Preparation for FAangband 2

[debo]

Anyway let us know when you are taking bug reports.

Careful. You might end up as a unique in FA2.

[Nick]

Latest update has specialty abilities implemented (except Extra Trap, for which I need to do monster traps first).

I'll be doing bits and pieces here and there, but will probably not do any more extensive work on this until V4.2.1 is out.

[Nick]

In gen-room.c lines 1232 - 1243 should the } be before dune?

Thanks, yes.

Also, latest version has all the race and class abilities implemented too. This includes monster traps, but excludes a few that I've ditched because of overlap with V features that I wanted to keep, or because they were Assassin abilities that no longer fit.

[Gauss]

Has the wizard mode resurrection issue been fixed?
I remember vanilla FAangband 1.44 had this issue and resurrected characters by wizard mode would respawn in town with negative health and die instantly.

[Nick]

Has the wizard mode resurrection issue been fixed?
I remember vanilla FAangband 1.44 had this issue and resurrected characters by wizard mode would respawn in town with negative health and die instantly.

Not fixed exactly - more should not happen because the code is completely different. So all old bugs should be gone, but expect new ones

[Gauss]

Oh yes, i forgot that FAangband 2 uses 4.2 as basis. So now bug fixing would be almost cross game too.

[Nick]

Oh yes, i forgot that FAangband 2 uses 4.2 as basis. So now bug fixing would be almost cross game too.

Yes, I'm keeping new FA up to date with changes from V.

[Nick]

Latest update includes percentage resistances. It doesn't exactly break savefiles, but it does make objects with resistances in old savefiles look a bit silly (immunities become 97% resistance, resistances become 99% resistance, vulnerabilities become 1% vulnerable).

At this stage all resists are 40%, and all vulnerabilities are 30%. The next major thing I'm planning to implement is randarts/jewellery, which will open up the resistance landscape a bit.

EDIT: Actually no, vulnerabilities either become immunities or make the game crash

[Pete Mack]

A hell. I find cumulative resistances to be too much of a treasure hunt. I don't recall this change being much discussed?

[Nick]

A hell. I find cumulative resistances to be too much of a treasure hunt. I don't recall this change being much discussed?

Have you read the thread title, Pete?

[Pete Mack]

D'oh!
Sorry Nick

[Nick]

Latest update has traditional FA-style randarts and jewellery.

Note that I would not recommend anyone actually trying to play this at the moment - it's unstable and unbalanced, and liable to be upgraded in a savefile-breaking way at any time. At some point before too long I will be encouraging play-testing, but that point has not been reached.

[Mondkalb]

I am looking forward to it.

[Holy_Rage]

I am looking forward to it.

I am looking forward to playtesting too!

[Gauss]

Latest update has traditional FA-style randarts and jewellery.

Note that I would not recommend anyone actually trying to play this at the moment - it's unstable and unbalanced, and liable to be upgraded in a savefile-breaking way at any time. At some point before too long I will be encouraging play-testing, but that point has not been reached.

I managed to build and test the game last week. I compiled it on linux and had to do a minimal change on the source code in order to get it compiled. It mostly played fine but some things didn't work like the wizard mode, the world map etc..
I didn't bother to make an issue on github since i figured it is on developement and it's logical to have those issues.

Anyway, the game looks good and i can't wait to try a stable release.