Wooden Ocean
9.6.1 Balancing and Misc
10/25/2024
9.6.1 Balancing and Misc
Balancing:
Reverted stamina to original formula, however
dexterity is 75% less effective. (every 4
dexterity increases max stamina by 1)
Redesigned potions. (health potions are now
based on spirit instead of max hp, and mana
potions are now based on magic instead of max mp)
Removed negative recovery from potions.
Holy spells now also remove lymph sarcoma,
synovial sarcoma, intimal sarcoma, brain tumor,
cripple, decay, decompose, and plague.
Increased radiation debuff chance from 100% to
500-1000%.
Players now begin with 100ap instead of 50. (this
is retroactive)
Increased dexterity aspect to entropy's direct
damage by 1 tier.
Improved formula for expression damage. (arthouse
has significantly more weight as a building)
Increased encounter strength of normal CC enemies.
(lowest tier received the largest bonus by going
from 1333 to 2100)
Buffed Sam by 10-20%. (increased defense by 50%)
Buffed Reasonable Request by 10%.
Material Converstion now doubles enemy magic. (was
+50%)
Fate Talent is now +50% luck with +10% chance to
crit, instead of +100% luck.
Reduced 15 condensed realities from Lost Arsenal.
Misc:
Fixed enemy forces from not starting with any
resources.
Cleaned up some code involing battle intialization.
(this may have fixed the random turn 1 enemy
invincibility issue)
Removed an unused script. (autobattlers are a bit
more intelligent)
Fixed Mass Conversation MP and AP cost.
Fixed Golem not leaving party when entering Undercity.
9.6 Chapter 7 Ending
9.6 Chapter 7 Ending
New Features:
Finished ending to chapter 7.
Created 22 new books. (total generic is now 215)
Balancing:
Redesigned bonus stamina from 50 + dexterity to
50 + (dexterity / (10 + level)). (extreme stamina
can still be achieved, but is far more difficult)
Both players and enemies will always receive at
least 1 mana per turn.
Fixed weakness and resistance to a few enemies.
Misc:
Fixed walls not being able to be destroyed by
powerful attacks that reduce clutter. (slightly
increased structural integrity for said walls)
Reduced weight of knowledge on environmental
realism by 90%.
Fixed critical damage from x3 to x2.
Fixed Murda Moo encounter.
Fixed entropy buffs.
Fixed Puncture from being magical attack instead
of certain hit.
Removed an unused script.
Fixed pathing issue in prologue.
Slightly improved prologue dialog.
9.5.7 Realism Merchant
9.5.7 Realism Merchant
New Features:
Added Realism Merchant inside ghost town store.
(requires 30 store level to show up)
Balancing:
Slightly redesigned Poet of Paint Battle. (more
health and expression damage, able to panic if
burned, can become sick if bleeding)
Improved dialog to completing last hunter quest.
Misc:
Fixed banking interest. (previous patch increased
rate instead of reduced) (reduction is now 90%
instead of 80%)
Fixed banking talent. (was halving interest
rate instead of doubling)
Silicon walls can now be removed by extremely
low clutter.
Fixed Spear of Struggle.
9.5.6 Hidden Struggle
9.5.6 Hidden Struggle
New Features:
Expanded Hidden Hall.
Created 1 new dungeon. (is sealed off when
Alex and Amelia join the team)
Balancing:
Increased Quarter Life, Third Life, and Half
Life from 2 turns to 3 turns. (short durations
can cause an exploit with these skills, but it's
an interesting exploit, so the increase will only
be from 2 to 3)
Enemy resources are now 20% harder to reduce.
Enemy forces gain 4-5% more resources each time
they level up in tech.
Enemy forces gain (15 + 2%) tech rate instead of
(12 + 2%) each time they level up in tech.
Reduced banking's interest rate by 80%.
Misc:
Fixed Golem Hand encounters from being activated
outside of reach.
Fixed Reaper Cleave from activating twice.
Improved some early game dialog.
Slightly improved some skill descriptions.
Fixed an Island of Sand hunting contract.
Silence now affects silicon, acid, arcane, and
entropy spells.
Fixed Cosmic Color from drastically increasing
tech level. (old saves with extreme tech level
are now set to 100 tech level)
9.5.5 Hotfix
9.5.5 Hotfix
Balancing:
Increased enemy attack and health by 10%.
Increased enemy mana by 20%. (both of these changes
were made to offset a bug fix from last patch) (credit to
errantstar for solving that bug fix)
Misc:
Fixed acid's MP DoT.
9.5.4 Misc
9.5.4 Misc
New Features:
Created 3 new enemies for tier 0.
Misc:
Improved some early game dialog.
Fixed prepare arcane from showing up whenever Alex
did certain callouts.
9.5.3 Hotfix
9.5.3 Hotfix
Misc:
Reverted state limit to 999. (solved immunity issue
involving new status effects)
Enemies no longer crash when they enrage.
Dev note: pushing the engine past 999 states caused
extreme discombobulation. Working in the 999 state limit
will bring some challenges in the coming years, but they
can be overcome. There is still some room for new states,
as well as many states that aren't being used at all.
9.5.2 Misc (reverted)
9.5.2 Misc
New Features:
Added 7 new late game enemies.
Increased database limits for enemies, troops, states,
common events, and animations from 999 to 3000.
Balancing:
Ogre Virus is now Silicon Ogre.
Balance is now Expressive Dancer.
Additional enemies now cast acid and arcane spells.
Some enemies now cast entropy and expression spells.
Buffed health to both librarian bosses by almost 50%.
Misc:
Fixed various state issues involving silicon, acid, and arcane.
(these issues were caused by a long ago deleted system that
was still providing immunity to those states) (all future states
will placed after 999)
Edit: Reverted back to 9.5.1. The database increase to states caused a commonly occuring crashing bug. 9.5.3 hotfix will be later today.
9.5.1 Improved Bank
9.5.1 Improved Bank
New Features:
Bank now has a withdraw all option.
Some enemies are now able to panic if
covered in acid.
Some previous enemies are now able to cast
acid and arcane spells.
Created new graphics for blue worshipers,
prophets, flying skulls, and some dragons.
Alex no longer comments on enemies preparing
attacks if knowledge is 30 or above.
Balancing:
Doubled weight of crime on bank's interest
rate when bank account is over 10 million.
Buffed Abomination. (33% more health and
now attacks twice per turn)
Abomination now gives 20% less exp and gold.
Facial dissolve now has a secret 50% chance
to blind.
PoM now shows up at town level 7 instead of
town level 6.
Slightly to moderately buffed most of the
old arena bosses.
Misc:
Fixed ghost town buildings from sometimes
locking players inside.
Fixed Giant Slash from attacking multiple
times.
9.5 New Elements
9.5 New Elements
New Features:
Added 5 new elements with 170 new spells.
Added 8 new talents.
Created new PoM accessories.
Created new Ghost Potions.
Balancing:
Increased Ghost Potion debuff from 20% to 25%.
Organic enemies take double damage from acid,
fire, and dark.
Robotic enemies receive half damage from fire,
ice, wind, dark, holy, psychic, and expression.
Staff's arcane spells are now colorless.
Robotic enemies take double damage from arcane.
Further increased robotic weakness to lightning
by 25%.
Further increased robotic weakness to water
by 50%.
Increased weight of invocation speed tenfold.
(fast attacks and slow attacks had little
meaning at high dexterity)
Slightly buffed Mezra Monster.
Increased both weight and damage reduction
of Protective Mother gear.
Slightly reduced damage of Skeletal Tremor.
Slightly reduced difficulty of chapter 6
bosses. (most stats reduced by 3-6%)
Placed a talent point crystal in chapter 6.
(this is found near the NG+ painting)
Lowered Thread's luck bonus from 25% to 20%.
Increased and simplified EXP softcaps:
old exp softcaps:
200+ = -75%
250+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -87.5%
500+ - 90%
new exp softcaps:
100+ = -75%
200+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -75%
500+ = -90%
1000+ = -90%
Misc:
Fixed pathing issue in Poetry of Blood 1.
Applied recent gravity buff to its AoE spells.
Fixed robots not being immune to cancer.
Fixed haywire and confusion.
Fixed some Undercity dialog from not working
properly on NG+.
Fixed a ghost road quest from not resetting
on NG+.
Removed exp rate from status screen. (this
number was confusing players)
NPCs no longer roam inside Lampless mayor house.
Fixed Fatdink from not returning on NG+.
Fixed Stimpacks. (until addiction is added, these
are temporarily reduced to 50%)
Updated credits with specific track section.
Dev note: Due to the new exp softcaps, chapter 6
was made a step easier.