Empire Chronicles (Version 0.9.500) - Major Update

• New quest and dungeon area added for Horace's team where they must to fight a Lich near Jasovil.
  
• Heavy Frame Rate optimizations should help the game run faster.
  
• Added a small wait on scene load before player can move to allow the graphics to load.
  
• Improved graphics and look of last stand skill.
  
• Bug Fix: Pathing issue fixed in the D'ivore church.
  
• Bug Fix: Minotaur enemies were not random pathing.
  
• Bug Fix: In battle sometimes characters where slow in moving to thier new spot when other characters shifted around thier position.
  
• Bug Fix: Parn was missing some skill descriptions in Corywns part of the skill tree.
  
• Bug Fix: Fixed a pathing issue in the cave under D'ivore sewers.
  
• Bug Fix: Entering the water temple required pixel perfect accuracy, which has now been fixed.

- Thanks to the following community members for reporting issues or making suggestions included in this update!

• Blood Spartan
  
• Vivid Empress
  
• MrMarblz

- Quality of Life: Speed up target_kind

- fix: Prevent choosing calamities that you've already chosen
- fix: Protect against unit being loaded in with null stamina
- fix: Spell displace sometimes pushing enemies into walls
- fix: Keep perks fresh when user is selecting multiple
perks on one level, which can happen if player is joining a game late.
- fix: Perk labeling
- Fix: calamities not being given after you run out of spell upgrades

- UX: Don't show player thoughts when hovering over non-game space such as inventory or toolbar.
- mod: export cards/util to API
- mod: mod loading bug where only one mod with a spritesheet could be loaded or else it would error out

Currently, as of this very day, Cease To Breathe is around 70% complete and features the following:

1. 20 Locations (A nice, sprawling, openworld-esque house to explore!)
   
2. 440 Interactive Objects!
   
3. An ambient storm & weather system that 'gets worse as you go'
   
4. A coherant plot/mystery with several branching paths. Gameplay choices WILL affect the ending you get!

This game is truly a labor of love for me. I've played some of the best (and worst) adventure games, from the late 80's up until now, and using that, I've attempted to capture all the things I've loved about those games. At the same time, I've actively tried to avoid the things that peeved us off! In this game, you will find no needless mazes, no brute force puzzles, and no illogical BS. There are no unneccesary time limits and each and every object can be interacted with.

I will continue to post new screenshots, and a video soon, as they come and I'm expecting to release this summer. Which reminds me, a huge THANK YOU to all who have wishlisted! I can't wait to share this with you all. To quote Indy, "I'm as giddy as a schoolboy!".

Much love,

Sam

- Complete Dialogue Rewrite

- Better Voices For All Main Characters

- Added Portrait Icons To Character Dialogue UI

- Improved Hologram Shaders

- Adjusted Character And Music Audio

It is experimental fix for a problem when occasionally players may lose saved progress while switching arenas.

Sorry for the inconvenience and as always thanks for your support.

If you experience that kind of issues please contact us at: studio@nesalisgames.com.

This is mainly just a follow-up patch to fix some bugs reported in v178, but there's a new feature too - you can now specify, for a particular bottle or sealed container, what kind of liquid or substance you want people to put in it. So you can set one bucket to be your saltpeter bucket, one to be your gunpowder bucket, and so on. And you can set bottles to be for water only, so people don't go filling them up with pee from the outhouse.



The rest of the patch is fixes and tweaks from the previous patch - here's the full changelist:

• Option to designate what liquid you want a particular container to be storing
  
• Auto-collect will pick up arrows
  
• Increased tolerance for building on slopey ground
  
• Made chicken wire more common
  
• Fix for mouse not working to switch targets or target body parts on Steam Deck
  
• Fix for crash if a memory type is removed from a mod
  
• Fix for crash on loading some savegames
  
• Fix for occasional crash when confirming a trade in multiplayer

EDIT - Released a small follow up patch, v180 with some fixes for the above:

• Setting Roles and Equipment Policy will always be available immediately if you have hints turned off. Otherwise they appear once you have multiple community members.
  
• Fix for characters filling bottles designated for water with snow
  
• Fix for crash when auto collecting items

v179 will be in the "publicbeta" branch for a while, before pushing it to the main game. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:

• Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
  
• If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
  
• If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".

To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".

• Prestige Points are earned based on cumulative town XP earned. You still need to reset your Town to claim them, but they are no longer tied to specific town levels. This generally results in lower Prestige Coins totals, especially at higher town levels (20+).
  
• Legacy games will preserve prestige points, however if you would like to adjust your prestige points down (or up) you can use the SETPRESTIGEPOINTS [X] admin command and the game will estimate cumulative XP earned based on the new prestige point value.
  
• Clickables now are boosted by harvesting skill, and increment harvesting skill when clicked. They no longer gain Town XP.
  
• Clickables display indicates associated skill and inventory progress bars
  
• Clickables now produce resources every click, instead of once every 4. Click Power perk increases the amount of resources and skill earned.
  
• Clickables now gain Click XP. Leveling up your Click will result in more resources & skill per click.
  
• Added global perk and town perk reset buttons, on 20 hour cooldown
  
• Infinite research starts at 1000 Star Coins instead of 100
  
• Added Forest Biome. (pending further biome specialization)
  
• Fixed many quests having missing icons or non-localized labels when displayed in requirements
  
• Forester / Farm skills quests have reduced skill count requirements so they are completable in any biome
  
• Creating towns in advanced Biomes now have prerequisite quests to level up towns in other Biomes (e.g. Snow biome requires having a Mountain town at a certain level). Games that already have Towns in these biomes will not be locked
  
• Doubled baseline effectiveness of Aqueducts
  
• Fixed missing research icons
  
• Removed Medicine Storage and Wardrobe buildings / research / upgrades. Instead these items use Warehouse
  
• Most items used for construction of Buildings moved to the Stockpile storage instead of Warehouse storage
  
• Added tooltip to Prestige Point counter on Town Status panel
  
• Fixed incorrect tooltip on Land icons on buildings panel
  
• Added Credits panel
  
• Added button to show Full Version Details
  
• Fixed bad formatting in tooltips for Magic Rail and Conveyor Belt
  
• Prestige Points menu is npw available even if player has not yet earned Prestige Points
  
• Omnistone Upgrades effect lowered from +50% per level to +25% per level
  
• Fixed Market fulfillment showing stale value when loading new save file
  
• Fixed game producing error messages when research or construction progress was slowed due to extremely scarce inputs
  
• Added Skill icon to skill display regions
  
• Fixed inventory disappearing if switching towns while a menu list item selected

I changed the color palate to better reflect the original spirit of the game. The lights on the previous update were a little too dark.



-New Volumetric Clouds.
-New Light Effects (God Rays).
-Flying Birds.

Please let me know if there is any problem with the update.

Thank you!

🎯 [Misc] The default camera mode has been changed to Cursor.
🎯 [Balance] Weapons are no longer set to cooldown when switching maps.
🎯 [Balance] The level requirement for items produced when gambling now always equals player level.
🎯 [Performance] Minor performance improvements.
🎯 [Balance] The hull has been increased for the ships that need to be rescued in the distress call events.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed another issue that could cause COOP clients to get stuck on loading screen when changing maps.
🎯 [Bug fix] A retry-pattern has been added to handle a case where an external program is accessing save files simultaneously to saving the progress (thus causing failure to save).
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed three crash-related issues that could occur due to race conditions.
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed an incorrect condition evaluation order for the skills "Obsidian Armor" and "Emergency Repairs".
🎯 [Bug fix] Fixed a bug that caused the Emergency Repairs skill to keep the Hull % restored value when the skill was reset.

Hi Maplers,

We’re here to share our Roadmap for Q2 2023! As always, please be mindful that it will list the notable updates but not everything that will be included in each patch. We recommend waiting for the respective update’s Update Preview post or Patch Notes post for details.

• v.241 Update
  • 18th Anniversary - Maple Momentree
  • Cash Inventory Transfer Event
  • Dormant Guild Removal
• v.242 Update
  • New Class: Khali
  • Wongstaurant
  • Job Balance Changes
  • Level Up Improvements
  • Star Force Enhancement Improvements
  • Burning Events

v.241 - 18th Anniversary - Maple Momentree
Celebrate the 18th anniversary of MapleStory with the Maple Momentree!

A giant Maple Momentree has appeared somewhere in Maple World. Rith and Ellie, the tree's spirits, aren't growing and the adult spirits are worried. They say that Rith and Ellie have to grow for the Momentree's stopped time to start flowing. Play with Rith and Ellie to help them grow.

There will be lots of fun events where you can collect Memory Tokens and then exchange them for awesome rewards! Chart the spirits’ growth in the Growth Journal, cook nutritious food for them with Power Up! Cooking Collection, go Mole Hunting around the base of the Momentree, and lots more.

v.241 - Cash Inventory Transfer Event
The event everyone has been waiting for, the Cash Transfer Event is coming in June! Prepare your Cash Items to be moved around as you perfect your FashionStory.

v.241 - Dormant Guild Removal
We will be removing dormant guilds so that the guild names can be available for active players to claim. If the original choice for your guild name was taken, this might free up that name for use!

Check out more details in our Dormant Guild Removal post.

v.242 - New Class: Khali
Introducing the newest class–Khali, the Wind of Vengeance!

Khali is a priestess of the Grandis High Flora race. She enters the Guard Selection Test with her twin sibling to become the Lord's guard, out of her admiration for the graceful Lord.

She is fluid in combat as she utilizes the Chakram to attack in close range and link swift movement skills. She can resonate with the Chakri created during battle to perform powerful skills.

Play through Khali’s story and learn how this priestess and her sister are part of a royal guard.

v.242 - Wongstaurant
Wonky the Fairy and friends finally opened the restaurant of their dreams!

They're looking for someone to test out the menu prepared for the VIPs visiting Wongstaurant and share their thoughts.

Enjoy the Main Menu prepared by Wonky the Fairy and the Special Menu that changes every week and receive various gifts!

v.242 - Job Balance Changes
It’s time again we look at balancing all the Jobs. This time around both Zero and Kinesis get a new 5th job skill. Most jobs are getting usability improvements. You can learn more about the specific changes in the v.242 patch notes.

v.242 - Level Up Improvements
Level 220 - 259 will require less EXP to level up, some hunting zones in Arcane River have been improved, and a new hunting zone has been added to Limina. Arcane River's special content has been changed to weekly content, the EXP rewards have been adjusted, and a new special content, Midnight Chaser, has been added to Lachelein. If you're within these levels, now is the perfect time to revisit some of this content to check out the changes!

v.242 - Star Force Enhancement Improvements
Star Forcing is getting easier! Soon, you will be able to Star Force up to 15 stars without any chance to destroy your item and without any chance for your item to lower in Star Force. Because of this, the meso required to Star Force these levels will be increased. If you still have 12-14 Star items lying around, you should plan on getting them up to 15 after this update!

v.242 - Burning Events
Something that Maplers are always asking about, it’s almost time to burn another character! The Burning Events include Burning World and Hyper Burning to help you speed up progression by allowing you to level three times every time you level up. In addition to this, there will be various rewards along the way!

We hope you’re excited by this high-level view of the content and events arriving to GMS in v.241 - v.242 2023. As always, our goal with these roadmaps is to provide information that players may be curious about and assist players with advanced preparation. Please keep in mind that there is more content on the way in addition to those listed above, so we advise players to refer to the Update Preview post and Patch Notes post for the finalized details for every game update. If plans change due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have a mid-update post to inform players of the changes to the proposed timeline. Hope you’re excited!

Thank you,

Veeraah and the MapleStory Team