Time Break Chronicles

New Mechanic: Instability

Developer Update: Upcoming Act 4

Changelog for version 0.4.11b

• Added two new shop-only relics
  
• Added a new Training Room option to the Inn where you can beat up on invincible bots as long as you like. This option appears after you've started at least one mission in your save
  
• Added a new mechanic called "instability" that causes damage values to slowly rise over time, to help lengthy fights be more decisive as they go on. Boss fights increase this value much more slowly, since they are meant to be longer
  
• Rebalanced a few boss fights to have more appropriate scaling, health, and/or damage with the new instability mechanic
  
• Added a new default Time Break skill that resets instability to zero
  
• Added a new distortion that interacts with instability
  
• Maelstrom's Chaos Storm now has a 1-turn "exhaustion" stage after it goes off
  
• Track skill (Assassin, Pioneer, Pursuer) is no longer resistible
  
• Monk's Chakra skill strength reduced from 1.5x Focus to 1.25x
  
• Spellblade's Spell Refraction now also copies the level of the spell it refracts
  
• Inscriber Form's elemental magic spells' base damage increased from 1x Focus to 1.5x
  
• Ranger's skills now base their damage on Technique instead of Power
  
• Pirate's plunder now only steals half turn progress and its charge cost scales per use
  
• Blizzard skill (various heroes/enemies) level 3 now hits 12 times instead of 15 at level 3
  
• Vul's Vulstaff and Winter's Gift skills now have level 2/3 effects
  
• Taunt skill lv 3 now has a chance to make opponent stumble instead of acting
  
• Gather Shadows (Dark Knight, some enemies) skill levels reworked, and can no longer be interrupted
  
• Fury distortion reworked to randomly give free attacks rather than free turns
  
• Shroom enemy can no longer use Strange Spores twice in a row, and will now use Flurry attack in between
  
• Reworked the code that handles turn loss and forced skill overrides to make them work more consistently
  
• Fixed Inscriber Form's Echoing glyph to only proc one extra time for each spell
  
• Fixed a few bugs with Big Blob that could occasionally result in a soft locked state
  
• Fixed a bug that could result in a soft lock if a hero was downed from certain turn start damage effects
  
• Fixed Jaguar's Pounce skill description referencing Ambush skill instead of Stalk
  
• Fixed Avatar enemy's Channel ability still casting a spell even if you interrupted it
  
• Fixed some calculations related to crit chance and crit damage for certain skills
  
• Fixed Holy Shield (Angel, Cleric) being able to target somebody who already has it active
  
• Fixed broken "hurt" animation frame for Doctor's Nurse summon
  
• Fixed Stasis time break description being too long for in-battle info box
  

Changelog for version 0.4.10

• Optimized some particle effect animations to use fewer particles, improving performance for those animations
  
• Added a particle effect quality graphics option that will further reduce particle count on various animations, to better support low video memory devices such as certain integrated graphics chips
  
• Removed second Shroom enemy in early singularity mode encounter, since it could too easily overwhelm a two hero team
  
• Fixed Secret Service Return Fire skill using the wrong amount of MP to counter attack, and updated its description to show MP cost
  
• Fixed Jaguar's Pounce skill removing buffs from user instead of target at lv 2
  
• Fixed Marine's M16 skill not resetting uses on battle start
  
• Fixed Marine's "Light 'em Up" quest to work with reworked covering fire skill
  
• Fixed Sever Soul skill animation causing a crash when used by certain heroes
  
• Fixed Woodsman's Protect skill having its spent skill points reset continuously
  
• Updated Lawbringer's skill descriptions to clarify damage type dealt
  
• Various typo fixes
  

Changelog for version 0.4.9b

• Slight reshuffle of Secret Service skills
  
• Immortal and Secret Service revival skills now have a limit of 3 uses
  
• Reworked Meditate (various heroes) skill levels
  
• Marine's M16 skill reworked to have an ammo/reload system attached
  
• Marine's Specialist skill turn delay bonus decreased from 35% to 15%
  
• Replaced animation for Doctor's Malpractice skill to better match its theme and physical damage type
  
• Enemy husks at higher endless and singularity difficulties will now always have level 2 or 3 skills, based on the difficulty tier and elite status, except for a few encounters with specifically forced levels
  
• Enemy husks at the highest difficulty levels will now also have their default relics equipped
  
• Fixed handling of multiple Secret Service or Immortal characters so that all of them being downed at once still wins/loses the battle, even if you have Weight Heart or a similar skill
  
• Fixed Secret Service "Get Down!" quest not completing properly
  
• Fixed missing kneeling frame for Nurse sprite
  
• Fixed Zone Defense triggering multiple skill activations per turn
  
• Fixed Pill Bottle and Jacks Rum relics to work more reliably
  
• Fixed Jaguar being able to act during Pounce
  
• Fixed Sentinel being able to act during Forcefield channeling
  
• Fixed Doctor's Prescribe skills showing they could be leveled up
  
• Fixed Doctor and Jaguar rescue battles being skippable with stealth generator
  
• Fixed a couple of typos in new character flavor text
  

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Changelog for version 0.4.8b

New Content/Features

• Added 3 new wanderer heroes, available to rescue in special missions after completing Act 3. You may discover some new enemies in these missions as well!
  
• Added graphics quality option "HQ4X" that applies a smoothing shader, for those who like sprite smoothing
  
• Game option menu is now available to pull up in battle at any time, and contains an Abandon option
  

Hero and Skill Reworks and Balance Changes

• Added a handler to make sure any skills that we have removed or replaced on a hero will have any spent skill points or books refunded as available skill points
  
• Reworked Sentinel, Blacksmith, Lawbringer, and Super Soldier to various degrees
  
• Reworked Necromancer's Death Shroud and Death's Embrace skills to work a bit differently, but provide a similar function
  
• Assassin's Dagger skill replaced with Kunai, and she now has Track skill
  
• Immortal's Adrenaline Rush skill reworked to be a one turn bonus action buff
  
• Jester's Fan of Blades lv 2 damage bonus increased from 5% to 15%
  
• Rocker's Jam skill is now a Bonus Action
  
• Cursed's Rekindle skill is now a Bonus Action
  
• Cursed's Extinguished Soul skill now makes skills cost 0 MP
  
• Marine's basic M16 skill replaced with a more interesting gadget version
  
• Fire Mage's Combust skill level 2 now applies a fire DoT debuff to enemies it hits
  
• Vul's Hunter and Tranquil Stance skills now add direct bonus damage instead of increasing attributes
  
• Monk's Four Pillar abilities now also count as spells
  
• Physicist Claire now gains Ageless trait instead of Regrowth from Dryad
  
• Physicist Claire's Medkit is now a swappable skill
  
• Woodsman's Power reduced slightly
  
• Shake Off skill (various heroes) is now a Bonus Action
  
• Track skill (various heroes) is now a Bonus Action
  
• Reworked level 2/3 of Bulwark skill (various heroes) to provide more consistent utility
  
• Pummel skill (various heroes) damage per hit increased
  
• Meteor Strike skill is now a spell instead of attack
  
• Lizardman's Thrash now only hits primary target with Venom Bite at lv 3, instead of everyone
  
• Witch's Dark Arts skill's added damage bonuses reduced
  
• Ranger's Eagle Eye skill lv 3 turn delay decrease reduced
  
• Ranger's Pincushion skill damage reduced
  
• Druid's Moonbeam skill damage reduced
  
• Dryad's Enchant Spear trait now caps at 5 stacks
  

Other Balance Changes

• Reworked turn progress and chance to hit calculations for high level enemies to be normalized down to player character levels. This should help slower ramping heroes and speed/agility based heroes maintain their niche even against higher level enemies.
  
• Medium Blob enemies no longer gain free turn progress when summoned into battle
  
• Reworked Act 3 Kraken boss fight somewhat to feel a bit more fair, and have a better flow
  
• Troll enemy no longer has Swipe skill, but Wallop instead
  
• Reduced the difficulty of a couple of Act 3 Troll enemy encounters, and normalized them to be the same between singularity and chronicle
  
• Stasis Time Break is now single target
  
• Drone Parts relic now summons a random cultist drone type, based on the types you could have seen so far
  
• Master Scout Flag relic now gives 100% increased speed for first turn, instead of a free turn, but no longer increases damage taken
  
• Blitzer Speed Relic bonus reduced from 50% to 15%
  
• Reduced difficulty of Caveman's "Big Game Hunter" quest
  
• Reduced difficulty of Super Soldier's "Dominate This" quest
  

Bug Fixes/Other

• Fixed Vul's White Wind skill not counting as a spell
  
• Improved Bard AI
  
• Fixed Monk's Four Pillars skill being usable by CPU controlled characters without Zen Trance active
  
• Fixed enemy Ancient Rage and Ancient Power enemy traits triggering on healing
  
• Fixed Spirit Walk skill not being usable by Inscriber Claire
  
• Fixed Oakheart relic being craftable
  
• Fixed misalignment of downed Druid sprite
  
• Fixed misalignment of Thunder Hammer sprite on enemy Viking
  
• Fixed bug where battle skill sub menus sometimes appeared behind other menus after cancelling out of them
  
• Fixed bug where enemy could use Dark Bargain on itself in certain circumstances
  
• Fixed possible crash from Acrobatics trait in combination with Metabolism break
  
• Fixed aspect skills being dispellable and possibly stealable
  
• Fixed various typos
  
• Disabled text "pop" effect on some menus