Wildermyth News

This update brings a rework to the Deepist monster group. In general Deepists will rely less on channelling and transforming, and should be more thematic and engaging. We're getting ready to release our Villain (campaign), Monarchs Under the Mountain, which features Deepists as the main antagonists, and we wanted to make sure they were in fighting shape :-)

Also, lots of other good stuff too!

• Many new mission victories (12?!) for when a hero dies:
  
• The Long Struggle
  
• Deliver a Message
  
• Unprepared
  
• Deliberations
  
• Dark is Darker
  
• I Believed
  
• The Golden Mountain
  
• Visible
  
• Bellowing
  
• Carried Out
  
• When You're Ready
  
• Words in Ash
  
• DEEPIST REWORK:
  
• Horn Child:
  
• Gang Up: flanking attacks pin.
  
• Chosen:
  
• Prophet's Fury: if start turn injured, gain fury, stacks up to 3x
  
• Remove channel
  
• Murk Mother:
  
• Pact of the Deep: spawn Horn Child when interfused ally dies
  
• Remove channel
  
• Gets her own spawn card track
  
• Father Fungus:
  
• Staunching Spores: heal ally within range
  
• Crotchety: counters missed ranged attacks against himself
  
• Remove transformation to Mushrox
  
• Gets his own spawn card track
  
• Shadow Hunter:
  
• Goreleap: leap 3 tiles, damage and shred near landing spot
  
• Unstoppable: can't be pinned or hobbled, reaction attacks miss
  
• Mushrox:
  
• Remove ranged attack
  
• Shouldersledge: charge through and knock back foes
  
• Crow theme now has limbs, crow claws pierce 1 and blind on stunt
  
• Frog head now has a tongue attack (similar to bogmoor)
  
• Legacy will now track which companies your heroes participate in
  
• New icons for quellingmoss, windwalk
  
• Tweak windwalk, longer range and can go through walls to visible tiles
  
• Increase throwing knife flanking damage
  
• Quellingmoss flank mark now from self instead of blast origin
  
• Tinker does not block end of turn anymore
  
• Mystic shackle recipe now deals damage
  
• Removed "shackled," use "pinned" instead
  
• Hooked up some missing sfx for monsters
  
• Implement status effect sfx (positive and negative)
  
• Fixed a bug where guardian/sentinel would not cover scenery tiles
  
• Fixed a bug with obscured heroes where monster turn would never end
  
• Fixed a rare crash if an incursion and a capstone started at same time
  
• Fix tidings firing when they shouldn't
  
• Fix bug where stormsend could go through walls
  
• Fixed bug where vigorflow didn't increase damage for ranged attacks
  
• Tools: improved validation of Mission and Combatant data
  
• Tools: improved feedback on which targets will be affected by outcomes
  

We have several new events and tidings in this patch, including a new pet introduced as a reward from one of our Discord contests!

We gave a lot of attention to movement feedback, so that you'll be able to get a better idea of, e.g. what sorts of scenery you can interfuse with if you move to a particular tile. There's a bit less variation on some of the strongest stats when you're rolling your initial heroes, so that you won't feel *obligated* to reroll until you get that mystic with mad potency or that warrior with the highest retirement age.

All that, bug fixes, tool improvements, and more!


New Event: Where We Find Ourselves
New Event: Hitching a Ride
New Event: The Heirloom Spring (Pet Contest Reward!)
Several new tidings
Tidings should be more consistenly relevant to chapter doings
Will now see movement feedback when using Zealous Leap, Silkstep etc.
Improved movement feedback for interfusion, off-hand/theme attacks...
Greatly reduced (nerfed) retirement age variation for new heroes
Also Reduced bonus damage and potency variation for new heroes
Game now autosaves upon reaching the Labors screen during intervals
Many mystic recipes now correctly use bonus range
Fireleash and steal fire no-longer pierce 1 warding
New history line origins for children of heroes
Wild Grasp now scales with potency like other recipes
Fix a bug where vinewrench used melee accuracy instead of ranged
Fixed a bug where npcs from missions would be forgotten
Fixed a bug with npcs swapping out in some events (great one)
Fixed a bug with throughshot and bowmaster
Fixed a bug with backslam and multi-tile enemies
Tools: added some family-related lookups HAS_PARENT, CHILD_OF, etc..
Tools: monster mod tweaks can now be stored with the monster definition
Tools: removed old deprecated stunt results from monsters
Mods: Company, Tiles, Towns and Sites now execute DAILY and MONTHLY effects

Note: we renamed a few event ids, which might cause these events to show up again if you started a campaign before the update. Should only affect save games once per renamed event.

We try to update every two weeks. If you're enjoying the game, pleases consider leaving a review!

This patch, we gave Hunter abilities and Common abilities a significant pass. Some are modified, some are removed, and some are brand new. The ranged Hunter should be more fun & balanced since we nerfed bows in the previous patch, and you should be able to make a wider variety of Hunter builds (including focusing on techniques like traps and poison.)

You'll probably notice some new events floating around, including a few of the Opportunity Quests that have gotten exciting new makeovers.

And of course, there's the usual heap of bug fixes, balance tweaks, small UI improvements.


New mortal choice and tidings for Turtle Guardian
New Event: Terms of Endearment
Reworked Quest: For an Old Wish Passing
Reworked Quest: The Lonely Cost -> The Prisoner
Reworked Quest: The Unstilled Heart
Reworked Event: ClockworkThieves -> Mark of the Times
Reworked Event: Music of the Night -> A Night Visitor's Song
Updated Event: One False Step
Common Abilities Rework:

• Viciousness is now +1 damage for melee attacks.
  
• Endurance now gives +2 armor
  
• Aid now removes negative status effects
  
• Removed Soulstrike and Divine Athlete from ability deck
  
• Windwalk: swift action, once per combat, mid-range teleport
  
• Tinker: swift action, once per combat, restore all armor to self or ally
  
• Bowmaster now removes the minimum bow range

Hunter Rework!

• Removed Phantomflare and Traverse from ability deck
  
• Ember Arrows now starts a fire on the destination tile
  
• Foxflight: activate -> now dodges the next two attacks, no time limit
  
• Archery now also procs if adjacent allies are attacked
  
• Quellingmoss now includes an active AOE poison bomb
  
• Crippling Strikes: attacks Hobble the enemy
  
• Piercing Shots: ranged attacks pierce 2 armor
  
• Jumpjaw: usable twice per combat, applies poison if have Quellingmoss

Mystic ability: Vigorflow: +1 damage on physical attacks per interfusion
Removed 'once per turn' restriction for offhand item actives
Tweaked largest text size to be a bit smaller.
Stacking status effects now show a stack number in tooltip
Improvements to combat camera for sequential attacks
Poison damage should animate faster
Reduced weight of +Range calamities
Improved look of +/- resource announcement panels
Slots dialog shows wounded heroes
Weapon categories and subcategories displayed in more places
Now cannot prepare defense on tile with lurking threat
Fire damage animation now won't play if no damage done
"Bury hero" jobs now autocomplete during intervals or on game victory
Jobs to build stations now show costs and build time in initial dialog
Fix broken text in "Mountain Mischief"
Fix typos
Fixed a bug where capturing a spirit in the final battle didn't work
Fixed a bug where failing a hook quest would grant a reward
Fixed a bug where prepare defense job was visible on unreachable tile
Fixed a rare crash bug when two missions happened at once
Fixed a bug where pressing Escape would prevent screen-edge panning
Fixed a bug where some theme arm abilities would be listed twice
Improved feedback for pierce
Improved feedback for enchanted barricades
Turned off "Heart of the Forest" campaign (should not have been on!)
Tools: fix performance issue in the Effects tab for certain comic events
Tools: fixed crash related to Skip Promotions cheat
Tools: added TRUE_DAMAGE_ROLL_INCOMING effect type
Tools: fixed RemoveTheme to not add weird prosthetics

We're trying to update every two weeks. This one was a couple days late but we hope to get back on schedule.

If you like the game, please consider leaving a review, they really help us!

The Wildermyth Team will be at PAX South in San Antonio later this week!

PAX South goes from Friday 1/17 through Sunday 1/19 this year, and we'll be at booth #25052 —a bit to the right of the escalators at the back, if you're looking in from the front entrance of the Expo Hall.

We'll have enamel pins and t-shirts for sale, so you can get them here first, before we figure out how to set up a real online store. ;) And frankly, we're thrilled to say hi to everybody and anybody, so give us a visit if you're attending the convention!

This updates collects a bunch of bug fixes and balance tweaks. We have increased armor overall for heroes, mostly via outfits. We've updated and reworked several stories. We've made a bunch of small improvement to the modding flow. Now that the holidays are done we'll be getting back to our regular two-week cycle.

• Reworked Event: Only Human
  
• Reworked Event: The Unstilled Heart
  
• Updated Event: The Geometry of Magic
  
• Updated Event: The Unstilled Heart
  
• Added larger font sizes for high dpi monitors.
  
• Increased outfit armor across the board -
  
• Warrior Ability - Untouchable - On kill, evade the next attack within 1 turn
  
• Adjusted character sheet text so it doesn't overlap head so much
  
• SFX for spirits
  
• Hook quests now grant a full level instead of just an ability
  
• Hook quests can now only happen once per relationship per game
  
• Hook quests now grant + retirement age
  
• Hook resolution now stored in legacy
  
• Add monster group name to calamity cards
  
• Added Character Sheet and Skip buttons to story dialog
  
• Added "Blackhorn" rank localization (top rank was previously unspecified?)
  
• Fixed a bug where the "increased range" calamity had no effect for most monsters.
  
• Added "attack range" for factions that were missing it (all except morthagi)
  
• Fixed a bug where broadswipes didn't work for theme attacks
  
• Fixed a bug where stone stunt could hit through walls
  
• Fixed a bug where pin did not affect some thrixl abilities
  
• Fixed a bug where pilot "dispirited" effect was not working
  
• Fixed several events that used Inhabited
  
• Fixed a bug where crag eagle tiding was not happening when it should
  
• Made Mo-Atona non-interactive
  
• Fixed a bug where missing items (inactive mods) would break saves, legacies
  
• Fix a bug that caused problems when multiple steam mods were enabled
  
• Fixed a bug where wardrobe could spawn twice in some circumstances
  
• Fixed a bug where pinned warriors were losing their turn
  
• Calamity buff icons and blurbs are more consistent
  
• SFX for infestation
  
• Bard and Wisdom buffs more visible in slots dialog
  
• Spirit objective now shows turns left
  
• Wall caps should look better
  
• Health bar now shrinks armor and warding to fit
  
• Visual clean up in various comics
  
• Generated children should not have history that claims they are orphans etc..
  
• Added smoke vfx for haberdasher
  
• Better feedback and animation for Raider
  
• Showing better range info for several monster abilities (Bogmoor, Scorier)
  
• Viewing character sheet for party now shows a hero in the party
  
• Can now enable cheats after starting a game
  
• Better feedback for unreachable tiles
  
• Slots dialog now shows better travel time estimates
  
• Modding: images from mod folders can now be used in comics
  
• Modding: encounter and tiding effects show warnings if not enabled
  
• Modding: Added many tooltips to the editor
  
• Modding: History lines now correctly store localization in mod folder
  
• Modding: pick events fail reasons are more accurate and helpful
  
• Modding: can now do lookups on other roles from score functions
  
• Modding: Better logging when an event doesn't fire
  
• Modding: relationships tab in dev mode now shows tier 0 relationships