Game updates April 26th 2019
Hi everyone. As promised, this is a pretty small update with the main feature just being some adjustments to the magic class. The website has also gotten some updates.
Magic class changes
The primary change happening here is that we're introducing spell damage as an armor attribute. Mage armors will now grant spell damage which increases the damage output of offense spells, and other armors like leather and ranger armor will typically give negative spell damage which will decrease the effectiveness of offense spells. This change is in response to the quickly growing trend of magic users never using magic armors in combat, preferring instead to use something like ranger armor and then merely swapping to magic armor to regenerate mana between fights. I'm hoping this addition will give magic users a reason to actually use their magic armor in combat, and make magic as a primary combat style feasible again.
- Magic armors (Apprentice, Mage, Magister) now grant spell damage (+10%, +20%, +50% respectively).
- Other armors that do not inhibit spell casting now have slight negative spell damage.
- The base damage of all offense spells have been decreased by 10% to balance the increased damage output of magic users with spell damage.
- The mana regen armor attribute is now displayed as a percentage of total effectiveness rather than a decimal. This makes it consistent with how spell damage is displayed and I believe is easier to understand than it was before.
Website updates
- You can now look up player profiles to view interesting information about them. Give it a try!
- The leaderboards now link each player in the list to their profile.
- The homepage now has a carousel of screenshots from players.
- You can contribute new screenshots to the carousel here!
Bug fixes/Other changes
- The web in the Spider boss area now has a baseplate under it so items and projectiles don't slip through.
- Did some tweaks to crash/disconnect protection that might(?) improve its effectiveness.
- Fixed a miscalculation that was occurring when applying an armor's mana regen adjustment. (This might be observed as a nerf to the mana regen on magic armors, but it also subtly affects the negative mana regen of other armors as well)
- Added some new debug information that might help me better investigate reported issues with crash/disconnect protection. Please continue to report issues you have with rejoining after a crash/disconnect.
- I've reduced the ghost limit somewhat. This might reduce the rate of runtime errors due to less memory usage.
- Your alignment is now influenced by your dealings with demonic forces.
And that's about it. The servers should be going up later today; however, Conan will not be hosting US-West today since he is currently using his VPS to host... something else.
Hi everyone. As promised, this is a pretty small update with the main feature just being some adjustments to the magic class. The website has also gotten some updates.
Magic class changes
The primary change happening here is that we're introducing spell damage as an armor attribute. Mage armors will now grant spell damage which increases the damage output of offense spells, and other armors like leather and ranger armor will typically give negative spell damage which will decrease the effectiveness of offense spells. This change is in response to the quickly growing trend of magic users never using magic armors in combat, preferring instead to use something like ranger armor and then merely swapping to magic armor to regenerate mana between fights. I'm hoping this addition will give magic users a reason to actually use their magic armor in combat, and make magic as a primary combat style feasible again.
- Magic armors (Apprentice, Mage, Magister) now grant spell damage (+10%, +20%, +50% respectively).
- Other armors that do not inhibit spell casting now have slight negative spell damage.
- The base damage of all offense spells have been decreased by 10% to balance the increased damage output of magic users with spell damage.
- The mana regen armor attribute is now displayed as a percentage of total effectiveness rather than a decimal. This makes it consistent with how spell damage is displayed and I believe is easier to understand than it was before.
Website updates
- You can now look up player profiles to view interesting information about them. Give it a try!
- The leaderboards now link each player in the list to their profile.
- The homepage now has a carousel of screenshots from players.
- You can contribute new screenshots to the carousel here!
Bug fixes/Other changes
- The web in the Spider boss area now has a baseplate under it so items and projectiles don't slip through.
- Did some tweaks to crash/disconnect protection that might(?) improve its effectiveness.
- Fixed a miscalculation that was occurring when applying an armor's mana regen adjustment. (This might be observed as a nerf to the mana regen on magic armors, but it also subtly affects the negative mana regen of other armors as well)
- Added some new debug information that might help me better investigate reported issues with crash/disconnect protection. Please continue to report issues you have with rejoining after a crash/disconnect.
- I've reduced the ghost limit somewhat. This might reduce the rate of runtime errors due to less memory usage.
- Your alignment is now influenced by your dealings with demonic forces.
And that's about it. The servers should be going up later today; however, Conan will not be hosting US-West today since he is currently using his VPS to host... something else.
Submit screenshots to be put on the site carousel!
The site homepage now has a carousel that displays screenshots of the gamemode! The main issue is, we don't have nearly enough good screenshots to put there. So if you have any good screenshots (or if you intend to take some good screenshots), post them in this thread! If the screenshot is good, we'll put it in the carousel and you'll get a spot in the special thanks section of the homepage.
Things to note:
- Your screenshots don't need to be ridiculously huge, as long as the window is at least 720p it'll look fine when it's downscaled to the size of the carousel.
- Shaders are good, but not a must either. Remember, while you're underground the level of shadow quality is completely irrelevant. You can just set them to low!
- Screenshots that include action are especially good. If you're doing PvE, taking a screenshot that includes your HUD will make it feel more authentic as a gameplay screenshot.
- Screenshots of group events like the Troll boss are especially good when you can get a lot of people working together in the picture.
- Screenshots of rare items or areas below level 3 are discouraged, as those things/areas are considered somewhat of a surprise.
The site homepage now has a carousel that displays screenshots of the gamemode! The main issue is, we don't have nearly enough good screenshots to put there. So if you have any good screenshots (or if you intend to take some good screenshots), post them in this thread! If the screenshot is good, we'll put it in the carousel and you'll get a spot in the special thanks section of the homepage.
Things to note:
- Your screenshots don't need to be ridiculously huge, as long as the window is at least 720p it'll look fine when it's downscaled to the size of the carousel.
- Shaders are good, but not a must either. Remember, while you're underground the level of shadow quality is completely irrelevant. You can just set them to low!
- Screenshots that include action are especially good. If you're doing PvE, taking a screenshot that includes your HUD will make it feel more authentic as a gameplay screenshot.
- Screenshots of group events like the Troll boss are especially good when you can get a lot of people working together in the picture.
- Screenshots of rare items or areas below level 3 are discouraged, as those things/areas are considered somewhat of a surprise.
Game updates April 19th 2019: Crash/Disconnect protection, guards, and more!
I've been doing a lot of testing with an alt account and cannot reproduce the issue of appearing to have died. The only explanation I can really think of is that another player or a monster snuck in while you were disconnected and killed you. For next week I'll be putting in a lot of additional debugging information so that I can hopefully track down the reason that this seems to occasionally happen to people still.
Unfortunately no.
I've been doing a lot of testing with an alt account and cannot reproduce the issue of appearing to have died. The only explanation I can really think of is that another player or a monster snuck in while you were disconnected and killed you. For next week I'll be putting in a lot of additional debugging information so that I can hopefully track down the reason that this seems to occasionally happen to people still.
Quote from: tally
Before this update I had crashed, lost my gram and went from lvl 35 to 20. Even though it was pre-update would it be possible to just get the gram back? It has a high cost and to lose it to crashing before this update was available kinda sucks
Unfortunately no.
Minor suggestions/issues thread
That would sort of defeat the purpose of the current guard timer, especially since recalls only cost 1 gold.
Quote from: The Combat
Can the town guards' aggression be reset upon using a recall? I'd rather not be loaded with arrows and surrounded before I get the chance to heal up.
That would sort of defeat the purpose of the current guard timer, especially since recalls only cost 1 gold.
Game updates April 19th 2019: Crash/Disconnect protection, guards, and more!
Which server were you on?
Quote from: Deokotaru
Yeah, I was outside of town and crashed. Rejoined within 2mins, was back in town all items lost. Wasn't in a room with enemies or anything so I'm fairly sure I didn't die from them after the crash.
Items Lost: Ice Staff, Healing Staff, Chaos Staff, Apprentice Staff, Red WizRobes, Mithril Longsword, Heavy Armor, Mind/Body, Compass, Super Antidote, Recall Scroll. Kept Dagger(p++) Edit: Also lost 4 lvls (29-25) and an unknown amount of gold.
oof...
Which server were you on?
Game updates April 19th 2019: Crash/Disconnect protection, guards, and more!
Hi everyone. This is the third update so far to AoD, and probably the largest one there will be for a long while. After this weekend I'll probably need to return my attention to other things, so updates will be smaller. Obviously crash/disconnect protection is a very complicated feature, so I'm expecting a lot of issues to arise regarding it that I'll have to fix.
Crash/Disconnect protection
- Now, if you disconnect from the server outside of town (either normally or because you crashed or something) your player is left behind for up to five minutes.
- While disconnected, your player just stands around doing nothing. You can still be killed and consequently lose your stuff.
- If you reconnect to the server within the five minute period, you are put back inside your player without any penalty.
- This is a complex feature that will not be without its issues. If you experience any problems after being put back in your player, please report the circumstances in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread.
Town guards
- It seems that all of you suck at killing player killers, so we hired a bunch of guards to do what everyone else couldn't.
- When a player killer enters town, a guard will give them a warning that they will be attacked soon.
- One minute after the warning is given, the guards become aggressive to that player and will try to kill them on sight.
- 10 minutes after the warning is given, the guards lose aggression and will re-issue their warning the next time they see that player.
- Yes, there are plenty of ways to cheese the guards, get them stuck, find blindspots from them, etc. I'm not too concerned about this because the point of them is to just put pressure on player killers who would otherwise stroll around town waiting for victims to leave; and I think they do that job pretty well regardless of if some of them get locked away.
Gameplay changes
- The Troll and Spider boss' rooms are now PvP safezones. I didn't intend to do this originally, but it's been pretty common for players to work together to kill these bosses without forming a guild. This is just a convenience so people stop getting accidentally player killer marked due to crossfire in the boss fights.
- There is now a 2.5 second cooldown after a door is generated before it can be opened. This will help reduce lag caused by people quickly running through and opening rooms (and subsequently ignoring the monsters in those rooms, which is lame).
- There is a new visual effect that occurs when you are very low on health.
Poison changes
- Poison stacks are now capped at 25% of your max health.
- When you would gain a poison stack beyond 25% of your max health, it is instead immediately converted into a small amount of poison damage.
- The town and dungeon shops now stock Antipoison potions. Comes in a normal and super varieties.
- It may be possible to get rid of poison via other means now.
Saving system changes
- Current health, current mana, and current poison are all now saved values and won't be reset by reconnecting.
- If you are logged in to the current world and make a new connection to the same world, your currently logged in session is immediately disconnected.
- If you disconnect while dead, your 'second best' item that would be returned to you upon respawn is no longer lost.
Bug fixes/Other changes
- Fixed scrolls not working when you have negative mana.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to 'consume' a different item in your inventory upon using a consumable.
- Fixed some overworld areas being extremely easy to jump out of.
- Potions take slightly less time to use now.
I anticipate a lot of issues from this update, please don't forget to report any problems in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread. The worlds should be going up within an hour.
Hi everyone. This is the third update so far to AoD, and probably the largest one there will be for a long while. After this weekend I'll probably need to return my attention to other things, so updates will be smaller. Obviously crash/disconnect protection is a very complicated feature, so I'm expecting a lot of issues to arise regarding it that I'll have to fix.
Crash/Disconnect protection
- Now, if you disconnect from the server outside of town (either normally or because you crashed or something) your player is left behind for up to five minutes.
- While disconnected, your player just stands around doing nothing. You can still be killed and consequently lose your stuff.
- If you reconnect to the server within the five minute period, you are put back inside your player without any penalty.
- This is a complex feature that will not be without its issues. If you experience any problems after being put back in your player, please report the circumstances in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread.
Town guards
- It seems that all of you suck at killing player killers, so we hired a bunch of guards to do what everyone else couldn't.
- When a player killer enters town, a guard will give them a warning that they will be attacked soon.
- One minute after the warning is given, the guards become aggressive to that player and will try to kill them on sight.
- 10 minutes after the warning is given, the guards lose aggression and will re-issue their warning the next time they see that player.
- Yes, there are plenty of ways to cheese the guards, get them stuck, find blindspots from them, etc. I'm not too concerned about this because the point of them is to just put pressure on player killers who would otherwise stroll around town waiting for victims to leave; and I think they do that job pretty well regardless of if some of them get locked away.
Gameplay changes
- The Troll and Spider boss' rooms are now PvP safezones. I didn't intend to do this originally, but it's been pretty common for players to work together to kill these bosses without forming a guild. This is just a convenience so people stop getting accidentally player killer marked due to crossfire in the boss fights.
- There is now a 2.5 second cooldown after a door is generated before it can be opened. This will help reduce lag caused by people quickly running through and opening rooms (and subsequently ignoring the monsters in those rooms, which is lame).
- There is a new visual effect that occurs when you are very low on health.
Poison changes
- Poison stacks are now capped at 25% of your max health.
- When you would gain a poison stack beyond 25% of your max health, it is instead immediately converted into a small amount of poison damage.
- The town and dungeon shops now stock Antipoison potions. Comes in a normal and super varieties.
- It may be possible to get rid of poison via other means now.
Saving system changes
- Current health, current mana, and current poison are all now saved values and won't be reset by reconnecting.
- If you are logged in to the current world and make a new connection to the same world, your currently logged in session is immediately disconnected.
- If you disconnect while dead, your 'second best' item that would be returned to you upon respawn is no longer lost.
Bug fixes/Other changes
- Fixed scrolls not working when you have negative mana.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to 'consume' a different item in your inventory upon using a consumable.
- Fixed some overworld areas being extremely easy to jump out of.
- Potions take slightly less time to use now.
I anticipate a lot of issues from this update, please don't forget to report any problems in this thread or in the suggestions/issues thread. The worlds should be going up within an hour.
Minor suggestions/issues thread
Note that poison damage was supposed to ignore armor values. I've deployed a hotfix for that.
Next week will definitely include something to help get rid of poison.
Note that poison damage was supposed to ignore armor values. I've deployed a hotfix for that.
Next week will definitely include something to help get rid of poison.
Game updates April 12th 2019
Welcome back, this is the second update to AoD so far. This update mostly addresses small issues and finally adds a tileset for level 6. I'm also dialing back some of the PvP changes, since high level players were having fights last far too long.
Gameplay changes
- Improved poison mechanic. Poison is now more relevant and is being introduced to a number of new things. Poison damage essentially works by dealing damage to you equal to the poison level you're at each poison tick (poison tick ranges between every 2-10 seconds, getting longer with higher poison level), and then removing one level of poison. Poison generally isn't a big problem, but it will become a problem if you let too much of it stack up.
- Poison now works on bot enemies.
- Ranged bug's poison shots now deal poison damage.
- Ranged bug's poison shots base damage has been halved. Overall this change should defer most of the damage you would normally take from ranged bugs into poison. This increases survivability during a fight and lets you decide afterwards if your run needs to end.
- Goblins now get upgraded weapons below level 4.
- Certain types of damage (Fall, Impact, Poison, Burning, Suicide) are now disregarded during armor checks. Armor no longer has any affect on these types of damage.
- Lawful players now have a blue name over their player. This doesn't affect their name in the chat.
Boss changes
- The Troll and Spider bosses now scale health based off the total combined level of everyone on the server. This should make the bosses much harder to cheese at a higher level, and require a certain amount of cooperation from people in the server to beat.
- The Troll boss now becomes much more difficult when faced with higher level players.
- The Spider boss now has a ranged attack phase.
- The Spider boss is slightly better at catching people now.
- The Scorpion boss has learned how to jump. It's not very good at it, though.
Spell changes
- Bumped up the likelihood of finding Sunburst in dungeon shops.
- If you cast a spell too soon after casting your last spell, you get a quick centerprint letting you know that's the reason you can't cast yet.
- Recall now properly reserves the time for its channel.
PvP changes
- PvP damage increased to 75%. (was at only 50% before)
Level changes
- Added new tileset for level 6.
- You'll just have to see it for yourself.
- Overworld rooms might be a bit harder to escape out of now.
Bug fixes/Other changes
- There may be a weapon that can apply poison now. Who knows which one...
- The Compass is no longer directionally mirrored. It also no longer makes a 'click' sound when you equip it.
- EXP recalculation after death is now done correctly. (Note, this is actually a MASSIVE change because before now the EXP penalty for dying was erroneously far more punishing than it should've been)
- Fixed some armors not having hats associated with them. For real this time.
- Fixed an issue where you might not have your stuff saved if you disconnected within 0.5 seconds of entering town (via recall or otherwise).
- The HUD now shows EXP changes, similarly to how it shows gold changes.
- Status and armor effects are now shown on a third line.
The worlds should be going up in a few hours and we'll be hosting all weekend like usual.
Welcome back, this is the second update to AoD so far. This update mostly addresses small issues and finally adds a tileset for level 6. I'm also dialing back some of the PvP changes, since high level players were having fights last far too long.
Gameplay changes
- Improved poison mechanic. Poison is now more relevant and is being introduced to a number of new things. Poison damage essentially works by dealing damage to you equal to the poison level you're at each poison tick (poison tick ranges between every 2-10 seconds, getting longer with higher poison level), and then removing one level of poison. Poison generally isn't a big problem, but it will become a problem if you let too much of it stack up.
- Poison now works on bot enemies.
- Ranged bug's poison shots now deal poison damage.
- Ranged bug's poison shots base damage has been halved. Overall this change should defer most of the damage you would normally take from ranged bugs into poison. This increases survivability during a fight and lets you decide afterwards if your run needs to end.
- Goblins now get upgraded weapons below level 4.
- Certain types of damage (Fall, Impact, Poison, Burning, Suicide) are now disregarded during armor checks. Armor no longer has any affect on these types of damage.
- Lawful players now have a blue name over their player. This doesn't affect their name in the chat.
Boss changes
- The Troll and Spider bosses now scale health based off the total combined level of everyone on the server. This should make the bosses much harder to cheese at a higher level, and require a certain amount of cooperation from people in the server to beat.
- The Troll boss now becomes much more difficult when faced with higher level players.
- The Spider boss now has a ranged attack phase.
- The Spider boss is slightly better at catching people now.
- The Scorpion boss has learned how to jump. It's not very good at it, though.
Spell changes
- Bumped up the likelihood of finding Sunburst in dungeon shops.
- If you cast a spell too soon after casting your last spell, you get a quick centerprint letting you know that's the reason you can't cast yet.
- Recall now properly reserves the time for its channel.
PvP changes
- PvP damage increased to 75%. (was at only 50% before)
Level changes
- Added new tileset for level 6.
- You'll just have to see it for yourself.
- Overworld rooms might be a bit harder to escape out of now.
Bug fixes/Other changes
- There may be a weapon that can apply poison now. Who knows which one...
- The Compass is no longer directionally mirrored. It also no longer makes a 'click' sound when you equip it.
- EXP recalculation after death is now done correctly. (Note, this is actually a MASSIVE change because before now the EXP penalty for dying was erroneously far more punishing than it should've been)
- Fixed some armors not having hats associated with them. For real this time.
- Fixed an issue where you might not have your stuff saved if you disconnected within 0.5 seconds of entering town (via recall or otherwise).
- The HUD now shows EXP changes, similarly to how it shows gold changes.
- Status and armor effects are now shown on a third line.
The worlds should be going up in a few hours and we'll be hosting all weekend like usual.
Does Anyone have the OST?
None of the songs are really original obviously, but here are the tracks used.
These three are the 'battle tracks' which are selected from randomly each time you encounter a miniboss or enter PvP
Attack! - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/attack
Breakthrough - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/breakthrough (this one is easily my favorite)
Desperation - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/desperation
These are the ones for each of the levels you asked about
Level 3 - Lament of the Angel - https://soundcloud.com/mario-man-5/lament-of-the-angel
Level 4 - Deadful - https://soundcloud.com/lil_upload567/the-binding-of-isaac-olt-dreadful
Level 5 - Abyss - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/abyss
None of the songs are really original obviously, but here are the tracks used.
These three are the 'battle tracks' which are selected from randomly each time you encounter a miniboss or enter PvP
Attack! - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/attack
Breakthrough - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/breakthrough (this one is easily my favorite)
Desperation - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/desperation
These are the ones for each of the levels you asked about
Level 3 - Lament of the Angel - https://soundcloud.com/mario-man-5/lament-of-the-angel
Level 4 - Deadful - https://soundcloud.com/lil_upload567/the-binding-of-isaac-olt-dreadful
Level 5 - Abyss - https://soundcloud.com/angel-beats-osts/abyss
Minor suggestions/issues thread
I feel like most people would disagree with this change, since it would make activating your recall in a dire situation take much longer than it should.
Quote from: Iceymon
Could we please have the Recall scroll require a confirmation click? I've accidentally used mine three times now due to scrolling a bit too far or too short only to have myself returned to the beginning after making it rather far or in the middle of a boss fight.
I feel like most people would disagree with this change, since it would make activating your recall in a dire situation take much longer than it should.
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