Dredmor News
Now that things are a little more organized on the Odin front, and now that our days are no longer a giant sink-hole of meetings and job interviews, we’ve found some time to finish pushing that patch out the door. A beta should be floating through the IRC channel any day now; at that point, we’ll have a week of testing, and then we will push everything to Steam, Desura, and the Humble Bundle. The current changelog is below the cut, as well as a handful of Odin teasers.

• FIXED: Invisibility now works as it says on the tin.
• FIXED: Blackjack works again.
• FIXED: Added a flag to targetHitEffects that lets them apply before, or after, the target combat calculation.
• FIXED: “Playing for Both Teams” achievement now works.
• FIXED: bookshelf crashing bug w/bony wand recipes
• FIXED: Some timing exploits.
• FIXED: A number of load/save corruption issues.
• FIXED: Uberchests not opening after you load and save.
• FIXED: You can now load more than one mod on OS X.
• FIXED: The Mace of Windu now uses the correct art.
• FIXED: Item spawning on levels 11-15 now works correctly. Additionally, mods can now create items up to Level 20.
• FIXED: Installing all the skill mods will no longer overflow the main mod loader screen.
• FIXED: Area of effect related crashes.
• FIXED: manTemplateDB.xml now loads in a mod.
• FIXED: Crash when doubly polymorphed.
• FIXED: You can no longer eat your own belt by right-clicking it.
• FIXED: You can now start the game with pants.
• FIXED: Magic reflection now reflects missile spells.
• FIXED: Game now remembers which mods have been loaded.
• FIXED: Invisible Geometries may finally work as intended.
• MECHANICS: Changes to combat ordering. The new combat ordering is as follows:
• If you dodge, no damage.
• If you crit, and your opponent counters, no damage. If you crit and your opponent blocks, normal damage. Else, critical attack.
• If your opponent counters, counterattack!
• If your opponent blocks, 1/2 damage.
• Else, normal damage.
• At present, this only affects melee combat.
• UI: Ubercrafting now has filters and a grid mode.
• NEW CONTENT: some new rooms.
• NEW CONTENT: about a bajillion new, evil traps.
• UI: Autosaves now auto-save once every 5 minutes in addition to before going down (and up) stairs.
• Upgraded SDL to version 1.2.15, fixing the bad things that happen on OS X (and no doubt introducing new bad things.)
• Rewrote the entire audio engine. This is going to end well.
• Removed all of the SDL_Image code.
• New features for modders:
• Scale: the ability to scale damages/effects in spells by a primary and a secondary stat
• Randomized Resistance and Damages for Items
• Generic Item Classes for Sacrifices
• Removal of Buffs by Name
• Counter, Block, Dodge, and Critical Hit Triggers
• Booze and Food Consumption Triggers
• Monster Cast on Death Triggers.
• Taxa can now be applied to specific monster types, not just the species category.
• Monsters now have per-type item drops.