Shattered PD - 0.3.X

0.3.0 (2015/05/26) - The Wand Rework

0.3.0 was a second major update which reworked another category of items, wands. It also gave the Mage a unique starting weapon instead of letting him equip wands and changed up Mage subclasses.

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Additions

• New wands
  • Wand of Venom (replaces Wand of Poison) - Zapping creates a cloud of damaging gas.
  • Wand of Corruption - Attempts to corrupt the target, turning it to your side, more powerful enemies require spending more charges.
  • Wand of Frost - Deals damage and chills the target, deals less damage to already chilled targets.
  • Wand of Prismatic Light - Deals damage and has chance to blind its target, more powerful vs demonic and undead enemies.
  • Wand of Transfusion
  • Wand of Blast Wave
  • Wand of Living Earth - Unfinished and unobtainable.
  • Wand of Warding - Unfinished and unobtainable.
• Mage's Staff
  • New starting weapon for the Mage dealing 1 to 4 damage.
  • Can be imbued with a wand and then zapped functioning exactly as said wand.
  • Any wand imbued in the Staff recharges significantly faster.
• Ethereal Chains - An artifact which can pull any creature to the Hero or the Hero to any tile adjancent to a wall, even through walls.
• Dewcatcher and Seed Pod - Two new plants, which can only be grown by the reworked Wand of Regrowth, provide resources when trampled.
• Starflower - A rare plant which blesses creatures for 30 turns when trampled and can drop its seed, the seed brews into the Potion of Experience.
• Recharging - A buff which replenishes 1 charge to all wands every 4 turns.
• Blessed - A buff which increases accuracy and evasion by 20%.
• Tapping on a buff icon now brings up full buff description.

Changes

• Mage rework
  • Mage can no longer equip wands.
  • Mage now starts with Mage's Staff instead of Knuckleduster.
  • Battlemage now has a unique on-hit effect when attacking with the Staff, different for each imbued wand.
  • Warlock can no longer gain satiety by eating food, only by killing enemies.
  • Wand of Magic Missile can no longer be disenchanted.
• Wand changes
  • Wands now have new sprites, each type now has its own sprites instead of sprites being randomized each run.
  • Wand recharging speed now scales with missing charges.
  • Wands can now be cursed; cursed wands have random chaotic effects when zapped.
  • Wands are now capped at 10 charges up from 9.
  • Wands are now identified after 20 uses down from 40.
  • Self targeting with wands is no longer possible.
  • Wands now have a default 10% chance to generate at level +2 up from 7.5%.
  • Wand of Magic Missile now deals 2 to 6 + 2*lvl damage up from 1 to 6 + 2*lvl.
  • Wand of Disintegration now penetrates solid tiles and gains 1 bonus level for every 3 tiles penetrated, all flammable tiles are reduced to embers.
  • Wand of Disintegration range increased to 4 + 2*lvl from 4 + lvl.
  • Wand of Lightning now deals 5 + lvl to 10 + lvl^2 / 4 damage up from 5 + lvl / 2 to 10 + lvl and 50% extra damage to target standing in water down from 100%.
  • Wand of Lightning now deals fullDamage * (0.6 + 0.4*n)/n damage to all characters when arcing through multiple characters.
  • Wand of Regrowth now always uses up all charges, has 1 charge at +0 instead of 2 and fires in a cone; cone size scales with number of charges spent.
  • Wand of Regrowth now has a chance to spawns random plants, Dewcatcher, Seed Pod and Starflower scaling with a number of charges spent.
  • Renamed Wand of Firebolt to Wand of Fireblast.
  • Wand of Fireblast now spends 40% of available charges and deals 1 to 8 + level^2 * (1 + chargesSpent) / 6 damage down from 1 to 8 + level^2.
  • Wand of Fireblast now fires in a cone and cripples / paralyzes targets at 1-2 / 3-4 charges spent.
  • Removed the Wand of Flock and Wand of Avalanche
• Mimic changes
  • Mimic HP and attack damage increased by 25%.
  • Mimics now drop have 80% chance to drop a gold pile, a random weapon, random armor or a random ring besides the usual loot.
  • Mimics now have 5% chance to replace chests in the treasury room (instead of a 1 chest always being a mimic) and can no longer replace chests in Rat King's room.
• UI changes
  • Changed app icon.
  • Removed the Dew Vial warning when picked up.
  • Added a visual indicator when a mob is surprised.
  • Added shading to the toolbar, and slightly repositioned it.
  • Added shading to the status pane.
• Artifact changes
  • Chalice of blood now reduces regeneration interval by 0.9 turns per level down from 1 turn.
  • Cape of Thorns now absorbs all damage, but only deflects adjacent attacks.
  • Sandals of Nature now increase seed drop chance to 25% (up from 22.6%) and dew drop chance to 33.3% (down from 50%).
  • Lloyd's Beacon is now an artifact (replacing the Wand of Teleportation), in addition to its existing effects it can now randomly teleport any target including the Hero.
  • Alchemist’s Toolkit removed (it still generates due to a bug).
• Seed drop chance from grass increased to 6.25% from 5.56%.
• Old Wandmaker now offers you two random wands (instead of 1 damage dealing wand and 1 utility wand), you get to see which ones before choosing.
• The Scroll of Recharging now grants 30 turns of Recharging instead of instantly restoring all charges.
• Eating food as Mage now grants 4 turns of recharging instead of instantly restoring 1 charge.
• The Lightning Trap no longer recharges wands.
• Crystal chests now always describe their content none-specifically ("a wand"/"a ring"/"an artifact").
• Being charmed now prevents ranged attacks for creatures other than the Hero.
• Sewers boss floor is now slightly larger.
• Hunger no longer builds up and starvation no longer deals damage during bossfights.
• Potion of Experience now gives total XP needed to level up, not XP needed to level up currently (using it closer to leveling up won't give you any less XP).
• Hero level is now capped at 30.
• Drinking a Potion of Experience at level 30 now blesses the Hero for 30 turns.
• When Frozen debuff ends for a character standing in water, they are left chilled for 6 turns.
• Modified warlock healing specks a bit.
• Removed light effect caused by burning.
• Weapons and armor now have a default 2.6% chance to generate at level +3 or -3, down from 4.4%.
• Items unique to each Hero now persist through revivals.
• Blessed Ankh now heals the Hero to 25% health upon saving them down from 100%, but it now also grants initiative.
• Level 1 now generates with enough rats for the Hero to level up (#39).
• Changed several ingame descriptions.

Bugfixes

• Fixed randomly generated rings being capped at +1.
• Fixed bugs with Sewers boss floor generation (#42).
• Fixed a sign refering to the Scroll of Magical Infusion as a Scroll of Weapon Upgrade.

0.3.0a

0.3.0a was a small patch released to fix bugs and provide some early game buffs to Mage and Huntress.

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Changes

• Boomerang base damage increased to 1 - 5 from 1 - 4.
• Mage's Staff base damage increased to 1 - 5 from 1 - 4, Wand of Magic Missile base damage increased to 4 - 6 from 2 - 6.

Bugfixes

• fixed a crash bug with poison and loading a save.
• Fixed a bug with artifact generation.
• Fixed a crash caused by the Wand of Blast Wave pushing characters.
• Fixed wands not charging sometimes.

0.3.0b

0.3.0b was a small patch released to fix bugs.

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Changes

• Blandfruit bushes spawned by a Wand of Regrowth are now included in 15 blandfruit per run limit.
• The Wand of Frost now freezes items on the floor.
• Improved item emitter effects, should be more efficient and less buggy.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a crash issue with Wand of Regrowth.
• Fixed a crash caused by corrupted Piranha or Sad Ghost.
• Fixed a crash bug with the Sniper's Mark.
• Fixed some freeze and crash bugs.
• Fixed the Scroll of Remove Curse not cleansing Wands inside the Holster.
• Fixed teleportation working on Sewer boss level.
• Fixed Mage description mentioning he can equip wands.

0.3.0c

0.3.0c was a large patch bringing significant balance changes to the Mage subclasses and some wands.

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Changes

• Mage changes
  • Mage now partially identifies wands when using them.
  • Warlock now restores significantly more wand charge from eating food.
  • Battlemage now gains 1/3 charge up-front on his staff when melee attacking, instead of a 2 turns of Recharging.
  • Mage's Staff no longer loses strength requirement from being upgraded.
  • Mage's Staff now gives a wand +1 max charges, Wand of Magic Missile reduced to 3 charges to compensate.
  • Mage's Staff imbued with a Wand of Magic Missile no longer regains 5%*lvl missing charges on hit, now grants lvl turns of Recharging instead.
  • Mage's Staff imbued with a Wand of Frost no longer procs Chilling enchantment on hit, now has a chance to freeze the target scaling with the number of stacks of chill debuff instead.
  • Mage's Staff imbued with a Wand of Prismatic Light now cripples tartet on hit instead of paralyzing it.
• Wand Changes
  • Wand of Corruption now has base corrupting power of 10 + 2*lvl instead of 5 + 5*lvl and gains 5 + lvl corrupting power from extra charges spent down from 10 + 2.5*lvl.
  • Enemy corruption resistance increased to (0 to maxHP) + 2*HP from 0 to (maxHP + HP), but it's now reduced by 33% for every debuff on the enemy.
  • Quest minibosses are now immune to corruption just like bosses.
  • Wand of Venom now creates 50 + 10*lvl units of gas down from 40 + 20*lvl, gas now deals 1 + lvl initial damage, not 1 + depth/5.
  • Wand of Prismatic Light now has a (lvl + 2)/(lvl + 5) chance to blind targen down from (lvl + 3)/(lvl + 5) and blinds for 0.34*lvl + 2 turns down from 0.5*lvl + 2.
• Improved Mage's Staff particle effects.
• Plants are now visible in the fog of war.
• Succubi can no longer blink into pits and onto traps.
• Unfreezing in water now leaves a character chilled for 4 turns down from 6.
• Updated class descriptions.
• Added description to traps.
• Corruption and Bless effects now have their own icon.

Bugfixes

• Fixed dew drops appearing on top of heaps when they shouldn't.
• Fixed being able to escape boss arenas using Ethereal Chains (you can't use them to phase through walls on floors 10, 15, 20 and 25 anymore).
• Fixed a bug where the player was not properly charmed by the Wand of Transfusion.
• Fixed a bug where saving and loading while the fists are ali ve would make Yog Dzewa invincible.
• Fixed a bug where traps would sometimes appear over signs.
• Fixed Starflower seed not randomly dropping from grass.
• Fixed corrupted Swarms spawning uncorrupted Swarms when splitting.
• Fixed Goo's particles sticking around one turn too long.

0.3.0d

0.3.0d was a small patch released to fix bugs.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed capitalization in trap names.
• Fixed a bug where characters pushed by the Wand of Blast Wave wouldn't always press tiles.
• Fixed a bug where signs would sometimes appear over traps or stairs (0.3.0c fix was broken).
• Fixed corrupted creatures attacking passive creatures.
• Fixed some edge case bugs with ballistica.
• Fixed teleportation working on Sewer boss level.
• Fixed Mage description mentioning he can equip wands.

0.3.0e

0.3.0e was a small patch released to fix bugs.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed caves levels sometimes spawning traps inside of walls.
• Fixed Succubi causing the game to freeze.
• Fixed a bug where multiple Summoning Traps activating at once could spawn mobs inside each other.
• Fixed the Battlemage being able to overcharge his staff by attacking.

0.3.1 (2015/8/17) - It's a Trap!

0.3.1 added a large number of traps into the game, both completely new ones and stronger versions of existing ones. It also overhauled the trap generation, making more dangerous traps only spawn in later chapters and making certain traps less common. Alongside new traps and changes to trap generation, this update also brought significant UI improvements including the support for up to 4 quickslots.

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Additions

• New traps
  • Blazing Trap - A stronger version of Fire Trap.
  • Chilling Trap - Freezes anything in the surrounding area.
  • Confusion Trap - Releases confusion gas.
  • Cursing Trap - Curses equipped items if triggered by the Hero as well as any item on the trap tile.
  • Disarming Trap - Teleports away equipped weapon if triggered by the Hero as well as any item on the trap tile.
  • Disintegration Trap - Deals heavy damage and destroys a random item in inventory if it damages the Hero as well as any item on the trap tile.
  • Distortion Trap - Deletes and recreates the current floor.
  • Explosive Trap - Causes an explosion.
  • Flashing Trap - Blinds and cripples any creature on the trap tile.
  • Flock Trap - Spawns a flock of Magical Sheep.
  • Grim Trap - Executes the nearest creature when triggered, can't generate hidden.
  • Guardian Trap - A stronger version of Alarm Trap.
  • Ooze Trap - Applies Caustic Ooze to any creature on the trap tile.
  • Pitfall Trap - Causes any item or creature on the trap tile to fall and leaves a chasm behind unless it would make the room/hallway impassable.
  • Rockfall Trap - Damages and paralyzes any creature on the trap tile.
  • Spear Trap - Damages any creature on the trap tile, never deactivates.
  • Teleportation Trap - Randomly teleports any item or creature on the trap tile.
  • Venom Trap - A stronger version of Toxic Gas Trap.
  • Warping Trap - Randomly teleports any item or creature on the trap tile to a random floor above the current one.
  • Weakening Trap - Weakens any creature that triggered it.
  • Worn Trap - Does nothing when triggered, can't generate hidden.

Changes

• Trap changes
  • Gripping Trap now deals 0 to depth bleeding damage down from 0 to depth + 3, but it also roots for 5 turns and cripples for 15 turns up from 10.
  • Lightning Trap now restores half of missing charges to any wand on the trap tile.
  • Room of traps now make use of the new trap types.
  • Trap visuals overhauled
  • Traps now get trickier deeper in the dungeon, floor 1 now only has Worn Traps.
• UI changes
  • Implemented a new toolbar UI including more minimum resolution width, options for up to 4 quickslots, and ui flip support.
  • Added fine-grained brightness controls.
  • Recent changes can now be viewed from the title screen.
  • Reworked UI scaling, now multiplier is user-selectable.
  • About scene now points to Shattered Pixel website instead of tumblr.
  • Added a slider for selecting multi-value options.
  • Added a new menu for audio settings which allows finer audio control.
  • Added functionaltiy to flip indicators in the game UI.
  • Search and Examine merged into one button (double tap to search).
  • All graphics settings are now accessible without going to main menu.
  • More consistent text rendering.
• Reduced fall damage to HP / 2 to maxHP / 2 from maxHP / 3 to maxHP / 2.
• Wand of Frost no long freezes drops right as you kill an enemy.
• Items now stay visible and can be examined in the fog of war.
• The descending gong sound now only plays when actually descending.
• Added a sound effect to the Lloyd's Beacon.
• Potion of Invisibility now grants 20 turns of Invisibility up from 15.
• Resting now works at full health or while starving.
• Allowed wands to use autotargeting.
• Modified floating text on characters to be more dependant on the character's true position.
• Reduced volume of explosions.
• Creature sprites now turn before moving.
• Shopkeepers will now flee when their position is forcably changed.
• Monks now must hit the Hero 4 to 8 times to disarm them instead of having a flat 1/6 chance.
• Dew Drops can no longer stack.
• Dew Drops can no longer be picked up with full HP and vial (#31).

Bugfixes

• Fixed traps fading in when they are already visible.
• Fixed a bug where the hero would keep running after death.
• Fixed a bug where the mages staff could go over 10 charges.
• Fixed revivals stopping some items in the inventory from working properly (#55).
• Fixed alchemy not producing Potions of Healing, the number of Potions of Healing obtainable through alchemy is now capped at 10 (#57).
• Fixed a bug where the dried rose would fail to be droppable after loading a game (#58).
• Fixed Mage's Staff on-hit effect with Wand of Regrowth not scaling with staff level.
• Fixed Hero not appearing dead in some cases.
• Fixed Ethereal Chanis levelling up past +10.

0.3.1a

0.3.1a was a small patch released to fix bugs.

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Changes

• Updated the examien button toast to better explain it.
• Quickslots now only target enemies that can be hit.
• Trap spawning is more consistent now.

Bugfixes

• Fixed some display scaling issues.
• Fixed being able to examin unseen heaps.
• Fixed visual bugs caused by vertigo.
• Fixed badge page sounds not obeying the volume slider.
• Fixed spear traps dealing negative damage to characters with high enough DR.

0.3.1b

0.3.1b was a small patch released to fix bugs.

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Changes

• Updated font scaling to be less blurry.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bugs with distortion trap.
• Fixed a bunch of typos in trap descriptions.
• Fixed visibility bugs with spear traps and traps in general.
• Fixed a bug where additional actions could occur after the hero falls down a chasm.
• Fixed a bug with centered toolbar and less than 4 quickslots.

0.3.1c

0.3.1c was a small patch released to fix a serious bug on certain devices.

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Bugfixes

• Fixed text appearinmg black on some devices.

0.3.1d

0.3.1d was a larger patch featuring trap changes and QoL improvements alongside bugfixes.

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Additions

• Added boss healthbars.
• Added a hidden teaser for 0.3.2 update.
• Added a distant well visible in a weak floor room as a hint.

Changes

• Grim traps now kill any Hero with less than 90% HP remaining up from 25% and otherwise leaves the Hero alive at 1 HP down from 20% of previous HP.
• Prevented traps from spawning in tunnels on floor 1.
• Completing the Sad Ghost quest now beckons the ghost to the player.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where scroll of terror would report that enemies immune to terror were terrified.
• Fixed pitfall traps collapsing the floor when they shouldn't in some cases.
• Fixed a typos in venom gas description.
• Fixed some bugs with artifact generation.
• Fixed a crash related to pitfall traps (#14 desktop version).
• Fixed wand of disintegration dealing bonus damage over non-solid terrain.
• fixed sprites trigger motion complete twice
• Fixed stackable items being added to a sale pile when dropped onto it.
• Fixed some text overflow on the update notification in desktop version.

0.3.2 (2015/11/4) - The Prison Rework

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Additions

• Tengu boss fight completely redone
• Corpse dust quest overhauled
• Rotberry quest overhauled
• NEW elemental embers quest
• NEW prison mob: insane prison guards!
• Thieves can escape with a stolen item
• Gnoll shaman attack speed increased

Changes

• Balance Changes
  • Mastery Book is not attainable until floor 10, even when unlocked
  • Many changes to compensate for Mastery Book changes (see below)
  • Hunger damage now increases with hero level, but starts out lower
• Sewers Rebalance:
  • Marsupial rat damage and evasion reduced
  • Gnoll scout accuracy reduced
  • Sewer crabs less likely to spawn on floor 3, grant more EXP
  • Fly swarms rebalanced, moved to the sewers
  • Great Crab HP reduced
  • Goo fight rebalanced
• Base Class Changes:
  • Mage's staff base damage increased
  • Huntress now starts with 20 HP
  • Huntress no longer heals more from dew
  • Rogue's cloak of shadows now drains less while invisible
• Subclass Changes:
  • Berserker now starts raging at 50 % HP (up from 40 %)
  • Warden now heals 2 extra HP from dew
  • Warlock completely overhauled
• Fixed 'white line' graphical artifacts
• Floor locking now pauses all passive effects, not just hunger
• Cursed chains now only cripple, do not root
• Warping trap is now more likely to put you at a deeper floor
• Various other bugfixes

0.3.3 (2015/12/8) - Google Play Games

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Additions

• Support for Google Play Games:
  • Badges can now sync across devices
  • Five Google Play Achievements added
  • Rankings sync will come in future
  • Press the controller button in the main menu to learn more
  • Shattered remains a 100 % offline game if Google Play Games is not enabled

Changes

• Tengu's maze is now different each time
• Items no longer auto-pickup when enemies are near
• Added support for reverse landscape

Bugfixes:

• Fixed several bugs with prison enemies
• Fixed some landscape window size issues
• Fixed other minor bugs

0.3.4 (2016/02/10)- Translations

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Additions

• Shattered now supports multiple languages

Changes

• Hunger now builds ~10 % slower
• Sad Ghost no longer gives tier-1 loot
• Sad Ghost gives tier-4/5 loot less often
• Burning now deals less damage at low HP
• Weakness no longer discharges wands
• Rockfall traps rebalanced
• New font

0.3.5 (2016/05/01) - The Warrior Rework

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Changes

• Warrior Rework
  • Starting STR down to 10, from 11
  • Short sword dmg down to 1-10, from 1-12
  • Short sword can no longer be reforged
  • Now IDs potions of health, not STR
  • Now starts with a unique seal for armor
  • Seal grants shielding ontop of health
  • Seal allows for one upgrade transfer
• Berserker Rework
  • Bonus damage now scales with lost HP, instead of a flat 50 % at 50 % HP
  • Berserker can now endure through death for a short time, with caveats
• Gladiator Rework:
  • Combo no longer grants bonus damage
  • Combo is now easier to stack
  • Combo now unlocks special finisher moves
• Balance Tweaks
  • Spears can now reach enemies 1 tile away
  • Wand of Blast Wave now pushes bosses less
• Can now examine multiple things in one tile
• Classic font added for Russian language
• Added Hungarian language
• Translation Updates
• Various bugfixes