One consequence of the weapon formula and mastery changes is that the first weapon mastery point is worth far more.  This is good for PCs, but a little over the top on some starting NPCs.

As it turns out this works out well since the weapon NPCs are still stronger than other early things just by virtue of the fact that get to use gear.

Because why is it there?  Undead and various other unliving things give enough poison woes as is, no need to put it on random humanoids.

This stat is sprinkled everywhere and I have no idea why.  A quick search of of my TOME files finds over 200 entries for it.

This stat has some use for differentiating between melee attack styles but in general should be avoided, as its severely punishing and most players don't even notice it exists.  Note that whether they notice it or not it is still getting them killed.

A Normal difficulty Daikara giant can have 15 melee retaliation.  Thats 90 damage on a Flurry.  I do not believe that anyone sat down and decided this was a desirable disadvantage for melee to have, rather whenever something is vaguely elementally themed people just put this stat on them.

This prunes the stat from most things that aren't strongly elementally themed (dragons, elementals).  It probably doesn't go far enough but its a good start.

vile life typos



See merge request !502

Fixed Actor:cloneActor to support both add_mos and add_displays, in essence this fixes display bugs with talents that clone NPCs

Chris Davidson authored 6 years ago and DarkGod committed 6 years ago

Something is very bugged with this talent, nobody knows what exactly it is, but it can effect future characters as well as current so it needs to be disabled for now.

Its possible hachem_muche's changes to cloning have fully fixed this issue, unfortunately I don't know how to test that.

Npc class autolevel

NPC Class Autoleveling

Updated the way NPCs (randbosses) are assigned character classes (game.state:applyRandomClass).

The new method makes high level NPCs with character classes scale like player levels and tends to increase the number of talents randomly learned while limiting the maximum talent levels.

This is a nerf for high level randbosses (including those enhanced due to game difficulty) and a buff for fixed bosses that are updated, while making turning their difficulty much simpler.

This replaces the previous method of assigning an increasing number of class talents at maximum level, that could result in boss's skills scaling much faster than its actor level.

This should allow the difficulty to fixed and random bosses to be more consistent.


DETAILS:

Talents are learned randomly one level at a time and are restricted by the normal progression of talent and stat points and all normal talent restrictions.

After setup, NPCs automatically advance in their character classes when gaining levels, tending to focus their talent choices with randomly determined preferred categories.


Random bosses and bosses enhanced for game difficulty can use "partial" character classes.  Game balance tuning is handled my adjusting the number of added classes.

The number of character classes assigned to bosses at higher difficulties is adjusted slightly:

NIGHTMARE -- max 1 random class (BUFF), INSANE -- max 2 random classes , MADNESS -- max 3 random classes

NPC (fixed boss) definitions can be updated to specify automatic class advancement begining at a certain level and rate.

This allows many bosses that become unchallenging on advanced difficulties or when spawning in the I.D. to be easily buffed by specifying character class advancement based on level.

This commit updates the definitions of some (fixed) bosses to use this method:


Trollmire troll bosses: 75% Berserker class advancement starting at level 11

Aluin the Fallen: 50% Sun Paladin and 50% Cursed starting at level 36

The Shade: 75% Archmage starting at level 12

The Possessed: 75% Arcane Blade starting at level 12

Kor's Fury: 50% Archmage, 50% Corruptor starting at level 39

Epoch: 100% Paradox Mage starting at level 36

The Abomination: 50% Anorithil and 50% Cursed class advancement starting at level 36

Nimisil: 100% Anorithil starting at level 44

Snaproot: 100% Summoner starting at level 51

Corrupted Sand Wyrm: 50% Corruptor, 50% Wyrmic starting at level 48

Massok the Dragonslayer: 100% Berserker, starting at level 46

Pale Drake: 50% Archmage, 50% Corruptor starting at level 41

Fallen Sun Paladin Aeryn: 100% Sun Paladin starting at level 57


Summary of function changes:


Actor:learnStats(statorder, repeats)

Updated to maintain the current stat index within the passed statorder table.
This allows multiple stat progressions to be applied to the same Actor and repeated multiple times with the same function call.


Actor:levelupClass(c_data)

New function to automatically assign character class levels to an actor according to c_data.
Sets up the self.auto_classes table, retrieves data as needed from class birth descriptors.
Assigns stat/talent/category points randomly on a level-by-level basis.


Actor:resolveLevelTalents()

Updated to process any self.auto_classes defined


game.state:applyRandomClass(b, data, instant)

Works as before, but is updated to use Actor:levelupClass to set up class definitions.
nb_classes can be a floating point number, allowing "fractional" classes to be assigned: (1.5 == one class at 100% actor level plus another class at 50% of actor level).
The instant parameter forces advancement in the class(es) immediately.
Fixed a bug where auto_equip_filters were being copied even when forbid_equip was set.


game.state:createRandomBoss(base, data)

By default, randombosses are nerfed slightly, getting 1.75 random classes by default.


NPC:addedToLevel(level, x, y)

Higher game difficulties assign slightly random classes based on rank, which may be partial classes:
NIGHTMARE -- up to 1 random class, INSANE -- up to 2 random classes, MADNESS -- up to 3 random classes
Random bosses gain extra character classes at 1/2 the rate of fixed bosses.


resolvers.sustains_at_birth()

Will check that a talent is inactive before trying to activate it.


resolvers.talented_ai_tactic(method, tactic_emphasis, weight_power)

May specify "instant" as the method to force recalculating the talent table immediately when resolved (instead of through on_added_to_level).


RandomActor debug Dialog: updated Help reference to show header for Actor:levelupClass


SummonCreature debug Dialog: updated to spawn the alchemy golem if needed




See merge request !494

Fix Cyst Burst improperly copying diseases

This fixes a pretty serious bug where diseases using effectTemporaryValue instead of addTemporaryValue can error when copied by Cyst Burst and cause their temp values to be permanent.  This doesn't effect most if any of the vanilla diseases, I only noticed it because of a Cults one which can just be rewritten for now.  Should be safe to leave this for 1.6 but figured I'd put it up now.

See merge request !498

Failing to use an instant use wild gift (or a spell with antimagic equipment) will not spend a turn anymore but will prevent you from trying again this same turn (otherwise it'd be possible to jsut spam try at no cost)

* Fixed error on changing level after a version upgrade. Stupid me sorry :/