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#31

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 14, 2025, 11:02:29 AM

• commissioned a new cutscene background for the palace armory, incorporated it into the game.
• Silent Blades now have higher Accuracy, making them more effective against Dodge tanks during story battles.
• if the game ever fails to find an AI profile, it now loads and uses Balanced AI.
• fixed: the AI was valuing the Enthralled status effect positively for targets who were Stunned (and thus, could not act after becoming Enthralled).
• fixed: the AI was valuing the Move Bonus status effect positively for targets whose turn had already ended (e.g. using Adrenaline on characters whose turn had ended and could therefore no longer move).
• fixed: the AI was valuing the Move Bonus status effect positively for targets suffering from Stunned or Frozen status (similar issue).
• fixed: if you managed to store an item from the character screen within the reserve supplies screen while the unit's inventory subwindow was open, the inventory subwindow would not update to reflect the change.
• fixed: upon returning to camp late, the "late camp" message would not appear until the player clicked once.
• fixed: the map editor was defaulting army AI profiles to "Default", which is not an actual AI profile. (In the map editor, army AI profiles now default to Balanced.)

#32

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 09, 2025, 01:56:08 PM

• you can now manage supplies when you're on the main town screen in Kalkerapur.
• characters can now use items when you're on the main town screen in Kalkerapur.
• increased casters' base starting slash resistance from -20% to -10%, making them just a bit less squishy.
• capped the max deployment in the first battle with bandits at 6.
• capped the max deployment in the battle with the steel bandits at 8.
• the beggar event will no longer occur unless you have at least one character who is Kind or one character who is Pessimistic.
• wrote new, unique background dialogue for characters who come from Ploutos.
• fixed: cosmetic bridges beneath the current terrain tile could render adjacent spaces untargetable with melee attacks for non-flying characters if the elevation difference between the bridge and the adjacent spaces was too large.
• fixed: characters would treat unbreakable weapons as close to breaking for purposes of deciding whether to say that they want a backup weapon in the shop.
• fixed: the game was not retrieving the momdad NPC attribute, causing character dialogue about how an adoptive parent was their real mom or real dad to appear with gaps.

#33

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 07, 2025, 02:15:46 PM

• the army overview screen now has page selection buttons for those few players who recruit more than 18 characters.
• throwing knives now appear in the shop after advancing sufficiently far through the leagues.
• reconfigured the stats of random equipment drops in battle from their Telepath Tactics defaults to better match the values of comparable proc gen equipment in Together in Battle.
• two new skills: Create Ice Wall and Create Fire Wall.
• new, third promotion option for cryokineticists: Cryostructor. Gets +1 range and -1 cost on Create Ice, learns Create Ice Wall.
• new, third promotion option for pyrokineticists: Pyrostructor. Gets +1 range and -1 cost on Create Fire, learns Create Fire Wall.
• fixed: the number of tents to keep on the battlefield was being calculated incorrectly in the thief attack battles.
• fixed: on Relaxed difficulty, a random piece of rug would removed in the witness protection battle.

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#34

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 05, 2025, 11:27:01 AM

• you can now mod new classes into the main campaign! The game will now check the Mods/_Common folder for XML files containing "Classes" in their filenames at run time, then load those alongside the game's existing classes. (Note: playing with modded classes will disable achievements for that playthrough going forward.)
• characters in the army overview screen can now be sorted by clicking the icon at the top of each column of stats: by level, morale, health, energy, appetite, and salary. (Sorting by level will not just sort by visible level, but will take into account hidden levels that have been folded into a character's progression from promoting or switching classes.)
• fixed: alt-Tabbing out of the game was causing Unity to fail to register the release of keyboard keys (most notably, Alt and Tab); this, in turn, was causing mousewheel functionality to lock up upon returning to the game, preventing mousewheel camera zoom from working.
• fixed: with the addition of new, more granular custom character recruitment chance parameters to the ShowRecruits script action, the parameters for golem recruitment during the mechanic random event were no longer matching up, causing the game to display a reccommended minimum recruitment of 100.
• fixed: during the battle in the dissident's den, it was possible to draw axefighters out of the barracks, engage in combat with them, and only later get dialogue of alarm from other axefighters upon stepping inside the barracks even though everyone had already been aggro'd.
• dialogue triggers that take a character name as a parameter will now accept a new special character
  
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#35

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 04, 2025, 02:47:39 PM

• replaced all remaining instances of int.Parse() in script action methods with int.TryParse().
• fixed: starting a new run on New Game Plus did not clear the old run's day logs on the calendar screen.
• fixed: hitting the Escape key during recruitment could cause the cutscene frame to advance instead of simply behaving like a click on the 'Exit' button.
• fixed: due to a formatting mistake in the scripting for the Marriage Proposal event, the game was failing to weed out potential proposers who were already engaged to be married.
• fixed: part of the check to ensure thief attacks wouldn't occur when too many characters were wounded had a formatting error, preventing it from working as well as intended.

#36

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 03, 2025, 06:22:31 PM

• painted a new hairstyle for human woman portraits inspired by Uma Thurman's haircut from Pulp Fiction. This marks human woman haristyle #20.

#37

Telepath Tactics Liberated (2022) / Re: Suggestion: add Telepath R...

Last post by sophia2005 - July 03, 2025, 03:19:51 AM

Yeah, I think the biggest challenge to doing this will be getting the assets. At a glance, for a direct port we'd want

-Energy golem sprites, animations, portraits
-Bug sprites, animations (and big unit for the queen? Is that possible?)
-Custom sprite/animation for Niven
-Custom sprites, animation for suits of armor
-New assets for Somnus tents etc.

And optionally some aesthetic changes would be nice; custom sprites for CHARNAME, Guy, Anya, Festus, etc.

All of that is beyond my skill level; I'm happy to write dialogue, design combats, create new characters etc, but I don't think I can provide these.

At the moment I'm planning to proceed and rewrite as necessary to take advantage of existing assets. But if anyone has the know how to do these sorts of things it would be a massive help.

This project has considerable potential! Using existing assets to start with is a good way to go.

#38

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - July 02, 2025, 01:51:36 PM

For the next big update:

• the use of static custom portraits in custom campaigns is now supported! ("Static" meaning that they won't support dynamic changing of expressions or clothing; variants of this sort will need to be saved as entirely separate images.)
• when creating a new custom campaign, the game now creates a Portraits subfolder and saves a copy of instructions for creating and using custom static portraits there in CustomAssetInfo.xml.
• the create character interface in the campaign creation suite now has a Custom Portraits window that pulls in all graphics found in subfolders of the campaign's Portraits folder for use as a character's portrait.

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#39

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - June 27, 2025, 11:53:05 AM

• for v. 1.0.35d: if the player gets locked into the bad ending after winning the arena championship, it now draws to a close after 4 days rather than 7.
• for v. 1.0.35d: BPD intervention rewards no longer queue up once a player is locked in to the bad ending.
• for v. 1.0.35d: added "Chaos Breaker" to the list of weapon names Dhatuu Dil would give a variant response to when engraving.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: the town crier plot event could occur twice in the same day.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: for reasons I still do not understand, under extremely rare circumstances, the game could sometimes fail to covert a "-1" to an integer when reconstituting a unit's memories, producing a format error and locking up the game.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: typos in the scripting for the revenge quest event chain were preventing the chain from progressing through to the final event.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: a missing delimiter in Tiger League battles could, on rare occasions, cause the enemy team leader to appear as an invalid class.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: a second copy of the recruiter's portrait showed up upon visiting recruitment once locked into the first bad ending.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: a scripting error was causing the For All In-tents achievement to be granted when losing tents in a thief attack rather than when not losing tents.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: the game was not selecting the team leader's pronouns correctly in introductory dialogue for Powerbot 5000.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: the game was referencing the wrong character for pronoun selection in one of the variants for "inspirational leader" dialogue.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35d: a letter in Manbir Raksha's glossary entry was miscapitalized.

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#40

Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log

Last post by CraigStern - June 26, 2025, 04:53:44 PM

• fixed in v. 1.0.35c: hotfix 1.0.35a caused overshoot damage scaling to only apply to one of the two characters during inter-character collisions.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35c: using an equipment-altering item in battle would reset the user's steps taken and remove stat changes from active status effects.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35c: using an equipment-altering item in battle would not refresh the character screen.
• fixed in v. 1.0.35c: 14 different types of cumulative combat stats (like total attacks using backstab, total attacks from elevation, etc.) used for certain achievements were not being recorded.