Heya! As I mentioned in the last post, I’m mostly doing Crescent Loom work May & June, but I’ve been able to sneak in some Lancer days. I just posted an updated build, 0.2.9, with some new content and bugfixes.

The most notable change is most of the rest of the talents; we’re now up to 23/29! It’s now easier to list the ones we don’t have from the core rulebook, all of which are tricky in a way that I’m going to wait until I try tackling them:

• Bonded (when/how will we designate a bondmate?)
• Juggernaut (we don’t yet have “knocked into” concept in the engine)
• Leader (will have to do some game design in adapting the open-ended nature of what a “command” is)
• Siege Specialist (for jackhammer, what’s terrain and what’s the floor?)
• Skirmisher (we don’t have a “skirmish” concept, so will have to adapt the second rank)
• Technophile (we don’t have an AI tag yet… plus this one is SO roleplay-heavy. may ultimately skip since we’re not doing pilot combat, honestly.)

Changelog

Content

• Crack Shot I, II, III,
• Centimane I, II, III
• Duelist II, III
• Exemplar II, III
• Ace III
• Engineer I, II, III
• Grease Monkey I, II, III
• Heavy Gunner I, II, III,
• Infiltrator I, II, III,

• Spotter I, II, III

• Added another community map from Titania: Big Dam Heroes
• Deployable bunker can now be placed on slightly uneven terrain, filling in gaps as needed.
• everest replaceable parts now actually reduces repair cost
• more weapon fx work & variations
• added other ramp shapes (thank you Clarity for making me these simple meshes in blender)

UI & Graphics

• deployables copy the color scheme of their owner
• Add modulo operation to combine-number trigger fetcher.
• false idols look like whoever they’re copying
• added tooltip for trigger timings, describing when PRE/POST rxns are called
• setup screen shows wreck if your mech is destroyed

Bugfixes

• Fixed Use Map Settings; no longer clears out all triggers.
• Refactered how instant action is serialized to help fix some data desyncs,
• better timing of when a parent action spends resources (action points, reactions) when it triggers a child action; e.g. Overwatch shows up in the log before the attack now instead of after.
• fix teleport + flight only costing one space of movement no matter how far travelled
• don’t spend actions for false idol until after picking the deployment position
• meltdown explosions respect intangible
• Don’t reset apoc rail if goblin CP attaches to it.
• Better prevention of spawning multiple units with the same ID (e.g. for tracking who you can target with Eject Power Cores)
• Don’t consume charges on using the Turret Attack reaction. Better UX for confirming a turret attack.
• AI correctly attacks webjaw snares even when standing on them
• Added validation steps to make sure maps are not too large or small
• stressing no longer double-applies exposed/impaired
• fix crash on killing a priest who has abjured you
• mark for death actually verifies attack targets are the ones we focused on ++ falls off when that unit dies

That’s all for now. Have fun! Olive