Ultimate ADOM Early Access Update #10 (version 0.9.0) has arrived!

Hear ye! Hear ye! Adventurers! Today we have released update #10 (0.9.0) for thy Ultimate ADOM Early Access!

But more great news for all rogue-like fans: Together with Developer Team ADOM we have today announced an August 25, 2021, full (version 1.0) release for Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos!

But now let's deep-dive into the new major Combat-Update: Let's start with the YouTube-video of the Ultimate ADOM Combat-Update:

Full Changelog version 0.9.0 - Ultimate ADOM Early Access Combat Update

Community feedback-based additions and changes!

• Powerful monsters may now carry Treasure Troves with them.

  • Defeating them and looting these troves will offer you a choice of mighty items, and also offer you the chance to sacrifice gathered gold for a new random selection of items!

• All combat skill trees have been completely streamlined, allowing you a choice of fighting style instead of locking you into certain weapons.

  • The old combat skill system forced you early on into specializing on certain weapon types. Therefore, the old skill system has been replaced with 140 new skills, offering a longer and more interesting progression.

• In general, combat has been spiced up a lot by making it much more challenging:

  • Being swarmed by enemies makes it more likely to be hit the more enemies attack you in the same turn. This applies for both ranged and melee combat.

  • Wielding multiple weapons now comes with a price and requires skill investment to be effective.

  • If you (or your enemy) deal at least 10 points of damage with a melee attack, they will cause a minimum of 1 point of damage even if your Protection Value is higher. This allows you to whittle down even heavily armored enemies - and it makes charging into a swarm of monsters more dangerous while wearing heavy plate.

  • Critical hits from both player characters and monsters are slightly rarer now.

  • A high chance of hitting something also increases the chance to bypass an enemy’s armor, too.

  • Armor can now be damaged or even destroyed by armor-penetrating hits. Make sure to carry a spare pair of pants with you, if you rely on such things!

  • Area spell damage has been slightly toned down again. While still being an excellent choice and playstyle, room-filling spells are no longer the answer to everything you might be encountering.

• The way player characters heal has been changed.

  • You will regenerate more slowly while crawling the dungeon, thus making hunting for regeneration flux points, healing potions or food more tense.

  • At the same, time, healing while resting will become faster, the longer you remain undisturbed, making the search for rare and undisturbed spots more important.

  • Finally, healing potions are now more common, and every adventurer starts with one.

• Achievements have been added to the game! 50 very different challenges await you.

• While creating a custom character, the powers of races, classes and professions now are explained with much more detail.

New Content

• Four new pesky monsters plague the early dungeon levels.

• Tons of new prefixes and suffixes, which effectively are adding millions of new items to the game:

  • Added 18 shield prefixes and 13 shield suffixes for a total of more than 40,000 new shields that can be found.

  • Added 13 ranged weapon prefixes and 14 ranged weapon suffixes, a couple of million new ranged weapons that can be found.

  • Added 6 more armor prefixes and 2 more armor suffixes.

  • Added 2 more body wear suffixes.

  • Added 2 more melee