Hey guys, hope you are all enjoying your time with Wanderlust! We rolled out a new patch today that we hope will help make the game easier to get into for new players! As well, we redid the Alchemist Soul Charge and the Cleric Wrath spell!
Adrenaline, the new Alchemist Soul Charge boosts the cool down of all the players spells by half, and causing them to have infinite Special Points!
The new Wrath spell for Cleric now puts a debuff on all enemies who strike him/her, causing their Holy Resist to go down to 0. We made this change primarily because the old Wrath allowed players to cast it and just block for the entirety of the fight. This change should help keep the Cleric more active while using Wrath.
Additionally, barrels can now drop items and chests can spawn in certain maps throughout your adventures! It is pretty exciting seeing a light up chest or an item pop out. Now this is an excuse to go whack those pesky barrels!
Lastly, we added various hud icons with hotkeys on them to make all the features in Wanderlust more obvious for new players. You can see some of the HUD changes below:
Patch 2.45
- [Alchemist] Soul Charge : ADRENALINE
- [Cleric] Wrath Spell : Now sets enemies to who hit Cleric to have 0 Holy Resist
- Changed Final Boss flying mode to be based on HP levels rather than fear levels
- Added new HUD Icons and shortcut keys for Inventory, Hotkey, Spell and ESC Menus
- Added a random chance for items to be found in barrels
- Added a random chance for Treasure Chests to be found in maps
- Adjusted damage output of Guardian, Armageddon, and Blizzard
- Addressed a bug with the Apprentice Robe (Dedicated), thanks to Myonamy and Wyeth
- Changed "1-Player Mode" option to "1P Companions"
- Changed "Animated BGs" option to "High Detail"
- Added a Spike Attack for Chapter 3 Boss
- Added more enemies to Chapter 3
- Fixed various bugs
Hope you guys enjoy the patch! Let us know if you have any comments/questions! We have included a Let's Play of the previous patch at the bottom of this article!
-Team Wanderlust
Good job, but why not change the screen layout of the buttons to the same as the arrow keys?
Also a suggestion!
As a new player I was confused about what I could do in the lobby/hub..
It would make more sense to divide the various things into different NPCs.
Like buying/selling would be one NPC and gambling would be another.
It's harder to miss an NPC than a chest after all, since NPCs are a natural point of interaction in RPGs.
And finally, will you ever get rid of the large party section at the top of the screen?
We have thought about changing the layout of the hotkeys, and we probably will in a patch or two. We were thinking about doing it this patch but it would have pushed the patch back some, so we felt we could do it in a later patch.
We like the idea for the NPC's, but it wouldn't really fit with Wanderlust: Rebirth, however, the expansion would DEFINITELY have NPCs around a town that specialize in what they do/sell.
Regarding the large party screen at the top. This has kind of grown on us over the years, and now it is used for a chat area, we feel keen on keeping it!
Hope you are enjoying the game, and let us know if you have any other ideas/comments!
Well, I'm sure I can get used to it, but I still believe it would be better without it. An option for a transparent chat would be preferable.
By the way, the first thing new players experience are the cumbersome profile and character menus.
I don't think there's an excuse for having it text based instead of being able to select your profile in a list like your character.
Adding artwork to the character selection screen would be a huge improvement.
Also, it feels like there are a bit too many sub menus. For example instead having load character/new character, you can just list all available characters and put 'new character' at the bottom.
Or why not just merge it with profile selection too and add a 'change profile' button.
Right now it takes quite some time to actually get into the game and I think that's a problem for a lot of new players.
Especially since it's quite tricky to actually get in to singleplayer, having to first talk to the npc, select singleplayer, then talk to him again (it's easy to miss that the dialogue options change after you select singleplayer) and select chapter.
I walked around for like 15 minutes thinking I could exit the area through the edges of the map somehow..
Sorry for being overly critical, I really like the game but I don't think people are giving it a fair chance due to some of the things I've pointed out.
I like all of these suggestions. I'll see if I can "trim the fat" on the next patch.
Thank you for the feedback, Seiseki!
Check out the new patch! =P
Great!
That makes things a bit more streamlined :)
Now, the game will remember the last profile you load as well, so you can get into the game with just a couple key presses! =)
Thanks for the feedback, and I hope to see you online!
awesome! keep up the good work guys, enjoying every moment of this game, singleplayer and multiplayer but more leaning towards multi just because its fun to quest together ;D
Also can't wait to unlock Crawl since i will be spending most of my time there
Still doing my best to spread the word around about this game, if anybody else is reading this comment and owns this game, PLEASE spread the word, these guys deserve a bigger thriving community, and i am willing to lend a helping hand.
And if you don't...do yourself a favor and enjoy :D
Thanks man, we really appreciate the kind words! We are still working very hard to try and make the best possible game :D
Yeah we love crawl as well, something is just fun seeing how high you can go and what loot you can find!