Trials of Fire 1.055 Финал

Hi Everyone, the latest update of Trials of Fire now includes Korean as a language option. Massive thanks to Discord Community Member @Otiel for their work on this! Please leave any feedback on our Discord channel.

Happy Friday everyone.

This week’s update features a few card balance tweaks and the beta release for our Russian translation.

We have a pretty exciting event coming up soon so keep your eyes peeled!

Let us know what you think on Discord!


Language Updates
This build includes a beta version of our Russian translation.
This has 97% of text translated, but some of the newer text is still not complete.



Card Updates
‘Rage’ – Updated effect to ‘Draw 2 cards. Add an Exhausted card to the top of your deck.’
‘Force Field’ – Reduced Defence to 2 (from 3).
‘Uncanny Defence’ – Increased Defence to 2-6 (from 2-5).



Bug Fixes
Fixed ‘Channel Spirit’ (Shaman) from not triggering properly.

This week’s update contains a change to the way some overworld encounters are distributed to give the player more of a meaningful choice on where to travel next.

Also this week, some UI and balance changes to some of the harder enemy encounters.

Let us know what you think on Discord!


Adventure Updates
Forest and glasslands events no longer lead to combat.
This is to differentiate these events from ruins and roaming encounters.
Added more variety of combat events to roaming enemies.


UI Updates
Hovering over crafting materials displays the equipped items that it can help upgrade.


Card Updates
‘Flourish’ (Assassin) – Updated effect to ‘Defend 2 + your current Melee Damage bonus x2.’


Balance Updates
Updated ‘Devil Moth’ deck to make it a little easier – particularly at higher Cataclysm levels.
Increased challenge rating of ‘Human Shaman’, ‘Bandit Lord’ and ‘Basilisk Spitter’

This update sees the merging of our Chinese build into the main branch. As well as a few bug fixes.

Going forward we will just be releasing a single build for all leading up to release.

Let us know what you think on Discord!

UI Updates
Language selection now available in the in-game options menu.


Bug Fixes
Fixed Spirit Speaker ‘Empower’ talent not affecting Ranged Attacks.
‘Elven Burial Pendant’ now correctly restricts you to 4 cards.
Fixed ‘Thyran Harness’ effect not triggering correctly.

Merry Christmas everyone,

This Christmas update includes a big change to the way Powers work in game to prevent multiple Powers on a single Hero protecting each other.

Also some fun Christmas cosmetics (which you can disable in the options menu if you would prefer!).

Let us know what you think on Discord!


Power Changes
Powers now no longer come with an inherent Defence bonus.
This is to keep things a bit simpler and to and to prevent additional Powers from protecting existing ones.


Card Changes
All class focus cards (Adrenaline, Cantrip etc.) – Increased Resilience to 8.
‘Resilience’ (Warrior) – Increased Resilience to 8.
‘Iron Skin’ – Increased Resilience to 6.
‘Elite’ – Decreased cost to 1 (from 2).
‘Reach’ – Increased cost to 1, Resilience to 5 and changed effect to, ‘When an enemy moves into an adjacent space, draw a card.’
‘Battle Stance’ – Updated effect to, ‘All Attacks deal +2 Damage. On Play: Defend 3.’
‘Take Aim’ (Hunter) – Increased cost to 1 and changed effect to, ‘All attacks on a single target deal bonus damage equal to the Resilience of this Power. After attacking, this Power loses 1 Resilience.’
‘Supported’ (Hunger) – Increased Resilience to 4.
‘Stalk+’ – Changed upgraded effect to, ‘Adjacent enemies do not prevent you from performing Combo Strikes.’
‘Overload’ (Elementalist) – Reduced Resilience to 4.
‘Abjuration+’ – Changed upgraded effect to ‘On Play: Defend 3.’
‘Lethality’ (Assassin) – Reduced Resilience to 4.
‘Fire Shield’ (Elementalist) – Increased cost to 1 and changed effect to, ‘"Whenever you are attacked by an adjacent enemy, inflict Burning 2 on the attacker. On Play: Defend 3.’


UI Changes
• Remaining health on Powers can be previewed in battle.


Boss Balance Changes
‘Green Dragon’ – Increased Health a bit.
‘Death Guard’ – Increased Health a bit.
'Lurker' - Reduced Willpower by 1.
‘Blue Dragon’ – Increased Willpower by 1 to match the ‘Planar’.

Big Changes


Movement Changes

• Most movement cards have had their movement reduced but provide 1 Willpower when played (effectively making them freebies).
• Hopefully, this will make movement cards a lot more valuable in your deck.
• Also, reducing the overall movement speed a bit should help to make high movement cards more valuable and slow down early game enemy rushes a bit.

Other Changes

• ‘Inspired’ – Increased damage boost to +2 to round out the Warlord’s support options a bit.

Card Changes

• Check them out in game.

Good afternoon all,

This week’s update mainly consists of some pretty big changes to crafting and global progression so please read carefully.

NOTE: Most of the progression changes can be ignored if you prefer by heading into the options menu to customise your experience.

Please let us know what you think on Discord!


Big Changes

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• Crafting Changes – These changes have been implemented to further increase the variation on strategies for various party and follower combinations.
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  • You are now only able to craft an item if you have a party member of follower who has the skill to craft it.
  • Each Hero now comes with 2 crafting skills.
  • Added some extra crafting Followers.
  • Crafting items can now be sold at shops if you don’t have a use for them.
  • Crafting will not be available during your 1st playthrough.
• Unlockable cards features
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  • To help ease new players in a bit and to give players who want it more of a progression, certain class cards and party features are now unlocked by increasing your Soul Level again.
  • You can also bypass all this if you want by checking the ‘Unlock Soul Features’ in the options menu if you prefer to have everything thrown at you at once! It’s your game so play it how you want.

Card Changes

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• ‘Wild Swing’ (Warrior) – Increased damage to 3-6 (from 2-6).
• ‘Rush’ (Warrior) – Changed effect to, ‘Draw 1 movement card from your deck or discard pile. For this turn, gain 2 Movement and all Movement cards are free to play.’
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  • A tricky one this, this card was intended to empower powerful movement cards like ‘Charge’, ‘Head Rush’, ‘Aggression’ etc, but it has ended up being a bit too effective as part of an infinite draw engine with ‘Quick Step’.
• ‘Hamstring’ (Warrior) – Changed effect to,’ "Move 2 to Target, Melee Attack 3 and inflict Immobilised.’
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  • Updated this card to add a bit of mobility to this card so add some more options for its cost.

Significant Bugs

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• Fixed some issues with displaying card values with a very high bonus and an associated crash when attacking the Lurker.

Good afternoon,

This week’s update contains mainly updates for the adventure portion of the game. This build contains a handful of new traits (formerly perks) to find. I’ve also re-examined some of the adventure event choices to make the choices a bit tougher – even when playing with ‘Story Choice Spoilers’ enabled. As part of this, Hard Battles are now a little bit harder but will always give you a nice reward for risking the extra damage.

As always, please let us know what you think on our Discord channel!


Big Changes

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• ‘Perks’ are now referred to as ‘Traits’ as they are often not entirely positive.
• Added new traits that can pick up during each adventure.

Card Changes

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• ‘Iron Skin’ – Increased Resilience to 4 (from 3).
• ‘Prepare’ – Increased Defence to 2 (from 1).
• ‘Aggression’ – Increased Defence to 2 (from 1).
• ‘Cunning Offense’ – Reduced cost to 2 (from 3).
• ‘Aura of Pain’ (Witch) – Increased Defence to 2 (from 1).

Legendary Changes

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• ‘Elven Stalker’s Chain’ – Changed effect to ‘Every time you move more than 2 spaces gain +1 Damage for the rest of this turn.’

Balance Changes

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• Hard Battles are now a bit harder than before.

Content Changes

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• New enemy type.

Significant Bugs

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• Made doubly sure there are always obstacles on the players half of the map in Sun Flare battles.
• Fixed ‘Charge’ allowing you to end up on the same space as other enemy units in conjunction with ‘Blinding Flash.’

Good afternoon and Happy Holidays everyone,

PLEASE READ: This week’s update sees a big change to the core mechanics of the game to make players feel more empowered early in the game and to encourage the use of all 3 Heroes in battle each turn.

As always, check out the notes below, play the game and let us know your thoughts on Discord. We’d love to know what y’all think!


Big Changes

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• Soul Scarred
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  • The first non-trivial (zero-cost) card played each turn now costs -1 Willpower.
  • The cost of affected cards is shown in green.
• Soul Scarred balance changes
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  • Many enemies now have increased health to compensate for the increased power of the player’s party
  • Slightly increased enemy numbers.
• Power defence
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  • Powers now have a variable Defend value (shown on the lower-left of the card).
  • Many powers now only grant 1 Defence, but some will grant 3.

Card Changes

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• ‘Versatile’ (Assassin) – Reduced cost to 1 (from 2).
• ‘Calming Presence’ (Warlord) – Updated effect to ‘Each other friendly Hero draws 1 extra card at the end of your turn.’

Balance Changes

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• Elven Necromancer – Summons now start with +2 health.
• Updated event choice priorities so you will get food more often when you need it.
• Reduced move speed penalty to 20%.

Significant Bugs

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• Fixed ‘Demonic Pact’ dealing 3 damage each turn (it should deal 2) (it was benefiting from its own attack bonus!).
• Fixed damage calculations from ‘Static Discharge’ and ‘Evocation’.
• Fixed hang when you have a choice to draw from more cards than are currently in your deck.

Early Access Build v0.16 Patch Notes

Hi guys,
This week we’re introducing Daily Challenges to shake up the game a bit. Basically, every day will see a new, unique challenge. Please let us know what you think and send us your feedback on Discord as well as ideas for new modifiers – fun ways you’d like to play! – for future updates. We’ll incorporate these into upcoming challenges and eventually into custom quest runs.
We’ve also updated the save system so you can have a run for each different quest on the go at once.

Big Changes
•Added a new Daily Challenge mode
oEach day will bring a new unique challenge and Leaderboard.
oChallenges will consist of a fixed adventure, party and difficulty as well as 1 or 2 special modifiers to change the way you play and build your loadout.
oThe map, and order of events will be fixed for everyone participating in the challenge.
oAdded a Daily Leaderboard for the last 7 days so you can compare scores.
oOnce you start a daily challenge, you’ll have up to 6 days to complete it and submit a valid Leaderboard score.
•You can now have multiple different adventures on the go at once.

UI
•You can now select to continue or abandon a run individually on the New Adventure page.
•Active Powers are now displayed on character tokens to more easily be able to tell which powers are active at a glance.
oLove to know what everyone thinks of this change.
•Added an option to disable the ability to recycle cards by dragging them to the Recycle Shrine.

Balance Changes
•Decreased the difficulty of the Act 3 boss a smidge.

Card Changes
•‘Wild Swing’ – increased damage to 2-6.

Significant Bugs
•Fixed an issue causing you to sometimes be left with a ‘Fatigue’ card in hand after re-shuffling your deck
•Fixed ‘Regroup’ removing all named effects rather than 1 stack from each.
•Fixed ‘Acid Flask’ and ‘Frostbolt’ not showing target damage preview when hovering over a valid target.

Content Updates
•New human enemy types.

Hi guys,
Lots of gameplay and balance changes this week in response to fan feedback and to address some of the less-chosen class cards as well as a couple of new features.
Also, a ton of back-end work on challenges and map-seeding for this month’s challenge mode update – we should see Daily Challenges in next week’s build.

Hope you enjoy the update, and of course, please let us know what you think by getting involved on our Discord server!

Big Changes
•Implemented ‘Item Select’ page when starting a new adventure. You can choose to equip your party with any of the common (green) weapons that you have encountered over previous play-throughs.

UI
•Added a ‘Recommended Level’ to main quest objectives to give you an idea of the level you should be aiming for to be able to challenge the boss. This is, of course, just a recommendation.

Balance Changes
•Increased available food a bit.
•Increased the bonus score received from completing each leg of the adventure quickly.

Card Changes
•‘Attack!’ (Warlord) – Increased cost to 3 and changed effect to “All friendly Characters draw a Melee Attack card from their deck and then Activate.”
•‘Line Up’ – Increased damage boost to +2.
•‘Dead eye’ – Increased Resilience to 3.
•‘Plotting’ – Reduced cost to 0, reduced Resilience to 3.
•‘Intimidate’ – Changed effect to “Inflict Weakened 2 on all enemies within 2 spaces.”
•‘Protect’ – Changed effect to “Swap places with any friendly character, then Defend 2 per adjacent enemy.”

Significant Bugs
•Fixed Rivals (Leaderboard) button sometimes not appearing properly.
•‘Bolster’, ‘Blind Shot’ and ‘Ricochet Shot’ can no longer be activated on an invalid target.

Content Updates
•A handful of new cards, items & legendaries to look out for.

Hi again everyone.

This week’s update focusses on a lot of back-end updates – getting things ready for upcoming features and content. The biggest change comes to handling Steam leaderboards more consistently. You will now be able to accurately view your own best stats, as well as those of your friends and rivals for each quest, by hovering over the ‘Rivals’ button on either the ‘New Adventure’ or ‘Statistics’ pages. This change also comes with a reset of the existing leaderboards to make sure we’ve got proper data going forward.

Please try to post as many best scores as possible to help us iron out the scoring system for the release of Daily Challenges etc. later this month – any data and feedback is extremely helpful to us!
As usual, please hop onto Discord and let us know what you think about any of the changes this week.

Big Changes
•Leaderboard Update

• Leaderboards now accurately display the scores and stats of everyone on the leaderboard.
• Clicking on a ‘Rivals’ button will bring up the full leaderboard for that quest.

•Added ‘Attune Item’ as a camp activity if you have 1 or more Soul Gems in your inventory.

UI
•Updated Leaderboard UI.

Balance Changes
•Updated ‘Weakened’ status effect to be: “Character deals -2 Damage on their next attack and cannot perform Combo Strikes while this effect is active.”

• Weakened was performing a bit too well – particularly against boss characters able to make multiple attacks in 1 turn.

•Updated Human Shaman’s ability to: “Learning: Whenever a Hero plays a Power, the Shaman gains +1 WP at the start of their next turn.” so it only triggers off Powers played by the player.
•Updated Cataclysm difficulty progression to provide extra damage to enemies at every 3 levels.

Card Changes
•‘Draw Strength’ – Increased Defence gained to 3x the number of summoned characters.
•‘Protector’ - Changed effect to: “Whenever this character Defends itself, all other friendly characters within range 3 gain half of that Defence.”
•‘Husk’ – Reduced Husk health by 1.

Significant Bugs
•Fixed ‘Metamorphosis’ not working on zero-cost cards.
•Fixed a bug causing too many ‘basic’ encounters and not enough ‘ruins’ encounters spawning on the map when starting a new run.

Content Updates
•A handful of new cards live to look out for.