Fellworld [v0.0.19] By AristidesTheJust

v0.0.19

Events

• Spire campfire: relax at the encampment in the evening to reduce stress. A few things can happen there.
• Community service: 3 new events, some of which can train skills.
• Beach-cave Megarat: Maya now reacts to the incident, and it got a bit scarier with a new enemy…
• Spire academy training: pay to train Shooting, Melee and Defense if your reputation is high enough.
• Scavenging: 1 new scavenge event.

Items

• Smoke Grenade: raises flee chance and makes the affected character harder to hit, but also worse at hitting.

Techniques

• Feinting Strike (melee): an accurate melee strike. Sold by Elwyn and Frank.
• Crippling Shot (ranged): slows enemy movement. Sold by Frank.
• Cynoids get a new gap-closing ability.

Perks

• Gatekeeper: enemies entering your melee range provoke attacks of opportunity (uses 1 reaction).
• Ambidextrous: +15% off-hand damage, and no off-hand accuracy penalty.
• Haggler: hirelings cost 25% less. Traders start 15% closer to your best price when buying and selling.
• Tireless: fatigue builds 33% slower while awake, and scavenging gives 25% more.

Combat

• Most one-handed weapons (clubs, swords, handguns, etc.) can be wielded in either hand.
• Off-hand Strike: replaces the old regular attack with the secondary weapon. It costs a Bonus Action and deals 50% damage at -5% accuracy.
• A melee off-hand weapon can threaten and make attacks of opportunity even when the main weapon is ranged.
• Techniques can now require a weapon type or setup (two daggers, an off-hand weapon, etc.). The off-hand penalty still applies.
• Technique range follows the weapon in the hand used. Two-handed techniques use the shorter range.
• Status effects now show when they are resisted (“Gained X” / “Resisted X”).
• You and your party now lose some stress after winning a fight.
• Performance work: combat should be much smoother.

Interaction & Social

• New action: Kiss.
• All social actions now give social XP based on interaction energy.
• Successful flirty or sexual actions raise the target’s arousal.
• Arousal fades over time.
• Arousal during a (non-sex) interaction makes flirty or sexual actions more likely to succeed.
• Chats started by an NPC are more likely to succeed.
• Completing or extending a hireling’s contract now builds trust.

World & Events

• The Spire camp now mostly spawns Drifters.
• Night crawl incident: the text now uses the thief’s name and pronouns. Intruders come from local factions, fights change their Fear of you, and nearby NPCs no longer leave a ghost icon when they get pulled in.
• Unlearned techniques can now drop from chests and certain salvage events.
• Technique descriptions now state their requirements and usage clearly.

Balance

• Adaptation: accuracy bonus 10% → 15%.
• Dodge Roll: cooldown 0 → 1, memory 7 → 6, stamina 12 → 5.
• Heavy Strike: stamina 6 → 5.
• Compact Bow: now two-handed, damage 6–10 → 7–13.
• Gasping: outgoing damage -20% → -33%, incoming damage +20% → +33%.
• Stims: healing 50% → 30%.
• Monster and beast enemies now have some skills (they were all 0).
• Elite Bandits now have a perk and 2 techniques.
• Cynoids cost slightly more threat points.

UI

• Zoom in and out on the Map and the Combat Map.
• The inventory now shows weapon type.
• Redesigned the combat speed button, and added a combat speed option in Settings.
• The character menu “!” now animates when you have unspent perk points.
• The text window is capped at 8k characters (it got out of hand in long combat and sex scenes).
• Removed TMP Effects: I barely used it and it was costly for performance.

Fixes

• Combat-only items could be used outside combat.
• Logic error in the trader inventory refresh.
• Common item tooltip headers started with a space.
• Spawned and present NPCs didn’t update their status effects properly.
• Being defeated by an attack of opportunity didn’t end the player’s turn, which caused errors.
• Attacks of opportunity didn’t check for remaining reactions.
• The Zweihander didn’t block the secondary slot.
• The combat movement animation could break in some cases.
• Important NPCs’ arousal was capped at 35 instead of 100 (fixed on new saves only).
• Losing the intro fight didn’t count as helping Zane.
• Fixed a ton of typos and reworked the writing in many existing events for readability, including some perk descriptions and event lines.