RFT15

[darkgod]

http://te4.org/dl/t-engine/t-engine4-al ... lpha15.zip

* Stealth talent: Hide in Plain Sight (forces a stealth even with nearby monsters, resets stealths cooldown)
* Meta talent: Metaflow (reset cooldown of all spells)
* Call of the Wild talent: Nature's Balance (reset cooldown of all wild gifts)
* Lethality talent: Snap (reset cooldown of all techniques and cunnings)
* Fix ego item generation
* Add Wigths to Tol Falas (it definitively becomes a nasty place)
* Implemented the framework to allow to fly, pass walls, ...
* All 4 lines of Summoning talents implemented!!
* Drake-touched renamed to "Wyrmic"
* Wilder classes need to be unlocked, they are not present at first. Certain events unlock them (I'll spoil if you do not find them, but it's quite easy)
* Extended the staff story-line a bit, beware of nasty orcs!

Try to find how to unlock the new wilder classes, it's not very hard and I believe it can be fun for players to discover new options. And it also reduces the initial "OMFG so many choices .. what to do!" while still preserving the choice. (I have many, and I mean MANY, ideas of classes, races, ... that could be subject to such a system)

[darkgod]

Whoops!

Please redownload if you got it before this post, there was a silly character creation bug

[madmonk]

Big change...

Don't have enough time to play until tonight!

[Shoob]

haven't started playing yet, but my main question is... will the shops eventually stop stocking potions of slime mold juice?, because that is what makes it easy to get that gift.

and I got a crash when I left the amon sul at low hp... hmmm, dun know why.

and finally, idea for tooltips, change mouseover to right-click.

oh, and one thing, I just noticed, stores constantly restock themselves when you are in town (add to inventory, but not replace). do you mean for this to be?

and (not so) finally, poison causes the player to stop (noticed this with summons last rft, this is the first time it did this with the pc though) running and moving dont work till the poison is up. (this is only poisons from traps, not monsters) (edit: ok, strangely enough, it is not just poison traps, and it is not all poison traps, it seems to affect most/some traps though) Aha!, found the culprit, running over traps makes you stop and have to rest the ongoing damage off before you can move

finally (yay editing), trying to run after casting sense (and presumably with telepathy on) results in the cant run, hostiles spotted message (make it so that they have to be in view, not just detected, or else the game becomes tedious for people with telepathy.

(ok fine, I am giving up with the finally, because as I was typing that last one, I remembered one more about running) if you are running and there is a hostile around a corner on the next corner, you wont stop running till you are next to them, no matter the distance from the one corner to the other (does that make sense?) (I can provide a screenshot with markers on it to explain myself)

[Shoob]

death screen revision:

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Death!
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You have died!
Death in T.o.M.E. is usually permanent, but if you have a means of resurrection it will be proposed in the menu below.
You can dump your character data to a file to remember her/him forever, or you can start the game over again with the same choices, or you can exit and try again to survive in the wilds!
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Character dump
Quick start
Exit to main menu

note that I put in another choice, you dont have to do that (it would be nice to have in later though). also I changed some spellings/grammar (mean -> means, and some punctuation)

(and hummerhorns are nasty)

and could you make it so you can go back in the character choosing menus (like <backspace> or something?)

and sense no longer shows traps (^) if they are in view, and if they are out of view, you get the space viewed, but no traps shown. see:

that blank spot to the south of me is a trap, but no trap is displayed there, I have to walk over it (and set it off) to see the trap there.

hmmm... maybe it is nice to know there is a trap there, but not the type, (make sense sense traps location but not type at lvl 4, but only show them at lvl 5 maybe?)

if you do the above, maybe make that tile have the red filter over it (to show it is a trap), or maybe make a yellow one?

[darkgod]

Thanks for the text.

So you unlocked some classes ?
What do you think of the idea ?

I'll eventually add quick start later yes.

I'll check Sense (and etlepathy, yes it should not prevent running)

As for running/resting, any damage taken cancels them (it should tell you why it cancels anyway).

For stores, you mean they keep filling up ?

[Shoob]

So you unlocked some classes ?

actually, no, I never invested in it, just got it (my level was too low)... unless just getting it was supposed to do it, but the option to get it still isnt there. I do like the idea though, makes the game more interesting to play, though I suppose you keep the information that you unlocked it outside of the savefile, as the savefile is deleted on death.

As for running/resting, any damage taken cancels them (it should tell you why it cancels anyway).

actually, this prevents you from moving entirely, not just continuing running, resting etc (you can move again once you rest off the damage duration, which is the only thing you can do (maybe you can use talents, I forget)

For stores, you mean they keep filling up ?

oui

[darkgod]

Are you sure there was not something that pinned you to the ground instead ?
I tried to get poisonned bya worm mass and I could still move fine.

Yes unlocking is preserved outside of the savefile obviously
I am not sure what you are saying, you saw a screen popup telling you a new class was available ?
It is not for your current character, it opens the possibility for other characters

[Shoob]

nope, no popups, no, nothing... (I did get the notification that I got the slime mold powers, but I was only lvl 2 or so, so no investing in the thing yet.)

it is only traps, try running (not walking) around and hitting a poison trap. Ok, here is a savefile.

and I found out that the shop bug (getting it) was also due to running... hmmm... so it looks like running breaks things...

[edit] hmmm, played a mage, got the slime mold talent, but it isnt showing up in my talent list now.

[madmonk]

It is not only Poison traps... Essentially any trap that gives damage over a number of turns has this problem.

I still have the shop bug, so I will check on the running, I think you may be wrong.

Yes, I play a Mage and don't get the Slime bits!

[Shoob]

yeah, I know that, but poison traps are the easiest to find, and "least dangerous" of the traps now, and actually, it is not just any trap that does damage over time, in my savefile (above), I am stuck in the non-move by a lightning trap

some fun ideas for new traps in the forests/wherever your heart pleases
tangleweeds: pin a player for 1-2 rounds and then slow them for several more rounds. no or little damage.
slime pits: slow a player for several rounds. lowers air from falling in
corrosive slime pit: slows a player for several rounds, acid damage over this time, and lowers air from falling in

sandworm lair:
quicksand: like slime pits.
sandstorm: blinds the player. message reads: a gust of wind blows sand in your eyes (or something like that).

and sometime you should probably put in a possessive generator (to properly handle talents and their descriptions, and other various messages)

[Shoob]

ok... completed the trollshaws, amon sul and the old forest with my wizard, went to do the maze and now time flies because I got this:

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Lua Error: /data/general/npcs/thieve.lua:33: table index is nil
	At [C]:-1 
	At /data/general/npcs/thieve.lua:33 f
	At /engine/Entity.lua:239 loadList
	At /engine/Entity.lua:233 load
	At /data/zones/maze/npcs.lua:8 f
	At /engine/Entity.lua:239 loadList
	At /engine/Zone.lua:34 init
	At /engine/class.lua:19 new
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:199 changeLevel
	At /mod/class/Game.lua:465 ?
	At /engine/KeyBind.lua:155 

because the steal talent is no longer in game it appears :/

and do you want me to try my hand at making an icon for the game, if so, what size do you want it? 48? 32? 24? 16? and any particular theme too?
oh you know what, I did it anyways http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=fe69 ... 2b9fc3640c
hehehe, what I basically did was take the background, crop it, make Gandalf's robe blue, and then make it into an icon (or four).


and I am not getting the gift talent anymore... I remember seeing it with my first character, but I think it breaks it once you get it, so you cant get it anymore (well, you can get it, but it doesnt show up, and I dont see it unlocking anything either).

[darkgod]

Ah yes you can fix it by removing the STEAL talent from the thieves in data/general/npcs/thieve.lua
I'll add steal later.

I found the trap bug, it was a side effect of a bugfix But taht led me to find a nice generic solution to prevent such cases.

Good traps i'll add them

Fixed slime mold talents, I had remaned gifts to wild-gifts but not in the potion..

As for the icon, I like it but I contacted John Howe who thinks it could cause problems with the co-copyrioght owner so I cant use it :/
Enjoy it while it last in the RFTs, it'll disappear from the releases. I'm looking for a nice image thus
Maybe a map of middle earth ?

Let me clarify the wild talents unlocking thingy:
- There are two wilder classes: Summoner and Wyrmic, they are locked and cannot be used to create characters at first
- When you encounter some events in the game you'll get a popup explaining you have unlocked a class, this means you can create a NEW character with this class, it changes nothing for your current one
- When you drink slime mold juice or eat the heart of the sandworm queen you get new talents available, for your character.


Ok Spoiler alert:
Text written in white on white, read it at your peril ! (ok it's not that bad ;> )

To unlock Summoners: just encounter a monster that can summon and let it do so.
To unlock Wyrmics: eat the heart of the sandworm queen

[madmonk]

The Blood of Life will operate multiple times from one drink...

Not sure it should do that!

[darkgod]

Fixed