March Hotfix!

We've been fixing lots of bugs over on the experimental branch since the last update. This hotfix brings those fixes to release:

GAMEPLAY

• add more location restrictions to smith_story_beach_party.lua to fix travel bug if you click relly fast

• Added a nil-check in the "Smashing" daily feat

• Added an IsActive check in disruptor_field to prevent an infinite loop if the automech dies while the buff is active

• Added death loot for the Deltrean Diplomat

• Added Shredmaw and Droad to Rook and Sal brawls

• Added the mutation card to smith_story_take_a_sample.lua

• Added the Shredmaw and Droad to daily_boss_rush.lua

• Adjusted the scaling of all flourish related mettle upgrades so they scale to 1x instead of 1.5x

• Comedy Club: Fix text showing which cards were upgraded

• Deltrean Dignitary now gains Counter from their taunt

• Don't give saved life opinion event if your partner is dead on smith day 3.

• Exclude Luminari from being targets for side quest: Bounty Hunt.

• fix bad transition out of smith event if you decline to lick any goo

• Fix followup quest crash if target is dead in side_smith_sponsorship_deal.lua

• Fix gaining full flourish amount for attack damage that was partially defended.

• Fix Oolo hating you for killing his brother even if you left Foolo alive.

• fix timing of fssh askabouts on day 4

• Fix tracking of boss defeats on prestige not occurring for certain paired bosses like the Drusk, or the Twins.

• Fix warning about redundant ambush_Site casting. Fix a random roll that was locked from a previous debug checkin.

• Fixed bug caused by passing a difficulty level higher than 5 to the MONSTER_MASH combat party

• Fixed bug where Nadan could summon goons despite being stunned

• Fixed bug where reloading could change the boss in smith_story_marriage_contract.lua

• Fixed bug where reloading could change the boss in smith_story_tei_day_3.lua

• Fixed crash in smith_story_beach_party.lua

• Fixed incorrect cast member references in smith_story_beach_party.lua when asking Moreef about certain friends

• Fixed missing battle flags in experiment_smith_final_fight.lua

• Fixed smith being on the wrong side in side_smith_three_is_a_party.lua

• give palamborat the plot armour tag, so that he'll only show up at the end

• Mark the oshnu as wanted_alive in sidejobs/SMITH/side_smith_three_is_a_party

• minor balance change to the flead queen

• Muliffee has a better range of opinion events in her final quest

• Mullifee and theroux will help you against vix if they are at least neutral towards you.

• Mutant Vix is now mute

• Oolo and foolo hate you for killing their sibling

• Reassign pre-determined battlefield graft if it is already owned or otherwise invalid.

• Regular Vix no longer surrenders after a set number of turns. Increased Vix's panic

• Revised Rook slide art

• Slightly reduced Mutant Vix's maximum health

• The "terror" perk now applies 5 flat morale damage rather than a percentage

• the zealots now only incept kunais if their zealot_throw attack is not evaded

• Updated behaviour for Regular Vixmalli fight

• Updated the boss options in Smith's Brawl since they did not include some of his bosses

• Validate OnWin/OnSuccess usage. Unfortunately runtime is the best we can do.

• Vix's lumicytes are now slightly weaker

• You gain Flourish now for receiving damage, instead of defending damage (which didn't work anyway).

• your comrades hate you and leave you if you abandon them in side_smith_seemli_triangular_firing_squad

UI

• Add character music system to support multi theme character convos

• Add scroll bar if needed to the cards tab of the Compendium

• Added missing graft icons to the "Buy Graft" options in sal_story_merchants.lua and smith_party_store.lua

• Adjusted the fighter formation in mutant_vix.lua to prevent overlapping

• Allow you to preview voices in the compendium using a controller

• arrange night quips by character / day ( placeholders for now )

• Avoid superfluous calls to UnitFrame:DoLayout. It is called from FightScreen:DoRender once a frame anyways.

• Batch NegotiationPanel:RefreshDamagePreview calls

• Blacklist will have its pre-requisite hilight if the opponent negotiator's name isn't already on the list.

• Buttons with no right-click functionality shouldn't make sounds when you right click them

• clear text history and add a little pause after accepting/declining a quest, to improve readability

• Disable the lore tab in the compendium (at least for now)

• Don't auto-advance selected advancement when a game is won, it will remain at the last level you selected until you manually change it.

• Don't show 'playable cards left' warning for Toolbox cards, even if the option is enabled.

• don't show agents in plaxes that shouldn't show agents, even when doing a force refresh

• Don't upscale card packs in Big/Bigger UI mode, as they don't fit onscreen.

• Fade directly from combat to GameOver presentation when completing brawl.

• fix (??) for character music resuming after being interrupted by other, noncharacter music

• Fix a crash if the deckscreen filter sidebar is open when the deckscreen is closed (eg. due to upgrading a card)

• Fix brawl boss icons not showing a tooltip if it is your current node.

• Fix cards without hit anims from being cleared from the player preview in combat. (This could result in a lingering incorrect previews, such as playing Portable Bunker followed by RPG, which would indicate you are attacking your ally)

• Fix character mettle tooltip in compendium always stating 0/0.

• Fix chemist lipsynch

• Fix damage arrow previews from being rendered beneath core arguments.

• Fix for bad quest layout, if the todo list has already started updated when its contents is changed. (can happen if multiple quests change at a time)

• Fix HUD positioning for Mutated Lumicytes.

• Fix inaccurate Daily Mode tooltip

• Fix redundant hints in Card Compendium to view card info. Only show (RT).

• Fix repeating hover sound being triggered when calling TargetArrow:AttachToPosition each frame.

• Fix restoring default focus to argument if viewing draw/discard deck from Argument Inspection mode.

• fix robotBoss voice actor

• Fix string in the compendium when you have beaten a boss as max prestige

• Fix the gamepad control hints mentioning shills instead of points for various draft options.

• Fix top screen not refreshing in the FE after ChooseCardsPopup changes overlay status on itself.

• Fix vix lipsynch

• Fix y-offset for ChooseCardsInHand panel.

• Fixed incorrect loc key in smith_story_take_a_sample.lua

• Fixed innate_instinct using an invalid anim

• Fixed missing brawl/daily icons for certain bosses

• Fixed missing celebration anim for Lumin Turrets

• Fixed missing stage direction in smith_story_take_a_sample.lua

• Gamepad: Bind (RT) to Fighter Details, instead of (A) to be consistent with viewing card details.

• Gamepad: CardArrangement, ChooseCardsPanel: Don't show tooltips on focus because they are too opaque. This could be overriden on pc using the [gameplay] card_tooltip_on_focus ini setting.

• Gamepad: Disable normal menu accept (A) option to draft cards and grafts, to fix accidental picks.

• Gamepad: Disallow (A) for drafting card packs, as no such hint is shown.

• Gamepad: Don't show Flourishes hint during enemy turn.

• Gamepad: Fix targetting arrow sometimes not following focus widget in battle.

• Gamepad: Handle but don't show (B) Cancel hint when selecting cards in negotiation.

• Gamepad: Handle but don't show (B) Cancel hint when selecting cards.

• Gamepad: Map graft draft to (X) so it's consistent with card drafting. Fix 'click' sound playing when pressing (A) even though nothing happens.

• Gamepad: move Change Wheel to (RT); (LT) toggles between Inspecting arguments and cards, to be symmetric with battle.

• Gamepad: Remap view draws/discards to LB/RB, inspect to LT/RT, Flourish to RS.

• Gamepad: Suppress card details hint for CardArrangements, since it conflicts with viewing Discards.

• Gamepad: Suppress End Turn / Run while inspecting fighters or arguments.

• Gamepad: suppress show focus on cards in general.

• Give moreef a sad bonus string in smith's brawl

• GraftsCompendiumDetailsPopup now shows whether you have seen and installed the graft

• Hook up happy_call_pet quips

• hook up new music for mullifee

• In Bigger ui mode, set focus dir on the small_screen_focus_card so that left/right navigation always works.

• Initialize gamepad reticule when showing the TravelScreen to the player location.

• Loadout screen no longer indicates you have perk points to spend if you've unlocked all perks.

• make question go away after it is asked in dangerous_goods_seller.lua

• mettle upgrades are presented in a sorted order

• nil-check source_widget when updating targetting arrows. Not sure how this can happen however, but it seems to be a rare potential crash.

• only assign default focus when restoring the ChooseCardsPopup in gamepad mode.

• Only emote "injured" when being removed from an encounter at the end of combat if you are an active speaker (prevents talking animals in rare cases)

• Play acquired_flourish sound when choosing a Flourish from the popup.

• play character flourish sounds when you unlock flourish in negotiation

• play notification sfx with panning

• Pressing (B) while previewing a card in battle or negotiation will unfocus any currently selected card for easier viewing of the battlefield.

• refresh music when starting a negotiation, and favour the negotiation music over character music

• Remove an extra transition to the location screen between negotiating for a boss ally and fighting the boss.

• Restore last focus when viewing details on card/graft from DraftChoicePopup, PickGraftScreen, and CardShopScreen

• Roaloch: Fix spelling.

• Selecting combat/negotiation using gamepad will first invoke the preview panel, and only then engage. This prevents the preview panel from automatically showing up and obscuring dialog.

• Show cosmic grafts in the compendium

• ShowToolTipOnFocus for cards in the ChooseCardsPopup and ChooseFlourishPopup.

• Skip mouse-only hit testing in combat while using gamepad that was causing occasional fighter info popups to appear.

• Smooth over transitions to the bar after completing brawl side jobs.

• So. Many. Typos.

• Suppress (Y) View Hand hint when choosing a card from your hand. On M&B this is the "Hide Panel" button, which still exists, but in M&B you can still tooltip fighters etc. so it has some use. Not so on gamepad.

• The new game progress widget can be focused via gamepad to show the details tooltip indicating various contributions to character progress.

• timing fix for opinion event when you betray foolo

• Triangular Firing Squad: Fix typo, premature stage exit.

• Unlock the neural_braid in the compendium when you get the upgraded version in event_merchant_startup

• Use Bloom instead of Tint to indicate Turbo Cursor is activated.

CARDS

• Added a mutator that lets you draft two Cosmic grafts at the start of the game

• Added missing debuff flag for the drone goon's rifle butt attack

• Added missing upgrade highlight on Boosted Blood Flow

• Added the Duck! and Center of Attention cards

• Added unique icon and text colour for the Cosmic grafts

• Clarified desc of Double Down

• Fix card text consistency for upgrades to Fan the Hammer.

• Fix potential crash negotiating vs. Oshnus

• Fix the Handy perk restoring charges to negotiation item cards.

• Fixed bug where brain_harp was reducing, not increasing, overflow damage

• Fixed bug where declining boss grafts didn't grant the correct amount of shills

• Fixed bug where Doubt could target Levy

• Fixed bug where Greedy could be targeted by Doubt

• Fixed bug where pursue was increasing the damage of cards by 4 instead of 2

• Fixed bug where Sapping Bile blocked its own power removal

• Fixed bug where Vix's Prickly applied a non-int amount of composure

• Fixed crash caused by Vix not having any targets to shield

• Fixed desc of Battle Stein (amount of adrenaline was missing)

• Fixed missing upgrade highlight for Boosted Refusal

• Fixed missing upgrade highlight on Wide Do Over

• Flame Cannon: hilight Burn keyword.

• Gave the old brawl grafts their own rarity, Cosmic

• Increased cost of Overdrive and gave it Burnout. Enduring upgrade replaced by Stable.

• Klipper no longer shows a condition icon

• Mark Hanbi's Hilt Slam as a debuff.

• Protect against nil card.threshold value in Card:CalculateThresholdText. This should never be the case (only cards with defined thresholds ever make this call), but mods may tinker with a card's values.

• Rescind can now be played without renown

• Shifting Mutation: Fix infinite loop in confront.

• Shifting Mutation: Fix wrong combat patrol and OnWin specifier when failing negotiation.

• Weezil's Conditioning now uses its own stacks to show how much more power can be removed

PERFORMANCE

• Avoid full hand refresh when processing DELTA_ACTION_COUNT, CONDITION_ADDED, CONDITION_REMOVED. It's only necessary for debug commands which modify state outside the normal course of the card sim.

• clean up cardwidget:SetOutline to do less redundant work

• don't double-layout tooltip widgets

• don't refresh new card widgets twice when adding to hand

• fightscreen can preload defs, which can preload defs

• Keep fightarrow.tex, negotiationarrow.tex loaded

• make cardwidget:refreshcard cheaper by not recalculating everything every time

• Remove potentially superfluous Refresh cards.

• void_chain preloads the anims for the monster it wants to spawn

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