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What’s Next and Merry Christmas :D

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Hey everyone. :) As far as I can tell, people are enjoying the Relic Wraith builds: there’s already over 400 Relic Wraiths roaming about in the Tower. :D

Wanted to write a quick blurb about what’s coming up next:

* I’ll be taking a short break for Christmas!
* Then, a smallish build that addresses a few minor things I want to take care of before…
* …a larger build that adds Tower:21-23 to the game and some balance tweaks (specifically to Agility + “cannot miss” mechanics)

Even while I’m on break, I’ll keep an eye on things just in case some sort of late-arriving bug pops up with Relic Wraiths, so have no worries on that front.

Merry Christmas everyone, and good luck in the tower. :D

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12/12: There Will Be Bugs

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Ugh, I knew there’d probably be a few bugs. Good and most important news is: none of them require me to wipe or edit the data for ghosts already on the server, so we can keep all the awesome ghosts that have been made so far! Links at the right have been updated, so grab it after you finish your current games on the 12/11 build. :D Thanks, and good luck in the tower!

Fixed in 12/12:
* Fixed a bug where Relic Wraiths always spawned with the MaxHP of a Level 1 character, regardless of their actual level. To reiterate: this is a client bug, not a server bug: ghosts made with 12/11 will have the correct HP when spawned in 12/12.
* Fixed a bug where Relic Wraiths using Consume and Recycle on demons that had been “de-leveled” as part of the Relic Wraith spawning process would actually take HP and SP damage from the act, often causing the AI to hang trying and failing to find an ability that could be used with 0 SP. Thanks to Geminimax for reporting and sending in a repro save file for this bug.
* Fixed a rare bug where searching a corpse simply gave no result message at all, not even a “nothing found” message. Thanks to wizaaargghh for reporting this bug.

12/11: Dawn of the Dead

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Whew! It took nearly two months, but we’re here! The new build, containing both Relic Wraiths and Interactables, has been released! Links on the right have already been updated!

The rather extensive change log included with each build details the changes beyond what I’ve talked about here over the course of the past several weeks, so dig into that if you’re curious about the specifics.

Otherwise, dive in and enjoy! Good luck in the Tower! (You’re going to need it more than ever probably.)

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Well, at least the second ghost isn’t so bad…

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Less of a baddie, though the random Combusts might turn out to be dangerous for parties with no healing available. Stopping to fix some minor bugs, but we’re still on schedule (I didn’t assume in planning that I’d find zero bugs, after all. :D ) I tried to summon Tremane’s ghost to fight, but Level 3 is too high to summon a Level 2 ghost, alas! (The range for level-based ghost summoning is QUITE small at low levels, and by that I mean it pretty much has to match exactly. :P )

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I Accidentally Made A Sigmund

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Welp. At least since he’s a Relic Wraith, the odds of actually running into him will drop sharply once other people start making wraiths. :D

Meet the first ghost of… ahem… Tower… 1. The RNG apparently wanted the first ghost to be a bit of a doozy: the Hypnotic Gaze and Venomous were both found on corpses (and both extremely lucky rolls, most of the time, you get far less exciting things from the find ability result :P )

If anyone is still playing this game next week, it will probably be a miracle. :D

Tremane_T1

Relic Wraith Build Is In Testing

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Alrighty, we’re nearly there. :D

Going to start the last round of testing when I get back from lunch. If all goes well with that today and tomorrow, we’re on schedule for a 12/11 release.

In a slight departure from normal testing methods, I will be endeavoring to create some initial ghosts to start things off for everyone so that early results of summoning Relic Wraiths don’t come up empty. :) Plan is to start games, then end them on consecutive floors so that as many floors as possible have at least 1 ghost each. :D (This will also give me some ‘real’ ghosts to test with in the later phases of the testing round.)

Cheers!

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Ghost Stats

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As a very quick aside, it will be possible to check how your ghosts are doing to a limited degree by pressing Shift + Backslash:

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The data available will possibly be expanded in future builds, but I want to the core mechanic pinned down and ironed out before spending too much time on the frills. :) Still, I figured I should at least provide spawn count and kill count info, so here it is. :D Note that these stats only reflect server ghost activity: spawns and kills by your local ghosts are not reflected here.

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Target Set: 12/11 should be the day!

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Barring any unfortunate surprises, I intend to release the next build no later than 12/11. :)

Apologies that this one has run a bit long: as I remarked to a friend earlier this week, I hope someone stops me if I decide implementing two new major systems in one shot is a good idea again. :P But, it will be worth it, as both Relic Wraiths and Interactables will be arriving in what I hope are very strong starting states, fully integrated into the game as if they had been there from the first build. On top of those, there will be a good number of small bug fixes and balance tweaks as well.

Aside from any bug fix builds that may happen, the next major release will be content heavy. :) Once Relic Wraiths is safely out the door, I’ll have more to say about it, but in short: it’s about time the Tower did some growing again. :) Cheers!

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The Relic Wraiths Are Coming…

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With lots of help from Keylan (thank you!), the online components of Relic Wraiths are now fully functional and implemented. :D Each of the 3 ways of spawning Relic Wraiths will now (at random) spawn local or server-stored Wraiths.

This includes searching corpses (3% chance)…

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… using the Enemy Lure upgrade (25% chance)…

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…and using a Ghost Chime (100% chance, so long as an appropriate level Relic Wraith exists that is!)..

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Additionally, you can also use a Mirror Chime to create a Relic Wraith of your current character and party to fight, should you think you have a good reason to do so…

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Whew. Getting all this working has been a bit more involved than I originally anticipated, but it’s all downhill from here. :) I want this build out there pretty badly myself at this point, but there’s still a few more things to take care of. :) Stay tuned!

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