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#91
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - June 04, 2025, 08:34:43 AMBack to changes for the next major update:
- added two new mask accessories for human portraits: pleague doctor and venetian masque.
- added two new glasses accessories: glasses and bifocals alt.
- gasul are now sturdier to make them better serve their hybrid role as front-liner. The gasul class's base health has been increased by 5; they now get an extra Strength or Health stat proficiency in their early skill progression; and protector and prophet bonus health has been increased by 5 and 6, respectively.
- fixed: the Pyro Hail sound effect was too loud by about 6 decibels.
- added two new mask accessories for human portraits: pleague doctor and venetian masque.
- added two new glasses accessories: glasses and bifocals alt.
- gasul are now sturdier to make them better serve their hybrid role as front-liner. The gasul class's base health has been increased by 5; they now get an extra Strength or Health stat proficiency in their early skill progression; and protector and prophet bonus health has been increased by 5 and 6, respectively.
- fixed: the Pyro Hail sound effect was too loud by about 6 decibels.
#92
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - June 03, 2025, 09:44:52 AMFor the next major update:
- custom characters can now be exported and imported as text, allowing easy sharing between players!
Changes for hotfix version 1.0.10c:
- added +3 to starting Health for assassins to make them a bit more survivable in the early game, reduced assassin salaries to make them a bit more competitive with other classes on a cost basis.
- fixed: after the blacksmith rescue mission, the game was skipping straight to the calendar screen, ensuring both that payday could not occur and that characters scheduled to return to camp that evening would not return.
- fixed: under certain circumstances, the game could still get locked up if a MoveUnit script action was unable to complete successfully.
- fixed: certain script actions were still missing checks to ensure that they possessed the minimum number of required parameters.
- fixed: a handful of events were still missing animations where a character visibly walks up to the player from offscreen.
- custom characters can now be exported and imported as text, allowing easy sharing between players!
Changes for hotfix version 1.0.10c:
- added +3 to starting Health for assassins to make them a bit more survivable in the early game, reduced assassin salaries to make them a bit more competitive with other classes on a cost basis.
- fixed: after the blacksmith rescue mission, the game was skipping straight to the calendar screen, ensuring both that payday could not occur and that characters scheduled to return to camp that evening would not return.
- fixed: under certain circumstances, the game could still get locked up if a MoveUnit script action was unable to complete successfully.
- fixed: certain script actions were still missing checks to ensure that they possessed the minimum number of required parameters.
- fixed: a handful of events were still missing animations where a character visibly walks up to the player from offscreen.
#93
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - June 02, 2025, 10:11:52 AM- when moving onto the stairs down during cavern exploration, the game now prompts the player before moving to the lower floor.
- increased the intensity of rain particle effects for the Storm weather type in cut scenes.
- if the selected control scheme is mouse and keyboard but a gamepad is plugged in when the title screen comes up, the gamepad cursor now starts off hidden until the player presses a gamepad button.
- if on the title screen with a gamepad plugged in, if the player hasn't used the gamepad (or deliberately changes the controls to Mouse and Keyboard) before entering the character creation screen, the game will now assume that the player doesn't want gamepad controls and won't display the virtual keyboard.
- fixed: the treasure map event was no longer checking the player's current level of aura correctly.
- fixed: during deployment in cavern exploration missions, the game would say that the maximum deployment was 6 even though you could send no more than 5 characters.
- increased the intensity of rain particle effects for the Storm weather type in cut scenes.
- if the selected control scheme is mouse and keyboard but a gamepad is plugged in when the title screen comes up, the gamepad cursor now starts off hidden until the player presses a gamepad button.
- if on the title screen with a gamepad plugged in, if the player hasn't used the gamepad (or deliberately changes the controls to Mouse and Keyboard) before entering the character creation screen, the game will now assume that the player doesn't want gamepad controls and won't display the virtual keyboard.
- fixed: the treasure map event was no longer checking the player's current level of aura correctly.
- fixed: during deployment in cavern exploration missions, the game would say that the maximum deployment was 6 even though you could send no more than 5 characters.
#94
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - June 01, 2025, 01:08:51 PM- fixed: the AI could get stuck in a loop when running path-clearing behavior if a unit was stuck behind scenery and the game decided to have them charge an obstacle unreachable due to them being blocked by other destructible objects.
#95
Telepath Tactics Liberated (2022) / Re: Feras Room Bug
Last post by michaelarrington - May 30, 2025, 11:41:08 PMIn the meantime, the workaround seems to be to ensure Emma's inventory isn't full before picking up the map or any other additional items in Feras' room.
#96
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - May 30, 2025, 09:39:26 AM- reformatted morale effect descriptions with symbols to replace most of the text.
- fleshed out the explanation of morale contained in the game's glossary.
- tweaked the changes the game makes to the witness protection battle on Brutal difficulty. (The witness now retains his medicated bandages rather than being swapped to regular ones, and one of the enemies for the later stages of the battle is buffed instead.)
- fixed: skills that swap positions (such as Twirl and Trade) could change the facing direction of the unit swapped with.
- fixed: due to an incorrectly set default army palette color in the character sprite shader, the lightest shade of secondary army colors (light red) was not being palette swapped properly for sprites in the new palette-swapping system.
- fixed: the game was inappropriately using forward slashes appearing within generated dialogue noting the ends of formatting tags (such as [/b], [/i], and [/CAP]) as delimiters if they appeared within a block of alternate phrases, cutting off the relevant portion of dialogue.
- fixed: adding actions to scripts in the dialogue editor had been broken by a different bug fix.
- fixed: when flushing the actions queue for actions stuck behind a Wait command, the game would run subsequent Wait-type commands normally, sticking some of the actions to auto-execute behind a second Wait behavior and failing to execute them as intended.
- fixed: ending a dialogue (whether by script action or otherwise) was not auto-executing remaining script actions stuck behind a Wait command.
- fixed: switching a cutscene's narration frame (whether by script action or otherwise) was not auto-executing remaining script actions stuck behind a Wait command.
- added villagers to the list of universally available default units for custom campaigns.
Pushed the above (except for the new clothing) as hotfix version 1.0.10a.
For the next update:
- spirits now have their own distinct group practice narration.
- fixed: spirits would participate in group practice and lose morale.
- fleshed out the explanation of morale contained in the game's glossary.
- tweaked the changes the game makes to the witness protection battle on Brutal difficulty. (The witness now retains his medicated bandages rather than being swapped to regular ones, and one of the enemies for the later stages of the battle is buffed instead.)
- fixed: skills that swap positions (such as Twirl and Trade) could change the facing direction of the unit swapped with.
- fixed: due to an incorrectly set default army palette color in the character sprite shader, the lightest shade of secondary army colors (light red) was not being palette swapped properly for sprites in the new palette-swapping system.
- fixed: the game was inappropriately using forward slashes appearing within generated dialogue noting the ends of formatting tags (such as [/b], [/i], and [/CAP]) as delimiters if they appeared within a block of alternate phrases, cutting off the relevant portion of dialogue.
- fixed: adding actions to scripts in the dialogue editor had been broken by a different bug fix.
- fixed: when flushing the actions queue for actions stuck behind a Wait command, the game would run subsequent Wait-type commands normally, sticking some of the actions to auto-execute behind a second Wait behavior and failing to execute them as intended.
- fixed: ending a dialogue (whether by script action or otherwise) was not auto-executing remaining script actions stuck behind a Wait command.
- fixed: switching a cutscene's narration frame (whether by script action or otherwise) was not auto-executing remaining script actions stuck behind a Wait command.
- added villagers to the list of universally available default units for custom campaigns.
Pushed the above (except for the new clothing) as hotfix version 1.0.10a.
For the next update:
- spirits now have their own distinct group practice narration.
- fixed: spirits would participate in group practice and lose morale.
#97
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - May 29, 2025, 08:36:51 AMPushed the above early as version 1.0.10.
For the next update:
- created new clothing for male and female humans: Governor, Barbarian.
- the character screen now shows the specific number for a character's morale in lieu of a text description.
- fixed: eyedrops held by certain enemies in the final battle were misformatted.
For the next update:
- created new clothing for male and female humans: Governor, Barbarian.
- the character screen now shows the specific number for a character's morale in lieu of a text description.
- fixed: eyedrops held by certain enemies in the final battle were misformatted.
#98
Telepath Tactics Liberated (2022) / Re: Bug - Manage Inventory Scr...
Last post by Ellenhelen - May 28, 2025, 11:22:40 PMThanks for sharing your positive thoughts on the game's improvements—I also really like the new graphics and UI in "Liberated"!
#99
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - May 27, 2025, 07:20:22 AM- increased the minimum healthy roster size for the smuggler's den event to activate from 6 to 8.
- added a bit of extra text to the objectives screen in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to reiterate that this is a battle where you're expected to retreat at the end.
- added a bit of extra text to the event narration in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to emphasize that the escape point is the exact same point your characters spent the first 8 rounds of the fight dropping in on.
- reduced the intensity of the point light over the escape point in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to make the objective reticle stand out more.
- in the Battle in the Smuggler's Den, when an enemy says "Ahaha, here we come! I hope you're ready to die," the game now explicitly tells the player that this means a whole lot of enemy reinforcements are about to flood into the cavern rather than letting them infer it from the dialogue.
- if a character says something that demands a response line of a type a character doesn't have, the game now attempts to generate one for the responding character on the fly.
- fixed: the game was never bringing up the objectives screen at the start of the Battle in the Smuggler's Den.
- fixed: when playing in roguelike mode, even though the restart battle button was grayed out, clicking it would still restart the battle.
- fixed: the army-wide danger zone function (a.k.a. the Q key) wasn't accounting for offensive knockback skills without baked-in damage (like Shove or Kinetic Gust) the way that simply clicking individual enemies was.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, if a character wandered into a snare trap and became stunned, the character could still be rotated.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, if character dialogue was initiated during camp, opening a different menu would cause the game to not return focus to the dialogue window afterward.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, the gamepad would lose focus upon winning a game of Psy Clash.
- added a bit of extra text to the objectives screen in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to reiterate that this is a battle where you're expected to retreat at the end.
- added a bit of extra text to the event narration in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to emphasize that the escape point is the exact same point your characters spent the first 8 rounds of the fight dropping in on.
- reduced the intensity of the point light over the escape point in Battle in the Smuggler's Den to make the objective reticle stand out more.
- in the Battle in the Smuggler's Den, when an enemy says "Ahaha, here we come! I hope you're ready to die," the game now explicitly tells the player that this means a whole lot of enemy reinforcements are about to flood into the cavern rather than letting them infer it from the dialogue.
- if a character says something that demands a response line of a type a character doesn't have, the game now attempts to generate one for the responding character on the fly.
- fixed: the game was never bringing up the objectives screen at the start of the Battle in the Smuggler's Den.
- fixed: when playing in roguelike mode, even though the restart battle button was grayed out, clicking it would still restart the battle.
- fixed: the army-wide danger zone function (a.k.a. the Q key) wasn't accounting for offensive knockback skills without baked-in damage (like Shove or Kinetic Gust) the way that simply clicking individual enemies was.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, if a character wandered into a snare trap and became stunned, the character could still be rotated.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, if character dialogue was initiated during camp, opening a different menu would cause the game to not return focus to the dialogue window afterward.
- fixed: when playing with gamepad, the gamepad would lose focus upon winning a game of Psy Clash.
#100
Together in Battle / Re: Together in Battle Dev Log
Last post by CraigStern - May 26, 2025, 02:09:26 PM- fixed: an invisible raycast-blocking layer in the character inventory subwindow of the reserve supplies screen had not been adjusted to account for the window's reduced size as of version 1.0, meaning that players could not click the fourth row of reserve items or drag items into the reserve supplies in that area so long as the character inventory window was open beneath it.
- fixed: Grape Shot was not alerting the guards in the Blacksmith Rescue map.
- fixed: Grape Shot was not alerting the guards in the Blacksmith Rescue map.