Diablo Core v0.1.0

[julealgon]

✨ 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 (✨ Remove attack animation skipping #8)
• Unified all Diablo and Hellfire behavior into a single consistent behavior (Unify Diablo and Hellfire into a single version #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

💥 Breaking changes

• Removed multiplatform support (Eliminate multiplatform support #1)
• Removed alternative control methods (Remove extra control methods #6)
• Removed translation support (🔥 Remove translations #7)
• Removed all multi-player related networking logic (🔥 Remove networking #10, 🔥 Remove multiplayer support #12)
• Removed "spawn" installation option (🔥 Remove support for 'spawn' install #11)
• Removed hero name auto-fill functionality (🔥 Remove hero name auto-fill functionality #13)
• Removed time-demo recording and playback functionality (🔥 Remove timedemo recording/playback functionality #14)
• Removed support for compiling/running the game without sound (🔥 Remove support for running game without sound #16)
• Removed Nightmare and Hell game difficulties (🔥 Remove multiple game difficulties #17)
• Removed "hold mouse button to attack constantly" functionality (🔥 Eliminate all mouse hold logic #24)
• Removed various configuration options from the .ini and standardized their behavior (Cleanup/standardize options #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 (🔥 Eliminate tests #2)
• Added Damage valuetype to abstract damage values (Add 'Damage' abstraction #4)
• Removed GPERF instrumentation (🔥 Remove GPERF instrumentation #15)
• Removed partial screen rendering optimization (Remove partial drawing optimization logic #21)
• Moved hero attack cancellation when target monster dies to the monster death event (♻️ Move attack cancellation on dead monster to monster death event #23)
• Cleaned up and unified configuration settings models from Diablo and Hellfire into a single entity (Cleanup/standardize options #20)

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This discussion was created from the release Diablo Core v0.1.0.