[Announce] English Translation for Hengband Touhou Katteban v1.1.95

[Cryomaniac]

New version source code was released; I've updated the translation.

Main changes include (added in the original Japanese version of this mod):

-New unique class (Mike), new unique personality for Joon
-New quest in Former Hell
-New monster status effects:

-Lowered attack/defense/magic power
-Berserk
-Unable to move

-Added oil field terrain
-Added/tweaked artifacts/monsters
-Added/changed unique class special abilities (several of them can inflict the new status effects on monsters)
-High skill proficiency now grants extra bonuses depending on the skill

For more details, read the Changes 1.90-1.95 file in Documentation folder.

Developer's website link:

http://www.miyamasa.net/heng_th_katte.html

Github project link (Windows binary is in Releases):

https://github.com/Cryomaniac13/hengband-touhou-katteban-en

[TauzentBlitz]

The UI for mixing stuff at the pharmacy is messed up. The text for material 1 appears 'behind' the text for material 2... or something like that.

[Cryomaniac]

The UI for mixing stuff at the pharmacy is messed up. The text for material 1 appears 'behind' the text for material 2... or something like that.

Fixed; added new minor Windows build release

[ster]

guys im crying rn it's like seeing a sunrise, or full moon and realising the Beauty of the World, or realising the fact that if you had left your house 10 minutes later on that one day you would never have met your life partner. This is a true masterpiece of the Angband Variant Artform. This level of detail, flavour and creativity is unmatched. It is a true work of love.

Mr. pav, can we have a ladder?
Mr. Gwarl, can you put it on angband.live?

just emptyquoting this. This variant is great, if incredibly janky. I kind of wish I had threw the whole thing through machine translation when MITZE first pointed me to it a couple years ago now.

[ster]

Oh, I forgot to complain about stuff. The Lunar Rainbow Market sometimes shows garbled japanese text when I try and visit to exchange cards past midnight and my Three Fairies of Light learned a move at level 40 that shows up as similar jumbled/untranslated text.

[Cryomaniac]

Oh, I forgot to complain about stuff. The Lunar Rainbow Market sometimes shows garbled japanese text when I try and visit to exchange cards past midnight and my Three Fairies of Light learned a move at level 40 that shows up as similar jumbled/untranslated text.

I'll take I look; as I said, there's a ton of stuff to translate, and it's very possible I've missed something.

[Cryomaniac]

Posted a new release on github; it fixes the issues you've mentioned, along with some other I've found.

[clouded]

Which MARIPO reward is the amulet of telepathy? I bought a bunch of them to see what they were on my first win but I've forgotten now and I can't seem to tell from the source. Won with Yuugi and Seiga so far, playing a Zashiki-warashi archer now. Waiting for the ladder to post the dumps.

[Cryomaniac]

Which MARIPO reward is the amulet of telepathy? I bought a bunch of them to see what they were on my first win but I've forgotten now and I can't seem to tell from the source. Won with Yuugi and Seiga so far, playing a Zashiki-warashi archer now. Waiting for the ladder to post the dumps.

MARIPO doesn't have an Amulet of Telepathy as a reward; it's the reward for the second quest in the building (one on one vs Jabberwock)

[clouded]

MARIPO doesn't have an Amulet of Telepathy as a reward; it's the reward for the second quest in the building (one on one vs Jabberwock)

Ahh okay, thanks.

[ster]

Is there a better way to get broken weapons to repair than <>ing DL1 for broken death swords? Specifically broken sticks, I guess, since the extra effects on axes and spears seem to punch way above their weight class.

Or is it not worth the hassle and I should be artifact creating things with good base types to start to make endgame weapons?

[Cryomaniac]

Is there a better way to get broken weapons to repair than <>ing DL1 for broken death swords? Specifically broken sticks, I guess, since the extra effects on axes and spears seem to punch way above their weight class.

Or is it not worth the hassle and I should be artifact creating things with good base types to start to make endgame weapons?

I don't think there's a better way to grind for broken weapons; save them up before you find valuable repair materials. Also, while axes/spears have good proficiency bonuses, katanas have high damage as well and get strong crits as a proficiency bonus, and Hihiirokane Swords deal 7d5 damage and have innate vorpal bonus. You're not getting endgame weapons out of repairing unless you use endgame materials - Hihiirokane is extremely rare (and it's required to repair into Hihiirokane sword); Silver Key is a guaranteed high level quest reward that, among other things, gives strong deity slaying, which works on Oberon, and it boosts dice/sides by 2.

I personally would save Artifact Creation for top tier base weapons, but I think you also can first use Artifact Creation on a broken weapon, then repair it to get extra bonuses as well.

[ster]

Well, in the end, I found a broken sword in Assassinate Kaguya, a scarlet gold to repair it with in the postgame floors, and J dropped Crown of Numenor so I could artifact create the broken sword before repairing it. Result doubled my damage in case I wanted to fight Omega and max level marisas forever (I didn't). Definitely worth planning out for in future runs


e: speaking of which, I'm all ears regarding ways to actually kill Omega, that's probably the nastiest thing I've seen in any variant.

[Cryomaniac]

Omega's very nasty and can deal a ton of damage (kind of similar to Nodens, with guaranteed spellcasting + powerful attacks), but it has its weaknesses as well. First of all, it casts spells at random, and some of them can be rendered ineffective (fire immunity + reflection). Also, it lacks electricity resistance, and if you can get a powerful lightning breather as a follower, it can drop its HP down pretty quickly. You'll still need to spend a lot of resources, especially if you're a close combat character.

[ster]

Whoops, despite being The Summoning Guy I completely forgot you could summon things in this variant since it's usually such a bad idea. That and not having looked up the specifics on when Wave Cannon gets used out of LoS, thanks.