0.7.37 is out on Steam, the itch.io downloads and the browser version. The lords who used to drop a prop on your line at a phase break now each strike their own way: Rex Mortifer's bone hand claws up out of the board, the Mimic's treasure chest hops down the road and bites, and Calvin's iceberg rolls over onto your soldiers. Elite and boss entrances get a show for each lord, the felt mat goes down one of six ways at the start of a fight, the warlords' signs are redrawn (the King's is now a velvet cloth you can push around), and Uncle Jim writes in spilled ink. In the browser version a player's turn takes about half as long to draw.


At a phase break, most lords used to drop a prop on your line. It fell out of the sky shrinking over a dark disc, squashed, held, and flew back up, the same for everyone. Now each lord's blow is its own move, made for the thing it is: 27 of them, for 25 lords. Calvin has three. The blow lands at the same moment as before, within the first second, so nothing about the fight's timing changed. Every piece is printed card, and nothing fades out: each one leaves by going somewhere, into the board, off the edge of the frame, or folded flat.

The Elder Treant's stomp card is now called Rising Root. A ridge runs through the board toward your line, the board tears, and a root the size of a wagon arches up and drives its tip down in front of your soldiers.

Blastcap lobs a lit keg end over end. It thuds down, rocks and skids while the fuse burns, swells, and bursts into its own staves.

The Houndmaster's hound comes down out of the sky with its jaws open while its lower jaw rises out of a gash in the board. They snap shut, shake once like a dog with a rat, and part.

The Brass Colossus brings down a forge press. It lets down on its rod, hisses while its gauge climbs, then stamps the board in with steam blasting out flat both ways.

The Mimic's slam is the chest it really is. It leaps in, hops down the board clapping its lid, and lands jaws first on your line, spitting coins.

Rex Mortifer's board tents up and rips, and a bone hand claws up through the hole, swats over at the wrist onto your soldiers, grips, and drags back under.

Calvin's three are the bear's paw, his Belly Flop spell (a penguin that leaps out of the sea, flops on its belly and toboggans at your line), and the berg: it shoulders up out of the floe, a crack runs up its face, and it goes over onto your soldiers as the sea comes up round it.

Perihelion's star finishes its fall: it streaks in on a trail of paper flame and punches a crater whose top layer peels back in flaps, then splits and sinks into it.

The board below has the other nineteen at the moment of the blow. Simple Ton's club is swung in one fast arc and buried in the board, Haldric's four tower shields slam down rim-first across the front, Wynken's bolster drifts down like a falling leaf and bursts in feathers, Silvertongue's gavel knocks twice before it comes down ("going, going, gone"), the Pale Rider's scythe swings down on a pendulum and slits the road, and the Grave Tide rolls in as a wave that breaks over your line and drains back.

These were filmed with each blow fired on its own, without the banner that comes before it in a fight, and with the screen shake off. Wally's is the exception: that tile is from his real first break at night.


Haldric's Close Ranks break was redone so you can see it. At half health the camera comes in on his castle as the drawbridge drops, and four of his shieldbearers march out of the gate with the quarters of a gold shield held over their helmets. An armourer welds the quarters whole in front of him, the four throw it up to him, and he catches it, "+1 Armor" floating up off him, and throws his old blue shield back for the armourer to carry home before the bridge goes up. Then The Great Shield card plays, and his Armor goes from 1 to 2 for the rest of the fight.

On some boards the crew never comes out in this version; that is under Known issues at the end.


The entrance page from 0.7.36 now plays in six beats. The house lights go down over the lord's own world, the lord comes on in silhouette in their own way, the lights hit on the landing and the lord's own slam is heard, the nameplate is slapped onto the page, the camera creeps in during the hold, and then the page peels away and the plate flies across the field and drops onto the lord's head. A boss holds for 2 seconds and an elite for 1.2, and a click once the name is down still cuts it short. Every beat has a quiet sound of its own.

When the followspot hits Wally, waving, the shadow he throws on the wall behind him is the wolf he turns into under the moon.

The Houndmaster runs on, and once he lands his three heads bite in turn, each on its own neck.

The six who rise through the floor each bring their own show. The stage floor splits under the Magma Magnate, three jets of lava go up, and he surges up between them.

Rex Mortifer's ledger drops open, its leaves riffle over with a soul going up off each, and he stands up out of the book's gutter like a pop-up page.

Blastcap's spark runs a fuse across the floor to a powder keg on his mark, and when the smoke clears he is standing where the keg was.

• The Mimic's page is mirrored, left for right, the way the Mimic is.
  
• The Fear Drinker flies on as a moth on a crooked flight, and a whisper comes out of the dark as his page comes on.
  
• The Iron Wardens' captain marches on in three measured steps.

At half health Simple Ton gets mad and stamps twice. The first stamp is a cross little hop that knocks the camera back off him. The second is the real one: it hurls your line back down the road and sends a ruck through the felt like a kicked rug. The near corner of the blanket flips up and flops back dog-eared, the border is dragged askew, and the card on the wall loses a strip of tape and hangs crooked. It stays that way for the rest of the fight.


At the start of a fight the felt mat used to unroll the same way every time. Now it goes down one of six ways: unrolled off a tube, shaken out like a tablecloth, floated down on a cushion of air, unfolded from a folded square, rolled apart from two rolls, or dropped rumpled and smoothed flat. The way is picked from the fight's seed, so everyone at a co-op table sees the same one. A few fights keep the plain roll: torn pairs of mats, Wally's village, the floating board and the Battle of Vows. With Reduce Motion on, the mat drops in plain. On phones, and with Reduce effects on, the cloth is cut coarser so it costs less to draw.


The fourteen warlords' painted signs got a second and a third pass. Every name now keeps room above and below it, so none sits jammed against the top edge. The King's sign is now a cloth of estate: velvet dyed in his seat's colour, caught up under his crown and falling in two swags, with gold braid, an ermine hem and a gold tassel at each corner. The Queen's is the same under her tiara. The Eternal's sign is an obsidian clock face, the Boxer's is a side of his ring with his gloves hung off a corner post, the Pirate's board ends in gilt scrolls, the Dragon's plaque is beaten gold on a heap of card coins, and the Viking's shields hang close along his longship's rail. The loudest colours were toned down, and every sign is printed through the same paper grain as the cards. Your name goes on your warlord's sign over your commander in a fight and on the draft screen; here they all are with the sample name Marigold:

The King's cloth is a real cloth. Run the pointer across it and the velvet drags and tilts, the hem bends and the tassels swing. Half a second after you leave it, it starts easing back into its drape, whatever fold you left it in.

Three lords' names changed, and their plates with them. The bog lord is Vetch everywhere now, where his army used to be called the Bog Trappers, and the Warsmith and the Houndmaster dropped their "The". The Pale Rider's plate had a lot tag on it reading "1", which meant nothing; his horse's cast shoe hangs off the waystone's twine in its place, rimed with frost.


The verdict at the top of the end-of-run page is cut from card now. VICTORY is a prize ribbon: it lands with a rosette at each end, the ribbon's ends unfurl behind it, tails drop under the rosettes with a burst of paper confetti, and a fan of gold card rays turns slowly behind it.

DEFEAT is the same strip, ruined. It lands already split down the middle, and a beat later the tear gives and each half swings down off the one tack still holding it. Its right end is burnt away, and a scrap drops out of the tear.


Uncle Jim's words used to be typed out a letter at a time. Now they are written: a wet drop of ink runs along the line with the newest letters, and behind it the ink draws back into crisp type. His walk-up on the road, his check-in note and the closing line of an event's result page are all written this way. A tap still finishes the line at once. On phones and in the browser each letter lands as a blot of wet ink and dries into its colour instead, and with Reduce Motion on the check-in note and an event's closing line are printed whole.


In The Crayon Roads you draw the next fight's roads yourself. Your warlord and the lord now stand on their own stands, exactly where the fight will put them and as big. The crayon wears down as you draw, since each road has only so much wax, and its stroke is the same line the fight draws down the middle of a road. When you cut them out, the knife goes round the roads three times, one sheet at a time, the waste card falls off the desk, and the cut sheets settle as the fight's roads with the toys dropping onto the mat where they stood. Coins on the sheet pay gold. In co-op every seat draws its own roads live.


Card faces. A card's flavour line now sits at the foot of its text box in a quieter ink, with room between it and the rules, so the rules read first. Spells and powers get 4 more pixels of text box, since they have no attack and health badges in the bottom corners, and 125 card faces print their rules a size bigger for it. This is everywhere a card face is drawn: the hand, rewards, the shop, the draft and the vows.

Hurrying a phase break. A click, a tap or the controller's A during a big phase break's reveal now runs the rest of it at four times speed. The fight is held while a break plays, so nothing is skipped and you are back in the fight sooner. The press that dismisses the break's banner doesn't count, and in co-op the break always plays at its own pace.

Phase tabs. The little paper tabs that mark a boss's phase breaks on the health strip now fold with the strip as it pleats down, and stay at their place along it.

Change clocks. The countdown rings for an egg about to hatch, a unit turned into something else by Polymorph, and one of Wally's villagers about to turn at moonrise are now one ring, cut to fit the stand it lies round. The moon and Polymorph rings used to be nearly three stands wide.

Barricade+. The upgraded Barricade raises a wall of 3 barricades across one lane, the way Grix's walls go up. You still aim it anywhere for free; the aim picks the lane and how far up it the wall stands, and while you drag, a pale outline stands on every spot a barricade will land.

Uncle Jim's Care Package. The Mummy, the Eternal and the Witch have a spell as their signature card, so the Care Package used to give them a plain unit instead. Now it plays a free copy of their signature spell (Pharaoh's Curse, Rift in Time or Witches' Brew) on the first turn of each fight, then exhausts it. The spell is held up so you can read it, and the package's chest pops on the card as it goes out.

When a lord musters troops onto the field, the stamp that marks where they land now breathes in a ring cut from the lord's paper, so it is easier to spot.


When an ally recommends an option, the ring in their colour is now traced round the option's own shape (a card's gems and badges, a slip's tab) instead of a rough box, and it stands clear of the controller's own highlight.

• Pack Tactics now counts allies within 400 instead of 900. At 900 it reached across most of the arena, so the whole army always counted as one pack and the range ring said nothing. Now the pack is the bodies on its own road and the next one over. Spirit Rites keep their 900.
  
• Chimera (Mutagenesis): On Strike, heal 1 (2 when upgraded), in place of On Kill, +2 max HP.
  
• Barricade+ raises a wall of 3 across one lane (above). Plain Barricade still drops one anywhere for free.
  
• Uncle Jim's Care Package casts the signature spell for the Mummy, the Eternal and the Witch instead of summoning a plain unit (above).
  
• Haldric's Close Ranks now hands him the great shield: his Armor goes from 1 to 2 for the rest of the fight.

The browser's fights were sluggish, even raising and playing a card. Measured in Chrome, most of each frame of a player's turn was spent waiting on Chrome's own graphics process, and one setting was most of that wait: the live cut-out edge on every punched-out piece on the field (the props, the curios, the commanders' cut edges). It is now off by default in the browser, and "Cut-out edges on stand-up pieces" in the Advanced settings still turns it back on. The lanes' drop shadow and the lane threat marks were made cheaper too.

On a 1280x720 page, the median frame of a player's turn went from 16.7 ms to 8.8, holding a raised card from 17.2 to 8.3, and playing it from 19.6 to 8.4. On a fullscreen 2560x1440 page the turn went from 19.3 ms to 9.6. With Chrome slowing the CPU to a quarter of its speed, the share of a turn's frames over 33 ms went from nearly all of them to between 5% and 36%.

After that, what was left was draw calls, and most of them were things holding still:

• While your hand rests, the browser draws it once and lays it down as a single picture; it goes back to being drawn the moment anything in it moves. A card being carried is drawn live and the rest of the fan stays a picture. With the hand at rest, a fight's frame went from about 870 draw calls to about 530.
  
• The fight's buttons and widgets (the speed buttons, the End Turn plate, the piles, the energy seal) are printed the same way once they hold still, in the browser and on phones.
  
• A unit's stand and its health strip are now drawn in one call each, with the same picture, so a unit costs about 3.5 draw calls in the browser where it cost about 6.3.

• Heartwood Unbound no longer jumps the camera back to the middle of the field when its pull-out stops, and the board's settle starts from rest.
  
• Calvin's open mouth is redrawn: a lip on the jaw's edge and teeth that read as teeth.
  
• Were-Wally's swiping paw is a wolf's paw in his own fur.
  
• The Twins' swords stay inside the camera's view in the top lane.
  
• Haldric's gate no longer shows two sets of drawbridge chains.
  
• A press while the opening film is still loading shows "Loading..." in the skip corner, then "Tap again to skip" once the game is in.
  
• Grand Experiment's text says "your units gain +5 max HP" instead of "your fielded units".

• On some board layouts in the Iron Wardens fight, nobody comes out of the castle for Haldric's great shield: it changes on his arm between two frames, with the camera left at the whole desk. It is fixed for the next update.
  
• When the Care Package plays its spell at the start of a fight, the line naming it can run off the left edge of the screen, and the Your Turn banner unfolds behind the card.

0.7.36 is out on Steam, the itch.io downloads, the browser version and the demo. Most of this update is fixes. On a Mac the first launch could crash, and the Steam overlay never loaded, so Invite could not work there. In the browser version the page froze while the game loaded, and the title screen's signposts could blow up to fill the screen. Those are fixed, along with a memory climb and a crash on phones. Then there is a lot that is new to look at: painted nameplates for every lord and warlord, a new entrance for elite and boss fights, pop-ups that arrive as sheets of card, a new vow room, a carpet of two lands under the last fight, and relics are now called pins.


The title signposts. Hovering a signpost on the title screen lifts it on a spring. That spring was worked out once a frame, so any frame of 50 ms or more (a hitch, or a machine running under 20 fps) made it run away: the board grew without limit, flickered at its edges and went off the screen. A playtester was left looking at a giant Quit board. The springs now step in small slices of time and are held to their range, so a slow frame can no longer throw them.

Loading. The page used to freeze while the game loaded: 11.5 seconds with nothing drawn and no input taken on a fast PC, and 81 seconds with Chrome slowing the CPU to a quarter of its speed. It now loads the way the desktop version does, behind the studio card, which keeps drawing the whole time. The longest stall left is about 3 seconds (6.6 with the CPU slowed), and the title answers the pointer 15 to 19 seconds after the page opens.

Frame rate. In the browser every draw call is paid for twice, once by the page and once by Chrome's graphics process, so the work went into drawing fewer things. The dots along the map's trails were one draw each and are now drawn together: a run's first map went from 2,368 draw calls to 464. The mug, plant, tape and the rest of the desk around the mat are no longer drawn when they are out of shot, which takes a first fight from 1,518 draw calls to 1,268 on every platform, with the same picture.

The whole campaign. A recorded run was then played through the browser version in Chrome, from the title to the end: all three acts, 16 fights and 83 screens in 30 minutes. Its memory stopped rising at the end of act 1 at about half of what the browser allows, and stayed there through acts 2 and 3.


On a Mac the first launch could crash while the window was sized to fit the screen. Reduce Motion skips the animation that set it off, which is how some players got past it. The window is now sized outright, with no animation.

The Steam overlay never loaded on any Mac build until now, because of a mistake in how the game was signed. It loads now, so Shift+Tab and the War Council's Invite work on a Mac.

Invite also no longer depends on the overlay anywhere. If the overlay doesn't open, the War Council lays out its own list of your Steam friends who are online, the ones already playing first, and each Invite goes straight to their Steam chat.


Every enemy lord's nameplate is now painted on an object out of his own world. Gorehoof's is the fence rail he charged through, with his name burnt in. Rex Mortifer's is a page torn from his ledger with his name as the heading, Verdy B. Queen's is the gift tag she was tied up with, and Calvin's is a block of sea ice with his penguins standing on it. There are 46 plates, each painted separately in English and all ten translations, so in German Gorehoof's rail is branded Bluthuf. They land and stay still.

The 14 warlords' signs take any name. Each is drawn in several widths, and the game picks the narrowest one that holds your name and prints it in that warlord's own lettering. The Gunslinger's is a reward bill nailed to saloon planks. Here he is under the sample name Marigold, facing Gorehoof, with the two ends of the same moment cropped side by side:


Elite and boss fights now open on the lord's entrance page. A screen-sized sheet rolls on from his side of the board, printed with his own lair, and he comes out into the middle of it the way he arrives at his phase breaks. He lands with a slam, the camera creeps in while he holds, and the page peels back off onto the field. A boss holds for 2.3 seconds and an elite for 1.4, and a click cuts the hold short. This replaces the big sign that used to be ripped off the screen; ordinary fights still open under that.


Each act boss's nameplate stands in a little paper scene of his own: the Elder Treant's roots and leaves, Verdy's blooms and bees, Wally's daisies by day and moths at moonrise, the Magnate's volcano, Rex's ledger riffling, the Colossus venting steam, the Avatar's squall and frost, and Calvin's floe landing in the sea. On the screen after you beat him it bursts out in full and keeps going. Over his head during the fight it plays quietly, with fewer and smaller pieces. Reduce Motion turns it off. Here is the Magnate's, on a plain backdrop:


Every pop-up that used to fade in and vanish is now a stiff sheet of card, and each one comes on and goes off its own way. The first-launch notice hangs on a pin. The spoils' ask is tossed onto the mat, and March On sweeps it off toward the road. The settings Yes and Cancel are dealt face down and turned up, the New Game ask stands up off the page, the quit plate drops from a height, feedback slides across the desk, the language flap drops down and the run's last ask rises like a postcard. A sheet lifted off the desk throws its shadow under it, and its buttons' words stay balled up until it has landed facing you, then unfold.

The upgrade confirm lifts the card out of the grid and slides its upgraded self out from under it, turning over once. The event's potion toll stands each flask up off the stone, and an answer knocks them over. A pop-up on its way out no longer holds the screen, so what is under it answers clicks while the paper goes. Reduce Motion keeps the old quick pop-in.


Relics are now called pins, in English and in all ten translations, everywhere a player reads the word. Only the name changed, and every pin does what its relic did. Three names changed with it. The Sealed Reliquary event is now Pinned to the Grave, the Reliquary Auction is Going, Going, Pinned, and the Ashen Reliquary pin is the Cinder Cottage. Two Steam achievements, Trinket Fancier and The Vault, say pins too.

In the treasure vault the pin cards stand up off the floor instead of fading in see-through over the gold. The pin you take leaves a hole in its card and flies to the bar, and the room waits until it is pushed home before going back to the map.

Every pin you take is pinned into the bar now. The newest always gets the bar's last slot, and the older ones step back into the "+N" count. Before, a pin with no slot left landed on the count as a sparkle and was never pinned in. On a phone the run bar is a single row of tiles.


Vows now wait for your first win. Until you have won a march once, no vow stops on the map and the run bar shows no vow mark, so a first march is the three acts on their own. In co-op the party goes by the host's profile. On the first map of your first march with vows, Uncle Jim puts up a new note, "3 vows to Act 4", with a drawn loop: the pawn hops the three act cards, each card's corner flies into the vow triangle over a face-down fourth card, and card IV turns over.

Each vow's gain and cost now lie beside its card from the moment it is dealt, gain on clean paper and cost on scorched paper, so there is nothing to click to read them. A co-op playtester asked why they had to. On a phone there is no room for the notes, and one tap still reads a vow.

While you hold Hold to Swear, the vow's own picture tears through the room. When the hold fills, the picture pours back into the card, and the card is crushed into the shape of its corner and hammered into the triangle. It arrives white-hot and cools to its own colour.

The third vow makes the triangle. Its corners part, hang and slam together, light bursts out, and the land your three vows make is named. Each of the 27 lands has its own crest, thrown out of the triangle, its own little paper scene, and its name unrolling on a ribbon in its colour.


Act IV's last boss is now your previous build, not the one that just beat act 3. Before, a march with no friend's build waiting fought itself. Now it is a friend's unbeaten build if there is one, then your previous build, and only on your first march past act 3 the build that just won. In co-op no two mirrors are the same player's build.

A playtester's Act 4 boss died on its first turn. With no army on the board, a Kicked Anthill on each side traded wounds back and forth in a single frame until one commander fell. A pin answering a wound no longer sets off another wound pin. The AI that played that boss also kept playing a card that cost it health, so the card-playing AI shared by the mirror, Auto-play and co-op's AI seats now weighs what a play buys: it won't draw with nothing left to draw, or pay health in the last quarter of its own.

The mirror stands as tall as your warlord now (its doll was drawn a third shorter), a Power it plays shows its own picture instead of a stand-in flame, and its Commander's Heart breaks the way yours does, with the same banner, on every seat in co-op.

At the door of Act IV, Uncle Jim now dresses as the government your three vows make. There are 27 new portraits, one for each, and he keeps his on the Act IV map and in the coronation dance. Here are twelve:

His walk-up on the road there has a third line, his word on what you stand for, one for each of the 27. For the God-Emperor: "So it's The Undying God-Emperor, with every city kneeling and you ruling forever. Forever is a long time, sprout, so I packed snacks."

The carpet under the last fight is now two lands. Each of the 27 lands has a carpet of its own, with its crest's emblem in the side panels, its band in its own colour, and its three vows' colours as the stripes. Your land's carpet lies on your side and the mirror's on its side, blending into each other across the middle. A side whose vows make no land keeps the Throne's own midnight carpet, and so does the browser version, which leaves the 27 carpets out to keep its download small. Here the left side's vows make The Free Villages and the right side's The Conqueror's Wheel:

The toys round that field are the two sides' vows now, one for each vow, each in its own side's half and in its vow's own colour: the Assembly's ballot box, the Uncarved Block's stump and sprout, the Leviathan rising from its sea, Sun Tzu's bamboo book and command flag, the khan's torch, the Inner Citadel's tower, Fortune's wheel and its little king, and the throne under heaven's cloud. Just War keeps its broken sword. Click a toy and it plays. Fortune's wheel spins, and a hard enough spin throws the king off:


Rex Mortifer has a new finishing move, The Ledger Closes. The warlord ducks the hand that caught him at the false death, cuts the ledger off its chain and holds it open at him. Nine leaves turn, a soul tears out of each, and the souls drag him spinning into his own book, which is slammed shut. It replaces the soul jar crushed in a fist.

The Grave Tide's finisher pulls the plug. A paper whirlpool opens under him, he turns like a cut-out on a turntable as he goes down, a folded newspaper boat circles after him, and then the tide drains back down the wall.

When a boss's break changes the stage, the camera now glides back to take the whole change in and comes home afterwards, and the fight carries on while it does. Reduce Motion, or a camera you are dragging, keeps your view. Here is Simple Ton's turn, set off on its own without the banner before it:


When an enemy spell is coming for your commander and he is off screen, a thin red arc on the edge of the screen points at him. It breathes faster as the spell gets close and flares if he is hit.

The gold guard ground a guard volley lays round your commander now stirs with its card. It swells out from him once it is laid, and again whenever you point at, tap or read the volley's card.

Every enemy card read now tucks your hand away, and nothing else stands up beside it: no unit card, no spell telegraph and no tip. One of Uncle Jim's notes already up steps out of sight until the last card is filed.

While a summon's arrow is green and locked on a spot it can land on, a faint glint runs down it from the card to the tip.

The Chaos Cocktail now holds its verdict up as a flask over the whole screen, with its name, a line on what it does and a Throw button, and the calamity waits for you to throw it. Every battle wheel spins faster now, and a click, tap or button press hurries it onto its wedge.

The Cyborg's Copy Chip can take a villager off Wally, and that villager now carries the moon with it. After 10 seconds on the field it turns into its werewolf, and 10 seconds later back again, with its wounds carried across. A ring on the ground round each one shows its clock. In this clip the clock is wound forward:

Coins tossed off a body under Colossal Stomp's foot wait for the foot to lift, so you can see them spin.


Leaving the draft, each pack's crest now flies at the screen and marks it its own way, and the warlord breaks through the paper along the marks. All 21 packs have their own mark and their own sound. Behind You! stabs through from behind and wrenches the cut open, Primordial Growth splits the paper along its roots, and Pandemonium wrings a whirlpool hole.

Click the sign on the title screen enough times and a chain snaps. It hangs and spins on the other one. A few more hits drop it, and a new sign swings down.

On the draft screen your sign hangs over your warlord's head, as it does in battle. Under his feet, the Back plate covered it on a phone.

Your own achievement pops no longer carry the red "Achievement earned" caption, and a new warlord's painted sign is bigger on the pop.

When a new warlord is revealed, the starting deck shows each card once, with "3 x" or "2 x" in cut paper before any you hold more than one of. On a phone the signature pin fills the left side of the stage.

The Feather Bedroll now heals you fully when you rest in a craft room (it used to add 25% of your maximum health). Under the Eclipse Lens, which only lets you heal between acts, the Rest bed stands greyed out with nothing under it, when resting has nothing else to give you.

On the spoils, March On no longer asks if you want to leave rewards behind when you opened a pick and skipped it. It still asks about anything you never looked at.


When an ally recommends an option, their warlord's face now pokes up on the card's top edge, grinning, and the card is ringed in their colour. Press the option you recommended again to take the recommendation back.

• Your own plaque in the wait window has a Pins button.
  
• A player is never seated as "Open seat"; the host seats them under their Steam name.
  
• An ally in a craft room is shown as "In the craft room".

The Siege Works pieces are a little wind-up tin robot now, with glass eyes in brass rims, cog ears that turn, a steam whistle on his lid, gears behind a round chest window and a key in his back. He has a new song too, "Come and Get It".

• Every enemy card's flavour line, the vow cards' oaths and Wally's last stand are now translated in all ten languages.
  
• Keyword tooltips say what the keyword does and stop. The fine print came off about 50 of them.
  
• An upgraded Instar is stronger from its first molt.
  
• The boar lord is just Gorehoof now.
  
• Feedback typed in another language reaches the developer with an English translation beside it, so write in whichever language you like.
  
• The first-launch notice about gameplay stats now says that if you send feedback, you may get a digital thank-you note.
  
• The Travelling Medic stands on the event's first page again, and has his left arm back in Bottled Three Times Over.
  
• The gambler in Double or Nothing is called "he", as he is drawn.
  
• A potion pulled off the belt is let go even when the bar rebuilds under your finger.
  
• A held map pencil no longer swallows clicks meant for a form over the map.
  
• On Uncle Jim's send-off, pointing at a pin that names a unit shows that unit's card, as on his check-in.
  
• On a controller, the highlight no longer rides a picked pack into the crest strip.

• On a phone, in the chest-pick minigame, the two chests you did not pick fade out see-through.
  
• A lucky Flurry's "Nine Lives!" can peek out from behind Colossal Stomp's foot for half a second.
  
• An enemy volley's card can sit on the screen edge right over the new red arc.