{"id":4736,"date":"2020-05-16T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2020-05-23T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:45:22","slug":"trunk-updates-15-may-2020-and-tentative-0-25-release-tournament-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-15-may-2020-and-tentative-0-25-release-tournament-info","title":{"rendered":"Trunk Updates 15 May 2020 and tentative 0.25 release tournament info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The trunk updates explode into fragments!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello crawlers and welcome to the last featureful trunk update of the 0.25 cycle. We&#8217;re entering into <strong>feature freeze<\/strong>\u00a0today, the remaining time before the <strong>0.25 Release and Tournament<\/strong>\u00a0will be devoted to bug fixes, balance tweaks, and polish\u2014as well as implementing a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/crawl\/crawl\/wiki\/New-Tournament-Scoring\">new tournament scoring system<\/a>. You can give your feedback on the proposed new system on the tavern. Tentatively the <strong>0.25 Tournament<\/strong> will start on either May 29 or June 5, depending on the implementation of the new scoring system.<\/p>\n<p>So as you oil up those tab keys and clean your monitors, lets look at the very latest round of changes you&#8217;ll face in the upcoming release (stay tuned for the full 0.25 changelog! <b>edit: since this post is getting shared and continues to be confusing to people reading it out of context; this list is not a 0.25 changelog, but rather a trunk update covering just the last few weeks or so<\/b>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Abyss exits\u00a0<\/strong>that spawn from earning xp can spawn after the initial spawn, instead of every subsequent spawn being a downstair.<\/li>\n<li>A few\u00a0<strong>Nemelex\u00a0cards <\/strong>have changed:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Pain card<\/strong>\u00a0no longer summons flayed ghosts, instead it torments monsters at high power (not the card user, though)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>cloud card<\/strong>\u00a0now places vision obscuring black smoke instead of damaging clouds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>Tins of Tremorstones<\/strong>\u00a0are now an XP charged evocable with 3 charges that scales with evocations and automatically targets the center of all visible monsters. <strong>Wands of Scattershot<\/strong>\u00a0have been removed.<\/li>\n<li>Several <strong>amulet, scarf, and cloak<\/strong> egos have been shuffled or adjusted:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Gourmand, Harm, and Rage<\/strong>\u00a0amulets are no more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amulets of reflection<\/strong>\u00a0now attune at full HP and give +5 SH. Additionally, piety is now properly given for reflected missiles, banishment, and poison damage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scarves of cloud immunity and spirit shield<\/strong>\u00a0are removed; new scarf egos <strong>harm<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>invisibility<\/strong>\u00a0are added.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Invisibility cloaks<\/strong>\u00a0are no more (you need a scarf for that now!); cloaks can now grant <strong>stealth<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>preservation (corrosion resistance)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li><strong>Jewelry with plusses<\/strong>\u00a0now get constant plus values: strength, intelligence, and dexterity rings give either +6 or -4; protection, evasion, and slaying rings give either +4 or -4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summon Lightning Spire<\/strong>\u00a0now places the spire on a random square.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malign Gateway<\/strong>\u00a0tentacles can no longer attack out of LOS and appear sooner after casting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scrolls of acquirement <\/strong>are now cancelable, allowing you to fully inspect your character, stash, etc. before making a decision. When you reread the scroll, you&#8217;ll get the same choices until you make a final selection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leech<\/strong>\u00a0is now a (cosmetic) sloppy eater: large hits will sometimes turn monsters into large blood explosions!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sceptre of Torment<\/strong>\u00a0can now be used with spectral weapon. You&#8217;d just better be undead unless you want your spectral weapon to torment you!<\/li>\n<li>An <strong>ASCII<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>screenshots section<\/strong>\u00a0has been added to morgues, and a screenshot is made there every time you take a note with the <strong>:<\/strong> key.<\/li>\n<li>Target acquisition for the <strong>Foxfire and Conjure Ball Lightning<\/strong>\u00a0spells has been improved so they only acquire targets within player LOS.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Formicids<\/strong>\u00a0can no longer cast the spell Swiftness.<\/li>\n<li>The option <strong>auto_butcher<\/strong>\u00a0defaults to <em>true<\/em>\u00a0and the option<strong>\u00a0auto_butcher_max_chunks<\/strong>\u00a0now defaults to 10.<\/li>\n<li>The option <strong>explore_auto_rest<\/strong>\u00a0now defaults to <em>true<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Several <strong>usability improvements<\/strong>\u00a0for visually impaired players have been implemented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>That wraps it up for this set of trunk updates. Stay tuned for more tournament details and until next time, happy crawling!<\/div>\n<div><em>The burst of trunk updates engulfs you!! Ouch! That really hurt&#8230;<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trunk updates explode into fragments! Hello crawlers and welcome to the last featureful trunk update of the 0.25 cycle. We&#8217;re entering into feature freeze\u00a0today, the remaining time before the 0.25 Release and Tournament\u00a0will be devoted to bug fixes, balance tweaks, and polish\u2014as well as implementing a new tournament scoring system. You can give your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4756,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}