Rogue Wizards

Patch v1.2.389 (10th November 2019)

Major Changes

• Gamepad support, input mode is auto detected for mouse+keyboard / gamepad
• New "liquid fluid" health UI now in upper right of HUD
• Spells no longer ever need to be equipped to be cast
• Targeting enemies and items now has a new targeting "shaft of light" effect to really make it easy to see what you're targeting, great for both mouse control and gamepad control modes
• Mouse and gamepad focus targeting is now color coded based on the quality of the target to make finding magic items and rare objects stand out easily
• Fabled magic items are now available for all players
• Fire dragon pet now available for all players
• Silence owl pet now available for all players
• Target required spells now use an animated two stage targeting mouse cursor when using mouse/keyboard or the gamepad smart/manual target selection
• Added a "hand" mouse cursor during item drag and drop in inventory
• Removed the hardware cursor, this is too small on Windows and ultra small on 4K+ displays of any platform
• All mouse cursors are now done in software allowing for animation and are now a consistent size on all displays on all platforms
• Added a "Out of Range" and "Blocked" mouse tooltip when hovering a target that you can't actually target a spell at for those reasons
• In story mode, spell upgrades can now only be done at your tower. The character UI no longer has an element to access it at anytime.
• Added a visual indicator of where a slight movement of the gamepad left stick will move the character in combat mode, pushing the stick further will actually execute the move
• The camera can now be zoomed with the gamepad shoulder triggers
• Gamepad right stick manual targeting is now possible while the bottom shortcut ui is up so you can target and select/change spells easily and then press A to cast at the target

Minor Changes

• Vastly increased sight range and camera distance
• Removed the health and XP bars from the top of the HUD
• Blur effect for the background when UIs are open, this can be disabled by reducing the graphics quality setting on the options panel
• The weapon shortcut bar is now automatically hidden when not in combat
• Fixed text rendering having white border artifacts on some Windows machines
• Remove the feedback system, the backing service I used for this is now shut down
• Made a few of the HUD buttons smaller to fit the new more minimal look of the HUD
• New dialog bubble pointer rendering that can better handle bubbles at the edge of the screen
• Removed some of the flashing text for spell points and attributes in the paper doll UI, these were annoying
• Fixed not being able to use a wand via gamepad controls
• Fixed infinite daggers when you did a level transition with dagger quantity of 1
• Close from the options menu via gamepad now acts like "accept" instead of "cancel" for any button
• Moved shop buyback button to other side of UI to make gamepad UI navigation easier
• Hide close button on spellbook UI in gamepad mode
• Tweaked the zoom and scroll settings of the full map ui
• Auto target/select higher quality items over lower ones with gamepad auto/smart selection
• Added audio for shortcut ui show/hide
• Added audio feedback for cell selection during manual targeting
• Decreased footsteps volume
• Fix crash when wireless gamepad goes to sleep and is disconnected while playing
• Fix cell selection graphics rendering on top of cavern walls in some instances
• Better tooltip for experience and level on the character UI
• Tweak the animation ease when moving from town building to building
• Decreased the magic material drop rate

Patch 1.2.371 (19th June 2017)

Major Changes

• Forgestone now adds sockets to items
• Added random dungeon socketing shrines

Minor Changes

• Guild Wizard boss chests now have a glow effect
• Doors are now colored more obviously on the minimap
• Moved spellbook from a tab to a button positioned around the avatar ui
• Spell rune remove poof is now larger and offset more on devices without a mouse
• Fixed exploit from "On Hit" enchantments on weapons, these enchantments only fire in combat mode now

Patch 1.2.369 (05th June 2017)

Major Changes

• 4 new endless gauntlet dungeons now appear in story mode, these gauntlet dungeons are run with your current character
• A revive potion is now for sale at the supply shop that will automatically revive you from death (carry limit 1)
• After beating the final boss players are now returned to town where they can continue to level up their character, vendors, and run town gauntlets
• Level cap upped to 800
• The UI to abandon the current quest is now more obvious off the home menu as "Return to Town"
• Epic chests can now occur in dungeons
• Default game speed now 150% range now goes from 100% to 200%

Minor Changes

• Player allies now ignore invisible actors for combat
• Increased chance of champions
• First miniboss now has half as much health in the Adira quest
• A new UI is now present on the minimap and full map showing the status of the level awards (kill all enemies, open all treasure, disarm all traps)
• Minimap now goes translucent when in combat mode
• A brief death ceremony is now played when you die that darkens the screen and possibily uses a revive potion
• Completely removed the stack split UI when selling items to vendors, it's just not needed
• Added VSync settings to desktiop video UI and device settings file
• Player now speaks inventory full message when can't pickup item on ground
• Upon death, screen decals (mud splats) are now cleared
• Added particle system to cosmic backdrop
• Socketing items now does inventry floaty text
• Sockets now display a colored glow around the socket when occupied
• Socketed now displays with the item rarity if the item has been socketed with another object
• A dialog bubble message now explains that level boss warping behavior is enabled the first time it happens after player death at a boss
• Pet UI is now exclusively when entering a dungeon and is now larger and contains question marks for pet information
• Stairs up/down are now light by lights based on analogous floor colors to make them stand out more
• Changed portal minimap image to a star and slightly refactored how color selection is done to be more flexible
• Players now start with a revive potion from the first dungeon loot drop
• Revive and health potions are now dropped on the ground if the player needs them on the last level of the blacksmith and ice wizard quests as a hand holding technique to help so that players don't die at that point in the game
• Added new combat quality for ice wizard boss used only in story mode with uses a 15x health multiplier instead of a 30x
• Increased stack size for vendor upgrade resources

Framework and fixes

• Fixed a rare case that would cause save games to not load if you killed Hosperak with the last dagger of a stack
• Optimized to save a ton of memory at runtime
• Fixed possible blocking dialog at last boss battle due to boss death ceremony being active at the same time as some quest dialog triggerd by low boss health
• Fixed barrels spawning in the place the player will arrive in the intro dungeon
• Disable log deletion on app version change
• Increase log file size to 5mb
• Fixed descructibles spawning in blackout areas
• Hallucinations no longer contribute to enemies and actors count properties
• Upgraded to Unity 5.6