Order Automatica

The game wanted me to use the true cell.

 I normally don't comment, but let me say what I think about each unit in the game and the best strategies:

1. manifester+ disposable combo is very overpowered since you can just hold disposable and distill manifester to get +3/+3 every turn or even +6/+6 if you can get 2 maifester.

2. zombie is too good, 5/5 start of game plus the various potential buffs make zombie way too strong should be nerfed.

3. most items in this game suck currently which is unfortunate, they just dont do enough to warrant the price.

4. selfless seems like best balanced card, giving aoe buffs is good and scales into the late game.

5. understimated is okay but zombie is much better.

6. attack buff guy is really bad, he doesnt keep his stat buff ad dies too easily. 

7. trickster is bad doesnt scale well into late game.

8. hermits OKAY with a summon build I guess.

9. manifester is very good with the combo not very good otherwise

10. disposable is very good especially with the discard coin buff.

overall the game seems a lot easier compared to previous builds which is not a bad thing, unfortunantly stat buffs seem to be the way to go currently due to the limited spaces.

Pro tips: you can distill a poison (or key) then equip the weak distillation on The Disposable to get permanent buff on your character for free!!!

It appears that I can't currently get the Total Victory credit for 3-1. Not sure if this is because there is nothing past this level or if it's a glitch. Otherwise, very fun game!

Here's a glitch that I found:
Whenever you lose/win/draw a battle, there's a very brief window when it's fading to the preparation phase that when you click on the attainment list, the ritual that you're on will restart. 

I've lost a few rituals to this since I check the attainment list often after a battle :(

There's an exploit on the "no-moving" levels:

If you have a spare movement indulgence, then you could move a unit to hold and back to the grid wherever you want, ruining basically the whole point of the level.

Edit: Spelling mistakes

Glitch occurs when dragging unit to line between squares 1 and 3. Can reproduce in 1-3 tries. Bug is visual only, everything except last unit moved is deleted when the round starts. I would assume it is an issue with the snapping when moving units resulting in the data being overwritten on round start. Just guesswork tho.

What a game ! Would love to buy the full release on steam !

The altars of the immortal

There's a crash sort of thing that happens when a would be dead demi summoner spawns another one that happens to be perfect to fuse with. After they fuse the run just stops, and quitting the round is the only way to do anything again

This game is very fun. May have spent a few hours or so on it. Also, Altar Beast distill item is very, let's say very unfair.

Say if you were to attach it to a level 1 Demi Summoner, when Demi Summoner dies, its spawns one ally but with the distill item it keeps spawning allies because of its special ability make a loop until there's no space. 

But because of one item it breaks. Statim Mortem, a 1 cost item that kills your allies. When used on Demi Summoner it creates a permanent ally at the cost of itself. High Risk and low reward and while it doesn't seem like much else it going on, it allowing Demi Summoner to generate infinite money and infinite power. As Demi Summoner with the distill item summons allies you can sell them creating space for allies to spawn creating a loop and because of Child of Muck it gets/gives infinite power.

Now, interesting enough, if you have Hertic Assassin with the distill item in the same team as the Demi Summoner you can even damage or kill your opponent before you even begin. 

Anyway, it was fun, and I hope for more updates and content like this.

Book for 5th slot breaks randomly on summons saying -3 but never removing it

New update broke summons.  Now if three in a row happens mid-battle, the merge can cause the game to stop progressing (I imagine it's looking for a unit in a cell it can no longer find). Idle animations still play.  I had 3 war automatons merge prior to this without issue, which is why I think it's a new problem, but maybe I just got lucky last time or unlucky this time.

hey, maybe demi summoners shouldn't be able to summon another demi summoner...

I think while moving a unit, it glitched and the unit stopped existing.

Edit to add, the orbis vigor and incursio say row in the battle but column in the description.

True cell bomb also doesn't work after round 1.

Really like the game's aesthetics, mechanics, and difficulty. Enjoying the game so far overall!

very fun game, I also like that unlike most autobattlers, there is no stat cap, or at least it is much higher than 50

The game is quite fun. This unique take on the auto battler format prioritizes more on critical thinking rather than going with your current build, which is nice.

i seem to have a problem were when i skip the enemies turn to quickly they just stop and i cant do my turn

I really love the latest update, a LOT actually. from rebalancing to the better approach to new players. But... there's a couple of things i noticed. First the spiked helmet item doesn't work as it says it does, instead of dealing 2 dmg back, it still deals the lvl dmg of the enemy instead. The Altar beast also doesn't seem to activate it's ability (correctly if at all. when the distillation of "on hit" is on, it can lead to it healing the enemy's summons instead.) 

And there's also something I dont understand regarding fusion of units. You see, after i buffed a couple of war automatons, 2 of them had about 50 or so atk and hp, but after a third one fused with them the lvl 2 result was weaker, about 40 something instead. How does the stat distribution work when fusing?

Two glitches -
First, attaining total victory without any level 3 allies on Initiate Rank 3 causes the game to freeze on the victory banner. Abandoning the ritual functions to return to the main menu, but it doesn't recognise or save my progress, making that attainment unattainable.

Second, using the Demi Summoner and the right distillments, it's possible (if unlikelY) to summon three level-one units in a row in the middle of combat, causing them to merge and level up just as they would during prep time. When this happens on the computer's side of the board, the game proceeds as normal. When it happens on my side, it freezes.

Finally, I'm not sure if this is a glitch or not, but it's possible for a summoned Demi Summoner to die and summon an adjacent Altar Beast, which then recognises itself as a new summoned unit and buffs the Demi Summoner back to life again. That... seems like the wrong order. o_O

Otherwise, I'm having a lot of fun with this.

found a glitch, so i gave the altar beast a "when hurt" distillation, expecting for the summons next to it to keep getting buffed when it got hit... instead it started giving the stats to the enemies that attacked it... i dont even understand what the process behind that is, but like- man, that was a funny way to loose

So... at Penitent Rank 1 the NPC just locked into not choosing anything at the shop, we were both down to our last heart, so i'm guessing that the NPC doesn't have thought out the units it'll buy for this turn? am i supposed to only beat it in 10-11 turns?

so apparently attempting to imediately place a unit in the distill square without buying it crashed mah game... shame i was about to perfect the run

How do you merge? I feel dumb because I've been trying to figure this out for hours

Giving the Heretic Assassin the distillation from the faithless pylon makes it loop attack forever since spike damage taken only counts after it stops attacking... could this get fixed somehow? like maybe the distillation of faithless pylon only procs once per turn of the character? cause now my run is stuck :'(

Man i love the new mechanic, distillation can finally make Heretic Assassin really good

There's a glitch with the Hero Slayer, his ability says he gains +atk before attacking, yet the damage it deals is the same as before the "buff"

great game nearly won at rank 3 with summon build but i got a bug where if units (war machine) combine mid battle the set up for battle will be saved like hp and atk stats (including negative hp which kills the unit mid turn) and the combined unit, pls fix

I'm loving this new update! I really love the new looks, the shop, also feels like i'm making progress thanks to the 3 different levels

Love all the visual improvements!

Potentially unintended behavior? When I dismiss a held unit, it triggers the essentia item that gives extra essence. This makes that item into a +2 essence per round with no downside, which is weird. Taking a unit off hold should probably not trigger on-sell effects.

Some feedback:

I like the changes you made from the build I played last year. That said, the gameplay has a pacing issue. The pool of units and indulgences is very small and they're all designed to be equally balanced, so there's functionally no power curve. Every turn feels exactly the same. 

Some games solve this through a rarity system, others solve it through a tier system where you can level up the shop to find higher tier stuff. More content would also help. Since the pool is so small, I find myself picking the exact same indulgence or units every round since it's so reliable to get extra copies and they all scale well. Diluting the pool would help force more variety into the game.

One last note, with damage no longer persisting between rounds, the game is now very easy. The AI might need more work or some more gameplay advantages. It could also be fun to give the AI access to units you don't have access to. Playing against different stuff might be more interesting than it always being a mirror match.

really fun, i always find myself building a team around the ONE TRUE CELL XD. btw, any ideas on when you're releasing this? it's really good and i'd love to play it on steam

oh sick there's a whole table of units and items at the bottom

Really cool game, I enjoyed the experience. My feedback:

Kudos for:

• Art & Music fit the theme of the game
• HUD & UI help to understand the game without having a tutorial
• Good selection of minions and items

Need improvement:

• Synergies, I see a lot of things that get around cell 5 and make me play always: heretic + cell guardian + book
• I never play prophet guardian, and also see a benefit when I catch one on the enemy side

i found this infinite essence glitch where you click on one of your allies then you chick out then you can dismiss forever and get infinite essence

The feature that pauses the game when an ability procs is an amazing teaching tool. Made learning the game a cinch. 

I really respect the decision to design an auto battler where death, damage, and even summons persists from combat, however, I am concerned about this design. There's a reason why no other games have done this, and it's because it makes the game into a real feast or famine situation. 

Right now, it feels like the only way to win is to abuse the 5th cell to make one unkillable unit, and scale from there. When I did that, the game felt pretty trivial. When I wasn't doing that, I was having to rebuild my comp nearly from scratch every round. Playing the game "fairly" just felt like re-doing round 1 over and over again because I couldn't get any of my units to stick between rounds.

Another consequence is many of the relics feel useless. Why would I ever spend money to give an on death effect to a unit if it can only ever happen 1 time? The only time I'd consider buying this is if my board is full, at which point I probably was already winning anyway. The relic that gives a unit taunt is useful, but getting the pair feels actively bad because you'd only ever want to put it on the unit which you're scaling in the center cell. But that's also bad because that's the unit you want to draw damage away from, so it's kind of a cursed problem.

Game is very cool and promising, but it really needs some more systems to complement allies not reviving between rounds.

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Neat game!

Super fun! just beat the first ritual :) wishlist on steam already!

I bow to the glory of cell 5! :pray: