ADDITIONS

• To that end, I've (finally) made a pretty decent tutorial section! It took approx. 12 hours over the past 2 days. This replaces the 'Official Guides' part of the start menu. I figure hey we're all on Steam anyhow and we know where to find them if we need to.
  
  
  
  The Tutorial goes over about 40 different aspects of gameplay, and includes stuff that will be really helpful to anybody new to the game (as well as some vets too perhaps!).
  
  You can move through the pages using your arrow keys / controller, and the cancel key / button to return to the start menu.
  
  
  
  
  
• I've also added a blue border background on the 'Known Tips' page.
  

CHANGES

FIXES

• I believe I've made it so that barrels, flowers, and chests can't spawn right next to a shop / guild door anymore. I guess we'll see!
  
  
• There was a rare bug ErickaUnlimited reported having where upon entering a shop she sometimes would immediately exit it. I couldn't duplicate the problem but have added a couple of safety nets in there which should prevent it again.
  

ADDITIONS

• The Lantern Grows in Power!!
  Ryan wrote a great review on ETL the other day, and one of his gripes was that it seemed as if the titular Lantern didn't really do enough to warrant him caring enough. And we can't have that!
  So, without giving TOO much away, I will tell you that the different color phases now either increase or decrease the odds that specific floor events can happen. Ah hell, I'll spoil one: Inferno Floors have a higher chance of appearing during the Red Phase. OK OK that's enough, figure the rest out yourselves ːsteamhappyː
  
  
• New Floor Event.... The Trap Floor! When active, its powers will conceal every flashing red trapped chest on the floor... And you won't know if it's safe to open until you try it!! Thankfully, this will have NO EFFECT on the Thief class, who can see right through the Lantern's deception. The good news is that the power of a Trap Floor also raises the quality of the items inside each chest and barrel by a small amount. This tricky event can happen anytime from floors 11+
  
  
• Variants!
  I'm happy to say the new Variant scheme is also in place. What that means, is that 25% of the time the floor may spawn with different versions of the following:
  
  Slime-Covered Cauldrons will almost always give you much better potions when you fill your empty bottles up. The effect stacks with the Alchemy Hat, should you be wearing it.
  
  Ghost Flames are new, blue, ghosty-like fires that can spawn in place of normal fires. Unlike normal fires though, stepping on one will not burn your wooden gear into ashes. Also unlike normal fires they will injure you for a whopping 3HP (vs. 1HP with regular fires).
  
  Toadstools are purple fungi that can grow in dark or damp places. The odds of eating a poisonous one are just the same as regular mushrooms, but the effects are far stronger. So eat one and you may gain lots of HP... Or poison yourself for some pretty big damage over time. As always, consuming the Foot Powder item will negate the poison effect from your body.
  
  Bloody Floor Spikes are just like the regular spike traps that spawn in the mid-game, only damage you for 2HP per whack. Remember to use that WAIT command until the spikes retract to avoid this damage, folks!!
  
  
• I've changed the 'Stretch' screen option to 'Full' screen. Now let me explain: I think it makes things look a LITTLE better, but it's not too much of a difference and I'd still recommend playing ETL with either the Default or Large windowed screen. But it's in there. Again, since the original size of the game frame is only 120 x 100 pixels there's not too much I can really do to increase the resolution at this point in the game, 6+ years later.
  
  
• New Daily Bonus: April Fool's Day. Why that's TODAY!! Get to it!
  
  
• A couple new sayings when you start a new game were added.
  
  

CHANGES

• WARRIOR NERF-O-RAMA. Yes, I know this may sadden some of you however honestly the guy was just way too OP. Roguelikes are s'posed to be challenging of course! Here's what's new about this class:
  
  Upon leveling up- and in keeping with his Magic Prone trait- Warriors will lose -1 MDEF. So as they grow into a melee ass kicking machine they do so at the cost of becoming more and more susceptible to all things magic,.
  
  Warriors now also have the Butter Fingers trait. That means upon setting off a chest trap they'll take 1-2 more damage than usual. That also means that he'll have a +5% better chance to break an item when trying to use it (re-usable items only; consumables will still work 100% of the time like everyone else).
  
  
• The "Gear Burned Away!" display was made a little easier to see, should it happen to you in battle.
  
  
• The Cultist's "$500 Donation" option at the Cultist Den has been improved. Now, you have a chance to gain 0-2 points in each stat when you donate (vs. the old way which was 0-1 points per stat). Same great cost, way better reward. Cultists are hard enough to play as it is ːsteamsaltyː
  
  
• The Warrior and Thief class descriptions were changed a bit to accomodate the Warrior's new weakness and the Thief's new strength (vs. a Trap Floor).
  

FIXES

• Only one this time. I tried to take a screenshot of my Game Over screen and upon pressing the keyboard it jumped to the title screen too quickly. You should now be able to press and take F12 screenshots ALL THE LIVE LONG DAY from the death screen. Hooray!
  

ADDITIONS

CHANGES

FIXES

ADDITIONS

CHANGES

• The RITUAL skill's damage has been slightly nerfed. Instead of incorporating the Cultist's full DEX value it's now half DEX value.
  
  
• The DEATH spell's chance of success has been increased by 10%, however all champ monsters get a 5% resistance to it and bosses get 15%. What this effectively does is make the spell work better on regular enemies and - while it can still take out the game's bosses in a single blow - makes it slightly less possible. And when you think about it, how many games even LET you use something like an instant death spell on big bosses?
  
  For those who are interested, the chance of DEATH's success is:
  
  If Random(100) <= (40 + MAG) - Enemy Death Resistance Then dead parrot
  
  
• Enemies coming out of late floor dimensional rifts have been capped.. sort of. What I mean is enemies will constantly continue to appear from these as long as the total enemy count is less than Int(Dungeon Floor / 2). So at floor 40 dimensional enemies will appear if there's already less than 20 enemies. So you can still have a ton of enemies, just not hundreds or anything too nuts.
  
  
• When an enemy steals an item from your backpack it is now added to its own backpack. If you're a thief and try to steal from it there'll be a chance you can get your stolen item back. Very handy if a Mugger just stole your Weebish Blade!
  

FIXES

• The rare yet nasty battle freeze bug appears to have been fixed now! I could never figure out just why this would sometimes happen but after Gasil discovered how to mega level a Thief up, dodge in battle, and use lots of high evasion gear he summised that it had to do with the Thief's ultimate ability to just be way too good at dodging everything.
  
  Turns out he was right! There was a couple lines of code where the equation wouldn't make any sense if you had mega DEX and super high evasion, if you also dodged during battle. The enemy's equations never made sense, and the game would hang because of it. The way I fixed it was that an enemy can never have below a 5% chance to hit, regardless of stats or gear or anything else. After testing it tonight, it appears to have solved the problem!
  
  
• A couple of enemies had a "Speed Potion" as a possible item to be stolen from during fights. This is great, except that's OLD CODING and I had since changed the item's name to "Potion of Speed"! So if you stole a Speed Potion the game didn't recognize it and didn't give it its own picture or stats, instead displaying the values of the last item in your backpack you last looked at. Though certainly not game-breaking like the evasion freeze bug above, this had to be fixed as well and now it has.
  

ADDITIONS

• New class: The Cultist! The cultist now joins the others as the fifth playable character in the game. And for equal opportunity and all that it's a little girl! Now she plays a lot differently than the others so listen up-
  
  + Has very powerful dark offensive skills
  + Can eat rotten food unharmed, and gains double the stamina from said food
  + Gets a 50% Max HP discount when visiting a Cultist Den
  + Can donate $500 in gold there, with a possibility of gaining some stats
  + Gains the Instant Kill effect on the Yellow phase
  - Has serious gear restrictions and in fact can only use daggers, knives, and etc along with clothes and robes
  - Is physically pitiful, and gains stats and levels very slowly
  - She's reviled by most everyone in the dungeon, and is not welcomed at shops or guilds
  
  This is also the sole class that starts off being locked away to the player. To unlock the cultist class, you'll need to find 50% or more of the game's items. You can easily check your progress in the Items Found Log on the start menu.
  
  
  
  
• New Floor Event: Disruption Floor! This magic power scrambles the magnetic fields of the dungeon, causing all your controls to be reversed while moving around and negating your compass!
  
  
  
  
• New Floor Event: Coven Floor! It's now possible to visit an entire floor full of members of the Cult of the Dragon King while playing! Here you'll find cultists and high priests, and if you're really unlucky you might run into the Dragon King himself! This floor is also unique to the game in that there are new specific items that can only be found within locked golden and shadow chests here too.
  
  
  
  
• 40 New items!! This now means my little game boasts a whopping 400 total! That's pretty friggin' good I think ːsteamhappyː
  
  
  
  
• 15 New maps!! Always a good idea to make more of these.
  
  
• New item class: Rotten Food! The game now also has a few items that are.. ah.. past their prime. Rotten food will hurt your HP yet heal your stamina a bit. Think of these as a last resort. If you're playing a cultist though, they'll get healed the HP and take double the stamina from this nasty crap.
  
  
• Improved Chamber of Heroes! It's hard to get to, so I made the Chamber of Heroes way better than it was before. It'll totally be worth it now.
  
  
• Class selection now has a small description for each! Unsure what a wizard does? Select him from the character select screen and a pop up appears, letting you know all about it. There's one for everybody. Go on, try it now and see!
  
  
  
  
• New HUD addition for people who are color blind! It's unlikely but I thought hey what if somebody who was color blind tried to play this game? They'd need to know what lantern phase was currently active, right? Well now it's plain spelled out and abbreviated above the HP / STM display on the main screen. And you know what? I think it flat out looks way better for everyone!
  
  
  
  
• New Enemies: Zombie, Wraith, Cultist, High Priest.
  
  
• New major boss: Dragon King! This guy is the real deal:
  
  
  
  
• If you're equipped with wooden gear it will now warn you you're fire prone on the special screen, along with the qty of items in fire peril.
  
  
• Class inate abilities are now listed on the special screen too. For example a Warrior is Magic Prone while the Thief gains a bonus to avoid ambushes.
  
  
• 1 New Achievement where you have to win the game as a Cultist. It's listed as hidden just in case somebody doesn't read this later and wants to be surprised.
  

CHANGES

• I've gone back and changed it so that now you'll only see the USE command when an item can actually be used while inspecting it. This takes a lot of the guesswork out of seeing what does what. This works for me however like any big change if you have any issues please let me know in the forums!
  
  Here's an example, the "USE" no longer shows up for things like this-
  
  
  
  
• As mentioned above, the lantern color indicator on the backpack screen has been changed to match the HUD but the color's name is fully spelled out.
  
  
  
  
• Warriors now begin the game with -5 MDEF instead of 0. I know, I know, but honestly the Warrior was too OP. And it makes sense since he's already weak to magic as it is.
  
  
• The MORPH ability's success rate has been lowered to 30% + your MAG stat.
  
  
• MORPH can now change any enemy into various small / weak enemies instead of just being a slime all the time.
  
  
• The THROW battle command now has a 100% hit rate. This change specifically affects the Old Damp Boot and Dodge Ball items.
  

FIXES

• Fixed a rare bug where if you chose "no" when canceling a new game while a saved game exists and it erased the save file anyway. Holy crap I'm glad I caught this!!
  
  
• Fixed a double dip in the Cultist Den that had Pest Scrolls for sale for both 5 & 6 HP.
  

ADDITIONS

• New enemy battle action: DEATH. Just like many of my favorite old games of yesteryear, ETL now has its own version of an instant death spell. Since it's so strong, only 2 enemies can cast it- The Reaper and Bob (the rare Shadow Chest boss). The chance to avoid being killed by this one is 50% + your MDEF score. You can also completely protect yourself 100% of the time if you have the Bless effect going . I guess this is extra good news for Clerics.
  
  
• New player effect: SPEED BURST. This is a really awesome effect that I think you guys will enjoy. Characters under the Speed Burst effect can move 2 spaces to the enemies' 1 while walking around. In addition, while in battle you'll have a whopping 25% chance to gain another immediate action. And there is no cooldown phase either, so even after a free action you'd still get that 25% chance to get another one. That means you could potentially chain 2, 3, or 4+ attacks in a row upon the enemy! And if its possible, you'll gain a 100% chance to flee combat as well.
  
  
• If you're equipped with the Fist of Fury weapon, you'll constantly be under the battle effect side of Speed Burst. The weapon also stacks with the actual Speed Burst effect, making it way the hell better than it already was!
  

CHANGES

• Changed 3 of the guild tips from stuff we all already know to things we might not already know. Example being how on the class select screen it flat out tells you what special effect everybody gains like Bless, Nimble, etc.
  
  
• Spazz Weed now has a small chance to grant the new Speed Burst effect.
  
  
• Statues have a small chance to grant the new Speed Burst effect.
  
  
• You can 'use' the Elf Bow to gain Speed Burst from your backpack. Like most items there's a chance this will break when used.
  
  
• The Fist of Fury's 'use' effect was changed from Warrior Rage to Speed Burst. Like most items there's a chance this will break when used too.
  
  
• The Bless effect now has 2 listings on the 'Special' page: Curse Immunity and Death Magic Immunity.
  
  
• Lockpick chances for doors were lowered a bit for all classes, with the Thief still having the highest chance and the Cleric the lowest.
  
  
• Slightly changed the wider battle menu to look better. Improvement is key!
  

FIXES

Item Usage Descriptions

New Debugger Code