Spellmasons News

feature: On loop levels, half of the enemies are
immune for 1 turn.
This makes levels after the deathmason a better challenge

balance: make Necromancer class summon spells 30% cheaper
Thanks Antonio! and Expresso Depresso and others for feedback

balance: Temporarily remove bloodmason class
until he can be properly balanced.

improvement: Ally deathmasons now summon
blue portals which heal you if you walk through them instead of
hurt you like red portals do. (If you do not walk
through them, they still spawn allies)

fix: Prevent Deathmasons from health-sapping each other.
Thanks Antonio! for reporting this!

fix: Calamities not increasing health and stamina stat of enemies
Thanks Antonio! for reporting this!

fix: Spawn locations for deathmasons' brothers

fix: Cloned player blood cursed
also secretly blood cursed player without reporting in UI.
Thanks MeBeDerp for reporting this!

fix: Enemy priest resurrecting Player
and changing player's faction.
Thanks Ian for reporting!

fix: deathmasons teleporting to the same portal
causing them to overlap

UX: turn off player damage sfx for timemason
so it's not annoying

UI: Add TIMEMASON_DAMAGE_AMOUNT to timemason card
UI: Fix size of mana badge
modified by usage when large in card-inspect
UI: Limit uiZoom lower bound to 0.1
Thanks Hagbard from Discord for reporting the issue

balance: Increase difficulty of early levels
balance: Make Ancients cost more in the level budget for spawning
balance: Increased damage of poison spell from 10 to 15 damage per turn

content: Add Mage Classes
content: Revise per level upgrades to be stats points rather than perks
content: Add 2nd stage of Deathmason battle
content: Change to lvl up / experience system instead of scroll pickups

performance: Add perf option to disable emitters
Thanks to @XzeroAir on Discord

art: Fix target similar and connect lines
animating father than they should
UI: Make level up progress bar in tooltip
UI: Add victory stats to class selections

fix: Bug where ancients
spend mana per target instead of per cast
which caused their mana to go negative at times.
Thanks @Expresso Depresso for finding this bug!
fix: Undesirable smoke on pickups
fix: Priest should resurrect ANY dead unit into their faction
not just corpses of allies

- balance: Prevent deathmason from purifying self
- balance: change decoy health from 20 to 70
- Thanks Krowbar for this suggestion!

- UI: Cast Range perk displayed as % instead of meaningless number
Thanks Krowbar for this suggestion!
- menu: Show mod contents in description
- UI: Add mod name to cards

- fix: Make lastWill immediate so it doesn't
cause desync on multiplayer
- fix: mods registering multiple times
which messed up probabilities (especially with pickups)
- fix: Prevent allowing rejoin to failed game
by changing difficulty.
Thanks Krowbar for finding this bug!
- fix: Prevent Split players from being permanently
split when they die
Thanks to sJacob for pointing this bug out!

- Feature: Smart Targeting
Improve AI targeting so that AI battles are more realistic.
AI units will not all focus on the closest enemy and overkill them
making AI battles take forever.

- balance: Make summon spells cost less mana
- balance: Keep Capture Soul spell after use
Capture Soul no longer disappears from your spells when used
- balance: When Ancients spawn, spawn more of them.
- balance: Higher difficulties now make harder enemies spawn on earlier levels and allows for spawning more enemies than it would otherwise

- i18n: Add German translation from Feilz.

- accessibility: Touchpad move keypress support
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1618380/discussions/0/3810656323972884104/

Feel free to join our Discord to let me know what you think of the update! Spellmasons Discord

Rene's Gimmicks adds 5 new spells:

• Burning Rage
  
• Caltrops
  
• Sadism
  
• Summon Trap
  
• Vampire Bite
  

Thank you @Edeusz from Discord for your awesome mod!

This update also adds
- Difficulty options in multiplayer
- A fix for Target Arrow allowing summoning out of bounds (Thanks @Monarch for reporting this)
- Fix Fast Forward from Wode's Grimoire for some advanced spell combinations