Telepath Tactics Liberated News

Greetings, tactics fans! It's been another month, and you know what that means: it's time for another update!

This month sees a lot of bug fixes, controller improvements, new proc gen equipment variations, new tools for campaign creators, and more. Let's get into the changes:


- in gamepad controls, rather than duplicating the left trigger's zoom function, the right trigger is now an automatic "End Turn" button.

- the game now automatically repositions the gamepad cursor when auto-panning the camera during in-battle dialogue.

- a Stone Golem throwing a character onto a space occupied by an object with "flying" passability now produces a context-dependent effect: if the character is an ally, they are thrown on top of the object as normal; but if the character is not an ally, they will now be thrown into the object instead for collision damage (and--if the object is spiked--further spike damage as well)!

- helms can now get modifiers as part of the procedural generation process!

- boosted the heat and cold resistance modifiers from insulated armor from 15% to 25% each.

- boosted the light and shadow resistance modifiers from lead-lined armor from 15% to 25% each.

- doubled the morale effect of Beautiful weapons and armor from +1 to +2.

- new possible modifier for especially high-quality weapons and armor: Gorgeous. Grants the wearer morale +4 while equipped.

- new tag type supported: Immunity. Grants status effect immunity to the tagged unit.

- reduced aggression coefficient for the Greedy AI profile.

- the game now checks for duplicate tags when generating a new skill progression for a character upon promoting or reclassing, preventing characters from reacquiring tags they already possess.

- fixed: traps and holds were not interrupting self-move skills (like the cavalier's Charge attack) as intended.

- fixed: gamepad controls were no longer functioning properly in the shop tutorial.

- fixed: the gamepad would sometimes be locked out of movement during deployment due to an internal failure to clear dialogue triggered at the start of turn 0.

- fixed: music cross-fading was not reliably playing tracks at the correct volume.

- fixed: the game could sometimes throw a range error during character promotions.

- fixed: the game would throw a null error trying to store achievement stats if not connected to Steam.

- fixed: it was possible to click another character and select them mid-combat animation, thereby messing up the game's tracking of who the current character was and causing the original attacker to get another action.

- fixed: ranged attackers could sometimes counterattack after being shoved into water or lava.

- fixed: swimming onto a land tile with a trap would not trigger the trap.

- fixed: Unity's built-in lighting system would screw up when too many lights were casting on the same object (typically in maps with lava tiles).

- fixed: the game was awarding victory spoils twice for battles with a built-in aura reward.

- fixed: the game wasn't picking portraits for promoted generic units correctly.

- fixed: the status effect immunity popup text was misformatted.

- fixed: on lower AI settings, the game was actively valuing lethal blows lower than non-lethal blows (as opposed to merely not valuing them more highly).

- fixed: on lower settings, the AI would not consider lethal blows against destructible objects a viable move at all.

- fixed: lead-lined armor was providing heat and cold resistance instead of light and shadow resistance.

- fixed: skills like Overheat could drop a character's energy into the negatives.

- fixed: destroying fire did not remove its environmental damage effect from the space.

- fixed: when fire was spawned in front of elevated terrain, its smoke particles would aggressively clip through the terrain.

- fixed: flying characters who had been Gravity-Spiked into water or lava and then swam back onto land would reemerge at the wrong elevation.

- fixed: in rare instances, 2D particles could cause the game to throw a null error.

- fixed: the game was inappropriately failing to give stone golems the tag that reduces the cost for Shove 2, and was instead giving it to them as an invalid skill at level 2.

- fixed: skills, masteries, and other things learned at specific levels (such as Book of Power mastery or the Assassin's Leap skill) would get reintroduced into a character's skill progression upon promotion, leading to that character learning a duplicate of that thing upon reaching level 2 of their promoted class.

- fixed: characters' steps taken would be reset to 0 upon promoting mid-turn in battle.

- fixed: if the skills bar was set to a character's second page of skills and they were thrown into water or lava, the game would still display their second (now blank) page of skills upon selecting them, making it impossible to command them to swim.

- fixed: the game was not recognizing player-placed Caltrops as traps for purposes of warning the player about moving their own units into them.

- fixed: proc gen characters in classes that normally have two skills at level one would start off missing their second level-one skill if they had Motivate.

- fixed a typo in the class requirements for proc gen bowmen caused the game to only select characters with a positive psy growth for the class instead of a positive strength growth, leading to many proc gen bowmen developing very little strength.

- fixed: Trade, Twirl, and Juxtapose worked on objects, not just characters. The game now gives you a pop-up message explaining why it didn't work if you try this.

- fixed: Trade worked on enemies, not just teammates. The game now gives you a pop-up message explaining why it didn't work if you try this.

- fixed: if a character attempted to use a self-move skill like Stick-and-Drag or Pull while subject to a Hold effect, it would leave the attacker in place while telling the game they were in the process of moving, eventually freezing the game as it waited for expected character movement to complete.

- fixed: when using a Book of Power in a cut scene, the user's already-open character screen would not auto-update with their new stats, skills, or class name following the promotion.

- fixed: the game would cease to display the effects of morale in the character screen if morale-altering equipment temporarily pushed the total value above 10 or below -10.

- fixed in 1.047a: characters ending a battle while swimming would have their movement type appear as swimming during deployment for the next battle.

- fixed in 1.047a: - fixed an error in the way the game checked for level-specific skills in the progression which could cause a freeze upon promoting certain characters.

- fixed in 1.047a: cross-fading music during promotions was not behaving as intended, leaving two tracks playing simultaneously.

- fixed in 1.047a: cross-fading music was causing the new track to play too quietly.

- fixed in 1.047a: faded-out music could unexpectedly start playing again during scene transitions.

- fixed in 1.047a: the game was reconnecting and spawning a brand-new instance of the Steamworks manager class every time the player returned to the title screen.

- fixed in 1.047a: level-ups and promotions produced by items used via a character screen from within reserve supplies menu would not "stick."

- fixed in 1.047a: the game wasn't accounting for the dodge bonus granted by tall grass when displaying attack accuracy upon mousing over an attack tile.

- fixed in 1.047a: the AI wasn't accounting for the dodge bonus granted by tall grass when weighing different attack options.


And finally, loads of fixes and improvements for campaign creators!

- new skill added to the engine: Mind Domination. It's essentially Mind Control, except Enthralled has a base 100% chance to take effect.

- new skill added to the engine: Mega Charge. Covers one extra space of ground and has 2x 75% chance to stun. Cavaliers have a new, corresponding animation which matches the longer charge distance.

- new skill added to the engine: Grappler Stance. Creates a Hold on a single adjacent space.

- skills which create Holds can now be targeted on spaces occupied by other characters.

- new script action supported: AddStock. Programmatically adds stock to an existing shop in the scene. Lasts until the scene ends.

- objective reticles may now be placed and removed using a character name (or ID[] tag) instead of just x and y coordinates.

- RemoveSpawn may now take the loadID parameter "Deployment" in proc gen maps to remove procedurally generated deployment spots.

- the game now recognizes Health Left and Energy Left as stats for most stat-related script actions.

- new supported text sprite: Time.

- you can now assign a percentage spawn chance to all army and object groups for proc gen maps in the map editor.

- the game now takes minimum distance rules into account when randomly placing objects and characters via SpawnUnit using -1 , -1 coordinate parameters.

- characters created with the character creator now have an appropriate babble voice set assigned to them.

- new reply type supported, cut scene only: Next Frame. Ends the current dialogue and proceeds to the next frame of the cut scene.

- new AI tag: AreaPreference. Alters the AI's calculated value for moves in which the tagged character ends their move in the named Area. You can use to nudge particular AI characters toward choosing moves that place them in specific areas of the battlefield; or alternatively, to dissuade them from pursuing moves in certain areas.

- updated usable skill icons with the new Mind Domination and Mega Charge icons.

- fixed: "duplicate dialogue branch" functionality was not working correctly in the dialogue editor.

- fixed: moving a branch downward within a dialogue tree would produce a range error.

- fixed a null error in the map editor when loading a map with a global lighting condition as its first condition.

- fixed: the Protect Char condition was not working on destructible objects.

- fixed a range error when cycling through permitted integers using a number picker in wrap-around mode via the "previous" button.

- fixed: the game did not clear the New Roster scene tag when hitting New Scene in the cut scene editor, resulting in an already-open scene's new roster carrying over to the new scene as well.

- fixed: the character creator could roll up generic units with morale above zero (i.e. neutral).

- fixed a bug in the game's battlefield generation logic that was causing counterattack-possessing objects like Spiked Barricades and Fire to cluster within two spaces of the player's deployment spots.

- fixed: the game's battlefield generator could spawn enemies on top of traps.

- fixed: players could click on the main text box during character selection branches of dialogue and it would progress to the next branch of the tree with no character selected.

- fixed: it was still possible for the AI to make proc gen spearmen use Trade all the time.

- fixed: when renaming a proc gen character, the proc gen character's generated dialogue would have their old name baked in and left unchanged.

- fixed: a typo in the game's tile data meant that the game couldn't find tiles surrounded on three diagonal corners by cave tiles and would simply leave a hole in maps where such tiles appeared.

- fixed: the game would not recognize premade characters for purposes of the AddPortrait script actions if the game hadn't already saved loaded characters at least once.

- fixed: typing the letter 'L' in the cut scene editor would still trigger the game's "save log" functionality.

- new in 1.047a: updated in-game documentation to more clearly explain what each level of the AIHandicap script action does.

- new in 1.047a: the map editor now supports loading and saving a discrete defeatScene attribute for battles, allowing you to easily set a next scene dependent on the player's defeat without using conditions.

- new script action in 1.047a: SetDefeatScene. Sets the defeatScene attribute to a different scene for the current battle.

And that's about all for this month!


[h2]What's next?[/h2]

I've been continuing to work very hard on Together in Battle, adding content, improving balance, and fixing bugs. TIB is already garnering some very nice reactions from players--I'll just highlight this one, which I particularly love:



Pretty awesome, no?

As always, I remain incredibly grateful for your support. I'll see you in the next one, folks! ;)


Yours in tactics,

Craig

Greetings, tactics fans! After many years of work, the follow-up game to Telepath Tactics is now available to play on Steam early access!

Together in Battle is a procedural team management strategy RPG that follows the events of Telepath Tactics. Here's the premise:

You’ve come to the island kingdom of Dese with a mission: enter the gladiatorial games, find loyal fighters, and train. But things grow complicated when a sinister conspiracy threatens to throw Dese itself into chaos. Fight deep, turn-based tactical battles; manage resources; navigate random events; watch your characters grow together via a brand-new, emergent social sim system. Your characters, the relationships they form, and the trials you face together will be different every time you play!

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You can expect the same killer combat mechanics as you saw in Telepath Tactics Liberated, but with more resource management; new in-depth morale, mood, and character relationship systems; random events with multiple possible outcomes; and a blend of bite-sized proc gen arena battles and hand-designed side quest and plot fights.

Because it's in early access, Together in Battle is cheaper now than it will be upon final release. You can currently pick it up for $14.99, with an additional 10% discount for launch week.

Why not give it a try? I'm dying to hear your feedback! 😉


Yours in tactics,

Craig

Greetings, tactics aficionados! Last month's update was small due to how much time I was putting in getting Together in Battle ready for release. Even though TIB releases in just six days, I've decided to set aside some time to push another, larger update for TTL anyway just because I appreciate you all so much. 🙂

Without further ado, here are this month's improvements to the game, starting with AI!

- the AI now recognizes Fire as an environmental hazard it can shove enemy units into.

- the AI now recognizes that flying enemies won't take environmental damage from being shoved onto terrain that flyers can naturally pass over (like water, lava, or chasms).

- the AI now accounts for environmental damage when evaluating the danger of ending its move on a space.

- on the highest AI settings, the game now accounts for collision damage it can cause via knockback skills (i.e. smashing characters into walls, objects, or each other by using Shove, Kinetic Gust, Smash, Charge, etc.)

- the game AI no longer treats skill scripts as rendering a skill inherently useful even though the skill does no damage and imparts no status effects. (This keeps the AI from incessantly using skills like Juxtapose, Trade, and Twirl when it has no better moves.)

- fixed: the AI would simply never complete the turn of a character who wandered into a pressure trigger but didn't actually end up stunned or otherwise unable to act (e.g. from wandering into Caltrops).

- fixed: in some situations, it was possible for the AI to lock up at the start of its turn when BeforeTurn dialogue spawned.

- a major usability buff for the gamepad: attack-tile selection behavior has been rewritten so it now "snaps" to the closest attack tile based on the direction you pressed instead of just cycling through the attack tiles in an arbitrary order! This makes targeting attacks with the gamepad much quicker and more intuitive.

- slowed down the battlefield cursor when playing in gamepad mode to make it easier to avoid overshooting small movements.

- fixed: in gamepad mode, using the cancel ("B") button to exit the main menu after opening it during dialogue would result in the dialogue box not regaining focus.

- upon finishing deployment in a map with fog of war, the game now reveals tiles for the newly deployed characters automatically based on their Perception stat without you having to move them.

- fixed: dynamic palette-swapping during battle (e.g. changing colors when characters switch army allegiances) had been broken by version 1.0.45.

- fixed: it was possible to undo after using Swim.

- fixed an inconsistency in the code that was causing flying characters spawning on spaces with a fly-only object to spawn one elevation level lower than intended.

- fixed: the game had stopped fully dropping flying characters into water or lava when afflicted with the Heavy status effect.

- fixed: the game had stopped fully dropping levitating, land-based characters into water or lava when the Levitating status effect ended.

- fixed: characters being created from premade unit templates had their tags applied twice.

- fixed: the game was including destructible objects on targeted spaces as secondary characters for purposes of Heal and Attack barks, which could lead to situations where the character saying the bark could address the inanimate object by name (e.g. telling "Reeds" that they were going to be healed).

- fixed a bug in which incomplete fading out of dialogue babble sounds would cause subsequent sound effects played in the same channel to play at the wrong volume.

- fixed: upon changing scenes in the middle of a fade-out of music or a sound loop, if the scene transition finished before the fade-out did, the game would reset that sound's volume to the default and prevent the fade-out from finishing.

- fixed: the game would lock up when attempting to start a new game while not connected to Steam.

- fixed: space selector appeared in the top-left of the map, not aligned to any space, prior to the start of turn 0 in battle.

- fixed: victory fanfare could sometimes start playing before the appearance of the victory box at the end of battle.

- fixed: the game still displayed "-0" damage popups for skills that don't normally deal damage when those skills were used by the AI.

- fixed: the game was creating proc gen golem characters without assigning them the golem babble sound set.


Finally, we have some improvements specifically for campaign creators:

- new destructible objects are now available in-game: Thorn Vines, Ice Spikes, and Explosive Tree.

- Fire now deals ongoing environmental damage each turn a unit stands in it.

- the AddCondition script action now supports the Set Army Alliance condition.

- new stat supported by UnitsToList: Health Left. This automatically calculates the character's current health by deducting Damage from Health.

- new stat supported by UnitsToList: Energy Left. This automatically calculates the character's current energy by deducting Drain from Energy.

- shuffled the AIHandicap values around a bit to account for the AI's new capabilities. They are now 0: full intelligence. 1: disregards space safety. 2: disregards backstab. 3: disregards lethal hits. 4: disregards knockback. 5: disregards attack effectiveness. 6: doesn't rotate to avoid backstabs. 7: doesn't prioritize healers or 'Protect Char' units. 8: actively avoids backstabbing. 9: disregards counterattacks and on-death attacks from enemies.

- fixed: the -NAME- and -CHAR2- special characters would remain unchanged if the target unit had no name. These now display its class name in that circumstance.

- fixed: destructible objects in proc gen maps were being created with a blank facing instead of a facing of "None", which in turn would interact with the game's logic in such a way that attacks from assassins against them would be counted as sidestabs.


And that's about it! Together in Battle now comes out in early access in just six short days. I'm going to be primarily focused on developing that for the time being, but I'll still be keeping an eye on the TTL forums for any bugs or other issues that need addressing. Thanks once again for all your support! It means a lot to me. 🙂


Yours in tactics,

Craig

Hey folks! Just a small update on versions 1.0.45a through 1.0.45e here. I've been uploading these sub-versions as I run into and fix a few unusual edge cases with gamepad controls (almost all of them involving hitting the Start button to call up the main battle menu at unexpected times).

As a consequence of continued development on Together in Battle, some other improvements to the game engine accompany these gamepad fixes:

- golems now have a short "Stomp" animation that is used for self-targeting skills like Engine Boost and Self Repair. This speeds up the use of these skills considerably.

- gasul now have dedicated Shove and Pull animations, with shove doubling as a casting animation for most psy skills.

- TTL now supports looping pixel art animations for destructible objects! As the (so far, one and only) example of this used in the engine, TTL now has an animated Fire destructible object. Walking into (or more likely, being shoved or thrown into) fire causes 15 heat damage; attacking fire from melee causes the attacker to receive a 10 burn damage. (Note that Fire isn't used in the main campaign; it's purely a new toy for player-created campaigns.)

- improved the appearance of lit tent objects.

- fixed: tall grass objects did not actually apply a dodge bonus to units standing in them.

- various improvements to fog of war: the game no longer displays the names of skills being used under fog of war; the blinking status effect displayer no longer appears when the corresponding unit is under fog of war; impact sparks, static visual effects, pop-up text and animated health/energy bars no longer appear over spaces covered by fog of war when the AI attacks scenery or another army. In general, fog of war now legitimately obscures everything about AI character actions except for the sounds, allowing you to guess based on audio cues.

- the LightBackground action now works for backgrounds in battle as well.

- created a new Crowd Murmuring sound effect.

- reduced the volume on the Rain and Wind sound loops, preserving the old high-amplitude versions as Rain Loud and Wind Loud.

- fixed: characters changing classes did not adopt the default skill animation of their new class's sprite set.

- fixed: the game would not trigger OnVictory dialogue for any army that was not player-controlled.

- fixed: surrendering would not trigger OnVictory dialogue for any enemy armies.

- fixed: item button menus for the rightmost items in the reserve supplies screen had their positions reset, requiring me to once again go in and reposition them by hand so they wouldn't go offscreen.

- fixed: music volume would reset to a level multiple times higher than the global music volume level under some circumstances.

- fixed: units would sometimes fail to become tinted when spawning after deployment under alternate global lighting conditions.

- added an invariantculture argument to game's various float.Parse() calls to avoid issues with the game failing to parse decimals for European users.

Greetings, tactics fans! February may be the shortest month, but as you'll soon observe, I've been incredibly busy racking up a ton of welcome changes to Telepath Tactics Liberated.

This month sees lots of small graphical improvements; a lot of fixes and improvements relating to the UI (with a special focus on gamepad support); new AI capabilities; miscellaneous bug fixes; an improved Disarmed status effect; and lots of new tools for campaign creators. Let's get into all the changes!

First up, we have graphical improvements, equipment usage by the AI, and more:

-- adjusted the height of the Pyro, Cryo, Shadow, and Light Blast explosion animations to properly align with their projectiles.

-- fixed a graphical glitch involving the left- and right-facing visual effect animations for Light Breath and Light Breath 2.

-- cleaned up the graphic for the 2D particle "Sparkle."

-- finally fixed that annoying bug where stray 2D particles could end up "stuck" at the top-left corner of the battlefield.



-- improved the look of the game's rain particles in battle.

-- fixed: it was sometimes possible to see the "corners" of the weather particle emitter box in battle under certain conditions.

-- improved the shop tutorial; it is now nicer-looking, spread across two pages, and provides more relevant information.

-- the game now remembers if you've completed the shop tutorial and won't show it automatically on subsequent playthroughs.

-- fixed: things which caused a character to be instantly placed on a specific space in battle (e.g. undoing) could sometimes mess up that character's z-sorting.

-- the AI will now equip weapons, armor, and other items if its characters (a) have something equippable in their inventories and (b) they have the relevant equipment slot unused.

-- successfully switched the cut scene backgrounds over to an asset bundle streaming system. This sort of thing is supposed to reduce build times, and can theoretically help with memory management on more resource-limited systems.

-- improved background image compression; converted the background asset bundle to use chunk compression.

-- fixed: the Escape button would not act as a click on the report screen in cut scenes.

-- fixed: in the character screen in battle, you could start the process of giving an item to an adjacent character by selecting Give for an item, then immediately reopen the character screen, use or drop the item, and finally return to the battlefield and click the red give tile to give a pristine copy of that item to an ally.


There are a lot of gamepad improvements and fixes:

-- created sprites for the A, B, X, and Y gamepad buttons; integrated them into the engine as text sprites.

-- updated the game's various tutorials to now use gamepad button glyphs and instruct the player on gamepad-specific controls if it detects the player is using a gamepad (or playing on Steamdeck).

-- the game now uses "Press (A)" instead of "Click" for continue prompts in the dialogue menu and cut scene narration box when the player is using a gamepad.

-- fixed: the gamepad cursor was misaligned for the screenshake adjustment buttons in the settings menu while on the title screen or in battle.

-- fixed: the gamepad cursor had become misaligned for character screen elements while in cut scenes.

-- fixed: after using the start button to open the main menu in cut scenes, the game incorrectly treated game settings as the current menu for purposes of gamepad navigation.

-- fixed: the gamepad cursor could navigate to the "switch page" buttons in the reserve supplies screen even when they were invisible.

-- fixed undesirable gamepad cursor behavior when switching between dialogue branches with multiple replies and those without multiple replies within dialogue trees.

-- added gamepad controls for the options menu and settings screen in cut scenes.

-- added gamepad support to the info bar.

-- fixed: in cut scenes, gamepad focus would not be restored to custom menus when backing out of other gamepad menus.

-- made the options button selectable with the gamepad when in a custom menu.

-- fixed: the game treated invisible custom menu elements as selectable with the gamepad cursor.

-- fixed: gamepad controls for the report screen did not function properly in cut scenes.

-- fixed: upon returning to the title screen from a game, remaining on the screen in a submenu for the length of the intro movie while using gamepad controls would result in the game inappropriately pulling gamepad focus onto the main menu.


And finally, we have more goodies for campaign creators, including an overhaul of the Disarmed status effect:

-- the NewBackground script action now allows you to load backgrounds in battle! They will appear behind the battlefield.

-- new background added: Arena_Interior.

-- prettied up heart portrait particles.

-- the Run reply type now supports passing multiple parameters.

-- new script action: LevelUpArmy. Works like LevelUp, but it affects an entire army at once instead of just one character.

-- the skill editor now has a checkbox that can be used to toggle whether a skill is considered a weapon skill by the game for purposes of the Disarmed status effect.

-- the game can now distinguish between weapon-based skills and non-weapon-based skills, and will now prevent characters from counterattacking with weapon-based skills while subject to the Disarmed status effect even if they don't have a weapon explicitly in their inventory.

-- created a Disarmed icon; the game now displays the Disarmed status effect for the rest of the turn when an enemy is disarmed.

-- changed the Disarm skill's element from Mental to Slash, increased the base chance of success to 100%, changed the cost to 4 and made it end the turn.

-- new skill: Disarming Strike. Deals basic sword damage with a 60% chance to disarm the target; can be used once per turn and doesn't end the turn, but it costs 6 energy.

-- the spirit's Possess skill now causes the user to become Hidden until their next turn.

-- fixed: the game would strip Hidden status from attackers at the conclusion of an attack even if the skill they attacked with was the thing that gave them Hidden status to begin with.

-- fixed: the -ATTACKER- special character was inappropriately referencing the attack target instead of the attacker when used in skill scripts.

-- in skill scripts, the skill target is now treated as the triggering character and the user of the skill is now the secondary character.

-- new special character: -ROSTERNUM-. Gets changed to whatever the number of the current roster is.

-- fixed: head 12 in lissit portraits was missing data for mouth 8.

-- improved documentation of the LoadConv reply type.

-- fixed some outdated info in the in-game documentation relating to generate unit-type actions, specifically with respect to the first salary parameter.

-- fixed: a Wait action queued up after a WaitForDialogue action would cause the wait timer to run concurrently with the wait-for-dialogue condition; and if the wait timer counted down to zero before the dialogue finished animating, the game would proceed with executing actions anyway! The game now waits for dialogue to conclude if a WaitForDialogue action was executed before commencing the countdown for a subsequent wait timer.

-- fixed: SkillProgToList would not always generate the list in ascending numerical order of the level the skills are learned.

-- fixed: the game was not recognizing when a dialogue branch was marked for input text within PersistentDialogue.xml.

-- new script action: GenerateItemName. Causes the game to randomly generate a (hopefully) cool-sounding name for a unique weapon, then sets custom string _UniqueItemName with the name generated.

-- greatly improved documentation for the CreateUniqueItem script action.

-- fixed: a typo in the logic for CreateUniqueItem was causing it to disregard mandatory tags.

-- new script actions: ShowCalendarButton and HideCalendarButton, which can be used to toggle visibility on a button the player can use to examine the in-game calendar during cut scenes.

-- you can now scroll through characters in the character screen while within the army overview screen using the mouse wheel (or, if in gamepad mode, the shoulder buttons).

-- fixed: the reverse match method in CullListByList was not working properly.


Annnnd that's about all for now when it comes to TTL! I've been working extremely hard getting Together in Battle ready for its April 25th launch, as it has to be ready to go out to reviewers next month. It's been a real whirlwind of rounding up things that I've been putting off completing and then getting them good and done.

I really think you all are going to love Together in Battle; it has nearly everything that makes Telepath Tactics Liberated special, plus a much more open structure with a lot of latitude for player choice and (gasp) actual role-playing. This time, we've got loads of character customization via the in-game trainer, and tons of replayability via the...well, everything.

You see a lot of "strategy roguelikes" these days, but they're mostly just card games focused on short "runs." It's rare to get one that leans into providing a true long-form role-playing adventure, and pretty much unheard of to get one that's also a deep SRPG at its core. I think that makes TIB pretty special.

Anyway, enough of my blabbering--I have a game to prepare! See you all in a month or two. 😉


Tactically yours,

Craig