Monthly release time! Lots of changes, the biggest one being NPC spellcasting.
Link to the latest:
http://www.shadowofthewyrm.org/releases/ShadowOfTheWyrm-Win-0.4.5.zipThe full set of changes:
Shadow of the Wyrm v0.4.5 "Bacarisse"
- Version declared December 1, 2015. Version finalized January 2, 2016.
- Wearables can now include a speed bonus. This will be used very, very
rarely, essentially only for artifacts.
- Updated the creature speed calculation to also include speed bonuses on
worn equipment.
- Random name generation on an empty name on the naming screen (Lagi).
- '=' can be used in the same way as '+' when using the keys to toggle
target selection (Lagi).
- Various minor refactorings and cleanups.
- New settings: default_name (can be used to set a default name, or leave
empty or as "*" to do random name generation).
- ESC can now be used to exit tile selection, equipment, magic and
inventory screens. This should include all uses of those screens:
the readables screen when reading, wands when evoking, and so on (akeley
and Lagi).
- Created a batch file to run the game plus procdump to try to track down
a particular crash bug.
- Known spells, number of castings, and spell bonuses can now be specified
per creature in the configuration XML.
- Refactored the death script code to be table-based and more general,
like the attack scripts. Updated Amaurosis' death script, and created a
currently-empty script for gas clouds.
- Gas clouds "explode" on death, by casting wreath of fire.
- The monochrome colour is now an ini setting.
- New food-related conduct type: corpseless.
- Olive trees may now be generated in the same way as other fruit trees.
- Eight new species of weeds.
- Fruit trees now typically generate more than a single piece of fruit.
- Wands that take a direction (flame, teleport, etc) cam now be used
by the player against his or her own character by selecting the null
direction (by default, '5'). Ranged spells are reduced to range 1 when
made self-targetting.
- Kew now dispenses useful advice on a variety of topics after you
complete his quests.
- Each damage type now has an additional damage message that can be
selected. The use of multiple messages for damage is controlled by an
ini setting.
- There are a few new real-world dates tracked by the game: summer and
winter solstice, spring and fall equinox.
- The map is now updated (either partially or fully) after each creature's
action. With NPC spellcasting, having the screen update after the
player's action only was causing issues with bits of the screen not
being redrawn correctly after spell animations.
- After dying or quitting, the player is now asked if they want an
identified character dump.
- Character dumping code now respects existing files. If it tries to
dump to a named file that exists, the game will retry, adding a time
stamp. If that also fails (typically because the user tries to dump
several times a second), an error message is displayed.
- Added decision (AI) code for NPCs regarding spellcasting, separating out
attack, healing, buff, and utility spells. NPCs have a base chance to
cast spells every turn, with decisions being made based on their
health, whether there are threats in range of attack spells, and so on.
- Flame Dart is now range 2 instead of 1, as is Shadow Flame.
- New effect type, Cleansing, which sets a regeneration multiplier on
the map that affects creature generation.
- Rejigged the structure of the DecisionStrategy node in the game
configuration to include both the strategy as well as a "suppress magic"
flag, which is set for gas clouds and which prevents the selection of
spellcasting actions during decision strategy execution.
- New spellcasters: gas cloud (wreath of fire), apprentice (flame dart),
acolyte (minor healing), ogre magus (shockwave, minor healing, nether
bolt), thaumaturge (minor healing, radiant beam), sorceror (flame
dart, force bolt), lichling (frost bolt), Brimman (ice storm, frost
bolt), Gilirien (wreath of fire, lightning bolt), spectral wizard
(cross of flame, fireball), high wizard (minor healing, lightning bolt,
maelstrom), deep wizard (chaos aura, nightfire), Bagra (nether bolt,
nightfire, veil of shadows), black priest (shadow flame, curse of
shadows, nether bolt), witch king (curse of shadows, nether bolt, chaos
aura, nightfire), lich (lightning bolt, fireball), lich king (lightning
bolt, fireball, fire storm, ice storm, lightning storm, maelstrom),
Lalo (wreath of fire, lightning bolt), Zaeda (lightning bolt, force
bolt), Callara (minor healing, dragon breath, lightning bolt), snakeling
magus (chaos aura, cross of flame).
- New spells/spellbooks: radiant beam (Divine), force bolt (Cantrips),
ice storm (Arcane), lightning storm (Arcane), maelstrom (Arcane),
cleansing (Cantrips).
- New items: scroll of cleansing.
- New artifacts: legendary boots "Akos Akari", tiger's eye ring "Asturias".
- New creatures: gas cloud, frostling, Wulf.
- Boost updated to 1.60.0.
- Various minor refactorings.
- Bug fixes:
- Crash when attacking with a ranged weapon with no launcher (e.g.,
thrown rocks, no sling equipped) (Lagi).
- When throwing potions, the last potion in a stack was not being
removed properly (Lagi).
- The code for setting a new name in-game via Nama wasn't using the
same rules as name generation at the start of the game.
- Generator::set_depth_custom_map_id_properties was copying over too
many properties. It was intended only to copy over custom map IDs
for particular depths (e.g., if level 5 of some dungeon was a set
level), but it was copying over additional properties, which lead to
a bug in the infinite dungeon where the up staircase on every level
lead back to the surface because the key TILE_PROPERTY_PREVIOUS_MAP_ID
was copied from level to level.
- Beam spells weren't properly handling going off the edge of an open
map.
- Certain weed tile configurations weren't showing a description.
