• Features:
  
  • New 'Wounded Humanoid' event
    
  • Attribute scaling significantly increased, all units will now hit harder
    and have more protection to make battles less lethal
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Can now open and view the equipment the Ensemble's Packmule is carrying,
    with a warning that they cannot be moved to the Armory until returning to
    the Capital
    
  • Can now open and view the resources the Ensemble's Packmule is carrying,
    with the above warning.
    
  • Reworked Ensemble status rendering to clarify what the Ensemble did last
    week versus what they are about to do
    
  • Added a tooltip for the Ensemble's status that describes what they are
    going to do that turn (ie Gathering, Patrolling etc)
    
  • Included brief description of the current week phase in a few tooltips to
    clarify when something is going to be done
    
  • Rework loot drop messages, for gaining or not finding any.
    
  • Tweak tooltip art from a plain black image to something with more texture
    
  • Display hiring costs inline on the Pub screen, so you don't need to mouse
    over everyone to see their costs.
    
  • Highlight hiring costs to make it clearer if you can afford them or not
    
  • Added resource icons on the Ensemble's Packmule resource panel
    
  • Spacing on the Resource and Equipment panels
    
  • Added a log note about an Ensemble returning to the capital
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Fix Ambushes sometimes happening too often
    
  • Fix certain Gathering events not generating resources, or generating the
    wrong resource
    
  • Itinerary Overview no longer floats a message telling you that a step was
    successfully added, when it hadn't.
    
  • Fix battle initiative panel showing the wrong HP (and even hiding unit
    panels) incorrectly
    
  • Fix battle unit panels not showing up if they died at any point during the
    battle
    
  • Fix HP/FAT/MOR bars in unit panels appearing empty when a unit was at full
    health
    
  • Fix duplicate choices during a certain Patrol event
    
  • Fix debug event showing up during Patrols
    
  • Fix Gathering event reading as 'Gathered' when it should have said
    'Gather', leading to confusion as to what is about to happen
  
  

• Features:
  
  • Reworked how Events are implemented. This shouldn't affect your experience
    yet, but it was a massive fourth month project to implement, and should
    eventually lead to easily creating your own events once the game is 1.0
    
  • Brief tutorial that goes over the UI once the Hero is created. This
    includes the main overview screen, the Itinerary screen, the Equipment
    screen, the Armory and Packmule screens
    
  • Tutorial saves/loads progress so if you exit the game halfway through,
    you're able to pick up where you left off
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Add option for tooltip delay so they can show up earlier or later
    
  • Add visual effect to the 'view battle' button to better inform you when
    there's something to watch
    
  • Reposition log buttons on the main screen to be off to the side
    
  • Add borders to unit portraits in the Chapel
    
  • Tweaked wording on failing to capture a prisoner to make it more clear
    what happened
    
  • Each game phase now has a custom tooltip over the 'advance time' button,
    rather than just one big blog of text
    
  • Can now inspect the starting heroes in the Hero Creator by right clicking,
    like you could any other unit
    
  • The building cost labels now include building names
    
  • Floating label when trying to build a new building in the capital has text
    highlighting for easier reading
    
  • Add whitespace for text box when removing a unit from the Ensemble
    
  • Animate the building info when mousing over an unbuilt building in the
    capital, and include the building's icon
    
  • Game window position persists across sessions, meaning if you move the
    screen to the right, it'll be on the right the next time it is launched
    
  • Add ultra-hidden/inaccessible match3 minigame
    I made during quarantine for fun
    
  • In the savefile, the unit's name is now at the top, for easier
    identification
    
  • Optimize some core battle logic so battles should resolve nearly instantly
    for anyone who it wasn't before.
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Fix inspecting a unit during battle showing their final state (ie dead, if
    they died during the battle), rather than their state at the given instance
    in the battle replay.
    
  • Fix pressing ESC during the Hero Creator starting the game with bogus data
    
  • Fix clicking the 'loop' button sometimes not looping the Ensemble's orders
    
  • Fix Hero/Ensemble leader dying during a battle, and not being able to see
    battle results because they were instantly moved back to the Capital
    
  • Reduce texture size for slightly faster loading
    
  • Remove leading '+' character when inspecting armor
    
  • Fix Hero Creator's descriptions and stats not matching their names
    
  • Fix certain Itinerary steps not having a decision made
    
  • Fix reading name file from the disk too often
    
  • Fix crash on loading the game where your first Ensemble wasn't loading
    correctly
  
  

Features:

• Add a new ritual that lets you revive dead minions and promote them to Hero, allowing you to create new Ensembles
  
• Add a crash reporter, so you can submit instant bug reports
  
• Can now see a unit's limb health. The fewer healthy limbs, the worse they'll do in combat
  
• Can now remove units from an Ensemble. (Note this is temporarily not limited to only while not on excursion)

Tweaks

• Add a glimmer effect to 'Embark' button to make it more obvious the Ensemble is resting
  
• Added the Itinerary Index (ie '#3' if its the third entry) to the world screen
  
• Replace 'On Excursion' with the actual entry name for clarity
  
• Reword 'UnsetCondition' to 'Alive' to better reflect that the Tactic applies to any target
  
• Add a button to clear the currently planned-to-cast Ritual
  
• Shrink and rephrase the empty Barracks description
  
• Use the same color for HP/FAT/MOR in the equipment screen and the world screen
  
• Change 'Send' to 'Bury in Chapel' in the Memorial so it's more clear what's happening
  
• Reword some entries in the credits
  
• Use a mono SFX effect for opening menus, rather than slightly off-center
  
• Add a visual divider between weeks in the world log
  
• Remove extraneous spaces on stat explanations when inspecting a unit

Fixes:

• Fix crash when viewing an ensemble without valid members
  
• Fix crash when hiring a new unit from the Pub and immediately reopening the page
  
• Fix crash on inspecting certain Itinerary Entries (travelling, returning to base etc)
  
• Fix showing the dead minion's widget at the top of the world screen
  
• Fix crash for when you hover over a second ensemble
  
• Fix surviving battle members to always having at least 1HP
  
• Fix units not always healing when resting in the Capital
  
• Add logging in several places for dealing with multiple ensembles
  
• Minor optimization of sprite backgrounds
  
• Don't show unexplored locations when you inspect an Itinerary Entry

Changelog For December 2nd 2019 v21

• Tweaks:
  
  • Can now click on itinerary entries to get a better idea of what they do
    
  • Can now click on the construct outpost entry to view its cost, in addition to hovering over its button in the dropdown
    
  • Add an confirm modal when aborting to make it clear what you're doing when you abort your active Excursion (similar to looping)
    
  • Action button on the main screen now tells you which Ensemble has actions to take
    
  • Use new event screen layout with pretty art
    
  • Make the quest complete popup prettier
    
  • Add padding for 'remove equipped weapon'
    
  • Tweak weapon stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
    
  • Tweak armor stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
    
  • Tweak spell stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
    
  • Add portraits to swapping unit positions
    
  • Add border to unit images in the loadout screen
    
  • Add a background in the left of the loadout screen to hint where you should click to close the menu
    
  • Reword ambush choice text to make it clear you can't sneak by
    
  • Moved changelog and discord buttons out of the world screen and into the main menu
    
  • Changelog no longer pops up on first load of a new build, instead flashes the button
    
  • Show building construction costs when you click on it to build without enough resources
    
  • Buildings cost more resources as you construct more of them
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Optimized startup time
    
  • Fix text alignment issue when inspecting an actor
    
  • Reword some of the first-load welcome text
    
  • Change 'automatically' to 'manually' on chapel corpses
    
  • Add missing comma and whitespace in various event texts
    
  • Fix location dropdown not being clickable by moving it upwards when it would have been clipped by the border (ie anything on the bottom quarter of the map)
    
  • Fix loadout screen not opening when clicking on portraits on the world map screen
    
  • Fix events sometimes having buttons without any text
    
  • Should be invisible to the player, but started moving events into data files so that they might one day be moddable!
    
  • Fix clouds not moving to reveal new unlocked zone
  
  

• Features:
  
  • Added The Chapel for burying the dead
    
    • Can now move dead units from an ensemble resting in the city to the Chapel grounds
      
    • The Mage's Tower will eventually use these bodies as resources to spend when casting rituals
      
    • Can cast a 'revive' ritual, which has a chance to revive a buried soldier
    
    
  • The game now skips phases where no actions are taken (ie when all ensembles are travelling, or resting in the capital)
    
  • Added basis for 'perks'/'attributes' and weapon affinities. The more you use a weapon, the more the unit will gain an affinity for it.
    
    • Every weapon now has a category like 'swords' or 'staves', and you'll get up to three attributes per weapon category
      
    • Gain XP for a given weapon category by scoring a hit or dealing damage with it in battle
    
    
  • Added Training Grounds to the capital, where you can leave units in order for them to forget their weapon affinities, allowing them a chance to learn a new variant
    
  • Added Opposition Points, special events that inflict a debuff on ensembles on active excursions, until they're defeated
    
    • Have a random chance of spawning and can be seen next to the associated location button in the World Overview
    
    
  • Keyboard shortcuts for the main menu (SPACE to skip intro, O for options etc) and World Overview screen (SPACE to advance time, C to view capital)
    
  • Locations are now marked as unexplored until they are visited for the first time
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Reword advance time button to 'Confirm Plans' and 'Resolve Choices' instead of 'Commit' and 'Resolve Events'. Let me know if this is any better
    
  • Show currently selected ensemble's packmule on the World Overview screen
    
  • Last selected ensemble persists across screens
    
  • World log is now visible by default
    
  • Added right-click to inspect unit in the bar along the top of the World Overview screen
    
  • When going Windowed mode, the window now appears at an offset, instead of flush with the corner of the screen
    
  • Text highlighting for constructing outposts, to make their costs more obvious
    
  • Quest text rewritten, font size tweaked
    
  • Quest progress is now saved across play sessions
    
  • Added tooltips to units' stat bars on the top of the World Overview
    
  • Added tooltips for main menu buttons
    
  • Added animation to tooltips
    
  • Resources gathered via Gather are now shown in the world log
    
  • Hide the opposition buttons when the opposition points are inactive
    
  • Replace quest/itinerary/equipment/packmule/resource buttons on the World Overview with text icons
    
  • Added a 'move 100' for transferring resources to/from packmule and capital
    
  • Completed quests now notify their completion
    
  • New Game button has been added to the main menu.
    
  • Shrank modal sizes when inspecting a location, and reworked the layout a bit
    
  • Quit button in the World Overview now has a confirm modal, instead of immediately quitting
    
  • Resize inspect unit modals to fit new attributes
    
  • Tweaked the outline for the selected ensemble in the World Overview
    
  • Renamed 'Prebattle' screen to 'Equipment' screen
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Fixed deleting a savegame without restarting the game causing a crash
    
  • Tooltips no longer activate over invisible widgets
  
  
• Known issues
  
  • Tooltips sometimes stack up
    
  • Tooltips move too much while animating in
  
  

• Features:
  
  • Added 'Rituals', a style of out-of-combat magic that allows you to manipulate the world
    
  • Can now attempt to capture defeated enemies, in order to hold them prisoner in the Mage's Tower
    
    • In the PostBattle screen for battles you've won, a new 'Capture' button has been added.
    
    
  • Ensembles now have a memorial for permadead units.
    
  • Add 'Pond' event, with mutliple outcomes. Will you drink from the pond, or try to walk away?
    
  • Added a debug menu bound to KP_PLUS to view some of the data in-game. Will be removed by release
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Added flavour text for attacking a troll (NB: no actual troll to fight yet)
    
  • New flavour text for all events in the game
    
  • Added new choice for the highwaymen event
    
  • Moved the Ensemble icons lower on the world map so that they don't clip
    
  • Tweaked Tactic setup widget, ('[X]' to 'x', etc)
    
  • Replace placeholder descriptions in Hero Creator
    
  • Added tooltips for explaining what Alert Levels are
    
  • Removed Storage building and replaced with Mage's Tower
    
  • All Modals now animate in, instead of just appearing
    
  • Added colors to Marketplace for easier visual identification
    
  • Moved date display onto two lines on AllEnsemblesOverview
    
  • Don't fade out Ensemble icons on map when they're travelling
    
  • Take Action button is no longer red when an action is required
    
  • Flash the Ensemble icon instead, to show that there is action required
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Fixed not having post-battle event-specific text
    
  • Fixed the marketplace being resolved before the week was over
    
  • Fixed the take action button always saying 'Action Chosen' on Results Phase
    
  • Added another attempt to fix tooltips showing up incorrectly (appears to be unsuccessful :[)
    
  • Fix crash when hovering too quickly over too many buttons
    
  • Fix floating labels being clipped by the top of the AllEnsemblesOverview screen
    
  • Fix text overflowing results modals
    
  • Fixed Marketplace panel being too wide, cutting off the close button
    
  • Fixed Marketplace not using the icons for the sell listings
    
  • Fixed Ensemble icons scaling over the Location button on mouseover
  
  

• Features:
  
  • At the end of every week, you are now shown a recap of everything that happened
    
  • Added a 'disable recaps' option
    
  • Units track a dozen stats, from number of battles, to weeks spent on excursion, visible whenever inspecting a unit
    
  • Equipment and Resources now has visible icons
    
  • Battle replays have simple swipe animations
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Resources in storage are now visible on the AllEnsemblesOverview
    
  • Resources in the Ensembles' packmules are now visible on the ItineraryOverview
    
  • Minions are rendered on the map, next to their leading Heroes now
    
  • show equipped weapon and armor in PostBattle
    
  • add a placeholder for eventually story text on startup
    
  • fadein/out unit panels in Prebattle
    
  • selected Ensemble outline now animates slightly
    
  • added starting weapons to each of the three starting archetypes
    
  • text size on inspecting units is resized to better fit new icons
    
  • removed 'lowercase i' prefix on location buttons, since the Capital button has its own special texture now
    
  • reworded most Decision text to use 'they' instead of 'you', since the events have to do with the units and not the player directly
    
  • highlight dependant stats when hovering over master stats in the unit inspection modal
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • fix portrait ratio in the Pub and Barracks modals
    
  • fix selected Ensemble outline disappearing between phases
    
  • use new vanity discord url (https://discord.gg/theworldoutside)
    
  • fix dead units coming back to life after reloading a save (thanks Cablenexus!)
    
  • fix Ensembles not being allowed new units after units permadied (thanks Cablenexus!)
    
  • fix status icons overlaying over tooltips
    
  • speed up startup loading
    
  • fix 'wipe save' not working properly
    
  • fix crash with loading old saves
    
  • disable remembering the last selected unit
    
  • fix equipment icons leaving 'ghost' icons
  
  

• Features:
  
  • Reworked main map screen
    
    • Can still access old UI by hitting TAB (for now!)
    
    
  • Added a main menu
    
    • Hitting ESC now moves you back to this, instead of quitting
    
    
  • New unit portraits!
    
  • New weapon/armor images!
    
    • Can now tell what equipment is without clicking on it
    
    
  • New Ensemble status icons!
    
    • Can now see what Ensembles are up to at a glance
    
    
  • New Map image!
    
  • New Highwayman event where you may lose resources to ransom
    
  • Added the World Log (back in)
    
  • Added a 'delete save' button to Options
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Can now right click to un-equip a weapon or armor in PreBattle screen
    
  • Fade out 'take action' button when no action is needed
    
  • The 'take action' button is now plain red when an action is needed, so that it is impossible to miss
    
  • Tweaked animation for the quests button, since its now in a more obvious position
    
  • Can now hover over equipment in the Marketplace to see its value
    
  • Using new art for clickable and regular cursors
    
  • Progress bars for HP/MOR/FAT now have an outline
    
  • Swap out WPN and ARM for actual weapon and armor icons in Marketplace/Packmule/PreBattle screens
    
  • Add margins for Marketplace and Packmule panels
    
  • Removed SFX for when your cursor leaves a UI element (thanks Cablenexus!)
    
  • Added 'placeholder' prefix to placeholder text in Hero Creator
    
  • Moved the length validation label above the name input and slowed it down
    
  • Removed the Workshop from the Capital, as its no longer needed
    
  • When you load an invalid save, instead of crashing, it simply wipes your invalid save.
    
  • Tooltips are now smarter about their position on screen and should not appear offscreen
    
  • Changed 'Add to Ens.' to 'Add to Ensemble' in a few places
    
  • Add tooltips when moving Resources from Packmule to Armory and vice versa
    
  • In the Hero Creator, whenever a new validation label spawns, it removes the old one
    
  • In the Hero Creator, the text entry blinks so that you know to click on it
    
  • Add special placeholder button for the Capital button to visually distinguish it from the others
    
  • When inspecting a Location, you can now hover the 'A0' alert label to get a brief explanation of what its for
    
  • Incorportated new Alert Level system in tooltips for Gathering and Patrolling Itinerary entries
    
  • New tooltips for labels for phases i through iii
    
  • Can now click instead of hovering over the units in the Pub and Barracks to view them.
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Fix units not healing at all when returning to base
    
  • Reduce savegame filesize by about 30% and increase loading performance by about that much
    
  • Fix font sizes throughout Magnolia
    
  • Fix text clipping throughout Magnolia
    
  • Increase font sizes throughout Magnolia
    
  • Fix Marketplace and Packmule panels equipment buttons overflowing
    
  • Significant optimization to screens with a number of tooltips
    
  • Fix a crash when adding Locations to your Itinerary
    
  • Fix a crash when adding someone to an Ensemble from the Pub
    
  • Fix a crash when adding someone to an Ensemble from the Barracks
  
  

• Features:
  
  • On first load, you can choose an archetype and name your Hero
    
  • You choose between a strong, smart or a mystic hero
    
  • Your Hero's Ensemble is filled with 4 other randomly generated minions
    
  • New songs for the main screen, battle music, and prepping for combat
    
  • New SFX for UI some elements
    
  • New Options screen for resolution and volume levels
    
  • New Feedback button for submitting feedback in Options screen
    
  • Clear tactics button
    
  • New Confirm Quit dialog, instead of instantly closing game (Alt F4 still works)
    
  • Added new custom cursor for mousing around and over buttons and widgets, helping identify what's clickable
    
  • New Event system is in the works. This is the start of something cool.
  
  
• Fixes:
  
  • Tooltips should no longer appear if the widget is behind another
    
  • If tooltips do appear longer than they should, you can now click to close them.
    
  • Fix typo in Ensemble status display
    
  • Fix Kobold Archers instantly dying in combat
    
  • Fix Kobold Spear Slingers having Acwel's profile picture
    
  • Fix map scrolling even if you weren't mouse over it
    
  • Fix map scrolling if you were mousing over it, but the changelog was covering it
    
  • Fix black background on PostBattle scene
  
  
• Tweaks:
  
  • Main map screen now shows alert level and outposts built, instead of leaving that only displayed in the Itinerary screen
    
  • Can now right click on an Ensemble button to jump right to their equipment screen
    
  • Can now hit ESC to close equip weapon/armor/tactics submenus in equipment screens
    
  • Added counts on Resources in Marketplace/Pub/Armory if there was more than one stacked
    
  • Added [X] to close all modals in the game. Can stil hit ESC to close them.
    
  • Added tooltips to most widgets in the toplevel equipment screen
    
  • Choosing an action for a given decision now closes the modal, instead of requiring a double click
    
  • Toggling fullscreen with F4 now persists across sessions
    
  • Tooltips fade in more smoothly now
    
  • The default battle speed is slower now
    
  • The current battle speed button is highlighted
    
  • Tooltips animate in on top of fading in
    
  • Tooltips now shrink to better fit their contents
    
  • Quest button now animates a little bit so that you notice it.
    
  • Can click the Quest button once to stop it from animating.
    
  • Map in AllEnsemblesOverview once again has clickable location buttons, but they're now prefixed with an Information icon to differentiate between them and the Capital button
    
  • Changed Ensemble status buttons' text into actions instead of status (ie 'embark' instead of 'resting')
    
  • Ensemble status no longer clips with Hero name
    
  • Improved logging on startup