3 November

Friday Patch Roundup: Polish, balance, quality of life!

Hello adventurers! Halloween might be over, but we still came up with a mountain of treats over the last week. Our focus was primarily on making the game experience better overall, fulfilling many player-requested features and conveniences, addressing balancing issues, and fixing tons of bugs. Here are some of the highlights:

In the 2nd half the game, most maps would often spawn with a very high monster density and respawn rate. This made it a bit too difficult to survive as you'd be constantly overwhelmed by monsters, even after defeating a whole group. We've adjusted these numbers, which should make it more rewarding to stand and fight instead of just running through.

Love having pets? Well, we have good news! Tamed corral monsters now regain 25% of their health with each passing ingame day. Also, the "Companions" magic mod now applies to ALL pets, not just ones from the corral. Plus, you can now buy Pet Insurance to ensure your carefully-raised monster buddy isn't lost forever if it gets in trouble.

You can now drop, deposit, or withdraw specific amounts of any item instead of whole stacks at once. Also, shopkeepers now display stacks of consuambles instead of the same item 4-5 times in a row.

Eating food is something any good Tangledeep player will be doing all the time. However, it was a bit clumsy to open the menu, go to your inventory, and filter your healing food every time you wanted to heal. Now, there's a new UI shortcut (and bindable action) that jumps immediately to your Inventory with only healing tiems filtered. Handy!

In a heated battle, the combat log can easily generate tons of messages. We've done a pass of consolidating many of these messages; for example, if you restore HP, Energy, and Stamina, this is now displayed on one line instead of three. If a monster takes damage multiple times from the same source, that is also combined. We'll continue making improvements and tweaks here.

The rest of the jobs are now fully animated, with movement, idle, and attack animations in all directions!

All this, plus a smattering of new legendary items and lots of bug fixes!

27 October

Halloween Part 2 + Tangledeep on Sale!

Happy Friday, adventurers! Wait - you don't have Tangledeep yet?! Pick it up now during Steam's Halloween Sale for 15% off!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/628770/Tangledeep/

And now on to our SECOND Halloween patch which brings a whole mess of awesome new permanent features!

For those who have defeated three Nightmare Princes in regular Item Dreams, you should have three Red Orb Shards... deliver those shards to Mir in Riverstone Grove to receive a Nightmare Orb and enter an Item Nightmare!

This is a very different dungeon type full of danger, new frogs, a deadly new boss (the Nightmare Queen, and new rewards. In fact, Item Nightmares are home to 18 exclusive new magic mods, so gear hunters, rejoice!

In addition to the Nightmare-exclusive gear, you'll now find yet more magic mods for your gear throughout the world, plus several new pieces of legendary armor!

This is one of the biggest sprite enhancements yet, featuring top/side attack animations for 5 jobs, a new visual tileset, and lots of new attack/skill animations. These new battle FX look much flashier and more impactful, and plus, they feel great to use!

These wicked treasure chests have been improved, sporting tempting animations and FX if you open them (so you can feel the impact of your choice.) In addition to XP, JP, gold, and possibly Lucid orbs, they now have a chance at dropping legendary items... but remember, every chest makes the game harder!

We've removed stamina drain in water, improved pet AI, added tips during load screens, and ditched some extraneous tutorial popups, among other things. All thanks to player feedback :D

Jim has been hard at work making the game faster, smoother, and ready for Switch. In this build we've included some changes that should make combat and turns run smoother overall, especially when fighting groups of enemies like Neutralizers.