Athletics

The Athletics skill has been reworked into a skill tree format with new abilities, icons, and improvements.

New abilities emphasize positioning and movement efficiency. For example, "Room to Maneuver" grants a dodge bonus when at least three adjacent tiles are empty.

Or take "Wall Jump," a faster and more efficient jump that requires you to be next to a wall.

At the top of the skill tree, you'll unlock "Shadow Mirage," allowing you to leave behind a shadow copy of yourself when dashing, jumping, or lunging—enemies will waste their attacks on this decoy.

• Added 11 new abilities.
• Removed: "Evasive Maneuvers", "Feline Reflex", "Endurance Training", "Fleetfoot".
• Reworked: "Evasive Fury", "Sprint", "Tumbling", "Jump", "Aeralist", "Trap Reaction".
• Added upgrade path to Sprint.

Dodge and Accuracy

Dodge and Accuracy mechanics have been updated. We’ve transitioned from a percentage-based accuracy system to an accuracy rating system, introducing a more dynamic curve.

To help explain everything, tooltips have been updated, showing example values and your hit chance against your last target:

Early-game balance remains similar, where a single point of accuracy converts to roughly 1% hit chance. However, stacking accuracy and dodge now introduces diminishing returns, allowing for late-game bonuses without breaking the game.

Save/Load Stability

Fixed several issues related to save files.

• Added a new option, "Save Log," to enable detailed logging of save and load events.
• Zone files are no longer copied if no changes have occurred to that zone, improving performance.
• Added a 10-second timeout on auto-saves. If the auto-save fails for any reason, the save is skipped.
• Fixed the initial save directory being titled "player" instead of the player's name.
• Improved file handling to prevent corrupt files if an issue occurs during the save process.
• Added small millisecond delays between save file updates to improve compatibility with AntiVirus software and other processes.
• Improved error handling during save/load events. The error screen now provides more detailed information if something goes wrong.

Other Changes

• Added key bindings for zoom in and zoom out ("-" and "="). These can also be modified in options.
• Ability "Achilles Bane" - increased cooldown by 2 turns.
• Added new dash/jump animations to the following abilities: "Sliding Strike", "Duelist Advance", "Vicious Lunge", "Mighty Lunge", and "Gutting Reave".
• Updated open and close sound for doors.
• When a stun is applied due to a Knockback ability, "Wall Stun" text now appears above the player or monster's head.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed game crash that could occur during dungeon load due to attempting to place an entity before the map exists. (Exception: Cannot invoke "dot.tilemap.TileMap.isInBounds(int, int)" because "activeMap" is null).
• Fixed Dreadheart abilities "Savage Bleed" and "Savage Efficiency" missing upgrades.
• Fixed lore book "Voice of Khualexx" incorrect reading requirement; fixed "A New Magic" missing XP reward.