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0.3.4

This patch has a few new additions, but mostly focuses on making the battle system a bit more streamlined, as well as add and build on some good ideas that have turned up in the custom extensions.

The Ring of Blood

- The Ring of Blood has opened. Here you can challenge the legendary creatures in the system, provided you're a high enough level.

Starting a Ring challenge requires one or more Tokens of Blood, depending on the level of the challenge.

The first time you clear one you will receive a bunch of credits. Note that this is a one-time thing only, no credits will be awarded by the challenge itself for future clears.

Otherwise, it's pretty much just more Arena challenges, only with a single round and a pre-determined opponent.

New Battle Actions

- Added the battle action: Defend
-- Using this action will skip your turn, while giving you a one-turn buff that increases your physical and magical defenses for that turn.
-- The actual increase is a mitigation boost of 25%, equivalent to wearing 25% worth of armor mitigation.

- Added the battle action: Focus
-- Focus will skip your turn, while giving you a one-turn buff that reduces the chance that any spell cast that turn is resisted or interfered. You must cast the spell the following turn for it to be effective.
-- It will also leave you vulnerable, unable to avoid attacks or magic. Monsters can however still miss, up to a certain level. Evade/Block/Parry does not work while you're under the effect of Focus.
-- The actual increase is a +50 Magical Attack Hit Chance, equivalent to using gear with +50 to this stat, as well as a -25 modifier to effective interference.

GUI Tweaks

- Corrected some element positioning in the monster info box.

- Effects should no longer trigger on dead mobs.

- The effect display is now sorted by the number of turns remaining. So, the effects that are closest to expire will now always be displayed when there are more effects than what fits on the display.

- The equipment floater now displays gear stats scaled to your level after the max-level gear stats. If your level is equal to or higher than the equipment level, these won't show up.

- Dead monsters are now faded out.

Keyboard Hotkeys

- The buttons for Attack, Magic, Spirit, Skill, Items, Defend and Focus are now bound to keyboard keys Q, W, E, A, S, D and F, respectively.

- You can now hit R to recast the previously cast spell on the previously selected target, or yourself if a friendly spell was cast.
-- If no spell was cast, hitting R will have same effect as hitting W.
-- If the previous target is dead, it will open the magic menu and select the previously cast spell, but not cast it.
-- Recast works even if you do other actions in between.

- Monsters are now bound to the numeric keys. The first monster is key 1, the 10th monster is key 0. This should work both for the numeric row and the numpad.

Quickcast Bar

- A quickcast bar has been added to the battle system.

- You can either click the bitty icons directly, or use the keyboard hotkeys Alt-1, Alt-2... through Alt-0 to activate the spells.

- Note that Self-spells fire immediately, while other spells require you to select a target.

- You can assign spells to the Quickcast Bar from the Settings page. Mostly because this was the only way I could think of that wouldn't take hours to code.

Misc

- Monsters now start out with a random amount of Magic and Spirit. In many cases monsters will therefore have to regen some before they can fire off skills.

- Two-Handed now has a wider range. It can now also hit monsters two slots away from your target. However, in order to do so the monster in between must also be hit.

- Increased the base chance for triggering the Two-handed aoe effect.

That was quick. Time to test things out.


edited:

OMG. I love how the spawns don't start out with full MP. And I like the fade-out dead monsters.

This post has been edited by oumi11: Aug 31 2009, 08:44

Holy Crap! SWEET!

Woot. Finally no more broken first turn 400 damage rape from mob skills (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

So that's what the Blood Tokens are for! *goes to buy a couple for later* Probably won't try one until after I raise my support proficiency, though.

The new Quickcast is pretty neat, loving it already. Not sure if the general hotkeys are working though, I'm hitting Q and numbers and nothing's happening.

Edit: There we go, hotkeys are responding now. <3 Don't know what was wrong before.

The equipment floater tweaks are love.

Edit again:
Now all we need is a hotkey for the Next Round button.

And now they're not working again. What?

This post has been edited by cmal: Aug 31 2009, 08:59

exelent work, time to test focus and defend =)

Nice bonus for 2H. Thanks, Tenboro. I've been cutting a swath through the monsters with my longsword, but they better start running now.

Too fast for an update but thanks anyway and woohoo for the 2 handed weapon.

You have given me what I wanted! Real Life will be my bitch as soon as I get more Tokens of Blood.

127 9 You gain 26043 Credits!
127 8 You gain 57304.48 EXP!
127 7 Your HP and MP have been fully restored!
127 6 Arena Clear Bonus! Received:
[Godly Spirit Draught]
127 5 Ryouko Asakura dropped [Hinamatsuri Doll]
127 4 You are Victorious!
127 3 Ryouko Asakura has been defeated.

0 2 Spawned Monster A: MID=22 (Ryouko Asakura) LV=162 HP=136680 MP=215 SP=678 NA=50 Type=hostile
0 1 Initializing arena challenge #107 (Round 1 / 1) ...
0 0 Battle Start!

How do I use defend? I clicked it and nothing happened. 2 clicks,
and nothing either.

I really like the concept of the Ring of Blood even though I can't try them for a while. By using tokens as entrance fee instead of Credits, people won't complain about losing shitload of credits for failing the challenges. Hopefully, we will get a few lower level Ring of Blood in the future. They look fun.

A possible suggestion is: Instead of getting credits for clearing the levels like the Arenas, maybe we could get rare presetted items in the Ring of Blood?

Looks like I'm going to have to buy some tokens now.

Nice job. Now all i need to do is get those darn tokens.

Thank you for another quick release of more content (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'm not sure if its a bug or something, but hotkeys are only working for me on the first round. The next round, none of them work, not even the Quickcast. I went into Cakefest, used the number keys to target monsters, they're all dead. Used the mouse to continue to the next round. None of the keys are working.

BTW, does this mean we'll be getting mobs of 10 in Grindfest now?

not bad cant wait to try out

awesome changes, but it seems that hotkeys & quickbar sometimes don't react properly

Ooh, more ways to die. As if I didn't already get my arse handed to me all the time. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I want to add that sometimes Focus, Defend, and the quickbar slots just fizzle out on me. I only had trouble with offensive spells on the quickbar slot.

Interesting system. Just tested, and it bugged me that even thought quickaccess buttons to magic are quite useful, they only work in the first battle of grindfest o.oUU

Also Are Focus an defend Considered as "Skills" or is "flee" alone in that category ??

All teh other stuff, definitely great. I just need to be level 50 to get to Ring of blood!! xD

Hooray for Focus!!!
I Weakened a cockatrice!! I can't remember the last time I was able to use Weaken (I'm a fridge). Bring it on Canucks and Hedgehogs!