Horizon's Gate News

When you've completely mastered the Salvage Station, it can get a little dull and easy... so now it will ramp up to a bigger challenge and give better loot! After wave 4, you'll only find valuable gems or rare items, but good luck making it past wave 6...!



[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

• Salvage Station now spawns extra strong, slow Cleever after wave 6
  
• Salvage Station wave 4+ loot improved
  
• Sharpshooter's 'Piercing Shot' now applies augments & enchants to the furthest target
  
• Ravager's 'Destroy' MP cost reduced from 5 -> 3
  
• Spell Archon's 'Wind Imbue' MP cost increased from 6 -> 9
  
• Increased Hacker damage from 7 -> 8
  
• Reduced Silver Shovel cost from $7000 -> $1500
  
• Searth now sells more consumables at 90% and Chain of Command at 100% wealth level (new games only!)
  
• Runewald now sells The Icepick at 90% wealth level (new games only!)
  
• Port Alphe now sells Twain Axe at 100% wealth level (new games only!)
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed pushes from certain angles not working
  
• Fixed Warpblade's 'Gate: Onslaught' not dealing Physical damage, and improved its FX
  
• Improved Swashbuckler's 'Sweeping Strikes' FX
  
• Fixed Shiftcloak's 'Backstep Shot' lacking sound effects
  
• Fixed Backblaster not inflicting self-damage correctly when used with certain abilities
  
• Fixed Hacker not increasing Axe Skill correctly when used with abilities
  
• Fixed delay if killed by a counter attack while using Double Tap
  
• Fixed friendly NPCs in town rarely taking fall damage and starting combat
  
• Fixed crash when spreading Viral through a target that is disappearing
  
• Fixed being unable to bind R3 (Right Joystick)
  
• Fixed Negate's damage protection being affected by Lifebead Necklace and Essence Converter
  
• Fixed Revive not curing Poison
  
• Fixed Burst Pod Rakthol not exploding if stunned
  
• Fixed Market Rate not being shown on map for player-owned ports
  
• Fixed fleet cargo sometimes being different when trading vs. looting after combat
  
• Fixed controller actor inventory auto-opening too soon
  
• Made certain postgame dungeon enemy more likely to use alternate attacks
  
• Made certain postgame ultraboss unable to harm certain allies with their big attack
  
• Attempted fix for rare actTimer bug at the start of Salvage Station combat
  
• Fixed Training Grounds trainer not having a 'Goodbye' option
  
• Fixed typo in Scourge's Rivalry passive description
  
• AI now accounts for priority rating when comparing value of KO'ing a target
  
• AI now does not expect to KO a Negate'd target
  
• Minor AI optimizations
  

[h2]MODDING[/h2]

• Increased max number of journal goals to 18
  
• Fixed not being able to override existing ActorPrefabs
  
• Added new palettes p87 - p107 for mods to use
  

More fixes, better conveyor belts, and a new Glow Dart item just for fun.



[h2]FEATURES[/h2]

• Added 'Glow Dart' item made from Gloam Shroom Chunk and Dart
  
• Toxic Powder can now be made from Bone Dust and Slugvine
  
• Mechanist's 'Deploy Conveyor' can now be laid under a target and pushes 1 tile when first deployed

[h2]BALANCE[/h2]

• Final round of the Arena now spawns 3 top tier, 1 mid tier, and 1 low tier enemy instead of 5 top tier enemies (also applies to Elite Arena)
  
• Improved loot of 4th+ wave of Salvager Station
  
• Ice Block duration reduced from 1000t -> 400t
  
• Launch Buoy price reduced from $9999 -> $8000

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• You can now always reach items/objects that are 1 tile diagonally from you
  
• 'Summon Zoar' area of effect now more reliably targets tiles Zoar can occupy
  
• Fixed Market Rate resetting to 100% if a trade would bring it from above 100% to lower than 100%
  
• Fixed trade goods sold by fleets being 50% cheaper than intended
  
• Fixed Blunderbuss applying bonus center damage to every tile with certain weapon-based abilities
  
• Fixed Blunderbuss being able to select the same target more than once with Multishot
  
• Fixed Heavenpiercer boosting enemy morale when used with certain weapon-based abilities
  
• Fixed items duplicating when an item is left on your ship and you fight multiple naval battles before repairing
  
• Fixed Instant Aid status staying active indefinitely if you flee combat
  
• Fixed Shroud's Blind being marked as Ruin element
  
• Fixed Arena allies not having abilities if you fight in the arena multiple times per session and happen to add an ally with the same ID as before

Time for the first patch of 2022! Alongside minor tweaks to Shiftcloak and Sage abilities, there are some subtle but impactful changes to trade.

Maxing out a port's Wealth Level to 100% is now cheaper - in fact, it will take $10,000 less per port. However, repeated trade trips to the same destination in a short time are now less lucrative - port Market Rate recovers much more slowly now. (Remember, Market Rate recovery speed is based on a port's Wealth Level and the Wealth Level of nearby allied ports!)

[h2]GAMEPLAY[/h2]

• Sage's 'Growth' cast time reduced from 8 -> 7
  
• Sage's 'Dispel' cast time reduced from 8 -> 7
  
• Enchanter's 'Counter Enchant' duration now properly scales from both Skill and Magic Attack
  
• Shiftcloak's 'Whirl' no longer bypasses half Magic Defense
  
• Shiftcloak's 'Distracting Aura' now triggers on the start AND end of your turn

• Port Wealth Level is no longer twice as expensive to increase past 90% when investing
  
• Greatly reduced daily Market Rate recovery from 0.5 -> 0.15
  
• Salvage Lost Cargo job total fame requirement increased from 500 -> 1000
  
• Salvage Lost Cargo job base reward increased from $1250 -> $1500
  
• Improved average loot quality of certain Grove shrines
  
• Changed visual style of Invisible status
  
• You can no longer request royal ship escorts while you already have one
  
• You can now dismiss royal ship escorts when requesting a boon
  
• Royal ship escorts now turn on you if you attack your own faction
  
• Arena fighters no longer lose bonus ability ranks or passives from RUIN mode when joining you
  
• Arena fighters in earlier rounds no longer can learn Break Weapon or Break Armor
  
• Moved Elite Arena final round spawn spot 1 tile further away so 1st enemy round is less brutal
  
• Made drake's fire breath look a little bit cooler
  

[h2]FIXES[/h2]

• Fixed ship movement cannon previews incorrectly being blocked by caster's current position
  
• Fixed Junk items occasionally showing up in 3rd-level monster dens
  
• Fixed Growth Trigger not growing plants
  
• Fixed being able to teleport out of the arena between fights
  
• Moved arena triggers so you can't sneakily climb into them using Lattice Weeds
  
• Fixed crash if you try to sell an "empty" item by crafting while trading
  
• Added error detection/retry for rare grove generation corruption bug
  
• Fixed Market Rate displaying as less than 50% during trading
  
• Fixed controller cursor showing up when jumping over obstacles in combat
  
• Fixed time bonus on Sailor's 'Smellingsalts' showing even at rank 1
  
• Fixed 1/5 cafe visitors to player-owned ports being speechless
  
• Cleaned up some dirt in Jasce's throne room
  

[h2]MODDING[/h2]

• Added Actor.useAIevenWhenControllable (probably will be buggy)
  
• Added new formula "m:locIsPort" that returns 1 if the nearest or current Location is a port.
  
• Fixed crash when using "m:locWealth" or "m:favorWithLoc" when not near a port.
  
• "addTalkerToParty_temp" now retains RUIN Passives and ability ranks if in RUIN mode
  

For those of you with big screens - finally you can embiggen the cursor to match! There is a new checkbox in the options menu to double cursor size.



[h2]1.5.7[/h2]

• Added "Double Cursor Size" option
  
• Items dropped during boarding are now found as loot after battle no matter what happened to the ship it was on (sunk, captured, etc.)
  
• Luss now sells more Launch Buoys (new games only!)
  
• (Modding) Right before entering ports, DialogNodeOverrides for "tryEnterPort" are now checked
  
• (Modding) Ctrl+Z in build mode now undoes only one terrain change, unless you hold the key for >0.65s.
  
• (Modding) Fixed crash when applying SpawnData via a SpecialSpawn
  

Since v1.5.5, casting has been interrupted any time a Counter or Critical passive would potentially trigger. Time to fix that and a few other small things!

[h2]v1.5.6[/h2]

[h3]FIXES[/h3]

• Fixed Counter or Critical passives interrupting casting whenever you are hit by an effect
  
• Pirate spawn rate is now greatly increased while player has a "Defeat Pirates" quest
  
• Fixed AI sometimes becoming invisible when struck by Counter Warp and Shield Bash
  
• Fixed Counter Push not triggering on friendly fire
  

[h3]MODDING[/h3]

• Text in fields with dropdown lists (such as TriggerEffect IDs) can now be autocompleted by pressing Tab or Shift+Tab