Chivalry

The Chivalry skill has received 7 new abilities, giving new options for how to spend your focus points at every level.

Several of these abilities use entirely new mechanics, for example "Shield Deflection" which deflects incoming arrow fire to nearby adjacent targets.

• Added new abilities "Shield Deflection", "Stand Ground", "Righteous Fury", "Intimidating Presence", "Agile Physique", "Endurance Training", and "Protector of the Realm".
• Buffed "Parry" ability, which is now much faster, requiring 50 less time than normal. Increased energy cost from 12 to 15.
• Reworked "Overcome the Odds" ability - removed knockback and added a status effect which scales based off the number of adjacent enemies. Ability now also has a sound effect.
• Updated "Bravery" to show the passive icon while enemies are nearby (more broadly speaking, all trigger-based passives will now show an icon while the ability is enabled).
• Rebalanced ability costs and level requirements.

Athletics

Added 7 new abilities to the Athletics skill. Passive Athletic abilities now fall under two categories: "The Way of Fitness" and "The Way of Shadow".

Similar to Chivalry, these abilities introduce new mechanics, for example "Dive Roll" which adds a new evasion stat, allowing you to avoid enemy damage by immediately rolling to adjacent tile.

• Added new athletics abilities "Fleetfoot", "Endurance Training", "Agile Physique", "Dance of Shadows", "Tumbling", "Aerialist", and "Trap Reaction".
• Renamed previously named "Agile Physique" ability to "Athletic Training". Since this name made more sense for a new ability.
• Rebalanced ability costs and level requirements.

Hunger Rework

When full health the player will now very rarely get hungry. Only when gaining energy or healing will hunger significantly increase.

This means you can now shop in town or explore dungeons without needing to eat every 100 steps.

• At the end of turn, if the player has less than max energy or stamina, hunger will increase at 150% (compared to before).
• At the end of turn, if the player has max energy and stamina, hunger will increase at 10%.
• Hunger gain while moving in the overworld remains unchanged.

Monster Levels

The Doors of Trithius now has over 60 different monster types. It was time to implement a system for more accurately assigning levels and to check for balance.

To help with this, I calculated a power level score for each creature which takes into account their defensive, offense, and mobility.

• Updated monster levels across the board, so that the displayed level would more accurately reflect the real power level.
• Many small buffs and nerfs where it was discovered monsters were weaker or stronger than intended.
• Added descriptions to all monsters where one was missing. Right-clicking any monster, NPC, or nest should now display a description, level (if applicable), and list of traits.

Attack & Movement Speed

Movement Speed and Attack Speed now scale based off a formula. This means the more bonus Movement Speed the less benefit (as a total percent) you will gain from stacking more.

• Using a single speed bonus ability or item will have a final calculated speed similar to before.
• Stacking many speed bonuses will have less effect in total.
• This also means speed debuffs are less harsh when stacked (for example, many spiders webbing the player all at once).
• Abilities and Items which reward speed have been rebalanced.

Other Changes

• Combat log - tweak wording, formatting, coloring to be more consistent.
• Combat log - show dodges and misses separately (has no effect on the actual hit calculation math).
• Increased focus point cost of botany ability "Surplus Harvesting" from 2 to 3.
• Reduced focus point cost of botany ability "Mushroom Specialist" from 3 to 2.
• Medicine ability "Careful Tending" now scales based off medicine level.
• Buffed long-lasting antidote from 50 to 100 turns.
• Made Scrolls of discovery more common in Scribe shops.
• Renamed silver chest from "Storage Chest" to "Chest". "Storage Chest" was misleading since it implied items can be stored.
• Ensure ability costs cant go below negative (cap melee cost reduction at 95%).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed enchanting or dechanting rewarding extra wisdom.
• Fixed "Vicious Lunge" ability debuff not being applied.
• Fixed "Wind-Up" giving too many stats after first swing.
• Fixed stats hidden in tooltips when the total of all sources adds up to zero.
• Fixed Nature magic passive "Nature Intuition" rewarding 3% cost reduction per level instead of the intended 2%.
• Fixed Chivalry passive "Gallantry" rewarding 3% cost reduction per level instead of the intended 2%.