Hi, very cool game so far! Though not knowing skill lists in advance has me running two saves now, one with my avatar promoted to Evoker, the other Infiltrator. XP
Anyway, two visual bugs to report. The first I missed a screenshot for, it was before I realized this thread was a thing. Towards the beginning of the game when everyone is holed up in the underground room in Accoruna, I was talking to an NPC when Mary arrived, and the textbox from that conversation remained on screen until I talked to the same NPC again after the cutscene was over. It didn't cover Mary's cutscene dialogue, so it was just a minor annoyance.
The second I do have a screenshot for: In the skills menu, when browsing reserve party member's skills, moving the cursor off of them has their name appear as if an active party member. You can see Gerard's name highlighted as if he were an active party member, when he is in fact a reserve:
Anyway, these are minor nitpicks, but I figured since it doesn't look like anyone else has pointed them out, I should let you know.
Glad you're enjoying the game. For reference, you can check the skill lists of classes you've unlocked with the Class Data key item,
For the first bug, do you remember if you started interacting with the NPC at the same moment Mary came in? I think I know what caused that issue, and went and reorganized that scene to sidestep it. As for the second bug, that's just on me, and thankfully wasn't too hard to fix.
No problem! A follow-up: switching to the new version caused text noises to become oddly crackly, for me at least. After some experimentation, swapping in the SDL2_mixer DLL file from the version I first downloaded in place of the one that comes with the patched version fixed it. No idea what's going on there.
EDIT: Also, another thing: My Hexer just learned Bolts at Hexer level 15. I'm not actually sure it even came up on the level up notification, but it's there now and according to the class data it shouldn't be. The character is Mage-12 -> Hexer-15, picked up Heats at Hexer 13 for the first ????? slot. Either the class data is just out of date or something is going weird with the ????? skills.
EDIT 2: One more possibility: I might just be missing something here, if it isn't a bug just say "not a bug", but my assumption is I'm meant to fight this thing by waiting for it to float by and then interacting with it, but it just dances in place when I try to:
Ah, thanks for catching the SDL2_mixer issue. I updated the version of the engine to a new nightly to attempt to fix some other issue [ultimately unnecessary] and it seems the version changed and caused how a lot of the sound effects sounds and looped to change. I've gone and found an older version of the file myself and fixed the upload here/on steam.
As for the other two things:
- The Hexer's ????? entry on their learnset is because they learn one of several potential skills there, based on what their highest stat at the time is. A side-effect of how I'm keeping track of the skills behind the scenes is that you can potentially double-dip on that one, allowing you to learn multiple element+debuff skills.
- That guy's more an oblique reference than anything else, and is working mostly as intended, though I've now gone and changed them to not change direction when interacted with. Don't worry about them.
Glad to have helped out, and thanks for the clarification on the Hexer and the jellyfish, though sorry to bug you about things that weren't actually bugs. Interesting that the extra ????? skill can show up a level or two late, but I'll take it.
Anyway, still really enjoying the game, hopefully I won't have anything more to bother you with in the near future. XP
Hello again! Found a couple oddities in two areas around Apargi. Entering the airship hangar from the green door in the castle has the exit to the gardens not present, so you just walk into the doorway and stay there, and I think the computer equipment wasn't examinable either. Also, there appears to be an invisible wall in Apargi cavern, pictured here: 
Just cannot get to that staircase. XP
Alright, that's a bunch. Thanks for stumbling over them for me.
1: For skills in the same vein as Changelin, where what it is depends on what's equipped, there's a bit of extra structure going on in order to make sure things aren't double writing. It seems I hadn't got to that until now. You'll keep the two Changelins you have until you do the last class change, but yeah, that's definitely a bug.
2: I looked into the problem, and it seems that upon seeing that a character has a full skillset, the skill-writing script I wrote years ago just up and quits, not bothering with any skill family stuff. Actually fixing that problem is more than I can be bothered to do at the moment, so I've gone and doubled the maximum number of skills you can know at once, as inelegant the solution I ended up with is.
3: Both of those are fixed now. The suit unlocks something marginal back in Gattun now, by the way.
It's no trouble, the game is very good so I'm playing it a lot, and reporting the bugs I find is just common sense. Or should be, anyway. Seriously, though, fantastic job.
Anyway, as a follow-up: after patching, when my Barrier Mage gained another level (BM-19 now), Alheats corrected into Alheates but Heats and Morpa are still un-upgraded, so there might be a weird interaction with Hexer going on there after all. Or expecting everything to correct on level-up was mistaken. XP The character is still great, but in case that's not what you expected to happen I figured I should give a heads-up.
The drop rate thing was because I was being overly blunt with how I was checking for empty item drop/steal slots. I put in an additional check to deal with cases where there's a non-zero drop rate that still registers as 0, so those cases should now be properly marked.
As for the other thing, I forgot about it if you sent them to Elte they should be wandering around in one of the grassy areas visible from the main road, at least once you grab the updated version. The NWTC Heavy now also doesn't disappear once the endgame starts up.
I was confused for a bit about the Lux Nail/Waki issue, since it's right there in the script that checks attacks:
https://i.imgur.com/xWlGR50.png
Can you spot the issue?
As for the other things:
- Clearwell should now apply regen properly.
- Nihil's a bit of a funky weapon in general, but it'll at least now only hit once [for a bit more single-hit damage, too]
- The shield issue was due to some things being ordered wrong in the status menu. The shields do what their descriptions say they do.
- I still don't know what's going on with the Changlins. Enjoy??
- There's supposed to be something blocking you from going down into the pool until the absolute end of the game, and now it'll actually do that.
- As for the last set of classes, I added a book in Naus that should hint at where you need to go in order to change into them. Failing that, there should be one cave on the overworld you haven't gone to yet that'll let you change into them.
Cannot believe I missed that cave. It's right there! Thanks. I don't actually see the script it looks like you tried to post about Waki, though that's probably fine; missing answers right in front of your face is the curse of all programmers so I get the idea.
Anyway, there is one oddity I noticed: upon promotion (tried two different tier 5s, happened both times) that Mage->Hexer->Chemist->Barrier Mage I've mentioned a few times loses Boltes (though Heates and Morpae are now properly upgraded). Is that intentional?
Also, while I'm waiting to see the last class to decide what to promote my avatar to (Elementalist has good growths anyway), I did test promoting and it did reduce the number of Changelins in my skill list back down to one.
Huh, seems that images don't work like I though they did. Oh well. I went and edited the old post to include a link instead.
The Tier 5 class change actually regenerates your characters skills and stats from scratch, and so the variable skills will change due to that.
As for the last class, it's something you can only obtain after seeing one of the endings, so don't worry about it.
Oh, nice. Glad you liked the ending.
As for those bugs:
- Would you believe me if I said the issue with those shops not working was the exact same issue as why you could get to the extra dungeon early? Either way, that's fixed up.
- The Evoker summon getting stuck was another easy-to-miss but ultimately easy to fix issue. As for Clearwell still not working, that was a result of me forgetting about a quirk of the way OHR status effects operate.
- Those mapping/door issues have also been cleared up.
Admittedly, It was more the final boss fight and related events that impressed, though the ending wasn't bad either, if a little abrupt. I've been poking around the last couple hours and found two other endings, and your blog post that mentions four, so very much wondering what point of divergence I'm missing. I guess I'll keep poking around a bit.
In the process of poking around, I found one more definite issue and two other things that had me scratching my head: https://imgur.com/a/2KQbE1p
The guy in the first picture's meant to say something. I'll get around to fixing him in the morning.
As for the other two things, they're more set dressing [the first to accompany that one boss, the second for a place for the implied airship Geaut uses to be stored/serviced at when not in use].
As for the final ending you're missing, it's for when you lose/time out on one of the final bosses. It's there mostly as a worst ending, and so that low-damage teams aren't completely left out in the cold when it comes to that particular final boss.
The sound/run speed settings should be saved alongside the save file and shouldn't change once you load it up.
As for control rebindings, unfortunately not. If there's an engine update that allows for that I'll definitely make the change. If it makes it any easier, Enter/CTRL can also be used as the confirmation button, as well as Alt for cancelling [as opposed to Esc].
unfortch but understandable about the rebinds, i do have two different files in falsesky.saves folder, 0.rsav and 32.rsav, second one's only 1kb. was mostly garbled symbols opening em in notepad so im not sure if theres a way to make sure the settings save by editing em. can you think of anything else i should try that might fix it?
edit: nvm misread your post, loadin a save loads the settings there. thanks for the response, games amazing so far
