Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.0 aka "We are Doomed"

[DarkGod]

My minions, I am happy and proud to give you Tales of Maj'Eyal 1.4.0 ! See http://te4.org/

Your launcher should automatically update your game so no need to redownload it all.
If your launcher didn't self-update correctly, just redownload it from the homepage.

This is a major release, as such saves are not guaranteed to work from older versions, though they mostly should. If needed the game will prompt to download the old game client.
Now I can work full steam on putting the finishing touches to Embers of Rage!

Enjoy and have fun in Eyal!
Don't forget to help ToME by with donations ( http://te4.org/donate ) !

Release highlights

• Big improvements to Doomed class
• Big improvements to Reaver class
• New cool default UI skin
• Many misc UI improvements, with special attention to streamer's needs
• Less need to scum for a good insane/madness start
• Many code updates to let addon & modules developers get wild
• Tons of various improvements and fixes

Expanded Changelog
Big Changes

• Adds bleeding damage to Bone spells.
• Sometimes, rarely, a special room will appear in the Infinite Dungeon to let you access the Item's Vault (if you have it active and are a donator)
• New Doomed tree "Advanced Shadowmancy"
• Allow selecting spell for Arcane Combat
• Command Staff talent available to NPCs, which will now spawn with the most appropriate aspect selected.
• Added the Staff Mastery talent to many casters (including bosses) that primarily equip staves.
• NPCs will try to equip their drops if possible.
• NPCs can now use item's power they have! Beware!
• Vault loot can be 1 material tier higher
• Adjusted material tier for many znoes.
• Fearscape sustain cost drastically reduced but vim drain per turn increases each turn
• Updated the Rush talent to allow targeting unoccupied spots
• New Reaver tree "Rot
• Buffed Corrosive Worm/Poison Storm
• Deus Ex Machina achievement altered and now possible to get
• Roguelike mode characters can now enter the Eidolon plane by a special exploratory farportal event, thus making Utterly Destroyed achievement possible even in Roguelike mode
• Feed does not take a turn
• Doomed Fears tree is at mastery level 1.3
• Gesture of Pain doubles the damage bonus from mindstars and if dual wielding mindstars will proc their on hit effects
• Made Gesture of Deflection not pitiful
• Hateful Whispers returns more hate with levels
• Rounded up Hateful Whispers range
• Reproach does a bit more damage and at high talent level looses less damage per foes
• Shadows summon cost reduced slightly
• Focus Shadows now forces max shadows to appear before focusing
• Shadows take reduced damage from their master, up to 100% at level 5
• Unseen Force scales way better
• Deflection now regens on rest, displays its current value on the icon, absorbs more damage and regens faster
• Rares/randboss can not be Skirmishers, until they can be rebalanced next big version
• Starting gold bonus on difficulty levels: 100 for Nightmare, 250 for Insane, 500 for Madness
• Starting level bonus on difficulty levels: level 2 on Insane, level 3 on Madness

UI

• New default UI skin "Dark"
• New big quest popup (disable-able)
• Added an option (on by default) to auto swap tinkers when swaping items
• Made the zone load tips look nicer
• Big Character Sheet update
• Show message if player fails to move due to encumberance.
• New UI option to make a small flyer with talent icon and name upon talent use, for both player and NPCs; disabled by default
• New UI option to get a visual feedback when using a hotkey
• Right clicking on an object in the hotkeys bar will give a removal prompt instead of removing it directly
• Main menu will now take on the UI theme configured instead
• New option to zoom the whole screen, for use on veyr high DPI screens where the game may look too tiny
• New tinker tab on the inventory for characters able to use them (like demonologists in Ashes of Urh'Rok)
• Warn the player when stores restock
• Difficulty and Campaign are set to the last values when you make a new character
• Trying to force a recall from an exploratory farportal will not assume "Escape" key to mean "OK!"
• Protect chat from urls with # inside

Misc

• Resurrecting removes sufficating effect more promptly
• Make Displacement Shield have priority over other shielding so that it can actually be usefully used in conjunction with them.
• Corrected Harassed tooltip display (was 100x too high)
• Lowered difficulty of Murgol Lair, specifically the alt version
• Clarified Tricks of the Trade to make it more obvious that it does not teach Stealth
• Devouring flames (and similar effects) will not try to heal the source if it's dead
• Ritch Hive Mother is correctly set as female
• Quest items/plot items can not be sent to other party members
• Undeads cant use infusions instead of only being able to use runes (doesnt change anything for vanilla)
• If the rod of recall fails to activate it wont go on cooldown
• Buffed curse of nighmare to start triggering at level 4 (as the description was implying)
• Yeeks summoned Wayists do not drop items
• Party members are cleaned of debuff when going to the Eidolon plane
• Primal Infusion scales with constitution
• Mitotic mindstars do not copy if tinkered
• Windblade has 0 range, so NPCs won't misuse it
• Warn player that the exploratory farportal is broken even if there is less than 45 energy
• Sludgenest drops Maj'Eyal items
• Added new horrors
• Updated Cyst Burst description to reflect that it can spread any disease.
• Adds more zone-wide effects in. About half of them explain special level mechanics, the rest are just for flavour or some minor gameplay spice.
• Shield damage correctly reflects no off-hand penalty.
• Dug sandwalls have a tooltip.
• Arcane Combat now interacts correctly with the Hidden Resources prodigy.
• Adds a center view on player key command (Ctrl-Home by default).
• Reworked interface Archery to properly handle multiple missile launchers.
• Dwarves can no longer stone walk throught foes
• Allow damage shields to merge
• Clarify Arcane Shield talent description
• Adds some failed necromantic experiment creatures to the Blighted Ruins.
• Horrors are their own faction
• Added achievement image for Best Album Ever
• Altered/added a variety of Undead enemies
• Draebor is even more annoying.
• Reduced the cap on how much Sandman effects Insomnia to 12%
• Reduced Paradox cost on Time Shield, Webs of Fate, and Temporal Fugue
• Twist Fate gives audio feedback when an anomaly is held
• Twist Fate gives better messages when an anomaly is targeted
• Paradox Modifier can not reduce duration below one turn
• Added text to antimagic quest to explain why Ogres can do it
• Reckless Charge can once again go through crowds
• Makes doors and known traps detected at range remembered (and on the minimap)
• Makes non-player actors get the effects of their on-birth stats.
• Make ALL_DREAMS unlock be granted even after killing the Mindworm.
• Cancelling secondary target for Nature's Equilibrium now targets self

Dev Stuff

• Added "callbackOnChangeLevel"
• If a module or addon errors out on the loading screen it will jump into a "safe mode" to display the error message and then go back to the main menu
• Changes disease spreading code to be more general to works nicely with any future or addon diseases.
• Added Map:setScroll
• Opening a door triggers a "on_door_opened" event on all entities at the same spot on the map
• New ActorProject:getTargetLimited method
• Added a util.show_function_calls() function to help find infinite loops and such
• Combat:combatSpeed can take an additional speed
• Added Map:findObject method
• Added a generic way to get total shield block value, actor:combatShieldBlock()
• Simplified support of double shields by enhancing actor:hasShield()
• Forest map generator can require rooms
• GameState:findEventGridRadius also returns the center of the grids
• Generic triggers mechanisms added to let static maps do funky stuff
• Moved greater vaults into data/maps/vaults/auto/greater; any files that addons add there will automatically be added to the list (for zones that do not enforce a specific list)
• Entities lists loaded with Entity:loadList now remember which files were used
• Modify module() a bit to prevent leaking the global namespace into each and every module and object.
• Added an options menu to the birther dialog, for addons registering to it with "ToME:extraBirthOptions" hook. Only appears if addons fill it.
• Added Game:isAddonActive method to let an addon check the presence of an other addon
• Added "superload" function
• Added hook ToME:birthDone
• Resources now can have a wait_on_rest flag to make resting wait for them (if possible)
• Move useResources to engine/interface/ActorResource.lua
• Object's special_desc can return nil
• Weapons can now have the "double_weapon" property to enable two handed weapons to count as dual wielding
• "callbackOnTemporaryEffect" can now return true to cancel
• New callback callbackOnDeathbox
• Added hook "Faction:setReaction"
• Allow static maps to define callback to be ran when the level is finished generating
• Moved Resource definitions to data/resources.lua
• Added support for depleted resources canceling sustained talents (resources_def.depleted_unsustain and talents_def.remove_on_zero flags).
• Temporary effects on_gain/on_loose definitions can simply have "true" as the second return to make a flyer of the form +/- "effect name"
• Added a combat_generic_power
• New level generator algorithm "Hexacle" (yes the name is stupid, so what?!)
• Cavern map generator can now accomodate rooms
• Updated damage_types to use initState & useImplicitCrit; update your addons if needed
• New extensible command-staff system. Possibly callbacks may be added to it, too.
• In developer mode an error popup forces all other dialogs to disappear; making sure even level generation errors do popup correctly
• Added core.game.requestNextTick()
• Improve lore templating capabilities

Fixes

• Try to fix the gamma issue on some computers
• Fixes bugs with sleeping characters being able to change equipment (put on a lucid dreamer robe, for example), drop and pickup objects.
• Fixes bug allowing stealth to be used with heavy armor (by changing gear while it is active).
• Enhanced stealth info.
• Occasional turn loss fix.
• Fix Rune: Biting Gale not being used by tactical AI
• Solipsist unlock didn't work on dream altar, should now
• Fixes a crash when the caustic ego corrodes armor.
• Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not require to check the "old savefiles" checkbox anymore
• Savefiles from previous minor patch versions will not display the "download old data" popup anymore
• Fix Temporal Fugue on traps
• Fixed teleportation/phase door ending in walls in the Charred Scar
• Fixed the racial talent description of Thalore
• Fixed errors on death for players with a % in their names
• Fixed Greater Crypt vault
• Fixed windows scaling bugs on high DPI screens
• Fixed the game not starting on some latest ubuntu installs
• Fixed Skirmisher's Swift Shot abuse
• Make Contingency and Matrix respect fixed cooldowns
• Fixed flying text to not stutter while disappearing
• Fixed targetting bugs in Retch and Stone Wall.
• Fixed Twist Fate
• New string.prefix and string.suffix functions
• Fixed archery to properly do on_hit, on_crit, and on_kill effects for ranged weapons and ammo. It now properly handles single and
• Fixed digging into icewalls
• Fixed Tirakai Maul; lets see what bug it does next!
• Fixed Frost Lord Chains
• Fixed Time Stop + Contingency (hopefully)
• Fixed The Mouth sometimes erroring out
• Tentacles spawned by the tentacled totems are correctly named
• Fix Overseer of Nations double bonus

Have fun in Eyal!