The latest early access patch for Curious Panda’s turn-based mercenary RPG The Iron Oath fixes a heap of bugs, tinkers with the game’s balance, and introduces a few quality of life improvements, like being able to skip the prologue.
But before we get to the actual patch notes, you might also be interested in this recent video interview from The Escapist featuring two of the game’s developers:
And now, the patch notes:
Hello mercenaries! Today’s patch is a pretty big one with many bug fixes, balance changes, and QoL features (like skipping the prologue!). Be sure to update your client.
Going forward, our plan is to patch as needed on Fridays. Next week we’ll be focusing on three commonly requested things: repairing gear, comparing items in the market to equipped gear, and the ability to see when your merc’s salary payments are due (so you can plan accordingly). Here are the patch notes for this week:
Patch Notes for 0.5.141
Fixes
The damage from Burns now increases based on the number of stacks applied
You can no longer cycle through temporary allies when viewing character sheets within party select (there was a crash you could trigger during the final fight of the prologue by doing this)
Dismissing characters from the company will now update the UI to accurately reflect the current number of active units
Dismissing characters from the company will now properly pay them the coin required to do so
Available contracts in a city will no longer change upon leaving and re-entering the city, or saving and loading
When an enemy is rooted, they will no longer pass on their turn if they have a viable target to attack
The Huntress’ Overwatch upgrade that increases its range to 3 is now working as intended
Fixed a bug where if the Huntress killed an enemy with Overwatch, the next 2 enemies would take their turn at the same time
If the target of the Guardian’s Judgment ability dies, the channel will be aborted
The number of stacks for the Guardian’s Radiance passive is now properly displayed on the status icon
When exiting a dungeon, the dungeon details tooltip will no longer get stuck on screen if you happened to be mousing over it as the overworld loaded
Spectral Weepers will no longer fear their own allies
The control maps for Wait and Guard are now shown correctly in the Options menu
You can now open the escape menu in areas you previously could not (during AI turns in combat, and during dialogue events)
The Charion Behemoth’s death animation is now visible
Channel length now updates properly in the ability’s tooltip when upgraded (note: the initial channel length of some abilities is still off – this is being investigated)
Can now enable debug settings by setting the value for DebugEnabled to True in the config file
Skeletons that are summoned by necromancers will not be able to act until the next round of combat
The point cost of incenses are now displayed in the company upgrades screen
The Resuscitate upgrade for Healing Trance now works properly (previously it would only restore bleedout points if the target was knocked down)
Re-enabled the Dreadknight’s Pull of The Void ability
The House Skirmisher should now deploy their Spearwall ability a bit more intelligently (The Skirmisher’s AI still needs some fine tuning though)
Fixed a scripting error that displayed a character’s name as “0” during the introduction of the ‘Direct Action’ quest
You can now target Sleeping allies with a Basic Attack in order to wake them up
Certain Noble quests will no longer crash upon accepting them
When loading a save file, the encumbered icon will no longer display unless you are actually encumbered
Potentially fixed a crash that could occur when a player character died with certain buffs/debuffs applied to them
Fixed a potential crash when channeling certain abilities
The Risen Bonecrusher’s Shield Bash attack will no longer Stun the target if they evade it
After Waiting with a character, you will no longer be able to Wait a second time in the same round (doing so previously would forfeit their turn)
The Stormcaller’s Rainfall ability no longer applies multiple instances of wet terrain on a single cell
Fixed a soft lock that could occur if all party members died except for one who was charmed
The damage previews for Skewer, Sweeping Spear, and Holy Barrage now work
The Wet debuff has been altered to do 50% bonus damage, instead of a forced critical (there still is an issue where units that run through wet terrain are not given the debuff)
When using the Huntress’ Hone and Overwatch abilities, you are now required to target the Huntress in order to use them (no more misclicks!)
Potentially fixed an issue where characters of the same class could have different base Speed values
Fixed an issue where a character who was ‘Waiting’ as the previous fight ended would incorrectly start the next fight at the back of the turn order
Additions and Changes
When starting a new campaign, you can now choose to skip the entire prologue, giving you immediate freedom of where to go
Added a large font option for dialogue
Holding spacebar will now quickly skip through all dialogue, only pausing when there are multiple dialogue choices available
You can now close the dungeon provisions window by hitting the same key used to open it
Added a new company upgrade called Draft Horses which increases your available storage space
Your storage space now defaults to a capacity of 25, with all items contributing to it regardless of their type (previously it was based on whether or not you were encumbered in a single category)
Added a Scouting Report to the party select screen, displaying which enemies you can potentially face (currently this only works for dungeons, not overworld encounters)
You can now see the environment/tileset during the party select screen
During the party select screen, you can now view the character sheet for people that are already assigned to the party without having to first remove them (hover their portrait to bring up the button)
A skull will now display over an enemy’s health bar to indicate if the attack will be a killing blow (in addition to the red glow we previously had)
Enemy groupings are now more varied with a few other enemies mixed in (where it makes sense to do so)
Balance
The frequency of overworld encounters has been reduced, but have been made more difficult (more enemies)
Removed the temporary immunity that was applied to your characters when they were repeatedly afflicted with the same status effect
The Stormcaller’s Wind Surge ability now cleanses all negative conditions (instead of only a few specific ones)
The Stormcaller’s Rainfall now heals for a small amount over time (in addition to its previous effects)
The Pugilist’s ‘Mind, Body and Soul’ ability now heals for a small amount (in addition to its previous effects)
The Valkyrie’s Skewer has had its damage reduced from 135% to 125% (based on Power)
The Valkyrie’s Sweeping Spear has been buffed from 100% to 135%
The Huntress’ True Sight ability no longer requires line of sight to the target and has infinite range
The Pyrolancer’s Return To Cinder ability now does damage equal to 60% of Power, increased from 20%
The damage of the Pyrolancer’s Infernal Pillar ability has been reduced to 150% of Power, down from 175%
The damage shield granted by the Guardian’s Safeguard ability is now 50% more
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