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UPDATES:
-Special characters now retain their unique palettes in any class
-Towns now yield tribute gold only on the first taxation of a given stage
-Player characters now receive a morale bonus to their combat performance based on the number of towns controlled in the current stage
-Unit leaders now provide a bonus or penalty, depending on their Charisma, to the stats of units they command
-Beastmen, Dragoners, and Dollmage (as well as their master forms) leaders now give stat bonuses to beasts, dragons, and golems under their command
-Factors such a movement, time of day, and tactics now scale into late game
-Compatibility has been reworked into a new, more sensical table
-Units now receive a small stat penalty based on their alignment difference with their leader
-Recruitable characters may now have higher stats when fought as enemies
-Retreat command can now only be used after the first round of combat
-Nue Shield can now be found as a buried treasure.
-Cities and temples no longer offer tarot cards upon being liberated multiple times
-Cities and temples no longer offer tarot cards after the stage has been cleared
-Enemies no longer receive Tactics Factor for their own tactics
-A Game Over is now received when the rebel base is taken
-Player units 4 levels above enemy units no longer receive XP (XP rates also altered slightly)
-Removed Items: HP+, Str+, Agi+, Int+, and Luk+
-New Items: Ogre's Mirror (Ali down), Abyss Shard (revive undead, very cheap to buy), and Full Heal (restore all HP to one unit)
-Tarots that previously gave permanent stat boosts have been given different effects
-Damage-dealing Tarot cards no longer use Movement and Time Factor and are now based on Lord's level instead of Lord's unmodded Str/Int
-Werewolf and Weretiger infection rate on Fighters is now 100%
-Damage variance has been reduced and reworked some
-Changed accuracy to scale continuously with Agi/Int difference, and raised hit chance by 5%
-Standard AoE attacks now deal 75% of normal damage, some deal more damage, details will come when a class breakdown is released
-Stunned units now receive 25% more damage
-Stun infliction and recovery formulas have been tweaked and made to scale smoothly. New stun recovery formula = (Str + Luk/2 - TimeFactor/4 - Lv*2 + k) where k is a constant
-Petrify can now hit and damage bosses, but will still not petrify them
-Pumpkin now deals Agi-based Phys damage to bosses, rather than missing them. This damage is modded by the boss's remaining HP%.
-Generated levels now gain half a point less per level than player gained levels, instead of a full point less.
-The Fool card now only removes the front row of a boss's unit.
-The World card effect is now removed after shielding a magic attack from a boss.
-AoE Healing now heals 75% of normal healing.
-Non-White attacks no longer target undead on Weak tactics.
-Kiss now targets according to tactics and no longer targets allies that have already been buffed. On Best, Kiss targets the unit with the highest Str.
-Kiss effect now gives +20% damage dealt and -20% damage received.
-Priestess tarot healing now scales with Lord's level (44 + 2*Lv).
-Tarot cards no longer use Move/Tactics factor and their damage variance has been cut in half.
-Equipment can now give +Agi.
-Bosses now take 1/4 damage from Tarot cards.
-Sun tarot damage has been reformulated.
-Best tactic now targets the unit with least resistance against the attack being used.
-Enemies now have new Random and AI tactics.
-Leaderless units now move slower.
-Vampyres now use Charm -> Charm -> Culling in the backrow.
-Item drop rate increased from 1/10 to 1/6.
-Buried treasure quality now scales based on stage.
-Buried treasure quantity per treasure spot has been increased from 1 to several
-All units recruited in stage 1 or earlier now have starting equipment.
-Enemies on Leader tactic no longer focus the player's leader with melee attacks (ranged only)
-A new attack called Gaze has been created for Cerberus. Gaze reduces a target's defenses by a percentage.
-Acid attacks ignore 25% of any type of Golem's defenses.
-Bosses are no longer affected by Time Factor.
-Equipment may now give a bonus to evasion.
-Turn order variance has been reduced.
-Strength and Hanged Man effects increased, but Hanged Man effect is halved against bosses.
-Special characters now give +1 Str/Agi/Int to generic minions they lead. Generals and lv 15+ Lords give an additional +1.
-Melee targeting scope has been reworked.
-Equipping an elemental weapon that is opposite a class's native element (Black/White or Fire/Cold) will cancel and result in Phys elemental melee.
-Reduced the effectiveness of healing.
-Charm now deals weakened, Int-based, Black damage against bosses, rather than missing.
-Charisma penalty for retreating increased from 1 to 3.
-Single target healing now targets the ally with the lowest HP% instead of the lowest HP.
-Move factor's effect on acc/eva has been tripled.
-Princesses no longer give an extra move to themselves.
-Undead have been completely reworked.
-Large monsters now provide double XP.
BUG FIXES:
-Quake evasion bugs with mermaids and tier 4 dragons fixed
-Animation On/Off will no longer be toggled by failing to retreat
-Animations will now properly be turned on for any battle containing a boss
-Minimized the occurrence of the ugly palette issue on the 8th unit type in battles. Now will only occur if there are truly 8 distinct palettes on the field.
-Special characters now retain their unique palettes in any class
-Towns now yield tribute gold only on the first taxation of a given stage
-Player characters now receive a morale bonus to their combat performance based on the number of towns controlled in the current stage
-Unit leaders now provide a bonus or penalty, depending on their Charisma, to the stats of units they command
-Beastmen, Dragoners, and Dollmage (as well as their master forms) leaders now give stat bonuses to beasts, dragons, and golems under their command
-Factors such a movement, time of day, and tactics now scale into late game
-Compatibility has been reworked into a new, more sensical table
-Units now receive a small stat penalty based on their alignment difference with their leader
-Recruitable characters may now have higher stats when fought as enemies
-Retreat command can now only be used after the first round of combat
-Nue Shield can now be found as a buried treasure.
-Cities and temples no longer offer tarot cards upon being liberated multiple times
-Cities and temples no longer offer tarot cards after the stage has been cleared
-Enemies no longer receive Tactics Factor for their own tactics
-A Game Over is now received when the rebel base is taken
-Player units 4 levels above enemy units no longer receive XP (XP rates also altered slightly)
-Removed Items: HP+, Str+, Agi+, Int+, and Luk+
-New Items: Ogre's Mirror (Ali down), Abyss Shard (revive undead, very cheap to buy), and Full Heal (restore all HP to one unit)
-Tarots that previously gave permanent stat boosts have been given different effects
-Damage-dealing Tarot cards no longer use Movement and Time Factor and are now based on Lord's level instead of Lord's unmodded Str/Int
-Werewolf and Weretiger infection rate on Fighters is now 100%
-Damage variance has been reduced and reworked some
-Changed accuracy to scale continuously with Agi/Int difference, and raised hit chance by 5%
-Standard AoE attacks now deal 75% of normal damage, some deal more damage, details will come when a class breakdown is released
-Stunned units now receive 25% more damage
-Stun infliction and recovery formulas have been tweaked and made to scale smoothly. New stun recovery formula = (Str + Luk/2 - TimeFactor/4 - Lv*2 + k) where k is a constant
-Petrify can now hit and damage bosses, but will still not petrify them
-Pumpkin now deals Agi-based Phys damage to bosses, rather than missing them. This damage is modded by the boss's remaining HP%.
-Generated levels now gain half a point less per level than player gained levels, instead of a full point less.
-The Fool card now only removes the front row of a boss's unit.
-The World card effect is now removed after shielding a magic attack from a boss.
-AoE Healing now heals 75% of normal healing.
-Non-White attacks no longer target undead on Weak tactics.
-Kiss now targets according to tactics and no longer targets allies that have already been buffed. On Best, Kiss targets the unit with the highest Str.
-Kiss effect now gives +20% damage dealt and -20% damage received.
-Priestess tarot healing now scales with Lord's level (44 + 2*Lv).
-Tarot cards no longer use Move/Tactics factor and their damage variance has been cut in half.
-Equipment can now give +Agi.
-Bosses now take 1/4 damage from Tarot cards.
-Sun tarot damage has been reformulated.
-Best tactic now targets the unit with least resistance against the attack being used.
-Enemies now have new Random and AI tactics.
-Leaderless units now move slower.
-Vampyres now use Charm -> Charm -> Culling in the backrow.
-Item drop rate increased from 1/10 to 1/6.
-Buried treasure quality now scales based on stage.
-Buried treasure quantity per treasure spot has been increased from 1 to several
-All units recruited in stage 1 or earlier now have starting equipment.
-Enemies on Leader tactic no longer focus the player's leader with melee attacks (ranged only)
-A new attack called Gaze has been created for Cerberus. Gaze reduces a target's defenses by a percentage.
-Acid attacks ignore 25% of any type of Golem's defenses.
-Bosses are no longer affected by Time Factor.
-Equipment may now give a bonus to evasion.
-Turn order variance has been reduced.
-Strength and Hanged Man effects increased, but Hanged Man effect is halved against bosses.
-Special characters now give +1 Str/Agi/Int to generic minions they lead. Generals and lv 15+ Lords give an additional +1.
-Melee targeting scope has been reworked.
-Equipping an elemental weapon that is opposite a class's native element (Black/White or Fire/Cold) will cancel and result in Phys elemental melee.
-Reduced the effectiveness of healing.
-Charm now deals weakened, Int-based, Black damage against bosses, rather than missing.
-Charisma penalty for retreating increased from 1 to 3.
-Single target healing now targets the ally with the lowest HP% instead of the lowest HP.
-Move factor's effect on acc/eva has been tripled.
-Princesses no longer give an extra move to themselves.
-Undead have been completely reworked.
-Large monsters now provide double XP.
BUG FIXES:
-Quake evasion bugs with mermaids and tier 4 dragons fixed
-Animation On/Off will no longer be toggled by failing to retreat
-Animations will now properly be turned on for any battle containing a boss
-Minimized the occurrence of the ugly palette issue on the 8th unit type in battles. Now will only occur if there are truly 8 distinct palettes on the field.
), but I located sprite palette pointer info and traced it alllllll the way out of combat to the functions that determine which palette each sprite in battle receives. By adding to these functions, there should now be no major roadblocks to ensuring that the 7 palette limit issue only comes into play when there are actually 8 unique palettes on the field. Just gotta actually code it out now.
Lord: Mind if I take him?
Wizard: Avenge meeeee!
