Hi, crawlers! First changes of the new year:
- Blurry vision’s effect has been reduced; it now adds a delay of 0.5/1/2 turns (by mutation level), down from 1/2/3.
- It should now be possible to safely cancel controlled & semicontrolled blink in most situations.
- New rcfile option, fail_severity_to_confirm, allowing you to set a threshold of spell failure rates above which the game will warn & prompt you before casting. The default is to prompt at dark red failure (very high to guaranteed).
- Hydra form now only gives +30% HP (down from +50%), and gives half as much healing when devouring enemies.
- Gargoyles no longer get 4 less AC from Statue Form than every other race.
- Various new tiles, mainly for uniques: check out Eustachio’s sweet ‘stache the next time you see him!
- The demonic rune now has a random tile.
- Baileys have had their oriflamme replaced with a portcullis.
- ?/I now lists the contents of decks.
- The deck of oddities is now documented in-game.
- The deck of summonings has been renamed; it is now the deck of summoning.
- Yaktaurs are now slightly more dangerous.
- Wasp monsters have been renamed: red wasps are now known as ‘hornets’, and yellow wasps are now just ‘wasps’.
- Boring beetles can no longer teleport onto the player in D:1.
- There’s a commit here which uses the word “retrogdorise”, and I’m gonna be honest, I don’t care about what the commit does. I’m not even gonna read it. I just wanted to share that with you.
- Held weapons no longer apply their brands to thrown weapons.
- rElec now protects against lightning.
Happy crawling!
1. Comment by tasonir
10/Jan/2015 at 02:59
I feel like “Boring beetles can no longer teleport onto the player in D:1.” deserves more explanation.
Also, for anyone else tempted to look it up: retrogdorise isn’t an actual word, and the commit doesn’t seem to have done terribly much (I’m not sure what it does). Commit here: https://www.gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit/49a40a598f20cd1c4a5c4bd69d497cd187305ce8