Release 0.143: The Exterminator

 Hello, everyone! Version 0.143 is here!

I'm working on a couple of actually COOL things this week (that you'll learn more about soon), but most of my fun took a backseat to the Biblical plague of bugs that I've been busy annihilating. Thanks to JJJ from the Discord for reporting a number of these.

The full list is down below. The keen observer might also notice some new content and fairly significant balance changes sneaked in there, and I am caught red-handed: it's been a busy week in Development Purgatory, but the finished result is a much refined and improved experience for everyone, I think.

And it's all fully compatible with last week's build, so don't fret there. Chances are, everything will be compatible now even up through the full launch and beyond.

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Version 0.143 - 9-4-2020 

• Made equipment scale slightly higher to avoid scenarios where the player never upgrades once they have runes slotted into early gear
• Reduced the point value of HP on gear and in the upgrade screen from 20:1 > 15:1, which should also address axes seeming disproportionately easy to use at lower levels
• Added Maven back to the cove post-siege
• Added a new campsite in the Glass Sea only accessible with Qel that starts a new quest (WIP)
• Level caps are now 50 instead of 99, though SP can still be earned indefinitely. Stat allocation is capped for primary stats at 100 each and 33 for special parameters like crit and evasion
• Fixed an issue where renovating the throne room after accepting the Iron & Scale quest could result in Meghan repeating dialogue about it
• Fixed an issue with the doorway from the cove to the residential area sometimes not showing up correctly
• Fixed a few outdated cooking fires
• Fixed an issue where Lily could still remain after the first siege even if she died
• Fixed an issue where Lily could mention Bartleby even if he wasn’t recruited
• Fixed an issue where Mercy’s “Coat On” Switch wasn’t properly tagged when entering Esterholt, resulting in the wrong fishing animations
• Fixed a missing portrait issue for Beatrix in the Carvannah palace dungeon 
• Fixed an issue where the mining cart riding sprite wouldn’t appear correctly in Hawk’s Keep
• Fixed a portrait issue in the frozen caves passage
• Fixed an issue where donating wool or milk to Lindsay in Aster Valley would incorrectly subtract a cumulative amount from your inventory equal to everything you’d donated so far
• Fixed an issue where a guard in Fogsborough could appear in more than one place at once
• Fixed an issue where Marlan could appear twice during a cutscene in the cove
• Fixed an issue where the lumber could remain at Fort Wilkes even after the raft was built
• Fixed an issue where riding in the Hawk’s Keep mining cart in chapter 9 could send you back to the chapter 7 Hawk’s Keep
• Fixed an issue where the quest log still referred to the Emperor Crab as a fish
• Fixed an issue where Quinn and Bartleby might not appear if they were recruited from the flame temple quest
• Fixed an issue where Bartleby and Quinn would have dialogue based on the wrong death flags instead of their partner’s
• Fixed an issue where you could enter the cove’s boathouse during the red moth cutscene, causing a scene break
• Fixed an issue where Franz could appear before the final siege even if he had previously died
• Fixed an issue where Mercy was unable to ride Orus in certain cove map variations in later chapters
• Fixed an issue with the Red Iron Stump greatsword where it was not correctly applying the Dizzy state
• Fixed an issue where leaving Mercy’s bedroom after ch. 8 could fail to prompt a choice to leave the dorms directly
• Fixed an issue where Mercy’s “Daughter of Essence” class wasn’t correctly applying the added physical damage penalty
• Fixed an issue where a number of quests in the journal without names or places would have placeholder names
• Fixed an issue where Marlan could appear in two places at once when returning from Witchdale