Wooden Ocean News

9/5/2024

9.2.4 Misc

Balancing:
Reduced the damage reduction of enemies
on harder difficulties:
Hard = 12.5%. (was 25%)
Nightmare = 25%. (was 50%)
Infinite Nightmare = 50%. (was 75%)
Bombs now do 50% less tech damage on hard
mode and above.
Golem now begins with 100ap. (was 10)
AP from Scholar and Doctorate now also
applies to Golem.

Misc:
Fixed trans event for Demon Door II.
Fixed trans event leading into Western Ocean.
Slightly improved Alex's sprite.
Fixed golem from gaining infinite AP when
entering mines.
Fixed Ghost Ship from infinitely gaining
levels if Ghost Ship level was over 100.
Fixed dialog and memory for waypoint quest.
Fixed Healing Coat from showing up in Archery.
Fixed learning Titan Cleave before learning
Golem Cleave.
Fixed Poetry of Bronze 26-30 from no longer
being accessible if PoB 25 was completed.
Properly named the pilot based Poetry of
Bronzes to 31 and 32.
Fixed Frozen Ocean encounters from black
screening on escape.
Fixed Poetry of Bloods from retaining debuffs
when teleporting.
Waypoint area now resets environmental effects.
Waypoint area now resets CC debuffs.
Adjusted the mode 7 script to allow maps to
go beyond 999. (since the map limit one will
day exceed the built in limit, decided to get
this out of the way now. let this one know if
any crashes occur)

Dev note: The harder difficulties were just
not fun to play on, especially infinite nightmare.
The damage reductions were simply too high. So
high, murdas were effectively forced to use bombs.

This has been fixed. Enemies are now easier to
kill, and bombs are no longer the only option.

8/31/2024

9.2.3 Hotfix

Balancing:
Increased hidden exp bonus of chapter 6 from
25% to 50%.

Misc:
Fixed hotel level, hotel equipment level,
and hotel workers from being deleted on NG+.
(previous saves received 50 hotel levels for each
NG+ up to NG+3)

8/24/2024

9.2.2 Improved Database

New Features:
Expanded size of Western Ocean. (this is
still being worked on) (a new area will be
made west of it)

Balancing:
Increased stats to chapter 5 demon by 25%.
(its health was increased by 50%)
Increased encounter strength of chapter 5
by 25%.
Increased encounter strength to the first
half of chapter 6 by 10-15%.

Misc:
Expanded the engine's skill limit, weapon
limit, and armor limit from 999 to 2000.
(if no issues come from this, then new
weapon types will eventually be made)
Fixed numerous typos in Lampless.
Fixed a minor mapping issue in Lampless.
Violet can no longer enter the ghostship
alone.

8/20/2024

9.2.1 Improved Robotics

New Features:
Shole now has unique victory lines.
Ghost soldiers can now learn erudition.

Balancing:
Epitaph, and the 2 tiers above it, are now
immune to romantic difficulty's debuff.
NG+ painting can no longer be seen on romantic.
Increased the initial exp given when entering
chapter 6. (this is retroactive)
Robots are now twice as hard to flinch.
Robots are now immmune to sleep and charm.
Psychic no longer applies confusion to robots.
Lightning and water can now apply confusion
to robots.

Misc:
Fixed pathing issue in Southern Undercity.
Fixed and buffed holy's ressurrection skills.
Fixed pathing issue in PoB 20.
Fixed Monstrous Bow from being unequipable.
Fixed Intricate Greatsword and Romantic
Greatsword from being able to use shields.
Fixed and strengthened Abstract Extractor boss.
Fixed infinite loop near Alchemist.

8/18/2024

9.2 Reflections of Decay

New Feature:
Chapter 7 is now in. (it's currently missing
its final scene)

Balancing:
Increased health of chapter 1 boss by 20%.
Increased stats to chapter 2 and 3 bosses by 10%.
Increased Shole's stats by 10%.
Slightly buffed Freewill.

Misc:
Fixed puzzles 26 and 27.
Military can no longer go below 0.
Heavily reduced weight of ship level
on Naval Support. (original amount was
so extreme that it seemed like a bug)
Enemies can no lnger transform after
death. (this was causing an exp issue)
Enemies on Romantic difficulty no longer
receive blessed.
Difficulties now properly buff or debuff
enemies.