My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.0 ! See http://te4.org/
Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all.
If your launcher didn't self-update correctly, just redownload it from the homepage.
This is a major release, as such saves are not guaranteed to work from older versions, though they mostly should. If needed the game will prompt to download the old game client.
Now I can work full steam on putting the finishing touches to Embers of Rage! ;)
Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!
Charsheet
Doomed vs Horrors
Quest Popup
Streamer features
Tinkers tab
Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !
Release highlights:
- Big improvements to Doomed class
- Big improvements to Reaver class
- New cool default UI skin
- Many misc UI improvements, with special attention to streamer's needs
- Less need to scum for a good insane/madness start
- Many code updates to let addon & modules developers get wild
- Tons of various improvements and fixes
Expanded changelist:
Big Changes
- Adds bleeding damage to Bone spells.
- Sometimes, rarely, a special room will appear in the Infinite Dungeon to let you access the Item's Vault (if you have it active and are a donator)
- New Doomed tree "Advanced Shadowmancy"
- Allow selecting spell for Arcane Combat
- Command Staff talent available to NPCs, which will now spawn with the most appropriate aspect selected.
- Added the Staff Mastery talent to many casters (including bosses) that primarily equip staves.
- NPCs will try to equip their drops if possible.
- NPCs can now use item's power they have! Beware!
- Vault loot can be 1 material tier higher
- Adjusted material tier for many znoes.
- Fearscape sustain cost drastically reduced but vim drain per turn increases each turn
- Updated the Rush talent to allow targeting unoccupied spots
- New Reaver tree "Rot
- Buffed Corrosive Worm/Poison Storm
- Deus Ex Machina achievement altered and now possible to get
- Roguelike mode characters can now enter the Eidolon plane by a special exploratory farportal event, thus making Utterly Destroyed achievement possible even in Roguelike mode
- Feed does not take a turn
- Doomed Fears tree is at mastery level 1.3
- Gesture of Pain doubles the damage bonus from mindstars and if dual wielding mindstars will proc their on hit effects
- Made Gesture of Deflection not pitiful
- Hateful Whispers returns more hate with levels
- Rounded up Hateful Whispers range
- Reproach does a bit more damage and at high talent level looses less damage per foes
- Shadows summon cost reduced slightly
- Focus Shadows now forces max shadows to appear before focusing
- Shadows take reduced damage from their master, up to 100% at level 5
- Unseen Force scales way better
- Deflection now regens on rest, displays its current value on the icon, absorbs more damage and regens faster
- Rares/randboss can not be Skirmishers, until they can be rebalanced next big version
- Starting gold bonus on difficulty levels: 100 for Nightmare, 250 for Insane, 500 for Madness
- Starting level bonus on difficulty levels: level 2 on Insane, level 3 on Madness
UI
- New default UI skin "Dark"
- New big quest popup (disable-able)
- Added an option (on by default) to auto swap tinkers when swaping items
- Made the zone load tips look nicer
- Big Character Sheet update
- Show message if player fails to move due to encumberance.
- New UI option to make a small flyer with talent icon and name upon talent use, for both player and NPCs; disabled by default
- New UI option to get a visual feedback when using a hotkey
- Right clicking on an object in the hotkeys bar will give a removal prompt instead of removing it directly
- Main menu will now take on the UI theme configured instead
- New option to zoom the whole screen, for use on veyr high DPI screens where the game may look too tiny
- New tinker tab on the inventory for characters able to use them (like demonologists in Ashes of Urh'Rok)
- Warn the player when stores restock
- Difficulty and Campaign are set to the last values when you make a new character
- Trying to force a recall from an exploratory farportal will not assume "Escape" key to mean "OK!"
- Protect chat from urls with # inside
Misc
- Resurrecting removes sufficating effect more promptly
- Make Displacement Shield have priority over other shielding so that it can actually be usefully used in conjunction with them.
- Corrected Harassed tooltip display (was 100x too high)
- Lowered difficulty of Murgol Lair, specifically the alt version
- Clarified Tricks of the Trade to make it more obvious that it does not teach Stealth
- Devouring flames (and similar effects) will not try to heal the source if it's dead
- Ritch Hive Mother is correctly set as female
- Quest items/plot items can not be sent to other party members
- Undeads cant use infusions instead of only being able to use runes (doesnt change anything for vanilla)
- If the rod of recall fails to activate it wont go on cooldown
- Buffed curse of nighmare to start triggering at level 4 (as the description was implying)
- Yeeks summoned Wayists do not drop items
- Party members are cleaned of debuff when going to the Eidolon plane
- Primal Infusion scales with constitution
- Mitotic mindstars do not copy if tinkered
- Windblade has 0 range, so NPCs won't misuse it
- Warn player that the exploratory farportal is broken even if there is less than 45 energy
- Sludgenest drops Maj'Eyal items
- Added new horrors
- Updated Cyst Burst description to reflect that it can spread any disease.
- Adds more zone-wide effects in. About half of them explain special level mechanics, the rest are just for flavour or some minor gameplay spice.
- Shield damage correctly reflects no off-hand penalty.
- Dug sandwalls have a tooltip.
- Arcane Combat now interacts correctly with the Hidden Resources prodigy.
- Adds a center view on player key command (Ctrl-Home by default).
- Reworked interface Archery to properly handle multiple missile launchers.
- Dwarves can no longer stone walk throught foes
- Allow damage shields to merge
- Clarify Arcane Shield talent description
- Adds some failed necromantic experiment creatures to the Blighted Ruins.
- Horrors are their own faction
- Added achievement image for Best Album Ever
- Altered/added a variety of Undead enemies
- Draebor is even more annoying.
- Reduced the cap on how much Sandman effects Insomnia to 12%
- Reduced Paradox cost on Time Shield, Webs of Fate, and Temporal Fugue
- Twist Fate gives audio feedback when an anomaly is held
- Twist Fate gives better messages when an anomaly is targeted
- Paradox Modifier can not reduce duration below one turn
- Added text to antimagic quest to explain why Ogres can do it
- Reckless Charge can once again go through crowds
- Makes doors and known traps detected at range remembered (and on the minimap)
- Makes non-player actors get the effects of their on-birth stats.
- Make ALL_DREAMS unlock be granted even after killing the Mindworm.
- Cancelling secondary target for Nature's Equilibrium now targets self
Dev Stuff
- Added "callbackOnChangeLevel"
- If a module or addon errors out on the loading screen it will jump into a "safe mode" to display the error message and then go back to the main menu
- Changes disease spreading code to be more general to works nicely with any future or addon diseases.
- Added Map:setScroll
- Opening a door triggers a "on_door_opened" event on all entities at the same spot on the map
- New ActorProject:getTargetLimited method
- Added a util.show_function_calls() function to help find infinite loops and such
- Combat:combatSpeed can take an additional speed
- Added Map:findObject method
- Added a generic way to get total shield block value, actor:combatShieldBlock()
- Simplified support of double shields by enhancing actor:hasShield()
- Forest map generator can require rooms
- GameState:findEventGridRadius also returns the center of the grids
- Generic triggers mechanisms added to let static maps do funky stuff
- Moved greater vaults into data/maps/vaults/auto/greater; any files that addons add there will automatically be added to the list (for zones that do not enforce a specific list)
- Entities lists loaded with Entity:loadList now remember which files were used
- Modify module() a bit to prevent leaking the global namespace into each and every module and object.
- Added an options menu to the birther dialog, for addons registering to it with "ToME:extraBirthOptions" hook. Only appears if addons fill it.
- Added Game:isAddonActive method to let an addon check the presence of an other addon
- Added "superload" function
- Added hook ToME:birthDone
- Resources now can have a wait_on_rest flag to make resting wait for them (if possible)
- Move useResources to engine/interface/ActorResource.lua
- Object's special_desc can return nil
- Weapons can now have the "double_weapon" property to enable two handed weapons to count as dual wielding
- "callbackOnTemporaryEffect" can now return true to cancel
- New callback callbackOnDeathbox
- Added hook "Faction:setReaction"
- Allow static maps to define callback to be ran when the level is finished generating
- Moved Resource definitions to data/resources.lua
- Added support for depleted resources canceling sustained talents (resources_def.depleted_unsustain and talents_def.remove_on_zero flags).
- Temporary effects on_gain/on_loose definitions can simply have "true" as the second return to make a flyer of the form +/- "effect name"
- Added a combat_generic_power
- New level generator algorithm "Hexacle" (yes the name is stupid, so what?!)
- Cavern map generator can now accomodate rooms
- Updated damage_types to use initState & useImplicitCrit; update your addons if needed
- New extensible command-staff system. Possibly callbacks may be added to it, too.
- In developer mode an error popup forces all other dialogs to disappear; making sure even level generation errors do popup correctly
- Added core.game.requestNextTick()
- Improve lore templating capabilities
Fixes
- Try to fix the gamma issue on some computers
- Fixes bugs with sleeping characters being able to change equipment (put on a lucid dreamer robe, for example), drop and pickup objects.
- Fixes bug allowing stealth to be used with heavy armor (by changing gear while it is active).
- Enhanced stealth info.
- Occasional turn loss fix.
- Fix Rune: Biting Gale not being used by tactical AI
- Solipsist unlock didn't work on dream altar, should now
- Fixes a crash when the caustic ego corrodes armor.
- Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not require to check the "old savefiles" checkbox anymore
- Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not display the "download old data" popup anymore
- Fix Temporal Fugue on traps
- Fixed teleportation/phase door ending in walls in the Charred Scar
- Fixed the racial talent description of Thalore
- Fixed errors on death for players with a % in their names
- Fixed Greater Crypt vault
- Fixed windows scaling bugs on high DPI screens
- Fixed the game not starting on some latest ubuntu installs
- Fixed Skirmisher's Swift Shot abuse
- Make Contingency and Matrix respect fixed cooldowns
- Fixed flying text to not stutter while disappearing
- Fixed targetting bugs in Retch and Stone Wall.
- Fixed Twist Fate
- New string.prefix and string.suffix functions
- Fixed archery to properly do on_hit, on_crit, and on_kill effects for ranged weapons and ammo. It now properly handles single and
- Fixed digging into icewalls
- Fixed Tirakai Maul; lets see what bug it does next!
- Fixed Frost Lord Chains
- Fixed Time Stop + Contingency (hopefully)
- Fixed The Mouth sometimes erroring out
- Tentacles spawned by the tentacled totems are correctly named
- Fix Overseer of Nations double bonus
Have fun!
