And now to put things to the test

And linked all that

Set audio effects

a few more things to do, though

Linked Multi-PowerStrike spellani to the actual abilities

Shuriken Sound effect

Now I must look one thing up, as I believe Widzy made me a sound effect for this

I've set it that way that it'll work for ALL variants of the move in once

Multi Power Strike

Hmmm?

Let's see how this is handled (GRRR!)

Well?

Why is the hotspot being ignored?

And let's continue testing

Proper hotspot for the Blast item

Just a few more touches

Before I close #144, let's first test this

That should linke it all

Blast in IAA database

Unfortunately no good audio effect was possible on me... But hey,if you have something cool here, lemme know

Blast effect

Up to completing the split part everything appears to look alright now!

Take IV

GRRR!

Take III (over something as trivial as this solely due to case sensitivity... Long live Neil for ignoring cases).

I hope!

I HATE CASE SENSITIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES!

Take II

Case error

Let's see and resume the testing at Frunadarmon's mansion

As an experiment I did bring back the original background of the main menu... It looks better anyway, and perhaps the stretcher doesn't make it so ugly as I fear....

resuming

rebuild

Still an issue I had to fix here... Oh well

Resuming

Yeah, even a debugger can get bugged.... It's terrible, yet the truth

Debug issue fixed

Resuming

Enemy tag error

Next stop Malabia's caves

I've put in the Hermione Granger cheat which will help me on debugging the hard mode... I've seen enough for how hard it is to get everything, and I am satisfied about that, however for debugging it's a straight disaster and since a Hard Mode specific crash was found already I am condemned to sit it all out!

This should be fixed now

Good that I do these tests..... The random treasure routine crashes as soon as you enter Malabia's caves in the hard mode.... That's good to know

Running my build scripts again is in order, I think

Dernor couldn't charm Salamanders

Typo in ability "Sick Bite"

Blue Screen Of Death!

That only leaves 2 issues to fix before the beta can open up.... Not bad

Gotcha.... An entry was missing in the Dutch translation of the love scene

I must remember NOT to enter Independence right away so I can investigate #261 in the process

Now on to the independent forest

I did do a test for Sugarland.... Got myself killed there, but it works in the hard mode, and that's what matters

Game tested up to the point that Gagolton is deserted

If this were possible the game could NEVER have worked in any single way, period!

So whatever magic caused this to happen I don't know, but at least I voided it now!

Char = nil?

Anyway I'll resume with Dyrt, so I am in the correct DevLog now

Right... Wrong devlog... AGAIN!

THAT should do it!

A few fine tunings though

Abilities were ignored

New Foe Files generated

Generator done

Next stop: Black Dragon

Both dungeons function well

I'll test at least one of them... If I test the other depends on the time I need

Next stop are the white and green dragon lairs....

Well Some work has been done here

Good!

And now for real! ;)

If this works I can close #118, but let's first put all this to da test, eh?

Bad speed setting for that move also

Linked to the ability

Shuriken

Oh wait... Hold the show... I forgot something important!

So on to Iskarderiu forest

I just finished Dragon Crack and the Red Dragon cave in hard mode

But my work here has NOT yet ended, so let's get more stuff to move, eh?

Star Story is taking shape, good!

It REALLY appears that it may be more and more plausible the release is closing in.... I don't think I'll still be able to do it this year (bad joke), but things are DEFINITELY on the road! ;)

Cross roads to Xenor OK!

And in the Red Dragon's Cave

Well, stuff is alright in the Dragon Crack Forest

Let's continue

So I'm now gonna test Dragon-Crack Forest and the Red Dragon's lair

As far as I can test everything up to the end of Chapter 1 is in order!

Scenario reference error

The tutorial will only pop up the first time you enter Botanica.... I won't put the same tutorial in the other GJ exclusive dungeons

That links it all together

Game Jolt Exclusive Tutorial

Game Jolt Exclusive dungeons

And it's possible the hirelings use it to "heal" themselves.... with a price, if they are unlucky :-P

Can now be in bags in Zoraman Prison

Bad potion

Respawn wouldn't reset on prison (this due to the fact you always get here during the prologue stories).... Now it WILL reset once you leave your cell, that is if you never left it before, as when you come back here this won't happen. Since you can only engage in combat once you leave your cell this should be perfectly safe

(I will stop nerfing as soon as chapter 2 begins, as from that moment you have all freedom, so mathematical impossibilities are then no longer an excuse).

Nerfing of the stuff you meet in Weniaria's temple as it's mathematically impossible for Scyndi and Dernor to stand up against THIS

Wrong devlog

Code Typo

I don't wanna talk about it!

One more debug attempt to see if stuff is running the way it should

And an AI altering

More nerf

another round

Hard and mathematically impossible are two different things....

I've lowered a few statistics of the scorpion foe...

I VOIDED that bug that was NOT of my MAKING! This was after all NOT an error on MY side!

Copy-and-paste is bugged.... No other explanation why outdated data can be pasted all the time

Orcs became a TINY bit weaker

wrong icon confusion

another crash in confusion fixed

And that's it for today!

A crash which could happen when confused

Am I right?

I think I got it.... The hard mode was not properly configured for the number of enemies when you have a party of three

Nope

I dunno how this could happen

Randomizer issue?

Syntax error

This time then?

GRRR!

I guess I am really getting tired of this project

Scope syntax error

Well?

Took in mind there are different kinds of healing items around there

Consumable items are now usable in the field menu (in the Hard mode you will likely need this, in the other modes it may not be needed, but you never know)

Taken care of that!

Next, doing one step getting your next encounter is NOT what I had in mind for "hard"... That is only frustrating and not challenging... So a bit of a nerf is required... Never thought I'd do this in the hard mode, but Hard!=Frustrating PERIOD!

First of all, after the fight you will ALWAYS have at least 1 HP, regardless of your VIT. Yes even in the hard mode... This to prevent story wise issues when party changes and you therefore having an entirely dead party starting a fight with none but dead characters... Ain't gonna work.

A few things I now need to take in order, as "Hard" is not the same as "Frustrating"

I'll be cheating my way through this... My most important concern is that it works... I don't expect to be able to get through this myself and even if I am, I may make the hard mode even harder at some points anyway :P

Now with the easy mode fully tested now comes the terrible part... Testing the hard mode

Yup!

Take V

I hope

Good thing I still tested that

Take IV

Fine tuning

Take III

WERK CONSEQUENT, JEROEN!

Take II

Syntax error

And now to see if it actually works, or not!

And that should link it all together

Adapted

Holy Shit

Anyway the choir is needed for the "Holy Shit" animation

Did stuff once again end up in the wrong log... Oh why do I even still care?

Choir sound

Removing all object files anyway.... This makes 100% sure EVERYTHING, including Kthura is rebuilt

The quest is now for how the lower case records still came to be.... I may need to delete all object files to be sure Kthura is entirely rebuild (so I can be sure it's the famous Visual Studio bug of not re-compiling when it should happen).

Lower and upper case still seem to conflict regardless of the impossibilities here.... I do not know if this is a Kthura issue or a link up issue

More debug crap!

Well, so more debugging, I suppose... This is really getting depressing

More crap to see what is going on.... There is nothing that can allow this to happen!

And let's see what results pop up this time!

And I added an extra debug line which must shine a light on matters

In order to prevent conflicts I've set a few functions into statics

So far my search makes even less sense

Project file

Quickest way to do that is by just running the building script

Update to project file required

Take that literally

Shit

Astonishing.... LoadTex has received a NULL pointer for a map.... The question is how THAT could happen... That will be very extremely hard (next to impossible) to pinpoint!

Now things are getting odd... LoadTex didn't receive a Kthura Map.... Whatever that means... I really need to sort it out!

More stuff fixed

Next stop, the HARD mode!

Okay, and everything in Dyrt works

(All this ended up in the wrong devlog, so I hope I got it all covered)

Up-to-date

And "My Bonnie is over the Ocean" wasn't counted as a New Game+ achievement

#270

The Wastelands work though

VERY important bug found.... Requires immediate attention!

Well I guess I gotta resume the tests ;)

And I made sure the girls only appear in Xenor Forest once you've done at Zondra's Grave you have to do

I can at least say that Zondra's Grave works

Of course, given the nature of confusion loads of bugs can still happen, so you never know for sure!

I think I fixed it... It was actually more trivial than I could ever imagine

This was expected to happen, or at least that it wouldn't go without issues in one go.... oh well...

Let's move!

I guess I should start now on Zondra's Grave... or somewhere there, I believe... Oh well, let's see...

Let's resume the action

Black Prison Works!

I plan to do the test for Frendor Bushes, and the Black Prison... Perhaps Zondra's prison too, but I'll have to see

Talk with Jennifer works

Frundarmon's basement works the way it should

I'll resume with the Frundarmon Basement sidequest, and I will stop at the entrance of the Dark Storage... At least for this session, as I may run some more

And that's where it ends... FIne!

Rejoining of the party

Frundarmon's mansion

Purple Forest

Felixium