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Hi guys,

Patch 1.2 is now released, focus has been on balancing the game and make the overall campaign experince more fun, by adding random character upgrade drops, minibosses etc. Also, one thing we are testing is by having the Ranger walk and attack at the same time. Below is a more specific change list =)

Note to people with old save games: They will work and some features will be avalible, to get all new featuers in the levels, like minibosses and some of the new achievements, please restart the game.

Ranger:
Ranger can now walk while attacking.
Health upgrades now give 20 health instead of 30
Ranger now starts with 0 armor instead of 2
Spread shot upgrades nerfed slightly
Arrow penetration now removes 15% damage instead of 25%

Warlock:
Enemies that die with the dagger poison applied to them now explode
Dagger poison now lowers enemy damage by 25%
Lowered dagger damage

Paladin:
Charge now always goes through enemies even though the enemy did not die
Charge damage lowered
Lowered end-game armor upgrades
Healing now heals around half as fast and costs more mana

Levels:
Act 1: Removed random flower positions.
Act 1: Added 3 more 1ups.
Floor 1: Added a passage from Floor 1 to Floor 3 for people that which to skip Floor 2 (hidden of course).
Floor 2: Easy, disabled the very difficult spike floor in the middle of the level!
Floor 2/3: Easy, removed some elite maggots.
Floor 3: Level 1 weapon store added (in case you missed it on Floor 2).
Floor 3: Easy, removed some arrows shooting from a trap.
Boss 1: Easy, disabled the spike trap floor and arrow traps.
Boss 1: Removed the chest secret.
Floor 5/6: Changed a small red diamond into a upgrade on a Pyramid top.
Floor 6: Out of world fix.
Floor 9: Opened up some paths.
Act 4: Removed Golden ticks from the entire act, replaced with just money.
Floor 11: Changed waypoint after the spike traps, it's easier to get now.
Floor 12: Added an upgrade to the large fire trap floor.
Boss 4: Changed how this room works when killing the dragon.

Enemies:
Tweaked the Dragon boss to become harder.
Dragon boss Fire Balls now have a proper splash damage radius.
Lich_1 and Lich boss now shoots through players, can potentially hit other players behind.
Lich boss mirror images now turns into white bats when they die.
Towers and Flowers now have a chance to drop upgrades and vendors coins.
Added minibosses to all acts. Minibosses has a lot more health and are much more dangerous then regular foes, they will always cast bloodlust on monsters close to them, they will always drop a random upgrade and a vendor coin.
Lich 3 (healer lich) also has an ice spray (slows and damage players) and more health, he's also been tinted blue.
Added flower markings around them, which outlines the range of a flower.

Editor/xml:
Make actors immortal (new entity).
Speech bubble system added (new entity).
Added status effects on damage (xml).
Added HP bar tag to actors (xml).
Added penetrating projectile behavior (xml).
Added melee hit to composite AI (xml).
Added healing as a composite AI skill (xml).
Added whirlwind composite skill (xml).
Added whirlnova composite skill (xml).
Notification text tag added, like "1up" on lives and what kind of upgrade you just picked up (xml).
Spawn actors (enemies) via the loot system (xml).
Added Optimize object IDs to editor, use before saving prefabs.
Physics simulation can now be toggled off in the editor.
Added prefabs (new "level" files).
Collision on money drops, easier to select.
Levels can now have a global Add light applied.
ObjectEventTrigger can now be attached to dynamic object lists (like the "Last spawned" on the SpawnObject script).

Misc:
Added glare effect (advanced graphical settings).
Enemy difficulties now scale when people drop in and out.
End-game damage upgrades are now more expensive.
Added a "score" button to the stats screen.
Added some tutorial texts, can be seen by hitting a clue stone on the ground.
Added some hint texts, can be seen by hitting one of the blue thieves around the game.
Changed a intro and extro, added a bit more story to the game.
Some traps added to the minimap, like spike traps, fire floor and turrets in Act 4.
Chance puzzle, increased the chance to get the purple chest, added the purple chest to the game.

Fix as of Dec 17 2013:
Fixed crash when dragon died when playing campaign 1.0
Upgrades no longer disappear when dropping in and out
Fixed a spelling error
Fixed a missing string in campaign 1.0

TLDR: It's better. ;)

Cheers!
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Paczyk: TLDR: It's better. ;)
I absolutely love this part!

And a perfect timing too, I got this game only yesterday and just tested it a bit for a five minutes. I was thinking about a serious session tonight. I'm so glad I don't have to restart anything to get new content
Thank you so, so much for the quick patch & update on the forums, Paczyk!

Now I've a reason to start from the beginning once again >:D
Ah cool, I'd kind of forgotten about this game.

I really hate those stupid planks. With a small amount of save scumming, I can probably win on normal or at least easy... but I probably won't get all of the planks. I'll just YouTube for the endings when they come out and pretend that it was me. (Save scumming is sort of less cheap than infinite lives because at least you're discouraged from dying and you can still try to not reload ever if you get it right)

This game is a lot better with multiplayer, especially balance-wise. I definitely found it way too hard to play Warlock in single, but he was useful when the creeps get thick in 2+. I don't know if the corpse explosion is going to be a strong single player buff.

Ranger already seemed fine, but if other things are going to be harder, then maybe it won't hurt to give the fire-while-shooting buff.

Nothing for Wizard? I basically can't play him without infinity lives... maybe he's just a super pro pick. Gets insta-killed by 1-2 creeps too much for me.
Is there now a combined keyboard & mouse control option?
Thanks for updating the game gog!
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mothwentbad: Nothing for Wizard? I basically can't play him without infinity lives... maybe he's just a super pro pick. Gets insta-killed by 1-2 creeps too much for me.
There's a long disc about the wizard at the steam forums, I'm not sure what we would do with him, I think he's really good like he is (pretty much only play him), but it's up to Myran I guess.
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Fakum12: Is there now a combined keyboard & mouse control option?
Sorry, no.
I finally bought the game, because of the update, thanks for continuing support your product.

Looking forward for more of your games.

cheers :)
It would really be wonderful if GOG would update to version 1.21 of Hammerwatch. Mac users can finally use controllers instead of the keyboard. Please please please make it happen! Thanks in advance.
It's it's our fault the game's not updated (dev), we expect to ship a version to gog any day now, of the current version 1.22.

There were several tech issues we had with the non-steam version.
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Hipshot: It's it's our fault the game's not updated (dev), we expect to ship a version to gog any day now, of the current version 1.22.

There were several tech issues we had with the non-steam version.
Thank you for that information, Hipshot. It's really nice to still have devs that are down-to-earth and who care about their community. I hope version 1.22 comes soon to GOG.

And thank you for the amazing game you've made, by the way!