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Embers of Rage: Release date!
February 16, 2016
By darkgod - February 16, 2016

 

Mark your calendars my minions!

 

Embers of Rage will be available on the 23rd February of the year 2016 (yes that is in one week!) !

 

What is Embers of Rage ?

It is the latest expansion for Tales of Maj'Eyal, and not a puny small thing at that! It is a whole new campaign that will take your characters from level 1 to 50 in a full set of brand new zones/quests/lore.

One year has passed since the one the Orcs call the "Scourge from the West" came and single-handedly crushed the Orc Prides of Grushnak, Vor, Gorbat, and Rak'Shor.  The Allied Kingdoms, now linked by farportal to their distant, long-lost Sunwall allies, have helped them conquer most of Var'Eyal.  The few remnants of the ravaged Prides are caged...  but one Pride remains.  Kruk Pride, isolated on an island, is the last orcish settlement that stands; they, too, face their impending doom.  The Sunwall has blockaded the only exit point from the island, and now, the technologically advanced civilization of Steam Giants have come down from the mountains to take their homeland with machines and weaponry unlike anything else on Eyal.  Kruk Pride has reverse-engineered their technology before; their only hope is to do it again and rise up against the Pride's foes.

 

What is inside ?

So many things! If you think a whole new campaign is great wait until you learn that you get 3 new races to play the campaign with:

  • the Orcs (obviously!), fighting for the very survival of their race; the Kruk pride is all that is left
  • the Yetis, well kinda! An orc mind in a powerful yeti's body!
  • the Whitehooves, of which I will only say the name ;)

 

What would be a Tales of Maj'Eyal expansion without new classes? Good thing you'll also get 3 new classes:

All of which are part of the Tinker metaclass:

  • learn to maw down your foes as a Sawbutcher, dual wielding steam-powered saws to bring hot steamy mayhem to your foes!
  • become a master Gunslinger, filling your foes with bullets fired by your steam-powered guns; be elusive, be evasive, fire away and be awesome!
  • merge machine and mind with the Psyshot, of which I will not speak any more ;)

 

But what would be a good tinker without items to improve and craft ? Nothing!

All tinker classes (and all other classes can learn) start with the ability to craft powerful items to improve their equipment. Do you need to run fast? strap Rocket Boots to your shoes! Do you need a quick heal? Inject a Healing Salve directly into your bloodstream! Do you love fire and flames? Strap an Incendiary Groove to your weapon!

There are over 70 crafts to choose and use.

 

The expansion also comes with a full contingent of artifacts, deadly foes, achievements and such. The classic stuff ;)

 

So, get ready! Oh and I may be posting a few teasers between now and the release, just to keep people ... teased ;)

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Ashes of Urh'Rok 1.0.5 is out!
February 8, 2016
By darkgod - February 8, 2016

My minions,

 

Here comes a small update to Ashes of Urh'Rok!

The game should auto-update it when you launch it (it may take a few hours more on Steam until all builds are updated).

 

Changelog:

  • Allow demon statues to appear in Embers of Rage zones
  • Fixed unlocks countings
  • Update to new engine shield API
  • Doomelves start with one more infusion, like all other races

 

Have fun in Eyal!

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Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.3 aka "Before the Rage" is released!
February 3, 2016
By darkgod - February 3, 2016

My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.3 ! 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.

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

 

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

 

Release highlights:

  • A few bugfixes

 

Expanded changelist:

  • Fixed crash when using a gamepad
  • Possible fix to the reaver's plague bug
  • Fixed Oozewalk too (for real)
  • Prevent Telekinetic Leap from jumping walls (for real this time)
  • Fixed not seeing the "Play" button after doing a tutorial
  • Creeping Darkness will be a dark purple instead of black in ascii mode
  • Blighted Summoning creatures come up with max vim
  • Fix Cloak of Deception buff being lost if resurrected by the Eidolon.
  • Exiting the Eidolon plane triggers callbackOnChangeLevel.
  • Fix Stalk talent not updating EFF_STALKER and EFF_STALKED properly when hitting the stalked target, and not triggering learning hate pool when learned.
  • Clarified tooltip for Reality Smearing.
  • Prevents a talent from trying to deactivate twice in some very strange corner cases
  • Added a Levelup button to the charsheet

 

Have fun!

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Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.2 aka "Stunt Forever" is released!
January 28, 2016
By darkgod - January 28, 2016

My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.2 ! 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.

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

 

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

 

Release highlights:

  • A few bugfixes

 

Expanded changelist:

  • Fixed Oozewalk being able to enter vaults
  • Telekinetic Leap can not enter vaults
  • Reverted towns items tiers limits to 1.3 ones
  • Vim talents correctly increase Equilibrium again
  • Fixed a bug that prevented to correctly unlearn talents when using objects with powers
  • Fix a few zones trying and failign to load some vaults
  • Fixed buying one item of a stack in stores
  • Quest popup can be dismissed with enter
  • Cursed Bolt informs players if it fails due to not having a shadow in sight range
  • Buff damage of Cursed Bolt
  • Tweaked particle effects for Shadow's Path
  • Clarify descriptions of Shadow's Path and Cursed Bolt
  • Fixed Shadow's Path on no-teleport maps
  • Improved Shadow's Path performances on more closed maps
  • Fixed interactions with Shadow Senses
  • Fixed error caused on zone change
  • Stop trying to rest for air
  • Fix Paradox bar color without shaders
  • Shadow Mages correctly give spellpower bonus to shadows
  • Movement infusions are tier 2

 

Have fun!

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Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.1 aka "You Shall Not Crash" is released!
January 26, 2016
By darkgod - January 26, 2016

My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.1 ! 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.

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!

 

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

 

Release highlights:

  • A few bugfixes for some people

 

Expanded changelist:

  • Protected Doomed talents that use shadows from being activated with no shadows
  • Fixed Vim color bar when not using shaders
  • Fix Spellhunt Remnants so that they have stats if they generate below material level 2
  • Fix Ascii mode
  • Kill Bill is achievable again even on insane & madness
  • Fixed crash on startup error for some rare people
  • Fix taking a screenshot while loading a level
  • Egos are again displayed in the NPC's tooltips

 

Have fun!

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Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.0 aka "We are Doomed" is released!
January 25, 2016
By darkgod - January 25, 2016

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!

 

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!

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New item's vault display on te4.org!
January 1, 2016
By darkgod - January 1, 2016

So today is the first day of the year, so happy new year ! ;)

 

Also I randomly stumbled upon an item's vault page and thought "this looks bad!".

So I made it look not bad:

 

Go check out yours!

 

PS: Yes, stunt's vault is super impressive ;)

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Last Call: IndieDB Game of the Year Top10 Vote!
December 19, 2015
By darkgod - December 19, 2015

My minions,

 

Tomorow the vote ends, so here is your last chance to make your God of Darkness happy ! :)

This will only take you a few seconds and you do want to make me happy, don't you ? *puppy eyes*

 


2015 Indie of the Year Awards via Indie DB
 
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For posterity, Eyalbook again!
December 16, 2015
By darkgod - December 16, 2015

Because there is no way in hell I'll let this great thing be forgotten, let me paste it again, been so long!

Grats to the great Burbs Lulls who created it!

 

Sorry, it just keeps on making me laugh :)

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Gamers communities are toxic? Not here!
December 13, 2015
By darkgod - December 13, 2015

I already said, many times, that I love Tales of Maj'Eyal's community but it keeps on surprising me with niceness and kindness.

Multiple times I have seen people with white names in the ingame chat (white names = people that play the free version) say things like "As soon as I get some money I'll buy this game!" and such; only to see it followed by some other person saying "I can buy it for you!".
Total strangers. Being kind to one an other!

I've had people request that I change my paypal interface to allow them to donate for an other player.

And this is only talking about the money stuff; but each time I'm on I see new people asking for advices and getting them. I see people congratulating one an other for feats of awesomeness. I see people sharing in on the loss of somebody's character.

I look at my players and I see kindness and fun; and that makes me the happiest game designer there can be!
I love you players, please keep on being nice and keep on dying ingame ;)

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