Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee


This DLC comes as a free update to the base game and brings the following changes:

New Stuff:
  • Added Volh and Gusla - two new human male magic user classes
  • Added over 30 new events
  • Added skills for Volh and Gusla
  • Added 13 new rituals
  • Added new event arts
  • Added a couple of new character portraits and 3d models for them
  • Added half-race tag to mixed parents children
  • Added Elder Swamper, Rockers, Icicles and Lava Rockers
  • Added an event to Slavyan village where you can allow any of your people to leave you and join the Slavyans
  • Added a new difficulty setting which defines how far groups can join other groups' events
  • Added hotkeys and tooltips to the Navigation bar
  • Added tooltip on tasks on Village Overview screen
  • Added tooltips to tasks on Research and Rituals screens
  • Added Forfeit button on Fight Info screen
  • Rollover on characters on action queue highlights the corresponding character on the battlefield
  • Rollover on the characters on the battlefield highlights the corresponding character on the action queue
  • Added a list of participating groups on Resolve Event screen
  • Changed sfx when opening Logbook, God Info, Domination Victory, Theopedia and Factions screens

Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where elf skills would be reset upon growing up
  • Children can no longer level up their racial skill
  • Fixed Flock of Craftsmen trait
  • Scavenger boss Hanka can no longer move over sea tiles
  • Fixed Zmey in the quarry, where you could sacrifice the single character you had in your group, thus you were unable to continue the quest
  • Fixed the Guard being too clingy and staying with you despite you telling him to go
  • Fixed forest demons giving you a boar instead of a bear
  • Fixed main quest path with Ail'yleth, where she would not help rescue the dwarf if you already visited the jail before meeting her
  • Fixed the POI quests from villages, so that they cannot be exploited forever
  • Fixed summons not using passive skills
  • Fixed Delay display in character tooltip
  • Fixed health sacrificing mechanics not using proper damage multiplier
  • Fixed a small bug in elf growing up where one of the options looped
  • Fixed max char count for server name and password on Host and Join screens to make sure the joining player can always input the entire server name and password
  • Fixed modding models
  • Fixed a regression forbidding to create new modules
  • Fixed multistaged events
  • Hotkeys on HUD should now work without having the radial menu open
  • Fixed a bug where removing all entities from a group and then opening another screen that referenced this group would crash the game
  • Fixed the dwarf growing up event, where a dwarf chosen child had no chance to become a warrior
  • Fixed a bug in dwarf 'birth' event where all rockers got a buff when the new one was born
  • Fixed a bug where VSync and FPS limit settings were not applied correctly when the application was restarted
  • Fixed Sort by Value on Trade screen not taking into account the merchant's multiplier

Balance:
  • Reduced the difficulty of Lightbringers on the starting island
  • Healer's skill is now based on Intelligence
  • Tweaked Healer's starting skills and skill packs
  • Zerca now starts with Inspire skill
  • Reduced damage of Reliable Argument skill
  • Increased movement points of flying demons by 1
  • Reduced randomization in starting subraces' attributes
  • Increased trading value of pets
  • Reduced the trade value of cooked food
  • Balancing changes to Drain Vigour skill
  • Balancing changes to various groups, including concepts
  • Buffed Guard Tower
  • Lucky Sod skill is no longer available for children
  • Ailyn and Naiysir now have Beautiful tag
  • Balancing changes to Dziad Mroz and Sniezynki's stats and starting skills
  • Increased shielding granted by Protect Others skill
  • Czort now starts with Weakness skill
  • Orc Matriarch starts with Corruption skill, has less Faith but more Sanity
  • Kraken is now more dangerous in mental and spiritual challenges
  • Reduced Strength and Perception of Light Sick Karakandza
  • Increased Intelligence, Wisdom and Sanity of Light Sick Alkonost
  • Increased Sanity and Intelligence of Hohlick
  • Balancing changes to Forest Leshy, Dormant Leshy and Enlightened Leshy - both in starting skills and attributes
  • Reduced Perception and Health of Viatroviec
  • Increased Perception of Forest Fairy
  • Master Striga now starts with War Shout skill, increased attack
  • Striga Mistress now starts with Hypnosis and Two Flying Daggers skills, increased attack
  • Increased Wisdom of Werewolf
  • Reduced Health of Cmok
  • Reduced Health and Sanity of Light Sick Rusalka
  • Reduced Mental Shielding of Unliving Dragon
  • Increased Mental Shielding of Swamp Troll
  • Increased Strength and Perception of Lava Troll
  • Increased Intelligence and Wisdom of Dwarf Statue #3
  • Unliving Rat and Unliving Spider are now Unliving by race
  • Reduced Strength and Health of bees
  • Reduced the strength of Blood Protection skill
  • Changes to how AI values non-basic damage types
  • Increased duration of Toxine and Illness effects

Modding:
  • Changed methods names: PutSkillOnLocalQueue to PutSkillOnQueue_Local, PutSkillOnMainQueue to PutSkillOnQueue_Main, GetCardsOpposingCardsOnBattelfield to GetOpposingCardsOnBattelfield
  • Cleaned up old and unused database files
  • Added a message if there are no paths of an event node

As mentioned, old saves will not be compatible with this update (but your profiles should be fine), if you have a saved game and would like to continue playing, please use Betas tab to switch to the previous version.

Hotfix 0555:
  • Child growing-up event should no longer show a warning popup
  • Tutorial pop-ups should now appear only once per profile
  • Fixed card game crash on card rollover during Fight Phase
  • Fixed Chinese characters not correctly appearing in the game
  • Fixed screens being switched when pressing hotkeyed letters/numbers in any input field
  • Added arrows to change order in event logic editor
Jul 18, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
- Added mod support for story modules and localisation for story modules,
- Added mod support for images,
- Added the ability to recycle items on Resolve Event screen,
- Bug reporting tool should work correctly once again.

Saves should be still fully compatible between this and the last version.


WARNING:

The next patch (on the 1st August) will include the first content update, balancing tweaks and other goodies. However, this required a lot of changes in the game's various databases, so after the next patch, you will not be able to load any saved games created before it. We'll keep the previous build on a beta branch as usual.
Jul 4, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
- Added tooltips to show character stats on Fight Info screen
- Added Chinese font atlas
- Loading a saved game will reshuffle its randomised systems so that different outcomes of random rolls are obtained whenever a game is loaded
- Improved Steam save performance (for those who felt lags at the end of the turn due to changes after the last patch)
- Fixed Steam Cloud downloading saved games even if using cloud was disabled
- Fixed a softlock when moving characters out of the group in the inventory and then opening equipment screen
- Fixed a crash that occurred if bug reporting service does not work
- Fixed a problem when a corrupted save would cause the game to not start
- Fixed missing bonuses from having multiple boats out of the same materials
- Fixed factions not spawning correctly
Jun 20, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
With a slight delay, but here it is :)

- Added Steam Cloud Saves
- Added Steam Achievements
- Added the first stage of Steam Workshop implementation - this one is for Database files. More information in this guide
- Improved group strength evaluation and difficulty scaling - this should reduce the difficulty of Lightbringers on the starting islands (among other things)
- Added missing sound effects to several buttons
- Added morale per turn gain info to various screens
- Changes to UI to ensure support for ultrawide (i.e. 3840x1080) screens
- Fixed music not being played in a loop
- Fixed VO being played before the fight was concluded
- Fixed Load button's hit area on Load Game screen

This update will not break your saves :)
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
Hi All,

Looks like we'll need a bit more time to do the stuff we promised, so instead of rushing an untested build, we've decided to move the patch to next Thursday.
Apologies to all who were patiently waiting the whole day!

So - the latest build is not public yet and there will still be changes done to it during the week. For those willing to try it out - we've uploaded it to alpha branch. It contains cloud saves, achievements (though not properly tested yet, so some may not complete correctly or possibly cause a crash), changes to group strength scaling (which should fix Lightbringers being too strong early on), morale gain info on character stats and a handful of smaller fixes.

The alpha branch does not require a password and saves should be still fully compatible between this and the last version.
Jun 4, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
Hi All,

For those still unconvinced, we've added a demo version.
It contains all mechanics but is limited to 50 turns of gameplay - hopefully enough to help you decide whether Thea 2 is a game for you.

Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
- Fix for dwarf baker quest, plus a few more small event fixes.
May 30, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
- Added map zoom on mouse wheel,
- Added loading from Pause Menu in single player games,
- Added tooltips on resources/food on Group Info screen,
- Added Voiceovers for Misc Encounters 2 module,
- Character name and portrait should not repeat unless all variants have been exhausted,
- Claiming god points can be done without loading the game (in case a future patch breaks save compatibility),
- Growing up into healer now requires intelligence and not wisdom (this is part one of a tweak coming to the healer class later),
- Fixed VO distortion,
- Fixed weird animation of some goblin 3d models,
- Fixed trade balance display on item transfer popup when trading in coop,
- Fixed Auto End-turn functionality in challenges when there is no AP left / cards costs are too high (can be toggled in Settings),
- Fixed a crash as a result of a task belonging to a different group than workers assigned to it at the end of turn task progression event,
- Fixed god traits not being displayed on God Info screen for the joining player in coop,
- Improved text legibility on God Info screen,
- Card animation speed controller is now permanently shown during a challenge,
- Buffed Poison (25% -> 35% on Essence, 50% -> 60% on Ancient).
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Cloud Saves support - we have encountered technical issues when merging save data from different machines that resulted in corrupted profiles so we have to move this feature to the next patch. Apologies for those waiting!

Coming in two weeks:
- Steam Cloud saves
- First part of Steam Workshop integration
Thea 2: The Shattering - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nic Reuben)

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May 16, 2019
Thea 2: The Shattering - A'vee
Hi all and welcome back to another editon of patch notes! Because release is no excuse to stop working, we've prepared a small set of fixes and improvements.
We plan to release patches more regularly from now on - on Thursdays every two weeks (and hotfixes we break anything in between). Alpha will remain the branch for testing.

- Added this handy dandy changelog to the main menu,
- Added the voiceovers that were supposed to make it on release but didn't,
- Added Auto Assign button to trait selection screen,
- Added resource names to recycle popup,
- Added some hotkeys to hud and radial menu,
- Added tooltips to Inventory/Equip screen buttons,
- Assign God Traits screen now shows god-specific trait on a special card,
- Fixed a crash caused by using Show Possible Recipes toggle on tasks' Favourites panel,
- Fixed drag and drop on traits not letting the player override previous trait in that slot.

Things planned for the next patch (30th May):
- Map Zoom
- Loading from Pause Menu
- Steam Cloud Saves

Things we're working on, delivery time TBD:
- Steam Workshop integration
- Achievements
- Recycle items obtained during events
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