Changelog v1.4

UI Changes

Inventory and User Interface Enhancements

• Print message when a monster triggers a trap.
• Revealed traps show the type of the trap
• Added new sound FX for using magic staves and scythes.
• Improved aim-ray when the player is aiming.
• Enhanced idle animation for the player; equipment will now move up and down.
• Added more informative text in the console after certain actions.
• Updated the Help (?) menu with additional commands.
• Players can now select the season on the Champion's Stone.
• Player will name each seen monster the first time they are encountered.
• Added update checker for new versions of Coop Catacombs.
• Added four more labels to display player status on the sidebar.
• Monster projectiles (arrows) have improved sprites showing direction/aim.
• Poisoned monsters will display a sprite indicating poison.
• Update descriptions for Sabre and Sword

Accessibility and Navigation Improvements

• Fast selection feature for typing online messages promotes easier navigation.
• Fast aim selection using TAB and CTRL keys

Gameplay Additions

New Features and Mechanics

• Introduced "seasons": after completing dungeon 35, a new season starts, resetting the dungeon level back to 1.
• New commands added for enhanced gameplay:
  • "Shift+T" to re-throw the same weapon at the last targeted monster, speeding up ranged combat.
  • "z" to rest for 100 turns; this action will cancel if the status changes, a monster appears, or the player is attacked.

Combat and Interaction Enhancements

• New items added to enhance combat and strategic interactions:
  • Magic Rings:
    • Ring of Perception: See through obstacles within a radius that scales with enchantment level.
    • Ring of Fling: Increases damage when throwing weapons, scales with enchantment level.
    • Ring of Masochist: Increases damage dealt and received per hit.
  • Magic Staves:
    • Staff of Cloning: Clones the target object/monster.
    • Staff of Translocation: Swap positions with a target.
    • Staff of Perforation: Destroys walls to create shortcuts.
    • Staff of Bastion: Creates walls to imprison monsters or block corridors.
    • Staff of Polymorph: Transforms the target monster into another monster.
    • Staff of Force: Displaces monsters by a shockwave; causes damage if they hit walls.
    • Staff of Poison: Deal damage to monsters each turn. Spawn poison gas after death
  • Magic Potions:
    • Potion of Resistance: Increases player's defense by +1; also affects monsters.
    • Potion of Dusk: Halves the player's vision range.
    • Potion of Chaos: Consuming causes all negative statuses; when thrown, polymorphs monsters and spawns random gas.
    • Potion of Vampirism: Heals player every time touches blood. Duration 10 times
  • Demolition Shockwave:
    • Scroll of Demolition: Destroys all obstacles around the player; also deals damage to nearby entities.
    • Pendant of Demolition: Similar effects to the Scroll of Demolition, destroying obstacles and dealing damage around the player.

Terrain and Equipment Changes

• Introduced various new changes:
  • New terrains: Withered grass (fire spreads fast) and debris (post-magic effects).
  • New trap: Rust acid gas (rusts one piece of armor each turn).
  • New status effect: Goopy Eyes (halves vision and reduces hit probability by 5%, lasts 50 turns).
  • New weapon effect: Double hit (sword may hit twice per attack).
  • Less metal grates on dungeons
  • Slime, Jelly Ochre, and Gelatinous Cube will affect the player with goop.

Environmental and AI Adjustments

• New behaviors and AI improvements for monsters:
  • Centaurs prefer ranged combat.
  • Confused monsters will avoid using doors and perform fewer ranged attacks.
  • Improved patrol movements for non-player characters.
  • Added ranged vision for monsters

Balancing Fixes

Monster and Combat Adjustments

• Balanced drop tables for items
• Adjusted effects and behaviors to improve game balance:
  • Adjusted drop item probabilities for Treants and Ghosts.
  • Spiked Shield will reflect more damage per hit
  • Modified damage interactions involving environmental effects and critical attacks.
  • Monsters generated at deeper dungeon levels (>25) will have increased base damage.
  • Reduced environmental fire and poison damage to monsters
  • Buffed damage from crushing monsters into walls (hammers)
  • Buffed 5% the chances to proc push effect from hammers
  • Buffed lunge attack from sabre, from x1.5 to x3
  • Attacking with Sabre will have +2% hit probability
  • Axe and War Axe will hit all 8 adyacents tiles
  • Increased hit probability when attack melee. The minimum chances to hit raised from 10% to 16%
  • Increased hit probability when throwing weapons. The minimum chances to hit raised from 15% to 20%
  • Increased damage for javelins, both wooden and bronze
  • Increased +5% chances to proc double attack from Swords
  • Sabre base damage nerfed from 3d4 to 2d4
• Monsters balancing:
  • Various monster-specific adjustments, such as for Hellhounds, Jelly Ochre, Minotaurs, Purple Worms and Dragons.
  • Buffed damage output for werewolves, treants, and ghosts.
  • Carnivorous Plant may spawn acid gas or poison after being killed
  • Silver Knight rework: They use spears so they can attack from 1 tile of distance
  • Silver Knight experience bug, from 100 to 1000 experience points
    • Spider gives more XP
    • Slime gives more XP, may drop items (low chance)
    • Cobra damage reduced from 1d10 to 1d8
    • Increased drop chances to 15 monsters: From Quasits to Werewolves; +2% to +5% more chances
    • Gelatinous Cube increased HP and AC, also more item drop chances
  • Ochre Jelly / Purple Worm will have a 10% to not rust your equipment
  • Special monsters than can steal, paralyze or poison have 2% less hit probability
  • Reduced 5% chances of getting poison per hit

Equipment and Potion Balancing

• Reworked several items to balance gameplay:
  • Reduced healing percentage of Potions/Pendants of Life.
  • Nerfed the Ring of Leech, Ring of Trapfinder and the Scroll of Enchantment.
  • Staffs and Pendants may now appear without being fully charged.
  • Pendants and staves spawn with at least 2 charges
  • Balancing adjustments for item distributions across scrolls, staves, and rings.
  • Reduced chances to find Water and Fire Immunity potions
  • Each weapon enchantment will add +1% hit probability. From +3% to +4% per enchant
  • Increased chances to find enchanted items

Gameplay Mechanics Adjustments

• Major tweaks to gameplay mechanics:
  • Introduced new organic and realistic behaviors for fire/gas expansions.
  • Adjusted the effectiveness and radius of various spells and effects.
  • Modified the hit probability mechanics to provide a more challenging and balanced experience.
  • Reworked confusion effects to make them less impactful on gameplay.
  • Buffed Staff of Monster Creation: It will create two monsters per cast.
  • Reduced haste effect, from +20% to +18% hit probability
  • Confused and paralyze reduce player's hit probability 2% more, from -15% to -18%
  • Traps become visible if an enemy step on them
  • Water can be used to clean goopy eyes
  • Corrosion affects equipped rings

Bug Fixes

Gameplay and Interaction Corrections

• Addressed critical gameplay and interaction bugs:
  • Fixed a critical bug where monster vision was not working! Now every monster will have its own vision range
  • Fixed issues with projectile damage calculations and monster position reservations.
  • Corrected bugs related to environmental interactions such as traps and halberds.
  • Monsters will not reserve their position as occupied when the dungeon is loading, fixing a prevalent bug.
  • Added delay between HTTP request retries, solving connectivity problems.
  • When dropping a staff/pendant after death, add +2 charges max
  • When dropping a potion/scroll after death, add +2 quantity max

UI and Visual Fixes

• Resolved various UI and visual issues:
  • Corrected typos in words like "pillar," "step," "corroded," and "receives."
  • Fixed the non-functional Discord logo in the Main Menu.
  • Ensured consistent visual effects for fluids and gases.
  • Monsters will drop items even on grate/door tiles
  • Monsters will not take a turn after creating fire or gas from potions