{"id":3017,"date":"2014-11-18T08:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T07:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2014-11-18T16:33:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T15:33:11","slug":"trunk-updates-17-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-17-november-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 17 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Lots of fun changes this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enemy-held weapons now have their brands ID&#8217;d on sight.<\/li>\n<li>The Death Knight background has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>New item: the Iron Rod, which fires a spray of shrapnel in a wide arc. Extremely effective against agile, low-AC enemies, but ineffective against armoured enemies or at a distance.<\/li>\n<li>Nemelex &#038; deck changes:\n<ul>\n<li>New cards:\n<ul>\n<li>Elements, which summons three beasts of the four elements.<\/li>\n<li>Rangers, which summons two or three ranged-missile users.<\/li>\n<li>Placid Magic, which removes all status effects and applies heavy antimagic to all creatures in sight, including the user. (Dazing enemy spellcasters as if they&#8217;d been hit with antimagic weapons repeatedly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revamped destruction cards:\n<ul>\n<li>Storm has replaced rain and swiftness with summoning air elementals, an elemental wellspring, or thunder clouds alongside a wind blast.<\/li>\n<li>Pain has lost Torment; it can now instead summon flay your foes alive.<\/li>\n<li>Venom has lost Sting for earlier Venom Bolts and Poison Arrows, but at low power will briefly make the user vulnerable to poison.<\/li>\n<li>Degeneration now applies a temporary malmutated effect to targets, along with polymorphing them to creatures with lower HD. Undead are dazed.<\/li>\n<li>Vitriol now can provide Corrosive Bolts at higher power.<\/li>\n<li>Orb bursts will now attempt to home on monsters they might reasonably hit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revamped battle cards:\n<ul>\n<li>Potion has strictly-negative effects taken out, and will also apply its effects to allies if possible.<\/li>\n<li>Blade now solely gives a cleaving status. It doesn&#8217;t stack with the reaching of polearms or the original cleaving of axes, but otherwise applies to all forms of armed &#038; unarmed combat.<\/li>\n<li>Helm can apply Stoneskin or Shroud of Golubria effects to allies at high power.<\/li>\n<li>Elixir gives a small amount of temporary vitality to your allies, alongside its restorative effects to the user.<\/li>\n<li>Shadow gives the darkness status (reduced LOS) instead of invisibility.<\/li>\n<li>Dowsing is now significantly stronger in duration and range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revamped summoning cards:\n<ul>\n<li>Pentagram now summons a more constrained set of demons (stronger at lower power and weaker at high power), and an additional accompanying hell hound, rakshasa, or <b>pandemonium lord<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Dance has replaced its short swords with quarterstaves and its dire flails with executioner&#8217;s axes. It also has a chance of summoning a randart.<\/li>\n<li>Foxfire has lost butterflies and gained ravens.<\/li>\n<li>Repulsiveness can now summon both an ugly thing and a very ugly thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Revamped emergency cards:\n<ul>\n<li>Cloud surrounds all hostile monsters with varying types of clouds, instead of randomly scattering clouds in all valid places in sight.<\/li>\n<li>Shaft now randomly places shafts under other monsters as well.<\/li>\n<li>Tomb can now raise rock walls on stone stairs and deep water.<\/li>\n<li>Velocity will always apply a overall-positive effect (with allies present).<\/li>\n<li>Banshee now drains victims, in addition to causing fear.<\/li>\n<li>Solitude can now cause Disjunction at high power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dowsing is no longer in the deck of battle.<\/li>\n<li>Decks of war have lost their set of destruction cards.<\/li>\n<li>The Cloud card has moved from decks of destruction to decks of emergency.<\/li>\n<li>Mercenaries now have slightly better kit, and mercenaries that your god would dislike are not offered.<\/li>\n<li>In general, cards that your god would dislike will have their dislikeable effects suppressed. (E.g., Venom for TSO.)<\/li>\n<li>Removed cards: Metamorphosis, Herd, Bones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monster tweaks:\n<ul>\n<li>Draconian &#038; deep elf knights are considerably stronger (and have had their spell sets changed up).<\/li>\n<li>Caustic shrikes are now a little weaker and a little rarer.<\/li>\n<li>Revenants are no longer affected by Silence.<\/li>\n<li>Enemy necromancers can now cast Inner Flame.<\/li>\n<li>Pan Lord spells have been considerably reworked.<\/li>\n<li>Anubis Guards now have Control Undead.<\/li>\n<li>Hell Beast HD, AC, and EV are no longer randomized (and are set to the max value they could have had before). Their speed is still randomized.<\/li>\n<li>Sphinxes are now sometimes (presumably) androsphinxes.<\/li>\n<li>Basilisks are now little.<\/li>\n<li>Green rats are now known as river rats. Beware their swimming prowess&#8230;!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All gods now give piety for kills made by followers (undead and otherwise) in the exact same way as for kills made by the player.<\/li>\n<li>Vampires now bottle blood with (c), instead of (a)(a). They can now bottle blood from level 1 onward.<\/li>\n<li>Different types of melee attacks (slashing, piercing, blunt, etc) no longer cause different amount of noise. (Melee noise still varies by damage done.)<\/li>\n<li>Summon Greater Demon now provides a more() by default when the summoned demon stops being charmed.<\/li>\n<li>Ziggurats now have a reliable supply of restore abilities potions, and a very small number of beneficial mutations potions.<\/li>\n<li>The rod of striking has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters now return to their original forms in death. (Like poor Prince Ribbit.)<\/li>\n<li>Runed doors &#038; Lugonu&#8217;s Corruption are now noted in level annotations, by default.<\/li>\n<li>Ctrl-f can now find runed doors.<\/li>\n<li>Qazlal&#8217;s Disaster Area is now stronger at low invocations.<\/li>\n<li>Felid Monks have been buffed.<\/li>\n<li>Mimics are now immune to telepathy.<\/li>\n<li>High-pitched whines have been removed.<\/li>\n<li>The game will no longer claim that skeletons can be bottled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Lots of fun changes this week: Enemy-held weapons now have their brands ID&#8217;d on sight. The Death Knight background has been removed. New item: the Iron Rod, which fires a spray of shrapnel in a wide arc. Extremely effective against agile, low-AC enemies, but ineffective against armoured enemies or at a distance. Nemelex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}