After a previous version full of changes and balancing, the new version 1.0.2 of Master of Cladia arrives, bringing important quality-of-life improvements as well as gameplay updates.

In this new version, a new feat-selection system is introduced in the incubator, a more modern and fair revision of the previous system along with quality-of-life improvements for experimentation, new spells, and much more!

Balance Adjustments:

Feats:

Resurrected Phoenix:

The “Resurrected Phoenix” feat has always had a reputation for being the worst option among the resurrection feats. For this reason, we’ve decided to change certain internal aspects of the feat to try to tip the scales in its favor.

• New:
  • When reborn, the mutation points of the unit affected by Resurrected Phoenix will always be treated as positive mutations.

Immortal:

The “Immortal” feat was not only the best option among resurrection feats, but also one of the best feats in the entire game. Because of this, we’ve decided to reduce its potential by penalizing aggressive tactics that relied on the advantage of being able to resurrect on the following turn.

• Turns in limbo: 1 Turn → 3 Turns

Fear Aura

• Grants -2 Defense to enemies during combat

• Grants -2 Accuracy to enemies during combat

Terror Aura

• Grants -5 Defense to enemies during combat

• Grants -5 Accuracy to enemies during combat

Stallion

• Grants 3 Health Points to the unit

New Feat: "Arcane Scent"

• Grants 10% chance to obtain magical items when exploring dungeons

• Grants 10% chance to obtain legendary spells when exploring dungeons

New Feat: "Phalanx"

• Grants 3 General Resistance.

• Grants 20 Critical Ignore.

• Grants 20% Normal damage reduction.

New Feat: "Extra Attacks"

• Grants 1 to the number of attacks the unit can perform per turn.

New Feat: "Benevolent"

• Grants 2 Evasion to allies in combat.

• Grants 10% Cursed damage reduction.

New Feat Family: "Arcanist"

Lesser Alchemical Affinity

• Grants 1 Alchemist Concentration per unit level.

Alchemical Affinity

• Grants 2 Alchemist Concentration per unit level.

Greater Alchemical Affinity

• Grants 3 Alchemist Concentration per unit level.

New Feat Family: "Fame"

Famous

• Grants 10% Mercenary Appearance in dens.

Legendary Fame

• Grants 20% Mercenary Appearance in dens.

New Feat Family: "Bureaucrat"

Bureaucrat

• Grants 3% Income to all of the player's settlements.

Expert Bureaucrat

• Grants 6% Income to all of the player's settlements.

Finance Mage

• Grants 9% Income to all of the player's settlements.

New Feat Family: "Strategist"

Strategist

• Grants 2 Militarization to all of the player's settlements.

Grand Strategist

• Grants 4 Militarization to all of the player's settlements.

New Feat Family: "Arcane Knowledge"

Arcane Explorer

• Grants 1% chance to obtain legendary spells while exploring dungeons.

Field Alchemist

• Grants 2% chance to obtain legendary spells while exploring dungeons.

Spells:

New Spell: "Tizon Disguise"

• Hides the unit’s real age and instead displays a random age within the range [55–75].

New Spell: "Old Glory Disguise"

• Hides the unit’s real age and instead displays a random age within the range [500–675].

Magical Items:

New Item: "Salchiperro's Spectacles"

• Grants 10% chance to obtain magical items when exploring dungeons.

New Item: "Catalezo"

• Grants 10% chance to obtain legendary spells when exploring dungeons.

Units:

Vercient Archer:

• Accuracy: 5 → 7

Bear Warrior:

• Accuracy: 8 → 13

• Maximum Health: 9 → 11

Arboselentir:

• Strength: 25 → 31

• Maximum Health: 14 → 42

Nurvak Golem:

• Defense: 19 → 31

• Strength: 15 → 27

• Resistance: 24 → 35

• Maximum Health: 17 → 30

• Recruitment Cost: 119 → 130

• Maintenance Cost: 30 → 50

Urrman Warrior:

• Health: 16 → 21

• Intelligence: 8 → 10

Urrman Priestess:

• Defense: 12 → 18

• Resistance: 14 → 21

• Intelligence: 9 → 11

Korg:

• Maintenance Cost: 3 → 6

General Korg:

• Defense: 12 → 19

• Resistance: 28 → 35

• Maximum Health: 24 → 31

• Maintenance Cost: 6 → 12

Korg Mage:

• Maintenance Cost: 20 → 40

Hydra:

• Attack: 35 → 45

• Defense: 14 → 18

• Strength: 34 → 42

• Maximum Health: 33 → 42

• Recruitment Cost: 129 → 200

• Maintenance Cost: 32 → 80

Incubation:

A common complaint from the previous version was how easy it was to lose an incubator due to mutations. In this new version, we have reduced this possibility by distributing stat-change outcomes more evenly.

Wars Between Settlements:

Wars between settlements now use the settlement’s Threat value for calculations, making it less likely for small settlements to defeat fortresses and cities.

Application Changes:

Feat Rarity System:

In this new version, we have introduced a rarity system for feats, which is distributed as follows:

1. Common feats (GRAY):
2. Uncommon feats (GREEN):
3. Rare feats (BLUE):
4. Epic feats (PURPLE):
5. Unique feats(ORANGE):
6. Negative feats (RED):

New 3D Models in the Building Scene

"Crysolite Stone" Building:

• The building now has a new appearance closer to its Zharkar origins.

"Arcane Orb" Building:

• The building now has its own 3D model after several versions hidden in the shadows of the mage towers.

Changes to the Population Event Indicator

The active event indicator for a settlement now shows more relevant information by displaying the icon of the corresponding active event instead of an exclamation mark. For settlements with two or more active events, the generic indicator will be shown instead.

Quality-of-Life Improvements for Experimentation

Experimentation will now be much faster thanks to a new quality-of-life improvement: You can now tell the laboratory which spell you want to experiment with. Simply press the "Experiment" button while in the spellbook with an undiscovered spell selected. The laboratory will know which spell you want to experiment with and will automatically select all the ingredients you already know (and have available). Random experimentation will also take these changes into account, making experiments much easier to perform.

New Feat Selection System in the Incubator

The biggest change in this version. After careful consideration, the development team has decided to improve the old feat-acquisition system in the incubator. The new system introduces the possibility of choosing between three different feats of the same rarity. If you want to learn more about the new incubator changes, we recommend reading the dedicated post about these updates.

Improvements

• Optimized world rendering.

• Locations, Players, and Units can now influence the selection of available missions for an army.

• It is now possible to quickly view up to three temporary feats for each dragon lair.

• Different types of windows can now be chosen in the PC version.

• The victory probability now displays descriptive text instead of the exact probability.

• Window resolution is now updated only after a change, not every time the player settings are saved.

• Generic feats will now display the name of the origin they are related to. Example: Headaches, Year of the Red Dragon, etc.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a translation error that prevented correctly displaying remaining turns when synthesizing a talisman.

• Fixed a translation error when attempting to access a region where no den has been built.

• Fixed a translation error in certain options when attempting to create a Multiplayer game.

• Fixed an error that prevented the “Player is casting an important spell” notification from correctly recognizing players casting “Synthesize Talisman.”

• Fixed an error that allowed singleplayer games to display Debug information.

• Fixed an error that prevented viewing the list of players when no players were in the game.

• Fixed an error that prevented advancing to the next turn if an NPC player (Kanendulas) obtained an egg by defeating a player.

• Fixed an error that caused the spellbook to display incorrect information about a spell’s concentration cost.

• Fixed an error that prevented the unread notifications counter from correctly calculating the number of unread notifications.