Horizon's Gate now has a new and vastly improved banner image!

Thanks to the extremely talented Grace Liu for this beautiful artwork - Reeve and Hagger have never looked better! You can see more of her art here.

With it comes a new dungeon, more pirates, and some bugfixes! The dungeon is a multi-floor tower. This patch also includes changes from a number of other small patches.

v1.1.4

FEATURES

• New location: Sunken Balkaloth
• Increased reward for Salvage guild quests by +$200
• Maximum pirate fleets now increases from 2 to 4 over the course of 200 days
• Blunderbuss and Scout Rifle now can be reloaded (but not fired) with one hand
• Fleet battles now show exactly who got how much XP at the end
• Added detailed profit breakdown in tooltip when selling trade goods
• Defeating a sea monster 'fleet' now spawns a gust in the overworld where they were
• Weapons are now automatically reloaded at the start of each Arena round
• Elementalist's 'Firewalker' now heals from walking in fire/acid/electric water
• Fleeing land combat from the same enemies repeatedly now incurs a ramping Combat Fame and Crew Morale penalty.
• Increased duration of most cafe food effects by roughly 50%
• Added some NPC responses to certain player actions in port (Only for players who haven't visited the ports before the patch)
• Added royal dialog if your faction takes over almost every port in Eral
• Added a unique greeting for each temple
• Added a few more variations for Reeve's "What should we do next?" dialog
• Added unlockable 'Timed Hits mode' after beating the game (already unlocked if you have beaten the game)

BALANCE

• Reduced Sea Monster spawn rate by about 5%
• Slightly increased XP reward for sinking Megarays and slightly decreased XP for sinking Shellships
• Life Trigger now correctly scales with Life Skill/Magic Attack additively instead of multiplicatively
• Lifeshards no longer arc over characters (now behaves like a Dart instead of a Bow)
• Reduced Magic Attack and Skill damage scaling of Scholar's 'Gust' from 100% -> 80%
• Reduced MP cost of Gatewarder's 'Gate: Avalanche' from 9 -> 7
• Halved Magic Attack and Skill duration scaling of Warden's 'Guard' and 'Ward'
• Reduced rank up duration increase of Warden's 'Guard' from +15t -> +10t
• Halved Magic Attack and Skill duration scaling of Elementalist's 'Freeze' and Unmaker's 'Wither'
• Halved Magic Attack and Skill duration scaling of Defiler's 'Brainshock' but increased base duration by 4t
• Reduced duration of Breaker's 'Break Arms' disable by 7t
• Minstrel's 'War Ballad' duration now also scales with Life Skill (but Magic Attack scaling is halved)
• Re-added Cleever Impaler's -3% Dodge penalty and Omnipode's +1 Skill bonus
• Warpblade's 'Gate: Slam' base range reduced from 4 -> 3

BUGFIXES

• Added journal entry for Turrets
• Fixed having certain gamepads plugged in making the keyboard unresponsive
• Fixed Guard protecting against Break Weapon and Break Armor
• Fixed crash if you run out of possible royal quests by defecting
• Fixed animation delay on 'Thousand Fists', 'Dual Strike', and 'Shield Bash' causing them to miss on attacks that push
• Fixed crash when moving cargo onto Crew window when looting a fleet
• Fixed gossip about quest items not checking items in locations you've never visited
• Fixed Dialog Speed option not being saved
• Fixed certain roofs not showing shadows or walls underneath
• Fixed Rain and Storm effects persisting when entering Gale Ravine
• Fixed shorter Morale/Poison effects reducing the duration of existing Morale/Poison effects
• Fixed Decay not overriding Regen effects
• Fixed Bat Handler's 'Zoarnado' not being a Physical attack
• Fixed investments in Dunning-Mars reducing favor with Seartial (fixed for new games only)
• Fixed AI sometimes choosing suboptimal targets (especially with area of effect spells)
• Fixed facing-based effects (Valiant, Backstabber, etc.) not calculating consistently at 45° angles
• Fixed Mobile Workshop furnace not working
• Fixed Bone Crossbow's Ruin bonus not properly unequipping if the weapon was fired (thanks rcfox!)
• Fixed delayed 'mid-air' abilities such as Blast Shot being cancelled if the caster becomes unable to act
• Fixed Omnipode or Volskarver duplicating when thrown with Hurl Weapon
• Fixed Volskarver's prices being inconsistent

MODDING

• Fixed Ctrl+R crash with DialogNodeOverride mods
• DialogOption mods now overwrite existing DialogOptions if the ID, text, and formulaReq all match
• Ctrl+R no longer crashes with mod GlobalTriggers
• Added support and example file for FormulaGlobal mods
• Added support for songs in the Mods directory. (Song filenames must start with "Song-".)
• Added cloneFrom support for ActorTypes and ActorClasses
• Lists can now be cleared in definitions by preceding it with a '!' character (Ex: "!actions=Mec_setTurret" would clear the actions list before adding 'Mec_setTurret'.)
• Overwriting a Zone now backs up the overwritten zone and puts it in a 'Backup' folder. Only 1 backup is kept.
• Added support for FXData, drawOrderFX, and drawOrderFXLight (check out ModSamples/FXsamples.txt)
• Triggers can now list multiple elements in triggeredByElement.
•  Implemented 'GlobalTriggerEffect', which adds a TriggerEffect to the specified GlobalTrigger (via ID=triggerID;).