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Hotfix: Patch 0.0.6A!

  By Atlas • May 8, 2015

Just a quick update to the game to help fix some annoying problems that people have noticed, as well as tweak the time out system to make it a bit more user friendly.

GENERAL:

SHHHHHH – The ingame music on the opening menu has its default volume turned down.

NO MORE BOOTS- Players no longer disconnect when they time out 4 times. (This was causing major desync issues with players.)

SPEED IT UP – Players lose 10 seconds off their next turn if they time out, down to a minimum of 20 seconds.

A BIT MORE FORGIVING – A player will no longer lose AP the first time they time out.

ITEMS:

NEW – Ormando’s Greatsword:

Cost: 180 AP

Description: Grants 3 Attack and 5 Defense and grants +10% crit. Cannot be stolen.

 

A LITTLE TOO TOXIC FOR US –  Keitron’s Toxic Formula: This item has been disabled due to an in-game bug that couldn’t be resolved quite yet.

 

SHE’S ON VACATION –  St. Lettie’s Grace: This item has been disabled due to an in-game bug.

Bug Fixes:

Swattin’ bugs since 1337.

With the changes to the Timeout system, synchronization bugs for the most part seem to be largely fixed. Still keeping an eye on that though.

 

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Patch 0.0.6!

  By Atlas • March 25, 2015 ,

Coming at you with a big patch to the item shop, along with a plethora of new early-late game items, new random events, new squares, and more!

Keep in mind all changes made here are tentative, experimental, and/or highly subject to change. See something you like? Something that can be improved upon? Don’t hesitate to leave a post in the forums! And without further adieu, here are the changes shipped with patch 0.0.6!

GENERAL:

TIME IS MONEY – Each time a player times out, they lose 30 AP.. A friendly reminder that 4 consecutive time outs means you are disconnected from the lobby.

IT’S YOUR TURN IDIOT –  A sound now plays when it’s a new player’s turn. During online play, only the turn player can hear this sound.

EVEN YOUR HEADPHONES SHAKE –  The game now plays a sound whenever a player activates their Earthquake power.

ARENT ALL GAMES LIKE THIS-  The starting square now acts as a free space rather than an Omni square.

BATTLE:

THIS WILL HURT ALOT –  When a player lands a critical strike, their next attack deals bonus damage equal to 220%-380% normal damage + 1-11 bonus damage.

 

EVENTS:

EVEN MORE UNPREDICTABLE – New random events have been added.

ITEMS:

EXPANDED INVENTORY –  The item shop now displays up to  14 random items!

NEW – AG II Pistol:

Cost: 40 AP

Description: Grants +2 Attack. Can be activated to deal 6-12 damage based on your attack to a target enemy. While this effect is on cooldown, this item does not grant attack. (3 Round cooldown.)

NEW – Rusty Axe:

Cost: 70 AP

Description: Grants +3 Attack, and +1 Defense. After each battle this item has a 10% chance to break and be destroyed.

NEW – Consecrated Sword:

Cost: 200 AP

Description: Grants +7 Attack, and +5 Defense. Can be activated to blind a target for 1 turn. While blinded, the target cannot roll higher than a 5.

 NEW – Steel Helm:

Cost: 115 AP

Description: Grants +6 Defense.

 NEW – Jason’s Shield:

Cost: 40 AP

Description: Grants +2 Defense.

 NEW – Keitron’s Toxic Formula:

Cost: 15 AP

Description: Can be consumed to reduce your HP to zero. Causes the user to lose a turn and pay hospital fees, but they revive with 100 HP afterwards.

 NEW – Cultist Robe:

Cost: 90 AP

Description: Grants +3 Defense. While wearing this robe, you are immune to haunting effects.

 NEW – Gladiator’s Stronghelm:

Cost: 220 AP

Description: Grants +5 Attack and +8 Defense. Cannot be stolen.

CHANGED –  Kevlar Vest:

No longer has a 30% chance to prevent lethal damage. Instead, reduces the damage of critical strikes by 5.

SQUARES:

NEW – Void Square:

At the end of each round, this square has a chance to change into any other kind of square (Except reroll squares). Void squares that don’t act like another type of square will by default transport the player’s pawn to a random position on the board, but not activate that square’s effect.

~The teleportation feature of this square will be released later during patch 0.0.6!~

NEW – Court Square:

When a player lands on this square, they pay 15 AP into the pot. They may then select an opponent, and “Sue” them for 10% of their current AP. This action has a 30% chance of success which increases to 80% when the targeted player has the highest NET WORTH in the game. During the last 8 rounds of the game, the court square becomes a blue square.

Reminder: Net worth is not solely determined by how much AP a player has on hand. 

 

 

POWERS:

FOR READABILITY –   The Sprint power’s UI colors have been adjusted for clarity.

 

Bug Fixes:

Swattin’ bugs since 1337.

YOU WEREN’T REALLY HITTING HARD- Critical strikes now properly apply bonus damage.

BIG JORGE HIT TOO HARD- Fixed an issue with local play that caused Jorge’s Submission club to break the game.

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Patch 0.0.5!

  By Atlas • March 23, 2015 ,

With this update comes UI improvements, some new functionality, and a few new items for you to battle each other with!

Keep in mind all changes made here are tentative, experimental, and/or highly subject to change. See something you like? Something that can be improved upon? Don’t hesitate to leave a post in the forums! And without further adieu, here are the changes shipped with patch 0.0.5!

GENERAL:

FOR ALL YOU MELOPHOBICS- Added an ingame option to change the music volume.

CLARITY- The current round counter and the money in pot are now both displayed in the active player box rather than on the right side of the screen.

 ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM- The camera zoom can now be adjusted ingame.

 

ITEMS:

NEW – Chainmail Armor:

Cost: 75 AP

Description: Grants +4 defense.

NEW – D.E.T.H.S.L.I.C.E. Shuriken:

Cost: 45 AP

Description: Can be activated to throw the shuriken at an opponent dealing damage based on your attack. The opponent you target has a 25% chance to recover the shuriken if their inventory is not full, and pick up this item.

NEW – Encrusted Shield:

Cost: 80 AP

Description: Grants +1 Attack and +2 Defense. While you hold this shield, any attempts to steal items from your inventory will be unsuccessful. Any time this shield prevents such an effect, it has a 50% chance to be destroyed.

NEW – Manual: Human Pressure Points:

Cost: 80 AP

Description: Can be consumed to permanently grant +2 attack, and +10% crit chance.

 

NEW – Spear of Arcanos:

Cost: 95 AP

Description: Grants +4 attack, and  +10% crit chance.

 

NEW – Russell’s Crossbow:

Cost: 50 AP

Description: Grants +2 attack, and  +5% crit chance.

POWERS:

CHANGED – Smite now deals 19 damage. (Up from 15.)

 

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Hotfix: Patch 0.0.4A

  By Atlas • March 21, 2015

With the release of 0.0.4 came some issues with online play, so with this update I hope to address those issues and create a more reliable and consistent experience for online play.

GENERAL:

With this hotfix, I decided to roll out some new balance changes for early game AP, so before we get to the technical stuff…

LESS MONEY NO PROBLEM –  Starting AP for all players has been reduced to 50 AP. (Down from 100.)

MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS –  Players gain [ 12 AP]  [ 12 AP + The current round ] for rolling the die, up to a base maximum of 40 AP per dice roll. (This applies before item effects, so more is possible.)

SOME NUMBERS-  During round 1, all players will receive 13 AP for rolling the die. (12 + 1 round).

                                          During round 15, all players will receive 27 AP for rolling the die. (12 + 15).

                                          After round 28, all players will receive a base maximum of 40 AP for rolling the die, before item effects apply.

The idea of these changes was to reduce early game potential and emphasize net income toward the middle and late game phases. Having less AP early on means that landing on an item square early wont have the same snowball potential, but it also brings additional viability into waiting less time to have the AP for a better item.

TECHNICAL:

KEEP IT TOGETHER-  Adjusted the way the game synchronizes so that position updates are more frequent. 

REMEMBER THAT FAIL SAFE?-  The “Derailment” fail safe that was added in the base patch has been revamped to more seamlessly move players back to their correct position, and sync this position over the network.

IT GETS A BIT TECHNICAL HERE-  Only the turn player can send gameplay updates over the network. This was an issue in previous versions when occasionally all players could send position updates that were out of date.

 

 

KNOWN ISSUES:

This hot fix won’t be the last, and there’s still some issues that need to be tackled. 

CAMERA ISSUES-  There has been an occurring issue with the camera moving past the bounds of the game board especially to follow out-of-sync pawns. It’s not game breaking, as the camera should automatically pan back to the correct position after each turn.

 

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Patch 0.0.4!

  By Atlas • March 20, 2015 ,

With this new update comes more changes to powers, battling,  the item shop, and more!

Keep in mind all changes made here are tentative, experimental, and/or highly subject to change. See something you like? Something that can be improved upon? Don’t hesitate to leave a post in the forums! And without further adieu, here are the changes shipped with patch 0.0.4!

GENERAL:

RETURN POLICY –  Items can now be sold back at the item shop for roughly 80% of their original cost.

YOU ROLLED IT –  The game now plays a sound upon rolling the dice.

MORE ICONS –  The behavior icons now correctly show if a player is immune or shell shocked.

 

BATTLE:

THIS IS GONNA HURT… –  Players can now land critical hits while in battle. Critical hits deal 200-250% base damage to enemies. (Calculated before damage reduction). All players by default have 5% critical chance.

…BUT THIS MIGHT NOT SO MUCH –  Non-critical hits deal 1.1-2.5  1.1-1.8 base damage per attack point.

…OR THIS –  Each point of defense now decreases battle damage dealt by 10%  15% per point (With diminishing returns.)

DONT BE A CHICKEN –  In battle, a player must now attack at least once before gaining the option to retreat.

NO MORE STOLEN LUNCH MONEY –  Players now forfeit 16 10 AP when they retreat from another player in battle.

 

EVENTS:

EVEN MORE UNPREDICTABLE – New random events have been added.

Switcharoo- Switch spaces with a random opponent.

Through the Wormhole-  Teleport to a random square and activate its effects.

ITEMS:

NEW – Xpired’s Mystery Soup:

Cost: 20 AP

Description: Can be consumed to activate a random effect. But beware.

 

CHANGED –  Trinket Of The Panther:

Now has a new image.

 

POWERS:

SNIPPED – Stun has been removed.

NEW – Earthquake:

Creates an earthquake which deals 8 damage to all other enemy players and causes them to be -Shell Shocked- For 1 turn. Players that are -Shell Shocked- do not earn bonus AP when rolling the die and cannot roll a value higher than 7. (Regardless of item effects.)

CHANGED –  Smite:

Now deals 15 damage. (Up from 12.)

FIXED –   The Tornado power can now properly be targeted forward or backward.

 

Bug Fixes:

Swattin’ bugs since 1337.

NOT REALLY A FIX – A fail safe has been added to prevent player avatars from leaving the board. If the game detects “Derailment” it will reset the player pawn to the starting position.

KEEP IT IN SYNC – At the end of each player’s turn, they are moved to the middle of their current square and their position is re-synced with all players. This helps prevent minor desync issues that could happen with regular lag.

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Patch 0.0.3 !

  By Atlas • March 19, 2015 ,

With this new update comes new mechanics, new powers, and new ways to fight on those assorted seemingly harmless squares! Keep in mind all changes made here are tentative, experimental, and/or highly subject to change. See something you like? Something that can be improved upon? Don’t hesitate to leave a post in the forums! And without further adieu, here are the changes shipped with patch 0.0.3!

GENERAL:

ATLAS’ NEW GROOVE – New game music has been added.

HOUSE KEEPING – Cleaned out a bunch of old assets that made load times unnecessarily longer.

NO MORE ALIEN DICE – Players can now by default roll up to a 12.(Down from 13.)

 

ITEMS:

NEW – St. Lettie’s Grace:

Cost: 60 AP

Description: Can be activated to make you immune for 2 rounds. While immune, you cannot be stunned and cannot take damage from any source other than player battles. Has a 50% chance to be consumed upon activation. Cannot be stolen.

 NEW – Tyson’s Mitts:

Cost: 110 AP

Description: While equip you gain +3 attack, and +3 defense.

NEW – Tommy Gun:

Cost: 100 AP

Description: Grants +6 Attack while equip. Can be activated to deal 5 damage to all other players (2 round cooldown). While on cooldown, this item does not grant attack.

NEW – Jorge’s Submission Club:

Cost: 60 AP

Description: While equip you gain +5 attack. After each battle, this item has a 20% chance to be destroyed.

 

CHANGED –  Self-Defense Guide:

Cost reduced from 105 AP to 75 AP. Calculated the efficiency on this item, and it just wasn’t there, so the price was adjusted accordingly.

CHANGED –  Brass Knuckles:

No longer provides a chance to deal 5 bonus damage. Now grants +3 attack and +2 defense.

POWERS:

SNIPPED – Recuperate

SNIPPED – Siphon

NEW – Tornado: Creates a tornado on your current square that you can send forward or backward. The tornado travels 12 spaces in the direction you choose, stunning any enemies hit for 1 turn and dealing 10 damage to them. The tornado also clears any traps on squares that it hits.

NEW – Vampiric Siphon: Activate to swap HP with another player. Passive: Any time you land on a Meditation square, you MUST choose a target for this ability, if a valid one exists.

Bug Fixes:

Swattin’ bugs since 1337.

– Fixed an issue with Champion’s Emblem which caused it not to award AP when a player retreated in battle.

 

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Update 0.0.2!

  By Atlas • March 17, 2015 ,

Recent update: 0.0.2

Added support for a countdown timer during online play– when it reaches 0, that players turn is over.

IF the countdown timer expires, that player will have 20 less seconds to take their next turn, down to a minimum of 20 seconds. After 4 missed turns, that player will be permanently disconnected from that game.

Adjusted the position of the Active Player Box, still working on finding the optimal dimensions for online play.

To all testers: Please feel free to test out the new countdown timer feature as it’s currently very error-prone. While no errors have been found as of yet, it currently has not been tested in every possible scenario.