How to unlock 3rd character?

[jgar70]

Does anyone know? I've gotten to the final boss but haven't defeated him so I'm hoping that's not how I unlock the 3rd character...

[Brute Farce]

Yup, that's how you unlock the 3rd character - winning a run (you'll also unlock Ascension 1).

[jgar70]

Having a lot of fun with it! Can't wait to see what's to come but man I think I suck at it lol have gotten to final boss 6 times and have yet to even come close to defeating him. Thanks for all your hard work still!

[hdl2013]

I like to second jgar70, I also enjoy it quite a lot, but having played now for 20h, I still have not been able to beat the 3rd boss. I have played some similar games before (Slay the Spire, Monster Train, Darkest Dungeon, or more recently, Wild Frost and Cobalt Core. I have beaten all of them, most of them at the highest difficulty. But I struggle a lot with Tendryll. I think the currently difficulty will scare off some more casual players - watching some Youtube videos of successfull runs, a lot of them go infinite, something that breaks my mind ;) Maybe you can tone it down a bit for the 1.0? And maybe have a way for me and others to try out the 3rd character before beating the game? Keep up the great work

[hdl2013]

Sometimes life is funny...the next run was the one, finally beat the game. Was a successfull bane run with an additional two 33dmg against all enemies cards to get rid of the minions of the 3rd boss. Finally I can also test the third character :)

[paradoxica]

Originally posted by hdl2013:

watching some Youtube videos of successfull runs, a lot of them go infinite, something that breaks my mind ;)

one of the core design issues atm is that the Blind Recluse heavily punishes pseudo-infinite builds, but still falls to truly infinite builds. so you are heavily incentivised to tunnel exactly into an infinite build because of how harshly the blind recluse punishes high-tempo (but not infinite) builds and since you never know which final boss you're up against you can't take the gamble of seeing the other boss. without copying the spire and having damage caps or making a multiple phase fight, i don't see how they can "fix" the issue.

personally i would make it so that the final boss is known in advance.