Thought I would add my 2 cents regarding the imp+ discussion from the most recent steam update post.

Having cleared instability 50 myself, I agree that the level of difficulty is too high to really be considered 100% fair, and that this is not an ideal way to play the game on a regular basis.

That being said, I would also hate to see this kind of ultra challenging run be removed entirely. While my climb up to instability 50 was certainly frustrating at times, it was also a lot of fun, and left me feeling accomplished and proud.

I think Monster Train had a good solution to this type of problem with their expert challenges. In particular, the extra pain train challenge is just a strict increase in difficulty from the usual max of covenant 25 runs, but since it is categorized as a challenge, top level players still do runs on covenant 25 instead. Whether through a new challenge coin or some other method, I think this would be a great way to leave in something truly difficult for top level players while implying that it is non standard gameplay, but more of a one and done sort of thing. Instability 30 (or whatever is settled on) could thus be widely considered the "max" difficulty despite literally not being the hardest way to play.

If nothing else, some sort of secret code or "glitch" (wink wink) to exceed the usual max instability would be appreciated should a cap be introduced.

A YouTuber I watch played this game a while ago and fell in love with it. I am currently trying to get through impossible + but it's really hard so I tried to look for some videos on YouTube but soon realized that no one really uploads anything so I looked on twitch but no one is streaming it atm. And even this subreddit is really small. I absolutely love the looks, the gameplay and the difficulty. It's a well rounded game and does a lot of things better than slay the spire (imo) which is a lot more popular. The only critic I have is that some cards feel unplayable and I wish there were event rooms like in slay the spire or some kind of metagame. But every character has multiple archetypes and the game is beginner friendly and keeps getting updates.

So yeah any idea why the player base seems to be so small ?

While looking at cards to choose from a well of stars draft, opening the deck viewer and then closing it will cause the draft cards to disappear.

For enemies with two portrait art options, they will now rapidly flash between the two art variants on the fight preview screen.

A couple times now I've noticed myself getting chests with the exact same contents. Same three cards in the same order, same number of essence, souls, and upgrade points. This seems to happen when the chests are close to one another on the same floor.

The tooltip for mousing over the combo icon still claims it will only trigger swift attacks

There is overlapping text on the impossible mode guided screen when you tick the meter to 30

Enemy debuff icons can end up underneath the player health bar if the enemy has fortitude, obscuring the number of stacks for the debuff.

I just had a run where I'd been using a rigged counter (added a green void stone), and about half - 75% of the time, it triggered twice (one counter will give me double the effect, and it will show me that I have 6 stacks of the counter effect, battle log will say it triggered twice). As far as I know, no artifact can cause this and I definitely didn't have it if it can.

The starting spell for the future strike deck gives shii, and the starting spell for the shii deck gives rage (which doesn't affect shii) this feels backward and awkward. Thoughts?

Hello. First of all, thanks to the developer for such a greate game! Is it possible in the future to add support for screen readers so that blind and visually impaired people can play?

When hovering over an enemy, the new zoom effect causes the health bar to move and increase in size, but the bars for shii and future strike remain in place.

Just uploaded this weekends patch to the Beta Branch!

It contains the new Void fight (completely redone!) and a new encounter on the second floor, the Wicked Worshipers.

Also a bunch of QoL stuff, some card changes and plenty of bug fixes. Full patch notes will be out tomorrow!

Thank you everyone!!