I've started streaming again, for those with an interest in game development. I'll be streaming from Tuesday through Friday, 9AM-12PM Japan time. It's not the most exciting thing in the world, but it's actually pretty helpful for me to feel forced to talk out loud about what I'm doing, and of course provides a space for direct interaction with players.

I was pretty burned out with the Job skill trees, I've stepped away from them for most of this week. Instead I've been working on improving the new combat math, fixing a variety of errors, and have added several new features to monsters as well.



I've got a couple monsters now making use of projectiles, like the imp pictured above. The first step in this update involved upgrading monsters and animals, which I group together as "entities," to make use of the same stats that players use such as Melee Critical Chance, Strength, Stamina, and so forth. Now that entities are using the same attributes and stats we can properly apply debuffs like reducing armor, attack speed, intelligence, and so on.

To then expand on that I built an "archetype" system for entities so that they can now spawn as different archetypes within their own genus (am I using that correctly?). For example Earth Elementals can now spawn as a Generic (balanced melee), Tank, or RandedDPS archetype. The RangedDPS archetype has increased Str, Agi, and Dex, and throws rocks at players it targets, while the Tank archetype has heavy armor and increase Sta, etc. This opens the doors for all entities to make use of abilities and I hope to add lots of them, like roar debuffs for bears, rhino impales, scorpion poison, harpy screeches, and so on.

Further down this road I would like to add random Traits to champion+ entities creating for example things like an Arcane Scorpion, or an Ethereal Mummy, likely with improved stats, and preferably improved experience and loot. But, we do still have a number of the more complicated Job skills to work on, so lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Best wishes!

v 0.8.0.16 2022.01.28
- Added monster/animal "archetypes," ex: Tank/RangedDPS/MeleeDPS
- Added a monster/animal ability system
- Added abilities to rock elementals, wolves, and imps
- Fixed several errors related to run speed

v 0.8.0.15 2022.01.25
- Added skill names to the majority of skill based attacks printed to the combat chat log
- Reduced the scaling of damage and armor math against differing levels
- Improved block and parry logic
- Finished more Guard and Adventurer skills
- Fixed a projectile specific error
- Fixed a number of critical multipliers being calculated way too high

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