For The King II – Patch #1.13.3 - Shepherd rework, fixes, and more!

What’s in this update

Greetings Adventurers,

It’s been a little over a month since the release of Into The Wild and the return of Dungeon Crawl! We’ve loved seeing all of the inventive ways players have discovered how to traverse through Gauntlet mode, and we can’t get enough of everyone falling in love with Lil Honey!
This patch centres around a couple of areas—a few dungeon glow-ups in Dungeon Crawl, quality-of-life changes, bug fixes, and a whole lot of sheep. The Shepherd oversees a new flock of upgraded sheep that now behave like our pet companions, rather than the one-hit taunt sponge they’ve been for quite some time. Read on below for all the info.

Dungeon Crawl

Gauntlet Leaderboard

First, let’s talk about leaderboards. We’ve read all of the feedback on the zero-round leaderboard scores. We can confirm that they are legitimate. Zero round scores are a heavy min-max meta centred on Focus abilities of certain characters. We had so many internal conversations and playtests around this meta to determine if and how we wanted to address it. By the end of the first month, the low rounds were not completely dominating the leaderboard. Ultimately, there is more than one way to post a high score - which we see as a good thing. We will continue to monitor the discussions on Discord, Reddit, and socials, and we’ll monitor the leaderboard and go through posted scores to ensure that scores are legit. We’re not opposed to changing the leaderboard formula; our overall goal is to make sure that
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