Telepath Tactics Liberated News

Work continues on the new, secret content update; and next week, we'll be doing our second player campaign showcase! But in the meantime, here are some more fixes and improvements:

-- the game now applies wear and breakage to equipped items that directly grant non-attack skills. This means the game now supports limited-use items that grant non-attack skills (e.g. a kit that lets a character place traps a limited number of times, a horn that lets them summon a generic swordsman to their aid five times before breaking, etc.)

-- fixed: it was possible to undo after using a skill if the skill user missed their target.

-- fixed: the level-up screen displayed skills granted to a character by their equipment.

-- fixed: if a character knows a skill and equips an item which grants that skill, the character screen will no longer display two instances of that skill.

-- fixed: if a character already knows a skill naturally, learning it upon level-up will no longer give them a duplicate of that skill.

-- fixed a fatal error that could occur when the game attempted to adjust stats based on personality traits during the procedural character generation process.

-- fixed: the AI would dramatically undervalue moves in which healers healed themselves.

-- added a new parameter to the AddToList script action allowing entries to be added at specific list positions.

I'm working on a new content update for the game, but it's a bit technically complex so we're still a few weeks out from its release. In the meantime, though, here are some more bug fixes and improvements!

-- boosted the base experience given by attacking an enemy without killing from 10 to 12. This lowers the base number of non-lethal attacks to level up a character from 10 to 8.33 (not accounting for level differences, skill cost experience bonuses, and staling.)

-- fixed: skill cost was being double-counted when calculating experience gain, resulting in psy users gaining experience much faster than they should have relative to non-psy users.

-- fixed: the player wouldn't lose if their Camp was destroyed in battle.

-- fixed: due to a missing check, destructible objects with passability of flying were sinking into the ground when subjected to knockback.

-- fixed: BonusDmg tags on weapons (e.g. with Poisoned or Burning weapons) could duplicate during scene changes.

-- fixed some errors and inconsistencies in bonus damage calculation and previewing.

-- bonus damage is now broken out and displayed in skill tooltips.

-- fixed in 1.0.27a: recent changes caused bridges to sometimes spawn above barricades or other objects intended to sit on top of the bridge.

Just some small fixes and improvements this week:

-- the game now automatically adds move spaces back onto the screen after using a skill that a character can move after using without you having to click that character.

-- when damaging multiple units on the same space using an explosive attack, the game now properly times all the pop-up text so there isn't any overlap.

-- turned down the brightness of the white palette in character portraits to account for increased bloom settings in post-processing.

-- an improvement for the campaign creation suite: you can now reference characters by name in cut scenes even if they've never been loaded in a battle or added to a roster before!

-- added parabola animations out to 6 spaces.

-- fixed: suffering lethal damage from a trap would not immediately kill the afflicted unit unless there was an OnDeath skill triggered.

-- fixed: in some circumstances, move spaces could remain onscreen after a character died.

-- fixed: the step value of a move space would sometimes be displayed even when the mouse was not over any move spaces.

-- fixed: for multi-space knockback skills, the game would not recognize fall damage occurring before the final space of knockback.

-- fixed: non-flying characters on top of fly-only objects who moved normally onto an ordinary space would not have their elevation reset back to normal.

-- fixed: on the difficulty selection screen, selecting Observer, backing out, and then selecting a different difficulty would cause the actually chosen difficulty to retain Observer's experience scaling and access to Plot Armor.

-- fixed: loading a mid-battle save made before version 1.0.25 resulted in all item sacks currently on the battlefield being impassable to characters, preventing them from being grabbed.

Version 1.0.26a hotfixes:

-- fixed: the lines adding Emma and Sabrina to the player's roster at the start of the game had been removed for some reason. They are now added after the Adelbrae battle.

-- fixed: the MoveUnitBy action could lock up the game if the named unit wasn't found.

-- fixed: the console could throw unassigned value errors if used in a cut scene.

Greetings, tactics fans! This is the first of a new series to highlight some of the stellar custom campaigns from members of the Telepath Tactics Liberated community.

Kicking things off, we have Bohman's Kite Tricks from ManiaFig, a creative solo campaign that tasks you with controlling a single bowmaster and kiting the enemy to achieve victory. You'll have to manage his available actions, energy, inventory, traps, and positioning to succeed. I play through about 50 minutes of it here with commentary:

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Next month, I'll be selecting another wonderful campaign to showcase--but in the meantime, feel free to peruse the available campaigns over on the Telepath Tactics Liberated Workshop for yourself! (Or just browse and download new campaigns from in-game.)


--Craig

Hi folks! Some relatively small fixes and improvements for this week's patch as I gear up for the first monthly Player Campaign Showcase. Here are the changes:

-- the game now allows characters to stack multiple tags of the same type (e.g. Range Bonus or Bonus Damage).

-- defeating all enemies in Crypt Diving no longer ends the map early.

-- reduced the lighting intensity of self-lit objects to adjust to the overall increased bloom and color intensity of recent versions of the game.

-- spirits now cast a glow onto the battlefield. (Note that existing premade spirits will need to have their species reselected in the Character Creator in order to glow.)

-- updated the Guide with documentation on directly accessing and editing Special Stats for units: name, facing, coordinates, class name, and so on.

-- the engine now supports spawning units on the battlefield using script ID in lieu of load ID.

-- fixed: when initiating a player's turn immediately following an AI player's turn, if the game had found no viable moves for the AI army, the game would not have characters regain energy from resting.

-- fixed: using a Move skill to move directly onto a space containing an item sack would not cause the Grab button to cease being red.

-- fixed: attacks targeting Energy were also affecting maximum energy, including self-focus skills like Soul Suck.

-- fixed: damage dealt to characters through Energy underflow caused by Drain-style attacks did not cause the target to play a Hurt animation.

-- fixed: damage dealt to characters through Energy underflow caused by Drain-style attacks was not being counted towards the attacking player's score.

That's all for this update. I'll be posting the first Showcase in the next day or two; keep an eye peeled for it!