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Release: Preview 1.3 - Balancing (and bug fixes)

Wizard School Dropout
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

No crashes reported this time, so that's good! I've begun work on Air spells and content but those aren't in the release yet. I probably will wait until I've got about the same amount of spells finished for it as the other Arcana already have.

Spell Changes

  • Splash, Extinguish Flame, and Dry are now charge-based instead of cooldown based
  • Increased damage of Extinguish Flame and Dry to be in line with Decay
  • Reduced cooldown of Quick Swim
  • Summon Focus perk now properly applies extra HP and damage to zombies created by Raise Dead (was previously only applying it on EXTRA damage/HP given over zombie base)
  • Absorb Flame can now be used on friendly Fire creatures. This instantly destroys them and restores a spell charge
  • Fueled by Flame can be upgraded so that the boost can stack multiple times

Map Changes

  • Walls on level 2+ in  wizard's towers are now able to be damaged.
  • Art gallery rooms no longer generate in wizard's towers.
  • Decreased the amount of cash generated in chests (particularly dorm chests)
  • The number of items you find in chests at higher levels increases more slowly
  • (I'll probably be redoing the way chests generate their items entirely at some point, but need to devote some more time to it)

NPC Behavior Changes

  • Creatures that deal elemental damage won't continue to attack targets that are immune to or healed by that damage. Also, creatures that are too weak to damage a creature do to armor also won't continue to fruitlessly attack them.

Non-Crash Bug Fixes

  • Spells now respect max charge increases given by perks (or anything else)
  • The previous update broke accepting missions from non-faction based stores, this is now re-fixed (ie the Find Rare Book mission)
  • Deathly Harvest upgrade to Sacrfice Corpse now works and no longer throws an error
  • Fixed issue in creature spawn code that was causing most enemies to stop spawning at higher levels
  • Fixed bug that was causing screen to black out when examining an item that grant spells on equip
  • Fixed error that was thrown when splitting item stacks, or picking up items in a big enough stack they needed to be split
  • You can actually study recipes to learn the recipe contained now (I know this is a pretty inefficient use of time right now, will be coming back to it later)

Files

  • Wizard Scrool Dropout Preview 1.3 Windows 5.4 MB
    Jan 07, 2025
  • Wizard School Dropout Preview 1.3 Linux 5.9 MB
    Jan 07, 2025
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