How works the sozu?

[Septimus]

hi everyone

im newplayer in this game, and i got an answer about this trincket

i got sozu two times, and its description reads "gains (symbol of energy) per turn. You cannot have potions" (or something like that) so, i understand that, if u have this, if you start a fight for example with 3 energy (you always start first, or so I think), you use your cards, you give to end turn, the opponent plays, I UNDERSTAND that, when you start that new turn, you should have 4 energy, not 3, and is that, both times I had this item, I didn't get more energy for each turn, I only got extra energy every time I eliminated a final boss of each chapter, which I understand that is so, that for each final boss of each chapter, you get one extra energy, or is that really the effect of the sozu?


P.D.: another possibility I have thought of is that the translation is wrong, I play in Spanish, and it really means something else and I haven't read it in English yet, no idea.

[Romaki]

Sozu gives you +1 energy per turn, so it's 4 energy every turn.

If you get another boss relic, it can also do +1 energy per turn, so that would be 5 energy.
Not every boss relic gives you +1 energy, some have other benefits and downsides.

Winning an Act doesn't give you any additional reward, you just get the Boss rewards.

[Septimus]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH okay okay so, rather, it increases your total energy reserve by +1, right? okay okay, thank you very much.

[mldb88]

Probably the language barrier making it a bit hard to fully get what the issue is but I’ll try to explain it best I can.

Some boss relics provide one additional energy but have a drawback. So sozu for example increases your energy to 4 each turn, but you can’t get any more potions for the rest of the run. If you would try to add a potion either from a reward, shop, etc, it just goes poof, and is gone.

Also the gain energy from boss relics isn’t cumulative (basically it doesn’t stack with itself each turn) it just provides a flat 1 additional energy on your turns bringing your base total ip to 4.

Hope that helps!

[Septimus]

yeah yeah i understand, maybe i could be better if the text reads "gain extra energy of your total" or smth like that, okay thx boys <3

[Hundinger]

I would recommend playing in english. While it's really cool that so many people contributed to translating the game, I quickly gave up on playing in my native language, because looking up relics and cards and tacticts wasn't that fruitful. Most conversation about the game happens in english and it helps if you already know the english names of cards and relics before googling infos on them.

[pitiflauticus]

Juega en inglés, capullo! :D :D ;)

[Septimus]

Originally posted by pitiflauticus:

Juega en inglés, capullo! :D :D ;)

cuchame, aun en ingles hay cartas muy mal descritas, por ejemplo la carta Berserk dice "ganas 2 vulnerable (hasta aqui bien), al comienzo de tu turno, gana 1 energía" y es mentira, ganas 1 de energía SIEMPRE Y CUANDO ESTÉS AL 50% O MENOS DE VIDA o sea que... ya he pillado un par de cartas de este estilo, que te dicen una cosa y luego no es como dice la descripción (ni en ingles eh, me refiero que en ingles tampoco lo dice bien)

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Even in English there are cards very poorly described, for example the Berserk card says "you gain 2 vulnerable (so far so good), at the beginning of your turn, you gain 1 energy" and it is a lie, you gain 1 energy as long as you are at 50% or less of life, so ... I have already caught a couple of cards of this style, which tell you one thing and then it is not as the description says (or in English eh, I mean that in English does not say it well either).

[Septimus]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

I would recommend playing in english. While it's really cool that so many people contributed to translating the game, I quickly gave up on playing in my native language, because looking up relics and cards and tacticts wasn't that fruitful. Most conversation about the game happens in english and it helps if you already know the english names of cards and relics before googling infos on them.

If you can, read what I answered to the other fellow just above this message (the one quoted to another person, which is what I was referring to in general about some letters).

[trial_by_fire]

Originally posted by Septimus:

Originally posted by pitiflauticus:

Juega en inglés, capullo! :D :D ;)

cuchame, aun en ingles hay cartas muy mal descritas, por ejemplo la carta Berserk dice "ganas 2 vulnerable (hasta aqui bien), al comienzo de tu turno, gana 1 energía" y es mentira, ganas 1 de energía SIEMPRE Y CUANDO ESTÉS AL 50% O MENOS DE VIDA o sea que... ya he pillado un par de cartas de este estilo, que te dicen una cosa y luego no es como dice la descripción (ni en ingles eh, me refiero que en ingles tampoco lo dice bien)

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Even in English there are cards very poorly described, for example the Berserk card says "you gain 2 vulnerable (so far so good), at the beginning of your turn, you gain 1 energy" and it is a lie, you gain 1 energy as long as you are at 50% or less of life, so ... I have already caught a couple of cards of this style, which tell you one thing and then it is not as the description says (or in English eh, I mean that in English does not say it well either).

Anytime I play the game, the Berserk card does exactly what it says. 50% or less of life has no impact on what the card does. It would be a really weird bug to cause it to work that way.

Are you sure you're not thinking of the Red Skull relic that will give you 3 strength when you are at 50% of life or less? Or maybe you have some mod?

[Spawnling]

Berserk works fine. At the start of each round I have 4 out of 3 energy after I played Berserk.
My HP are also above 50% (65/80)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3153297993

[1.2M | Missingno.]

Looking back through old patch notes, Berserk did used to only grant energy below 50% health, but that was changed to the current effect way back in 2018. Does another localization still refer to the old effect? If so that's an issue that needs to be reported, English card text is correct and you can confirm the effect for yourself.

[LHGreen]

Originally posted by Missingno.:

Looking back through old patch notes, Berserk did used to only grant energy below 50% health, but that was changed to the current effect way back in 2018. Does another localization still refer to the old effect? If so that's an issue that needs to be reported, English card text is correct and you can confirm the effect for yourself.

Or, if that's the effect this guy is seeing, the translations were updated but the game wasn't.

Or maybe this guy is somehow just playing on a previous build of the game?

[Ratconned]

Originally posted by LHGreen:

Originally posted by Missingno.:

Looking back through old patch notes, Berserk did used to only grant energy below 50% health, but that was changed to the current effect way back in 2018. Does another localization still refer to the old effect? If so that's an issue that needs to be reported, English card text is correct and you can confirm the effect for yourself.

Or, if that's the effect this guy is seeing, the translations were updated but the game wasn't.

Or maybe this guy is somehow just playing on a previous build of the game?:conwayshrug:

It'd be weird if the others happened. Balance of probability the game was updated but the text is not. The player will have to play it to verify.

[Septimus]

Originally posted by Ratconned:

Originally posted by LHGreen:

Or, if that's the effect this guy is seeing, the translations were updated but the game wasn't.

Or maybe this guy is somehow just playing on a previous build of the game?:conwayshrug:

It'd be weird if the others happened. Balance of probability the game was updated but the text is not. The player will have to play it to verify.

yeah, i have corroborated some card text tend to be confusing, and the only way to know how work is using them