Wooden Ocean News

6/7/2022
7.0 Undercity

New Features:
Undercity is now in. (no quests yet)
Knowledge chests are now in. (these are hidden chests throughout
the game that can only be seen if violet has at least 11-15
knowledge level)
Added tier 4 and tier 5 realism gear. (the blacksmith that forges
this gear is extremely rare and can only be found in the infinite
hotel)
New tier of hallways added to Infinite Hotel. (these are
extremely rare)
Added 3 giant crystals to Frozen Ocean. (this was done
in honor of the Chaz)

Balancing:
Increased knowledge level requirements by 33%.
Nerfed and renamned radiation's half life spells.
Slightly lowered enemy defense component to gravity spells.
Luck now slightly increases from leveling. (level 100 doubles
base luck)
All ghost soldiers now come with an accessory unique to them,
which gives +25% to all stats and +25% to attack. (this only
applies to new playthroughs)
Increased accuracy of ghost soliders by 10%.
Increased base attack stat for ghost soldiers by 50%.
Lowered base spirit stat for ghost soldiers by 25%.
Buffed most 2h realism weapons. (this was done to offset the
multiplicative bonus from wearing a realism shield)
Increased weight to monstrous bow and made it no longer golem
specific.

Misc:
Added failsafe to exp reductions.
Fixed the Aim skill.
Changed music to Frozen Ocean.
Slightly lowered volume to stairs, doors, and chests.

3/20/2022
v6.3.2 Misc

Balancing:
Rebalanced NG+:
NG+1 = -90% to all stats with x100 EXP gained.
NG+2 = -99% to all stats with x10,000 EXP gained.
NG+3 = -99.9% to all stats with x1,000,000 EXP gained.
PoB 15-20 now gives an additional demonic shard. (old saves can double
dip)

Misc:
Fixed bug that stopped talents from transferring to NG+. (old NG+
saves will receive 15 talent points to compensate loss talents)
Adjusted psychology formula for NG+. (enemies are now less likely
to run)
Fixed ghost from leaving party.
Silence now affects all elements. (except for psychic)
Spirit now properly defends against all water spells.
Fixed Ghost Potion.
Fixed Quarter Life effect.
Fixed Devil Strike damage.
Fixed Ice Barrier activation.
Fixed a mapping issue in Katis Barracks.
Fixed "cold level 1" text from appearing.
Fixed dialog for Leon's quest.
Fixed pathing issue in PoB 19.

Lowered the UAH price of Wooden Ocean on steam by 90%. Russia will receive a discount when there's a change in leadership and a stop to the invasion.

Praise be to Ukraine and the Russians against the war.

2/12/2022
v6.3.1 Misc

New Features:
Added more NPCs to Undercity. (south side will reopen next month)

Balancing:
NG+ is now substantially more difficult. (older saves on NG+ will
receive a talent point for each level of NG+ they are on)
Greatly increased EXP bonus for NG+.
Doubled the exp penalties for levels after 200.
Omega Candy now costs and gives 10 times the amount.
Dead Candy now gives twice the amount.
Spell haste no longer affects warmups. (which was unintentionally
the case already) (new gear will arrive one day focused on warmups)
Greatly reduced amount of skills ghost soldiers use. (this requires
a new playthrough in order to take effect)

Misc:
Fixed combat dialog.
Fixed multiple party size issues.
Fixed enlightenment and true enlightenment.
Fixed encounter difficulty after leaving Golem's Hand.
Fixed mode 7 from showing up after battle in Final Forest.
Fixed Abstract Extractor from being completed infinitely.
Fixed a few enemy only skills from being learned.
Unknown Force now properly affects all allies.
Fully Known Purpose now properly affects all allies.
Fixed movement speed when leaving Red Temple.
Removed ghost party member for a late game scene.
Last level now retains its battle music after bosses.
Fixed environmental effect for extreme darkness.
Fixed single target Earth spell damage.
Fixed damage on Hydroga.

1/1/2022
v6.3 Erudition

New Features:
AP can now be used to directly improve a character. (there
are 7 upgrades to choose from with 5 tiers each)
Increased stat limits by 1 digit.
Increaseed max level from 999 to 99999.

Balancing:
Reduced cost to respec skills by 75%.
Fire elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to low temperatures.
Ice elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to high temperatures.
Dark elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to low visibility.
Holy elemental party members are now immune to extreme
brightness.
Earth elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to humidity.
Water elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to arid. (this was originally referred to as dryness)
Wind elemental party members are now slightly resistant
to clutter.
Thread and psychic elemental party members are now slightly
resistant to environmental romanticism.
Tripled environmental buildup for high visibility skills.
High visibility now decays back to area's visibility. (this
regression is 5 times stronger if the room is too bright)
Temperature now decays back to area's temperature.

Misc:
Fixed long health bars when solo.
Fixed golem not leaving party when outside of signal range.
Removed Chaos Castle prototype. (it'll return when it's ready,
which won't be for a while)