AVWW Post-Release 1.040 "Pre-Official Polish Round 2" Released!

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Original: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/05/avww-post-release-1040-pre-official.html

This one is our second solely-polish release prior to the next official version, which will be coming out late this week and dubbed 1.1.  Lots and lots of balance tweaks and bugfixes in here, and a bit more to come later tonight.

This one has a few standout changes, in particular:
- A fix to something that was making some worlds unreadable in recent versions (though it looks like we have one more of these to do).
- Many improvements to make the Crafting Grimoire more informative and helpful.
- 42 really cool new rooms by Benmiff
- Drastically lowered crafting costs for high-tier spells (see release notes for details)

Enjoy!

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 0.500 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time.  If you don't have 0.500 or later, you can download that here.

[TechSY730]

Fun stuff. I always love more spell choices, and these seem really cool.

Something important of note though, elemental resistances and weaknesses seem to be "wonky" this version.
http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=8321

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Yep, I'll take a look at it -- thanks.

[NyQuil]

I don't know if this is by design, but you can't use Moon Lamps in freefall missions staging areas, while other light giving spells seem to function.

The light enchant also stops working the second I touched the bottom, making the exit/reward hard to find. 

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You can't use any Deploy Item abilities, so that's why the moon lamps didn't work.  For the other types of enchants, I'm guessing that was a coincidence that it wore off when you hit bottom, but I don't know what it was.

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New one!  http://www.arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,10846.0.html