Usurper Reborn 1.1.1 - A Bug Pass Regalia added systems. This one fixes things. I checked 5 main codebase areas. About seventy problems came back, and each one was checked against the source before it was fixed. Nothing new to learn here. Some things you were used to living with are gone. The ones that matter most · Every NPC lost its innate weapon and armor power when a single-player save load…
Usurper Reborn 1.1 "Regalia" - Gear Sets and a Black Market Worth Visiting Coronation put you on the throne. Regalia is about what you wear once you are there. This is the first release since 1.0 that adds systems instead of fixing them, and it is aimed squarely at the stretch from level 20 to 40, where the gear ladder ran thin and the gold piled up with nowhere to go. Gear sets Wear pieces fro…
Usurper Reborn 1.0.6 - Typing Fix One fix, and it is the one I have been chasing since the online server opened. When a chat message, a tell, or a world event landed while you were in the middle of typing, it would wipe out what you had typed. Every time I fixed it for one way of connecting it broke for another. This time I stopped guessing. I built a test rig that connects to the server every…
Usurper Reborn 1.0.5 - Polish I walked through the whole game after 1.0.4 looking for things that get in the way of new players. This release is the result. Nothing new to learn. Update and play. The game was telling you the wrong keys Five hints pointed at keys that do something else. The low health warning sent you to for the Healer, which is actually Home. The Healer is [1]. In combat it tol…
Usurper Reborn 1.0.4 - Bug Fixes Six fixes for bugs you reported, plus one change to how the world names its people. Nothing new to learn. Update and play. Party XP split no longer resets If you set your party to share XP evenly and later found your character quietly taking all of it, this was the game, not you. Any fight without your party present, and any teammate death, was rewriting your se…
- New Persistent Auto-Map in the Dungeon (change in settings or press 'P' from the dungeon map to display. - Fixed a bug with team mates not showing up on eachother's teams. - Fixed a bug where character HP could go negative. - Fixed auto-combat - Some combat tweaks
The previous security hardening update broke SSH authentication for some Steam and Desktop users when authenticating to the online server. This has been fixed.
Usurper Reborn 1.0 "Coronation" The Beta label comes off. Nothing in this release is a new subsystem. Version 1.0 is what the last year of work was building toward: a world that runs whether or not you are watching, a progression curve that no longer punishes the players it was meant to reward, five languages at full parity, and a server a stranger can host safely. This is the seal on that work…
Update 0.65.7 - Painted Faces and Player Choice This update brings AI-painted character portraits to the online realm, puts your difficulty setting on screen and under your control, overhauls the Online Play client's color rendering, and ships a stack of fixes from a full pre-release audit. NPC Portraits, Reimagined · Townsfolk in the online realm now get painted character portraits. Each NPC's…
v0.65.6 Patch Notes: Renewable Lives, Death's Door, and Smarter NPCs Two major passes in one release. The headline: we did a full end-to-end analysis of the online player experience, from live combat telemetry down to the math of the resurrection economy, and fixed what it found. The second pass makes the NPC population meaningfully smarter about staying alive and spending its time. Full techni…
v0.65.5 - Countdown The road to 1.0 continues. We just ran a full audit of every system in the game ahead of leaving Beta, and this release fixes everything serious it found. No new content this time: this is a correctness and stability release, and some of these fixes matter a lot. Boss Fights Fixed Area-of-effect damage was skipping the Old Gods' defenses entirely. Single-target attacks corre…
v0.65.4 - Countdown A player-experience update focused on the early game and on making character progression something you can actually see coming. Plus the biggest companion-writing addition in a long while: every companion now has a story that starts early and builds the whole way down. Your First Fight New characters used to get plenty of guidance in town, then walk into the dungeon and find…
Usurper Reborn v0.65.3 - "Countdown" A big maintenance and balance update on the road to 1.0: two Power Strike fixes, a high-severity economy exploit closed, a data-driven early-game survivability pass, and a stack of quality-of-life improvements pulled straight from player feedback. Combat and Classes · Power Strike (class ability) fixed for two-handed weapons. While wielding a two-hander, the…
Usurper Reborn v0.65.2 (Countdown) Another round of the Beta to 1.0 "Countdown" cycle. This update bundles a batch of co-op (leader/follower) play fixes, five GitHub-reported bug fixes, seven in-game bug-report fixes, and a server stability and log-cleanup pass. Details below. Co-op (Group Dungeon) Fixes · Echoes recruit again after taking a family surname. A recent regression made any characte…
Usurper Reborn v0.65.1 (Countdown) Another step on the road to 1.0: two new features, co-op healer fixes, a batch of quality-of-life upgrades, and a large localization pass across the shops and the Music Shop. New Features · Take a family name when you marry. At the wedding you can now keep your own name, adopt your spouse's surname, or choose a brand-new family name. It shows up everywhere (yo…
Usurper Reborn v0.65.0 - "Countdown" The first patch on the road to 1.0. The focus this time: get new players into the game fast, make the deep dungeon dangerous again, fix a big stack of player-reported bugs, and translate a lot more of the world into Spanish, French, Italian, and Hungarian. (The game is still in beta, so the title screen banner stays for now.) New Player Experience · Quick St…
Usurper Reborn v0.64.1 - The Brain, Part 2 The NPCs of the realm just got a lot more alive. This update builds on v0.64.0's Brain v2 AI overhaul with a full slate of living-world behavior: NPCs that hunt their enemies, ask you for help, comment on the news, make the first move, and beg for their lives. Plus a major early-game progression boost and a stack of bug fixes. NPCs Now Act On Their Goa…
v0.64.0 - The Brain The biggest NPC overhaul in the game's history. The simulated population around you finally has agency, real combat, persistent grudges, distinct voices, and long-arc goals that drive their behavior for weeks at a time. What's new · NPCs finally have agency. The weighted-random number generator that has been picking NPC actions since the BBS port is gone. Replaced by a goal-…
v0.63.1 -- Bloodlines hotfix A follow-up to the v0.63.0 ship. One menu-visibility bug, two half-shipped features that turned out to have no downstream consumers, and the explanation for one design-by-omission that read as a bug. Bloodlines of the Realm was invisible from the Castle menu The Bloodlines of the Realm action shipped with v0.63.0 worked correctly when pressed, but it was never actua…
v0.63.0 -- Bloodlines For years (in-game), the game has tracked your children from cradle to adulthood. You watched them learn to walk. You taught them right from wrong. You fought their custody battles after divorce. You shaped their souls with every parenting choice you made. Then at 18 they graduated into the adult NPC roster and the game quietly forgot who their parents were. Your grown-up…
v0.62.0 -- Light and Dark Both poles of alignment finally feel worth committing to. A complete redesign of dungeon discoveries. Hungarian localization completed, with Spanish, French, and Italian following along. Plus a stack of online quality-of-life polish. The Headline: Light and Dark You told us being Evil was all cost and no reward. You told us you could not leave the Evil faction once you…
Usurper Reborn v0.61.7 (Beta) This update is a major localization pass plus a batch of bug, balance, and exploit fixes. Most of the game's remaining English-only flavor text is now fully translated into Hungarian, Spanish, French, and Italian, and several issues raised by players are resolved. Localization A large amount of text that was previously English-only now displays in your selected lan…
Usurper Reborn v0.61.5 -- Beta Update A targeted balance and quality-of-life patch driven by your reports. Two new features, a six-point NPC AI tune-up, and a sweeping localization pass that closes 15 untranslated surfaces in Hungarian, Spanish, French, and Italian. New Features Examine Team Members · Team Corner Examine now shows a full read on any teammate: identity (class, race, sex, age, le…
Usurper Reborn v0.61.4 -- Dynamic NPC Dialogue + Hungarian + 30 New Steam Achievements NPCs in this city used to recite their lines. They are starting to talk to you. v0.61.4 is the next step of the dynamic-dialogue plan, the second wave of Hungarian translation, a Steam achievement coverage pass, and a stack of player-reported fixes. NPCs that notice you Greetings, farewells, and chat replies…
v0.61.3 Patch Notes A handful of player-reported follow-ups on top of v0.61.2. Wilderness flavor that finally matches the creature, floor bosses that are actually the toughest thing in the room, and a long-missing path for keeping your party's potion stashes topped up. Wilderness creatures finally sound right v0.61.2 fixed wilderness monsters acting like random dungeon families (Feral Cat using…
v0.61.2 Patch Notes A larger update this round: a new combat safety net, an NPC progression overhaul, a localization catch-up across five languages, and a long list of UX papercuts squashed. Combat Last-Stand Cap. If you start a combat round above 50% HP, no incoming damage will drop you below 1 HP this round. You always get one more turn to react instead of dying to a bad-luck double-crit from…
v0.60.11 + v0.61.0 Patch Notes Two releases bundled together. v0.60.11 (The Gauntlet Patch) reworked the Anchor Road Gauntlet from "ten waves of random monsters" into a proper gladiatorial arena with seven named Old God champions, real stakes on a loss, and a five-tier completion title system. v0.61.0 (Wilderness Reborn) added two entirely new systems to the previously-dim Wilderness: Druid's S…
v0.60.10 Patch Notes A hotfix on top of v0.60.9 bundling 17 player-reported bug fixes and one diagnostic addition. Heavy focus on combat polish: status effects no longer leak past the end of a fight, monster abilities address the correct target when hitting a companion, weapon enchant procs attribute the attacker by name, defensive-ability follow-ups now correctly damage companions, and a long-…
v0.60.9 Patch Notes A grab-bag of bug fixes on top of v0.60.8. Most of these are real player-facing balance / UX issues -- the Marked debuff has been silently broken on every class ability for a while, poison was effectively pinned during long boss fights, and one player got NRE-crashed just for changing language in the menu. Two MUD-client improvements (PR #104 + #105 from Coosh) shipped in v0…
v0.60.7 Patch Notes A small but important hotfix on top of v0.60.6. One critical security fix (a non-admin user could delete another player's save file via a hidden command) and one new admin feature (server-wide permadeath / resurrection controls so sysops running their own MUD server can pick the death model their server uses). SECURITY: cross-player save deletion via hidden Main Street comma…
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