Old School RPG News & Patch Notes

- Summoner quest fixed so that the completion popup only occurs after combat has ended - Dexterity is twice as effective as Strength for Ranged Attack formula. Ranged attack value should increase 3 points per point of strength and 6 points per point of dexterity - Barkskin tooltip should now correctly show the +25 percent defense - Renewal regeneration status effect now correctly applies outside of combat. Starting or ending combat will eliminate the status effect because the in combat status effect is turn based and the out-of-combat effect is time based - Fixed bug that caused tank scaling of attack and defense to be much higher than intended. Tanks and Hybrids should both scale at +10 attack and defense per level increase.

- Warlock summoning should now correctly use Arcane magic specialization to summon higher level demons. - All summoned creatures have been buffed to increase their effectiveness. They should be more useful now as an option during battle.

- Music volume should correctly retain settings between scenes - added toggle to turn character victory voices off. (Victory voices are the talking that one of your characters will do after you win a battle.)

-added dialogue option for completing the 250 battle achievement from the final scene (talk to the elf queen) -fixed bug on character group overview that showed the blank white tooltip for attack and ranged attack (if you have a bow equipped) -fixed bug with help instructions were sometimes not displaying properly when holding the help key. The Help key (default keyboard key is "H") will now toggle the instructions on/off instead of the old hold on to view method. The menu key will also toggle the instructions off (default keyboard key "ESC").

-spear of wrath should be only equippable as two hander rather than main hand unless it is already equipped -skill books should only be able to be used once now -fixed bug on hydrid developments (bard, rogue and ranger). they should gain 6 points of magic defense per level now -fix bug on warlock summoning spells that caused them to summon undead rather. should correctly summon a minor demon, imp, succubus or lilith based upon the warlock arcane magic level -buffed all summoned combatants (skeletons, elementals, demons) -increased ranged physical damage -increased aimed shot damage -increased body magic scaler for herbal medicine -increased damage for flame arrow and poison arrow -increased scroll bar width on load/save gui

patch v1.17 small update to the gui default choice button

Patch V1.16 - adjusted quest gui button text positions

- Random Party Achievement should work again - removed debug console messages for character creation - updated character creation class selection box to show class skills, class specific abilities, prime attributes, usable weapon types and usable armor types - updated character creation race selection box for easier viewing of racial modifiers

This patch addresses a security vulnerability found in the Unity engine.

v1_14 -Pretty World Quest no longer gives the quest a second time -fixed buttons where text was overflowing off of them

Mouse targeting has been improved in combat so that you can click the enemies after choosing your action. A sword icon will appear on and above the targeted enemy and you can left click to complete the action on that target. (You can still target using either of the old methods of clicking the enemy portrait in the targeting window or cycling through the targets using the previous target/next target buttons and clicking accept.) Additional occlusion optimizations have been added in the dungeons to reduce CPU usage

Replaced engine default culling system with new more performant system on outside islands. (This should provide much better fps increases than any other improvement so far.) Added culling of objects inside buildings Fixed dialogue bug in Sword in Stone

Faster Rendering Engine
New Performant Water System
New Performant Terrain Texturing System
Shadow quality and rendering settings for improved performance
Additional Graphics Settings for improved frame rate on lower end systems

Gameplay improvement

New equipment type: Wands
Additional wands and rings available from several magic shops
Additional items available that grant abilities to their user
fps display toggle
updated character creation to show primary attributes for classes during selection
increased font size for racial attribute modifiers in character creation
increased move range on several enemies to better match their aggressive sound announcements
reduced enemy detection range on several enemies to better match their aggressive sounds

Additional Changes

Inverse Camera Vertical option has changed and will need to be toggled back on for the new options system. (The default setting is off.)
VSync options have changed. It may be turned on (limited refresh rate to the monitor) or off.
Refresh rate choices may be selected from the new dropdown menu under graphics options.

Additional Bug Fixes:

fixed bug causing slowdown on starting island
fixed bug on description of cure all ability
fixed animations on several combatants (orc, orc chief, dark elf, dark elf lord, Cerberus, earth titan)
fixed chest rotation on merlins hat artifact
fixed collision bug on statue in mine of murg level 2
fixed bug in time of day system
fixed dialogue error in warning fires quest
fixed bug that sometimes caused the red crystal achievement to not work correctly
fixed bug on teleport tooltips
fixed bug on necromancer life steal ability

-added Select Character Keybinds. Current default are F1 - F4 to select characters in menu screens -increased size of console text font to 20 from 14 -added total random party to party creation menu

patch v1_077c - -fixed bug with key binds that allowed removing menu key binding

patch v1.077b - fixed bug on credits screen where the menu button (ESC) was not closing the screen

v1_077a -updated secret doors on 2nd level of Mine of Murg -added divine light scroll to magic vendors

v1.077 -updated secret door auto check event to make sure they stay open after saves -added scrolls that teach flame arrow, frost arrow, magic missile, fire resistance to all magic shops

This inventory was causing some people's games to become unresponsive. The old method of using ESC must be used to access the menu screens. Planning to rewrite the menu system to allow most of those keys to be bound.

-Cave 2 Exit on Hermit Island works correctly now

patch v1.076a -fixed the exit on cave 2 on hermit island -rolled back optimization that was causing problems with doors and statues -ballad of jayne should be working correctly -added some expensive magic resistance items to tier 3 magic shops

-added two unmarked caves on hermit's island -fixed bug on armor level of magic platemail pants -fixed movable secret rock doors that were marked static

-fixed bug caused by MoveAI range component in some combatant spawners that would cause a slowdown of the game -improved batching optimizations

-fixed bug with Archmage dialogue if player does not have the speak to the archmage quest active when meeting -added pathfinding optimizations -added additional end game portal home

-updated game ending scene for a more proper ending -added a small dungeon in the land of fire (near the beginning) -added toggle for idle voices (under settings -> voice options) -bug fix- poison, bleeding, suffocating, and poison gas cloud should now apply damage each turn they are active -bug fix- updated party dismissal to use the correct party member name and not the default party names. Adds warning when discarding party member. -bug fix- portal spells are now disabled during cave collapse events

v1_071 -added optimizations to dungeons with large numbers of combatants -added small time out to inventory key to match menues

-added candles to general store, temple and tier 1 magic shops -fixed bug that made casual and easy difficulty levels harder than they should be

-A party inventory screen is now key mapped to "I". This may be remapped to a different key if desired. This inventory screen is separate from the standard menu system and it needs to be opened / closed with the key it is bound to or the Close X buttons on it.

-Adjusted the camera speed back to the original defaults. -fixed Sting artifact so that it no longer burns the user

-added fps limits to reduce game load. VSync defaults to on now (limits fps to monitor refresh rate). VSync rate may be changed in the settings. It can be set to On (equal to monitor refresh rate), Half (half monitor refresh rate), Quarter (1/4 monitor refresh rate) or Off (no frame limit). Limiting the frames per second will have a significant impact if you are running at a really high frame rate. Rates over 60 are not really needed with this game. My system with old settings would run at 70% CPU and about 50% GPU. Setting to VSync Half (72 fps for my monitors 144 hz) reduces the CPU load to about 45% and GPU load to about 35%.

Old School RPG news & patch notes

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