v1.0.5: Ratkin Nuisance

v1.0.5

2021-01-06

• New spell, heat shield. Protects the caster from incoming damage.

• Added a silhouette to creatures. Seeing skeletons behind rock walls is now easier.

• Adjust camera dolly to position player 5% higher in frame. Helps balance view range above and below.

• Clicking spells in the spell book or skill bar now casts the spell if a target is not required.

• Spell book window now shows the cooldown for spells. Adjusted sizing to show more spells.

Ratkin Valley

• New area has been released! Forge through the ratkin valley, eliminating the gloom crazed warriors.

• Includes new boss fight with the Ratkin Necromancer.

• Kill the two ratkin lieutenants and then liberate the main fortified camp.

• Ratkin horde introduced: Slave, Warrior, Rogue, Mercenary, Necromancer (+Marauder from caverns map.)

Spells

• Molten rock cooldown increased from 4s to 6s.

• Electric fire damage increased from 14-22 damage to 20-28 damage. Critical damage multiplier reduced from 1.5x to 1.4x. Cooldown improved from 0.5s to 0.4s.

• Fireball damage decreased from 20-35 damage to 20-32 damage.

Minor

• Support for multiple attack impacts from a single animation. (Creature combo attacks.)

• Fixed bug where spell would fire backwards when clicking very close to hero. With this fix, the skeleton boss needed a melee range attack for close combat.

• Fixed material on wizard hair and beard so it behaves better with particle effects.

• Fix bug where dying on mountain pass while torch was active would log an exception.

• Fixed bug with skill bar initialization when more than 7 skills.

• Refactored cooldown handling to support multiple visual representations of remaining time.

• Spell icons updated to better reflect their actions.

• Add more variation to melee creature impact sounds.

• Developed damage logic to support shield and buffs that may alter incoming damage.

• Fix bug where damage popup was not showing on orc boss damage spells.

Internal Development Some developer improvements for those with curious minds.

• Add global sound helper for common sound effects.

• Animancer clip state GUI now works with Odin foldout groups.

• Improved default values such as movement for hero debug window.

• Add rapid in-editor scene changer.

• Slider to adjust dolly zoom limits during playtesting.

• Minimap editor improvement, which increasesspeed and accuracy of positioning minimap areas.

• Adjust game data editor to include spell folders.

• Automated spell layer damage mask data integrity check.

• Improved custom build player build pipeline to handle exceptions.