Build 0.4.1

• Ease of Mouse: Redoing the system to select overlapping tiles with the mouse. Should be a LOT more intuitive and easier to use!
• New Assets: New assets, including new sounds, portraits and spell shapes.
• Weapons: Staves will now grant +1 range to ranged spells.
• Weapons: Some rods will now grant a bonus damage to a specific element.
• Accessories: Adding Throwing Gloves crafted accessory. They grant +1 to item usage range.
• Equipment: Updated the stats of a lot of gear pieces.
• AI: Made the AI smarter and more efficient in many ways.

Progress:

Change Log

New Content and features:

• Spell Shapes: Adding a square shape to possible abilities shape. We'll need to do a pass to see what spells might make sense to change to this new shape.
• New Portraits: Adding new portraits for enemies and players.
• Added Cutscene:: Adding a small cutscene to the Ship battle so it's less abrupt.
• New Sounds:: Adding many more sounds, specifically for gadgets and more worm effects.
• Ease of Mouse: Redoing the system to select overlapping tiles with the mouse. Should be a LOT more intuitive and easier to use!

Balance:

• Difficulty Settings:
  • Updating difficulty presets names and changing the default one to "Easy". Changing Easy preset options a bit.
  • Reducing difficulty level in The Crossroads story battle by lowering the level of most enemies and removing Counterattack from the one enemy that has it.
  • Reducing difficulty in Timber Road story battle by lowering the level of 2 enemies.
  • Reducing difficulty in all the starter maps for "Equipment: Full" setting, but ignoring that setting on "starter maps".
  • Increasing difficulty in "Equipment: More" setting by having it try to spawn accessories in empty slots using the default "accessory chance" (roughly 75% per slot near the end of the game).
  • Changing the way the "max levels" are calculated so enemies are never above them (before they could still be randomly above that level by about 10%).
  • When playing with enemy stats scaling upwards, Guests will also have the same scaling applied to them so they are sturdier.
• Story:
  • Cleaning up the secret-kawa-questline significantly so the clues are easier to find and easier to follow.
  • Changing "escape from the cave" to spawn enemies that are not "neutral" and only hostile to the player. Reducing the amount spawn to 1 per 2 turns (from 1 per turn) to compensate and removing 1 enemy (unless More Enemies is selected).
  • Removing "slow" from the worm Quicksand spell. With the recent fixes to the turn order system, this looks too potent now.
• MP related Updates:
  • Changing Mana Font to 1 MP per step.
  • Economy will now reduce the MP cost of abilities by 1/3 (rather than 1/2).
  • Blood Magic will now use 1% HP per 1MP (rather than 2 HP per 1MP).
  • Boon no longer gives HP/MP on a kill, but instead will make your next action a guaranteed crit, even if it's an ability. It will dissipate at the end of the next turn, used or not.
• Various Classes/Mechanics Updates:
  • Adding MP cost to Focus of 6.
  • Focus will now wear off on the next turn, regardless of if it was used or not. This adds the risk that you might have wasted a turn putting it on if you don't get to use the buff.
  • MP damage will get a bonus from crits now.
  • Making small stats growth adjustments across most classes.
  • Slightly reducing damage to Whirling Blow (1 -> 0.95x).
  • Increasing MP cost of Sniper shot to 36 from 32.
  • Changing the bonus to the next turn start to 25% from 20% when not taking an action.
  • All "all enemies" spells will now have damage scaling from their proximity to the target (far away -> less damage, closer -> more damage). This should help adding a higher risk/higher reward scenario to them.
  • Accuracy can now be 100% if using the Concentration or Lucky passives.
  • Bzaro will now receive bonus AP after gaining Monster Essence for a class he's already unlocked (he will gain the bonus AP to that monster class), to compensate for the fact he can't benefit from Vicarious Learning.
  • Increasing the MP cost of many gadgets as the kit is probably too versatile otherwise.
  • Increasing the MP cost of Treatment and reducing the amount of status effects it handles.
  • Slightly reducing the Daodrenner's ATK/MND starting value.
  • Reducing potency of tier 1 potion to 45 from 50.
  • Increasing flat potency of healing magic a little bit and reducing its MND scaling a little bit. This should bring healers a little closer to pure casters for numbers and increase the healing at early levels a little bit.
  • Reducing healing from Lick Wounds a bit (0.9 to 0.8).
• Fellblade:
  • Abilities that don't do damage can't crit anymore from Versatile.
  • Adding Daggers to Fellblade weapons.
  • Changing most abilities of the Fellblade to skills to make things more consistent. They still have 1 spell (hp drain spell).
  • Updating tooltips to mention which abilities count as "regular attacks".
• Templar:
  • Changing ratios on Cleansing Blade so it does more damage per buff removed. Damage at 1 debuff remains unchanged.
  • Updating Siphon's damage to be Mixed Atk+Mnd. Also adding HP damage to it.
  • Increasing the healing done by Soothing Chant from 0.5 to 0.65.
  • Changing holy chant to a square shape (so it's bigger).
• Gear Changes:
  • Staves will now grant +1 range to ranged spells.
  • Some rods will now grant bonus damage to a specific element.
  • Reducing some of the bonuses to Blood Armor and Soul Eater. Adding a configurable cap as well.
  • Updating Status resistance Earrings to cover less statuses.
  • Adding Throwing Gloves crafted accessory. They grant +1 to item usage range.
  • Increasing speed bonus on all Daggers.
  • Increasing defense malus on all axes.
  • Updating inaccurate def/res values on a lot of gear (this was technically a bug), mostly accessories and some weapons..
  • Changing Auto Crossbow to work differently.
  • Increasing shields defense across the board.
  • Lowering random badges drop chance (with the fix to the wrong loot-table being used at times, it would have been too high).
  • Changing base chance of "no loot" from 65% to 70% (this applies to killing an enemy mainly).
• AI Updates:
  • Updating again how the AI prioritizes removing debuffs so it's less trigger happy on that.
  • Making the AI smarter about where it'll stand when trying to find a defensive position.
  • Updating the AI so healers are more efficient with healing themselves + allies when their HP is low.
  • Fixing an issue where enemies had a much lower chance than they should at having accessories equipped.
  • Updating AI so it won't try to remove Sleep from targets with Somniloquy (unless they are afflicted by enough other things).
  • Made the AI smarter with how it uses debuffs on enemies.

UI:

• Cleaning up visuals for classes that have "too many abilities" on one skilltree node.
• Adding an error popup when trying to reset a character to level 1 without having enough gold.
• Updating tooltips of Wild Cards to properly show they ignore evasion.
• Music won't stop playing anymore in the Options from the Titlescreen.
• Adding a tutorial popup reminding the player about the "details button" when escaping the cave.
• Cleaning up the Elemental Mastery description to better reflect how it works.
• Adding a tutorial about back and side attacks. This will be shown on the very first map on a new game, but existing save files will see it in their next battle.
• For abilities and passives that bring crit chance to 100%, the damage prediction will show the correct expected damage.
• When targeting, showing the red tiles that are "out of vertical range" as dimmed-out to better show what's in the vertical range or not.
• Making the fade in/out of the music smoother during various transitions.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixing a bug where the wrong loot tables where being used at times. This should result in more appropriate loot in general.
• Preventing errors due to the use of invalid data in modding files. Things should be more stable when working on mods.
• Updating the prefetch sound and image systems to be more efficient.
• Making some small adjustments to reduce "jumping frames" after loading data.
• Fixing the Bulldrake having 2x the same passive on its skilltree.
• Fixing the target damage information so absorbed damage doesn't show a negative number anymore.
• Fixing issue where sleeping enemies could sometimes select a different direction at the end of their turn.
• Fixing an issue where character could stop on top of another character while walking if they got interrupted by a trap. Now walking over a trap that's already "occupied" will not trigger it.
• Fixing issue with Bzils where they would lose their "natural weapon" after changing their passives.
• Fixing issue where unequipping a passive on a Bzil would prompt an automatic "equip optimize" that shouldn't have happened.
• Fixing some interactions between mirage, rebirth, cleansing blade and coalesce.
• Fixing a bug where placing a trap wouldn't cost any MP for the player.
• Fixing a bug where jumping over a tile wouldn't grant a step for Mana/Life Font.
• Fixing issues in various options where the mouse might not always have behaved as well as it should.
• Fixing a bug where Elemental Mastery would work on Dark and Holy damage. Also fixing bugs where the wrong amount of resistance would be ignored (usually more than it should have).
• Fixing a UI issue where all abilities would be described as a "small area" in their description, when some should be marked as "large area".
• Fixing a bug where Shakedown wouldn't show the component that was stolen (even though it would correctly steal it anyways).
• Correctly showing a "big crit number" when getting a crit of an ability with a push component.
• Fixing an issue where the AI wouldn't consider attacking from the position it started its turn on if it could move.
• Fixing a bug where the music could fail to start on the worldmap after skipping a cutscene.
• Fixing a wrong interaction between muti-target spells and some rare passives that could create inflated damage under certain circumstances.

Modding:

• Adding "armorstyle" and "helmetstyle" to list of creation options when spawning a character (values: cloth, light, heavy. Default is random), so they can focus on an armor style if they can equip many.

Hotfixes:

• Updating Economy and Boon descriptions as they had missing/wrong information.
• Updating Dual Wielding description to make it clearer.