Bosses - Patch 0.840

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Patch 0.840 of Din's Champion is now available on Steam.

This patch makes bosses more unique (tactics, skills, quests, etc), adds several new quests, adds a new grate block, and fixes many other minor issues.

0.840 change list:

• added grate block (solid but lets liquid and gas pass through)
• now ArchetypeFireElemental allowed to be a boss
• added scout quest
• added assassin quest
• added supply poisoned quest
• added infestation quest
• now many monster status effects no longer read stat changes so can process them faster (Faya AOP)
• changed many monster status effects to OnePerInflicterKeepOldResetTime or OnlyOneKeepOldResetTime instead of OnePerInflicter or OnlyOne
• DeadlyPoison quest now has MinLevel of 10
• imps no longer get higher chance of potions when boss
• added war against town quest
• monsters can now start fires
• added ice machine quest
• hulks can now be bosses
• added blight machine quest
• zombie bosses more likely to start blight machine quests
• most zombie bosses will no longer use any of the different potions
• added Domination quests - DarkElf, Imp, Naga, Torva, DeathKnight, Lich, FireElemental, Horror, Saurian, Stalker, Scree, Shadow, Frenzy, FourArms, ZombieHorror, ZombieSaurian, ZombieFiend, ZombieShadow, ZombieStalker, ZombieFourArms, ZombieImp, ZombieNaga, ZombieFrenzy, ZombieDarkElf, DarkOrc, ZombieLord, Rylor, Vortar, Demon, Scorpid, LightningElemental, IceElemental
• added human zombies as lich followers
• fixed archnemesis using tactics more than they should
• added a start fire tactic
• can now add nemesis specific skills to monsters (have to be nemesis or arch-nemesis to use them)
• added smoke screen skill to imp nemesis
• fixed virtual canAddStatusEffect calls not matching correctly (preventing some monster debuff skills not working)
• male imp bosses now start more uprisings
• female imp bosses now start more wars
• female imp bosses dominate more areas
• added Flaming Weapon to torva bosses
• added Flaming Weapon to death knight bosses
• added Freezing Weapon to dark elf warrior bosses
• added Poison Weapon to dark orc berserker bosses
• increased hulk & zombie hulk DiggingMult from 1.0 to 1.5
• hulk bosses now add less allies
• dark elf bosses now add more allies
• zombielords now add more allies
• torvas and dark elves now more likely to dominate an area
• torvas, liches, heralds, stalkers, zombie stalkers, and zombie scree now start more uprisings
• torva shaman, rylors, and chaos lords now start more fires
• torvas, dark orc berserkers, and rylor bulls now taunt more
• TorvaShaman more likely to use resistance potions
• torva shaman, liches, vortar soldiers, and vortar raiders more likely to attack town
• death knights and saurian now hate each other
• horrors and zombie horrors now try to dominate areas less
• scree, zombie scree, shadows, and zombie shadows cause more ambushes
• fixed ambush, ambush on retreat/run, and diversion tactics
• fixed boss ambush saying they were ambushed instead of player
• now bosses can also bring in scouts, assassins, and hunters as reinforcements
• stalker hunter, dark elf assassins now sends out more hunters/bounty hunters
• zombie imp and zombie scree no longer run, retreat, or banish
• vortar soldiers, lightning elementals, and Zombie Furies now start more wars
• vortar warlocks and chaos lords more likely to set up a demon gate
• Zombie Stalker bosses now have teleport
• now only torva shaman bosses can summon fire elementals (now TorvaShaman1 has a summon)
• saurian bosses can now summon lightning elementals
• fury bosses can now summon scree
• dark orc scout bosses can now summon dark orc shamans and dark orc warlocks
• now more versions of Dark Orc Warlock can summon scree and furies but furies are now nemesis only
• Scorpid bosses can now summon scorpions
• Shadow bosses can now summon more shadows
• now unique monsters can cause blight explosions
• now liches, zombie shadows, and zombie lords have higher chance of blight explosions
• now unique monsters can start storms
• now horrors, saurian mages, and lightning elementals have higher chance of starting storms
• now unique monsters can release poison gas and exploding gas
• now zombie fire throwers have higher chance of releasing exploding gas
• now zombie imps (male & female) have higher chance of releasing poison gas
• dark elf priest and zombie dark elf bosses now have a darkness skill
• now zombie dark elves send out more assassins
• dark elf warrior bosses now have blade of darkness skill
• female imp bosses now can use 1 more healing potion
• death knight bosses now can use 1 more rejuvenation potion
• now zombie fury bosses have BurstOfSpeed skill
• now dark elf assassin bosses have sprint skill
• Zombie Saurian bosses can now shoot fireballs from their mouth
• now scree and zombie scree have rupture armor impale skills
• now female imp and female zombie imp bosses get an extra projectile
• now hulk boss stunning hit has extra knockback
• hulks now start less uprisings
• now stalker hunter boss ranged attack always pierces
• now unique monsters have a really small chance to pray and increase evil immortal's power
• now naga priest and dark elf priest have much higher chance to pray and increase evil immortal's power
• now ice elemental bosses have ice storm skill
• now lighting elemental bosses have a chain lighting skill
• now herald, zombie fury, and chaos lord bosses have fear skill
• changed dark elf stealth to be more like brood/shadow so more reliable
• now DarkElf Wizard bosses have Maelstrom skill
• now Fire Elemental bosses have fire aura skill
• now Lightning Elemental bosses have lightning aura skill
• now Ice Elemental bosses have cold aura skill
• now naga priest bosses have area heal skill
• added soul shield skill to lich bosses
• added energy shield skill to dark orc shaman bosses
• added battle shout skill to vortar soldier bosses
• now horror bosses have chance that projectiles fork
• now zombie horror bosses have chance that projectiles are homing
• fixed some monster skills because was trying canSee checks with origin instead of center
• canSee checks now go through platforms
• fixed a way that paying a vendor to come to town could fail
• fixed some issues with meeting quests
• now quests that that try to start with 100% chance of happening ignore MinThreat stuff
• naga & zombie naga bosses can now walk on liquids
• now torva bosses use shields
• added shield bash skill to torva bosses
• fixed canUse call in BehaviorUseSkill::start not using correctly target
• added corpse explosion skill to lich bosses
• scree, stalker, and zombie stalker bosses can now jump higher
• fury bosses can now go into frenzy mode basically with any morale
• added Sweeping Flames to fire elemental bosses
• added Lightning Swarm to saurian mage bosses
• added Arcane Swarm to dark orc warlock bosses
• added Curse of Enfeeblement, Curse of Pain, and Curse of Vulnerability skills to vortar warlock bosses
• chaos lords are now explicitly friendly with other demons
• added Circle of Power skill to chaos lord bosses
• added net skill to stalker hunter bosses
• added ice wall skill to ice elemental bosses
• arch-nemesis now has a chance to banish their attacker (temporarily teleport them away)
• increased MonsterSpawnChanceMult in wars and battles
• monsters that are larger than usual dig out of blocks better now (wasn't using scale in block attack)
• now darkness level/world modifiers will decrease block light sources (torches, lava, etc)
• fixed a couple memory leaks in buildAndEquipItem (probably never actually hit them though)
• added autoScreenshot (dev thing)
• changed saveVersion to 306
• changed PROTOCOL_VERSION to 151
• now test_stressMonsters will test nemesis only skills also