Update 0.85.17

0.85.17

• added elite visuals for valdor and necroreavers
• added new trait - "Shatterproof" grants stun immunity. Added this trait to most of beasts, valdor and bosses.
• Long weapon reach is now 'special' damage.
• Delirium now negates also special damages (bash, billhook, spearwall, grab).
• Battle Help screen - added more explanations about types of attacks, and damage types.
• you can now cure Werebeastism & Vampirism without the priest-healer, any time.
• balance: poison now reduces Healing rate down to 0%, effectively reducing all incoming healing by 66%!
• New feature: mergable mutators - can be merged and some mutators will be upgraded in the process. The 'merging' is done in party screen via dragging same mutator over other mutator in inventory space.
• balance, spearwall hit stamina reduced 30->20
• spear & billhook dmg increased by 10%
• balance (boosting a bit poor spearman)
• when armour's protection reduces to <=0, it's 'broken' and won't regenerate anymore in battle
• AI improv. (ai won't grab/bash an stalwart ent.)
• Moles calamity intensity nerfed (33% slower now)
• added new trait - "Bleeding Immunity". Added it to all necroreavers & revenants
• Move & Jump icons won't allow to move/jump into lethal tiles (like death-hex)
• added new Ability - "Throw barrel"; added new class - "Barrel thrower"
• added into Fortress attacking battles the 'Barrel thrower'
• balancing - most Valdor classes are now Stalwart (bash immune).
• balance (speeder -> gain 3x AGI speed instead of 2x)
• balance: Soldier perk: when progressed, increase armour protecion 2% -> 3%
• necroreaver javelinier has stalwart now
• balance: valdor are 100% resistant to panic
• stunned unit does not generate Focus on taking damage -"Fast Thinker" - now gives 2x foc.ability at the start of battle, and +10% CONC.
• reduced Mansplitter bonus damage 200% -> 150%
• balance: slightly increased 'treatment period'
• stronghold & fortress mercs now demand weekly wage from you
• increased the cost of Medicine for buying at Black Market and for producing (party screen or by the priest-healer); for Hard diff. the increase is doubled.
• added Global game progress tracker (class, disk logic) - for tracking your total game's progress to unlock things
• added new start options (unlockable factions) - you can now play as Vampires, Werebeasts or <secret!> after you made specific progress in game
• flagrant - bonus dmg reduced 75% to 60% on being hit. The dmg is now netto (after all reductions).
• increased levelup XP by %20 (after lvl11)
• balance (Siphon Life II): now gives +75% max-hp, at +3%/kill and life-regen
• Moles Calamity - now changes terrain also on hexes with char.standing on it.
• ability "snipe" - reduced a little bit of his high accuracy
• Major difficutly parameters overhaul - now the world-level scales faster, enemy count is reduced, and ai Lvl is based on world-level (so enemy will be stronger)
• Worshippers party to send per zone is now limited to max 3.
• Prisoner Guards party to send per zone is now limited to max 3.
• mutators - added missing gx assets (icons) - about 95% done!
• Removed Stronghold node-type, keeping just fortress & village (which has now stronghold battle builder)
• reduced default cost of mutators by 25% because of new upgradable/mergable mutators
• AI improvements
• lots of bugfixes, UI improv., text/descriptions, tweaks and small udpates