Some of you were raising a concern regarding wizards usefulness compared to other classes. I was deliberating on it for quite a while and evaluated this as a valid concern. So, here it is a Wizards rebalance! Basically, all offensive spells for all classes were boosted in efficiency, but in a non linear way, since, according to your feedback, the early gameplay spells balance is fine and only the mid-late gameplay needed adjustments. In addition friendly houses were adjusted to be less powerful (but still useful). This version also contains fixes, small interface improvements and experimental gamepad support (as an optional, disabled by default, experimental feature). Of yes, one more thing, sound effects are handled slightly different now. Previously when all party members were hit by a fireball the sound was played 7 times (once per hit party member), which was grand, epic and loud... well, too loud maybe, especially when on headphones. Now when the party is hit by a fireball the sound is played only once, which should be much gentler on your eardrums.
- [feature] Experimental option to enable gamepad support. It's crude and might be incomplete but should be usable. Go to Options to enable it.
- [balance] Offensive spells boosted. Depending on the spell level, early spells work the same, then got boosted by +10%, +25%, +50% and +100%. So, early spells are more or less the same while late spells get massive boost in damage output.
- [balance] Due to a popular concern that friendly houses are too powerful, those now function like fountains and restore only HPs.
- [balance] I was brooding for a while if that's a bug or a feature and decided to change it. Now when you remove any MP granting item it immediately reduces your MP to the new maximum amount. So, now it works like in most RPGs which also should be more intuitive.
- [misc] Spells & effects vs all characters/enemies now trigger a single sound instead of multiple sound effects. This prevents "sound clutter" especially noticeable when using headphones.
- [interface] Party coordinate display is hidden when minihelp is active (looks nicer).
- [interface] Small beautification of Magic screen.
- [fix] Hotkey keybindings not saving after selecting Restore Default.
- [fix] Keybinding was still waiting for key input after closing the keybinding screen before finishing entering new keybinding.
- [fix] End game button (Game Over/Victory screen) can now be activated via keyboard (like rest of the GUI).
- [fix] Other small fixes.