My minions,

As each year the roguelike of the year poll is open!
Many great games to vote on this year:
http://roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.fr/2013/12/request-for-votes-ascii-dreams.html

Note, you'll find ToME as T.o.M.E 4 instead of Tales of Maj'Eyal, be sure to drop a vote for it :)

Oh and remember, ingame it is the season: the Santascape has open!

"The board is set, the pieces are moving."

About 3 years and a half ago, uttering those same words I released the first beta of ToME to the unsuspecting world.
Today, after untold amounts of work, both by myself and some great people of the community, we celebrate the release of my little baby on Steam!

The game has been greenlit about one month and a half ago and the days since then have been quite frantic, providing me with few sleeping hours but much excitement.
I have worked hard and now I shall rest while I watch new players stumble upon the deadly world of Eyal! More tears for the DarkGod!
The Steam integration features achievements, cloud saves, authentication and Workshop integration.

Without further delay, I give you: Tales of Maj'Eyal on Steam!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/259680/

Voting happens here: http://te4.org/contest/vote/2013

Take a look at those games, each one deserves a chance to be played, they are fun :)

My minions, I am happy and pround to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.0.5 ! See http://te4.org/

Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all.

This release is *huge* and I hope you'll have as much fun exploring it as I did creating it!

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

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

Release highlights:

• Huge improvements to many visual effects, spells and tiles
• Combat log reworked to be far more readable, log heals, shiedsl, absorbs
• New special effects for each point accuracy over defence
• New difficulty mode: Madness, for those that mastered Insane ;)
• Training room in the Sher'tul Fortress
• Faster saves
• New Archers tree: Excellence (new tree), Poisons and Traps
• Many new hooks and tools for addons/modules makers
• Infinite scaling: talents should scale much better past 5/5
• Tons of rebalancing and improvements to many talents, objects, artifacts and zones
• IMPORTANT: saves are not compatible from 1.0.4

Expanded changelist:

• Added a graphical effect for healing and regen effects to most of those effects
• Using Aegis on shields will visualy change them
• Damage shields, absorbs, ... are now noted in the log
• Heals are now noted in the log
• Venom drakes can now appear in the noxious caldera and in gorbat pride
• Flat damage cap% is now applied after shields
• Disruption Shield now partially absorbs the hit that makes it explode
• New "punches" sounds for barehand combat
• NPCs can use Shoot Down
• Adventurers start with both gloves and gauntlets
• Unarmed 0.6 attack speed is bound to Empty Hands, not to being a Brawler
• New Actor:checkPool method to facilitate learning pools/... on talents learnt
• Adventurers now learn Empty Hands when learning barehand talents
• Swords, axes, maces, staves, daggers, whips, tridents, bows and slings now have special "unique" effects when hitting a foe for each attack you have over their defence
• Player can now tag objects with a name; tagged objects can not be dropped, destroyed or transmogrified until the tag is removed
• Fixed actor execution loop to crrectly resume at the next actor after the pause: aka this should fix Through the Crowd
• Automatic talents will be used in order: instant ones first, then higher CD ones first. Only one non-instant talent will be used each turn
• Orcs will search your buddies for the staff too
• Stone Walking and Gem Portal do not fail due to melee autotarget
• Corpses (from the curse) coming out in the middle of an attack will not be destroyed by said attack
• Improved combat logs
• New achievements for Normal (Roguelike), Nightmare/Insane/Madness (Adventure)
• Achievements list onyl shows the ones for the current difficulty to reduce clutter
• Add range to the map tooltip
• Temporal Augmentation Robes talent level reduced
• Nerf Colaryem a little
• Most summoned actors do not drop loot anymore
• Buffed starting gold to 15
• Marauder's Thuggery tree is now Generic
• Marauder's gained Bloodthirst tree (1.1, locked)
• Staff Mastery & Mindstar Mastery trainings now respect previous knowledge and do not screw you over
• When leaving a level with a dominated npc it will be freed from the control instead of waiting for your return
• Torment ammo doesnt have wielder bonuses and instead gets combat bonuses
• archery_projectile is now available to addons
• Alchemists can now unlock a golem replacement: the Drolem !
• Drolem is buffed a little
• Tannen's Tower level 4 has a different LOS system, making the Drolem obscure more of the field again
• Nourishing Moss tactical infos fixed
• Female Dwarves can unlock some cosmetic facial pilosity (because the lore says so!)
• Keybinds are displays more succinctly, so [A]+[S]+Keypad 6 will now appear as ASk6
• Actor's on_takehit and hook "Actor:takeHit" now get a parameter that telsl them the damage type, if available
• New Fortress feature to unlock for 50 energy: training room!
• Fixed mind talent procs happening more than once per turn
• Runic Golem can not be unlearnt
• New GameOptions:tabs hook
• New melee "whirlwind" effect
• New effect for Tempest
• When leaving a level all player originated projectiles are removed
• Ward talent lists available wards
• Wraithform now teleports if you end up in a wall
• Applied infinite scalingto prodigies
• Gem Golem can not be unlearnt
• Temporal Clone can not be used out of range
• Aether Beam and Gravitic Trap can not be placed in walls
• Nature's Pride goes on cooldown even if there was room for only one treant
• NPC are less confused by being LOS'ed
• Rares should be more interresting/powerfull
• Allow Gestures to respect Gloom status effects
• If the Weird Pedestals event can not generate an artifact it will make a randart
• Lost merchant will not generate antiamgic items for arcane characters
• Clarification to Heightened Senses/Infravision tooltips
• Scaling Bug fix in Darkness talent radius
• Scaling fix to hate generation
• Fixed typos in NPC definitions to prevent unintended agro
• Fixed bug in BattleTrance
• Fixed Grim Resolve not curing poison/disease
• Fixed Vimsense power when used with items
• Fixed tactical ai info for Mindlash talent
• Fixed character sheet to correctly show archery damage based on ammo
• Added addons url to the addons menu
• UIs can now have special mouse cursors
• Added two new hooks to the boot module "Boot:load" and "Boot:run"
• Fix maestrom
• Fix necrotic aura
• Infinite scaling applied to npc talents
• New gfx effect for Frostdusk
• New hook "GameOptions:UIs" to add new uis to the ui selector
• UIs definitions are now loaded from files in /data/gfx/ui/definitions/ so that addons can add new ones
• Attachement spots for particles can be read from a file per tileset
• Fixed Projectile class subclassing
• Tooltip for projectiles now shows who cast them and their self/friendly fire status
• Wards are now correctly colored by damage type
• Projectiles can be fired over chasms in the alt-maze
• Meteoric Crash can now crit (using the highest of spell or mind crit chance)
• New Uttercold visuals
• New Wings of Flames graphics! Find them!
• Argoniel learnt how to use Irresistible Sun
• Applied infinite scaling to afflicted
• New Flames of Urh'Rok gfx effect
• Juggernaut effect is now correctly classified as physical. For Zonk, with love
• Brawler's combo points last two more turns
• Fixed Pulverizing Auger in some zones
• Shields now "wooble" when hit
• Fixed crystal set proc
• Fixed slight particles display position error
• Added a slight outline to currently moused over item on the map
• New starfield shader is hungry, so a new video option to enable volumetric shaders is added. It is *off by default*, turn it on if you trust your GPU :)
• Fixed strange graphical artifacts around some texts
• Text outlines are much better now with shaders enabled
• Improved shields shader
• When disarmed the weapon will disappear from the character doll
• Buffs with charges (like Combo points) now display their charges
• Buff/debuff remaining time is correctly centered
• Added the Excellence tree to Archers, granting them more utility and survivability
• Venomous Strike works with ranged weapons too
• Implode has a distortion effect
• Archers now get access to both Poisons and Traps trees
• Poisons now work on both arrows and shots
• Distortion tree got .. distortion shader effects
• Irresistible Sun got distotion effects
• Added distortion effect to meteor crashes
• Added options to disabled "advanced" and distorting shader effects
• Improved water display (with a shader)
• Applied infinite scaling to chronomancy
• Particle systems can have a subparticle attached
• New fireflash and flame effects
• New Gravity Well effect
• Fast Curse Dispel is considered an important achievement
• Applied infinite scaling to corruptions
• Particle systems can now define a global use_shader={type="foo"} to attach a shader
• Particle systems can check availability of shaders
• Particle systems can now also the background that is under them, allowing things like distortion effects
• New distortion effect for the Repulsion Blast and Gravity Spike
• The final artifact from the final fight now requires less to wear so you can bask in its glory
• Applied infinite scaling to celestial
• Weapons can have multiple masteries talents, the best is used
• Added "Chat:load" and "Chat:add" hooks
• Through the Crowd now also makes you like being in the crowd, +10 all saves for each friendlies in sight
• Infinite scaling applied to psionics; solipsism mechanics have been adjusted
• Temporal Form only converts 50%
• Reduced Guardian of the Wood all resistance bonus
• Buffed artifact ammos
• Highscore core is less ToME-centric
• New difficulty mode: Madness (locked). More high level foes, stronger, with much more rares, more randbosses and a unique "Hunted!" debuff!
• Block is only used in melee by tactical AI
• Fixed bloated ooze damage absorb when using only one ooze
• Added an option to disallow online event pushes (but why would anyone do that is beyond me!)
• Online events can now happen in the Infinite Dungeon too!
• Thieves NPCs are now correctly competent with a dagger
• Dominant Will works on elites
• Burnt to the ground achievement is now achievable
• Prothotipe's Prismatic Eye correctly imbues its spell proc whem imbued on an item
• Grappling correctly checks no_breath
• Mitosis & Call of the Ooze correctly respect maxes
• Bear NPCs stats changed to str/con
• Bloodspring triggers at 15%
• Steamroller makes Rush cost only 2 stamina
• Revisionist History lasts 20 turns
• Corrupted Shell increases life by 250
• Fungal Blood also removes up to 10 magical effects
• Never Stop Running cost reduced to 12
• Vital Shot cooldown reduced to 10
• Windblade radius increased to 4
• Superpower grants 50% of strength as mindpower
• You Shall Be My Weapon and Massive Blow cooldown reduced to 10
• Windtouched Speed increased to 20%
• Mental Tyranny now only converts 33% of the damage
• Temporal Form prodigy temporal damage is now always *current* highest +30%
• Swift Hands prodigy allows wear/takoff for free only once per turn
• I Can Carry The World! prodigy also granst 20 strength
• Talents can now have properties: callbackOnAct, callbackOnActBase, callbackOnMove, callbackOnRest, callbackOnMeleeHit, callbackOnMeleeMiss, callbackOnArcheryHit, callbackOnArcheryMiss
• Altered/tweaked/improved many artifacts, keep your eyes open for new fun stuff!
• Special effects on artifacts can now be described with wielder.special_desc
• Achievement for killing all 4 slime tunnel bosses
• In cheat mode one can shift+left/right click on buffs/debuffs to adjust duration
• Ruined Dungeon can have a different set of clues
• Added infinite scaling to techniques
• Ruined Dungeon will not generate without the 6 guardians
• Orc babies do not drop loot
• Traps disarm & detection power scale with level
• Ruined Dungeon orb summons do not drop items
• Sludgenest wall poping slimes power now gradualy increases. Staying inside is not advisable.
• Added 5 achievements for staying in the sludgenest for many turns (one every 100 wall slime pops)
• Improved look of the huge sandworm burrower
• Yaechs and Nagas in Murgol lair have dropped damage by 35%
• The Ritch Hive Mother dropped damage by 30%
• Chant of Light now also increases fire damage
• Golem Power now also adds mastery with staves, daggers and exotic weapons (but not mindstars)
• Fixed Star Shot
• Prodigies dialog allows to unselect
• Huge tweaks to many ego items to make them more interresting
• Changed Evasion talents to not let characters become melee immune
• Applied infinite scaling to the cunning tree
• Saving happens in a separate OS thread, making saves much less painful
• Zones can have a temporary memory cache. ToME uses it to keep the last 3 visited zones (and associated levels) in memory, making switching between them much faster
• Bathe in the Light now provides a damage shield to all affected creatures and fire damage to all damage creatures
• Precognition dissipates when switching level
• NPC will not use automatic talents with hostile targets
• Eldritch eyes do not affect a yeek when they are destroyed when dominated
• Really, do not annoy Linaniil ... but if you do you get an achievement
• Yeeks can not dominate themselves
• Diggers now provide a dig talent and can be used while carrier instead of wielded
• Bone Shield looses a charge only if the damage is > 0
• Meteoric Crash stun chance uses spell or mind power, as the damage does
• Fixed anmalice proc
• Protective Aura correctly grants physical saves
• Combat Training talents split into two lines
• Object tooltip now shows which talent mastery affects them
• Last level of Reknor can not have obelisks and such
• Added "alter_level_data(zone, lev)" possible callback for level creation
• Alternate Daikara has pyroclasts falling whe nthe players getin range 6 instead of 3 and the last level has more trees
• Alternate Sandworm lair has more giant tunnelers
• Alternate Norgos lost Frozen Feet and the shivgoroths got a little damage penalty
• Alternate Maze "normal" horrors have been replaced by temporal ones
• Nerfed Shardskin damage and changed his talents a bit
• Air bubbles have a more explicit description
• Killing an aquatic horror will fill the surroundings with air bubbles
• Reduced Maleable Body effect
• Converted all wild gifts to infinite scaling
• Diggers should be instantly usale even at high speed
• Upgraded LuaJIT to 2.0.2
• getCharmPower now takes a first parameter "who"
• Objects from worldmap ambushes and farportal zones grant less money
• Birther can apply data to the party
• Easy mode now also halves all detrimental status effects
• Fixed traps in immediate melee mode
• Cavern generator can place doors
• Doors can have a "door_sound" field to tell which file to play when opened
• New hook "UISet:Classic:Resources"
• Fixed Prox halfling Feet when used on a halfling
• Allow quests to be in addons data folder, referncing them like zones with an "addonname+" prefix
• Chagned the particle effect for aerther vortex (thanks umbrall)
• In zones with walls on grass you can see small leaves of grass extending over the walls
• New dirt road gfx in the trollmire
• Roomer generator can now understand the = symbol to define tunnels, if not present it defaults as it did before to the floor
• Upgraded the grass to look like nice foresty grass
• Fixed stealth/invisibility: npcs could go straight to the target (it still hindered them though)
• Updated grass to look more like grass and less like golf terrain :)
• Ctrl+P (by default) now allows disabling/enabling all automatic talents
• Tentacles can not be summoned out of range
• Ambuscade shadow can not teleport
• When a summon dies/disappears, any NPCs targetting it will start looking for the summoner
• Added "infinite scaling" methods
• Applied infinite scaling methods to all spells
• Eggsack & crystal shard summons do not grant exp when killed
• Retch now also has a chance to remove a detrimental or beneficial (depending on undead status) physical effect
• Ghoulish Leap cooldown reduces with level
• Ghoul talent now provides a maximum damage cap. No blows can deal more than X% of their total life
• Animate Blade / Crystal Shard summons do not drop items
• Leveling up/down Mimic removes the effect
• Buffed Quick Recovery, Fast metabolism and Spell Shield, they now have bigger bonuses and scale with mastery
• Buffed the Eternal Night set
• Timed effect duration reduction from Time Shield and other such effectsonly affects detrimental ones
• Fixed Doomed unlock
• Removed Rain of Death vault
• Pulverizing Auger max range limited to 10
• Thalore Blight resistance reduced
• Fixed Receptive Mind debuff
• Rockwalk does not break Body of Stone
• Eldritch Stone now grants mana regen on rest
• Fix Deeprock Form preventing unlearning last talents
• Eldritch Stone now is affected by Aegis
• Eldritch Stone graphics updated
• Stone Wardens automatically unlocks Wilders
• Elemental Split only takes a turn if at least one half got summoned
• Mountainhewn Deeprock correctly grants immunities
• Eldritch Stone durations scale with talent
• Eldritch Stone effects have 100% chance to trigger
• Eldritch Stone effects apply power is based on the highest of spell or physical power
• Stone Wardens Stone Half now correctly knows Stoneshield
• Angolwen shops are finally free from their gfx glitch
• Mindlash psi cost now increases the more it is spammed
• Boosted Stealth initial value
• Lost Merchant artifact creation list is split into subcategories
• Birth screen will not spin the CPU madly
• Target tactical info now looks better!
• Addons in chardump will be stoerd differently to make the Vault able to search them correctly
• Wraithform has a graphical effect
• Increased font size on main menu
• Heat Beam Rune, Frozen Spear Rune and Insidious Poison Infusion will not affect crosstier effects anymore
• Resting will not spam the log with messages about party members healing
• Long chat dialogs will scroll
• Archery launchers can now have a damage multiplier and an on fire callback
• When in underwater levels the screen will very slightly .. hum .. wooble
• Buffed Mind Parasite
• Reduced Mucus equilibrium regen
• Natural Acid and Corrosive Nature now have a cooldown
• Mindslayer spiked shields have a new gfx effect
• Added a hook "GameOptions:generateList"
• Add new hook "ToME:runDone"
• New awesome graphical lore for Nur, made by "Impy"
• New achievement for winning the game without ever going west.
• When using a hotkey to trigger a talent/item that requires a target, pressing the hotkey again will validate the target just like enter and space
• Shatter won't stop at the first non-frozen foe it finds

Have fun!