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[Zireael]

More spells are always welcome - I'm sitting down to do some more stuff (in general) for Veins as the semester just ended.

So this is not dead. Just the amount of my free time has been severely limited in January.

[Zireael]

I originally planned to release the next beta sometime in February. With the announcement of T-Engine 1.3 beta tests, the next Veins beta is obviously postponed until 1.3 comes out.

That doesn't mean development has stopped, quite the opposite!
* Far Shot and Precise Shot are now implemented.

And the big change:
The sorcerer class and its divine equivalent, the shaman, have undergone significant revision. They both use spell points now instead of spell slots.

The game is now a cross between SRD and Incursion - with some classes working the SRD way and some working the Incursion way. Interestingly, this is what Julian Mensch envisioned for the "full" release of Incursion: Return of the Forsaken.

[forsaken1111]

I have some time this weekend so posting to watch this thread and will give some feedback when I can. I loved Incursion so am pretty excited to see its spiritual successor maturing

[Zireael]

I have some time this weekend so posting to watch this thread and will give some feedback when I can. I loved Incursion so am pretty excited to see its spiritual successor maturing

Wow, thanks a lot for the kind words!

Link to bleeding edge: https://github.com/Zireael07/The-Veins-of-the-Earth/archive/master.zip

[forsaken1111]

I have some time this weekend so posting to watch this thread and will give some feedback when I can. I loved Incursion so am pretty excited to see its spiritual successor maturing

Wow, thanks a lot for the kind words!

Link to bleeding edge: https://github.com/Zireael07/The-Veins-of-the-Earth/archive/master.zip

Awesome. Grabbed the download and will check it out. So far what I have seen in the screenshots look excellent.

Edit: Hm... I have no idea how to use this. I downloaded t-engine but what do I then do to install this? I tried just renaming it to .team and plopping it in but no work.

[Zireael]

Unpack the zip and plop it into T-Engine/modules/VotE folder. Renaming to team does not work because team files/archives have a slightly different folder structure.

[forsaken1111]

Gotya. Sorry, I'm new to t-engine.

[KA101]

w00t!  Liked what I saw when I tried the last version.

[Zireael]

w00t!  Liked what I saw when I tried the last version.

Thanks! If the version you meant was beta 6.5, then you'll find quite a lot of improvements in bleeding edge.

[KA101]

Tried to check on this via the DDA forums, never heard back.

w00t!  Liked what I saw when I tried the last version.

Thanks! If the version you meant was beta 6.5, then you'll find quite a lot of improvements in bleeding edge.

Yeah, was the last time you posted a new version.

Unfortunately, I've hit a few errors (got the popup bug-reporter) in this one:
1) Can't configure prayer (seemed as good a place as any to get some insight into how the system works)
2) After retreating to level 0 and back once or twice, made it to the Next Level downstair (first time ever!), took it, and ended up in solid rock.

You seem to use your Git issues for an internal TODO so I didn't want to unilaterally post there.

Sorry for the bad news, though I appreciate the concept and look forward to actually making forward progress in the game.

[UXLZ]

Fiinnnally got around to downloading this. I should be playing it shortly. Sorry it took so darn long!

[UXLZ]

Hmm... I can't seem to take screenshots properly. This will be somewhat irritating...

In the opening line when you start the game (You wandered into the... How long can you survive?)
I feel like there's a small typo where the O in "or maybe you took a bad fall" isn't capitalized.
Also, this is purely personal opinion, but I feel like the final line should be

"Will your survive, or will you perish?"
instead of "How long can you survive?"

The way it's currently worded makes it seem like death is inevitable. Admittedly, the proposed change really only has a point to it if you intend on including and endgame (and possible ways of 'beating' the game.)
This kind of stuff is also really only for the 'Polishing' stage, where you're trying to make everything as good as it can be.

Anyway, time to start playing. What's the bet I survive less than an hour?
Music and sound effects would be nice, but the lack of them is understandable.

Okay, for some more important stuff.

Noticed Spelling Errors: (These are things that are spelled wrong or have wrong grammar, rather than just based on opinion.)

Assassin is spelled 'Assasin' on the level up screen when allocating class points. (It is missing an s in the latter part of the name.)

Game Errors: (Stuff like crashing, missing effects etc.)

Right-clicking on abilities (the things in the hotbar) brings up an error report thingy for some reason. I sent a report, but I thought the circumstances were a lot more specific than they ended up being. I guess you just haven't added some stuff in, yet?

[Zireael]

There is no end-game yet, so I think the intro text can stay as is.

The lack of music and sound is simply because I don't know what to use. I could probably re-use ToME's sounds, as the only thing that's fixed by license is the Shockbolt tileset.

And thanks a lot for spotting the assasin typo, uploading a commit right now which fixes it. (I'm not a native speaker of English and I've probably been making this typo for ever )

[UXLZ]

Yeah, if there's no end-game then it makes sense, but make sure to change it fi you do add an end-game. :v

Don't worry about it, I'm a native speaker of English and I used to make that mistake all the time.

[Zireael]

That's right, metamagic feats are finally implemented, except for Enlarge Spell.

I still need to implement Enlarge and Quicken Spell, and apply the heightened spell point cost/use up higher level spell slots properly.

Regarding the 'configure' thing reported a few times, the hotbar's code is taken from ToME. I assume the 'configure' hint refers to auto-using talents. Which will probably come along in the future, but I'm not sure how quickly. For now, I will try to fish out the tooltip and remove the reference.