v0.1.8 is out!

NEW FEATURES

• Enemies now have different behaviours determining how conservative they're in using their resources
• Combatants may now comment during battle while: Battle Start, Attacking, Being Attacked, An Attack Missing, Being Defeated, Upon Victory, Starting a new round
• Added more combat lines to Melinda and Leonard
• Added the combat dialogue for the training dummies and battle against the thugs
• Character weapons can now be upgraded up to tier 1
• Journal missions for the current chapter 1 quests have been added
• Investigations now have a chance to progress or stall depending of how many requisites you met during character Selection
• You can now initiate investigations without meeting all the requisites, suffering a chance for it to stall for a phase
• Fiorello, the bright-eyed new recruit, can now join the team! To Leonard's chagrin.
• Reginald, the wise priest, can join you and sermon away on your journey to greatness
• Bob, the magnificent dough-master, can now force his way into the team!
• Added combat dialogue for Bob, Reginald and Fiorello

ART

• Visual cue for pausing in combat
• Burning shader effect for the character portraits on combat start
• Improvements Lvl 0 Textures: Comfort, Intelligence
• Our fancy new executable Icon!
• Icon added for the Stunned status effect
• Icon and animation for all loading transitions
• Tier 0 Armor sprites for: Melinda, Fiorello, Leonard, Reginald, Bob
• Tier 1 Armor sprites for: Reginald, Leonard, Melinda, Fiorello, Bob

CHANGES/BALANCING

• Pausing in combat now more reactive
• Battles now can be marked a boss-battles by the game, changing certain behaviours
• Multihits can now individually miss and vary on damage dealt
• Stuns appear in log
• Stuns now generate their own popup
• Rebalanced damage/mitigation formulas
• Designed the proper battle against the Gang
• Designed proper skills for the training dummies
• Made the chain animation for focusing in combat faster
• Added a divider to the journal between current and finished quests
• Gave a new format to the journal text output
• Added Fiorello's Skillset/Initial Stats
• Added Reginald's Skillset/Initial Stats
• Added Bob's Skillset/Initial Stats
• Slight nerf to Melinda's growth rates on level up
• Added flavour text for the base improvements
• Polished a bit the visuals for the base improvements

BUGFIXING

• Special could be used before animation of the filling bar finishes
• Lots of Combat technical debt, specially around the flow of the combat cycle
• Combat logging miss-timing should be a thing of the past, for the current set of actions
• Potential eternal loop while waiting for an action to finish
• Multiple redundant instances of the check_if_death method while multihitting
• Endless resistance farming
• Avoided Potential Soft-lock for unmet requisites during investigations
• Added charisma to mental action calculations
• Victory dialogue being delayed
• Changed the container size in the Base tab to make it fit better
• Moved the position of elements around the Equipment and Improvement tab to avoid clipping
• Leonard's first armor tier had the incorrect value

TECHNICAL

• QoL changes to make the function of variables in resources less vague
• Save compatibility considerations
• Beneficial battle action calculations added
• Level up Growth table for: Reginald, Fiorello, Bob