Game Updates - 2023 February 12
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:52 pm
Development Team
- Weirdomen (Ruffo on Discord) has joined us as the newest member of the Development Team!
- Carousel Station will now announce how many Macro Syndermata remain onboard at intervals of 10.
- Macro Syndermata can no longer see through Invisibility.
- The original infestation of Macro Syndermata that populate Carousel Station when it arrives have a small chance to drop laser equipment when killed.
- Combat actions that drain MP will now always drain from the targeted character and not pull from fonts if that character is connected to a font: Ghost Tendrils, Energy Flare, Umbral Sword, Focused Attack, Dark Heart, Arcane Deadeye, Arcane Capstone, Wraith, Imp, and Favor of Gnak tentacles.
- Portals now only block Glyphs of Protection from being cast on their locations - other types of Glyphs are now allowed.
- Wolf combat targeting has been made less specific - they now no longer prefer player characters as targets over other Pets.
- Aligned books now grant more XP if you're in the proper alignment, and have a chance to roll for basically the same effects as if you were respawning with Empyreal Bond, Hellspawn or Transcension. Reading books that are relevant to your character has the highest chance to trigger these effects (for example, reading a Holy Book as an angel or Good-aligned character). Odds of taking damage and the amount of damage taken were also slightly tweaked. Mundane books remain the same.
- Holy Book: 15 XP for angels and Good-aligned characters between level 10 and 20. 5 XP for Evil characters at or above level 20. 10 XP for everyone else. Has a chance to roll for Empyreal Bond results.
- Arcane Book: 15 XP for transcended and neutral-aligned characters between level 10 and 20. 5 XP for non-neutrals at or above level 20. 10 XP for everyone else. Has a chance to roll for Transcension (and a few buff potion) results.
- Unholy Book: 15 XP for demons and Evil-aligned characters between level 10 and 20. 5 XP for Good characters at or above level 20. 10 XP for everyone else. Has a chance to roll for Hellspawn results.
- Certain NPC avatars are no longer inscribed within an awkward white rectangle.
- Fixed an issue where multiple UI sidebar tabs would be displayed at once.
- When a Dark Oppressor becomes Overlord of an evil Neighborhood by slaying its previous Overlord, everyone in the neighborhood now gets a notification that this has happened. Probably this feature will be expanded in the future to include other neighborhood-wide changes.
- The text noting the presence of dead Macro Syndermata is now called out in a different color to make it more noticeable.
- Fixed an issue where spellgem-cast attacks bypassed soak.
- Arcane Shot should no longer be free vs Wards and other structures.
- Death Mastery should now account for death spell knowledge when calculating damage against structures such as wards, fortifications and glyphs.
- Acid Spittle now counts damage correctly vs Wards and other structures.
- Having Sense Magic should now properly show infusion map data. This still had incorrectly required Psychometry.
- Map display is no longer distorted in the middle-left column.
- Fixed an issue where soak did not apply to spellgem damage.
- Fixed an issue where spellgems bypassed immunities.
- Characters edited by admin tools should no longer get erroneous messages claiming that an admin has modified your character description when they haven't.
- An Elementalist who respawns with Tenacious Summoning should no longer tow any Bone Guardians they had set up to their respawn location.
- Charged attack options should no longer be thwarted by the presence of a door (only) as a structure target.
- Users of Wormholes should no longer see repeated destination options when casting portal skills in the presence of a portal.
- Lay on Hands should no longer require a positive MP count to be available as an option in the interface.