Update Alpha 5: Magic Update

Major:

• Research Notes Menu
  • Research has been converted from a set of dropdowns to a full-fledged menu of its own
  • The Research Notes Menu has separate tabs for acquaintances (NPCs), monsters, traps, and curses.
  • This allows for viewing of all information you've gathered/researched about each entry, as well as their art.
  • Controls for sorting/filtering are also present.
  • This will menu will be expanded on in future updates.

• Skill Requirements
  • All skills now have requirements to be learned.
  • Rather than all characters having 5 starting skills to choose between, characters can now learn any skills for which they meet the requirements.
  • Note that some skills may still be exclusive to certain characters.
  • Several new skills have been added for more variety.

• Compulsion Curses
  • Some Curses now function as Compulsion Curses. Rather than causing an effect immediately when triggered, they instead create or strengthen a Compulsion.
  • Compulsions are hidden status effects which do nothing until the strength of the Compulsion rises higher than the character's Willpower stat.

• Magic
  • You (the main character of the game) can now actually do magic in game.
  • Added the ability to scry rooms in the dungeon. Scrying removes the obscuring effect of magical darkness and reveals rooms adjacent to the target room.
  • There is no cost to scry, however using the spell does have a cooldown.
  • 15+ other spells were also added. Spells are passive effects which can apply to some or all of your allies, or even yourself. Each has a different mana cost to use, and can be managed in the Camp menu.
  • After Floor 2 (not counting the tutorial), the player will gain Scry, as well as 3 random starting spells and 1 spell given within the cutscene. The player has 10 maximum mana.

• Witch's Den
  • While it has been present in every version of the game so far, the Witch's Den room has been massively updated.
  • Any ally entering the Witch's Den will allow you to make a deal with the Witch inside, buying new spells or helpful services.
  • The previous effects of the Witch's Den room are still available (sometimes) and have a flat cost of 10.
  • New spells can cost anywhere from 15 to 40, with some variation.
  • In order to make a deal, you must supply an equal or greater amount of value across yourself and your three allies. Each point of Temporary Corruption you allow to be added to an ally counts as 1, and each point of max mana you lend to the Witch counts as 10.
  • More services/spells will be added to the Witch's Den in future updates.

Minor:

• Fixed a bug with the Hall of Whispers event files being named incorrectly
  • Also added error checking that will prevent the game crashing if this happens in the future

• Camp chats now stay visible for longer based on the length of their text (3.5 seconds minimum + .01 second per character of text, up from flat 3.5 seconds)

• The game now autosaves at the end of the tutorial floor

• Fixed an issue where learning skills that activate on learn (Purity, Warding, Let's GOOOOOO) and then moving directly to the next floor would make them fail to activate on floor start.

• Added a Minimal Pixel Font option to the text display options for people who don't like the style of the normal large text

• Fixed a bug where colors would sometimes be set to incorrect values in the character generation menu

• Fixed a bug where being Addled would prevent First Aid from being cancelled when taking damage

• Fixed a bug dealing with allies deciding what activity to do at camp (I'm being vague because explaining how it worked/was bugged would take a lot of words)

• Choosing to dispel the curse at the end of a floor now properly sets temporary corruption to 0 after converting it to permanent corruption

• Negative stats now have a greater effect on ally desires

• Added the ability to suggest an ally do something else in camp
  • Whether they listen to the suggestion or not is based on their current desires, as well as what they're being asked to do

• Added ability for dungeon generation to create walls between adjacent rooms, causing layouts to be even less blobby

• Decreased file sizes on several music tracks to make the game download slightly smaller than the previous update even though there's more stuff in it (the sound folder is like 80%-90% of the entire file size, go figure)

• Added the ability for dialogue scenes to have player choices.
  • Any dialogue scenes that have player choices in them which are skipped with the Esc key will assume a default value was chosen.

• Moving the camera with the keyboard now moves around 2 rooms per key press, but does not continue scrolling while the key is held
  • For some reason making the camera move smoothly with the keyboard is being an absolute bitch

• Fixed a bug where pressing esc multiple times during dialogue would create multiple 'are you sure you want to skip' dialogs

• Fixed a bug where passing out from lack of sleep in the morning would result in sleeping through the time when you are supposed to leave camp to go to the dungeon
  • This fix is semi-exploitable, but it isn't a big deal and will be handled differently later

• Fixed Raine's chat messages while doing Maintenance activities showing Elli portraits instead

• The game now defaults to 1280 x 720 windowed mode to allow you to override it to your preference

Balance:

• Changed the threshold for gaining temporary corruption due to negative stat gain from 20 to 25

• Nerfed Tactical Retreat:
  • Now requires the Dodgy skill. Now has two ranks instead of 1.
  • Rank 1: While under the effects of the Dodgy skill, cancels out the attack bonus that enemies get when leaving their rooms.
  • Rank 2: Cancels out the attack bonus that enemies get when leaving their rooms.

• Changed Idle Hands:
  • Now applies a Compulsion to masturbate rather than a small amount of lust (masturbation is a new status effect)