Sel Quinta: The Six City Quest
EMPIRE: Galaxy Burning now released!
BWI Games Upcoming Release: EMPIRE: GALAXY BURNING
Our first foray into the world of Shmups, the game has you taking on an ancient superweapon by the name of EMPIRE, awakened by a wish that unfortunately happens to be taking revenge on the rest of the universe!
Honestly the best way to show it off is in action so go check out the trailer!
The store page isn't quite ready yet (just going through Steam's review process) but there'll be another announcement once it's up!
The Crab Patch
The Ogor Boss's HP has been halved and his Sleep breath's effectiveness cut down from 50% to 40%. He was a fair bit harder than really intended for the first boss and his sleep breath a bit too likely to cause an unintentional team wipe.
Fixed a game breaking bug where changing Hetty's (I suspect it would work for anyone else in the last party slot too) equipment mid battle would have a chance to bring up a menu it wasn't meant to. If you clicked on it, it would crash the game to desktop. This was fixed by removing the ability to change your gear mid fight so keep this in mind!
The encounter rate was much too high. I've cut it back quite drastically, most importantly increasing the amount of steps guaranteed to be clear between encounters. You should only encounter enemies roughly 50% as often now if not more. This will slow progression a bit unless you go out of your way to grind which will increase difficulty a bit but the late game was a bit too easy anyway so I consider this fine. If you start not encountering enemies at all PLEASE let me know immediately!
Hetty had some dialogue that indicated she knew who Varn was before anyone actually told her at the entrance to Kol-Duna, a slight re-write here has corrected this.
A certain plant could allow you to climb the hillside cliffs where you weren't meant to-again. For about the fourth time now I *think* have fixed this.
The optional Earthclaw Excavator boss now has drops! He now drops a Black Lens and a phial of X-027 much earlier than you can normally get either!
At the very end of the game, there was a bug where certain gear (medium armour and axes) were not removed when they were meant to be, now fixed. Admittedly, it still doesn't remove them all from your inventory entirely. The only way to do that that I could find is to manually do so one at a time and it's not worth the massive lagspike on your end or the copypasta fest on mine to set that up. But it should at least look better)
Final boss HP buffed from 30,000 to 35,000. He was just a little too easy, should be a bit more of a challenge now.
Transit Token Patch
Assuming all is well the patch should be up within a few hours of this patch note becoming visible.
The Big Bug Bonanza Patch
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There was a script error with one of the Yanfly scripts that could cause the game to completely crash, seemingly triggered by surprise attacks. Since I was never *too* fond of the mechanic, surprise attacks and ambushes have been completely disabled in an attempt to mitigate this, however if anyone else encounters this problem or if other problems arise from the fix I'd definitely want to know about it.
Part of the hillside route could be walked through due to an inconveniently placed plant, said plant has been replanted in the soil at the base of the hill to stop players climbing on it.
The Tower in the delta could be walked onto from the roof, tiles have been adjusted so this is no longer possible.
Knockout Strike, Torrent, Crashflake, Thief's Focus, Calm, Cleave, Icebreaker and F: Raitongu Kami were all usable outside of battle when they shouldn't be. While calm does have a restorative effect, it was not really intended to be an out of battle skill. All have now been adjusted.
Likewise, the Yellow, Red and Black spores were also usable out of battle, this was also not intended and has been fixed.
Icicle was missing an element, so it has been assigned fire as it's-I'm kidding, obviously it's ice element now.
Lysandroth, Katalyn and Vegal apparently learned the Shadow Clone Jutsu in the mansion, once added to the party they would also still be standing around in the mansion. Since this isn't a Naruto fan-game, sadly I've had to tell them to stop-they should disappear now once added to the group.
As far as I'm aware, the stairs bug in the mansion cellar (which meant you had to press Enter to go back down them) has been reported, but was actually fixed in the grammar patch. If anyone still has this issue let me know.
Reilia apparently briefly joined one of Katalyn's heists in Kol-Toba, while it's nice that she wanted to help out it's not really her speciality and now it's just Katalyn handling it as intended.
The Pirate ship event now properly disables the Transit Tokens as intended, with them reactivated upon arrival in Kol-Duna. No more leaving the crew of the Riches Abound to fight on their own!
The Riches Abound was re-board-able, something that would restart the pirate attack event improperly and cause a soft-lock. It's now only board-able once as intended.
The Transit tokens were, early in development deactivated by simply removing them all from the party and giving them back again after whatever event is in progress was finished. However this meant that part way through the game the party would loose the token for the mine entrance and have it replaced with a duplicate of the one for the forest, thanks to an accidental miscount. This was later replaced with just disabling it on a switch but turns out that the tokens were still removed and re-added. This has now been updated to just toggle them on the switch so you should no longer loose the mine entrance token once you reach Kol-Duna.
The party no longer arrives in Kol-Duna twice due to the space rending power of a typo.
If a certain choice is made, Vegal teaches Katalyn a little magic! However, since Katalyn has no mana or magic attack, she's meant to learn a slightly modified version of these spells. This was set correctly-but what was not set correctly was flagging them as techniques, so while Katalyn did learn them, she couldn't use them. This has now been adjusted.
Illunon the wizard apparently forgot to actually take his letter from the party. I've reminded him he should probably do that and he now keeps it as intended.
You could, if you wished return to Leviathan's rest after beating the boss in it. However there's nothing down there in terms of optional treasure and doing so would soft-lock the game. It's no longer possible to descend into the crater once you've beaten it's occupant.
The Transit tokens to the Hill path and mines were the old sort, pre-switch disabled update. This meant that while at ??? and the epilogue, you could still use them- and using them at either location was game-breaking so they've been updated to respond to being disabled properly.
Marian spelt her name wrong during part of her dialogue. She's rather embarrassed by this but I've told her it's no big deal and corrected it.
Lily was in the same boat as I was apparently and was not aware you could talk to her across the table. While she was a bit nervous to learn she'd have a full speaking role, since she's talking to her sister I was able to convince her to have her own dialogue if talked to.
The Blacksmith in Kol-Cerba would, if you declined to repair the Mounazine get confused and believe you simply didn't have the handle. I've since straightened up the misunderstanding and corrected the dialogue related to it.
The Muddy Forest now has the correct name in all places and you should only get the Red-Roc token for it once. The duplicate didn't cause any problems but wasn't intended.
Special thanks to Euphoniac for tracking down and reporting a large number of bugs, and TenkoBerry for both finding a few bugs and for his play-through of the game which I've been greatly enjoying so far, even if it makes me nervous just watching it!
The Grand Grammar Patch
RIP my hands with the amount of select all/copy/paste/correct/select all/copy/paste/repeat that it took to get the whole game checked.
You should find that there are vastly less typo's now and a few minor bits of dialogue have been improved, enjoy! I do greatly appreciate feedback, so do feel free to make me aware if there are any other issues with the game or if I missed anything during my typo purging. Or, since it's currently being worked on, any suggestions for the sequel!