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[Eldiran]

Nearing the end game, now, I think. And... can I just say that crossbows get... kinda' silly? Good silly, but still.  My crossbowsnake is now toting three scout rifles, a blunderbuss, two dragon pistols, and a gale crossbow (also a couple of force and ancient pistols sitting in a bag, if for some reason everything's not dead after seven rounds of >=10 power crossbow shots). It's like I take one passive (quick hands ) and completely negate bows' one competitive advantage (not needing to reload in-combat; neither do crossbows :V). It's faintly ridiculous. Delightfully ridiculous.

Excellent. I may have to tone down Quick Hands in a future game, but it'll stay this ridiculous in this game : )

... though to be fair, either of my casters pretty regularly out damages the poor guy (we'll not talk about the blade/warrior axedude, who's sadly overwhelmed for all he has a 10 strength axe), though the sage/scholar only against undead (41+ damage per heal cast, yikes). Still. Definitely going to have to try bows next round, just to see how they hold up against this silliness. Maybe just go entirely ranged... especially once the respawning stuff starts dropping pistols, it'll be pretty easy to outfit whoever you want with however many of the things y'please...

Bows end up being pretty darn good too considering they can arc, and their range increases a lot once you get better equipment. I like how bows vs. crossbows turned out, I think.

Spoiler: re: a late game fight (click to show/hide)

Also, anyone have any tips for that horrific fight against the necromancer critter? Those 120 Hp undead things that at-most 2-shot everyone in my party wreck the everloving blazes out of my everything -- I actually had to blink over the wall the first batch was guarding (which eventually led to a reload before entering the area, since I couldn't kill them one the way back up and I couldn't kill the necromancer + entourage, either), and the archon/unmaker on the high-ground is just icing on the deathcake. My best thought at the moment is come back through in the next runthrough and just have everyone be something like guardian/sage for that fight, for tanking and heal-blasting the undead, but still. Fight's terrifying.

Area before the necromancer was hilarious, though, albeit lengthy. I managed to kill one of the eyelight guys with max-range heal (note: Most of their other appearances are entirely trivialized by that), then aggro all the rest. Ended up with only one of my guys taking any damage worth note, and that was only because I let them to speed things up. I'd... probably recommend you give those guys laser eyes or summat, heh. See next spoiler to see how it happened

Spoiler: Pictured: Why you don't give patient players a chokepoint (click to show/hide)

You can see what happened, methinks. The fight was spent almost entirely behind the obvious chokepoint -- heal-nuker below the corpse on the right, axebro below the corpse on the left, crossbowsnake below the bone wall, and the other caster spent most of the fight plinking with lightning when able, but mostly standing beside the healer to let teacher kick in and moving corpses axebro put behind him to trick more eyeghouls into getting stuck in (for one turn, after which counter+heal one-rounded the eyeghoul :V).

Some spoils:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nice work on the eye zombies. Considering you can skip the fight by following the proper path, I'm ok with trivializing it with proper tactics too.

I am, however, fixing the ability to kill them from afar with heals without aggroing them. That's in the next patch.

And yeah, the necromancer is a huge pain. I designed that fight to be as if a villain used every possible tactical advantage against you >D

Naturally he's completely optional - this is the place for the hardcore tactics nuts/powerlevelers to test themselves. I recommend taking him on as late as possible. Once you do, remember that you can flip switches with ranged attacks. The goal is to only engage one or two zombies at a time, and slowly work your way through, so a lot of defensive play is required. Either that or go full Unmaker/Sage and Bonemeld/Heal them to pieces.

[Eldiran]

If anyone is still interested in Voidspire Tactics, there's a new patch today! It's also on sale, 20% off, for the rest of the week.

Patch Notes for 1.0.6

• added more craftable Fang equipment (bow, crossbow, greatsword, shield, armor) to complete the set.
• changed graphics, description, and name of Fine Bag and Fine Satchel (now Huge Bag and Huge Satchel) for the sake of clarity.
• added a Huge Bag to an early area for easier inventory management.
• increased damage of Shiftcloak's "Whirl", "Sudden Shot", and "Backstep Shot".
• fixed Wind Skill reducing the damage of Blade's "Shockwave".
• fixed being able to revive long-dead NPCs.
• fixed staircase bug in Spiretop.
• fixed rare bug where fleeing/ending combat in certain ways could add enemies to your party.
• made the cracks on Cracked Stone blocks more visible.
• tweaked secret super-hard boss fight to be more interesting and harder to cheese.
• various minor bugfixes.

I also forgot to mention the last patch, 1.0.5, which added a new class, the Mechanist.