December 17, 2013 Wizard Wars Patch

Patch Notes
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ART

• Holiday themed imps!
• Snow in the menu scene!
• New fancy mesh for earth armor

MAGICKS

• Magick selection screen!
• Allow healing imps (and hurting Death) with the Revive burst heal.
• Lots of tweaks to the magick description texts.

WEAPONS

• New snowball weapon! Holiday times are giving times, so throw it at people and shove some Holiday spirit!
• All projectile weapons now spawn their projectiles from the root of the character and ignore the animation state. This means the projectiles will behave more consistently.
• Vendetta Dagger projectiles now deals earth damage instead of ice to be consistent with all other weapons.

CONTROLS

• Stop-movement functionality added, keybinding available in Settings Menu.
• Self-cast when clicking on self with the right mouse button can now be toggled in the Settings Menu.

PROGRESSION

• Increased leveling curve at higher levels.

OPTIMIZATION

• Reduced upstream data. This should improve the bandwidth usage of the game.
• Improved resource packaging structure to reduce patch size.

SPELLS & BALANCE

• All mines and bombs now have diminishing returns(multiple hits from the same batch will not scale linearly). This means in general that a single mine deals more damage, but a whole cluster deals a bit less.
• WED+WWE combo now deals 427HP (instead of old 395), SSE+SSS combo now deals 710dmg (instead of old 805).

NPC's & AI

• AI now considers all mines to be obstacles.
• AI now properly finds a new target if the current one dies.

AUDIO

• Imp Scratch and Fall sounds implemented for login screen.
• Some new menu button sounds.

BUGFIXES

• Mines now activate when any character enters their radius (previously only players).
• Changing password now actually results in the server responding.
• Crashfix when entering just spaces as a chat message.
• Damage numbers should now appear in the correct place when running windowed mode with black bars.
• Fix for imps not getting knocked down.
• Fixed some typos in the hover texts for player stats.
• Music no longer stops if you exit a lobby back to the menu.
• Password change now looks correct, no more disappearing email.
• Reward screen doesn't crash on relative exp calculation when player has reached max level.
• Tutorial fix for exponential "IMPlosions".
• Validate magicks. No more entering games with non-owned magicks!
• We only create the client key once, instead of every time we enter game state login. Fixes a rare client crash were the client had been disconnected from the login server at least 8 times.
• Teleport Magick crash fix.
• Fixed a physics related bug on the map, where attacks couldn't do damage in the area around the match start spawn points.
• Various fixes for revive magick.
• Fixes respawn position on the server.
• Rusty knife special attack animation now reverts nicely to the idle animation.
• Changed the description for the "Attackspeed" stat. It is NOT the amount of attacks per second, but rather how quickly an attack is performed.
• The Flipper Robe now has the proper stats (+Water, -Cold).