The Monster Within Patch Notes — June 27, 2022
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Where's Shapeshifter?
Yes, Shapeshifter should have been out already. But unfortunately, the game's amazing and talented artist has been sick and unable to make said amazing art lately. Unless people are okay with a shift in artistic direction to the drawing above, it'll still be a little bit.
Shapeshifter as a monster has more art needs than any before with her unique mechanics, so until that cool art is done, she'll remain lurking behind the scenes. She could be anywhere, anyone...
So let's talk about what the Shapeshifter actually is as a character. As the shapeshifter, you can spend your Day/Night/Monster on form points. How many of the form points you have represents what shape you're shifting into. Cards for that form will only show up as you buy form points, the more you buy the more and better cards you'll see.
There's three forms; Serpent, Bear, and Ghoul. Serpent form is all about striking your foe with deadly speed, so if you're after attack, that's the form to go after. On the opposite end, Bear form is all about enduring damage. If your foe can't hurt you, well they're not in for a good time. So Bear form's cards give you lots of shield. Ghoul form is the form of cunning and underhanded dealings. Hiding in the shadows you'll gain the resources you need to take down any who oppose you. Night generation will be a piece of cake if you specialize as the Ghoul.
https://www.instagram.com/artistrayph/ Art by Artistrayph
But you don't have to go all on on one of the three, you can mix and match as you please. All of Shapeshifter's cards can be bought with any resource, so she can played at any health level you like. But she plays best with Night cards as the only resource she can generate to buy things are Night points with the Ghoul.
But those three forms aren't the only ones you'll get to play with in the update. There's also the Shapeshifter-Blob mashup monster, the Morphling! Who needs to hold a definitive form when you can be a mass of goo that can take whatever shape it wants. With Goop form you won't be very strong, or resilient to damage, or cunning, but you will be very monstery! Become the biggest and goopiest ball of slime you can and show them what a real monster looks like.
We don't have a definitive timeline for when Shapeshifter will be done, but we hope she'll be showing her faces by the end of July.
