Hello all! I just thought i'd drop in here and let you all know that patch v28 Is avaiable in the Test branch SRB-Beta.
Once initial testing is done the patch should be pushed to live hopfully sometime soon, Estimate end of june.
After v28 is live i will be taking a break to celebrate my birthday and the 4th with the family.
Patch Notes ver.028 Beta Patch (i'm certain 95% is accurate)
Overview: Chapter 2 is here. This early version of Chapter 2 will under go several revisions, additions and overhauls. Once I feel it is in a good spot I will begin work on chapter 3.
Dragon Warlock has arrived, Along with this new class there has been a skill and combat overhaul balance with the new Spiritual power Mechanic and Skill mastery update. The early game has been impacted some, but once the ball is rolling it should feel better over all in the grand spectrum.
Monsters have been buffed to adjust to new character power.
New maps, items, and more!
Characters: Some characters received slight adjustments.
Classes: Dragon Warlock: Load your enemy up with various Elemental dot’s, use shadow magic to unleash chaotic Ailments upon your foes.
Skills: Skills will now level up the more you use them decreasing casting cost and increasing damage/healing.
All skill cooldowns have been adjusted. High Skill mastery now lowers cooldown. Many Cooldowns now will start off higher than before potentially slowing the pace of combat, but after some skill mastery levels the cadence of combat should flow smooth and perhaps at a greater pace.
More skills have been moved into the instant cast category, some classes were lacking options in combat which made them feel stifling to test, moving more into instant cast should open up unique combos and allow for a greater variety in combat. Most of the skills moved into the instant cast were also often ignored, as better options were available to cast instead. While many of these skills were needing improvement moving them into the instant cast tier of skills allowed their tuning to be just fine. Now using these skills will determine your play style, do you just dump the load, or do you use them strategically, that’s now your choice.
Items: New items have been added in for chapter 2.
Balancing for early iron tier weapons for transitioning into chapter 2
Synthsis book reworks, as well as locations where to obtain them. Bronze tier 3 bronze book is no longer purchased in tamarack but has been added in a secret elsewhere. Bronze Tier 2 book is no longer availble in Palentis but has been added in as a secret elsewhere. (not sure i did this can't find them if i did lol!!! but will make sure this gets fixed asap if not)
Maps: All Chapter 2 maps have received an overhaul, New Chapter 2 maps have been added.
Callinder Chapter 2 has new shops.
Desvera Kingdom has Arrived. Who dwells in this mysterious place?
Desvera Caverns have Arrived. A new Chapter 2 dungeon.
Desvera Casino. Try you hand at a variety of mini games, earn rewards to empower your heroes.
Port town Travestis (coming soon)
New music for Castle town Tamarack.
Music in the class change rooms has been updated with a finalized version.
Events: Chapter 2 had a story rework to continue the rewrite done on chapter 1 this includes more cutscenes, text placement and flavor, a complete overhaul of dialog, more dialog added and a change of pacing and events.
Chapter 1 events that lead to dead ends may now continue into chapter 2.
Monsters: All monsters have received a balance update for the new SP and Skill mastery systems. Hardmode bosses will now have soft enrage timers. Enraged bosses will hit harder and act more often. Bosses are still killable in their enraged states.
Soft Enraged bosses will eventually berserk. Making them nearly unkillable.
Hardmode bosses have been balanced with a generous amount of time before enrage timers become a problem. This will be monitored closely to not make bosses impossible. The goal is to make bosses difficult and fun without taking away from the overall experience of the game. (This has been disabled for this particular testing round.)
Menu: New spiritual power menu for allocatiing SP
Quests: quest overhaul coming soon. No new quest’s will be added until Chapter 1 receives an update for its current quest’s
Bugs: If you see or know of any bugs please report them so they can be fixed in patch v.028