Wooden Ocean News

10/9/2024

9.5.4 Misc

New Features:
Created 3 new enemies for tier 0.

Misc:
Improved some early game dialog.
Fixed prepare arcane from showing up whenever Alex
did certain callouts.

10/8/2024

9.5.3 Hotfix

Misc:
Reverted state limit to 999. (solved immunity issue
involving new status effects)
Enemies no longer crash when they enrage.

Dev note: pushing the engine past 999 states caused
extreme discombobulation. Working in the 999 state limit
will bring some challenges in the coming years, but they
can be overcome. There is still some room for new states,
as well as many states that aren't being used at all.

10/8/2024

9.5.2 Misc

New Features:
Added 7 new late game enemies.
Increased database limits for enemies, troops, states,
common events, and animations from 999 to 3000.

Balancing:
Ogre Virus is now Silicon Ogre.
Balance is now Expressive Dancer.
Additional enemies now cast acid and arcane spells.
Some enemies now cast entropy and expression spells.
Buffed health to both librarian bosses by almost 50%.

Misc:
Fixed various state issues involving silicon, acid, and arcane.
(these issues were caused by a long ago deleted system that
was still providing immunity to those states) (all future states
will placed after 999)

Edit: Reverted back to 9.5.1. The database increase to states caused a commonly occuring crashing bug. 9.5.3 hotfix will be later today.

10/7/2024

9.5.1 Improved Bank

New Features:
Bank now has a withdraw all option.
Some enemies are now able to panic if
covered in acid.
Some previous enemies are now able to cast
acid and arcane spells.
Created new graphics for blue worshipers,
prophets, flying skulls, and some dragons.
Alex no longer comments on enemies preparing
attacks if knowledge is 30 or above.

Balancing:
Doubled weight of crime on bank's interest
rate when bank account is over 10 million.
Buffed Abomination. (33% more health and
now attacks twice per turn)
Abomination now gives 20% less exp and gold.
Facial dissolve now has a secret 50% chance
to blind.
PoM now shows up at town level 7 instead of
town level 6.
Slightly to moderately buffed most of the
old arena bosses.

Misc:
Fixed ghost town buildings from sometimes
locking players inside.
Fixed Giant Slash from attacking multiple
times.

10/5/2024

9.5 New Elements

New Features:
Added 5 new elements with 170 new spells.
Added 8 new talents.
Created new PoM accessories.
Created new Ghost Potions.

Balancing:
Increased Ghost Potion debuff from 20% to 25%.
Organic enemies take double damage from acid,
fire, and dark.
Robotic enemies receive half damage from fire,
ice, wind, dark, holy, psychic, and expression.
Staff's arcane spells are now colorless.
Robotic enemies take double damage from arcane.
Further increased robotic weakness to lightning
by 25%.
Further increased robotic weakness to water
by 50%.
Increased weight of invocation speed tenfold.
(fast attacks and slow attacks had little
meaning at high dexterity)
Slightly buffed Mezra Monster.
Increased both weight and damage reduction
of Protective Mother gear.
Slightly reduced damage of Skeletal Tremor.
Slightly reduced difficulty of chapter 6
bosses. (most stats reduced by 3-6%)
Placed a talent point crystal in chapter 6.
(this is found near the NG+ painting)
Lowered Thread's luck bonus from 25% to 20%.
Increased and simplified EXP softcaps:

old exp softcaps:
200+ = -75%
250+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -87.5%
500+ - 90%

new exp softcaps:
100+ = -75%
200+ = -75%
300+ = -75%
400+ = -75%
500+ = -90%
1000+ = -90%

Misc:
Fixed pathing issue in Poetry of Blood 1.
Applied recent gravity buff to its AoE spells.
Fixed robots not being immune to cancer.
Fixed haywire and confusion.
Fixed some Undercity dialog from not working
properly on NG+.
Fixed a ghost road quest from not resetting
on NG+.
Removed exp rate from status screen. (this
number was confusing players)
NPCs no longer roam inside Lampless mayor house.
Fixed Fatdink from not returning on NG+.
Fixed Stimpacks. (until addiction is added, these
are temporarily reduced to 50%)
Updated credits with specific track section.

Dev note: Due to the new exp softcaps, chapter 6
was made a step easier.