Materia Magica 4.4 Build 2384 Update Released!

Monday, 23 January 2012 01:29

We are pleased to announce that build 2384 of Materia Magica 4.4 has been released! This new update to the game and world of Alyria introduces many bugfixes and tweaks, as well as some fun new quests and adventures. A partial summary of the major fixes and updates follow.

Skills

• Made Regenerate Cartilage work 25% better underwater/in floods.
• Made Lay Hands affect Leech Conduit.
• Fixed a bug that made blindness remove all defenses.
• Made Strike Match not work on lights that are equipped.
• Made Strike Match deal double damage from infinite lights.
• Added new spells Sandblast, Damnation, Spider Incubator.
• Made waterspouting while webbed deal significant damage to its caster.

Runs

• Added 2 new bosses.
• Made Stargazer all PK and psychotic.
• Made distinct boss kills alter their killers' alignment by 10% of their alignment, eg killing Yourban for the first time would grant +100 alignment.
• Added a method to get back past Kessarian's Gatekeeper, available from a new source nearby Kessarian.
• Increased the lifespan on Kessarian's gems from 50 minutes to 24 hours.

Areas

• Added a new, higher-value Bar to bankers: octarine-gold, worth 9.9M gold.
• Added a dragonslayer-dagger option.
• Made witch Guild pins removeable-in-safe, instead of noremove/nouncurse.
• Added a statue in the Strange Ruins that will destroy 7 standard, bound Relics and create a new, random relic.
• Fixed and streamlined some issues with Banker trading.
• Fixed Ganuk Jr's display of the Mayor's chosen destination.
• Made it so that a no-outside-noise room inside of a no-outside-noise area will make the two negate each other, permitting outside sound where there normally isn't (most useful for BUILT homes, when most estates are no-outside-noise areas)

Change Changes

• Per anti-Santa, removed all rapid-regen from bosses. This will likely be applied to select individual bosses at some point in the future.

Rankings

• Made gold not scale infinitely for Rank.

Commands

• Added SHIP RENAME, available at a cost of 5000 tourmalines.
• Added MARK WHERE command to find marks obtainable in the nearby area within the player's current class or lower.
• Added area information (where marks may be obtained) to MARK command output.