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Alpha 169 is here
Tallowmere Alpha 169 is out now – view the official changelog to see what's new (or continue reading below). Highlights include a new item rarity system, equippable outfits, headgear, shields, merchant NPCs that buy and sell goods, and a new interface to top this all off.
CHANGELOG:
Equippable outfits, headgear, and shields are now in the game.
Weapons, shields, outfits, and headgear now have random rarities with random stats. There are 7 different rarity levels:
- Basic
★ - Uncommon
★★ - Rare
★★★ - Fabled
★★★★ - Legendary
★★★★★ - Mythical
★★★★★★ - Otherworldly
★★★★★★★
Created the following equipment sets:
- Darson's Armour, Helm, and Shield
- Ghoulhide Armour, Mask, and Blocker
- Mercenary's Outfit and Helm
- Adventurer's Garb and Hat
(I plan on adding more sets and adding unique features to each set in future builds)
Merchants now sell items:
- The home town merchant refreshes his wares every time you max your souls out.
- Random merchants can be found throughout the dungeon.
Created a new interface:
- Pressing Esc brings up the main menu, featuring new things like:
- Change screen resolution
- Toggle fullscreen
- Adjust music volume
- Adjust sound effect volume
- View version info
- Pressing the i key (i for inventory) brings up your inventory:
- View and equip your weapons, shields, headgear, outfits, and consumables
- View your passive stat traits
- View some statistics for your current run
- Interacting with a merchant will let you:
- Browse their wares
- Sell your stuff
Added new consumable, the Anti-stun Potion:
- Gives immunity against Ogre stuns.
- Lasts 5 minutes.
The home town now has a static layout, with the aim of being less frustrating.
Tallowmere is now built using Unity 4.5:
- 64-bit Mac builds now support gamepads.
- Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.5.
- The physics system has changed slightly, most notably affecting body parts and zaeries. Will be an ongoing process to tweak this.
Added new dev console commands:
- delete player prefs
- give antistun potion
- give coins
- item rarity 0
- item rarity 1
- item rarity 2
- item rarity 3
- item rarity 4
- item rarity 5
- item rarity 6
- item rarity 7
- spawn chest
- spawn chest with emerald dagger
- spawn chest with flamethrower
- spawn chest with grenades
- spawn chest with shield
- spawn chest with consumable
- spawn chest with headgear
- spawn chest with outfit
Other changes:
- Boss rooms now contain a locked treasure chest that can be opened after defeating the boss; these chests always contain an item of Fabled rarity or higher.
- Bosses now have a little more health to feel more tanky.
- Burning an enemy with the Flamethrower now resets the enemy’s fire-extinguish timer (so their flames don’t die off prematurely).
- Cutscenes and NPC conversation dialogues can now be hurried along by pressing keys.
- Dev console now lets you press Up Arrow to bring up your last command.
- Enemies and traps now gain more attack power when they grow stronger.
- Health regen now occurs every 1.5 seconds instead of every 1 second.
- Hopefully finally fixed monsters and traps triggering and/or coming alive while new rooms are being loaded.
- Finally fixed fire mages standing still!
- Fixed a rare bug where the first “Kidnapping” cutscene would sometimes have the leaper forever walking west.
- Fixed hanging issues regarding Lil’ Wizard and her gamepad setup schemes.
- Fixed crit damage display numbers being incorrect for certain weapons even though crit damage was being dealt successfully.
- Fixed “Attack of the Zaeries” room not always being completely covered in spikes.
- Fixed enemies getting stuck on waypoints.
- Fixed fire mage flame balls colliding with pinwheel traps.
- Fixed flamethrower flame hitbox being too small.
- Fixed grenades sometimes only showing their shadow and not their actual sprite.
- Fixed Lady Tallowmere sometimes retaining a speech bubble after escaping from her cage.
- Fixed pinwheel traps not dealing damage to creatures that stayed within the pinwheel’s radius.
- Fixed rocket launcher rockets being able to collide with your shield.
- Fixed the Axe, Emerald Dagger, and Katana sometimes making you flinch if you hit an enemy and a wall in one swing.
- Improved performance for when coins and body parts collide with things (reduced audio playback calls).
- Improved performance thanks to new object pooling system.
- Improved the max-souls explosion framerate lag.
- Leapers now become angry when a grenade bounces off them.
- Opening a locked door is now faster; the key insertion sequence has been removed.
- Removed the “+extra souls” passive; returning to town more frequently wasn't fun.
- Removed the “+health on hit” passive; too overpowered since you can spam your weapon indefinitely.
- Revised the way enemy’s stats level up; generally, enemy damage should now increase more often.
- Self-inflicted damage from rocket launchers and grenades is now capped at 33% of your max health per hit; this is probably too generous, but feedback is welcome!
- Slightly increased coin pickup radius.
- Slightly increased conductor’s attack range.
- Slightly increased fire mage attack speed.
- Spike traps now knock monsters back slightly.
- Raised enemies’ maximum damage limit.
- Reduced the “Your enemies grow stronger” message duration.
- The elevator now moves faster.
- The “Time Flux” room now always starts at normal speed (for at least a moment).
- Treasure chests are now able to contain weapons you already have.
- Updated the Axe’s texture.
- Weapons found in treasure chests are no longer stronger than the previous weapon you acquired; this is due to how the new rarity and item stat system works.
- You can no longer consume a Health Potion if your health is maxed.
- Zaeries now exclaim when they see you.
Known issues:
- Camera doesn't zoom in and out when you have the Emerald Dagger equipped.
- Jumping with the flamethrower sometimes makes you jump twice as high.
- Forgetting to rescue Lady Tallowmere from her cage will cause her speech bubbles to be seen in the next room.
- On Mac OS X, if the Tallowmere launcher appears to crash when you click Play!, try selecting to run in Windowed mode; you can then select Fullscreen from Tallowmere’s new in-game options menu. Or, just try launching the app again; seems to work on the second try usually.
- PlayStation 3 gamepads currently crash Unity on Mac OS X. Unity has said this is a known issue, so hopefully a fix will come soon.
- Zaeries don't bounce nor spin as much as they used to.
For further details, please visit www.tallowmere.com.
