[ann] T-Engine4 / ToME4 beta28 aka "Beyond the Darknes" unleashed!

DarkGod darkgod at te4.invalid
Sat Jun 4 12:38:25 PDT 2011


As promised here comes T-Engine4 and ToME4 beta28 ! See http://te4.org/
Don't forget to help ToME by with donations( http://te4.org/donate ) !

Release highlights:
    Fixes most crashes
    Many smaller fixes
    Fixed character registration
    Much improved chat UI, scrollable, items/creature link ability, 
spoilers channel
    Various balance tweaks
    Reduced the length of the orc prides and hte high peak
    New unified and improved levelup screen
    New items tooltips with easy-compare feature

Expanded changelist:
    Confusion power is reduced by confusion resistance
    Many new zone specific creature tiles
    Reworked Aegis into a shield boost and replaced Contingency with 
Shielding
    It is now possible to create rings and amulets from unique gems
    Creatures inside the ring of blood can not see outside of it
    Reduced the four Prides to four levels instead of five
    Reduced the High Peak to 10 levels
    The Transmogrify menu option is correctly filtered
    Super high level psionic leeches can not get 0 cooldown
    Equilibrium and Paradox now show failure chance in the left pane
    Charsheet is on normal dialog background
    New levelup screen, merges both stats and talents and adds way more 
nice stuff. Thanks graziel!
    Dominant Will can not take control of dead creatures
    Exploratory farpotal exits can not be dug away
    Timeless does not affect timed effect with the "time" type
    Reduced chances of orc patrols
    Fix weird tiles/crash when coming back from the Fearscape or the 
Eidolon plane
    Conduit does not make resting infinite
    Oozes correctly reset their MOs when splitting
    Added a 10 seconds timeout to online character registration
    If a character has not been registered online the game is more 
lenient and can try again later
    Assigning a hotkey to a talent now removes the previous hotkey for 
that talent
    Mouse running will try very hard to avoid traps but if there is no 
way out but a trap it will walk through it
    Fix a rare random start crash
    Can not teleport outside the arena in the arena unlock
    Arena unlock NPC is now a bit more visible in Derth and will also ask 
the player to come talk to him
    Can not have two events at once in the worldmap
    Two new achievements related to the "room of death"
    Improved items tooltips with more color. Also when an item tooltip is 
show, pressing control will make it display the differences with your 
current equipped item for the same slot
    The Trapped! quest can only happen in some places now
    When using Dominant Will it is impossible to access the slave's 
inventory
    Fixed the error spam when freezing creatures
    Carbon Spikes will now regenerate over time
    Anomaly chance is now reduced by willpower like failure and backfire
    Switched anomaly and backfire chances
    Elite horrors will be more dangerous and have more hit points (but 
generally rarer)
    Carrion Worms are more dangerous
    Dredge Frenzy no longer costs paradox (preventing offscreen anomalies)
    Fixed precognition
    Fixed borrowed time timed effect tooltip
    Few typos corrected
    Paradox Mage unlock made easier, the future self will now cast Sever 
Lifeline after about 20 turns which ourights kill the target 4 turns 
later if still in LOS
    Disarm now requires a melee hit to work
    Dying while confused correctly removes sustains
    The last few creatures with a 20 FOV are now at 10 like the others
    The heart of the sandworm queen now grants unlockable harmoy tree if 
unknown, learns it if known and increases mastery if learnt
    When an NPC uses Feed on you, you get a debuff that goes away if the 
NPC dies or you switch level
    When changing list in inventory or store display the tooltip 
correctly updates
    When dropping items the inventory item description correctly updates
    Dark Tendrils correctly checks for pinning resistance
    Bosses whose artifact has alredy been generated will not be deprived 
of artifacts anymore
    Arcane Blades lost the Divination tree in favour of the Aegis tree
    rng.range, rng.float have now reversable parameters
    The Transmogrification Chest now correctly handles stacks
    Norgos correctly drops an artifact now
    Borrowed Time is now a time effect
    Random bosses/elites have a correct mastery level
    Fixed a crash when selling item stacks
    Rename wizard hat defender ego to aegis
    Cancelling Disperse Magic no longer casts it on you
    Unstoppable correctly prevents all healing
    Items and creatures can now be linked in the ingame chat
    Chat log can now be scrolled
    Clicking on a channel name will popup a big scrollable chat log
    There is now a "tome" and a "tome-spoiler" ingame channels
    When messages appear in the non-current channels their button will 
glow and the messages will not be put in the game log
    Ctrl+M shows the game log or the chat log depending on which window 
is active
    Shift+space allows to cycle through chat channels
    Gloves and Gauntlets artifacts now provide armour
    Levelup indicator in the left pane
    Fixed lore 2 of Lorekeeper Hadak

Have fun!


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