0.22.8 Changes
- Potentially fixed inactive character bug
- New platinum chat icon
- Prevent floating point errors in affix star calc
- Misc technical fixes
What's Coming Soonish
These are WIP, not in this update!
Group Ironman
A new Ironman gamemode where you can party up with a group of (currently) up to 5 other characters with access to a shared inventory.
You will be able to have multiple Group Ironmen characters in the same group from the same account, meaning that you can run your own solo Group Ironman Party.
Right now the basic functionality for this gamemode is implemented, but we need to implement a proper UI as well as group based leaderboards still.
Player to Player Trading
A basic trading system for far more convenient trading between players. This will probably launch in its own gamemode/season at first as well as have far more lenient "Boosting" rules related to them.
The UI for this system is pretty rough right now, but the functionality is all there.
I expect a playtest for the above in the next week or two before it goes to live.
Combat 3.0
This is a massive overhaul of combat to make it far more intuitive. The tl;dr if you haven't followed the discussion on discord is that overly complicated systems will be simplified so that you can understand it more easily at a glance, as well as make both niche and hybrid playstyles more viable across the board.
On a technical level we will be rewriting combat almost entirely from scratch, using what we've learned with the current system to drive a far more performant and easily balanceable system. We specifically want to add proper support for a combat simulator!
Why this stuff?
Group Ironman and Trading has been planned since the refactor of the game a few years back and I had a random burst of inspiration to work on them because I just really wanted to.
The Combat 3.0 rework is aimed to fix a lot of the outstanding issues that the current combat system has, from highly unnecessary levels of complexity to the balancing issues that it brings.