IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Fixed challenge dungeon bug where the "increased difficulty level" challenge was getting reapplied constantly. This might change the meta considerably. i ll keep an eye on this.
  
• Wands do not reflect additional mana in the icon when recharged.
  
• Altars can no longer on rare cases (challenge dungeon level 0) appear on top of holes/stairs.
  
• Toggling off soul essence perks that are applied on game start(Gold, Keys, etc) should now properly work.
  
• Infinite dungeon level 0 in the Dawn of Shadows campaign can no longer generate a blocked path to its entrance.
  

• After all modifiers to physical damage are taken into account the end damage done now will correspond to [floor(damage)] + [1 on random chance depending of the remainder of the damage] instead of a simple rounding. What this means is that if after modifier damage is 10.9, there will be a 10% chance it is 10 and a 90% chance it is 11.
  
• Warrior:
  
  
  
  • Hardened shield and polish shield talents got its modifiers increased.
    
  
  

• You can now order items at any merchant shop by item type & item rarity.
  
• Offhand wielded weapon now shows it proper damage on the tool tip.
  
• Speed affecting abilities on weapons should show its effect on weapons. If I missed one let me know.
  
• Added twitch negative judgment of location full of traps.
  
• Instead of "your pack feels heavier" the mage potion crafting ability now properly names what was actually crafted, e.g. regular potion, minor potion, etc
  
• Merchants now give the option to sell an item for the remaining of the merchants money if they run out of it.
  
• When ordering movement to a far away tile, if the character stumbles upon an altars or a merchant he will now go around it/him.
  
  

Changes:

• Fiery Soul Cutter effect no longer works when disarmed.
  
• Fixed issue with action bar slots disappearing. This might also have issues with mixed positions on game loading. A general overhaul was done to the action bar back end. The game should automatically migrate to maintain backwards compatibility with your current action bar distribution.
  
• Fixed issue with throw/confirm key binding. Now both can be bind separately.
  
• Bezerker should not whirlwind to unknown locations anymore?
  
• Spell power change due to staffs now properly shows in character sheet.
  
• Improving rings of resistance at the forge now properly improves that specific resistance type. This will only happen with rings generated after the patch.
  
• Amounts are now correctly reflected on the action bar when selling something mapped to it.
  
• Static items(manually placed) should have the same weight as randomly generated ones.
  
• Removed some weird item and lever glitch from late game level.
  
• Fixed bug that could cause a freeze when 2 greater ghouls where near each other.
  
• Getting out of Bear form into another for other than humanoid no longer heals the character in terms of relative hp.
  
• Fixed some typos.
  

• Mana pool now only influenced by Int.
  
• Rings of resistance will now provide better buffs.
  
• Increased return damage on shields with such modifiers.
  
• Tandor shadow tower boss damage increased by 10%.
  
• Weapons of higher tiers now drop somewhat earlier.
  
• Multi shot no longer wastes ammo on dead targets.
  
• Added diminishing returns on energy drain of abilities. This should prevent any scenario (except overweight) where you get drained really hard.
  
• Final Boss: Increased damage and number of rays for the Shadow Abomination ability.
  
• Nature's twister now does its damage after the target hits the last location.
  
• Troll brute damage spikes reduced by reducing its damage deviation.
  
• In Easy enemies are now slower and do less damage (not only critical blows).
  
• In Hard enemies are now faster and do slightly more damage (not only critical blows).
  

• Multiple action bars are now a thing. Active action bar can be changed through mouse click or keyboard shortcut. While the game will attempt to preserve your current setup you might need to reassign some abilities/items
  
  
• You can now assign any usable item, ability or spell to the action bar by pressing the action bar shortcut from the corresponding screens.
  
• Changed the positioning and structure of the version in the main menu. Added discord link.
  
• Art of wands was flipped horizontally so its now easier to visually parse them from staves/spears.
  
• When you selling/buying items from the merchant the scroll does not reset anymore.
  
• Scrolling won't reset anymore in the inventory window and detailed pickup window.
  
• Right clicking an item in the inventory now drops the item.
  
• You can now zoom while targeting an ability.
  
• Added the character's current satiation amount to the healthiness status effect tool tip.
  
• Updated underlying game engine (unity) version.
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Amounts are now correctly reflected on the action bar when selling something mapped to it.
  
• Static items(manually placed) should have the same weight as randomly generated ones.
  
• Removed some weird item and lever glitch from late game level.
  
• Fixed bug that could cause a freeze when 2 greater ghouls where near each other.
  
• Getting out of Bear form into another for other than humanoid no longer heals the character in terms of relative hp.
  

• Added diminishing returns on energy drain of abilities. This should prevent any scenario (except overweight) where you get drained really hard.
  
• Final Boss: Increased damage and number of rays for the Shadow Abomination ability.
  
• Nature's twister now does its damage after the target hits the last location.
  
• Troll brute damage spikes reduced by reducing its damage deviation.
  
• In Easy enemies are now slower and do less damage (not only critical blows).
  
• In Hard enemies are now faster and do slightly more damage (not only critical blows).
  

• Scrolling won't reset anymore in the inventory window and detailed pickup window.
  
• Right clicking an item in the inventory now drops the item.
  
• You can now zoom while targeting an ability.
  
• Added the character's current satiation amount to the healthiness status effect tool tip.
  
• Updated underlying game engine (unity) version.
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Fiery Soul Cutter effect no longer works when disarmed.
  
• Fixed issue with action bar slots disappearing. This might also have issues with mixed positions on game loading. A general overhaul was done to the action bar back end. The game should automatically migrate to maintain backwards compatibility with your current action bar distribution.
  
• Fixed issue with throw/confirm key binding. Now both can be bind separately.
  
• Bezerker should not whirlwind to unknown locations anymore?
  
• Spell power change due to staffs now properly shows in character sheet.
  
• Improving rings of resistance at the forge now properly improves that specific resistance type. This will only happen with rings generated after the patch.
  
• Fixed some typos.
  

• Mana pool now only influenced by Int.
  
• Rings of resistance will now provide better buffs.
  
• Increased return damage on shields with such modifiers.
  
• Tandor shadow tower boss damage increased by 10%.
  
• Weapons of higher tiers now drop somewhat earlier.
  
• Multi shot no longer wastes ammo on dead targets.
  

• Multiple action bars are now a thing. Active action bar can be changed through mouse click or keyboard shortcut.
  
  
• You can now assign any usable item, ability or spell to the action bar by pressing the action bar shortcut from the corresponding screens.
  
• Changed the positioning and structure of the version in the main menu. Added discord link.
  
• Art of wands was flipped horizontally so its now easier to visually parse them from staves/spears.
  
• When you selling/buying items from the merchant the scroll does not reset anymore.
  

Changes:

• Calling the insectoid Royal Guard now properly works on first use.
  
• Enemy new summons will now not be auto destroyed on level reloading.
  
• Fixed graphical glitch where equipping an offhand while initially having a 2-hander would result in both weapons being displayed.
  
• 'Detailed Pick Up' now properly uses use energy.
  
• Poison should correctly damage at the last tick.
  
• Poison damage no longer makes an enemy auto regain track of a stealth character.
  
• When an enemy is on top of an altar, first option for moving to that tile should be an attack action instead of a use altar action.
  
• Forges now properly show context messages.
  
• Forges properly allow 1 use per item per forge.
  
• Bone Crusher 's effect is now properly working..
  
• Changed stealth discovery formula. Stealth discovery now properly scales with stats.
  
• Frame rate change now properly saves & apply from the main menu.
  
• Clicking on friendly characters from a diagonal position will no longer weirdly move to a horizontal position before moving to it.
  
• The rare occurrences where you go back to a location and it has an NPC on the stairs/portal should not happen anymore.
  
• Placed leg hold trap no longer removes prepared bonuses on enemy trigger.
  
• FPS changes from the menu should properly work now.
  
• Fences no longer block water splash damage across them.
  
• Don't kill the bears achievements will properly work now. All kills with characters previous to this change won't count.
  
• Auto explore no longer senses behind locked doors.
  
• Every random generated dungeons should now have a path open to the next location.
  
• Hidden/dormant skeletons should not be generated under doors anymore.
  
• Encounters will not generate special room any more.
  
• Command beast no longer possible on friendly targets.
  
• Resolved some typos.
  

• Offhand equipment no longer counts as equipped weight.
  
• In order to promote chain lightning usage, it now no longer hits the caster.
  
• Bowels Search soul essence upgrade effects increased.
  
• Forges now improve an item modifier in stead of replacing it when the process netted the same modifier.
  
• Enemies should always properly wait till an ability is over to attack the character.
  
• Pylons can now drop loot on destruction.
  
• Holy bold base damage increased.
  
• Base divine aegis shield deflects increased. Spell level and spell power contribution to deflects decreased.
  
• Falling Boulder spell can now be cast even it target is covered by a wall.
  
• Falling Boulder spell damage per spell level increased by 30%.
  
• Critical modifier formula changed. While initially the critical damage will be a little lower, the stat impacts on it are higher. This goes for physical and magical (now added to the character sheet) modifiers.
  
• Nagas:
  
  
  
  • Naga's critical hit rating modifier changed to critical damage modifier.
    
  
  
• Dwarfs:
  
  
  
  • Dwarf racial per level bonus now increases the effect every 9 levels down from 12.
    
  
  
• Hunter:
  
  
  
  • Leg Hold traps: Chance to break free reduced. In addition if the enemy has a movement impairing effect this chance is 0.
    
  • Shoot And Jump now prevents AOE effects from landing on your character.
    
  
  
• Druid:
  
  
  
  • Weapon Damage is tied to current druid aspect to add an additional strategic layer when shape shifting.
    
  
  

• For the moment levels won't spawn holes and stairs at the same time.
  
• Auto-explore improved:
  
  
  
  • Enemies and objects sensed now show a small icon pointing in the direction of it.
    
  • Barrels and similar sensed now interrupt once and stop interrupting once auto explore is resumed.
    
  • Chests, altars, merchants and other intractable objects interrupt once and stop interrupting once auto explore is resumed.
    
  • Auto-explore won't explore every view able wall not discovered. If all floor locations of a room have been seen it will stop there.
    
  
  
• Improved poisoned FX.
  
• On hovering over the reshuffle ability, you will now be able to see the amount of essence released available.
  
• In addition to color, an ability card rarity is now also shown by its frame:
  
  
• Increased scroll sensitivity on spells window.
  
• Staff animations are now faster.
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Clicking on friendly characters from a diagonal position will no longer weirdly move to a horizontal position before moving to it.
  
• The rare occurrences where you go back to a location and it has an NPC on the stairs/portal should not happen anymore.
  
• Placed leg hold trap no longer removes prepared bonuses on enemy trigger.
  
• FPS changes from the menu should properly work now.
  
• Fences no longer block water splash damage across them.
  
• Don't kill the bears achievements will properly work now. All kills with characters previous to this change won't count.
  
• Auto explore no longer senses behind locked doors.
  
• Every random generated dungeons should now have a path open to the next location.
  
• Hidden/dormant skeletons should not be generated under doors anymore.
  
• Encounters will not generate special room any more.
  
• Command beast no longer possible on friendly targets.
  
• Resolved some typos.
  

• Pylons can now drop loot on destruction.
  
• Holy bold base damage increased.
  
• Base divine aegis shield deflects increased. Spell level and spell power contribution to deflects decreased.
  
• Falling Boulder spell can now be cast even it target is covered by a wall.
  
• Falling Boulder spell damage per spell level increased by 30%.
  
• Critical modifier formula changed. While initially the critical damage will be a little lower, the stat impacts on it are higher. This goes for physical and magical (now added to the character sheet) modifiers.
  
• Nagas:
  
  
  
  • Naga's critical hit rating modifier changed to critical damage modifier.
    
  
  
• Dwarfs:
  
  
  
  • Dwarf racial per level bonus now increases the effect every 9 levels down from 12.
    
  
  
• Hunter:
  
  
  
  • Leg Hold traps: Chance to break free reduced. In addition if the enemy has a movement impairing effect this chance is 0.
    
  • Shoot And Jump now prevents AOE effects from landing on your character.
    
  
  
• Druid:
  
  
  
  • Weapon Damage is tied to current druid aspect to add an additional strategic layer when shape shifting.
    
  
  
  

• On hovering over the reshuffle ability, you will now be able to see the amount of essence released available.
  
• In addition to color, an ability card rarity is now also shown by its frame:
  
  
• Increased scroll sensitivity on spells window.
  
• Staff animations are now faster.
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Calling the insectoid Royal Guard now properly works on first use.
  
• Enemy new summons will now not be auto destroyed on level reloading.
  
• Fixed graphical glitch where equipping an offhand while initially having a 2-hander would result in both weapons being displayed.
  
• 'Detailed Pick Up' now properly uses use energy.
  
• Poison should correctly damage at the last tick.
  
• Poison damage no longer makes an enemy auto regain track of a stealth character.
  
• When an enemy is on top of an altar, first option for moving to that tile should be an attack action instead of a use altar action.
  
• Forges now properly show context messages.
  
• Forges properly allow 1 use per item per forge.
  
• Bone Crusher 's effect is now properly working..
  
• Changed stealth discovery formula. Stealth discovery now properly scales with stats.
  
• Frame rate change now properly saves & apply from the main menu.
  
• Fixed several typos.
  

• Offhand equipment no longer counts as equipped weight.
  
• In order to promote chain lightning usage, it now no longer hits the caster.
  
• Bowels Search soul essence upgrade effects increased.
  
• Forges now improve an item modifier in stead of replacing it when the process netted the same modifier.
  
• Enemies should always properly wait till an ability is over to attack the character.
  

• For the moment levels won't spawn holes and stairs at the same time.
  
• Auto-explore improved:
  
  
  
  • Enemies and objects sensed now show a small icon pointing in the direction of it.
    
  • Barrels and similar sensed now interrupt once and stop interrupting once auto explore is resumed.
    
  • Chests, altars, merchants an other intractable objects interrupt once and stop interrupting once auto explore is resumed.
    
  • Auto-explore won't explore every view able wall not discovered. If all floor locations of a room have been seen it will stop there.
    
  
  
• Improved poisoned FX.
  

Changes:

• Special rooms should not be generated in outdoor random dungeons.
  
• Weight tutorial window now properly shows only once.
  
• Tool tips stay open on character screen when closing the screen while its showing.
  
• Added + to the bonus values in the balance meter.
  
• Teleport does not enable enemies to hit you before you escape anymore.
  
• Hitting esc to cancel resting no longer freezes the game.
  
• Mushroom summons from legendary scimitar should count as your summons regarding XP they give and when the merchant sees you kill them.
  
• Called Royal Guards should now give XP when they kill your enemies.
  
• Frame rate should also be limited during intro movie.
  
• Leap attack, whirlwind, jump over and shot & Jump should now not work characters are somehow immobilized.
  
• Gold rewards on the world map events should now scale properly.
  
• Converted Giant wolf spider will now properly spawn friendly spiderlings.
  
• Fixed weird UI bug where resistances would not always show at its correct amount.
  
• Using hunter abilities with different ammo types is no longer possible.
  
• Back stab should now correctly apply to shorts words and daggers.
  
• Pulling door levers through walls is not possible anymore.
  
• Using a skill on a tile that is further than your LOS, but within the weapon/skill range will not work anymore.
  
• Altars will now longer spawn on first boss level of the Eghoss campaign.
  
• Game will no longer freeze if you use a ranged weapon ability that can be targeted to an empty tile and you only have 1 ammo left.
  
• Some Graphical effects from the first boss stay and accumulate in the bottom right of the map till the game is reloaded.
  
• Pick Lock ability no longer has unlimited range.
  
• Poison damage now shows in a different color both in game and in the log.
  
• Pulling door levers and quickly going through does not work anymore.
  
• Volcano theme light increased overall.
  
• The map will always show good lighting regardless of the in game day/night cycle.
  
• Merchant "Out of gold!" will be cleared from the merchant window when closing it.
  
• Insectoid egg now is properly showing its sprite.
  
• Freezing champions should no longer remove their sprite while frozen.
  
• Closing the game in specific circumstances in story mode no longer removes the save file.
  
• Using 't' to confirm will now work properly with abilities and spells not only ranged attacks.
  
• Issue with moving to the top right of a fence in newly generated dungeons with the keyboard fixed.
  
• Fixed a graphical glitch where some upper most of the walls are not rendering in the ruins theme as well as similar levels when you load it for the first time.
  
• Level up on timed mode will correctly pause the clock.
  
• Fixed several typos.
  
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

Changes:

• Back stab should now correctly apply to shorts words and daggers.
  
• Pulling door levers through walls is not possible anymore.
  
• Using a skill on a tile that is further than your LOS, but within the weapon/skill range will not work anymore.
  
• Altars will now longer spawn on first boss level of the Eghoss campaign.
  
• Game will no longer freeze if you use a ranged weapon ability that can be targeted to an empty tile and you only have 1 ammo left.
  
• Some Graphical effects from the first boss stay and accumulate in the bottom right of the map till the game is reloaded.
  
• Pick Lock ability no longer has unlimited range.
  
• Poison damage now shows in a different color both in game and in the log.
  
• Pulling door levers and quickly going through does not work anymore.
  
• Volcano theme light increased overall.
  
• The map will always show good lighting regardless of the in game day/night cycle.
  
• Merchant "Out of gold!" will be cleared from the merchant window when closing it.
  
• Freezing champions should no longer remove their sprite while frozen.
  
• Closing the game in specific circumstances in story mode no longer removes the save file.
  
• Using 't' to confirm will now work properly with abilities and spells not only ranged attacks.
  
• Issue with moving to the top right of a fence in newly generated dungeons with the keyboard fixed.
  
• Fixed a graphical glitch where some upper most of the walls are not rendering in the ruins theme as well as similar levels when you load it for the first time.
  
• Level up on timed mode will correctly pause the clock.
  
• Fixed some typos.
  

• Jump over no longer breaks stealth.
  
• Swapping weapons sets no longer breaks stealth.
  
• Increased Shadow Construct boss swipe AOE damage.
  
• Champion enemies give twice as much soul essence now.
  
• Assassin confuse duration and cooldown is now longer. In addition, advance confuse enables to confuse in an area of effect. Expert confuse adds a damage component to it.
  

• After completing a wolrd map quest where you're searching a tile, the quest marker will switch to one of your active story quests.
  

IMPORTANT: How to try the beta branch?

• In your game library right click on "Rogue Empire -> Properties"
  
• In properties select the "Betas" tab
  
• On the drop down select the version: beta - Beta testing for next release
  

• Weight tutorial window now properly shows only once.
  
• Tool tips stay open on character screen when closing the screen while its showing.
  
• Added + to the bonus values in the balance meter.
  
• Fixed wrong text for eagle dive ability.
  
• Teleport does not enable enemies to hit you before you escape anymore.
  
• Hitting esc to cancel resting no longer freezes the game.
  
• Mushroom summons from legendary scimitar should count as your summons regarding XP they give and when the merchant sees you kill them.
  
• Called Royal Guards should now give XP when they kill your enemies.
  
• Frame rate should also be limited during intro movie.
  
• Leap attack, whirlwind, jump over and shot & Jump should now not work characters are somehow immobilized.
  
• Gold rewards on the world map events should now scale properly.
  
• Converted Giant wolf spider will now properly spawn friendly spiderlings.
  
• Fixed weird UI bug where resistances would not always show at its correct level.
  
• Using hunter abilities with different ammo types is no longer possible.
  
• Fixed several typos.
  

• High spawn rate special levels had their spawn rate reduced.
  
• Blobs now stop spawning once the Tandor Shadow Tower boss is defeated.
  
• Insectoids attack other enemies now as intended.
  
• Freeze duration increase of spells due to spell level and caster power decreased by 50%.
  
• Frost nova range increase due to spell level and caster power decreased by 33%.
  
• Shattering bolt damage increased slightly. Shattering bolt combo multiplier reduced.
  
• Lightning bolt, Chain Lightning and Fireball spell damage increased.
  
• Magic missile damage per missile slightly increased. Animation speed doubled.
  
• Each spiderling spawned by a wolf spider will now reduce the mother's hp by 10%. Once the wolf spider reaches below 50% hp it wont be able to spawn a new spiderling. Spiderling level has been increased by 50%.
  

• Texts in modern battle text mode now show an icon instead of text for when poison is applied to target.
  
• Enabled the "Visible in the Background" engine option, that should allow for full screen to work like border less windowed mode.