- fixed a bug where trample and grass both played instead of just trample
- volume tweaks to item, dewdrop, and debuff
- added a hitsound for arrows/darts
- added pitch variance to crossbow and bow
- adjusted hit_strong to mix better with other sounds, and to sound better on phone speakers
- adjusted health_warn and adjusted volume/trigger thresholds for health_warn and health_critical
Buffs:
- Ward/sentry energy cost reduced by 1, wand of warding energy capacity also reduced by 1
- Wards/sentries are now inorganic
- Vision range up to 4/5/6/7/8/9 from 3/4/5/6/7/8
- Zaps per ward tier increased to 1/3/5 from 1/3/4
- Upgrading a sentry now always grants it the largest possible health boost (18/22)
- Regular Sentry healing up to 8/10/15 from 6/8/12
QoL:
- Ward sprites now visually darken as they use up charges
- Sentries now show how much they are being healed by wand of warding
Massively reduced cases of "can't place ward here":
- wards can now be adjacent to eachother
- wards can now be summoned out of FOV if nothing is in the way
- wards now spawn adjacent to an enemy/wall if shot at one
And two that are more adjustments/nerfs:
- Lesser sentries now start with 4 less HP for each zap they used as a ward
- Attack speed changed to .5x/.5x/.5x/1x/1x/1x from .5x/.5x/.67x/.67x/1x/1x
- sniper's mark now lasts 4 turns, up from 2
- further increased distance-based damage scaling on sniper shot
- assassin preparation now maxes at 11 turns, and becomes stronger faster
- preparation now executes enemies below a health threshold, rather than dealing more damage at low enemy HP.
- Knockback effects (blast wave, elastic, repulsion) now close doors if the knockback target was inside one.
- Swiftness now requires no enemies within 2 tiles, up from 1 tile
- Camouflage now applies regular invisibility, but duration scaling is halved
- Flow speed multiplier increased to 2 + 0.25*lvl from 2.
- Antimagic defense reduced by ~20%
- Thorns proc rate scaling with level reduced by ~50%
- Corrupting proc rate scaling with level increased by ~20%
- Chilling and Shocking proc rate reduced
- Shocking no longer harms allies
- Sai blocking reduced to 0 from 0-2
- Roundshield base dmg/block reduced to 3-10/0-4 from 3-12/0-5
- Greataxe base dmg reduced to 5-40 from 5-50
- Greatshield base block reduced to 0-6 from 0-10
- Gauntlet blocking reduced to 0 from 0-4
- The fight now starts when a player approaches a pylon, not when they leave the entrance
- Increased the speed/intensity of the environment spark particle effects
- Made several changes to DM-300's dialogue, and swapped the current hint for a new one
The goal of these changes is to make the goals of the fight more intuitive
Evan Debenham