* Please note, the patch notes are currently in-development and may change.
* More changes will be added as time progresses.
Consider it as an on-going dev log!
Link: https://elyswer.itch.io/white-pearlrpg/devlog/52479/patch-20-notes
White Pearl
Patch 2.0 Notes (In-Development) Released
* Please note, the patch notes are currently in-development and may change.
* More changes will be added as time progresses.
Consider it as an on-going dev log!
Link: https://elyswer.itch.io/white-pearlrpg/devlog/52479/patch-20-notes
Announcing White Pearl Patch 2.0, scheduled for release in 2019
This is an announcement as part of White Pearl's 1st anniversary since release (October - December 2017).
Patch 2.0 will bring huge changes to White Pearl's game balance and adds new features to the game (such as extending the crafting system).
Detailing the Changes
The following pictures are taken from the White Pearl 2.0 patch notes. When the patch has finished development, a seperate announcement will be made with the link to these patch notes - allowing players to peruse over the patch notes in their entirety.
New Features - what will they entail?
- An extension to the crafting system will be added:
With the implentation of this new system, new types of shields will be added:
- Quest rewards will be adjusted to better reward the player for their time and effort.
A Quest Log may be added to the game. Because of the addition of the Luna Engine, White Pearl's backend UI engine, adding new UI scripts is difficult because it is not always guaranteed to work - and very few are compatible. I ask for your patience on this matter.
* More changes and additions will be made as development of the patch progresses.
Game Balance - what will be affected?
White Pearl Patch 1.0.9 - Echoes From the Past Calamity
The patch will be releasing this month - and maybe, once Fabrication releases, I might add some post-game content in White Pearl too. Depends if I feel up to the task!
Firstly, I'd like to point out a very important detail in the patch notes, and I'll specify it here:
Changes to Existing Events
- At both ending areas, it is possible to obtain the acheivements that have been added recently through a menu. This is so existing players will not have to replay the game fully.
Without further ado, the balance adjustments!
Skills
Prayer
- An additional effect has been added:
"For each ally, have a 20% chance to bestow them with Regen (8%) for one turn."
Heal II
- MP cost increased from 0 to 10.
Vaccine
- MP cost reduced from 20 to 10.
Revive
- An additional effect has been added:
"Revived target has the effect of Weakness (-5% stats) for 2 turns."
Saint
- Charge time removed.
- MP cost increased from 18 to 20.
Shroud of Saints
- Effect of MP regen, increased from 4%, to 7%.
- Now grants the user another turn.
- Now has a cooldown of 10 turns.
Hasten
- MP cost reduced from 25 to 20.
Bomb, Avalanche, Storm
- MP cost reduced from 30 to 20.
Flare, Freeze, Darkness
- MP cost reduced from 50 to 40.
Wind
- Potency increased from 200 to 350.
- MP cost increased from 5 to 15.
Shock
- MP cost reduced from 58 to 40.
Spark, Splash, Earth
- MP cost increased from 5 to 10.
Magic Expose
- The chance of Reverse Shell being inflicted has been increased from 20%, to 50%.
- MP cost increased from 0 to 13.
Last Ditch Effort (Trait)
- Name changed to: "Blessing of Zion".
- Effects changed to: "When HP below 75%, resist Stun and increase DEF by 50%."
Expolitation
- Effects changed to:
"Inflict the target with the effect of Bleed, Fracture
and Debilitation. Has a cooldown of 10 turns."
Shadow
- MP cost reduced from 18 to 15.
Enfire
- Effect of attack power increase, increased from 10% to 15%.
Restore Balance
- No longer removes Silence, Sleep, Paralysis, Poison and Fear upon execution.
- Cooldown reduced from 6 turns, to 3 turns.
- Can now be used on other party members.
- Effect changed to: "Remove Confuse and/or Stun from an ally, and grants
a 3 turn resistance to the effects."
Elusion (Trait)
- Tooltip now reflects actual percentage change to the values.
- Added an additional effect:
"DEF and MDEF increased by 35% when HP is below 75%."
Berserker's Roar
- Effect of ATK stat increase, increased from 8% to 10%.
Berserk
- Effect of DEF and MDEF stat decrease, decreased from 23% to 10%.
- Can now be used on other party members.
Paladin's Pledge
- Effect of DEF stat increase, increased from 8% to 10%.
Radiant Blade
- An additional effect has been added:
"For each enemy, 25% chance to inflict Light Resistance Down."
Shield Defense
- Effect of DEF stat increase, increased from 10% to 15%.
- MP cost reduced from 20 to 10.
Internal Release
- Effect of LUK stat increase, increased from 20% to 40%.
Raptor Form
- Now restores 10% of HP, from the HP increase effect.
Kick
- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.
Drown
- Potency increased from 600 to 800.
Provoke
- The Cover effect has been replaced with the correct one.
Sentinel
- Can now be used on other party members.
Shatter Strike
- Potency increased from 100 to 250.
- Now has a cooldown of 1 turn.
Spinning Edge
- Potency decreased from 300 to 200.
Wide Volley
- The charge time effect has been removed, as the skill wasn't working as intended from the tooltip.
Swiftsong
- Effect of LUK stat increase, increased from 5% to 35%.
Skewer
- Cooldown reduced from 5 to 2 turns.
Conjure Sword
- MP cost reduced from 15 to 0.
Conjure Sword II
- MP cost reduced from 30 to 15.
Magica
- MP cost reduced from 20 to 0.
Aqua Vitae
- Can now be used on other party members.
- Grants another turn.
- Now has a cooldown of 3 turns.
- Can no longer be used outside of battle.
Debuffs
Lesser Reverse Shell - Effect of MDEF stat decrease has been increased from 8%, to 10%.
Other Skills
Banish Creation - Potency increased from 999 to 9999.
New Content
- New cutscenes, NPCs, and a boss has been added to the Underground whilst in U'vharr's Perspective.
Developer Comments Published!
It's available here: https://elyswer.itch.io/white-pearlrpg/devlog/31945/developer-comments-doc-added
I put a lot of effort into the format so please take a read if you can ^_^
Major 1.0.8 Update; Balance Adjustments Detailed!
I'm not able to make changes to already existing enemies and items because it's all recorded in the guide now and I don't want to risk it becoming outdated.
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UPDATE NOTES (issued 20th Apr 2018):
General Actions
Guard
- Now restores 2% of MaxHP and MP upon use.
Pearlto - Paladin
Provoke
- Now also adds the effect of "Cover" onto the user.
- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.
- MP cost reduced from 10 to 5.
Makeshift Medic
- Now grants a 1 turn resistance to the following effects:
- Bleed
- Fracture
The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.
- MP cost reduced from 9 to 2.
Katkin - Lancer
Leaden Thrust
- Will now always inflict Reverse Hasten.
- Can now deal critical damage.
Aspected Heal, Restore, Rejuvenate & Aspected Prayer and Rejuvenation
- Can now allow critical HP restore.
Elyswer - Bard
Song of Valor
- Charge time negated.
Wide Volley
- Animation will now play on all enemies all at once.
- Charge time negated.
Syncopation
- Now has a cooldown of 2 turns.
Elrise - Pugilist
Decoy
- Now also increases EVA by 20% for 3 turns.
Cassopeia - Black Mage
Magic Expose
- Base potency increased from 20 to 220.
As such, the tooltop for the skill has been altered from "deals small dark
damage", to "deals moderate dark damage".
Reverse Protect, Shell, Hasten
- Base potency increased from 25 to 80.
Spark (also shared by Katkin)
- Base potency increased from 150 to 180.
As such, the tooltop for the skill has been altered from "deals lightning
damage", to "deals reasonable lightning damage".
Elsay - White Mage
Round Swing
- Base potency increased from 125 to 225.
- Charge time negated.
- Can now allow critical damage.
- MP cost reduced from 22 to 18.
Mend Body
- Now grants a 1 turn resistance to the following effects:
- Bleed
- Fracture
- Crippled
The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.
Cure
- Now grants a 1 turn resistance to the following effects:
- Poison
- Blind
- Silence
The resistance will be bestowed regardless if the effects have been removed by the skill or not.
Revive
- HP% restored increased from 22 to 35.
New skill added: Banish (was on the database before, but not added to skill lists).
- Deals high holy damage to one enemy. (base: 400)
- Has a cooldown of 3 turns.
- MP cost: 15
- Aquired by Elsay and Kurone at level 20.
*Players who have passed this level before the update will be unable to
aquire the new skill.
Heal II, Restore II
- Can now allow critical HP restore.
Kurone - Mythologist
- The cooldown timer has been removed from the following skills:
- Holy Up
- Dark Up
- Fire Up
- Ice Up
- Wind Up
- Earth Up
Wind of Healing
- The base HP restore value has been increased from 180 to 360.
As such, the tooltop for the skill has been altered from "slightly restore all
allies' HP", to "restores all allies' HP".
- The Lesser Hasten effect, has been replaced with "Hasten".
- Now costs 15 MP to use.
Element
- Base potency increased from 150 to 180.
- Now decreases all elemental resistances by 10% upon effect.
- Now has a cooldown of 4 turns.
- Can now deal critical damage.
U'vharr - Warrior
Reverse Courage and Faith
- Base potency increased from 25 to 80.
Beserk (shared with Walt)
- Defense reduction effect reduced from 35%, to 23%.
Other Skills
Expanding Horizons
- Now grants an additional turn the next turn.
End of Update Notes
It may be late, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - there's still a few people playing the game, so why not?
I changed what I felt needed changing. Thanks for reading!
White Pearl: Chronicle Edition Launched!
Store page: http://store.steampowered.com/app/838680/White_Pearl__Chronicle_Edition/
Installation Issues Fixed + New Fullscreen Features
I was assigning the DLC package to the main game - but because the DLC hasn't been released yet, the contents of that remain hidden to users (so in other words, 0MB). I had set the actual package of the DLC in a hidden branch, but I also linked to the main depot of the game (that was already released) - so had that effect. Nothing in the game's files!
It only affected the main game files because it was a child of the main game. (In terms of what gets installed, the DLC package is bundled with the main game).
I've removed that for now until release of the DLC.
I really started to panic, but I'm glad I fixed it. More importantly, I'm glad people brought it to my attention! While I have another user to test installation, I have no other PC - so you can imagine it can be misleading for me.
I've added a new feature, the script is courtesy of Zeus81, and it adds more options to play around with the screen size.
You still can't manually change resoultion and resize the game window (it isn't possible with the software), but by using F10 - you can adjust the screen ratio. That should give you some breathing room for when you want to look at the guide while playing the game or anything else.
Thanks,
Harry
Annoucing White Pearl: Chronicle Edition!
Contains new additions outside of the game.
Additions include:
- NEW Asset Package - contains unused and cut content from the game, as well as some raw assets from the game which players may use/view.
Development footage and screenshots are also included.
- UPDATED Official Guide - now containing Story & Optional Content walkthrough!
- and more surprises!
More info will be on the DLC's store page, so I'll update this with the link when it's up!
Please note: the DLC is 3GB in size.
DLC Upcoming!
The reason I'm doing this is because free games do not remain in the library if they're uninstalled, however - if they have DLC attached - it will remain.
By releasing a DLC package, I can remedy this issue.
Please continue to enjoy your time with the game.
Decide what I'll do Next!
However, if I was to start a new project, what would you want it to be about?
Answer in the poll below:
- https://www.strawpoll.me/15362121
Thank you!