SOTW 0.8.24.18 - Second Act Beta!

[jack1974]

I've gone around Dingirra killing everyone and it didn't respawn so far, so probably that was the reason. At least here seems fine

[yayswords]

Do Lugal mercs have their heavy damage (like 50/turn) poison instead of the full-blown Manticore Poison?

Also, gave the Master of the Pits 0 gold. He still gloated and party still complained. :D

Cross Cut, will you ever be fine...

Okay so I noticed it can hit even the back row. When hitting the back row, it does almost no damage, I don't think the +30% defense can help that much (it wasn't a thief either). Right but the bigger problem. When I hit a back row mob, and check his health/max after, the max has gone down. It doesn't go down when I hit a front row mob.

[jack1974]

Lugal use Ironwall Oil, you meant Kiduu bowman ?

Crosscut on back row shouldn't work (too powerful) will limit it only to front row. Though when I tried it was working in front row, strange... but you're right now doesn't work

edit: found the problem, copied badly from another skill, so right now has 60% chances of working. Will be fixed on next update

[Troyen]

I've uploaded a new build, I also found a way to optimize the map. I managed to play it even on my Android! was still slow, but at least PLAYABLE (before was crazy). It should be possible to load existing saves through a hack I made but let me know if you run into any issues

My laptop thanks you. I don't melt a hole in the table anymore. It's not even that old either, just a couple years. The arrows don't stutter anymore either.

I'm sure it'll even help my battery while playing.

[yayswords]

Lugal use Ironwall Oil, you meant Kiduu bowman ?

Yes sorry. Kiduu something, can't swear it's the bowmen though. This thing where the mercs use a family special item isn't so rare, I think it happens like two times per fight :D

Crosscut on back row shouldn't work (too powerful) will limit it only to front row.

I agree

Strike Through damage prediction never seems to be correct for my dual wielding ranger. I always do less. Also I've noticed, though maybe this isn't new, that the damage prediction for a guarded target is actually the damage you will do to its protector. Could you go all the way and just display the damage numbers over the protector?

The Galanna district remains cursed I'm so nice I don't kill them more than 3 times though.

[jack1974]

My laptop thanks you. I don't melt a hole in the table anymore. It's not even that old either, just a couple years. The arrows don't stutter anymore either.

I'm sure it'll even help my battery while playing.

Yes for sure help also battery It was really a lame coding on my part but when you're in a hurry is not simple to optimize code. I think I could also improve it further but have troubles with a math formula...

Lugal use Ironwall Oil, you meant Kiduu bowman ?

Yes sorry. Kiduu something, can't swear it's the bowmen though. This thing where the mercs use a family special item isn't so rare, I think it happens like two times per fight :D

It's them, the other mercs have normal Poison attack so maybe you got confused by that two times by fight maybe is a bit high, but I'll keep that (since is only for Hard+ difficulty)

Strike Through damage prediction never seems to be correct for my dual wielding ranger. I always do less. Also I've noticed, though maybe this isn't new, that the damage prediction for a guarded target is actually the damage you will do to its protector. Could you go all the way and just display the damage numbers over the protector?

Heh, I don't know how to do that sorry. I'll need Anima's intervention

The Galanna district remains cursed I'm so nice I don't kill them more than 3 times though.

Strange, here works normally! anyway not a big problem

[yayswords]

The Lugal arrows are also being stubborn now. No "current map" excuse there. I'm not terribly bothered, but I hope I won't have to start a new game to avoid worse related bugs in act 3

[jack1974]

Well the fact is that it shouldn't change anything related to that. In summary, each hotspot in map has a condition that must be true, like "lugal_merc1<2" and so on. Before I had a single list with all of them, for all maps, and the game needed to search this huge list. Now, I copy only the current map part from the big list in a smaller list, and use that. So instead of looking in 100 items now looks in X items (only the map items, which is rarely more than 7-8).
But I copy each item as it is, so even including the condition, so it should still work as before...!

[Troyen]

Is there something similar you can do for battles? Those still lag a bit for me and definitely cause my computer to heat up.

[jack1974]

Yes even on Android they're slow. I am not sure since there's no list there I think I could optimize the rendering part like I did for the map (I used a custom displayable in renpy which should run much faster). My biggest issue is that I have no clue how to use buttons together with that. For sure will try something though, but not sure I can speed it up much in this case