- The job board is loosely based on Exile III's job board; the dialog is converted from the one contained as a relic of E3 in BoE
- Quest system is loosely based on a mix of Exile III jobs and Blades of Avernum quests
- Talking to a monster (even a hostile one) can now trigger an arbitrary special node
Dialog engine:
- LED's now support wrapped labels
- Fix crash while resting outdoors
- Fix screen not going dark while resting
- Fix crash when starting a new game from the death dialog
- Fix several typos that completely broke combat and special encounters
- Fix bless/curse being inverted when applied to PCs
- Fix booms not showing when stepping in damaging fields in combat
- Fix crash when attempting to save a game that has never before been saved (due to clicking cancel at the initial save dialog)
- Fix some of the flickering during animations
- Support "special" damage on PCs - pierces invulnerability much like it does for monsters
- Fix monster missiles sometimes being mistargeted in combat mode
- Fix iLiving->index conversion
- Add special damage to scenario editor list
- A set of nodes for building complex strings in a string buffer; to reference the string buffer anywhere a string is expected, you can use -8 as the string number
- A node to pause the action for a specified period of time
- Nodes to alter traits, action points (only in combat), and PC/monster names
- Node to create a new level 1 PC with a specified race, name, graphic, hp, sp, basic stats; custom graphics supported too
- Nodes to test for deadness, spells, alchemy, and status effects
- Node to centre the view on an arbitrary space
- Node to lift the "fog of war", which currently means the unseen and light masks (which can actually be disabled in preferences anyway)
- Node to edit maps (ie, specify which areas are explored)
Changes to existing nodes:
- All the rectangle nodes that affect terrain now work outdoors.
- Play sound node now has an asynchronous option
- Fix min and max modes being swapped in the check statistic node
- Select PC now allows restricting to dead PCs or to PCs with free inventory space
- Select PC now calls the "on cancel" node if a non-interactive selection fails
- Affect deadness node now allows: setting/clearing the "fled outdoor combat" flag; setting/clearing the "absent" flag used for splitting the party; (un)deleting a PC
- If context node can now check if the party is in a specific boat/horse as opposed to any boat/horse
- Rearrange alchemy code a little to fix a possible situation with two-ingredient potions where you only have one of the first ingredient - instead of removing the second ingredient, it would have removed the next item in your inventory
- Equippable item abilities that have an ability strength now stack if you have multiple items with the same ability equipped
- 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
- 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
- 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)