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#1
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - Yesterday at 01:29:26 PM- UI improvement: when mousing over a skill target, the game now displays a health bar at the bottom of their targeting reticle with the proportion of health they stand to lose (or gain) flashing in white!
- UI improvement: when mousing over a skill target that can counterattack, a health bar will be displayed beneath the attacker showing with the proportion of health they stand to lose (or gain) from the counterattack flashing in white.
- UI improvement: when mousing over a knockback target, a health bar is now also displayed for any unit they're going to be knocked into with their own proportion of health to be lost flashing in white.
- fixed: the counterattack icon in the targeting reticle was sometimes not playing its flashing animation.
- fixed: a character tooltip could be displayed twice consecutively due to multiple tooltip timers being added.
- fixed: Multiplayer Arena still wasn't unlocking as intended for some players.
#2
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 24, 2026, 10:53:11 AM- UI improvement: in-battle unit tooltips for characters on the leftmost 1/3rd of the screen now appear to the left of the unit so as to avoid covering the area the player is focused on.
- free movement improvement: fixed an issue where standing still next to multiple units and then moving into one of those units to shove it wouldn't work (you would have to move away, then come back and reinitiate the collision to shove).
- free movement improvement: the game is now forbidden from detecting freefall during the half second after a unit spawns so as to prevent the game from spawning dust particles and the "jump landing" sound effect every time you switch scenes.
- free movement improvement: increased the minimum downward velocity necessary for the game to detect a soft freefall.
#3
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 23, 2026, 06:30:15 PMFor the next update:
- fixed: four variant lines of background dialogue about having a bad relationship with the grandparent or grandparents who raised a character could not be selected due to misformatted tags requiring certain biographical details.
#4
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 22, 2026, 10:55:30 AM- in version 1.1d: pop-up text telling you an item can't be used, equipped, unequipped, given, or dropped in certain contexts are now hooked up to localization.
- fixed in version 1.1d: certain properties were not getting carried over when the game cloned a dialogue branch, which could sometimes lead to the input text field not appearing or dialogue throwing a null error.
- fixed in version 1.1d: it was possible to give personal items in battle or in the reserve supplies screen.
- fixed in version 1.1d: it was possible to give items in the reserve supplies screen if the giver was Enthralled.
#5
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 21, 2026, 09:53:47 AM- fixed in version 1.1c: it was possible to unlock Multiplayer Arena but still not see it in the New Game menu's campaign list afterwards.
- fixed in version 1.1c: if a unique character reached 0 health from Burning applied by another unique character, the defeated character's defeat bark would be overriden by the victor's victory bark.
- fixed in version 1.1c: Multiplayer Arena had an outdated campaign description.
- fixed in version 1.1c: some of the text in the main menu screen for Multiplayer Arena was difficult to read against the background.
- fixed in version 1.1c: with the right timing and the use of sprinting, it was possible to jump on top of destructible objects intended to be impassable in free movement mode.
#6
Telepath Tactics Liberated (2022) / Re: Turn order breaks after en...
Last post by CraigStern - March 21, 2026, 08:34:35 AMHi Olenna! What do you mean when you say "their icon still appeared in the turn tracker"? There is no turn tracker in Telepath Tactics Liberated; there isn't a character-specific turn sequence, either. It's Fire Emblem style, I-Go-You-Go. Are you trying to say that your character couldn't act during your army's turn?
#7
Telepath Tactics Liberated (2022) / Turn order breaks after enemy ...
Last post by olenna - March 20, 2026, 11:44:47 PMWhile playing Telepath Tactics Liberated, I encountered a bug involving mind control effects that seems to disrupt the turn order. One of my units was taken over by an enemy ability, and when the control wore off during the same round, the unit didn't properly rejoin the turn sequence. Even though their icon still appeared in the turn tracker, their turn was completely skipped as the game moved straight to the next unit. I tested this a few times and it consistently happens when the control ends mid-round rather than between rounds, especially if the unit hasn't acted yet. Reloading didn't fix it either, so it seems like a persistent issue once triggered. It's not a crash or anything, but it definitely throws off battle flow and strategy.
#8
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 20, 2026, 03:30:43 PMVersion 1.1c hotfixes:
- fixed in version 1.1c: the game could initiate the turn a second time after a victory bark delivered when an enemy unit burned to death in an AI-controlled turn.
- fixed in version 1.1c: the game could throw a null error if a unique character delivered a death bark when burning to death.
#9
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 20, 2026, 08:20:14 AMVersion 1.1b hotfixes:
- fixed in version 1.1b: Nihal Agarwal's dialogue would no longer accept clicks upon returning to the shop and receiving his congratulations for defeating the steel bandits.
- fixed in version 1.1b: the game had begun clearing the player's reserve supplies upon opening the reserve supplies screen in battle.
- fixed in version 1.1b: under the new path-tracing code, a range error could occur when pathing a flying character through a trap.
#10
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - March 19, 2026, 04:27:49 PMReleased Version 1.1!
...and now, version 1.1a as a hotfix:
...and now, version 1.1a as a hotfix:
- the Give button now works within a character's subwindow within the Reserve Supplies screen: when clicked in this context, it automatically stores the item, finds the item button now housing it, selects it, and then enters Give mode.
- fixed: certain types of dialogue were somehow deleted from the game's master copy of PersistentDialogue.xml over the past six months without me noticing, resulting in certain conversations (like gamblers asking you if you want to gamble, characters reacting to their own dismissal, characters reacting to other characters' cooking, or characters learning to Twirl) simply not happening anymore.
- fixed: the Key Gold and Key Skeleton item graphics were missing from AssetNames.xml.