Hello adventurers! Let's take a look at some of the notable changes, additions, and improvements to Tangledeep over the last week.
BALANCE
We continued to fine-tune various class abilities, items, feats, and stats to create more viable options and builds. Several kinds of monster AI were tweaked, usually to be a little less 'indecisive' with their movement and targeting. Pet scaling has been improved, too.
BUGS
We've been rapidly addressing bugs as we receive them and I'm happy to report that we've now fixed the most major bugs related to crashing at Erin the rumor giver, and issues with save files not loading properly. That stuff seems to be all cleaned up now, and we're going down the list and fixing everything reported in order of priority.
CONTENT
Fist and Staff masteries are now in the game, along with new Champion types and legendary items, among other things!
NEW GAME+ MODE
Have you beaten the game yet? If so, try your hand at New Game+ by selecting "New Game" and going to an existing save slot with a high level character. This will re-create the world while retaining all of your meta progress, items, experience and skills. Monsters in NG+ are much harder, smarter, and more aggressive, but also drop much better loot on average (and legendary/set drop chance is doubled!)
QUALITY OF LIFE
We implemented lots of QOL improvements across the board, such as:
- The addition of a second hotbar for skills/items - You can cycle hotbars via key/button bind easily!
- Expanded and improved Journal with an extended combat log, plus cleaned up Rumors page and the ability to abandon rumors
- Stacking status effect icons in the upper left
- Cleaned up equipment display of stat/combat bonuses
- Instantly portal back to dungeon/Item Dream by pressing P in town
- New option for "Battle Text Speed" (damage numbers etc)
SOULKEEPER PROGRESS
The next character job, the Soulkeeper, is coming along well - but I decided to put it on hold a bit while I focus on smashing bugs. However, some of the core mechanics are already done, such as converting powerups into "Monster Spirits" and reviving fallen monsters, abilities and all!