- mechanic changes
-- Fear inflicted through CHR has its calculation reworked
--- You can start inflicting fear on charged hits once your current LVL + CHR value hit 10
--- Whether you apply Fear is now dependent on your CHR relative to your current level, on a monster type basis
---- Examples: To apply Fear to a rat, your CHR value must be at least 50 % of your LVL (say, 7 CHR at level 14). For a Cockatrice, it has to be at least 73 % (say, 59 CHR at LVL 80).
--- Now doesn't lock out from additional CHR fear infliction for a flat 10 seconds but for the fear duration + 3 seconds.
## Streamlining the mechanic a little bit

- item changes
-- Parashu slow nerfed from 2 to 1 second
## Since Parashu's RNG has effectively been removed at 100 axe skill, this change makes the weapon less of a free kiting tool late game and requires more consistent attention

- fixes and QoL
-- Added more player spawns in the Ancient Tomb because it bugged in multiplayer
-- Added main menu banners for the holiday themes

- class balance changes
-- Accursed: The last and second to last stages of hunger give you a mighty STR and DEX boost instead of weakening you
# I found it more interesting to turn hunger into a double-edged sword for the Accursed, also giving them some flexibility to deal with hunger issues
-- Accursed: Spawns with Hunger Stone
--- Hunger Stone: When empty, it stores hunger satiation. When full, it gives it back to the player using it. Can only be used above/below a certain satiation threshold.
# A complaint regarding the Accursed was the class' low viability in multiplayer settings where certain races-class combinations would find it near impossible to stay satiated. The Hunger Stone was conceptualized to add some party resource management.

- mechanic changes
-- Spellbooks now don't disappear when broken
# It's frustrating for players who want to enchant a book as their main weapon to have it crumble and disappear due to bad RNG
-- Extent of the PER based sniping bonus is now also tied to the Ranged skill
# Disregarding the ranged skill at all yet dealing massive throwing weapon damage didn't feel right
-- Cap weapon skill gainable on allies at 40
# with the CHR ally regen bonus, this became an obvious, lame and sluggish way to level up your weapons
-- Slowing duration on dash backstabs increased
-- Attacking dummy bots will now allow you to speedlevel melee weapon skills in exchange for durability. Leveling boost with unarmed or artifact weapons is capped at 20.
# gives tinkerers some extra utility and adds use for throwaway weapons, especially late game

- map and monster changes
-- Replaced Sokoban with the Ancient Tomb
# Sokoban grew stale in my opinion so here's a new benign challenge level for you to earn your Djinn's Brace
-- Decreased Insectoid Squadron Leader XP gain
# Gave same as Raider despite being weaker
-- Swapped Ancient Raider and Ancient Knight XP gain
# Raider gave more XP previously but this just clashes with player intuition since the Knight appears later

- fixes and QoL
-- Fixed the "You hit a long-range shot" message only playing for host (and whenever a client hit a shot)
-- Fixed the Conjurer skeleton having a life saving amulet at a certain rank
-- Fixed the last purple orb in Invaded Hamlet being retrievable
-- Changed it so purple orbs don't need to stay on the pedestal to keep the secret merchant areas open
-- Tweaked the Gnomish Bazaar to avoid gnomes attacking the human prisoners, thus causing havoc without the players' fault

Truly fixed the bug allegedly fixed in yesterday's patch, patched other potentially troublesome areas due to a misunderstood variable.

Fixed a bug where leveling blocking with non-shield off-hands stopped increasing with the Novice skill (1) as opposed to past Novice (21).

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