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If it's just updates to comply with modern machines, TSE2 becomes more feasible, but a full DX treatment sounds scary to me 😵‍💫Hopefully not the same amount of years as the original TSE2 (4.5 years)! It ended up taking me the exact same amount of time to give TSE1 the DX treatment as when Mark first wrote TSE1 within 2 years! 

By remaking I mean redoing the entire OST from the ground up! The OG still stays as a toggleable, don't worry! It's very cool to see Josh take on the OST now at 38-years-old versus 16-years-old!

Same for me! It still saddens me the games seem to be forgotten to time - I hope to change that! We'll see if it really is just rose-tinted glasses, or if I'm giving the games a 2nd chance in the limelight! The games really are a figment of Mark's expansive imagination...

I just took a look at the credits scene on v1.05 and it plays for me! That's a very strange bug...

Scaling as in display settings? The default scaling in DX is 640px*360px (16:9 aspect ratio) as opposed to the original's 490px*400px to comply with today's common monitors. There's more resolution options now to cater for other aspect ratios that appear in the wild (16:10, 21:9, 32:9, even 4:3 and 5:4 for those that really want to mimick the oldschool experience) so that black bars don't appear on those monitors! DX works fine on WINE for both Mark and Josh so far. Scaling is locked on the browser version since I think screen size for itch.io embeds are locked as well.

TSE2 rerelease comes down to how well DX performs! I'm keeping my expectations tempered, as I still have a few marketing beats remaining (and Josh is remaking the whole OST, too!) before finally releasing the full game. I think I already got to live the dream by co-working with Mark and Josh on DX 😁Fingers still crossed for a TSE3!

It's always healing to see returning players :)

Cheers! I don't remember removing any music past the final boss in the v1.05 patch! Is it during the very white cutscene or just after defeating the MDMZ, or the beach credits? I've also received a question about a GUI toggle for DX and I'll dawn on it. All unused items have found places as secret items in DX!

Shoot, sorry for the super late response - I'll see what I can do as the lack of skill chains make tank/support roles tedious to use, though no guarantees as UI work is very difficult

Depends on how TSEDX performs on Steam :D

Found this on a whim! Good to see an old freeware resurrected!

Hello! It's been almost a year since my last reply: Mark + a few community members and I are undergoing a massive rebalance of all the formulae and we're addressing:

• Chain Magic has been buffed to be on par with Speed Fire
• Rock Rain and Power Shot are amazing & more viable against groups
• Kinetic Smash is not on par with Life Drain/Dynamite/HotG and has been rebalanced
  
• Rifle Attack now has a faster cooldown rate and is now viable as a 0-mana DPS
• Party Recharge and Speed Fire now use a exponential decay when investing skill points into, and therefore can reach machinegun rates at very high investment
  
• Magic Bullet is underwhelming and has been buffed
  
• E resistances have been curbed to make E skills (Celestial Lightning, Dynamite, Holy Bolt) more viable
• Lasso operates more like Flashbang from TSE2, just less damage and viable crowd control
  
• Party Heal and Recover have very poor skill-level:party-level ratios and has been addressed
• Party Bless is busted and has been rebalanced
• Spook Summon is now an amazing companion
• HotG was too busted even without the non-MX focus and has been rebalanced
  
• Life Drain and Lasso are no longer noob traps
• The final boss no longer nullifies any skills (LD and Lasso are now viable)

It's considered for post-launch for sure! 😁

This reimplementation is awesome! Didn't expect to see Lexy's Labyrinth as a skin option 😄

It's great to hear from returning players! Yes, I've already commenced on a bit of re-balancing, and will do so even further when I reach Beta milestone (when Worlds 2 & 3 are fully ported - I'm almost done with World 2's settlements)

• Hand of the Gods won't carry over the "do not target Magic-Immune enemies unless they're the only ones on the field" payload as that overshadowed a lot of other 2-mana DPS moves of similarity (Dynamite gets punished against enemies that have Energy resistance, Kinetic Smash only hits front enemies)
  • The alternative would be to make Dynamite's embers seek non-Energyimmune targets, or redesign Dynamite to be a spread AoE
• Life Drain heals a fixed amount of health per cast (this was supposed to be in the original MMF build, but was scrapped - it's now reinstated)
• The AoE skills (Rock Rain, Power Shot) are getting re-balanced to be on par with their frontloaded (Chain Magic, Speed Fire) counterparts instead of being useless against single enemies if invested into, but will still carry penalties against Large bosses
• Spook Summon got a very nice buff - cooldown times for the ghost's attacks are decreased per skill point invested
• Lasso is no longer penalised the higher the World Level is, but will not work against 'XL' (Extra Large) enemies - I was never a fan of how balancing user crowd control was done in the original
• Additional attributes 'XL' and 'R' (Robotic, which is like Undead but has a weakness against Energy attacks) are added to address inconsistent designs in Worlds 3-5
• Equipment that penalises cooldown times (e.g., Crusader Jacket, Gremlin Snapcannon, Mu Sow's etc.) are rebalanced to be appropriately on par with when they become available in the game