And now for a rather large update..
ADDITIONS
- For the first time since I started making this game about 6-7 years ago there's a new equippable item slot, as shown above as the black doohickey with the "?" on it. This spot is reserved for the game's new item type, the rune!
Runes are special in that they can be used by all 5 character classes, provided that you are at least level 7 or higher first. Runes provide many varied small bonuses and can help to strengthen your class's weaknesses or pile on some of your strengths. I feel this will really help with the game's strategy as now these can help you decide what other gear you want to wear.
For example, let's check out this Rat Rune:
By equipping the Rat Rune and gaining +10% to pick locks, you might decide that you no longer need to equip a chest key in your left hand and go with a shield or ring instead. This is only one small example of many different possibilities.
There are now 20 runes in the game for you to find, 15 common and 5 rare. The rare runes can have multiple properties and are very powerful. You will definitely know when you've found one of these rare runes!
But Del_Duio, how do I get runes??
You can get runes in several ways:
- Find them in chests
- Steal them off certain enemies
- Purchase a random rune off the Guildmaster (see above)
- It's also possible that touching an Xtoli statue may change an item in your pack into a rune too Most importantly though it should be noted that you can NOT buy runes at a Shop or a Cultist Den. Why don't they carry them? NOBODY KNOWS.
CHANGES
- Catching the plague turns our rabbity friend a sickly GREEN now.
- The Depths Armor has been removed from the game. This was done because the Weebish Robe was actually not on the Item Found Log already and is way more important than the rare -but not too great- Depths Armor. So it took its spot on the Log. Only 2 things may affect you- If you've already found the Depths Armor in a past run the Weebish Robe spot will be colored in like you found it instead. But if you've found the Weebish Robe in a past run it won't be colored in here now until you find it again and the game can properly update the Log. I know this sort of sucks, but I did it this way so that the change would not totally screw up everybody's Items Found Percentage and only effect the 1 spot.
- The enemy HUD now sports a little skull. Because why not?
- Changed the way the game handles shadow chests hidden behind secret walls so they have a good chance to be golden chests (and not normal ones, which was happening before too often).
- The color phase indicator on the backpack inventory screen was made shorter to accomodate the rune slot.
- The Skeleton Key will now open locked doors 100% of the time.
- The Items Found Log now has 21 total pages of 20 items each, for a total of 420.
- One of the tutorial screens about Loot shows a rune now.
- The tutorial now correctly references that the game has 420 items total.
FIXES
- You will now get +1 Cultist starting gift pick if you've won the game as the Cultist prior. This was an oversight from adding the 5th class but it works now.
- Loading up a file to continue playing now turns your guy green if he had the plague before.
- Trying to enter a building while plagued will now be impossible, like it was supposed to be before! Remember you can cure yourself by drinking water from wells, using a cure powder, or getting healed by a statue.
Well that's a pretty good one. I tested the crap out of this but of course I may miss something. Please report any bugs you may find on the ETL forums and good luck with those runes!!
Del_Duio