When trying to donate some people got a very uniformative paypal login page, this is now fixed and you may all enjoy the act of donating to the game that brings you pleasure and fun! :)

Also, coming next beta, donators will get a little fun reward in game: custom tiles!

All donators, when logged on their online profile, will be able to use a custom tile for their character, chosen from a list of over 180, ranging from special clothing to downright madness, check out the video for some examples:

PS: There are a few donators who didnt donate while logged or from an email known to the system and are thus not credited as donators, when beta29 comes if you are in this case contact me and we will fix the issue swiftly!

The Darkgod did it! He killed over one hundred thousands adventurers!

Since the inception of the profiles system in mid august last year the system has recorded over 4500 days of playtime, that is over 12 years and 3 months of ToME'ing. Over that same period 100000 poor adventurers lost their lifes in the many dark places of the world (or by blowing themselves up, it happens too!).

The realtime stats are located there: http://te4.org/game-statistics

Have fun my fellow players! And to you that are not yet players, quick go to http://te4.org/download !

As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta27 ! See http://te4.org/

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

Release highlights:

• Many important bugfixes
• New Archmage starting zone: the Abashed Expanse
• Replaced Nature tree with Aegis tree
• Various balance tweaks
• Adventurer parties now can drop alchemist quest ingredients

Expanded changelist:

• When the player has the transmogrification chest a new "Transmogrify" option is available in the inventory item menu
• Most lore notes will not popup if already known (aka: via the sher'tul fortress library)
• Spell sustains will correctly disable when learning antimagic
• Freeze cooldown is now always 3 turns higher than the freeze duration. Damage increase accordingly so no loss there
• Ice Storm got a new, much cooler, effect
• Flameshock when using Burning Wake will leave a trail of fire of the correct shape
• Recalling out of the dark crypt on lvel 4 or before wont wrongly grant the Savior achievement
• Reduced the cost and cooldown of Ice Storm and Tidal Wave
• Fixed tactical infos for Fire Storm, now NPCs will use it
• Random zones from the Exploratory Farportal will not let you get out of the normal level range, nor let you miss the way back home
• Left pane now shows the kind and status of temporary effects in the tooltips
• Replaced the Nature tree with the Aegis tree
• When frozen the movement keys will do autoattacks to the ice
• Grids can be made passable by projectiles but not actors using pass_projectile
• Storm Wyrms/Drakes are not lonely fellows anymore, they have escorts just like all other drakes
• If the Eidolon is removed by any means from the Eidolon Plane it will instantly come back
• Human, Halfling and Elven archmages now start in Angolwen
• All non zone specific NPCs now have a proper tile!
• Archmages starting in Angolwen can now go into the Abashed Expanse
• New zone: Abashed Expanse, a part of Eyal torn away and thrown into orbit far above the planet
• Frozen now splits damage 40/60 instead of 25/75. Also while frozen you can not get any new detrimental status effects (the existing ones are kept however)
• Manaflow cooldown reduced
• Manaflow and Manasurge runes are now disabled while a mana regen effect is active (just like life regeneration effects)
• Drain will not work on oneself anymore
• Toxic Death will only spread to foes
• Fixed the jewelry creation
• Fixed the "black map" bug
• Fixed some achievements when not using shockbolt tiles
• Adventurer parties encounters are now correctly hostile
• Fixed One With Nature
• Corrected Flameshock description
• Rebalanced many Brawler talents
• Brawlers have a new talent in finishing moves (Concussive Punch)
• Removed Rushing Strike but Brawlers now can learn Rush more easily
• Finishing moves may now be used without combo points but at reduced effect
• Pugilism talents that used to grant more then one combo point now
• grant their additional combo points at talent level 4
• Increased damage scaling on most brawler striking talents
• Unarmed Training is now a class tree and based off cunning
• Conditioning tree now requires strength to learn instead of con
• Reduced Spacetime Tuning Cooldown
• Gloves & gauntlets should display correct damage mods
• Damage Smearing will now convert all damage except temporal damage into temporal damage over time rather than arcane damage
• Adventurer parties that wander the worldmap have been busy slaying stuff, they can now have ingredients for the alchemists quest
• Fixed Silent Blade
• Removed nightmare mode achievements (since nightmare mode is no more)
• Fix Arcane Eye at level 5
• No random lore appears in the random zones or in the islands of Rel
• Non-moving creatures will not try to flee
• Dominant Will correctly appears in the right click menu
• Fixed a rare combo of talents that could make a brawler random boss enter an infinite loop
• Telekinetic Leap respects the talent range
• Fixed the random crash/weird textures when coming back from the Eidolon plane
• Fixed Huge Appetite achievement
• Movement tutorial appears once again
• Frozen tooltip updated to clarify that it blocks teleport & heal
• Missing tooltips in the character sheet
• Fixed vertical doors in shockbolt tiles
• The "room of death" is the Vor Armoury is guarded by sealed doors
• Chrono worlds will now clear on level/zone change
• Paradox clone debuffs will now prevent the player from leaving the level or zone door to the past no longer increases paradox but may cause anomalies while active
• Six new vaults from the vault contest and a new unique for the winner, Burbs Lull
• Fixed a leak of particle systems

Have fun!

As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta26 ! See http://te4.org/

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

Release highlights:

• Many bugfixes
• Balances tweaks
• New generic tree: Harmony
• New rogue class tree: Poisons
• Overhaul of loss of control effects: stun & freeze, to be much more interresting
• A huge amount of new NPC tiles
• Random zones
• Random bosses
• Better UI
• More Sher'Tul Fortress functions

Expanded changelist:

• Trollmire treasure quest will successfully complete
• Optimized the savefile code to not save base and computed entities lists as they can be reconstructed from data files, making savefiles quite smaller
• The hidden trollmire level now has a correct entrance spot
• NPCs now do not regen when coming back to a level
• Objects now do not regen when coming back to a level
• The Shertul Fortress gains a new function: the exploratory farportal; a new subquest will trigger when it reaches enough energy
• New shertul fortress function: rod of recall attunment
• Random artifacts are now made up of 3 egos (instead of 2) + some random properties
• Fixed the Emancipation achievement
• New achievement: "Take you with me"
• Achievement popup now displays an icon associated to the achievement
• Achievement list now can list all achievements, even those not done yet (not all are fully readable however)
• Achievement list can now show progress for certain achievements (like Pyromancer, Cryomancer, Reaver, ...)
• The endgame artifact now has a neat particle effect attached
• Equilibrium wont reset to 0 on levelup (it will respect sustains)
• Fix a rare particles crash
• Coming back from the Eidolon or Demon plane will not make many turns pass for actors
• Random parties of (hostile) adventurers can be met on the worldmap
• Tons of new tiles!
• Strike and Dig have switch places
• Strike now deals more damage
• Creatures that levitate can not be pinned
• Fix a bug when reloading while an archery projectile is in flight
• Overhauled Frozen effect: You now get to act every turns but can not teleport, heal or move. The ice now has HP which can be damaged to make it go away. All your attacks can only damage the ice (not creatures) and creature attacks damage you for half their value and the ice for half
• AI will not target/stop attacking invulnerable creatures (like those affected by Time Prison)
• Update charsheet dialog to show more info
• Stunned effect overhauled, you do not lose control anymore, instead damage is reduced by 70%, movement speed by 50%, a few random talents are put on cooldown and talent cooldowns do not decrease while stunned
• Freeze spell duration now increases with talent level
• Buttons will provide a visual feedback when clicked
• Update dialog title works again(new method updateTitle)
• Dialogs will try to not go over game window size
• Moves tooltip window if it obscures view
• Drop dialog now not closes after each drop
• Emotes are now displayed over fog of war
• Skeletons talents have been improved; Sharp Bones have been replaced with Resilient Bones
• Big new lore, detailing the various races. Look for the first pages in Last Hope and find the rest
• Silence wont prevent sustained talents desactivation
• Burning Hex wont trigger when de-activating sustains
• Fixed the Storming the City quest: gwelgoroths will have the correct level now
• Scintillating Caves and Rhaloren Camp wont give the shaloren starting quest if you do not have it (cosmetic change)
• Soul Rot now has correct requirements
• The Eidolon can now send you back to the worldmap is desired (and if possible)
• Improves Retch and switched places in the tree
• Paradox Clone now can regulate his paradox levels
• Ambushes work even while standing on zone entrance
• Fixed a rare bug when patrols chase players on the worldmap
• Harno the messanger should correctly pop even if Golbug is killed on the Demon Plane
• Negative HP creatures should correctly die
• Can not try to use an orb a second time on a portal in the endgame
• Limmir will always make sure to provide a gem on his own when making an amulet
• Rune of the Rift/Time Skip will not heal the target to full
• If an alchemist player is cloned, the golem will be faction aligned with the clone
• New method font:draw(string, max_size, r, g, b) that is the same as TString:makeTextureLines() & countLines() combined, but it works on plain strings and it is *fast*
• Log & Flying texts now have a small shadow to outline the texts
• Added very slight shadow to most UI texts, making them more readable
• Modules can enable text shadows on the UI by doing: require("engine.ui.Base"):setTextShadow(0.6)
• New "Building" map generator
• New poem in the heart of the gloom
• Base vision radius of NPCs reduced to 10, like the player
• Thaloren-Tree Longbow range correctly set to 10 instead of 18
• Life regeneration effects now disable other regen talents while active, to prevent wasting them
• Vor, Gorbat and Rak'Shor prides have been upgraded, they now feature entrance doors, guards, random elites & bosses
• Objects that randomly fire a talent on hit wont check ressource or cooldowns
• Bloodcaller, the reward from the ring of blood, is not an arcane artifact anymore
• Adventure mode deaths will only be reported once the last life is expanded
• Equilibrium & Paradox bars on the left pane fill with failure chance instead of a meaningless log
• New achievement: Huge Appetite
• Eldoral Last Resort range fixed
• Fixed Hurricane description
• Level 5 Arcane Eye should work even while blinded
• Blodo Spray correctly handles its disease chance
• Hate is not affected by fatigue
• Fix norgos lair level changers tiles
• Hymn of Moonlight and similar talents wont activate on the worldmap
• Creatures in the Heart of the Gloom wont have the radiant fear talent
• New NPC in angolwen that provides a bit of lore and new lore in angolwen's library
• New lore: a rogue's poem
• New lore associated with the Spellblade and Eden's Guile artifacts
• Time Prison correctly stops even fast actors
• Eight new high level monsters
• Fixed problem with Shattering Charge
• Greatly improved Mindlash. Focus mindslayers should be much more fun.
• Removed much of the moat around the bandit fortress vault to make navigating around it less of a pain.
• The new game window can now be told to force loading of an incompatible module (which will usually work anyway)
• Alchemist's golems can now self destruct when the alchemist is dead
• Renamed the demon plane to the Fearscape
• Fixed drawQuad (it would randomly start using a texture when when told not to)
• Every level of the High Peak is now guarded by a random unique
• Added a message log dialog which supports page up/down, home/end, up/down and mouse wheel. Activate it by clicking on the log or pressing ctrl+m
• Upped Lightning and Chain Lightning damage
• Shock cooldown increased to 4
• Nature's Touch healing buffed
• New wild gifts talent tree: Harmony
• The sandworm queen heart now provides Harmony instead of Sand Drake tree
• Both Summoners and Wyrmics can unlock the Harmony tree
• Added .. mouse gestures. Yes right! Find them in the keybinder menu. You can now bind mouse gestures to any bindable actions!
• Module makers can use gestures easily with the engine.ui.Gesture class
• New lore about the Fearscape
• Found lore is now also saved in the player's profile, for later use
• The Sher'tul Fortress now possess the Library of Lost Mysteries, where you can instantly learn all lore known by any of your previous characters
• Non-hostile boss-level creatures will now have their own tactical border
• New tree: Cunning / Poisons
• Rogues might want to try siding with the assassin lord
• Tooltip will now tell you if there are more than one item on the ground
• Button clickable area expanded to fit actual display size
• Text in ListColums and Tree UI elements is now bouncing from left to right when overflowing
• Fixed a memory leak
• Elementals levitate
• Improved talents levelup screen
• Regen rate is now displayed in the left pane bar
• Undeads correctly start at level 6 of the blighted ruins
• Derth arena and trollmire treasure quests now correctly finishes

Have fun!