As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta32 ! See http://te4.org/

Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !

This release is *huge*, it features many balances & new things but also change some low level things.

Display code switched to SDL1.3, keybinds had to be reset for it, so make sure you check your bindings.

Release highlights:

• New classes: Necromancer and Marauder
• Improved classes: Shadowblade, Summoner, Cursed/Doomed, Chronomancers, Alchemist, Mindslayer, Rogue
• Talent icons: all talents now have an icon and the hotkeys bar uses them
• Introduction of real (and easy to make) item sets
• Local scores
• Loading/progress bars along with a nice painted background
• Many new painted lore
• All stores and all artifacts now have a tile
• New zones: Slazish Fens, Last Hope Graveyard, special non-random exploratory farportal zone
• Sunpaladins and Anorithil have their own starting quest; starting in the far east and explaining why they get to Maj'Eyal
• Trollmire now has a road going through it, making navigation easier
• Game loading speed should be much improved (only when using the official releases which package the code in a special way)
• "Exploration" mode for Donators: infinite lives
• Multiple new or improved artifacts, some of which are sets
• New tilesets: Cave, Rift
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Expanded changelist:

• Invisibility screen effect made a bit less annoying
• New achievement: Bad Driver
• Character Sheet will display the current active party member
• Alchemists talents that pop an inventory screen now wait until the inventory is closed (and action is done) to consume turn/ressource/cooldowns
• Added tile for Zemekkys and Meranas
• Display talent icons in use/gain talent screens
• Fixed a bug which made activate egos recharge too fast
• Fool of a Took achievement correctly triggers
• Fix red crystal resistance
• Fix Poison Gas Trap when saving/reloading
• Object that can be activated for a talent have a better description
• Cursed Touch starts with about 30% chance to curse an item.
• Extra points in Cursed Touch increase the chance up to 90%. Invest in this to make cursed items easier to find if you want to invest in curses.
• Cursed can wield both axes or cursed items with their talents.
• Replaced Grim Craft with an activated talent: Cursed Sentry. Animate a cursed weapon and toss it to a spot. It will fight for you for a while before turning to dust. This has no hate cost but does consume the weapon.
• Cursed items get 1 bad curse effect and either 1 beneficial Dark Gift effect or 1 Vengeful Blessing effect
• Curses are either minor or major; The chance of major curses improves with points invested.
• Like egos: curses, gifts and blessings have names. They are displayed in the item description. For example: "curse of clumbsiness, blessing of whispers"
• Paradox Mages now start with Dimensional Step and Time Skip
• Chronomancy tree reordered
• Energy tree reordered and revised
• Gravity tree reordered and revised
• Matter tree revised
• Speed Control tree revised
• Timetravel tree reordered
• Reduced cooldowns and sustain costs on many chronomancy talents
• Most Gravity spells now deal bonus damage to pinned actors
• Body Reversion no longer removes 'other' timed effects
• Probability Weaving and Paradox Mastery are now passive
• Probability Weaving now improves luck and spellpower
• Static History moved to Chronomancy tree
• Deja Vu, Entropy, and Temporal Reprieve removed
• New Talent Energy Absorption
• Energy Decomposition is now a 'magical armor' sustain
• Redux is now an effect that allows you to 'double cast' your next activated spell
• Repulsion Shield renamed Repulsion Field and works as a knock back aura
• Calcify replaced with a new talent Destabilize
• Quantum Spike damage improved; also does bonus damage to Destabilized actors
• Two new Spacetime Weaving Talents; Banish and Spacetime Mastery
• Stop now deals temporal damage in addition to the stun effect
• Haste now gives a slight casting speed bonues as well as its old global speed boost
• Time Skip now Time Prisons the target rather then removing the actor
• Temporal Wake damage improved and a small stun effect added
• Fixed chronomancy cone particles
• Fixed Slime tileset farportals
• *IMPORTANT* Updated SDL to 1.3, you need to get it for your platform if you build from source
• Mouse pointer is now hardware rendered, removing cursor lag even at low FPS
• Keybinds are updated to use scancodes which are layout independant, existing key bind settings will be wiped; please redo them as needed
• Hotkeys are now displayed as icons on the bottom of the screen
• Drag'n'Drop support in the mouse engine code
• Hotkey icons can now be dragged along the bar for easy reassignment
• Talents can be dragged from the use talents window into the hotkeys
• Items can be dragged from the inventory window into the hotkeys
• New awesome shadow simulacrum gfx effect
• Gamma correction is handled by a fullscreen shader if the GFX card can do shaders
• Updated boot menu with new tiles
• Replaced Warper summon with the Rimebark, an immovable treant-like summon that is permanently surrounded by a furious ice storm
• Replaced Suppress Summoning by Frantic Summoning allowing much faster summoning at a cost
• Fixed crystal focus
• Talents that do a main and off hand attack correctly handle offhand penalty
• Low levels of the Infinite Dungeon do not all have random bosses
• Fix mold vault
• Equilibrium regenerates correctly from hats of absorption when hit by archery
• New backup guardian in the Deep Bellow, also concluding rolf & weisman story arc
• New framework for item sets, check out set_list, on_set_complete and on_set_broken properties on Moon & Star
• New backup guardian in the scintillating caves
• Fix ice to cold resistance on some arena boss
• Fixed skeleton rat and arena gates tiles
• Restricted Daikara escorts to prevent problems with temporal wardens quest
• Shadow Combat now scales with spellpower
• Fixed tooltips sometimes refusing to appear
• Added an option to set scroll distance. Set it high enough and you get always centered scrolling
• Autotargetting will try to not default to a friendly target for attack talents
• Fixed unlock dialog popup, it will appear again (it was only a display bug, unlocks were saved)
• Fixed donations popup
• Savefiles now include a screenshot of the current situation that is displyed in savefiles list
• Savefiles are now ordered by last play time
• PrintScreen key now takes a screenshot (for modules: game:saveScreenshot() and keybind SCREENSHOT)
• Swallow now works on bosses that have 5% or less life left, making the Huge Appettite achievement possible (but hard)
• The thieves in the lost merchant quest will not attack the merchant anymore
• Savefiles are marked as dead as soon as death happens
• Linking creatures links them with the correct name color
• Adjusted the balance on the Energy Absorption
• Crooked Club does not require Cunning anymore
• New world boss: Kra'Tor the Gluttonous and his trusty axe: The Gaping Maw
• New world artifact: Threads of Fate
• New world artifact: Pick of the Dwarven Emperors
• Added local scoring, with a list of all your chars and their scores/cause of death/... Arena is merged into that system.
• New uber dangerous greater vault
• Static maps can use specialList("terrain", {...filelist..}) to use terrains they want
• All talents now have a tile
• Improved Dwarves Stoneskin talent
• The Pheonix unique has its rarity reduced
• New world artifact: Ureslak's Femur
• New world artifacts: Sword of the Potential Futures & Dagger of the Past
• Fixed Zigur huge rocks
• Two new antimagic world artifacts: Witch-bane and Guidance
• Buffed Garkul's Teeth
• Atamathon is much more dangerous
• Alchemist golems start with a shielding rune
• Channel Staff correctly works with physical damage staves
• Staves of ruination give nature damage instead of poison damage boost
• Some bits of lore will always popup even when already known
• Added two new Paradox talents; Fade From Time and Cease To Exist
• Removed Damage Shunt and Flawed Design
• Precognition and revision will now correctly clear their chronoworlds
• Reduced effeciency of Energy Decomposition
• Redux is now instant cast with the repeated spell now consuming the action
• Revision will now put Door to the Past on cooldown when cast
• Chronolith's in the Temporal Rift buffed slightly
• Fix grappling hold
• Replaced the main menu background (when not using the animated background) with a much nicer one
• Fix light damage death verb
• Storming the City quest can not be continued when it is already finished by going from angolwen to zigur
• Dragons are now less immune to stuns but gained some immunity to blindness
• Firstrun dialog now asks for registration/login/cancel
• Golem Power and Golem Resilience effects more than doubled
• Adventurers parties should not get sometimes stuck on the worldmap anymore
• Golem's Reflective Skin is now a sustain
• Increased Golem's Eye Beam damage
• Golem Resilience now also improves healing factor by 50% at level 5
• Arcane Eye now has a tile when active
• Sunwall faction will not all turn hostile if one member is hurt
• If High Sun-Paladin Aeryn becomes hostile, killing her will trigger the orc pride quest, allowing the game to continue
• If Aeryn is killed before the endgame she will not be there to help
• Two new high level talent trees: Psi-archery and Grip.
• The Psi resource now regenerates naturally like mana and stamina
• Mindslayers start knowing the Shoot talent
• Conduit applies to shots fired from telekinetically-wielded bows
• Conduit applies to Mindlash when telekinetically wielding a gem
• Matter is Energy benefits more from increased talent levels
• Buffed Focused Channeling
• Loading screens with a waitbar!
• Screen FPS will not go bonkers for a second after a long load/compute time
• Fixed random black screen bug
• Achievement added for killing the blood master
• Dying while recalling will cancel the recall
• All stores now have a tile
• Suppression talent actually does something now
• Quest log correctly defaults to the selected quest when it appears
• Creatures killed by traps correctly drop alchemist ingredients
• Fixed floor on Temple of Creation(2)
• Brawlers will now have field control at birth
• Made it much more obvious that brawlers can not use weapons, shields or massive armour with many of their talents
• Made it more obvious that stealth can not be used in mail or plate armor
• Fixed a random white texture bug
• Loading bar while loading the game/savefile will indicate progress
• Permadeath setting is remembered
• Undead faction now opposes Fearscape faction
• Added missing trap tiles
• New lore: "Dust to Dust, an undead hunter's guide"
• Troll stew!
• Healing now produces a flying text
• Secret of the Eternals takes no time to use
• Random bosses can now use the unlockable trees (poisons, wildfire, ...)
• Arcane Blades can access Stone spells when unlocked. Earthen Missiles can be cast by Arcane Combat
• New class: Necromancers
• New zone: Last Hope graveyard
• New quest: From Death, Life (for necromancers only)
• New lore available in Last Hope Library
• New option to use either the new icons hotkey toolbar or the old textual one
• Tombstone lore UI
• Glass walls tiles
• New vault
• Constitution does not grant damage reduction anymore
• Health talent replaced with Thick Skin talent, granting damage reduction
• Glove egos are more interresting for brawlers
• Fix a rare bug when corona could permanently reduce max positive/negative
• Trollmire now has a road, for easier navigation
• New zone: the Slazish fens, starting zone for human and elven Sun Paladins and Anorithils (it is located in the far east and explains how the player ends up in maj'eyal)
• New achievement: Lost in translation
• Limited the power of Doomed knockback spells
• Roads, water and molten lava show up on the minimap
• Reduced ranges on teleportation anomalies
• Reduced the speed bonus of Elemental Harmony
• Added experimental support for MoonScript (a CoffeeScript like language for lua)
• Fixed the prides levers to not reset when save/reloading
• Shadow Combat cost fixed
• Shadowstep cost reduced, added a darkness damage component
• Shatur now have awesome tree-stores
• Added many new "@" custom player tiles
• Using the exploratory farportal can now sometimes lead to special zones
• Increased game loading speed tenfolds (for people with slow loading) by packaging the engine, boot module and tome module into a single file format
• Maze zones now have the boss usualy looking for the player
• New advanced Shadowblade tree: Ambush
• Fixed birth screen to indicate race/class combo that do not make much sense
• When encountering the new special farportal zone, you will learn a new painted lore, it is awesome!
• Sher'Tul fortress command orb got a correct tile now
• Sher'Tul control orb text correctly translates when you speak Sher'Tul
• Escort portal does not disappear when digging nearby
• Temple of Creation quest now uses the new underwater portal tiles
• Removed the Archer metaclass.
• Archers and Slingers merged into Archer, under the Warrior metaclass
• Archers now get both a bow and a sling at birth, along with both one point in bow and sling mastery
• Permadeath mode: Exploration Mode with infinite lives. Donators feature
• New painted lore for using the Farportal in Reknor
• Painted lore for master death
• New painted lore for game win
• Yeek Wayist talent summons have tiles
• Waters of Life becomes instant cast
• Void and Nightmare Horrors now have some unique new talents
• Displace Damage will now credit reflected damage to the actor with the sustain active
• Bindings of the Eternal Night buffed and made into a set with a new artifact (found in the same zone): Crown of the Eternal Night
• Fixed tactical AI infos on some AOE talents
• Tannen level has correct tiles
• Permanent particle effects like farportal vortexes correctly scroll
• Many typos
• Corrupted Negation is subject to spell resists
• Razorblade, the Cursed Waraxe can not correctly be generated
• Fix Shadow Mages description
• Time Prisoning yourself can not fail
• More traps are avoided by Feather Wind (and the new Light of Foot talent)
• New class: Marauder, a more thug-like rogue focusing on damage and movement
• Lethality now also increases critical damage modifier
• Deadly Strikes increases APR somewhat more
• Deadly Strikes and Willful combat are now instant talents
• Improved the thieves/bandits/... NPCs with the neweset roguish talents
• Added a Shadowblade NPC
• The assassin lord just got quite beefier
• The Master just got nastier
• Orc necromancers improved with the new necromancer talents
• Vampires made beefier
• Resting regens faster
• Buffed Cripple
• Garkul's Helm has a special bonus to Skullcracker talent
• New random name generator(engine.NameGenerator2) based on http://code.google.com/p/name-gen/ (it uses the same language files)
• Temporal Devourers renamed Devourer and subtype changed to eldritch
• Temporal Dredge renmed Dredge (subtype still temporal)
• Worm that Walks and Devourers now have unique talents
• Devourer hit points and damage improved (beware the land sharks!!)
• Carrion Worms multiply less but have better resists
• Epidemic now checks for disease immunity when spreading diseases
• Dredge Frenzy improved a bit
• Disabled loading C module in Lua, for safety
• Random name generation on birth will use a special generator per race/sex (right click on the name box to make up a new random one)
• Skeletons NPCs are now poison immune
• Base accuracy raised to 4 (from 0)
• Buffed Yeek's Wayist talent
• Dread, Dreadmaster, Banshee, Ruin Banshee now have permanent *stealth*. This means you can see them without see invisible but it's not perfect you can loose them sometimes
• The Eidolon Plane is now a zero gravity zone, so encumberance is near meaningless (x20)
• The Temporal Rift is a zero gravity zone
• After coming back from the east, the lost merchant in Last Hope can make you a unique item of your choice, for a .. unique price
• Doulbed the effects of willpower for Paradox failure, backfire, and anomaly checks
• Changed how global speed stacks
• When a level 5 Lure is killed it will trigger all explosion, poison gaz and future AOE traps
• Cleaner game exit (codewise)
• Newly picked up items are shown in bold (and marked as such in the tooltip) in the inventory window
• When dead (on the death screen) it is now possible to review message log, see current chat and talk to people
• Drop dialog (and others such) will remember sorting order when dropping multiple items
• "Lament for Lands now Lost" poem now correctly available in Shatur
• New "cave" tileset
• Fixed Melinda moving in
• Limited max projectile speed reduction on talents providing it
• Derth post-attack chat now accounts for being an antimagic char
• All artifacts now have their unique tiles!
• Added more particle effects for chronomancy spells
• Rewrote grappling so it's easier to understand (code-wise)
• Sustains can now be disabled while disarmed
• Switching equipment will now disable sustains you no longer meet the requirements for
• Updated the Temporal Rift bosses talents to better reflect current chronomancy spells
• New rift tileset
• Buffed Chromatic Harness

Have fun!