[Game Update] - 442849

Update Information:

Hey Grifters!

Big balance changes today! Sal's campaign has a couple fewer jobs in it, to increase the pace and the card pick pressure, and we did a big, broad NPC health and party composition pass. Give a vanilla run a try, and tell us how you fared!

Next week we will be tweaking these balance changes further, refining the presentation for flourishes, and working more with the mettle economy.

Have a griftin' weekend!

GAMEPLAY

• Big NPC health and battle_strength overhaul - getting rid of autobalancing, and pushing the defs apart within each faction
• Remove random variation from the NPC health values
• Added a new mettle upgrade to increase shills gained from skipping cards
• Lots of bios, and non-temp dialogue
• Reduced damage dealt by the promoted wealthy merchant
• Don't give card loot for the final expedition negotiation.
• Don't give card loot for the auction negotiation.
• Reduce the number of side jobs on a sal run by two. This should improve the campaign pace, and increase the difficulty / make you have to pick cards in the later days.
• mettle shop shows up on day 2 for all characters; is only available at night.
• Terminate oshnu wrangling event if the oshnu is dismissed.
• Prestige points are now verified when you launch the game

UI

• Replacing the progress bar from the flourish bar with a progress radial
• Adding the choose Flourish popup, always available in Negotiation and Battle. Supports gamepad/ui scaling/streamer modes.
• Added highlighting to condition descriptions to indicate which parts are affected by stacks
• Fix cards in slot 2 not being Prepared when selected

CARDS

• Increased target_count on the lumin turrets melee attack
• Impending Doom: nil-check core modifier, cause you never know what mods will do.
• Fix Flourish being gained when anyone, not just you, does unmitigated damage.
• AnimFighter:IsBusy should return false if it is called within the running coroutine.  Fixes a stall when in combat with Andwanette / Twins.
• Add empty bottle warnings to cards that require them to be played.
• Fix crash in Visionary Fan the Hammer if the player dies by drawing cards.
• DoAttack will wait for any non-interruptible sequences before starting, and verify it is still valid to proceed after.  Fixes a crash if the attacker somehow dies before initiating the attack (eg. Visionary Fan the Hammer drawing into Twig at 1 health)
• Fix Powder Keg tooltip to show the damage given the actual number of stacks the card applies.