Catacomb Kids News

Not a whole lot of changes - mostly bug fixes and such. I did add a post-death preview thing that you can enable in Options > Gameplay, however! It's off by default, because I'm unsure of the impact it might have on performance, but I think it's pretty neat!

New

• Added a "death replay," if you press up/down to hide the results screen after dying. It may have an significant impact on performance, so it's disabled by default. It can be enabled in options > gameplay.
  

Changes

• Added 5-frame invincibility period after being hit
  

Fixes

• Crash: DoAdd:2:Undefined Value in "obj_chest_normal_Other_13"
  
• Crash: Changing from windowed/fullscreen on the kid select menu
  
• Crash: floor argument 1 incorrect type (undefined) in "gen_map_features_details"
  
• Crash: When the tank dies from acid damage
  
• Crash: "unit_pickup" crash when disarmed enemies attempt to pick up weapons
  
• Crash: "voice_play" and "voice_init" crashes...I think. I hope.
  
• Bug: Spellbooks as starting items for custom kids have the wrong graphic color in the spell learning menu when used
  
• Bug: Standing on boulders on top of elevators causes clipping and strange behaviour
  
• Bug: Shopkeepers sometimes sell "[Burning]" equipment
  
• Bug: Ogos sometimes spawn with "[Burning]" weapons
  
• Bug: Grumbuls spawned in during the tank fight are sometimes stuck in the ground
  
• Bug: Spellbooks appear as the wrong color when spawned on custom kids
  
• Bug: Springs still bounce things away even when held and stown away
  

0.2.0d fixes some things, and also brings forward the changes from 0.2.0c to Linux and Mac

Changes

• Increased range of teleport spell
  
• Breakthrough busts locked doors and pushes moving blocks out of the way
  

Fixes

• Crash: "Trying to set a surface target that does not exist" when changing window size during level gen
  
• Crash: "obj_torch_Step_0"
  
• Bug: Repairing weapons above "good" quality reducees their quality to "good"
  
• Bug: Charge stars in walls no longer react to being hit
  
• Bug: Tiles that form the reaper room don't appear on the map in the pause screen
  
• Bug: Map information is lost upon alt+tabbing, window losing focus while fullscreened, switching between fullscreen/windowed mid-game, etc.
  As long as you pause before doing any of these things, that should no longer happen: Current "fog of war" information is now saved every time you pause.
  
• Bug: Can still get stuck in walls with Breakthrough
  

Changes

• All unique weapons (soul, wrench, etc) now effectively have the "durable" trait
  
• Removed durability cap from broken blade traps
  

Fixes

• Crash: "gen_map_features_start" when no start location is found
  
• Crash: "anim_bowshot2"
  
• Bug: Grumbuls adds don't properly spawn in the tank fight
  
• Crash: "obj_snow_deep_Alarm_0"
  
• Bug: Twins fight loops forever
  

Out on Windows only for now. Mac + Linux coming later in the week.

A quick bugfix build plus some changes!

The new rewards are much rarer in this build than in the last build - which is intentional - but they might be a little too rare now. I'm still tweaking the balance of their spawn frequency so just keep that in mind! I want them to be not littering the first floor but also not once-every-ten runs, and I haven't hit that sweet spot yet.

Anyway here's them notes:

Changes

• Heavenly weapons are no longer indestructible, now degrading to excellent after use
  
• Very slightly reduced quality of items from soul chests
  
• No longer alerted to lava by dangersense when immune to fire
  
• Changed appearance of stone platforms in the Upper Dungeon
  
• Reduced range of sound from killing humanoid enemies
  
• Soul chests combine their total soul count when they touch one another
  
• Slightly increased range of soul-gathering on soul-chests
  
• Soul-chests now must be touched before they start absorbing souls
  
• Made device more durable - no longer destroyed by fire or water
  
• Added unstable cold burst effect
  
• Can now pounce onto climbing ladders and ledges again
  

Fixes

• Reward type items spawn far too frequently, too numerously, and in the wrong places
  
• Certain premade rooms that disallow verticality spawning break level progression
  
• Disappearing blocks disallow nearby ladders even when they're behind walls
  
• Shifting barriers can spawn in places that block off adjacent passages when flipped
  
• Shifting barriers in premade rooms spawn in the wrong place when the room is mirrored
  
• Unaligned text in death summary screen
  
• Crash when selling or piping potions partially identified with square bracketed tag items in their name
  
• Powered arm spams messages when carrying a full battery while still having charges left in the arm
  
• Crash with obj_goo_bottle_Destroy_0
  
• 1-height corridors sometimes force humanoids to crouch when climbing down from a ladder
  
• Climbing down into spikes as a pathfinder or cartographer deals damage as though falling into them
  
• Can use Breakthrough to jump outside of the level's bounds
  
• Prosthetic arms don't draw as the correct color on the in-game sprite
  
• Slimes kinda spaz out on corpses in spikes
  
• Lava drips can spawn on death blades, freezing them
  
• Blessings and certain amulet abilities block energy when active like trances
  
• Stowing an item while a hated dagger is already stown makes the dagger stop existing
  
• Crash when eating things while the statistic for number of things eaten is uninitialized
  
• Gills from fishanha meal do nothing
  
• Horizontal moving blocks get stuck over solid tiles
  
• CPU players in vs mode spawn in weeeeird places
  
• Going directly from one transition stage to another from shops still increments the floor count
  
• Cold descent transition stage doesn't have its frozen door or fog of war style transition
  
• Empty bottles have no name when being sold
  
• Crash when blinking in versus mode
  

• 4 New Boons!
  
  
  
  • Weapon Master
    
  • Living Weapon
    
  • Breakthrough
    
  • Spider Spin
    
  
  
• Completely rewrote level generator
  
• Completely re-made Normal Bear fight
  
• Added two new weapons, dropped by Normal Bear
  
• Added collectible learning points
  
• Added collectible blessing items
  
• Bunch of new premade rooms
  
• New type of treasure chest
  

• Raised followers retain weapon skills, boons, and spellcasting abilities
  
• Grumbuls no longer spawn with amulets, gorhounds, or small turrets in the Grumbul Tank fight
  
• If a player with undead followers dies, the followers will reassign themselves to any player who comes near that also knows Raise Dead
  
• Weapon's status effects only apply when an attack deals damage
  
• Grumbuls in the Grumbul Tank arena no longer spawn with amulets of any kind
  
• Completely re-made the Normal Bear boss
  
• Regenerate now makes slimes multiply
  
• New flame visual effect
  
• New "zapped" visual effect
  
• Made dipper effects last longer
  
• Decapitated enemies who aren't immune to bleeding will bleed out now
  
• Reduced damage frequency of acid
  
• Completely re-made the Encyclopedia
  
• Added the ability to specify potion, spellbook, and grenade types on custom kids
  
• Can now jump up to 1 tile higher by holding up when leaping out of whater
  
• Amulet of Force now slightly pulls usable items towards you when fully realized
  
• Campfires can now bake nearby things, as long as the food isn't directly on the fire
  
• More things cause detectable noise now - like being hit, bear-traps snapping shut, corpses falling, and weapons clashing
  
• Can now roll by sprinting while crouched
  
• Unstable plague now produces many fewer flies
  
• Increased drop rate of fishanha corpses
  

• Swarm Form is broken
  
• Grapple breaks if the thrower dies mid-throw
  
• The same items sometimes persistently appear across multiple floors
  
• Disowned player followers remain persistent across floors in co-op
  
• Crash if a corpse currently being looted is destroyed by plague blight or some other means
  
• Lightning Strike (Chain Lightning + Air-Dash multi-cast) sometimes places the player in walls
  
• Reaper deactivates upon leaving the view during certain attacks
  
• Water isn't spawning properly
  
• "fx_sound" surface crash
  
• Byat eye trails never disappear sometimes
  
• Typo "You knows [...]" when looking at oneself
  
• Bear traps draw at the wrong depth
  
• Bear traps continually re-attach to large enemies after falling off
  
• Dangersense only grants a speed boost when traveling to the right
  
• Orbis Malus orbs are affected by status effects
  
• Crash when using Break on arrow turrets
  
• Crash related to fx_sound
  
• Crash related to obj_creature_handle
  
• Tinkerbot weapons don't persist between floors
  
• Reaper can consume keys necessary for progress
  
• Fur Hoods and Coats prevent heat loss entirely instead of slowing it
  
• Crab's skittering sound continues to play even when it shouldn't
  
• One player's pause menu doesn't draw when both players pause in co-op
  
• Raising the corpse of a dead co-op player erases their traits
  
• Controller still rumbles for players using keyboard controls
  
• Crash when backing out of "enchant equipment" shop menu when equipment is all enchanted already
  
• Crash when tracking tunnel doorways
  
• Arrows hit walls immediately when fired up or down while too near to a wall
  
• Can no longer press esc to back out of starting a game, or move the selection left/right after a character has been selected
  
• Spell-dealers now have the proper text for the "Slow" and "Haste" spells
  
• Fixed bug with fire sound effect continuing after explosions
  
• Using poet's Tome ability as a spell while also having incantation causes the tome to always cast its charged version, even as a non-wordsmith
  
• Tinkerbot stops animating when heavy-lifted
  
• Gamepad input doesn't work in single player character select menu if the menu was entered via keyboard
  
• Boulders on pressure pads repeatedly press them instead of holding them down
  
• Sometimes get stuck to ceilings with the sticky feet meal
  
• Tinkerer's class ability was named different things in different places