Here are the changes with timestamps: 1:50 The Initiative Track doesnt stay the same during the encounter but now gets shuffled after each round. 2:30 Enemies that spawn during a turn are added directly after the current combatant. (you are no longer rolling the black die) 3:00 The AI gets a new special movement including a "Jump 4" in some fringe cases where the AI can't fight back otherwise and could be abused. 4:00 There are a few layout changes, i.e. some recurring enemy abilites the are now printed in the rulebook instead of the combatant card 4:30 Counter now only costs 1SP instead of 2SP if you dogded successfully 4:44 The Heavy Tag stills gives a -1 penalty to movement and agility, but you may now freely choose if it also affects movement from Currents, Skills and other Effects 5:20 Upgrades (for weapons, cores etc.) no longer have a rarity and have to be unlocked by discarding monster loot before you can buy them. 6:00 There are now ALTERNATE combatant cards, for example, Earth Loas could spawn as Cardinal Earth Loas in some instances. This is done to spawn more dangerous foes at higher loot levels. 6:40 Summoning (max. Level of esper = Assemblage level) is now a "flip" ability and no longer uses summoning tokens to summon, these now give free actions to your summons. Espers dont vanish at the end of an encounter. Espers now have character skills too. (Presence, Lore, etc.), Esper abilities (Damage, Defense etc.) now scale up with your abilities (same is true for enemy espers). 8:20 Conduit Summoning: You may only shapeshift into enemy forms you have defeated earlier. Conduits now have character skills and you may use them instead of your skills after shapeshifting. 10:48 Accessories (the magenta item cards) no longer have rarity and are available from the start. Unique Accessories are still limited by rarity. 11:54 New companion app General Changes: 14:40 Clearing up actions that generate other actions that get interrupted by actions. ;) 16:30 Helpful additions, i.e. a nerf to paralyze, you may only paralyze a foe once per encounter, new "energy" tokens to take track of resources generated by some abilities 19:00 Minor changes including a clarfification of some tags and abilities. (i.e. Flanking and Reach clarified) Hope that helps. The most important ones are the first two regarding initative and the complete rework of Summoning in my opinion.
We are excited to get this soon. I work in logistics and I absolutely understand how difficult importing and domestic fulfillment is right now. I swear, every inbound I've had has been 3 weeks late between the hot mess the ocean market is, the port congestion, lack of trucks, and then the major ice storms on top of everything else! Good luck and we are still really excited to finally get the box on our doorstep sometime soon.
The volume of the voice seemed very low for this video even with my volume maxed out. On other UA-cam videos this isn’t a problem so it seems like this was an issue with producing this issue. Please make sure this is fixed for any additional videos you upload.
@@dilatedbeholder3865 You may need to learn how to comprehend what you are reading if you think I said that I was struggling to hear 😂. There’s a huge difference between struggling to hear and stating factually that the volume at max for this video is below every other video at half or even quarter volume. Hopefully this comment will help you understand better what is being said before responding
@@yardswimmer And I would say learn how to comprehend the point of what you are saying if there is no point ? To read your comment implied that you had an issue with the volume, which somebody like me would feel obliged to point out that you could be suffering from a problem with your hearing. Yes, the voice is a bit lower compared to other videos, but even at half-volume it is still perfectly audible. Yet you felt the need to comment the paraphrase: "The volume is not as high as I'm used to but I can still hear it perfectly fine..." - You understand my point? But whatever, there's a pandemic on.....
@@dilatedbeholder3865 No because your point is completely stupid and shows your complete lack of intelligence. Also I would say learn that the only way you are able to simply comprehend something isn’t the only way to do so??? Just because I don’t have an issue with it doesn’t mean someone else may not have an issue with it. Instead of them fully watching it or leaving a comment they could have just given up on it which is why I posted my comment. Clearly that’s too difficult for you to understand I guess though. Also next time you feel the need to try to diagnose someone over the internet you may want to constrain yourself as you are in no position to do so 😂.
Two notes - 1. the whole recording is far too silent, in comparison to typical video on YT - I'd had to increase my volume like 3 times.... 2. I'd prefer no music in such instructive videos (or at least even further more in the background, or only in the beginning) - I'have an unfortunate hearing disability of trouble to properly understand voice from the music. As non-English native speaker it's even harder to me - there are moments where I lost whole words ;-(. Nevertheless - great video. Thank you.
I still got my save sheet stored on a spreadsheet online, so when 1.1 comes, I can easily continue where I left off. I missed that music so much though.
Hi Brooklyn, could you give me a bit of guidance on the new two player variant? I watched several playthrough videos online, and it seems that the variant rules on your website have a significant change. Specifically, each adventure now activates twice per round instead of once (as displayed in the videos). This is hugely improved, so I don't want to cheat! So just to clarify, each round each adventurer (in a two player game) will activate twice? They will get their normal 3 SP, plus an additional 1SP from their linked adventurer, so effectively 4 SP per activation? And since they activate twice, that's another 4SP, so assuming there are no additional bonuses, this means every round we have 16SP. Right? And each activation, all exhausted cards are unexhausted. So Zeke can effectively exhaust his two short swords on his turn, then when his linked adventurer card comes up the swords are unexhausted and can be used again (in the same round). Correct? Thanks!
@SP While I’m a HUGE fan of Middara it seems the rule changes aimed towards the people who want to max out their builds. For me I never cared about that I found a cool weapon or a cool skill I make my build around it without care about maxing my build and the game was already hard but fair with the amount of challenges. The problem I’m seeing now is that the people who like maxing their builds they will ALWAYS find a way to make an OP build and break the game for themselves, please don’t let this effect the rest of us by that I mean for example one of the early problems with that clothe card that make you ready the card to use dodge again when you dodged successfully, people claimed that it was OP and you guys nerfed that cloth card well I had a build around that card and it was not OP since half my dodges failed. While you listen to those pro hardcore players there are those other players who are not hardcore and you should listen to them as well. My biggest concern is that are you going to change the rules or “fix” the content of act 1 every time someone comes up with an OP build? Will this also happen in act 2 and 3? I know you will fix errata when you see it but PLEASE don’t turn Middara to be one of those games that have living rule or whatever they call it that you change the rules or change something every time someone comes up with an OP build. You can make monsters harder and more challenging and offering those challenging packs as expansions but keep it at that without changing the base game. For example the new rule about character and monsters activation shuffling the cards each round was an optional rule but now it became the main rule to make the game more challenging again a change aimed towards “hardcore” players and I’m sure I’m not the only one here but the original rule about activation was half the fun I had in Middara, it allowed me to think 2-3 turns ahead and it allowed me to make real risks according to the plan I had while the new rules take that away just to make the game harder so that part of the game is gone and while I can use houserules for it I don’t like house ruling my games. Another big concern is that normally I wait for games to get a second or third edition/printing so I know when I buy it it’s kinda going to have all the errata and balances fixed meaning I don’t need to worry about it getting updated, I supported Middara from the first KS because I loved what I’m seeing but I’m worried about it, yes now you did provide erratas but are you going to fix more balancing with your third reprint? I don’t mind buying it again but I want that to be final meaning no more balance fixes or rule changes. What about act 2 and 3 and the expansions I went all in? Will we have similar problems?
From playing all of Act 1, I think a lot of these rules just clear up the confusion. A lot of OP builds were because rules were not clear. The Nerfs they did put in are for some things that are completely OP. We had a player in our group that could take out end-game bosses in almost one turn. They also Buffed a lot as some skills were just useless. As for the monster scaling, it is needed. Later in the act cave sicles might pop up and you can either ignore them because they can't really touch you or you easily whip them out and they don't add anything to the fight. I haven't fully looked over the card change list but I used to run a counter build, run into a group of enemies to provoke break attacks, and counter them all. My turn could have 12+ attacks in it as I got attacked and attacked back. Now it has taken about 10-15 minutes to just take my turn and everyone else at the table is bored. The only big change is the shuffling of the initiative track every round but in the end, it is your game. So you can use whatever rules you want to play by. From what I have seen the fixes have made it easier to play, more fun to play, and made a lot more builds actually usable.
@@TWISTGaming uhhh sorry but the rules were crystal clear. English is a second language for me and learning a new game is a struggle for me and most of the time I do need to check BGG for some rules with some games but Middara is one of the few games that I did not need to look up rules on BGG, the thing I looked at was errata and FAQs just in case something wasn’t mentioned in the rule book. I will go back to that cloth card you found it to be OP well I did not and most of the time I failed dodging I will not argue about that since everyone had a different experience with it but I can argue about the activation cards, shuffle them every round was optional rule to make it more challenging but now it’s the main rule to make the game challenging, aka they listened to those who maxed out their builds but those of us who didn’t max our builds well that was taken away from us, yes we could house rule it but I don’t like games that ask me to use house rules and I know I’m not the only one here. A simple solution to make everyone happy is to introduce difficulty packs with their own rules to make the game harder for those who want. I’m not saying the game should be easy but I played it solo and I played it with couple different groups and everyone agreed that it was fairly challenging. Look all I’m saying is those changes it seems they were made for the people who wanted more difficulty and that is fine but those of us who didn’t care about that we saw things we liked about the game but they got removed from the game. And this worries me not only about keep changing the game to make it harder but also about my own copying will it keep getting outdated every time few people say the game is too easy? No matter how hard you try to balance your game some player will find a way to break it and you are forced to nerf or change something I know that from personal experience is Middara going to be one of those games with rules keep getting updated all the time? I love Succubus Publishing and I love Middara and I can’t recommend the game enough but I hope while they listen to the power players I hope they listen to us as well.
Stopped video 5 min in. A little overwhelming/ intimidating. Have not played yet, going back to rewatch the previous how to play video’s. Art is great!!
Dont let this intimidate you. I dont think this is really aimed at you if you havent played the game yet. The game is still fine with the rules as written. I also still play with the original rules (except the shuffling of the ini-track), and wont change that until i have the new cards and tokens that reflect the changes.
@@dextersamson8286 Funny, yea that candyland is a brain burner. In serious I am learning Cloudspire right now, I should be ok to with Middara, just need get the game in hand.
Please do not make the game any more data tracking-esque. Some of these changes to 1.1 seem to have a LOT of char management data to keep track of. I have not played much since still waiting but granular and large management games to me can lose a lot of potential player base while keeping only the die hard supporters around. Videos are fantastic and very helpful though.
Here are the changes with timestamps:
1:50 The Initiative Track doesnt stay the same during the encounter but now gets shuffled after each round.
2:30 Enemies that spawn during a turn are added directly after the current combatant. (you are no longer rolling the black die)
3:00 The AI gets a new special movement including a "Jump 4" in some fringe cases where the AI can't fight back otherwise and could be abused.
4:00 There are a few layout changes, i.e. some recurring enemy abilites the are now printed in the rulebook instead of the combatant card
4:30 Counter now only costs 1SP instead of 2SP if you dogded successfully
4:44 The Heavy Tag stills gives a -1 penalty to movement and agility, but you may now freely choose if it also affects movement from Currents, Skills and other Effects
5:20 Upgrades (for weapons, cores etc.) no longer have a rarity and have to be unlocked by discarding monster loot before you can buy them.
6:00 There are now ALTERNATE combatant cards, for example, Earth Loas could spawn as Cardinal Earth Loas in some instances. This is done to spawn more dangerous foes at higher loot levels.
6:40 Summoning (max. Level of esper = Assemblage level) is now a "flip" ability and no longer uses summoning tokens to summon, these now give free actions to your summons. Espers dont vanish at the end of an encounter. Espers now have character skills too. (Presence, Lore, etc.), Esper abilities (Damage, Defense etc.) now scale up with your abilities (same is true for enemy espers).
8:20 Conduit Summoning: You may only shapeshift into enemy forms you have defeated earlier. Conduits now have character skills and you may use them instead of your skills after shapeshifting.
10:48 Accessories (the magenta item cards) no longer have rarity and are available from the start. Unique Accessories are still limited by rarity.
11:54 New companion app
General Changes:
14:40 Clearing up actions that generate other actions that get interrupted by actions. ;)
16:30 Helpful additions, i.e. a nerf to paralyze, you may only paralyze a foe once per encounter, new "energy" tokens to take track of resources generated by some abilities
19:00 Minor changes including a clarfification of some tags and abilities. (i.e. Flanking and Reach clarified)
Hope that helps. The most important ones are the first two regarding initative and the complete rework of Summoning in my opinion.
Love the artwork, love the game. Kepp doing what you do guys
We are excited to get this soon. I work in logistics and I absolutely understand how difficult importing and domestic fulfillment is right now. I swear, every inbound I've had has been 3 weeks late between the hot mess the ocean market is, the port congestion, lack of trucks, and then the major ice storms on top of everything else! Good luck and we are still really excited to finally get the box on our doorstep sometime soon.
Those extra character arts look so amazing. I hope they will be turned into resin addon for the wave 2!
The volume of the voice seemed very low for this video even with my volume maxed out. On other UA-cam videos this isn’t a problem so it seems like this was an issue with producing this issue. Please make sure this is fixed for any additional videos you upload.
You may have hearing issues if you struggled to hear the voice on maxed out volume. I found it to be perfectly fine.
@@dilatedbeholder3865 You may need to learn how to comprehend what you are reading if you think I said that I was struggling to hear 😂. There’s a huge difference between struggling to hear and stating factually that the volume at max for this video is below every other video at half or even quarter volume. Hopefully this comment will help you understand better what is being said before responding
@@yardswimmer And I would say learn how to comprehend the point of what you are saying if there is no point ?
To read your comment implied that you had an issue with the volume, which somebody like me would feel obliged to point out that you could be suffering from a problem with your hearing. Yes, the voice is a bit lower compared to other videos, but even at half-volume it is still perfectly audible.
Yet you felt the need to comment the paraphrase: "The volume is not as high as I'm used to but I can still hear it perfectly fine..." - You understand my point?
But whatever, there's a pandemic on.....
@@dilatedbeholder3865 No because your point is completely stupid and shows your complete lack of intelligence. Also I would say learn that the only way you are able to simply comprehend something isn’t the only way to do so??? Just because I don’t have an issue with it doesn’t mean someone else may not have an issue with it. Instead of them fully watching it or leaving a comment they could have just given up on it which is why I posted my comment. Clearly that’s too difficult for you to understand I guess though. Also next time you feel the need to try to diagnose someone over the internet you may want to constrain yourself as you are in no position to do so 😂.
Two notes -
1. the whole recording is far too silent, in comparison to typical video on YT - I'd had to increase my volume like 3 times....
2. I'd prefer no music in such instructive videos (or at least even further more in the background, or only in the beginning) - I'have an unfortunate hearing disability of trouble to properly understand voice from the music. As non-English native speaker it's even harder to me - there are moments where I lost whole words ;-(.
Nevertheless - great video. Thank you.
Yes that music! Great stuff Brooklyn.
I still got my save sheet stored on a spreadsheet online, so when 1.1 comes, I can easily continue where I left off. I missed that music so much though.
Cool stuff.. Thanks Alex!
Hi Brooklyn, could you give me a bit of guidance on the new two player variant? I watched several playthrough videos online, and it seems that the variant rules on your website have a significant change. Specifically, each adventure now activates twice per round instead of once (as displayed in the videos). This is hugely improved, so I don't want to cheat!
So just to clarify, each round each adventurer (in a two player game) will activate twice? They will get their normal 3 SP, plus an additional 1SP from their linked adventurer, so effectively 4 SP per activation? And since they activate twice, that's another 4SP, so assuming there are no additional bonuses, this means every round we have 16SP. Right?
And each activation, all exhausted cards are unexhausted. So Zeke can effectively exhaust his two short swords on his turn, then when his linked adventurer card comes up the swords are unexhausted and can be used again (in the same round). Correct?
Thanks!
Are some of these videos out of date for 1.2? Can we get an update to all the videos or at least refresh the ones that need it?
cant wait to get it
is it just me or is the volume really quiet in this video??
Those new dynamite tokens are lit.
@SP While I’m a HUGE fan of Middara it seems the rule changes aimed towards the people who want to max out their builds. For me I never cared about that I found a cool weapon or a cool skill I make my build around it without care about maxing my build and the game was already hard but fair with the amount of challenges.
The problem I’m seeing now is that the people who like maxing their builds they will ALWAYS find a way to make an OP build and break the game for themselves, please don’t let this effect the rest of us by that I mean for example one of the early problems with that clothe card that make you ready the card to use dodge again when you dodged successfully, people claimed that it was OP and you guys nerfed that cloth card well I had a build around that card and it was not OP since half my dodges failed. While you listen to those pro hardcore players there are those other players who are not hardcore and you should listen to them as well.
My biggest concern is that are you going to change the rules or “fix” the content of act 1 every time someone comes up with an OP build? Will this also happen in act 2 and 3? I know you will fix errata when you see it but PLEASE don’t turn Middara to be one of those games that have living rule or whatever they call it that you change the rules or change something every time someone comes up with an OP build.
You can make monsters harder and more challenging and offering those challenging packs as expansions but keep it at that without changing the base game.
For example the new rule about character and monsters activation shuffling the cards each round was an optional rule but now it became the main rule to make the game more challenging again a change aimed towards “hardcore” players and I’m sure I’m not the only one here but the original rule about activation was half the fun I had in Middara, it allowed me to think 2-3 turns ahead and it allowed me to make real risks according to the plan I had while the new rules take that away just to make the game harder so that part of the game is gone and while I can use houserules for it I don’t like house ruling my games.
Another big concern is that normally I wait for games to get a second or third edition/printing so I know when I buy it it’s kinda going to have all the errata and balances fixed meaning I don’t need to worry about it getting updated, I supported Middara from the first KS because I loved what I’m seeing but I’m worried about it, yes now you did provide erratas but are you going to fix more balancing with your third reprint? I don’t mind buying it again but I want that to be final meaning no more balance fixes or rule changes. What about act 2 and 3 and the expansions I went all in? Will we have similar problems?
@@CryoWolfWon yeah I agree.
From playing all of Act 1, I think a lot of these rules just clear up the confusion. A lot of OP builds were because rules were not clear. The Nerfs they did put in are for some things that are completely OP. We had a player in our group that could take out end-game bosses in almost one turn. They also Buffed a lot as some skills were just useless.
As for the monster scaling, it is needed. Later in the act cave sicles might pop up and you can either ignore them because they can't really touch you or you easily whip them out and they don't add anything to the fight.
I haven't fully looked over the card change list but I used to run a counter build, run into a group of enemies to provoke break attacks, and counter them all. My turn could have 12+ attacks in it as I got attacked and attacked back. Now it has taken about 10-15 minutes to just take my turn and everyone else at the table is bored.
The only big change is the shuffling of the initiative track every round but in the end, it is your game. So you can use whatever rules you want to play by.
From what I have seen the fixes have made it easier to play, more fun to play, and made a lot more builds actually usable.
@@TWISTGaming uhhh sorry but the rules were crystal clear. English is a second language for me and learning a new game is a struggle for me and most of the time I do need to check BGG for some rules with some games but Middara is one of the few games that I did not need to look up rules on BGG, the thing I looked at was errata and FAQs just in case something wasn’t mentioned in the rule book.
I will go back to that cloth card you found it to be OP well I did not and most of the time I failed dodging I will not argue about that since everyone had a different experience with it but I can argue about the activation cards, shuffle them every round was optional rule to make it more challenging but now it’s the main rule to make the game challenging, aka they listened to those who maxed out their builds but those of us who didn’t max our builds well that was taken away from us, yes we could house rule it but I don’t like games that ask me to use house rules and I know I’m not the only one here.
A simple solution to make everyone happy is to introduce difficulty packs with their own rules to make the game harder for those who want. I’m not saying the game should be easy but I played it solo and I played it with couple different groups and everyone agreed that it was fairly challenging.
Look all I’m saying is those changes it seems they were made for the people who wanted more difficulty and that is fine but those of us who didn’t care about that we saw things we liked about the game but they got removed from the game. And this worries me not only about keep changing the game to make it harder but also about my own copying will it keep getting outdated every time few people say the game is too easy? No matter how hard you try to balance your game some player will find a way to break it and you are forced to nerf or change something I know that from personal experience is Middara going to be one of those games with rules keep getting updated all the time? I love Succubus Publishing and I love Middara and I can’t recommend the game enough but I hope while they listen to the power players I hope they listen to us as well.
where do i get the better companion app i found one but its not the one you show
Are we getting an update rulebook at some point?
In flanking ex. 3, would rook and night be on opposite sides and be able to gain flanking bonus?
I really want this game.....
I need a late pledge because i have miss the ks....huhuhu Nice game
@Seven the online store should open up soon and you could get the game.
@@zackdreak1870 Nice my wish is fullfiled.Perhaps......I need so much a french translate....
Damn. I am really close to order it now despite the fact that I do not like Anime at all. ;)
Stopped video 5 min in. A little overwhelming/ intimidating. Have not played yet, going back to rewatch the previous how to play video’s. Art is great!!
Dont let this intimidate you. I dont think this is really aimed at you if you havent played the game yet. The game is still fine with the rules as written. I also still play with the original rules (except the shuffling of the ini-track), and wont change that until i have the new cards and tokens that reflect the changes.
Stick to candyland
@@dextersamson8286 Funny, yea that candyland is a brain burner. In serious I am learning Cloudspire right now, I should be ok to with Middara, just need get the game in hand.
@@DVCBear Hopefully Cloudspire 1.5? or whatever they are calling the updated rule book
Please do not make the game any more data tracking-esque. Some of these changes to 1.1 seem to have a LOT of char management data to keep track of. I have not played much since still waiting but granular and large management games to me can lose a lot of potential player base while keeping only the die hard supporters around. Videos are fantastic and very helpful though.
Would love to buy a copy
Then buy one
@@dextersamson8286 wherelol? Pretty sure its not available yet as they are still distributing the kickstarter copies
This is too confusing for new players... I'll wait for a 1.1 How to Play to be released