A new version of Chronicles is now live on Armor Games, and it includes a host of bug-fixes and improvements.

v1.1 – Premium Content version

• Premium Content added! New characters and campaign modifiers are available. The purchase is tied to your Armor Games account, and can be used whenever you are logged in.
• Secondary stat bonus thresholds reduced
• Boss monsters are not instantly killed by “Coup de Grace” – they now lose 30% of their max health
• Ctrl shortcut in inventory is now “quick sell” rather than destroy item
• “Auto Re-sort bag” button on inventory bags
• Spark of Legend grants an extra enhancement slot
• Cant use more than one Spark of Legend on the same item
• Various other Spark of Legend-related bugs fixed
• Some teal set items didn’t have enhancement slots, they do now
• Store contents are properly updated when switching from local to cloud saves
• When using “Change Formation”, styles belonging to dead characters don’t take effect
• When switching to “Empowered” style, your current skill will be changed if you no longer have enough power for it
• Resurrection skills can no longer have their healing component reduced below 1
• Non-weapon attacks now scale up slightly faster
• Changed power costs on “Heal” and “Healing Flash” (slightly)
• “Healing Flash” cannot be used on the caster, target now loses a small amount of action
• “Insidious Poison” cancels health regen on the target while active
• “Flash Powder” is now a half action
• Cleric’s “Revive” now also Anoints the target
• Rogue’s “Deadly” style critical chance increased
• When a summoned creature is forced to retreat, it is unsummoned
• When you buy an item, the status message tells you which bag it went to
• Better handling of buying items when bags are full or loot settings wouldn’t allow (items no longer lost)
• Current difficulty setting is shown on the load saved game dialog box
• “Double stairs bug” fixed – can no longer use ascend/descend buttons while the party is moving
• Monster damage (in general) increases slightly slower
• Base monster damage reduced by 10%
• On Beginner difficulty, monster health/damage increases even more slowly
• Soulharvester has slightly less health, damage
• Necromancer fights in Act II have reduced enemy counts
• Stats on many undead creatures adjusted

v1.11

• Fixes ‘black screen’ crash bug

In comments on the new game, a lot of people have been complaining that the accuracy calculations feel wrong or unfair. I wish this was new to me, but exactly the same thing happened on the release of both of the previous games.

In the interests of science, I added a new function to my editor. It simulates 10,000 attacks using the actual functions from the game (the editor is the game, compiled with different flags). Here are the results:

So. That’s that, then.