Patch 0.4.3: a Market at every place, shared attacks, a new How to play

Patch 0.4.3 gives every place its own Market, lets one attack hit several enemies at once, and makes fights hit harder. It also brings a new How to play film, a re-filmed tutorial, and a Report a bug tab you can reach any time.

In this update

• A Market at every place
• Fights
• Heroes and gear
• The map
• Rules
• Help and tutorial

A Market at every place

• The Market is now per place. A homestead, keep or city sells 3 Companions, a temple 2 Companions and a Feat, an oracle 2 Companions.
• Spells are sold at every oracle: 1, plus 1 more for each oracle you have conquered.
• A bought slot fills again at the next day or night. The Market pages at the start of each round are gone.
• The Market has a tab for each place at the top, with more room around the place name and your coins.
• The Catalogue of Ships and ruin rewards let you pick a Companion from any place's shelf.

Fights

• An attack on two or more selected enemies now hits each of them, its points shared out in turn. A cut fans out into one slash per enemy. Arrows, Medea's swords and icicles go one to each in turn.
• A shared Siege attack throws one boulder at each enemy.
• Aeneas's shield bounces from enemy to enemy on a shared Ranged attack, and comes home.
• Atalanta's Siege is a sky volley: she looses one arrow straight up, and a rain of arrows plunges onto the enemies.
• A blow that gets through now lands on your hero: a burst at the chest, a flash and a kick of the camera.
• A heavy hit knocks a human enemy back a real step. He stands a moment and steps back in. A plain cut still only makes him flinch.
• The camera kick on a hit is bigger, biggest on the kill. Turn it off under Comfort, Camera kick on hits.
• The Apple of Discord is played in the Block phase only, when every attack is on the table. Its hit lands at once.
• The Apple's hit now shows over the enemy it hits, also when it falls short: for example "4 – not enough (Armour 5)".

Heroes and gear

• Aeneas has a new gear slot, Fists: brass knuckles, spiked gauntlets or claws on both hands, on the map and in fights. Knuckles open at level 2, gauntlets with a conquest without a knock-out, claws when you take a city in one fight without a Wound.
• Aeneas's shield throw: he sinks into the wind-up and turns through the throw from the hips, and the shield flies where you can see it.
• Atalanta takes her bow from her back in a glide, and Aeneas his shield onto his arm, instead of the weapon jumping into place.
• Hero portraits show the bow and halo you picked.
• The three beasts beside Cerberus are now the Hydra, Python and the Calydonian Boar by name. Their new bodies come in a later update.

The map

• Wind lines cross the sea and the lakes.
• The conquest flag is bigger, with a gold border, and each hero's flag carries their own emblem: Odysseus a helmet, Atalanta an arrow, Aeneas a shield, Medea a crescent.
• Taking a place sends one smooth wave out through the hexes around it, the sea included.
• Your hero's walk settles smoothly instead of snapping to a stop.

Rules

• Solo: a Round now also ends when your deck and hand are both empty at the end of a turn, as if it were the sixth turn. No more pressing End Turn with nothing left to play. A tip explains it the first time.
• The Favour chooser asks "Turn which Favour?".

Help and tutorial

• New How to play film: re-filmed on today's game, with plainer narration and more on blocking and resistances.
• The tutorial's short clips are filmed again, and several lines are reworded and voiced again. It no longer promises a city, and no longer asks you to click to finish a fight you have already won.
• The narrator waits for your hero's own line to finish, so voices no longer talk over each other.
• New Report a bug tab at the top right, next to Map and Market. It saves a report and lets you add a note and send it, the same as F9.