- Range augment ability for missiles
- Seeking ability for missiles (can strike an adjacent space if targeted space lacks a target, including chance of hitting invisible monsters)
- Weapon that calls node when attacking with it (works both in range and melee; the cases can be distinguished by the node with IF_CONTEXT)
- Armour that calls node when attacked while wearing (works both in range and melee; the cases can be distinguished by the node with IF_CONTEXT)
- Monster ability that calls node when monster attacked (works both in range and melee; the cases can be distinguished by the node with IF_CONTEXT)
- The above three only apply to non-magical attacks - some things don't trigger it, like spells, monster rays and breath weapons, possible a few others
- Armour that protects from all melee damage (including demon/undead, though less)
- Armour that decreases chance to be hit (both in range and melee, against non-magical attacks only)
- Armour that behaves like to the martyr's shield effect but also has a chance of adding some extra bonus damage
- Armour that's more encumbering than advertised (best for cursed items with concealed ability)
- Multiple items with the accuracy ability now stack
- Fix nephilim not getting their racial bonus to missile weapons
- In specials called as part of an attack, the reserved pointer -20 contains the target in a form ready to pass to a SELECT_TARGET node, while -21 and -22 contain the location of the target. This includes the new cases added in this commit plus the monster ability to call a special node on its turn. It does not include specials called in the spell targeting context (to do so would break legacy scenarios), nor specials called after a targeting node.
- If a PC is carrying more than their max weight, they gain encumbrance equal to one-tenth of the excess.
- Add some missing context cases to IF_CONTEXT node
- Missiles now support arbitrary status effects (not just acid)
- Melee weapons now support the exploding ability (though such a weapon wouldn't be that great for the wielder)
- Melee weapons now support the heal target ability
- Lightning missile ability merged into damaging weapon abilit
- Missile slayer ability merged into slayer weapon ability; existing slayer weapons are slightly weakened (-1 damage for demons, -2 damage for undead)
- Exploding weapon ability now supports arbitrary damage types (not just fire)
- Missile weapons now support the weak weapon ability
- Missile weapons now support the soulsucker ability
- When firing a missile at a PC, all secondary effects now take place
- Fix thrown weapons, which were broken by the key weapon skill generalization
Also:
- The possible traps resulting from "random trap" is expanded to include the knife trap
- A custom picture can be specified for the trap dialog
- A given custom trap special node can be reused for the same trap with different levels - the pointer -5 holds the trap level passed to the ONCE_TRAP node
Where stat-boosting items were already accounted for, the effects remain unchanged by this; however, some additional effects have been added.
Strength-boosting items have the following new effects:
- Increases hit points gained on level-up
- Increases amount PCs can carry
Dexterity-boosting items have the following new effects:
- Increases hit chance in unarmed combat
Intelligence-boosting items have the following new effects:
- Increases effectiveness in a mindduel
- Bliss and doom merged into single ability (distinguished by item use type)
- The three party status abilities merged into one
- Major healing now has a negative version
- Summoning and mass summoning now use first ability data to determine duration; second ability data determines monster
- Added generic use message for spell abilities that didn't already have a specialized message
- Mass summoning no longer redundantly recalculates random number of summons after each summon
- Also, missile weapons now use the key skill as well
- Fix guessing of missile types - using the item level didn't work out since the levels weren't what the original code expected, so now it just goes by the name
Changes to game:
- Permanent martyr's shield is now customizable - extra1 is per-mille chance to activate each time damage is taken, and extra2 is percent of damage taken to apply to attacker
- Absort spells is now customizable - extra1 is per-mille chance to activate each time damage is taken or a magic effect is applied, and extra2 is how much hp to gain from non-damaging magic effects
- Splits ability is now customizable - extra1 is per-mille chance of splitting each time damage is taken
- Special node ability is now called before the monster tries its normal attack, and multiple monsters can use them per round (though each can only use theirs once)
- Fix issue with breath weapons and icy touch abilities conflicting (legacy import issue)
- Add two variations of the summoning ability - summon according to summoning level (like the spells), or summon a random creature of a particular species
- Fix touch abilities using the range as chance to use
Changes to dialog engine:
- Fix tab order handling to exclude fields that are currently hidden
- Add method to retrieve the parameter passed to toast(), as a quick way to distinguish between the user clicking OK or Cancel after run() has exited
- Fix hidden fields being drawn anyway
- Fix setting stack page sometimes crashing if the current page was invalid due to earlier reducing the page count to 0
Game changes:
- Remove support for playing a sound and displaying strings when a monster is first seen, since these behaviours can easily be obtained by using the special node called in the same context.
Dialog engine changes:
- Support for changing the font size of LEDs
- When setting the page, a stack now applies a default value if the map is missing the required data
- Add utility "addPage" method to stacks
- If reducing the page count means the current page is deleted, a stack now switches to the last page
- If you do this, it adds the graphics to all relevant select graphic dialogs, at the end, allowing you to choose custom graphics without having to remember the number schemes
- Export of monster missiles and summons
- Rendering support for custom PC graphics
- Fix display of stats on startup screen
- Fix implementation of animate attack node
- 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
- It's now possible to affect weapon poison, martyr's shield, acid, and life detection from a special node
- Affect nodes now always take resistances into account when harming, but never when helping
- 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
