update · May 25, 2024
Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles Beta Update v1.1.450 Reworks Hevelius and Austra
The latest beta update for Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles introduces extensive reworks and balancing for Hevelius and Austra, alongside key UI and quality-of-life additions.
A new beta update for Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, version v1.1.450, brings heavy balancing adjustments and reworks for characters Hevelius and Austra. Players can opt into the beta branch via Steam to test the changes, which feature temporary names, icons, and English-only text.
Interface and Quality of Life
Pressing the Escape key while inspecting UI elements such as draw pools, discard piles, and dice pools now returns you to the previous screen rather than opening the pause menu. Right-clicking while dragging a die or virtue drops the item. New keyboard shortcuts are added for ending turns, navigating UI menus, and selecting dice and virtues, supported by a new key binding menu.
Hevelius Reworks and Buffs
Hevelius receives substantial adjustments. Glowing Reactor now ignores Light Shield for self-inflicted or sentinel Corruption. Battery Prototype applies Link: Boost to a random sentinel. Fortify is buffed to prevent Light Shield removal for multiple turns and gains increased dice values. Unstable Scrapping and Overloaded Repair now restore all previous effects to a repaired sentinel once it is repaired from broken status. Neutral buffs and chapter appearance restrictions also apply across various cards and items.
Austra Reworks and Balancing
Austra's starting dice pool is overhauled to include a Minor Aimless, two Random Purify 4, two Random Purify 3, one Random Purify 2, and one Random Corrupt 1, while removing a Minor Purify. Tempest Pollen, Apian Lamp, Celestial Dew, Guiding Chime, and Favorable Winds all receive offensive and mechanical buffs. Clarity Whirlwind now converts player hand dice with Purify or Random Purify into area or random purify actions before dealing purification to enemies.
Neutral Adjustments and Bug Fixes
Neutral card Boost now grants enemies 10 Purification for each discarded die during the draw phase. Items like Artisan Staff, Moonie Moon Shard, and Defiant Alarm have chapter restrictions added. Numerous bug fixes resolve softlocks tied to Defiant Alarm and ambush battles, incorrect card descriptions, and unintended dice generation on muted chapters.
Why this patch matters
Version v1.1.450 significantly shifts how Hevelius and Austra play, offering testers deep mechanical changes and improved UI navigation to explore.