Thea 2: The Shattering + DLC Wrath of the Sea Build 0657

Additions and changes:
Villages and Camps have a new ability to increase their hiding over time, reducing the frequency of enemy attacks (this is a difficulty setting),
Bows have acquired the ability to increase Delay of enemies hit and are faster to use,
Clubs an mallets got a secondary attack that can target single enemy,
Wand deal damage in all 3 forms of challenges and deal double damage to summons,
Added a quest for goblins to be able to advance into chieftains,
Added ice biome ruins,
Added new characters to trait cards,
Added a handful of ridiculously challenging end-game events for all of you OP players,
Added chosen advancement option for sniezynka and rusalka and befuddler (VOLH DLC; Chosen Advancement; nodes 49,50,52),
Added pet training for crab and parrot at spirit talkers (event id 73; nodes 35-42 and Woodlandkin; event 54; nodes 39- 46),
Reduced equipment crating time for items using Tier 1 (takes about 30% of time) and Tier 2 (takes about 75% of time). Tiers 3+ are unaffected,
Added Shift + Click functionality on event trade screen,
Gahering screen now sorts items placing terrain artefacts and food at the beginning of the list, and resources from rariest to the least rare later. Additionally resources are next to each other if they are the same type,
T2 resources craft from T1 no longer use coal,
Resources can be downgraded from higher resources using 1 ingredient resource + 1 coal to produce 3 lower tier resources if the ingredient is NOT researched, or 4 if the ingredient is researched,
Added turn notification when there are not enough resources for a task,
AI improvements to better estimate skill tactical value,
Increased the frequency of updates sent to all players in coop to ensure more up-to-date information is available about groups of other players,
Added function to heal mental and spirit wounds when a chosen is resurrected,
Sea ruins loot/reward tweaks and chance added so that you cannot choose the path available to explore.

Fixes:
Fixed a bug where sometimes the guardian demon could leave the village,
Fixed difficulty now displays 100% at easy, 150% in medium and 200% on hard difficulty,
Text added to make it clear a weapon needs to be sacrificed and it may be an equipped weapon (Awakening; Id 34; node 3),
Switched/changed descriptions of boatswain and pirate, to reflect that boatswain is the superior. Also changed the growing up event accordingly (Generic; id 38 +47; nodes 23,24, 5, 38),
Fixed description for SUBSKILL-STRONG_INSPIRE_STANCE,
Fixed description for SUBSKILL_BLOODY_INSPIRE_STANCE,
Fixed a softlock when selecting a ranged target,
Fixed overlapping icons on crafting screen on certain resolutions where there were 5 job slots available,
Fixed target scripts to allow targeting hand if battlefield is empty, also added hand targetting option for a number of skills
Fixed incorrect algorithm for calculation of conquered settlements,
Fixed character's list on HUD not scrolling correctly,
Fixed a bug in main quest Mroki event, where not having an item to trade could cause a softlock,
Fixed secondary targets when a target is selected manually.


Important note:
As mentioned before, this update will break the saves of any game started prior to this update.

Added the option to pay with a cosmic seed for special class when chosen human child grows up
Modified pirate attack quests so that you may escape the encounter
Fixed a few cemetery events where the rewards were too high for the challenge level
Removed several unused events from Wrath of Sea DLC module (ones that were copies of events moved elsewhere)
Added the baby troll growing up events on sea
Added a 'leave' option to sea loot
Added voiceover which was missing in the Mokosh god quest
Fixed task slots when creating new tasks on water
Group info on HUD will show details instead of portraits by default

Hello everyone!

As you may know, we are currently working on Wrath of the Seas DLC, but to keep you busy, we managed to do another content update - The Awakening - as a little Christmas present.

For those, who know Thea: The Awakening, this will feel quite familiar - this update is all about nostalgia and bringing back the past. Of course, due to lore constraints, not all stories were included, but we've chosen 40 that we thought fit the best and adapted them to the mechanics of Thea 2.

Apart from that, there's also a bunch of bug fixes and minor changes. Full changelog below:

Additions:

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• Added 40 new events,
• Added 8 god traits,
• Added Inventor character class along with its class trait and skills,
• Added a summary screen where all characters can be inspected from anywhere - just press F1,
• Added tooltips to recipe screen for essence and skill level bar,
• Added more Chinese glyphs to the font atlas, also added Greek, Korean and Japanese glyph sets.

Fixes:

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• Fixed Replace Idol ritual that would sometimes cause a crash,
• Fixed Dwelling speed boost not being applied in the first turn after leaving the village,
• Fixed CONST_NIGHT_MOVEMENT_RANGE where speed boost would not be applied in the first night turn,
• Fixed challenge difficulty for concepts and challenges above lvl 10 not being displayed correctly,
• Fixed a bug that would prevent health being permanently recovered following a challenge when the player started a fight with a wounded character and used a weapon with life leech effect,
• Fixed targeting bug in co-op challenge.

Events:

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• Fixed KS Events/Fli Catapult Spwn2, Cemetery/Cemetery Goblin D3 and Cemetery Orc D5 as their requirements would not let them trigger on Pangea,
• Fixed Woodlandkin:27 where TradeNode would not have the option to cancel,
• Fixed Misc Encounters 2/HeresyQuest tag deletion which could block main quest progress,
• Fixed mChapter 1/Bandits3 which would mark the quest as complete on the logbook at an incorrect point,
• Fixed mChapter 1/TrappedDwarf6 where a spiritual challenge with Ail'yleth would cause an error (added ChallNod82 as a copy of ChallNod37 but without entry requirements),
• Fixed mChapter 1/Scavengers4 which could spawn another red cave when a child was returned,
• Fixed Earthbound/DwarfKillMEdOrcSkel where one option would not have a group assigned,
• Fixed Generic:28 where Lada path would make girls grow up to be befuddlers instead of rusalkas,
• Fixed Scavengers:51 where the player would not receive loyalty points to Scavengers faction,
• Fixed Generic:5 where mythical path would cause a missing group error,
• Fixed mChapter 1:21 - support from demons after killing them is no longer an option,
• Fixed trade node in SpiritTalkers:27 that could cause a crash when cancelling,
• Fixed Misc Encounters 2:19 - missing group in deal damage node that could cause a crash,
• Added the inventor class as an advancement option for the chosen - localization change: Volh DLC, event 37, node 2 last output: Become an inventor.

Addtions:
Added a new map generation mode called Pangea,
Added names to quest markers on the main map,
Minimap now shows quest locations (for tracked quests),
Minimap now shows locations of other players' groups in co-op,
Minimap now shows locations of visible monster groups,
Minimap - visual improvements,
Food trader in villages will now accept items other than food as payment,
Added Crafting Resources filter to inventory,
Big arrows on the Inventory screen will now only move items that are displayed (filtered),
Added tabs to the building research popup which allows having multi-building research (modders requested),
When levelling up, the game now will avoid offering Fallback skills (i.e. Blung Attack) if other skills are available,
Characters which have no skills to choose from will get an attribute increase instead,
Added another option for Maximum Total Cost of Traits difficulty setting, allowing 8 trait points and 2 free starting characters,
Each artefact dug out from the ground have 33% chance to offer a random tier 3 resource (with some biome-specific restrictions) instead of the fixed one (biome-specific). This applies to the starting biome as well.

Fixes:
Fixed Movement Points being set to 0 when editing inventory on water,
Fixed a bug where the enemy would sometimes play cards that have 0 hit points,
Fixed Act_BloodySacrifice and SI_BloodSacrifice not working correctly,
Fixes to localization loading for mods,
Fixed too early spawn of the stronger groups due to mix of world and local difficulty progression,
Fixed the issue with fog disappearing on game load,
Fixed ship cargo capacity not stacking,
Fixed an issue with the advancement of lvl 5 skills resetting their level to 0,
Fixed a number of demons having an incorrect name,
Fixed Ivan (SUBRACE-IVAN_HUM_GUSLA) and Elder Volh (SUBRACE-HUM_ELDER_VOLH) not having their correct portraits,
Fixed a rare multiplayer crash when entering cooperative challenge.

Events:
Fixed an event (Volh module, event36, node 21 removed and replaced with a fresh one - spawn node - as the old one was causing an odd bug in the xml),
Added an option to the bandits near village event (id3, village events) where if you have a guard tower and good fortune (chance), you can attack the bandits or simply chase them away (node 40 and 41 added),
Added node 42 to the same event, where if you defeated the bandits previously 3 times, they will also run away from you now,
Fixed a bug in mChapter 1, Alchemist2 and Alchemist2 Spare, tag 82 added (in adv node 1 as prerequisite and 2 as result), to make sure you do not get the quest twice,
Fixed Volh Dlc event 31, adv node 52 (added wraith pet as a reward as it was missing),
Fixed Alphaclan, event 56 adv node 43, where there was a potential loop after hitting cancel. Adventure node 66 was added,(clone of 45) to resolve this.
Fixed Slavyan, event 23, trade node 31 - you can now access the node if you have only one curse, not all three,
Fixed Earthbound event 83 adv node13, removed the 'node usable once' tick,
Fixed Volh DLC event 36, replaced all span nodes in the event, as it was causing an odd group spawn and that then caused errors.

Balancing:
Spawning of "Swarms" now triggers only when world difficulty is at 4+ to ensure some more grace period,
Gray Robes now provide multi-type shields,
Added MP bonus to Elemental Robes,
Legendary Robes now give Wits,
Normal armours and shields now give slightly more shielding,
Legendary Medium and Heavy Armours gain % Armour bonus,
Legendary Shields provide +2 MP instead of +1,
Elemental and Legendary Medium and Heavy Armours got a boost to their attribute addons and multipliers to make them more significant (~ x1.5),
Removed master-craft and failed-craft options for Cosmic Seed products.

- Added mod support for story modules and localisation for story modules,
- Added mod support for images,
- Added the ability to recycle items on Resolve Event screen,
- Bug reporting tool should work correctly once again.

Saves should be still fully compatible between this and the last version.


WARNING:

The next patch (on the 1st August) will include the first content update, balancing tweaks and other goodies. However, this required a lot of changes in the game's various databases, so after the next patch, you will not be able to load any saved games created before it. We'll keep the previous build on a beta branch as usual.