chatventures is a text-adventure MMORPG. you travel through a fantasy world where you interact with every thing through text commands such as "punch" and "check". each area is a different chatroom!
mostly balancing, fixes, a little bit of new content. most notably a new dungeon.
changelog:
update v1.2.1
new
- new command 'precision strike' 20 piercing damage, 25% chance it's 80 damage, damage and chance scales with dex, costs 10 mana, learned with 30 dex
- new command 'rush' all commands are executed twice the next 3 seconds, time scales with agi, learned with 35 agi
- new command 'hide' dodge all direct attacks for 10 seconds, attacking or getting hit breaks your cover, costs 10 mana, learned with 50 agi
- new command 'concentrate' reduces all mana cost by 20% for 3 seconds, time and amount scale with dex, learned with 45 dex
- new command 'motivate' increases damage, accuracy and resistance a little bit for 10 minutes, costs 200 mana, enabled by tome of the cleric (basically it does grace+protect, but longer and less effective)
- new command 'lights out' 1 dark magic damage, scales with int, costs 25 mana, blinds and confuses, enabled by tome of the witch
- new command 'miasma' 30 dark magic damage, scales with int, costs 150 mana, small chance to poison, enabled by tome of the witch
- new command 'fester' does 80 dark magic damage if target is poisoned, scales with int, costs 25 mana, enabled by tome of the witch
- new command 'party chat' talk to your party regardless of where they are
- new command 'earth smash' 30 blunt damage, costs 100 mana, hits all, chance to stun, learned with 199 str
- new enemy 'undead skeleton'
- new enemy 'skeletal warrior'
- new enemy 'skeletal mage'
- new enemy 'spooky ghost'
- new enemy 'bloated corpse'
- new boss 'necromancer'
- new material 'old bone'
- new material 'ectoplasm'
- new material 'darkwood'
- new necklace 'chain' makes it possible to chain up to 3 chainable commands in one message
- new magic weapon 'bone wand' 30 dark magic damage
- new shield 'skullshield'
- new offhand 'tome of the witch'
- new armor 'spectral cloak'
- new armor 'ranger cape'
- new armor 'rib cage'
- new hat 'spectral hood'
- new hat 'cranium'
- new shoes 'bone slippers'
- new area 'forest hut'
- new area 'haunted forest'
- new area 'haunted graveyard'
- new dungeon 'desecrated tomb'
- new NPC 'daphne the ranger'
- new quests
fixes
- tome of the cleric now also gives the command 'mend'
- fixed power stone drop rates
- fixed winter boots needing item18 (which didnt exist anywhere)
- fixed the poison effect appearing at random
- fixed gobtown not setting new respawn point
- fixed not seeing the necklace when checking a player
changes & balancing
- chaining commands in a single message is now disabled unless you have the chain necklace
- dodge, hide and summon can't be chained
- buffed all the bosses
- power stone drop rate now increases with party level
- checking a player now also tells their lvl
- buffed the dragon a bit (more dex and base damage)
- increased spawn rates in Rime Halls
- reduced 'smite' base damage from 25 -> 20
- reduced 'poisonslash' mana cost from 25 -> 10
- nerfed dodge
- set maximum achievable mana to 1000, maximum achievable hp to 2000
- added 30 skill requirement for skilldance
- gleamblade can't do light magic anymore
- buffed guards
- you no longer gain exp from killing other players
- buffed ice golems
- set a max to the effect of shadow mask (-100 karma)
- made party leveling significantly easier, especially for later party levels
misc
- you now get skills from adding to a stat instead of upon going lvl up
- updated bernine's quest so it says "crystal shard" instead of just "crystal"
- the server now saves your savefile when you log out
- added notification messages when buffs run out
- updated the anti macro code. an average typing speed of ~70ms per keystroke is allowed. anything faster than that will likely start to miss keys.
- smalltown, the thicket, back alley, the shop and west plains are now considered safe zones and don't allow pvp
- added to int tooltip description that it also raises max mana