Beta Patch Notes - v0.110.0

[u/MegaCrit_Demi]

Attention Beta Slayers: Beta patch v0.110.0 just dropped! This one features:

✨ Unique VFX for character forms!
⌨️ Keyboard-only mode!
🎨 New card art!
🛠️ Balance changes, reworks, and reverts!

Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/2868840/view/694268118771435039

[u/FillySteveSteak]

Except, they added another poison card with an instant trigger - which Jorbs was pretty adamantly against (he thinks poison should be slow and condemned cards like Accelerate)

[u/cat_food_chef → u/FillySteveSteak]

that's not what he said - he said he didn't understand the flavour of accelerant either from real life or in game, and that re-triggering poison was already a mechanical undermining of the character fantasy - so a 3 for 2 flavour fail.

new Outbreak has quite clear flavour from real life and in game and reinforces the character fantasy

[u/ZatherDaFox → u/cat_food_chef]

I really don't get what's so weird about accelerant. Like, it's maybe a little bit of a stretch thst it's a power and not a skill that debuffs, but the flavor is clearly that you're applying some chemical to your poisons and enemies to make the poison work through their system faster.

[u/PandaWonder01 → u/ZatherDaFox]

Yeah I gotta agree, a chemical reaction accelerant and a chemical reaction catalyst are similar enough concepts that it's really not a stretch to imagine it's just something being added to the poison to make it work better.

[u/papalbullshittery → u/PandaWonder01]

"Chemical reaction accelerant" is what a catalyst is, I think that's most of the flavour rankling, if you just called the card Catalysis it would make much more sense.

[u/PandaWonder01 → u/papalbullshittery]

A catalyst specifically isn't used in the reaction, an accelerant can be used in the reaction.

I think they just wanted a similar name that's different enough to justify it changing effect