IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release

New features:

• Champions now have 1, 2 or 3 (depending on difficulty) additional spells drawn from a pool that varies on the enemy type, e.g. an archer has a specific pool of possible extra abilities and in a similar way a fire oriented caster will have specific possible extra abilities.
• 'D'drop hot key has been added to the inventory.
• Swap weapon key (default W) now also works on the inventory.
• Added several new monsters.
• Several enemies now have a disarm ability. Different weapon types have different chances of being disarmed when you have them (smaller weapons like daggers are harder to disarm for example).
• Added wind shield spell (gives chance to make ranged physical attacks miss).
• Added toggle to enable or disable battle texts on top of character.

Bug Fixes:

• Improved in game log sizes, memory management and cpu use.
• Dropping items in the inventory now auto selects the nearest item next to the one dropped.

Balance changes:

• Crossbows and muskets have had their energy use reduced by 35%.
• Some skills now are more strategically used by the AI. Also some other beneficial skills will be cast on friends too. I will extend this to more and more abilities as I have time.
• Reduced food drops as they are to plentiful with the new healthiness system.

Other changes:

• Inventory and merchant windows default behaviors on click where changed to double click to avoid accidents.
• Swapped the +to hit and + to damage in the item name to put it in the orders that games of the genre and d&d have.