Hey everyone! Welcome to v1.1.26!
"What have you got for us today, JayNic?"
Well, JoePlayer, we've got a nice meaty upgrade with so many quality of life enhancements, improvements, and polish. We're really excited to get this one out, as it addresses a lot of things that we've been putting off for quite some time. Of course there's new balance, and features too.
I'll start with some explanation of key changes, and as always: will end with a list of everything.
SAVE SLOTS and a whole new save system
That's right. You wanted it. You got it. You can now save, and resume any number of games you want. Now for those of you who like to play with many different friends, or just have more than one run going at a time: you can do it. No restrictions.
In the immortal words of Billy Mays: "But wait, there's more!"
"May he rest in peace"
We didn't stop there. We've now made the idea of online versus single player totally interchangeable when it comes to saved games. You can resume an online game in single player, or host your single player game online with just a simple click.
Achievements
Ok, so not much to explain here, but it's a key feature for lots of players, so I wanted to highlight it.
"I can finally numerically prove that I'm better than some of my friends!"
I mean, sure. If you wanna look at it that way.
Weapon Item Card Info
Sure, those spells in that book have a bunch of pretty names, but you have no idea what they do? Well wonder no longer! Now you can toggle between the front and back of the weapon and see all the attacks, and relevant information to help you decide the eternal question: equip or sell.
"Oooh handy, but what key do I press for that?!"
Good question, JoePlayer - and that leads me to our next feature
Bindable Keys
Yes. No more must your precious gamers fingers suffer the interminable quest for the DELETE key when you want to end your turn... aintnobodygottimeforthat.gif
Turnless time between Dungeon Rooms
"Uhh what does that even mean?"
Yes yes, let me explain. If you play online: you'll know how annoying this is. You've completed a battle in a dungeon, you are no longer limited to one character at a time for inventory management, and item equipping and or gold giving. Everyone can do anything they want until they simply ready up, and the next dungeon room loads.
That old problem of getting an item in a fight, but not being able to equip it until the NEXT battle - yeah, that's GONE!
Oh, and this also works with the Dungeon Merchants! Because we love you
A Whole new Front End Menu
For a long time: we've felt that the menu system was really just functional at best. We've crammed new features in there over time, and it got more and more confusing as you navigate down what we termed: "The Rabbit Hole."
Now, we've reduced the number of clicks to get around to do anything you want. Including a quick "Resume" feature to just help you load the latest run you have. We touched every screen, so click around! Enjoy!
"TLDR, JayNic. Give us the list"
Ok, ok. List ahoy!
Features / Changes
- Achievements - 50 to be exact
- Save slots - save any number of games
- Interchangeable game mode - there’s no difference between online/solo play: so you can now swap anytime from playing alone to playing with friends, or vise-versa
- Weapon Item Card details (Left Shift to toggle) - displays the stats of all special attacks on each weapon
- Consumable items now contextually display the values they give (eg: Godsbeard now says “+15hp” or applicable and scales with your pipe level)
- New dungeon! The Obsidian Keep
- Cult Devices Revealed: a new system where Rosoman will reveal a Cult Device when out of lives and at least one member still alive
- Bindable keys found in the options menu
- Turnless time between dungeon rooms - swap gear without worry
- Front end flow totally re-designed for a more streamlined experience
- Audio: New soundsets for all player characters
- Audio: Added new Dungeon sounds for traps and creatures
- Audio: New Spells sounds
- Audio: New Character and Creature taunts
- Skills display on the Character HUD now shows LUCK
- Adventure Mode will no longer start you in the Swamp
- Boats: Now they move faster to speed things up
- Boats: when you start your turn on a boat, we now show the “pickup party” option if it’s relevant - this should help those occurrences where you sail away and forget your party members ;)
- Dungeon Merchants are now “turnless” anyone can buy and sell and trade goods until they “ready up”
- Changed the way damage is calculated regarding damage and resistances to show more player friendly numbers that make sense
- Help Text: When you discover hidden locations/encounters/statues etc: new help info is displayed
- Encounters: The text for the encounter cards has been refreshed, and polished. Providing flavour text, and more relevant help text
- Balloons: Now move faster
- Balloons: Added a “Pickup Party and Launch” option to reduce some clicks
- Support Combat Range clarification: Combat overlay hexes now help drive home if the character is involved in combat because of their ADDED support range
- Enemies in the overworld will now occasionally play a taunt animation/sound to add a bit of life
- If the final character “Passes” an item during loot distribution after a battle: the button now says “DISCARD”
- The Combat Timeline has been REVERSED to mimic the Overworld timeline
- Improved/Fixed Zombie Puke FX, Heavy Magic FX, Volcano Hat FX/*]
- Destroyed Cult Devices now remain on map so you can tell when you’ve found them in each realm
- Bolder hex highlights to more easily identify enemies, locations, towns, and events
- Damage increased by +1 on BowStaff
- General Lute Balancing (most lutes -1 damage, most heavy lutes roll 5 slots instead of 4 to reduce frequent OP splash damage, AOE attacks do more dmg and have less ACC penalty)
- Heavy Blunt Weapons do +1 damage
- AOE attacks do slightly more damage and/or less ACC penalties
- Bone Charmer’s Fire Attack now Harmless, just enflames
- Most special attacks/buffs (fire, bleed, armor up/down, resist up/down) now have 3 tiers to make Fire and Armor Buffs more effective in late game. Effectively upping damage and increasing buff strength on high level tiers. This works for players AND enemies.
- Tuned Harazuel Mini Bosses Special Attacks and Vexor battle
- Harazuel Art Polish Pass
- Tuned camera positions for Crypt, Plains, Desert, Bog, Flooded Crypt and Dropstone
- Subtle tweaks to Color Corrections
- Alluring Pool color change to be more in line with portal scrolls, less like curse/chaos color
- General UI visual polish
Bug Fixes
- Reflect now reflects AOE melee attacks
- An Ice Sword attack was previously unnamed
- Fixes to 16*10 aspect ratio spacing
- Changed the way LORE is stored in an effort to curb the occasional bug report where people lost their LORE unlocks
- The Alluring Pool location choices now has a Cancel option
- Fixed an occurrence where you could “false revive” a character with Godsbeard in a dungeon
- Fixed a rare scenario where you could find yourself unable to select the second row of belt items when using a controller
- If you crossed a cursed/poisoned hex too soon after purifying it: the character would still get the negative effect
- General UI glitch fixes
- Fixed a rare scenario where if you quit before reviving a dead character in a dungeon, and then resumed: the character could not be revived
- Fixed a bug where if a character dies to the Kraken: he doesn’t stay on the boat
- Balloons: fixed a minor issue showing characters on the balloon menu out of context
- Audio: fixed an issue where resuming a game plays a bunch of sounds from the overworld all at once
- Audio: Minor mix changes and various bug fixes
- In some cases: the “sneak” option would appear on an enemy even if there was nowhere to sneak to and could hang the game
- Fixed a problem with resume games on remote clients not properly clearing clouds going forward
- When resuming a game online: remote clients were not properly updated with the explored hexes - leaving them to believe they had not explored anywhere
- Fixed some items’ status effects not propagating across the network
- Fixed skelly head falling through ground
- Heavy Polearm characters now properly look at enemies
- Fix Heavy damage animation transitions which were causing some audio events to not fire
Happy weekend!
-IronOak Games