Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Sixth Beta Released

Here's the changes:

Bugs
- Scrolls of recall bought from shop had wrong price when selling
- Fixed a bug where higher level spellbooks spawned outside of map

Quests
- Bandit quest reward is now 100 or 150 instead of 200 or 250

General
- Players start as "satiated" instead of "not hungry"
- Food is a little more nutritious, from starving to bloated takes 4 food rations. 5th ration kills
- Standing over locations in overworld display now message
- Added support for 12x12 font for smaller screens, use conf.txt
- New merchant which sells magical items and regular armors and weapons. Added to the same house as general goods merchant
- Inventory text improvements

Heroes
- Cleric has a new tile now
- Weapon proficiency bonus changed from +5 to hit bonus to +1 damage bonus
- Stealth no longer works when player has a lighted lantern in inventory
- Starting gold is 100 instead of 150
- Paladins can wield two-handed weapons
- To Hit Bonus divided into Melee and Ranged bonuses

Monsters
- Cultist's drop chance of scrolls reduced to 15% from 25%
- Lich's drop chance of scroll reduced to 15% from 100%
- Risen sorcerer's drop chance of scrolls reduced to 15% from 25%
- Harpy's drop chance of food reduced to 20% from 100%

Items
- Items are now identified when picking up, cursed status is still identified when equipping
- Vassaruth's blade is now [1d6+2] instead of [1d6+1, +5 thb]
- Magical weapons are added and have 10% chance to spawn instead of regular weapon
- Magical armors are added and have 10% chance to spawn instead of regular armor
- Monsters drop weapons now 5% more likely
- Item sell prices are now 1/4th of the buy price
- Armor Class values of chainmail and higher lowered by 5

Monday, April 28, 2014

Upcoming features in the next release


Bugs
- Scrolls of recall bought from shop had wrong price when selling
- Fixed a bug where higher level spellbooks spawned outside of map

Quests
- Bandit quest reward is now 100 or 150 instead of 200 or 250

General
- Players start as "satiated" instead of "not hungry"
- Food is a little more nutritious, from starving to bloated takes 4 food rations. 5th ration kills
- Standing over locations in overworld display now message
- Added support for 12x12 font for smaller screens, use conf.txt
- New merchant which sells magical items and regular armors and weapons. Added to the same house as general goods merchant

Heroes
- Cleric has a new tile now
- Weapon proficiency bonus changed from +5 to hit bonus to +1 damage bonus
- Stealth no longer works when player has a lighted lantern in inventory
- Starting gold is 100 instead of 150
 
Monsters
- Cultist's drop chance of scrolls reduced to 15% from 25%
- Lich's drop chance of scroll reduced to 15% from 100%
- Risen sorcerer's drop chance of scrolls reduced to 15% from 25%
- Harpy's drop chance of food reducd to 20% from 100%

Items
- Cursed item naming is now different; it is now "(cursed) itemName" instead of "cursed itemName". Uncursing items now regain their original name instead of "uncursed itemName"
- Items are now identified when picking up, cursed status is still identified when equipping
- Vassaruth's blade is now [1d6+2] instead of [1d6+1, +5 thb]
- Magical weapons are added and have 10% chance to spawn instead of regular weapon
- Magical armors are added and have 10% chance to spawn instead of regular armor
- Monsters drop weapons now 5% more likely
- Item sell prices are now 1/4th of the buy price
- Unusable items are now displayed as "(unusable) itemName" instead of "itemName (unusable)"
- Armor Class values of chainmail and higher lowered by 5

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Beta 5 released!

Changes:

Bugs fixed
- Fixed a funny bug where player could speak to giladir's corpse

Quests
- Giladir disappears now after meeting at Marwal Inn
- Free the Prisoner quest, Heal Giladir quest and Kill the bandit leader quest have now evil rewards

General
- !!!New config file for setting default full screen!!!
- !!!Ascii mode is now handled through the config file!!!
- Corrupted well after curing and using has now tile
- Drinking from well heals 1 Hit Point
- Some quests display now intended level
- Doing good or evil deeds display now message
- Combat messages improved
- More dialogues
- Saves are now in a subfolder Saves

NPC
- Merchant is now named Haradir
- Innkeeper is now named Elemira

Spells and talents
- Spells and talents featuring effects such as poison and stun take into account resistances

Monsters
- Monster resistances are implemented; uses dungeon level / 3 against d20, e.g. end boss rolls 11 and thus has 55% resistance
- Bandits and undead adventurers are no longer named and cannot be elite monsters

Items
- Weapons now can be found as damaged, normal or superior (-1, 0 and +1 damage and 20% chance, 60% chance and 20% chance and 70%, 100% and 130% sell values respectively)
- Sell prices in general adjusted

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Beta 4 Released!

Changelog:

Bugs
- Looking tile char x is now consistent everywhere
- Javelin had a double strength bonus before
- Giving Giladir a potion of healing now truly removes only one healing potion from inventory
- Mimic AI should work properly

General
- New leveling system: player gets 2 attribute raises but each stat is limited to 10 without bonuses
- New attribute: Wisdom; used instead of Intelligence in cleric's spell damage calculation
- New attribute: Constitution; used with damage reduction from physical attacks
- New attribute: Charisma; used with shop prices when selling and buying and paladin's smite   
- Help displays now explanations for ascii symbols
- Player can now target melee talents / spells only within 1 tile radius from the player
- Poison damage is consistent while resting for multiple turns
- Improved character sheet

Items
- Sell values adjusted for some items
- New wisdom potion reward, wisdom amulet
- New charisma potion reward, charisma amulet
- New constitution potion reward, constitution amulet

Spells and talents
- Paladin's Shield Wall renamed to Holy Shield to make it more Paladin'ish
- Turn Undead uses now player level as a damage bonus instead of Intelligence

Monsters
- Venom spitter snakes are immune to poison now
- Monster experiences revised, players should get to level 9 around the last few floors of the hell
- General balancing