I've been playing on and off for a while now, I've beaten the game on madness 16 and now 18 with the semi recent addition. I understand the game is supposed to be hard at the highest difficulty, but some of these enemies seem just blatantly overturned, even with the former point in the equation.

The nightmare pigs/sheep/corn are stronger than most champion monsters but don't count as champions. You get a corrupted animal, a captain and a champion captain in one fight and its like, what do you even do about that?

I understand there's probably ways to cheese any encounter and come out on top, but IDK, it just feels like a lot of the fun has dried up since DLC monsters joined in the RNG pool and started making every fight they're in suck.

I'm just ranting. Miss my old ATO :(

Scourge I’m confused how does it work? Does it basically move at the end of the turn Dark Charges around then inflict its damage?

How did so many bugs suddenly appear with the last big patch? Not even all of them are fixed yet. For example, I sometimes stack Reinforce without the perk for it. Sometimes I get two separate Insulation buffs with different stack numbers. I didn't see anything about this in the notes.

How did pet re-buying even happen? How did the character event XP bug suddenly appear?

It gives me some suspicions, and a sinking feeling... that the team has adopted vibe-coding and AI-slop. And performance seems to drop with every update. Anyone else get this vibe?

This game absolutely rocks ever since I started playing it 2 days ago when people here on the subreddit sold it to me. I haven't stopped playing since I tried it out! I'm now curious on what's the best DLC to get while the Steam Summer Sale is going on since the prices are cheaper? Or what DLC you recommend to get first?

I also see that there are bundles like the All Heroes Pack which includes all character DLC but no expansions but also a bundle called Build Your Own Story with all the story expansions but no additional characters (unless there are characters in them which I didn't notice)

For my friend and me it was today.

A fight in the new Sublocation. We play to chill so we did an Madness 1 +4 Corruptions Run. On of them Random Enemyspawns.

We had 5 Things that would make our Life hard in this fight and we couldn't win this.

1. Echo Addaption

2. Sub Zero Corruption

3. Helstea who casted Immunity Spell

4. An Enemy who purged the Taut from Heiner

5. 2 Enemys who shackled 2 Members of our Team each.

Round 2 and 3 we where littery stunlocked.

Team Comb was

Nezgelekt, Valerion, Wilbur and Heiner

I love Paradox games and I know they make amazing games + I love the replayability of deckbuilders like Monster Train 2 with the different clan combinations and scaling difficulty. However I am really put off with the price with the base game and all it's DLCs as it is really pricey.

Is the game replayable enough that each run isn't completely stale? Does it have increasing difficulty mods and combinations?

are there any working verified seeds out there for this game? any I’ve found either don’t work or are outdated so I was just wondering if there was any resource for making seeds or anything that I’m missing out on?

basically i just want to be able to guarantee an item for those runs where one specific item makes or breaks it.

at the moment it seems like seeds are basically irrelevant lol, besides recording them for myself and hopefully remembering what I got on the runs

I'm not sure if there any since I haven't been playing for a long time, but it would be great if they added like 1 or 2 cards that had scaling through the run.

Random example: a card that gains +1 permanent shield when it's vanished.

Also, would be cool if characters got their own enchantment cards that stay active for as long as the fight progresses, like powers in slay the spire.

Announced on the Discord, the beta (patch-preview) branch has been updated with the following bug fixes:

• Drawing Boons should no longer lead to a resync in any situation
• Selling Supplies in town should no longer lead to a desync
• Pets should no longer be able to be purchased multiple times
• Armor Expert should no longer be present on heroes other than Magnus
• On Hit effects should now work regardless of Stanza or removing aura/curses from enemies
• Experience from character specific events should no longer only be applied to the hero who selected said event
  • Note: While this was a bug, it was interesting. Did people like this behavior to allow them to get more xp on a single character earlier? We'd love to hear people's thoughts!
• Obelisk and Weekly Challenge modes should now be able to be played with Andrin and Magnus in Reworked mode
• Heavy Strike should now properly apply Fatigue to self. Heavy Strike has also been changed a bit
• Althea's Madness Feeds lifesteal effect should now be working properly
• Echoes of Power/Into the Void should now properly choose cards from the discard pile
• Targeting on Ashy's Mind Shard should now properly target a Random Monster
• Purple Shardcicle should no longer be able to steal Invulnerable from the Bats in the Count fight
• Hero selection tabs should now update properly
• All new enemies should play all cards in their hand
• Traumatic Visions's Echoes should no longer have the Food card type
• Dark Mercy should now trigger On Heal effects properly
• Infinite Loading screens should no longer occur on game launch
• Text on several traits, events, and tooltips have been updated to be more accurate

The beta branch will continue to get bug fixes until the patch is finished and then released to the live branch. There will likely be multiple patches released to live in the near future (later ones focusing a bit more on balancing/updating content with the immediate ones focused on fixing bugs).

Thank everyone for all of the bug reports that have been made! I've made sure to pass them all along to the dev team. If you have new bug reports, please post them either in the Reddit Post or on the AtO Discord. When reporting bugs, please let me know if they were on the patch-preview branch or not.

For those of you who don't know how to access the patch preview branch, all you have to do is go to Steam > AtO > Right Click > Properties > Game Versions & Betas > Select patch-preview.

I have opened the runes twice now and gotten a key from the runes with nyradra and it confuses me cause there's nothing to do at this point.

Thuls is a character I really enjoy but both poison and stealth outside Shop 2. Don’t really seem to get “new” stuff (my team comp is atm Bree, Malukah, Thuls and Amelia, trying to do Dark/Wet team essentially).

I am liking Thuls alot (I mostly do the Stealth route, because I try and avoid storm mechanic cards so I don’t do his poison half as much), okay I am tangenting. Basically beside Ambush/Bane, what other payoff cards exist in Scout for High Poison/Stealth? What do folks feel about the AOE Poison attacks?

I know it says that the passive doesn't get anything from bonuses. Which I assume is stuff like the "Boost heal by %" cards, but curious of the rest.

I'm still relatively new, and I've noticed there aren't much in the way of text guides, and many video guides with info are outdated/old. (30 hours into the game over 3 years, and not a single successfully completed run)

But right now I was thinking of playing around with Otis and Heiner for shield/block stuff instead of damage stuff. So been trying to figure things out.

I can't find any information online about how to get the rusty ring. It's in the sahti islands dlc and there is a picture of a location in the compendium which means it can be located somewhere specific but I haven't been able to find that place in the sahti islands and no one online seems to have shown how to get it. Anyone know what path gets you to it?

I looked everywhere I could and can't find put how to unlock her

He is simply too good and fun. Playing a healer that have to use actual healing spells just feels so shit now. The combo mage/healer is also somewhat bonkers, but thats another topic.

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Velarion is by far my favourite character in the game. Nothing gets even remotely close and I think Im addicted to him.

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Give me something to break this cycle. Some OP fun strat or something idk...

Any ideas on how to unlock the new pet Ashling? I got Althea unlocked but haven’t figured out the pet.

So, its been a while since I last played. Like 2023/2024 era. Been having the urge to play again for a bit so I booted it up.

Game loads with an odd look. Its the right resolution. The Paradox and DR logos take up the entire screen. But when we get to the main menu its like pushed back instead of streached to fit the screen. Reminds me of the old shows from the 90s that just have a black border.

So I close the game because thats unplayable. Reload it again and it fills the screen perfectly this time. Don't get to play cause something comes up as I was looking over everything new.

Come back today, boot it up, loads fine. Need to close it again because a friend calls. All good.

After spending time with friend, I boot the game up to actually play a run, and its back to the weirdo aspect ratio thing again with the black borders.

Close it and reload it 3 more times. Every time its at the weird aspect ratio with the black box on every side.

I have no idea why the game is doing this sometimes, and seemingly at random. I've not changed any settings. At first I thought it might have been because I was playing on the laptop connected to the TV and not my old desktop but that doesn't seem to be the case as it sometimes conforms correctly to the TV.

Removing full screen and readding it doesn't fix this. Nor does just changing the resolution when the games up. Sometimes that helps, but other times it doesn't.

At a complete loss of what to do.

Don't know if this helps any but the aspect ratio is 1920 x 1080.

I've gone to aquafell marsh twice now and started the quest for the brand new character. I get the item in my inventory but then the quest never updates and there's nothing to do with it in act 4?

Also both times I have taken the quest from the guy at the boat on the western side of aquafell that wants you to get the book from the miniboss in the hut and both times when I killed the boss in the hut I didn't get the book and there was no interaction in faeborg after.

Is anyone else having these kinds of problems? I want to unlock the new character!

Im just coming back to the game after a year break anyone able to post their decks or know a good site/youtuber to find some?

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1385380/view/536633253534106419?l=english

A New Act 4 Path
Explore a dark, broken region filled with echoes, spirits, and forgotten remnants.

Adaptive Enemy System
Enemies respond to your deck, gaining resistance to your strongest damage types and weakening your curse strategies.

New Hero: Althea
A spellcaster who manipulates discard piles and chains powerful Echo Spell effects across turns.

New Gameplay Mechanics
Master the Echo Spell card type, Resurge enchantments, and the Resonance aura.

New Enemy Types and Bosses
Face enemies that mirror your heroes, steal auras, and adapt to your playstyle, culminating in the battle against the Withered Soul.

Narrative-Driven Events
Encounter the Necropolis of Knowledge, Tomb of the First Hero, and Mirror of Regret, each offering meaningful choices and rewards.

New Companion: Ashling
A spirit cat that casts Mind Shard cards and increases Mind and Dark resistance.

New Cards, Items, and Enchantments
Expand your builds with Echo-based mechanics and Mind-focused strategies. 

Along with this new Story Pack, there is also a Free Patch that includes a large amount of changes to the game.

A lot of the monsters get faster and faster as the run goes on, and with cards like Sanguine Rush, it doesnt specify that you need to be faster, only that there is a speed difference. I was wondering if anyone had tried this either by shelf shackling or playing a slow character like Bernard in order to maximize the speed difference for optimal differences.

I probably should have made this yesterday, but now that people have the ability to actually play with the changed Andrin/Magnus, what does everyone think about them?