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Full Riftcast update
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What changed
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- UI and audio
- Performance
addedWHAT'S NEWVenture additions: • Enemies may now already be holding items that may affect events and battles with them • Battle changes: • Implemented menus • Party members can now be switched around at any point in a Venture/Night Raid battle • Items can now be used in battle as throwable weapons or consumables • Added 42 battler slots for (currently unused) 22v22 fights • Changed BMB's status sound and reduced damage to 1/5 instead of 1/4 • Some other changes with attacks' effects and damage • Item changes: • Removed CASSEROLE's non-existent Broth category • MELT is now a Pastry/Meaty food instead of just Pastry • Some other slight changes including food effects • Downsizing menus and removing access to features that *probably* won't be complete by the end of 2025 • Added child forms for the Elusive Eight and Primevals • Active quest lists up to R76 will be reset again • Adjusted translations, including replacing TUG's Spanish string "TIRAR" with "TIRON" • Implemented global records (SETUP → USER → RECORD) • Training, minigames and crafting is now tracked globally • Crafting no longer contributes towards EXP nor records upon failure • New whims now come with an auditory alert • Increased Rank 6★ and 7★'s minimum Rank EXP from 2000/5000 to 3000/6000 • Some other things
addedWHAT'S FIXEDSprite oddities: • BET bots having missing colour sprites • Colour palette errors with NUGGET, JEWEL, PEARL, GEM and R. GAZERITE sprites • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Adult/Handler Velogoss having a single, miscoloured toe claw in their Sad frame • Missing horns on Cordirak's Defeated/Sleeping frames • Colour bits on some of Handler Sileos' BW sprite frames • Ardmuth's hair being uncoloured in their Happy frame • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Stray pixels on Adult/Handler Cavalaeus' Angry frames and a few other species • Some other fixes • Battle oddities: • Game crash from having a status condition elapse while already under more than 1 • Defeated enemies referencing the player side's gender when defeated instead of their own • Player data not being checked properly when they're the enemy • Effects such as BMB explosions not showing properly • PNC always causing inaction instead of being chance/personality-based as intended • RSH showing BND's icon instead of something more relevant and conflicting with SLW's evasion effect • Evasion-affecting status conditions permanently changing the stat for both battlers, potentially causing dodge loops • Status condition text showing durations for all current conditions instead of just the active one • Online oversights: • Client's species being called showing up instead of a selected teammate's species when attempting to go online as the host while using colour sprites - defaulting to a Yarnix of the same alt and form as said teammate • Username length being checked incorrectly, causing "'s" to not be added when it could've fit the screen • Levels in battles being forcibly changed to 100 after already setting the host/client's level • Game crashes from: • Generating history while creating a new save file (again) • Attempting to go on a Venture while on Rank 1, only to have no areas available • Potential game breaking issues with certain blank databases not being duplicated correctly while creating a new save - including eggs, quests and party members - causing certain variables to be cloned across slots • LIVID LOX tourney having two (regular) Revians with no Western subspecies • Some other minor corrections
Riftcast changes
addedVenture additions: • Enemies may now already be holding items that may affect events and battles with them • Battle changes: • Implemented menus • Party members can now be switched around at any point in a Venture/Night Raid battle • Items can now be used in battle as throwable weapons or consumables • Added 42 battler slots for (currently unused) 22v22 fights • Changed BMB's status sound and reduced damage to 1/5 instead of 1/4 • Some other changes with attacks' effects and damage • Item changes: • Removed CASSEROLE's non-existent Broth category • MELT is now a Pastry/Meaty food instead of just Pastry • Some other slight changes including food effects • Downsizing menus and removing access to features that *probably* won't be complete by the end of 2025 • Added child forms for the Elusive Eight and Primevals • Active quest lists up to R76 will be reset again • Adjusted translations, including replacing TUG's Spanish string "TIRAR" with "TIRON" • Implemented global records (SETUP → USER → RECORD) • Training, minigames and crafting is now tracked globally • Crafting no longer contributes towards EXP nor records upon failure • New whims now come with an auditory alert • Increased Rank 6★ and 7★'s minimum Rank EXP from 2000/5000 to 3000/6000 • Some other things
addedSprite oddities: • BET bots having missing colour sprites • Colour palette errors with NUGGET, JEWEL, PEARL, GEM and R. GAZERITE sprites • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Adult/Handler Velogoss having a single, miscoloured toe claw in their Sad frame • Missing horns on Cordirak's Defeated/Sleeping frames • Colour bits on some of Handler Sileos' BW sprite frames • Ardmuth's hair being uncoloured in their Happy frame • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Stray pixels on Adult/Handler Cavalaeus' Angry frames and a few other species • Some other fixes • Battle oddities: • Game crash from having a status condition elapse while already under more than 1 • Defeated enemies referencing the player side's gender when defeated instead of their own • Player data not being checked properly when they're the enemy • Effects such as BMB explosions not showing properly • PNC always causing inaction instead of being chance/personality-based as intended • RSH showing BND's icon instead of something more relevant and conflicting with SLW's evasion effect • Evasion-affecting status conditions permanently changing the stat for both battlers, potentially causing dodge loops • Status condition text showing durations for all current conditions instead of just the active one • Online oversights: • Client's species being called showing up instead of a selected teammate's species when attempting to go online as the host while using colour sprites - defaulting to a Yarnix of the same alt and form as said teammate • Username length being checked incorrectly, causing "'s" to not be added when it could've fit the screen • Levels in battles being forcibly changed to 100 after already setting the host/client's level • Game crashes from: • Generating history while creating a new save file (again) • Attempting to go on a Venture while on Rank 1, only to have no areas available • Potential game breaking issues with certain blank databases not being duplicated correctly while creating a new save - including eggs, quests and party members - causing certain variables to be cloned across slots • LIVID LOX tourney having two (regular) Revians with no Western subspecies • Some other minor corrections
WHAT'S NEW
- Venture additions• Enemies may now already be holding items that may affect events and battles with them • Battle changes: • Implemented menus • Party members can now be switched around at any point in a Venture/Night Raid battle • Items can now be used in battle as throwable weapons or consumables • Added 42 battler slots for (currently unused) 22v22 fights • Changed BMB's status sound and reduced damage to 1/5 instead of 1/4 • Some other changes with attacks' effects and damage • Item changes: • Removed CASSEROLE's non-existent Broth category • MELT is now a Pastry/Meaty food instead of just Pastry • Some other slight changes including food effects • Downsizing menus and removing access to features that *probably* won't be complete by the end of 2025 • Added child forms for the Elusive Eight and Primevals • Active quest lists up to R76 will be reset again • Adjusted translations, including replacing TUG's Spanish string "TIRAR" with "TIRON" • Implemented global records (SETUP → USER → RECORD) • Training, minigames and crafting is now tracked globally • Crafting no longer contributes towards EXP nor records upon failure • New whims now come with an auditory alert • Increased Rank 6★ and 7★'s minimum Rank EXP from 2000/5000 to 3000/6000 • Some other things
WHAT'S FIXED
- Sprite oddities• BET bots having missing colour sprites • Colour palette errors with NUGGET, JEWEL, PEARL, GEM and R. GAZERITE sprites • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Adult/Handler Velogoss having a single, miscoloured toe claw in their Sad frame • Missing horns on Cordirak's Defeated/Sleeping frames • Colour bits on some of Handler Sileos' BW sprite frames • Ardmuth's hair being uncoloured in their Happy frame • Handler Straxyra having an uncoloured bodysuit in their Hurt frame and unfilled pixels in others • Stray pixels on Adult/Handler Cavalaeus' Angry frames and a few other species • Some other fixes • Battle oddities: • Game crash from having a status condition elapse while already under more than 1 • Defeated enemies referencing the player side's gender when defeated instead of their own • Player data not being checked properly when they're the enemy • Effects such as BMB explosions not showing properly • PNC always causing inaction instead of being chance/personality-based as intended • RSH showing BND's icon instead of something more relevant and conflicting with SLW's evasion effect • Evasion-affecting status conditions permanently changing the stat for both battlers, potentially causing dodge loops • Status condition text showing durations for all current conditions instead of just the active one • Online oversights: • Client's species being called showing up instead of a selected teammate's species when attempting to go online as the host while using colour sprites - defaulting to a Yarnix of the same alt and form as said teammate • Username length being checked incorrectly, causing "'s" to not be added when it could've fit the screen • Levels in battles being forcibly changed to 100 after already setting the host/client's level • Game crashes from: • Generating history while creating a new save file (again) • Attempting to go on a Venture while on Rank 1, only to have no areas available • Potential game breaking issues with certain blank databases not being duplicated correctly while creating a new save - including eggs, quests and party members - causing certain variables to be cloned across slots • LIVID LOX tourney having two (regular) Revians with no Western subspecies • Some other minor corrections
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