Happy Holidays dear Friends! On time for this great time of the year and a little late due to a Steam downtime we are proud to present Version 0.73! Big Highlight of this Version is the completely reworked and enhanced battles, from damage types to maneuvers and actions a lot was changed, extended, improved and fixed. Moreover, we included a little christmas tree search for you, we would be happy to see some screenshots from those you found!

Features

• The battle system has been changed to "Actions", at the moment everything costs 1 Action, but therefore allows for double the movement distance
• All weapons now have a specific damage type (cut, thrust, blunt)
• Some monsters no have resistance (half damage), immunity (no damage) or vulnerability (double damage) on specific damage types
• Monsters can also cause specific damage types
• Implemented the melee maneuver "relentless attack"
• Implemented the ranged maneuver "targeted shot"
• Melee and ranged attacks now display a chance of success as a tooltip
• Added some buttons to make control of the battles easier
• Improved lighting in some battle arenas
• Added new simple weapons: club and wooden spear
• The battle arena camera can now be tilted in a wider range and can also be tilted now via right mouse button dragging
• Saving and loading is now also possible while in battle
• Items can now modify the damage caused by weapons (e.g. fine arrows or magic items)
• The battle order display (top left corner) was improved and also allows highlighting the next characters when hovering over the respective portrait
• Weapon wear and tear has been reactivated
• Ranged weapons are also subject to wear and tear
• Encumbrance is now also correctly used in ranged battle
• Ranged weapons are now twohanded because of the new bolt and arrow slots
• We can now set specific starting positions for heroes and monsters, e.g. to create battles in narrow passageways

• The witch can now enchant her witch kettle, similar to druids and magicians
• there is an introductory text when entering the starting temple on game start
• Help has been extended for current topics on battle actions, maneuvers and the like
• The initial values for spells are more in line with the pen and paper rules
• The avatar in the character screen is not cut off on top any more, should it be too big
• The gameover text has been adapted
• UI scaling can now be modified with the console (F9) command "uibasescane 100" (where 100 is the percentage of the base scaling). Moving this to the settings is on our todo
• "Take all items" now uses the currently selected hero instead of the party leader as "first to try"
• The spell categories have been reorganized and extended
• All 8 possible companions have a unique avatar now
• Some scripting commands have been added or extended
• Save games can now be saved with only one letter filename length (before: 3)
• The whetstone has been renamed to weapon care kit
• Only useful spells can be selected as "free spells"
• Captions of the keyword dialog window have been improved

• In a new game, the main road through the svellt valley and its main cities are already known
• The ferryman now has a more suitable goodbye

• Santa Claus rode across the svellt valley and placed some trees, one per town and city. Who can find them all? ;)
• The market assortments have been reworked
• The keyword dialog for the market in Kvirasim has been improved
• The way up into the settlement in Kvirasim has been improved
• The keyword dialog for the market in Gashok has been improved
• Gashok was a little optimized
• Removed some quest spoilers in Gashok
• Tiefhusen has been completely reworked (e.g. curbs, ground texture) and optimized
• Tiefhusen's water has been improved
• Tiefhusen will now load a lot faster
• The map of Finsterkoppen has been resized
• The gate guards in Finsterkoppen now also react to Elfs, Druids and Witches on the way out

• In the Cellar vault there are now some "very cramped" battles
• The socket riddle in the cellar vault has been made easier and more comfortable
• A climbing riddle in the cellar vault received some more hints
• The Ingerimm-Picture in the Finsterkoppenbinge is now better staged
• A battl ein the Finsterkoppenbinge was improved so all monsters can actually reach the heroes
• Some checks in the Finsterkoppenbinge have been adapted

Bugfixes

• The characters don't move way too far any more
• The arena mountain-01 was repaired (e.g. Harpy battle)
• Characters are now "correctly killed" from effect damage
• A problem with the line of sight calculation has been fixed
• Beneficial spells do not "kill" the receiving heroes any more
• Characters should be visually killed correctly when they are supposed to
• A problem with heroes not attacking in autobattle was fixed
• Autobattle shouldn't cause characters to try to occupy the same fields any more
• Harpys don't have money on them any more

• When selling, Items past position 21 now appear correctly in the sell list
• The intro music now correctly respects music volume
• The hero portrait can be changed correctly again
• The avatar in the character generator is correctly and always changeable now
• A remark to Blade of Destiny has been removed
• Temple cannot be left with empty party any more
• The Wanderer-Set in the Character editor was fixed
• Arrows and bolts are now correctly placed in their respective equipment slots
• The Buy-dialog can now be left without buying anything
• The minimap is now in the correct location regardless of resolution
• All items can now be correctly thrown away
• All items can now be correctly equipped via button
• The gameover-scene now has the correct music
• An overlapping error in the diary has been fixed
• The damage display can now be correctly set
• The take note-Button in the keyword dialogue window now has its correct size
• The gameover screens isn't overlayed by travel routes any more

• The gameover screen will not display the "continue journey" dialogue any more
• Junctions on the map change their colors correctly
• Events on travels now respect the 35 inventory slots

• Jittery NPCs on the roads are fixed
• A stray candle flame in Kvirasim was fixed
• NPCs know their way around Kvirasim again
• More graphical glitches in Kvirasim have been corrected
• Entering the "cellar" of a building when leaving it in Kvirasim was fixed
• The mountainside of Finsterkoppen lost its acoustic birds
• Missing doors in Finsterkoppen retrofitted
• A flying tower in Finsterkoppen has been brought back down to earth
• Barrels in Finsterkoppen are now correctly recognized as obstacles by the NPCs
• "Flights" above Finsterkoppen shouldn't happen any more
• A rooftop in Finsterkoppen was closed off
• Several flying objects in Finsterkoppen were brought back down to earth
• Two carts in Finsterkoppen are now correctly blocking
• Female dwarfs don't have the occasional bald head any more
• Houses in Finsterkoppen are now actually obstacles
• Lighting in Tiefhusen has been improved
• A flying tower in Tiefhusen was brought back down to earth
• The optimizations in Gashok should prevent further crashes
• A dead end on a Gashok Quest was removed
• Small graphical glitches in Taverns were fixed
• Lighting of the Rahja temple has been reworked

• Events in Dungeons only trigger once on exit any more
• The party marker in dungeons now always has the correct size
• Wrong colors on the color box riddle in the Cellar vault were fixed
• A secret door in the Cellar vault is now easier to find
• An XP-Exploit at the socket riddle in the Cellar vault was fixed
• Deactivated bolt traps in the Finsterkoppenbinge are now only reported once
• Many jumpy elements in the Finsterkoppenbinge were fixed
• Texture glitches in the Finsterkoppenbinge were fixed
• Some inaccessable areas in the Finsterkoppenbinge were better fenced off
• Some collision bugs in the Finsterkoppenbinge were fixed
• Some graphical glitches in the Finsterkoppenbinge were fixed
• A chest in the Finsterkoppenbinge was turned around
• A dialog in the Finsterkoppenbinge was fixed