As of today, Barony Blessed Addition has officially launched! After over a year of work, we're excited for all of you to dive back into the dungeon. You'll enjoy 50% more content including new levels, more story, new secrets, powerful new items, vicious new monsters and bosses, in addition to the classic first-person, roguelike, co-op gameplay you've come to love and expect from Barony! All of this also comes with features and options that make Barony bigger, better and more accessible for you, both in gameplay, and in making your own levels. For the full list, check out all of our changelists from 3.0.0 on, and you'll see the mountain of work that's gone into this update. (Patch notes at the bottom of this announcement!)
As we've mentioned in the past, you'll soon see on our store page that we've updated the price of the game to reflect the work we've done. Barony now costs $14.99. A price increase is rarely popular, but we feel like Barony is worth it! We hope you do too. Those of you that have been supporting Barony from the beginning will obviously not be affected. You'll see we also have a snazzy new trailer that we hope you enjoy.
You'll also find the Barony Extended OST is now available in the Steam store. It features a whopping 44 atmospheric tracks, straight from the game's dungeons, including new stuff from the Blessed Addition. We hope you enjoy listening to these outside the game in whatever context suits your musical needs! Chris Kukla has composed and sourced all of these incredible tracks that really helps give Barony its signature mood.
Barony has always been a passion project and we hope you love this update as much as we do! Spread the word and get your friends into the dungeon. Most importantly, go kill some liches!
- From everyone at Turning Wheel LLC
GENERAL
- Optimised game loop, should see massive improvements to performance!
- Adjusted monster pathing to improve performance, now monsters on the perimeter of maps will take several smaller path choices instead of 1 large path to reach the opposite end of the map. Monsters may stick to the edges of maps more.
- Reduced hunger count down tick rate and appraisal times when in multiplayer with 3 or 4 people to compensate for the reduced available loot to each player.
- Monsters will attempt to destroy furniture if it is in their warpath.
- Added tooltip for Dominate spell to hint at extra mana cost on top of the base mana cost.
- Added new slow sound effect.
- Adjusted shopkeeper/chest inventories to scale with dungeon level, now include higher tier gear such as crystal etc. Deeper dungeon levels now has reduced chance to spawn basic gear such as leather/bronze.
- Shopkeepers can now spawn blessed gear at increased prices past level 18. Players with a EXPERT appraisal will see blessed shop items highlighted in green.
- Bought items from a shop will now attempt to stack if possible.
- Multiplayer savegames now only delete when all players in the game have died. Prevents losing a savegame due to a player encountering a crash.
- Steam lobbies now show version info.
- Slightly reworked Sokoban:
- Add sound effect for completing the puzzle.
- Angering the gods can now spawn an Insectoid.
- Reward for completing the puzzle is reduced if boulders are destroyed by digging or pickaxe.
- The artifact armor piece now requires solving the puzzle to appear, subject to the gods rating on your boulder pushing performance.
- Add on-equip messages for all the new artifact armor pieces.
- Add delete score button in the scores window to delete 1 entry.
- Updated some story text backdrops.
- Added /mapseed command to print out the current map's seed.
BUGFIXES
- Fixed monsters being stuck inside doorways and never/rarely pathing out. Monsters react and move out of the way within a few game ticks.
- Fixed issue where the right sidebar was clickable when not in inventory panel
- Fixed issue where hardcode mode was too hardcore and inflated monster stats more than intended.
- Fixed issue where hitting a player with the locking spell would display 'you open the door'
- Fixed issue with fountains that caused desync of generated items in multiplayer
- Fixed crash when deleting multiplayer save games.
- Fixed cure ailment spell removing levitation, could cause you to fall to your death if casted over a pit.
- Fixed crash in caves secret level when killing the miniboss.
- Fixed issue where LEGENDARY spellcasting forcebolt spell cost 1 mana instead of 0 mana.
- Fixed steam lobby browser not showing all new server flags.
- Fixed issue where followers were disappearing after resuming a savegame.
- Fixed crash when attempting to drop gold while dead.
- Fixed crash when casting Opening spell on a column.
- Fixed edge cases of /buddha mode players encountering death.
- Fixed fountains in the Underworld map not spawning incubus or succubus if the fountain was surrounded by water tiles.