0.35.0-alpha.1

Changes

• You can now get up to 6 Tavern Rumors every cycle (up from 4)
• Tavern Rumors now have a linearly scaling cost. Each paid rumor costs an amount based on the standard (vanilla) rumor price, multiplied by the number of the paid rumor you are about to buy
• Small Ifrits now have Man of Steel, 55 Hitpoints (down from 110) and 165 Armor (up from 110)
• Medium Ifrits now have Man of Steel 110 Hitpoints (down from 220) and 220 Armor (up from 110). They lose 10 Damage and gain Marksmanship
• Large Ifrits now have Man of Steel, 220 Hitpoints (down from 440) and 330 Armor (up from 110). They lose 10 Damage and gain Marksmanship
• Oathtaker Background now spawns with +1 Weapon Group (down from +2)
• Resurrecting Zombies can no longer push back rooted characters
• Knock Back, Hook and Repel can no longer be used, if there is no tile to knock/pull the target into
• Marksmanship now displays a mini-icon and effect-icon while active
• Formidable Approach now displays a mini-icon while the character has a bonus against at least one enemy
• NPC ranged troops now value scatter targets 80% less (down from 66% less)
• Hide mini-icon of Bulwark and Man of Steel perks
• Shorten injury threshold mentioning tooltip of stab skill

Fixes

• Fix dagger skills showing mention of Crowded in then when Hit and Run is unlocked
• Fix peasants always dropping loot for the player, even if someone else kills them
• Fix Knock Back triggering hit and miss events twice
• Fix Swallow Whole not being used again a single opponent

For Modder

• Add new MaximumRumors member in tavern_building.nut, which can be used to change the maximum amount of rumors every cycle
• The vanilla function getRumorPrice from tavern_building is now fully supported and used everywhere
• Add new isLootAssignedToPlayer(_killer) function in actor.nut, which can be used during custom implementations or adjustments of getLootForTile function
• Add new HD_IgnoreForCrowded = false flag for skills. When true, then Crowded is never active for them
• Deprecate and remove getDroppedLoot

0.35.0-alpha.0

DEPENDENCIES

• Now requires Reforged 0.7.0-alpha.0 or later

Fixes

• Fix various contracts not starting correctly
• Fix Shoot Stake rarely being able to knock target up 2 levels

0.34.0

Important

• This version requires Vanilla 1.5.0.15
• If you want to play on Vanilla 1.5.1.4 (latest version), use the pre-release version here instead

Changes

• Fruits of Labor is reworked. It now grants 5% more Hitpoints, Stamina, Resolve and Initiative
• Crossbow Mastery no longer reduces the AP cost of reload with Heavy Crossbows. This never worked anyways because Heavy Crossbows had no increased reload cost in the first place
• Indebted no longer roll Pauper Perk Group. Instead they randomly roll any one of the other exclusive perk groups (except swordmaster)
• Soldier Group no longer guarantees Professional perk or Trained Group. Instead it only applies a 2.5 multiplier for Trained Group
• Shorten tooltip on locations about hiding defender down to one line
• Anticipation now spawns an overlay icon when it was triggered
• Add tip of the day about blocking corpse reanimation

Items

• Wooden Flail now has 3 Reach (up from 2)
• Flail and Three-Headed Flail now have 3 Reach (down from 4)
• Two-handed Wooden Flail, Two-handed Flail and Berserk Chain now have 4 Reach (down from 5)
• Reinforced Wooden Poleflail and Poleflail now have 5 Reach (down from 6)
• Heavy Crossbow and Spiked Impaler now have +2 Fatigue Cost for their weapon skills
• Warbow now has a weight of 8 (up from 6) and has +2 Fatigue Cost for its weapon skills
• Adorned Mail Shirt now has a weight of 16 (up from 11), condition of 150 (up from 130) and value of 1050 (up from 800); just like in Vanilla

Fixes

• Adjust Cheap Trick perk description to correctly explain that it now affects complete skills (= all targets of an AoE skill) rather than just a single attack
• Fix enemy non-humans becoming unkillable, when a third party did more than 50% damage to them

Known Issues

• Named shields on enemy tooltips have no names, until after you loot them

0.33.1

Fixes

• Fix freeze during combat against enemies with shield destroying skills

Known Issues

• Named shields on enemies have no names (= broken tooltip), until after you loot them
• Beasts glitch out and stop dying, if a third party did more than 50% of damage to them

0.33.0

Changes

• Tryout now costs 100% more crowns
• You can now dismiss recruits in towns after trying them out to make space for new arrivals
• Death Dealer is completely reworked. It now grants 5% more damage with AoE-Attacks for every enemy within 2 tiles
• Hybridization no longer grants a HitChance bonus when switching weapons. It now grants +5 Melee Defense if you have at least 70 Base Ranged Skill. And it grants +5 Ranged Defense, if you have at least 70 Base Melee Skill
• Command can now be used on fleeing allies. In this case it triggers a positive morale check first. Then, if they are not fleeing, they are moved forward in the turn order, like before
• Bow Mastery no longer grants +1 Vision
• Flail Mastery no longer grants +5% HitChance with Thresh and it no longer grants the From all Sides perk. You now gain the From all Sides effect until the start of your next turn, after you use a Flail Skill. This effect makes you count twice for the purpose of surrounding adjacent enemies
• From All Sides (now enemy only perk) is completely reworked. You now gain the From all Sides effect until the start of your next turn, after you use a Attack Skill. This effect makes you count twice for the purpose of surrounding adjacent enemies
• Worn Down (applied by Wear them Down perk) now also applies 20% less Ranged Defense to the target
• Sword Mastery no longer removes the HitChance penalty for Riposte
• Riposte no longer has any penalty to HitChance
• Footwork perk no longer grants Sprint
• Footwork is now a Tier 1 perk (down from Tier 5)
• Pathfinder is now a Tier 3 perk (up from Tier 1)
• Death Dealer is removed from the Agile group and added to the Power group in Tier 6
• Dynamic Duo is removed from the Fast group and added to the Agile group in Tier 4
• Wear them Down is added to the Fast group in Tier 3
• Quickhands in Trained group moves back to Tier 2 (just like in Reforged)

Items

• Player Banner now also has the Repel skill
• Crude Javelins on NPCs now start with 3 ammo

Enemies

• Brigand Highwayman appear slightly earlier as leader
• Small Nachzehrer have 0 Melee Defense (down from 10) and gain Ghostlike
• Revert Hitpoint and Armor changes to Ifrits so they are back to Reforged levels

AI

• NPCs with Toolbox are now 50% more likely to target a staggered enemy with a blunt throwing attack
• NPCs are 50% more likely to use Split Shield when it would destroy a shield on use
• NPCs are 20% more likely to use a throwing spear against shield users and 50% more likely to target shields, that it would destroy on use

Quality of Life

• Add Setting (on) to skip newlines in combat log during the execution of the same skill

Fixes

• Adjust tooltip icon of several tooltip lines about how long the effect lasts
• Rename Kata Step to Passing Step in a few places, just like Reforged did
• Fix Unstoppable tooltip being broken
• Fix armor/helmets that you loot rarely becoming un-equippable

For Modder

• Add new ::Const.World.Assets.TryoutCostPct value for controlling how much tryout costs
• Add new ::Math.clamp(_integerValue, _min, _max) and ::Math.clampf(_floatValue, _min, _max) functions
• Make getSurroundedCount function from actor.nut more moddable. The new countsAsSurrounding function from actor.nut controls, what counts as surrounding (ignoring distance). The new __calculateSurroundedCount returns the actual number of surrounding enemies, without any clamping or StartSurroundCountAt

0.32.2

Changes

• Improve tooltip of unstoppable effect

Fixes

• Fix Barbarian King Contract fight not starting correctly
• Fix perk groups not being recognized correctly after loading

0.32.1

Changes

• Attachements no longer randomly spawn on NPCs
• Toolbox now grants 100% more shield damage with throwing spears (up from 50%)
• Toolbox now sets the duration of any remaining Staggered effect on the target to 1, when stunning it with blunt attacks
• Heavy throwing weapons now have 5 Maximum Ammo (up from 4)
• Champion Fallen Heroes lose Nine Lives
• NPCs are 1% more likely per missing 1% hitpoints to target a Nachzehrer, that is standing on a consumable corpse
• Heavy Throwing weapons which spawn on NPCs start with randomly 3 or 4 ammo, instead of the full amount

Fixes

• Fix Bone Breaker ignoring immunity to injuries
• Fix Bulwark still mentioning the negative morale check resolve bonus in its tooltip

0.32.0

Changes

• Battle Fervor is reworked. It still grants 10% more Resolve at all times. It now grants 10% more Melee Skill, Melee Defense, Ranged Skill and Ranged Defense while at Steady Morale
• Dismantle now always grants 100% more Shield Damage, instead of only against full health enemies
• Bulwark no longer grants additional Resolve against negative morale checks
• Nachzehrer no longer have Deep Cuts
• Lindwurms no longer have Survival Instinct. They now have 20 Melee Defense (up from 10)
• Lindwurm Tails now have 30 Melee Defense (up from 20)
• Lute now has a 100% chance to stun
• Goedendag now has a 100% chance to stun
• Resurrecting Corpses can no longer knock backn characters that are immune to Knock Back. Instead they delay their resurrection
• Simplify Berserk perk description

Fixes

• Fix Combo saying "turn" in its description, when it should be "round"
• Fix failing a contract negotitation freezing the screen
• Fix crash when trying to load the game with an active barbarian king contract

0.31.0

Now requires Reforged 0.6.17+

Changes

• Double Strike is no longer limited to melee attacks
• Fallen Heroes now have a 100% resurrection chance (up from 90%) and -10 Hitpoints
• Regular Zombies now have a 100% resurrection chance (up from 66%) and -10 Hitpoints
• Loot that is not equippable in battle no longer appears on the ground (e.g. Beast Trophies/Ingredients)
• Caravan Contracts that are declined or which expire now sometimes spawn a caravan towards the destination
• Add explanation about compensation experience sharing in the compensation tooltip
• Improve the calculation for the right camera height/level to show during combat

Fixes

• Fix Hit and Run causing dagger attacks to be affected by Crowded
• Fix (Vanilla) characters under berserker mushroom effect yelling when they use ranged skills

0.30.1

Fixes

• Fix battles with someone having Parry not loading correctly
• Fix Fresh and Furious having the perk description of Fruits of Labor