This is
WAY overdue at this point, but Yuurand 4.5 is live! This one's got a decent amount of new features and tons of bugfixes, but lacks enough new features or a new labyrinth to justify a full new version number and subtitle. A lot of this is following up on the results of the contest. Here's the big new things added for this version.
- As Dimi won the race, his character, Victor, has been added to the game and can be selected from the character select screen. Victor's gimmick largely revolves around sacrificing HP for various boosts. His Muramasa does good damage, but if he misses with it, he'll lose HP but regain MP. Casting Thunder will give him an offensive boost but drain 3 orbs of HP over time. He also gains speed the more empty life orbs he has. But be careful: he loses defense the more enemies are on screen! He's also got a unique coin upgrade, Longer Buffs, which increases the duration of Enhance, L2 Enhance, Power Boost, and Poison.
- Bone Zone and Mothership, two new areas which debuted in the race, now appear in the Fragmented Labyrinth.
- Lumen, who debuted as a boss in the race, appears now as a challenge area boss, rather than a Venter Mortis boss as she was in the race.
- Custom seeds are now supported!
This file has templates and instructions on how to fill them out. No scripted knowledge is required; just fill in the blanks with the appropriate constants and you'll have a working custom seed function. Send it my way and I can have the quest updated with your seed in a matter of minutes.
- Official Race Seed 1 is selectable from the custom seeds list (and is currently the only custom seed). As Lumen as now a challenge area boss, she's been replaced as the race's final boss by someone else.
- Lumen and Bastille's story mode has a new cutscene.
- Dracus and Autimecia now have subscreen dialogue.
- LOTS of bugs have been fixed. Way too many to list, but to name some of the bigger ones people have complained about:
--- Sixth Area B and Lake of Lighting are now properly accounted for by Fragmented logic.
--- The snake platforms in Lac D'Amour B no longer bug out.
--- Traps in a room will no longer cause enemies to respawn.
--- Warp points you haven't visited will no longer randomly activate.
This update requires three new songs. You can grab them
here.