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Updates News Post #498

Scoundrel fixes and tweaks.

Written by: Neritus
Date: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021
Addressed to:


Hello again Sector!

I've been plucking away at Scoundrel. Likely Scoundrel will be done in a series of smaller updates unlike the other classes. Here are some live changes:

- LOB now targets the room, not a random person in the room.
- GUILE TRACKS now includes tracks leading to "the Void" aka PTPs, transports, etc.
- Tripwired Chokers should no longer magically detonate in the caster's room instead of the room where it blew up.

A somewhat related change but not Scoundrel specific:

- The forced move resist chance from the Bushraki Legs arti is down to 10% from 50%. We'd like to do more with the concept of "forced move resist" in the future sourced from different things, but this artifact was entirely in the way of that. 50% was simply too high a number.

Take care,
Neritus


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