This is also relevant for onboarding; I was going over playtest data from the tutorial and a small but significant percentage of players got stomped through no fault of their own, but they interpreted as "this game is really hard" or "I'm not very good at this."

www.twitch.tv/storyreckless playing some Lancer combat now!

We're getting to our first combat tonight in LANCER: PIERCE THE HEAVENS. Live in like 15.

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my favorite silly joke is that one of the factions will be composed of all the assassins who have come to dispose of the king and are waiting in the walls to kill him. he's not there, of course, so in the meantime these assassins have made their own government

The tension of the last panels are great, but I *really* felt the intensity of spondule's "𝗕𝗨𝗗𝗗𝗬:"
Don't think I've ever seen a word bubble end in a colon before.

oh no it's got me

Life in 5; tonight we're splitting the party and doing a little solo stealth mission.

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yoooooo! that's a huge dub! congrats, what a nice bit of coverage!

oh no! I hope they're ok??

Just deployed a hotfix (0.4.3) that fixes a crash in the character sheet when working with Executioner, Monarch, or a number of other weapons. It's always the last thing you add before a deploy that gets ya.
As always, I recommend using the itch.io app to automatically get patches like these.

Oh haha I totally forgot about it, I think because it doesn't have an associated license. The free boost was a bit tricky to work out but was ultimately fine, so yeah straightforward is probably the right category.

it was the biggest, but ideal image may have also sealed the deal

Other assorted images from this month's update:

I also put together a fun lil tier list for how much anguish implementing each mech license caused my tender and mortal soul: wick.works/devlog/mech-...

yeah

I've had a really good experience with Dialogue Manager by Nathan Hoad