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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Note that the changes described below are on top of DevilutionX's version 1.3.0. You can check the original DevilutionX changelog for changes done prior to this).

Unreleased

v0.1.0

✨ Features

  • Removed attack animation skipping: heroes now always attack using all animation frames. This makes the game substantially harder but results in a smoother and more consistent flow (#8)
  • Unified all Diablo and Hellfire behavior into a single consistent behavior (#19)
    • The game will always present itself as "Diablo" now (Hellfire UI, logos, videos, etc won't show)
    • All spells are available, including Diablo and Hellfire ones
    • Monk, Barbarian and Bard now always available as a playable classes
    • Removed velocity bonus for arrows when using "Fast Attack" equipment
    • Damage piercing will always use the "Enemy AC % reduction" logic
    • Spells always cost half for sorcerer
    • All save files now end in .sv extension
    • Diablo (the monster) now always uses all his animation frames and has no HP nerfs applied
    • Pepin will not consider hero stats for selling elixirs
    • Shortcuts to town will only be open if the hero has visited them at least once from inside the dungeon
    • Monsters will keep attacking the hero's body when you die
    • Special-case resistances against holy bolt have been removed
    • Fire arrows do not stop monster regeneration for monsters
    • Apocalypse spell will only hit monsters in hero's line of sight
    • The sorcerer will always start with a charged bolt staff and 2 mana potions
    • Blocked missiles will always be redirected/deflected on impact with shield
    • Vitality and Magic elixirs will not heal HP or mana respectively
    • Griswold will always sell 6 Premium items
    • Items sold by Wirt will always cost 50% more than normal
  • Improve tracking on attacks against monsters by making shift-attack track the monster ID instead of the tile below the monster (#25)

💥 Breaking changes

  • Removed multiplatform support (#1)
  • Removed alternative control methods (#6)
  • Removed translation support (#7)
  • Removed all multi-player related networking logic (#10, #12)
  • Removed "spawn" installation option (#11)
  • Removed hero name auto-fill functionality (#13)
  • Removed time-demo recording and playback functionality (#14)
  • Removed support for compiling/running the game without sound (#16)
  • Removed Nightmare and Hell game difficulties (#17)
  • Removed "hold mouse button to attack constantly" functionality (#24)
  • Removed various configuration options from the .ini and standardized their behavior (#20)
    • Networking settings cannot be set (no networking anymore)
    • Chat options cannot be set (no multiplayer anymore)
    • The 'Disable Crippling Shrines' option has been removed: all shrines are now always clickable
    • The 'Randomize Quests' option has been removed: quests will always be random now
    • The 'Adria Refills Mana' option has been removed: Adria will never refill mana now
    • The 'Experience Bar' option has been removed: the XP bar will always show now
    • The 'Friendly Fire' option has been removed (not applicable to single-player)
    • The 'Test Bard' option has been removed: the bard is now always selectable as a hero class
    • The 'Test Barbarian' option has been removed: the barbarian is now always selectable as a hero class
    • The 'Cow Quest' option has been removed: the cow quest has been removed from the game
    • The 'Theo Quest' option has been removed: the theo quest has been removed from the game
    • The 'Color Cycling' option has been removed: color cycling is now always turned on
    • The 'Blended Transparency' option has been removed: blended transparency is now always turned on
    • The 'Hardware Cursor' option has been removed: hardware cursor is now always turned on
    • The 'Walking Sound' sound option has been removed: walking sounds will now always play
    • The 'Sample Rate' sound option has been removed: sound will now always play using 22khz
    • The 'Channels' sound option has been removed: sound will now always play in stereo
    • The 'BufferSize' sound option has been removed: sound buffer is now always set to 2KiB internally
    • The 'Resampling Quality' sound option has been removed: audio resampling quality is now set to 5 internally
    • The 'Auto Equip Sound' sound option has been removed: auto-equiping items will now always play the equipment sound
    • The 'Auto Gold Pickup' option has been removed: gold is never picked up automatically now

♻️ Other (refactoring, architecture, etc)

  • Removed tests from project (#2)
  • Added Damage valuetype to abstract damage values (#4)
  • Removed GPERF instrumentation (#15)
  • Removed partial screen rendering optimization (#21)
  • Moved hero attack cancellation when target monster dies to the monster death event (#23)
  • Cleaned up and unified configuration settings models from Diablo and Hellfire into a single entity (#20)