- Supports playing arbitrary sound along with the split (rather than just teleport sound or no sound)
- Correctly imported from older save files
- Support for splitting off an arbitrary subgroup of the party rather than just a single PC (though the special node doesn't yet allow this)
- Support for leaving town while split - if you leave town, the absent PC's items are not dropped on the ground when later entering a town
- Option to not change location when reuniting
- If you reunite in a different town than you started, you are returned to the town you split from
- Select PC node can now select a specific monster, rather than a PC; it's renamed to Select Target
- Damage node no longer allows setting pic to 1 to damage active PC in combat
- Damage node now accepts a sound to accompany the damage
- Damage node now works on monsters
- All affect nodes that can work on monsters no longer get the monster to affect from ex2a - instead, they use the currently selected target
The default target selected when a special node chain begins execution has changed.
- When called in certain contexts (kill/see monster, monster special ability), the monster that triggered the node is the default target.
- In the use/target space contexts, if there's a monster on the space, it's selected as the default target.
- If neither of the above hold and the game is in combat mode, the currently active PC is selected
- Otherwise the previous behavour is used - if the party is split, select the sole PC, otherwise select the whole party.
- Moved change/swap/transform terrain to the General section
- Merge change outdoor terrain into general change terrain
- Merge if town/outdoor terrain nodes
- Merge the if+take nodes with the equivalent base nodes
- Merge secret passage node into the can't enter node
- Move outdoor shop to the General section since it's not restricted to outdoors
- New story dialog node displays a sequence of strings one at a time, like the Exile 2 intro dialog
- New town nodes for animations: run missile, animate monster attack, draw simple boom with optional damage number
- If fields node expanded - now checks if the count of the desired field type existing within a specified rectangle falls within a given range
- Place items and move items nodes can now set the items as contained, provided there's a container on the destination space
- All rectangle nodes can now be restricted to just the boundary, as per the documentation
- Fix PCs sometimes taking damage when they shouldn't due to the marked damage field not being initialized
- Fix targeting not hitting the correct space when the screen is shifted
- Fix target space special node node being called in combat
- Move monster marked damage into cCreature
- Fix custom missiles causing a crash if graphic not found
- Fix display in transcript of damage taken by monsters
- Fix missile start items not having their missile graphic set
- Fix immunity fields being signed (which would've prevented immunities from working properly)
- Don't bother generating a random number if min and max are the same
- Fix monster attack types not showing right
- Fix checking for item abilities returning 0 instead of 24 when not found
- Fix not updating screen when switching active PC
- Abilities are much more generic, but also much more complex; a set of "templates" is provided to try to make it more accessible
- There is now a possibility for monsters to charm each other
- See monster strings are now fetched from the same list as the special encounter strings instead of a list of their own
- There is now a possibility for the scenario intro dialog to have a different icon than the scenario icon
- Remove unused intro_mess_len field
- Add method to the XML printer class to push a simple element with no attributes or child elements
- Automatically close any elements before writing the document to the stream
- Fix scenario editor File menu having an invisible "Close All" option that appeared when the option key was pressed
- New monster ability: radiate blade fields
- Fix permanent martyr's shield giving immunity to fire walls
- Fix paralysis ray giving immunity to ice walls
- All monsters that radiate fields are now immune to the fields they radiate
- Monsters now properly decide whether they can enter damaging terrains
- The possibility of being unusually vulnerable to a damage type is introduce - such monsters would take double damage from that type
- The strength, dexterity, and intelligence abilities have been merged; it's now possible to make items that boost some other skill, though the handling for this is not yet implemented.
- The occasional haste/bless/disease abilities have been merged.
- Move affect_pc and affect_party functions into cPlayer and cParty respectively
- It's now possible to create an item that protects from any type of damage, status effect, or species (though some status effects may not be implemented)
- It's now possible to create slayer weapons for any species
- It's now at least theoretically possible to have poison applied to your secondary weapon; since the primary weapon is whichever one appears first in your inventory, this might be possible if you apply poison and then equip a second weapon
- Merge most of the spell usable abilities into a single "cast spell" ability which can take any spell as an additional parameter
- Merge the affect status usable abilities into a single "affect status" ability which can take any status as an additional parameter
- Merge acidic and poisoned weapon into a single "status weapon" ability which can take any status as an additional parameter (though the handling for other statuses isn't yet implemented)
- Fix mass charm spell getting worse as you intelligence bonus increases
- Mass charm item spell is now easier to resist (an unintended side-effect)
- PC versions of Wrack and Unholy Ravaging implemented (for use as item spells)
- Unify PC start adjustments into the cPlayer class; add start items for vahnatai race
- Allow healing missiles to heal PCs
- Fix display of spell names in the spellcasting dialog
- Expand list of statuses that affect_pc allows to be negative
- Rename cItemRec -> cItem and cItemRec::type -> cItem::weap_type
- Clear out a lot of commented code
- Remove the flag_x members in the scenario that used to store the scenario's password hash (or something like that)
- As a side-effect, weapons with key skills other than the conventional three (edged, bashing, pole) are now fully supported (though the scenario editor UI doesn't yet support them)
