Wooden Ocean News

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.

6/28/2024

9.1 Trinity Compound

New Features:
New area west of Northern Undercity.
(requires 30 charisma to enter) (120
knowledge lowers requirement by 5)
(this area is currently missing its
questline)

Balancing:
Greatly improved all intrinsic
and romantic weapons.
Golem can now equip all rings.

Misc:
Crying Artist has left. (the new cat
boss is now the Omen of Suffering)
(the crying artist will return in
chapter 9 or 10)
Fixed Shiva's area from locking game.

Dev note: The trinity compound was
created instead of altars of pain.
The altars of pain will arrive some
time next year. Work on chapter 7
begins now.

6/26/2024

9.0.9 The Great Debombening

New Features:
Replaced 5 tracks with new music.

Balancing:
Reduced luck aspect of bombs and
thread magic by 1 tier.
Moderately to greatly reduced base
damage of tier 3 bombs and above.
Increased damage of thread's ultimate.
Greatly increased knowledge needed to
see knowledge chests on NG+0.
Dexterity no longer affects stamina
regen.
Spirit no longer affects recovery.
Magic no longer affects mana regen.

Misc:
The Ghost Ship can no longer learn
skills.
First section of Valez questline will
now properly display failure if the
merchant is abandoned during esort.
Fixed AP cost to Omega Solace.
Fixed text to Mass Fire Mending
All key items are no longer usable.
Removed follow up script.
Fixed Mace's Heavy Swing text.
Skills no longer apply foray.
Alex will no longer speak in combat
when dead or asleep.
Removed countering script.
All party members received -100%
chance to counter.
Removed counter rate from status
menu.
Renamed status menu's Target Rate
to Taunt.
Renamed status menu's TP regen to
ST regen.
Death sound effects will no longer
play after every action when an enemy
has died. (expect enemy graphics to
not be removed if they're killed by
a DoT) (if someone can fix this, let
this one know)
Buffed most Philistine skills by 5%.
Fixed damage to mace's heavy swing.
Fixed damage to mace's slam skills.
Slightly increased enemy resource
gain.
The first tier of enemy resources
is always available.

Dev Note: No more major nerfs to
skills or items until June 2025.

6/19/2024

9.0.8 Misc

New Features:
Enemies now take less damage on
harder difficulties.
Hard Mode = 25% Reduction
Nightmare = 50% Reduction
Infinite Nightmare = 75% Reduction
(previous saves received 2, 5, or 10
talents points, based on difficulty)
Created new music for Old Arena.
Created new music for Undead Castle.
Created new music for Club Med.

Balancing:
Halved recovery bonus from spirit.
Greatly increased health to top
3 tiers of enemies.
Blessed now gives +10% spirit.

Misc:
Fixed screen permanently fading out
when docking in Southern Katis.
Fixed Yamen Farm house with exiting
wrong door.
Fixed Undercity house with entering
wrong room.
Improved bookshelf formula. (this
may have fixed a freezing bug when
reading books deep in the Infinite
Hotel, but this fix is unlikely)
Updated old books on status effects.
Fixed starting enemy resources.
Enemy resources now have a bare
minimum.
Fixed Rakenzie player in Northern
Undercity.
Did a small yet potential fix for
bleed effects. (if this doesn't
work, the long way will be used)
Fixed potential bug for new saves
involving the Infinite Hotel.

6/16/2024

9.0.7 Hotfix

New Feature:
Increased health limit by 2 digits.
Increased all other stat limits by 1
digit.

Balancing:
Greatly reduced candy box drop rates
for top 3 tiers of enemies.
Greatly increased stats to top 2
tiers of enemies.
Increased Shiva's health by 33%.
Some sailing encounters are now less
likely to run away.

Misc:
Tripled realism shard cost to single
piece candies.
Doubled realism shard cost to candy
boxes.
Fixed cost to Gold Omega Candies.
Fixed Omega Box Candies. (they were
giving one fourth of what they should
have)
Removed enemy resource requirement
for 4 encounters in starting area.