33:01

Also - summoner upgrade doesn't work, imps still spawn 1/1 at 1st level

Stopsignal 2024-02-08 00:33:01

god dammit lol

Remi-le-Oduen 2024-02-08 14:00:36

Okay, the Royalist change seems to me like it makes them real annoying. Previously a 2lvl Thrower could take out a Royalist. A single 2level Thrower was a good enough unit to hold a line at earlier stages. Now it will die without even killing a Royalist, and there can be a lot of them mid-game. Like 2-3 on each line. This makes Throwers useless after 3-4 turns, you can as well sell them. Same for Archers - in previous version triggering a Royalist was not fatal in mid-game, 1 damage was tolerable. Now 2 damage can take down an entire unit. Even for Stickys, they receive 2 damage from bottle and then they die the next attack. If you don't have a shield, it's useless. Nurses aren't much of a help becaut they don't heal ranged damage. To me it seems like this Royalist upgrade makes mittelspiel real tough or really dependent on luck - wether you face pack of Royalists or not. Or it encourage to sell ranged units for melee and summoning units. I used to sell archers before, but usually did it in the endgame, to reduce randomness when you have access to 3-4 bones units. Now it seems making 3lvl archers and throwers will be meaningless in most cases, it's much better to just buy melee/summon instead.

Stopsignal 2024-02-08 14:00:36

Interesting! I can see the thrower problem (though the archer one depends on their positioning i guess? They can still kill 2 people before going down if they aren't killed before)

What would you suggest? I am thinking of either nerfing 1 damage from the bottle, or nerfing 1 life from the royalist. They still need to be efficient, they are the tier 2 enemy, and i think one of those two could be enough!

DasSG 2024-02-08 16:04:50

Sharing impressions (maybe not very structured)

With royalists boosted and archers nerfed the game became harder IMHO.
The game claims to be updated but details lead to outdated itch.io description.
Replace item mechanic is never explained (like how bats remove shields!?, or shields remove bows).
Spawns (like rats) do not spawn forward after beating the unit - it's weird that extra spawn is dismissed when there is clearly a place for it.
New art shows pike skeleton with a shield - but shield must be bought separately.
Is there a deep meaning behind 3rd level succubuses? Can they charm the king or his sons?

Remi-le-Oduen 2024-02-08 23:50:13

@Stopsignal Yes, I understand they are supposed to be dangerous. Maybe nerfing 1 life? That will make it possible to at least exchange one for one with throwers, or counter with summoning skeleton even without a bard

BURNING DOWN and NECROCHESS update!

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