As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta14 !
See
http://tome.te4.org/ http://te4.org/ http://blog.te4.org/This is a very big release, introducing many changes, some very big the the removal of consumables (do not freak out, there is a replacement, hopefully more fun and balanced than chain-chugging potions) or the change of game setting.
WARNING: Please remove your quickbirth data/do not use quickbirth to recreate characters when upgrading
This is also a very special release for me because the first line of code was commited one year ago, the 17th november. So this is the one year’s release!
What a long way it has come since then, thanks to you all my good players!
Release highlights:
* Changed game setting from middle earth to the custom world of Eyal, with full history and lore to support it
* New unlockable campaign: the Infinite Dugeon
* New classes: Geomancers and Corruptors
* Multiple new zones
* Easier and more fun identification system
* Removed consumables(scrolls and potions) and replaced with an inscription system. You can put infusions/runes on your skin that grant a permanent skill
* Added random artifacts
* More randomness in boss drops
* Much balancing and fixes
Expanded changelist:
* Activated fog of war on the world map
* New Game dialog will autoselect the first game
* Allow dwarven females to be played
* Setting changed to the custom world of Eyal. Main continent is Maj’Eyal
* Added random patrols and hostiles moving around the world map
* Scrolls, wands and spells of identification are gone (do not cry this, with the other changes, makes things much less boring)
* There is a shop in town that can identify stuff for you
* New quest: to get the orb of scrying
* Added many new room shapes
* The game should slow down a bit less while saving
* Saving will now display a progress bar
* Reworked Divination spells, there are now: Keen Senses, Arcane Eye, Vision and Premonition
* Added much much lore
* Flameshock has got a cooldown again, oups!
* Both Maj’Eyal and the Far East are on the same worldmap
* Fix trap of lethargy
* Quake should not work on vaults
* Saving the game while running/resting will not crash the game/savefile
* Allow the Static generator to read table of tables instead of table of strings
* Changed experience level charts
* Meditation can not fail due to equilibrium
* Most bosses that drop an artifact now have only a chance of dropping theirs, if they do not they will drop a random one and theirs will be added to the random pool
* Boss artifacts can be found before the boss is killed, the boss will cheat and use it for combat but will drop something else
* Gwai’s Burninator got a fitting description
* Many zones can now scale a bit more in levels to prevent player overgrowing them too much
* Normal monsters give much less experience now, bosses give hugely more experience
* Creatures stop giving experience if they are 7 levels below you instead of 3
* Added wands of conjuration
* All wands now have a spell inside
* Many new world artifacts
* Reduced Bill damage output
* Reduced power of the Shade
* Added random artifacts
* Prevent an infinite loop under some rare conditions with thunderstorm on a NPC
* Fix Throw Bomb special effects
* Alchemist Protection protects against side effects at level 5
* Rogue traps duration is now based on trap mastery
* Fix mouse over on the hotkeys when an object is not present
* Fix resting/running while waiting for recall
* When Equilibrium is below the current willpower score talents will never fail.
* NPCs Summon talent is now subject to equilibrium failures and each time it is used its cooldown will increase
* Creatures that split on damage will have reduced split chance with each split
* Meditation now dazes the player, if he is hit it will stop. Each turn some equilibrium is regenerated and a big chunck if the effect ends without disruption
* Fixed Hurricane
* Fix Channel Staff with the staff of absorption
* New effect for Blastwave
* Flame now beams at level 5, watch the pretty colors!
* Removed the spider quest from the east, replaced with a new one upon arrival
* Urkis drops an artifact in addition to the rod
* Adjusted some spell costs
* Skeletons can not bleed
* Improved Angolwen design
* Mana Clash absorbs more mana
* New town: Zigur, the home of the Ziguranth, who oppose magic. Not available to magic wielders
* Antimagic quest can now be taken from Zigur.
* The Map class can now be configured for a specific search order for checkAllEntities. Default is now: Actor, Terrain, Projectile, Trap, Objects
* Melee attacks now work to hit things inside walls like xorns
* Example modules have their Game:setupDisplayMode() method fixed when loading a save
* Ardhungol is now a side quest
* New random encounter in the far east: the shadow crypt
* New vaults
* New campaign: the Infinite Dungeon (require unlock). Descend into the infinite dungeon, see how far you can go and die in a blaze of glory!
* New achievements for going deep in the infinite dungeon
* Players start with the Orb of Knwoledge when doing the infinite dungeon
* New world encounter: the ruined dungeon
* Lightning Speed breaks when drinking potions
* Added a new rank between elite & boss for creatutes: unique
* Added new random unique creatures
* Fixed rod of recall/teleport: angolwen to not make stuff appear on the worldmap
* New class: Geomancer (mage subclass)
* Hexes are now balls, except Domination Hex
* Malicious thieves has arrived in towns, making it unsafe to leave stuff on the ground
* Blighted Ruins (undeads starting zone) is still 8 physical levels deep but NPC level will only increase at 0.5 per level
* When a boss dies the player gets experience even if he did not kill it directly or through summons
* Some more lore to be randomly found (well lore .. err .. trollish lore .. err .. kinda .. well trollish stuff!)
* Random lore scrolls now can actualy be generated! Oups!
* Zone:checkFilter() can now check “properties” and “not_properties” fields which contains list of fields to be found/not be found on the entity to validate it
* Added new egos
* The Awakened Staff of Absorption has been buffed and added lore
* Staff of absorption has its own tile
* Bows/Slings can not be used as melee weapons
* Bows/Slings now have an “infinite” ammo embedded, all ammo found are ego (and rarer obviously)
* Berserker talent now provides increasing stun & pinning resistance
* Tidal Wave correctly grows
* New random encounter on Maj’Eyal: a dark crypt
* New horror monster
* Gwelgoroths now have correct lightning atatcks instead of fire attacks (bad copy paste! bad!)
* Added missing object tiles
* Added an achievement for killing Ukruk
* Golem: Pound does not hit the caster when mounted inside the golem
* Stuns can now be partial, each turn you do not loose the energy of a whole turn, but a variable amount based on your stun resistance
* Right-click during birth correctly works
* Implemented “no teleport” objects. They do not prevent you from teleporting, but they do not follow.
* Cyst Burst will spread diseases further
* Autodetect fullscreen resolutions
* More space for price in store dialogs
* Fix tannen quest
* Fix Shockwave Bomb
* Fix mage apprentice quest when not selecting an item
* Fix lost merchant quest: can not push around things
* Replaced Forage talent with Flare (since basic ammo is infinite)
* Added unique graphics to some artifacts
* Fix dreadmaster disperse magic
* Prevent Bone Shield from bugging under some werid cirscumstances
* Aeryn will now explain why the player encountered sun paladins/anorithils in the west, if he did
* Particle effects now correctly resize in 16×16 mode (if you spot one that does not do tell me)
* “World” achievements can not be gained as personal achievements (like Reaver, Pyromancer, …)
* Seer escorts will not manathrust you in the back
* Sandworm heart provides benefit to Wyrmics
* Remove scrolls & potions
* Add runes & infusions to replace consumables. They are used once to inscribe an infusion(natural) or rune(magical) on your skin, which you can then activate at will. There is a limited number of slots available.
* Fix critical damage modifier
* Heithened senses/infravision allows to see as with a light in a 1/4th radius
* Fix character dump log messages
* Living races start with Regeneration and Wild infusions; undeads with Shielding and Phase Door runes
* More high level sandworms
* New vampire tiles
* Removed energy usage cost from chants and hymns, also lowered cooldown to 12
* Light tree is now generic
* Replaced Second Life with Providence
* New divine tree Guardian. Requires a shield to use
* Sun Paladins now can access Light tree at birth
* Sun Paladins can now access Guardian tree
* Bathe in Light also improves healing received
* New zone: Mark of the Spellblaze
* New quest found inside the mark of the spellblaze
* New class: Corruptors, a spellcaster brother to reavers
* Resistances are now capped a 70% for players. Items can increase the cap.
* Fireflash no longer does a DOT, it is all upfront damage
* Firing bolts at a wall now hits what is inside the wall.
* Firing balls at a wall now explodes the ball just before the wall.
* Weapon brands now affect only the weapon carrying it. Other equipment granting brands work for all weapons.
* Alchemist’s Golem now only levels with the player
* Talent category points can be used to gain at most two more infusion/rune slots
* Only two of the same kind of infusion/rune can be inscribed at once
* Added “Game Options” to the main menu
* Autosave all the game on zone change is now configurable in the game options.
* Saving each level individualy is now an option in the game options. This will make sure the game only keeps one level in memory (thus reducing the need for memory) but incur a small save/load on each level changes.
* Ukruk finally drops something useful. If you can beat him!
* Rain in the old forest is a bit bluer
* The endgame loot is more powerful
* Archmages will not be able to cheese their way through the Charred Scar
Have fun!
