10,000 Players and some game updates!

Hello Pal-adins!

DUO QUEST HAS HIT 10,000 PLAYERS!! THANK YOU from all of us at 1+1 Studios!

Updates:

Since our last update, we have improved several aspects of the game; here’s an overview of what the new update has with detailed information further down in this post:

• Balance patch for a few characters: We’ve made balancing changes to Hood, Yellow Force, Nock and Demon King!
• Some UI/UX polishing - We’ve polished some UI/UX; hopefully this will improve your experience.
• Full Mouse support - You asked for it! And here it is! Duo Quest now has FULL mouse support! We’ve added this in to ensure that players don’t feel too restricted by using keyboard controls for different parts of the game.
• Soft lock improvements - We’ve made a few fixes to the soft lock issues, specifically for the Final Fight.

Balancing

Card Changes

• Force Shift Red! - Previously you could stack up the Buff “Flaming Fist” making Red Force an unstoppable force and making it an easy choice between the three transformations. Now Flaming Fist will have a cap of +2 damage to Yellow Force.
• Bleed Cards - In general we have heard that Bleed and Lifesteal builds have been too strong, making it very easy to constantly heal throughout your battles. This removes the tension we want players to feel as they go through the game. With that we have nerfed all cards that give bleed, making it still a viable build but also makes other builds equally as viable
• Paper Cut Bleed reduced from 3-> 2
• Rusty Blade Bleed reduced from 3 -> 1
• Spike Shield Bleed reduced from 2 -> 1
• Chainsaw Slash Bleed reduced from 5 -> 3

Nock Healing Cards - In general this felt a bit underpowered as compared to our other characters so we have implemented a buff to all of Nock’s healing cards

• Soothe increased Heal from 3 -> 5
• Mending Wisp increased Heal from 4 -> 6
• Spirit Overflow increased Heal from 6 -> 8

Artifact Changes

• D4 Dice - Changed the effect from a random 1-4 damage at the start of combat to Random 1-4 damage every round (i.e. beginning of Player 1’s turn)
• Bond Forger - Reduced the attack and defense bonus from +5 to +3
• Crisis Call - Reduced the amount of health needed to trigger double damage to 25%
• Mending Shield - Reduced the Block Reduction from 2 -> 1

We still have a bunch of balancing ideas that we want to implement but this is the first wave of balancing! As per usual please do let us know what you think about it in the community channel or in our Discord!

UI/UX Polish:

In regards to the UI/UX polish of the game, we are constantly striving to make it a smoother and better experience for everyone! With that in mind, we have just done a first round of UI/UX polishing! This includes:

1. We have now added shadows and made fonts sharper than before which should make the reading experience much better
2. In general, UI Elements are more consistent across the board such as card highlighting and object highlighting
3. Within the event scenes players can now see which answer they selected as well as which is the correct answer more clearly!

FULL MOUSE SUPPORT!

Most excitingly Mouse Support for the game! Previously, mouse was only partially supported for parts of our game. Now, the team has added in FULL MOUSE SUPPORT to the entire game. This includes being able to select any option in event scenes, choose answers during trivia scenes (only if you’re playing online as we wouldn’t want to detract the experience when playing localling by showing each other the answers), playing cards and so on!

General Bug Fixes

We’ve heard that there has been an issue with the last stage, especially with the Demon King soft locking players in the final phase when playing online. We have improved the connectivity so there should be far less of this happening now.

Overall, we hope these updates make Duo Quest even more enjoyable!

What’s next?

• Mac build - Yep, Apple users, we don’t want you to miss out on the Duo Quest experience, so this one is coming soon!
• New content- MORE CONTENT, MORE QUESTIONS! We’re going to be adding more questions by theme really soon, so be on the lookout!

As we are a week shy of one month of Duo Quest, we again would like to thank you for your continued support. Especially for a small team of devs, this means the world to us.

If you encounter any issues, do help report them to us on our Discord. For now, happy questing Pal-adins! And talk to you soon!

From the 1+1 Studios team.