Retribution Mode is now fully available. It introduces a slightly more challenging experience along with a leaderboard. Additionally, I've made several balance changes to Tier 4 runes to enhance their usability. Below are the details:

This mode offers endless challenges with progressively stronger enemies. Each challenge presents three trials for selection:

Trial of the Soldier: The easiest difficulty with the fewest steps.
Trial of the Champion: A more challenging trial with one additional step and an extra elite term added to each battle.
Trial of the Hero: The most difficult trial with two additional steps and both an extra elite and boss term added to each battle.
Harder trials provide greater rewards and higher leaderboard scores.
Suffer: Now lasts for 1 turn instead of triggering only once.
Nurture: Now converts 150% of the target's Poison into Block, up from 100%.
Surge: Now grants 20 Surge instead of 10 after defeating a unit.
Cascade: Now grants 20 Cascade instead of 10 after defeating a unit.
Refuel: Now grants 2 energy instead of 1 after defeating a unit.
Drain and Undermine now cost 0 energy, down from 1.

1. Attacks no longer push enemies back in fast mode.
   
2. Fixed a display issue where some cards are duplicated with certain runes.
   
3. Fixed an issue where Vampire and Curse cause HP loss instead of restoration when used together.
   
4. Fixed an issue preventing the Challenge menu from closing when the recruit menu appears at the start of a new run.
   
5. Fixed an issue where sometimes the end game popup does not display after defeating the final boss in normal mode.

Most of last month was spent adding a few new languages to the game and ensuring all the text fits.. With most of the features completed, I've finally spent some time testing some weaker builds on the highest difficulty to ensure they are at least playable. Here are the details:


The game now supports Spanish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, France and German. Additionally, some English and Chinese texts have been reworded for better clarity (hopefully).

You can switch the language in the settings menu.


Power:
Your next attack deals 8/11/15/20 extra damage, stackable, remove after attack once.
Power has been unplayable to say the least, even with the augment. In order to make power worthwhile throughout the game, I've now more than doubled the amount each one gives

Smite:
You gain Power equal to 50% (75%) of the damage dealt.
Smite is crucial for Power's sustainability, having it cost 1 energy is just too hard to use. So I've reduced its energy cost from 1 to 0

Chill:
You deal 5/8/11/15 less {Damage}, stackable, halve.
Frostbite itself is very difficult to execute due to enemy's high damage, especially in higher difficulties. That's where Chill comes in, to make it more effective. I've greatly increased its strength

Cold:
Deal damage to your target equal to 100(150)% of their Chill stack.
As an alternate damage mechanic, Cold is pretty hard to use due to its energy cost and the fact that Chill is hard to stack. So I increased its strength from 50 to 100% and reduced its cost to 0.
With this change, the Cold Snap augment now raises its effectiveness from 100 to 200%.

Sick:
Trigger target's Poison 1/2/2/3 time(s).
Poison decays very slowly, so its strength can't be too high. To compensate, I've changed Sick to a tiered rune, it can now trigger Poison up to 3 times instead of just 1 time.

Talents:
I've also updated a few champion's synergy runes to reflect the changes above.

Unpredictable:
Changed how the randomize works, it now randomizes based on your champion's energy instead of your current progress. This affects both the term and Augment Unpredictable.

Frost:
It now only triggers twice instead of three times.


There is a new achievement called 'Lone Wolf' that triggers when you beat normal mode with only one champion. You can now set the champion limit to 1 in the difficulty settings, doing so will disable the tutorial automatically.

There are also three new achievements linked to the Retribution mode, you can access the mode in the "new_mode" branch if it's not released yet.

• Significantly lowered the price of upgrading the tier of your card. You can now do it for free when the action gauge is full;
  
• When a champion is permanently dead, all its synergy runes are now also removed;
  
• When enemy or your card's damage is reduced to 0, it will now still trigger Frostbite;
  
• The refresh is now reset every time you complete 1 challenge instead of 3;
  
• Fixed an issue where terms wouldn't show up properly when there are more than 9 terms in a battle;
  
• Fixed an issue where the base runes weren't unlocked automatically on older saves.

Thanks for your feedback!