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Total Loadout is a PvP inventory management auto battler where heroes and villains from across space and time clash with powerful weapons! Choose your Champion with special abilities and items, then outwit opponents turn by turn by arranging your inventory tactically to build an unbeatable Loadout.

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🛠️Total Loadout Patch 0.13.1⚔️ - NEW Items, Keywords and More!

Mar 19

Hey Champions - new things galore in patch 0.14.0!

Two new items, three new keywords, one new item rarity, balance changes, and more - all from your feedback over the last few weeks...lots to try here!

We've heard you on weapon targeting/randomness in Total Loadout, the feeling of consumables as a build and a lot more, so these changes look to shake things up in those areas - would love to hear how they feel for you. Battle start effects now being 'Auras' that can be removed when an item is destroyed, as well as two other new keywords and mechanics in 'Accurate' and 'Spillover' should also mix things up a bit!

Find a summary of changes below - rather than make the patch notes super long here, we've given insight/comments on why we've made changes over on Discord. Come and join the community here to get all the team's balancing thoughts and background[discord.gg].

As always, we want to share ideas we have nice and early with you for you to try and feedback on. There may well be the occasional bug and imbalance as things are cooked so fresh - enjoy and let us know what you think! 😎

-1TK Team-

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Major Changes:

New Items

Unstable Core: Core Set, Unique
Consumable with 3 charges.
Ability: When an Adjacent Consumable is triggered, give it 1 Charge (the number of charges the Unstable Core has and it gives to other Consumables increases by one for each level up)

Pocket Watch: Alice, Unique.
Ability: Battle Start: damage adjacent items to half health and then refill to full health (this happens 2 times at level 2 and 3 times at level 3)

New keyword: "Accurate"
Definition: Always hits a weapon, if a weapon can be hit.

Items affected:
-Targeting Monocle: now gives Accurate to an adjacent weapon (and more weapons as it increases in level)
-Spotlight Buddy: now gives Accurate to an adjacent weapon (and more weapons as it increases in level) in addition to Remove Taunt
-Eagles' Javelin: now has Accurate, paired with its ability to hit the item with the lowest health. Without taunt items present, it will always hit the lowest health weapon.

New keyword: "Spillover"

Definition: Apply overkill damage from an Attack to a random adjacent weapon

Items affected:
-Sentinel Amulet: now also has Spillover
-Swift Edge: now gives Spillover to items it hits, plus Damage Area. Price increased from 6 to 10 Credits.

New keyword: "Aura"

Definition: This item's effect is active as long as it's not destroyed.

Items affected:
-Targeting Monocle
-Cat's Charm
-Finesse Bracers
-Peppered Soup
-Sugared Almonds
-Duchesse Tea Service
-Olympic Strike Boots

Smaller Changes:

Cost changes:

Most items have had their cost reduced by 1 credit since their effect isn't guaranteed for a whole battle anymore.

Exceptions:

-Olympic Strike Boots: kept the same price as it was originally slightly overpowered.
-Finesse Bracers and Cat's Charm: reduced by 2 credits as they were originally too expensive for their power level and constraints.

New rarity: "Unique"

Definition: As rare as a Legendary Item but only one copy can be present in the player's loadout at any time

Items affected:
-Monkey Fur: This has quickly become a staple of Monkey King's strategy. It enhances Sun Wukong's strengths and enables powerful, quick-scaling builds while shutting down opponents. Multiple copies could make battles non-interactive, so we're keeping its powerful effect but making it unique, letting it scale with level-ups.
-Unstable Core: new item. See description below.
-Pocket Watch: new item. See description below

New mechanic: Applying a keyword to a weapon increases the effect of that keyword with the item level

Items affected:
-Targeting Monocle
-Spotlight Buddy
-Monkey Fur

Other balance changes

-Divine Empowerment (Trinket): reduce weapon increase per attack from 5 to 3
-Whack-Back Glove: increase from Reflect 2 to Reflect 6 - it’s a big punch now!
-Cat Charm: base health increased from 2 to 4 - being an aura and not a battle start effect anymore, health matters.

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windowed mode

It may just be selective perception, but somehow I get the feeling, that in newer games windowed mode is no possible option more often than not. I'm aware that designers want their players to experience the game as good as possible, but for me this is really a problem. I need to be aware of what other things happen on my computer, that's why I play in windowed mode....

Unisus

Mar 10 @ 1:40am

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🛠️Total Loadout Patch 0.13.1⚔️

Mar 11

Hi Champions - new patch, coming in hot!

In line with our first Dev Update, this week’s patch focuses on some quality of life changes that you’ve requested, alongside some things we’ve wanted to get into the game since Next Fest. For more details on our content plans (we’re cooking a patch and some changes), check out the Dev Update!

Enjoying Total Loadout? Have some suggestions or need some tips? Come join our community on Discord and say hello!

-Team 1TK-

Big Changes:

Matchmaking:

-Updated Fame gain to make it easier to progress from division 1 to 2.
-Divisions 3, 4 and 5 now share one matchmaking pool.
-It is now much less likely to face your own previous loadout.
-It is now much less likely to face the same opponent twice in a row.

Dev notes - we’ve heard feedback from you since the demo launched on early game difficulty, how matchmaking feels and not wanting repetition in your battles.

We want new players to games like Total Loadout to have an easier time learning against similarly skilled players, whilst giving experienced inventory managers/auto-battlers a more varied experience in higher divisions. Moving winning players to division 2 more quickly should hopefully help with that.

Our demo has only been out two weeks - so, it’s early days, and we know that steadily growing the player base will increase the variety of battles. That said, there are other levers we can pull in the short term, so we hope these changes will increase variety. Even in games with huge player bases, it’s worth noting that in terms of competitive ladder matchmaking, you will start noticing the same players at a high enough point too, as the population gets smaller playing at that skill level 😀

Gameplay Changes:

-Death triggers are now handled before health change triggers. For example if an item with a consumable triggering at half health next to it gets one-shot and gets revived, the revive happens first and then the consumable applies.

Dev notes - let us know how this feels for you!

Bug Fixes:

Items:
-Alice dice now correctly drops only E rank items.

Alice gamblers will now get less valuable payoffs as originally intended

User Interface and Visual Changes:

UI:
-Player exit screen now included, informing players of upcoming features in the full game, and providing links to 1TK Socials
-Visual treatment added to distinguish weapons from other items
-Merge connection line no longer shows initial position during a drag.
-Bug report popup improved.
-When temporary damage increases (like Cloudwalking Boots) are applied, they are now shown in the UI as well.
-Tutorial black background now fades in, hopefully making it more noticeable.
-Improved wishlist popup visuals.

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Dev Update 1 - Life after Next Fest!

Mar 10

Hi everyone,

Here's a quick update on our plans for the weeks ahead! Firstly, we wanted to share a *massive* thanks from all our team for wish listing Total Loadout and trying the demo of Total Loadout during Steam Next Fest.

It was amazing to see so many of you leap in and try our first game for the first time - we’d love to hear any feedback you may have in our Discord server[discord.gg], or through the survey links in-game.

If you didn’t have time to try the demo last week, it’s staying on Steam, so jump in anytime and let us know what you think!

The Weeks Ahead

So, what’s next? We’ve had a load of great feedback and constructive criticism from you already - for the next few weeks we’ll be jumping into some work that should help make our demo even better based on things you've asked for and we've noticed/had on our list. We also want to experiment around some things that are fairly central to our game (such as weapon targeting and one or two mechanics). Here's the short-term plan:

-New Player Experience - polishing up the tutorial, training division and helping new players get into Total Loadout more easily.

-Division Balance/Matchmaking - looking at the number of divisions we have, how people move between them, and how we matchmake/create battles.

-Balancing around current gameplay and content - looking at Alice, Sun Wukong, and items in the game to address specific gameplay, item and build feedback you’ve given us. Weapon targeting/RNG, taunts as a mechanic, and consumables are on our list.

(Testing) Major Changes!

Some of these gameplay changes could be quite experimental, and fairly major changes to the way the game feels. As a result, we’d love you to be able to play and test changed (and new!) mechanics and content in the coming weeks. We'll update in our Discord[discord.gg] when we've decided the best way to support this.

What about Items and Champions? I want new stuff to play!

Hear you - we're still working on those! If we make a change to weapon targeting in some form, for example, that will have fairly major impacts on both Champion kits and Items. By testing some of the above first together with you, we can understand the impacts on future content we have planned. We need to put the horse before the cart, rather than the other way round ːsteamhappyː Hope that makes sense!

Thank you for all your support, come join the community and look forward to hearing your thoughts!

-1TK Team-

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Quick Demo Feedback

Love the demo. Thought I'd drop some feedback while the game is still in development. 1. The focus on weapons and going item vs item instead of character vs character is nice and unique to the genre. Creates a depth where you have to consider how your board interacts with opponents instead of just "do as much damage as fast as possible". Love it. 2. Early game could use some touching up. The first few rounds feel even more luck-based than other autobattlers because it's unpredictable what your weapons wi...

Kintak ヽ(´ー｀)ﾉ

Mar 10 @ 1:45am

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First Run in Total Loadout - Gameplay Showcase

Hi everyone! I recently posted a video on this game - Total Loadout. In the video, we're doing our first run and going over how the game is played. Who knows, maybe we end up creating an awesome build too! Check out the video here: https://youtu.be/EHhlvVE6d-Q Let me know what you think! LuckOuts...

LuckOuts

Feb 24 @ 12:54pm

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Progression?

I played like 5 hours. It's quick and fast pace. There are some minor UX things that can be quickly fix I think as this iterates. But I think the deep core problem of it is the progression feeling. After 5 hours, I know how the game works and the synergy I should try to aim for (high level). But I don't feel like I've progress since game 1. Game are played faster, I take time to place my stuff, etc. But yet, the number of rounds I can go to is random. I think choosing the right opponent and make sure tha...

mading25

Mar 25 @ 6:31am

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