3.5.0d Patch Notes

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鬼殺し wrote:

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Sarno wrote:

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Natalia_GGG wrote:

• Improved Betrayal encounters by reducing damage dealt by most Syndicate members, improving skill signalling, reducing Syndicate member damage bonuses from some items, reducing skill off-screening, cleaning up residual objects to reduce clutter and reducing additional monster spawns in Fortification encounters.

I'm saddened to see nerfs being deployed across the board - with the possible exception of off-screening, which feels cheap and is one reason I'd never play Betrayal on Hardcore.

If the VFX associated with Syndicate members wasn't so gratuitously overdone, reducing their damage wouldn't be necessary - and honestly feels like a cop-out. I don't want to not die - I just want to understand why I died. At any time there's more than one of those tornadoes on the screen at once it's effectively impossible to see anything, regardless of what enemies are doing at the time. Abruptly dying in those circumstances is frustrating - but lowering their damage misses the point completely. Please ask the art team to tone down the VFX. It's not the first time they've heavily reduced my enjoyment of a challenge league.

As I posted in feedback, fortification encounters were way out of proportion challenge-wise. They were also inconsistent: sometimes I could bulldoze a yellow map fort, sometimes a white map fort would eat me for breakfast. Sometimes it came down to nothing more than placement of the fort. Ignoring the overall difficulty spike that is Betrayal, that's just silly.

For me, it was less than it was too hard, just too hard to gauge whether or not I'd walk away unscathed or get wiped very, very quickly.

I suspect that this will be a fairly moderate toning-down, but even a noticeable one would still keep Betrayal difficulty higher than core. The gap is massive, especially in end-game.

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ampdecay wrote:

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The Invisible Buff Effect microtransaction can now be applied to Dread Banner and War Banner.

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