THIS UPDATE IS SAVE-COMPATIBLE

MAIN CHANGES

- Fully implemented the Guild Quarter of Brynn. There youll be able to find: - Blacksmithing, leatherworking, and carpentry workshops. - Jewelry workshop. - The Three Pots Tavern. - Added a number of secondary NPCs to Brynn and animations to the already existing NPCs. - Added Barrels of Beer - the first commodity item in the game. - Added 4 new two-handed swords, one of them is also unique: Veteran Longsword, Lordly Longsword, Espadon, Ornate Two-Hander.

BALANCE

- Tweaked the economy. Fully revamped buying and selling prices in different settlements. Increased restocking times for most NPCs. - Tweaked weapons stats and levels to better suit the new damage system and the updated economy. These changes WONT AFFECT already saved items. - Tweaked the amount of Experience awarded for killing most enemy types. - Changed Resistances for Wraiths, the Undead, and chitinous enemy types. - Rebalanced some enchantments. Removed the Damage Reflection enchantment. - Added an expiration mechanic to Deathstinger Jars. - All Proselytes in distant dungeons now have a Crimson Gift passive that will boost their power until high tier Proselytes are fully implemented. - Giant Rats and Bats no longer spawn in distant Proselyte dungeons. - Changed Resistances for stone objects. - Reduced Stone Boulders Durability. - Increased Reputation gain from fulfilled tasks. - Greatly increased Experience gain from destroying nests, hives, and burrows. - Destroyed Deathstinger Hives have a chance to drop Hornet Honey. Destroyed Harpy Nests sometimes drop jewelry and gems collected by their previous inhabitants. - Reduced Cooldown Reduction for Double Lunge upon landing a hit or killing an enemy. Removed the skills hidden Accuracy bonus. - Danse Macabre now reduces Resistances to a lesser degree. - Greatly reduced the chance for enemies to drop treatises. - Rebalanced weapon drops on enemy death. - Daze now applies a small debuff to Accuracy and Fumble Chance. - All Injuries now reduce Healing Efficiency. - Changed the Witchs Hut loot. - Greatly increased the variety of unique items that can be found in secret rooms and distant dungeons. - Changed rewards for killing the Troll: all items now have roughly the same power level and for the most part cant be acquired from other sources.

FIXES

- Tweaked enemy spawns in dungeons. - Re-added the option to trade with most Brynn NPCs. - Re-added Physical Resistance to armored enemies. - Fixed snakes not spawning on the surface. - Fixed passive effects not working as intended when moving to a new location. - Synchronized the Herald's animations with his speech lines. - Added routes to some secondary NPCs in Brynn. - The Brynn hover on the global map now also shows the names of its quarters. - Fixed Kromms stock: he no longer trades in high level items. - Fixed the inability to take a cart to Osbrook from the Brewery. - Nests and hives can no longer be injured. - Fixed Skeleton Minibosses not dropping weapons on death. - The Heraldic Note now also grants Brynn reputation. - Fixed quest items getting unequipped upon failing an associated contract. - The quest marker now leads to the correct quarter of the city when closing Brynn contracts (this fix doesnt affect ongoing contracts). - Added an option to eat Hop Cones. - Push the Falling now replenishes Energy instead of Health. - Reputation changes from tasks and dialogue lines are now correctly displayed in the Reputation log. - Fixed misses being incorrectly displayed in the log (they used to be displayed as dodging a fumbled attack). - Fixed vegetation objects spawning on top of one another. - The Experience bar now becomes inactive upon reaching level 30. - Fixed hives getting displaced when destroyed. - Fixed most traders stock not working as intended. - Fixed the incorrect tier of Stance Training and Final Push. - Fixed the damage penalty of Hooking Chop increasing with higher Strength. - Fixed Brynn elves being assigned an incorrect NPC type. - Brynn elves will now fight back when attacked. - Drinking from a well now reduces the same amount of thirst as drinking from a waterskin. - Fixed Danse Macabre not granting Dodge Chance. - Fixed some high tier skeletons lacking weapon abilities and dropping incorrect weapons on death.

[ 2021-12-16 18:51:13 CET ] [ Original post ]