[Restoration] Early Bird Update V0.5.03-V0.5.05

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Versions 0.5.03 and 0.5.04 were mainly bugfixes and so weren't posted here. The patch notes for them are included at the bottom.

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V0.5.05 (December 20, 2024)

New game features

- Some followers now have form traits that contribute to Best of Party adventuring skill rolls

-- These benefits are non-stacking, so multiple followers with the same trait do not continue to increase the overall skill, even if the followers are in different forms

- Added Minimum Range to some ranged combat abilities. Battle entities that are too close to the target are unable to perform that attack until, or if, they can move far enough away

-- This penalizes ranged units who find themselves too close to enemy units

- Added Close Combat Penalty to many ranged attacks

-- When attempting an attack with this, each enemy in melee range of the attacker reduces that attack's accuracy by 40%

- Some combat abilities now use a random range for warmup values such as the goblin's Spring the Ambush!

New game content (quests/writing/art/etc):

- Added Court of Lust Guerilla Band hostile NPC party to west of Giusburg Outskirts

- The Demon Agent form is now used in battles. They deal lust damage and can summon demon thralltaker allies in battle

- Aros now has thoughts on various transformations he can be changed into

- The Moon Nymph Acolyte now has a new combat ability, Midnight Howl, that summons a wolf wildperson near an enemy

Miscellaneous:

- Added a "major changes" panel that launches the first time a game is loaded following a migration that integrates some core gameplay changes that players should be aware of, such as the addition of Marksmanship and Battlefield Restoration

-- This can be suppressed in the gameplay settings. Suppressing it does not dismiss the message, so if that preference is set back to off, the migration notices will resume displaying

-- Clicking the "Got It" button dismisses the migration notice for all future game loads on that file

-- This panel will load if the current game version matches or exceeds the version the notice is set to, so loading V0.5.0.5 will not skip over the first migration message from V0.5.0.1. Multiple migration messages will be enqueued.

- Added a few more alchemy ingredients and changed up some buff potion recipes to use them

- Added a Miscast floating battle sprite for when allies fail to receive a positive status effect from an ability like Umbra Obscura

- Reworked Enemy Ahoy! combat ability for elf sharpshooter to use a spyglass status effect icon instead crosshairs. It now also has a one turn cooldown.

- Added Marked! combat ability for elf sharpshooter that marks an enemy target, making them easier to hit for a few rounds and reducing their dodge chance. Has a one turn cooldown.

- Added an extra private residence key in Coalnose Quarry

Bugfixes:

- Dwarf Priests and Priestesses of Domumeris use a levelup strategy to assist with Battlefield Restoration instead of spellslinging

- Bugfix for loading autosaves generated immediately after leaving a popup dungeons not correctly recording whether the party is a land or water traverser

- Added some additional checks so hostile NPC parties should not be alerted by the player party's movement during scene changes

- The Sharpshooter Musket now gives a -2 reflexes as previously implied by flavor text. It now also gives a +1 Marksmanhip bonus

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V0.5.04 (December 15, 2024)

Miscellaneous:

- Summoned units now update the balance of power panel to reflect the new overall health / lust values of the summoned ally's team

- Summoned enemy battlers no longer contribute to post-battle XP gain

- Added a battle log message for when giving an ally a positive status effect fails / miscasts

- Updated sfx for Aros' Battlesong combat ability

Cheat/Debug controls (patreon-backer builds only):

- Added "give selected companion" xp button on party debug panel

Bugfixes:

- Fix for Aros' Battlesong ability prematurely ending his turn

- Fix for Potion of Brief Restraint giving incorrect status effect

- Fix for summoned battle entities initiative displays showing up despite being spawned in after the deploy stage

- Fix for physical defense not protecting against physical ranged damage

- Fix for physical ranged damage modifiers not showing up on Statistics panel for form traits

- Fix for time control hotkeys (spacebar and keys 1-4) still interacting with world/local map speeds even when in a battle

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V0.5.03 (December 14, 2024)

Bugfixes:

Bugfix for summoned enemies and allies not being manually targetable by the player

Bugfix for summoned enemies losing their Summoned status effects and not immediately displaying the status effect flashing over their portrait

Bugfix for summoned entities not actually having 50% max health and lust as the Summoned status effect indicates