Changelog 0.5.8.3

New Features

Engine

• Improved socket code to reduce connection loss in hot seat mode.
• Crash logs will only be generated when necessary.
• Updated log and profile modules.
• Rewritten input device handling.
• Compressed data transmission using gzip.
• Refactored controller code.
• Added “Statistics” priority.
• Expanded statistics records (old statistics JSON files remain compatible).
• The “modular_sets” key from campaigns is no longer stored in save files.
• Added checksum in save files.

UI Enhancements

• Added animations for status cards.
• Deck pinning: left-click a deck or right-click a card in a deck to pin a deck.
• Hidden right sidebar for a cleaner interface.
• Corrected “Overpay” icon display.
• Updated skipping and replay icons (Font Awesome 4.7.0).
• Enhanced timeout bar with transparency.
• Updated card back cover mark image.
• Fixed shuffle animation.
• Added animations for deck size changes.
• Reduced animation delay from 1000 to 240.
• Changed gain state card sound.
• Updated notifications.

Gameplay

• Introduced approximately 180 new cards.
• Piercing now discards all tough status cards.
• Implemented CanWorkOnlyInHand logic for card “44012”.
• Rewritten payment and validation logic.
• Updated Colossus’s “Discard a tough status card from your hero” effect.
• Rewritten apply_environment logic.
• Updated LookAtDeck logic.
• Rewritten resource generation effects.
• Incite now has its own priority, before other reveal abilities.
• Added new achievements.
• Rewritten apply upgrade logic.
• A hero’s HP will not be updated while flipping if an attached upgrade has an ability that updates HP.

New Heroes with Starter Decks

• Ms. Marvel
• Thor
• Spider-Woman
• Adam Warlock
• Nova
• Cable

Bug Fixes

• Rewritten calculate power value code to fix “21009”.
• Tokens and counters are now different; the “First player token” will not be removed by “30026”.
• Cards in the obligations area will also be counted as in play to fix “39060”.
• Fixed various card-specific issues (e.g., “35030”, “25011”, “04003”, “01002”, “01047”, “02033”, “17001a”, “17003”, “17021”, “18020”, “21055”, “30019”, “30029”, “33012”, “33016”, “33035”, “35006”, “04134”, “01174”, “16073b”, “21175”, “24049”, “27073”, “35027”, “39016”, “39017”, “39013b”).
• Improved replay functionality to identify abilities used in card “10029”.
• Fixed replay issues with triggering Cancel effects.