[0.6.40] Weapon Reforged

This release focuses heavily on an overhaul of how weapon plays to make it more active and interesting. Alongside is better support for translations, a TON of QoL features, and a mass of bugfixes.

Changes

• Weapon has been overhauled.

  • Dancing weapons can now be reused to double their effects for a round.

  • Dancing weapons can be 'tempered' to permanently increase their damage.

  • Puppets now have health, and intercept a portion of damage before the player. New repair techniques have been introduced to allow repairing a puppet.

  • Most of the other weapon techniques have been tweaked, overhauled, or replaced.

• Introduced a defeat analysis system that gives hints on issues with the stance, playstyle, and other suggestions.

• Added a "World Events" tab to the Journal for tracking time-sensitive activities.

• Implemented "Conditional Cycles" in the stance manager. This allows the creation of named rotations with a rule for when they take precedence over the default.

• Added "Quick Travel" functionality to the world map via a sidebar listing all unlocked settlements.

• Expanded language support and localization.

  • Added Finnish and Polish language support.

  • Language detection prompt on startup based on Steam/system settings.

• Shop now has a "Buy all materials" button and tooltip for Ctrl+Click shortcut for stack transactions.

• Added "Consume all held Spirit Fruits" button in the inventory. This does it in the most optimal way to not waste any.

• Enhanced the Pillar Grid ui:

  • Supports panning via WASD, Arrow keys, or Middle-Mouse-Button dragging.

  • Tiles can be placed anywhere on an empty grid without adjacency requirements.

• Sparring with an npc will now teach you their style after combat. This appears in the manual list, but requires first knowing all the techniques in that style before you can use it.

• Technique enhancement interface now includes a "10 levels at once" button.

• Screen transition time halved.

• Right clicking a crop in the herb garden now removes it. It also unselects the selected crop if you have one selected.

• Added more accessibility tags to the herb garden to hopefully improve navigation.

• The instant craft preview now show a preview of the stack range for high quality crafts.

• Added buttons to reorder loadouts / styles.

• The altar icon on locations now shows the cooldown / ready state.

Balance Changes

• Shadow nerfed:

  • Shadow Sickness self-damage increased from 4% to 5% Max HP.

  • AdjustedSnaking CorruptionVulnerability/Weakness reduced from 3% to 2% per stack.
  • AdjustedShadow ShroudReduced power bonus scaling by 25%; maximum Barrier Effectiveness capped at 25% (down from 60%).
  • RemovedWrithing Cloak TalismanRemoved Defense/Barrier Effectiveness; now increases Max Barrier by 4-6% per Shadow Sickness stack (cap 60-90%) with a -50% Healing penalty.

• Blood and Fist buffed by 10%.

• Cloud and Blossom nerfed by 10%.

• Formation Parts nerfed:

  • Base power for Formation Core, Infused Cauldron, and Myriad Core reduced by 50%, but now gain +10% bonus per active Formation Part.

  • Inscription Echo part requirement increased from 5 to 8.

  • Building Momentum part requirement increased from 7 to 10.

  • Zenith Pagoda effect thresholds increased to 7, 10, and 13 parts.

• AdjustedEmpower Talisman reworkedPower bonus changed from 40-70% to 20% per stack; duration increased to 9-11 rounds (from 4-7); decays by one stack per round.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed combining shards not visually updating the inventory.

• Inscription Robe IV realm corrected from Qi Condensation to Core Formation.

• Fixed crafting skill rewards for festival and beast wave events: Perfect results grant 3 skill (up from 2) and Sublime results grant 7 skill (up from 4).

• Fixed a critical issue where buffs like Thunder Aspect would fail to trigger in non-English languages due to internal name comparisons.