Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.6.6 "Vaulted!" is released!

My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.6.6 ! See https://te4.org/

This release is rather big, with quite some focus on reducing the felt "godmode" of the AI and some corner-cases of scalings.

• Madness mode starts with more gold and HP. But don't worry you'll die anyway

• Fixed (perhaps) some perma-ressource loss due to sustained talents

• Worldmap ambushes npcs and graveyard coffin npcs are now of rank rare instead of elite, which they already were in all but name

• Right click on the inventory icon on the toolbar will bring up the ingredients list

• Reduce Blink Rune cooldown

• Unflinching Resolve now cleanses in a set priority order and works on disarms instead of wounds

• Ranged Arcane Vortex proc scales with material level

• Increase base damage on Shadow Combat but reduced high end damage

• Reduce scaling on Total Thuggery

• Feed no longer prevents entering the world map

• Fix Tentacle Totem always adding to player party

• Reduce duration of Primal Infusion by 1

• Clarify Gloom tooltip

• Fix weapon damage display on Actor tooltips

• Fixed a few bugs with Cursed Sentry

• Any error now dumps a copy of the log into TENGINEHOME/4.0/tome/error-logs/'date'.txt

• Reduce AI chase accuracy during Burrow and Movement Infusion

• Daikara meteors do not remove special features (like weird pedestals) anymore

• Reduce Howl rank on Gorbat

• Fixed Mitosis not worked with negative life

• Prevent Shriek and Howl from scaling with difficulty

• Coup de Grace correctly restricted in range

• Crystaline Half of Stone Wardens will only cast Rain of Spikes when a target is available

• Spacial Tether correctly works with duration increase/reduction of the effect

• Simplified main menu's new game option, with dev mode on it always shows a list of modules, without it only shows if more than one is installed

• NPCs don't pass target if they haven't seen it for 7 turns (down from 10)

• NPCs only pass aggro if they have had their target in their actual FOV at least once

• Improve drops from pride uniques

• Buff Summoner's Pheromones to increase damage received from their summons

• Mindstars now randomly roll either as nature or mind damage (except for fixed artifacts) and give an Attune Mindstar talent to swap them to the other damage type

• Tinker switching is now correctly affected by Switf Hands prodigy

• Added vauls contest submissions! Several new and redesigned funky vaults for you to find and die in! Thanks to Helminthauge, Nsrr, Orange, Razakai, Recaiden and Starsapphire!

• Add failsafe for if one of the Pride's orbs of command somehow didn't spawn

• New artifact: The Far-Hand with teleport immunity and ability to teleport yourself away, or a foe

• Brawler rares now use the same base unarmed damage as a player, instead of the one from the base NPC type; to prevent problems arising on some npcs taht have very strong base melee

• Banned Predator talents from random NPCs

• Disruption Shield correctly explodes once your mana dips below 50%, for whatever reason

• Teleport and Phase Door now become less accurate with distance to target when used by the AI

• Slightly increase numbers for Combat Accuracy

• Target passing between NPCs is now based on rank, the lower the rank the less likely to alert

• Savefiles now contain a "last_log.txt" which contains the last 2000 lines of well .. log. This is the actual game log, not the ingame message log.

• Resistance penetration is capped at 70%

• Halved the experience penalty on all races

• Nerfed Freeze a little to prevent high level oneshoots

• Trying to put a tinker in an object that refuses it will not add a few stats anyway (fixing Galvanic Retributor for example)

• Spells cast by items (like on spell effects) will not trigger Aether Avatar penalty

• Increase save rewards from escorts

• Updates to visuals and sounds of some talents

• Remove linear scaling from Spell Shield

• Combat:attackTarget() returns total damage done

• New hook "Actor:tooltip"

• Add an ActorTalent.deactivate_on property for things that disable at various events

• Add Actor:getCombatStats to get weapon properties for a given object

• New method game.state:dynamicZoneEntry() to easily make new dynamic zones in events, vaults, ...

• Dynamic zones can now be set to reload lists instead of saving them, using zone.embed_lists

• In developer mode all generated maps' entities are now checked for upvalues. Beware evil code! Beware!

• Developer mode: ctrl+shift+alt+right click on an NPC to move it around

• Add Steampower to Actor tooltips

• Change Automated Defenses Boltgun/Flamethrower to be PBAOEs instead of asking for targets

• Fix Shockstaff object cloning

• Heavy Weapons deactivate when leaving combat, running, or resting

• Link turret weapon mastery to the summon talent level

• Increase steam cost of all turrets

• Remove armor penetration from Incendiary Rounds

• Cap and reduce fear chance on Incendiary Powder

• Increase Rocket Pod steam drain

• Reduce armor penetration on steamguns

• Limit Rocket Pod to 2 missiles

• Ban Heavy Weapons and Artillery from NPCs

• Fixed an error in a lore note of the pocket of time

• Remove Weapon Automaton tinker (pending its upgrade to be actually working, likely in next update)

• Change turrets to hardcode their physical power, accuracy, and steampower to the casters at time of summon

• Turrets die when their summoner dies

• Reduce the base life and life rating of turrets

• Add icon overlay display for Stormstrike

• Increase Grenade Launcher cooldown from 6 to 9

• Add Magical to Boltgun Safety Overload effects

• Fix Safety Override doing friendly fire

• Change Weapon Expertise Boltgun to fire 4 attacks and disarm

• Fix some no_energy tags

• Fix Automated Defenses Shockstaff occuring at the start of next turn

• Fix Shockstaff automated defense counting more than the weapon damage dealt

• Allow Shockstaff Automated Defense to work at melee range

• Schematics will not transmog anymore

• Buffed Flashpoint

• Halved the experience penalty on all races

• Update the steamgun ego pool to load the base ranged pool and add a few new egos on top of it

• Gauss Cannon always targets the farthest enemy

• Fix Mecharachnid remembering the wrong weapon type to reequip on chassis change

• Fix Mecharachnid not always teleporting when its summoner leaves combat

• Mecharachnid will almost never use basic attacks

• Mecharachnid will only escape via talents

• Mecharachnid targets enemies that damage its summoner if it has no target

• Remove the Mecharachnid on unlearn

• Heavy Weapons now attack as part of their activation

• Boltgun now generates steam on hit instead of reducing saves

• Remove steam cost from Heavy Weapon basic attacks

• Remove Taunt from Flame Turrets

• Fix AED tooltip

• Demolition nerfs

• Writhing One's Worm that Walks can now be renamed (use the orders menu)

• Shoes of Moving Slowly correctly combine with Shoes of Moving Quickly even with curses (requires a new pair of both after the patch)

• Light of Revelation only works on foes

• Somewhat reduced the rarity of most Forbidden Tomes

• Halved the experience penalty on all races

• Halved the experience penalty on all races

Have fun in Eyal!