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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Arcane Blade lost the cooldown penalty on flame/lightning/earthen missiles
Arcane Blade now has 2h-crippling, shield-offense and dualwield-offense trees locked at 1.0 mastery

Yay! My favorite class got buffed

[Robsoie]

Nice to see that 1st release candidate for the 1.0 version.
Though i'll certainly spend most of my time playing the Arena gametype as i've got addicted by it

[Robsoie]

On the road to the 1.0 , the 3rd release candidate has been released
http://te4.org/blogs/darkgod/2012/12/tome/tales-majeyal-100rc3-aka-game-candidates

    Dark Empathy prevents minions from damaging the master

More bugfixes and tweakings are always a very good thing

    Dark Empathy prevents minions from damaging the master

A very very good thing

    Dark Empathy prevents minions from damaging the master

Really very very good.

[Graven]

Yeah Tome4 development seems to be going well recently, which is nice to hear. I actually like this game, despite my whiny rants from before. What's worse, I won a 15-runer in Crawl and I need another roguelike to prevent me from acing all my exams, which leaves Tome4. Hopefully they unbuggered Paradox Mages.

In unrelated news :

Hey DarrenGrey, if you're still reading this thread, you said you were the main lore guy, right?

Why the hell is everything so depressing in the main module I love the gameplay, but every bit of lore, especially later on, depresses the hell out of me. Like, I don't want to

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genocide orks

, but I also don't want to waste two hours to patrols, why can't there be a "I'm a big babby pls" solution?

Also I just remembered : Can I become Antimagic and just kill the stupid zigguranth so they, too, stop depressing me?

[Robsoie]

I noticed RC4 is already available on the download page, though there's no article on the news about it, yet.
http://te4.org/download

edit : article about it for changelog
http://te4.org/blogs/darkgod/2012/12/tome/tales-majeyal-100rc4-aka-end

[Robsoie]

- i get a character running, find good items that allow me to keep that character surviving even in dangerous situations.
- then at some point my character fight an enemy, either boss, unique or group of monsters.
- whatever i do there, whatever tactic or skill is used, nothing seems to work, and the boss, unique , group of monster manage to kill my character (i don't mean those insta-kill crap, but the 99% of the time in which the enemy just freeze the escape/healing/regen abilities by some silly affliction or powers so the character can only die hopelessly)
- frustrated, i then threaten my computer to throw it through the window.
- on the Eidolon plane my character rests for a while and i decide to give a 2nd try at that battle by asking the guy to send me back
- but i know that the boss/unique/group of monster will all be back to full health, and that the battle will then very likely go the same way and will end into me throwing the game directory into the trash bin
- and surprisingly the battle is solved in a few turns, with my character annihilating the boss/monster/unique without much problems.
- what the ... ?

In ToME4 , this is happening to every of my characters regularly

[Frumple]

So, uh. V1's out, apparently. Been out of the loop enough to have no idea what, exactly, this entails for T4 other than the content freeze (such as it was) lifting, but it's here anyway. Doesn't seem to be a changelog, but eh.

[Seriyu]

Wait so this is as far as development is going? No new content from here?

If so, neat, I find a lot of Indie projects like this get caught in an eternal flow of new versions and such and never actually end.

[Frumple]

Well, like I said, I have no real idea what it hitting V1 exactly entails. I do know DG's stated that he intends to do more campaigns at some point in the future (and his words on the donator-only stone warden class suggests he plans on releasing at least a few more classes), so it's certainly not the end of content development, and there's still plenty of outstanding bugs and suchlike to be fixed so I doubt that's done with yet, so...

... I don't really know what version 1 means, other than some kind of numbering milestone, and presumably the end of the content lock that started a few versions back.

[Seriyu]

Huh, well new version is great either way.

[Robsoie]

Good to see ToME4 reaching a milestone,  more bugfixes is always good
At least this 1.0 version is fixing the broken Arena gametype from RC4 that was spamming error message each turns.

I played the RC4 adventure gametype lot since a few days (as my beloved Arena was broken ), and it reminded how much i like and hate this game in the same time

[getter77]

Yeah, plenty more ahead....possibly even more than before depending on how Greenlight goes in part, and v1 did have some assortment of Misc fixes at the least even if no formal log has popped up just yet.

[Robsoie]

I didn't thought it was possible, but my current online dwarf bulwark managed to do it :

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After a long and difficult battle with the Master, i was completely surprised that i managed to survive the Orc ambush after Dredfell

I couldn't believe it because the Orc unique that is leading a huge amount of troopers against you in that ambush had even more health than the Master that was already hard as usual (especially as it resurrect full health when you manage to kill him, that's insane).

And so that lead me into a question as i never expected the story could go that way :

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Not having been defeated in the ambush, the orcs weren't able to steal the staff from me, and i was able to bring it to Last Hope elder.




Up to now everytime i played and was ambushed and defeated, the staff being captured by the Orcs was pivotal in advancing the enemies plan in the end of the game.
Does it mean the game story is going to change or is there some silly "oh but they manage to capture the staff from Last Hope" kind of story re-direction ?

I have been lucky with items with that character, and getting skills that increase his armor and shield protection , he's currently able to stop lots of damage.
His only weakness is that he does not deal that much damage by turn in comparison to past fighters type i played (but thanks for the shield  bashing and to the critical damage chance increased that helps a lot) but it's the first time i have that much protections (usually i am not very lucky in the items i found)

And this time during the Master battle i wasn't waiting very long to teleport away and recover my abilities, that's why i lost so many character since a few versions against him, because staying too long in front of him (and his numerous summons) increase the chance of your skills being blocked, sure way to lead into a yasd.

[Graven]

And so that lead me into a question as i never expected the story could go that way :

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Not having been defeated in the ambush, the orcs weren't able to steal the staff from me, and i was able to bring it to Last Hope elder.




Up to now everytime i played and was ambushed and defeated, the staff being captured by the Orcs was pivotal in advancing the enemies plan in the end of the game.
Does it mean the game story is going to change or is there some silly "oh but they manage to capture the staff from Last Hope" kind of story re-direction ?

...I'm sorry.

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They steal the staff from Last Hope

[Robsoie]

I knew i couldn't trust those guys at Last Hope to keep a staff in a safe

Thanks for the precision, i'm not sure my character will survive for long enought to learn that, as i have been into a loop of stupid death for stupid reasons in previous characters run (forgetting to check my health and getting killed by a lowly monster, forgetting to escape despite i could easily do it, etc...)

How much i love that game, the gameplay variation between each combo is making replayability amazing, as unlike the majority of roguelikes it's not just a matter of bonusmalus somewhere and you always end in playing the same way.
And i absolutely love how it does away with the silly "hungry every 5 minutes" element in most other roguelike without making it any easier in the same time.

And how much i hate that game when it kills definitively a character i was enjoying playing