Improved character creation and much more useful sidekick NPCs, plus a number of quality of life improvements and fixes.
Character creation improvements
- The character creation process has been overhauled: rerolls are now standardized across classes, with the sum total of all attributes always the same
- When RPG Complexity is set to off, the roll screen is disabled and the starting attribute values are significantly higher, avoiding the gimped attributes in the early game
Sidekick improvements
- Sidekick NPCs attacks and spells don't damage the player any more
- The experience from monsters killed by a sidekick NPC now goes to the player
- On Old school RPG Complexity, this experience gain is dependent on difficulty setting: on hard, you only get half the experience than if you'd have killed the monster yourself; on easy, you get double the amount
Player tuning
- The Phalanx martial skill now allows the player to move slowly; in turn, its cost has been increased and its duration decreased
- Spirits Within behaviour optimized and the feedback message now makes clear what exactly happened
- Armor kits now restore 25% more durability
- Animated weapons now react more quickly to player input, most notable the Mage's Thunderstaff
- Player's Fireball spell damage slightly increased
Monster tuning
- Dark Advisors don't resurrect on death any more
- Ettin Commander's hammer throw now lights up the monster, giving a visual cue he's about to throw a hammer
- Ettin Commander's hammer damage greatly reduced
- Lava Dweller's damage damage greatly reduced
- Ranged animation timings have been modified for some ettin and class boss types.
New options
- Options submenus have been reshuffled and a new section introduced (visual options)
- You can now separately enable and disable screen flashes on damage, screen flashes on item pickup and screen tint effects from other sources (like berserking, being poisoned or under the effects of mana burn)
- The sound effects of class abilites can now be switched on and off
- In addition to the on/off switch for the automatic use of health potions, there is now a second setting (autohealth cooldown) to determine whether to use only one potion per damage trigger
Miscellaneous improvements
- Like Scattered Evil 2.0, KMOD 5.1 is shipping with the latest Vavoom 1.34 release (GNU/Linux binaries are already 64-bit, Windows 64-bit binaries will be added in a future release)
- Ported improvements from Scattered Evil 2.0 (mostly autohealth and berserking related)
- Heresiarch damage skin visuals added
- Lowered the upper limit on the sum of red and green screen tint effects and the strength of damage flashes
- The distribution now includes the full Vavoom documentation as PDF files
