jkachhad / stormhalter

A public repository for Stormhalter, a Legends of Kesmai revival project.

The Stormhalter Project is an open community with a goal to recreate, improve, and expand the traditional game-mechanics from Legends of Kesmai. We are currently in an alpha release and providing access to a few limited testers. We are currently focusing on: Combat, Spells, and the land of Kesmai. Characters created during the alpha and beta release will not be available when live.

Our server/client is independent of other projects, is written in C#/MonoGame, and is closed-source. We currently support: Windows 7 & 10.

How do I join this community? Please join us on our discord server: https://discord.gg/bFY8jUp

stormhalter's Issues

Venom does not seem to harm Monsters.

It works against player characters but not against monsters which is strange. I venomed several creatures on the surface and none took damage.

Icestorm Spell did not place when cast with power level 1

This was related to visibility calculations. When visibility was calculated with range of 0, the center tile was considered out of visibility.

Venom Spell Targetting

Currently, as an enhancement, I had considered allowing casters to target which weapon they wish to poison. This prevented having to move daggers between their hands and utilizing "cast at left" or "cast at right" (these commands are still available).

An additional enhancement may be to implement a "cast" command for this spell, which directs it to automatically cast on the right hand. Furthermore, we could implement hotkey parameters for spells. For example, holding shift and casting venom would auto cast on the right, or casting Cure while holding shift would auto cast on yourself.

Rolling Corpses / Loot an adjacent hex causes a disconnect and server crash

At the moment a player is able to roll corpses and loot an adjacent hex. Doing this will cause a disconnect and server crash / reset.

Could be an interesting intended perk for thieves if it didnt cause server problems.

Fire ( maybe just player spells ) Player corpses do not burn / auto res you

I killed myself with Firestorm and did my corpse did not burn or I just didnt get auto rezzed.

Doors have similar priority to walls for pathing.

Tanner

19 hand skill may not be blocking as intended.

Treasure Visibility in Water

Treasure is visible even when not directly on the tile.

Need more commands for Summons

Examples.

All, Down
All, Up
All, Release ( de summons )
Etc.

Then individual commands by the # on the summons name.

1, attack 2 will cause Phantasm [1] to attack Phantasm [2] for example.

Follower list reset after logging out

No text notification that a Buff Spell has worn off

There is a sound notification but no text letting you know which buff wore off. Right now I use Speed and Nightvision and Waterbreathe on my Thief. Not seeing " XXXX has faded " causes me to recast them all.

Ranged Critters do not run/move away

Creatures with ranged attacks via spells ( while still having mana ) and those with bows will not run/move away if a player moves to close.

Round lock after emote

Player status effects do not persist through server restarts.

While certain effects are intended to be removed between logins, such as Hide, they should persist through server saves.

Spells should be self-cast through the paperdoll and creature list.

Protection from Fire/Ice causes an infinite round.

Spells that fail after sequence is complete do not play fizzle sound.

Firestorm causes a disconnect

Likely related to a previous crash.

Wight Casting Noise is its Death Sound

Wights death sound plays when they begin casting.
Wights when they die have the skeleton death sound.

Highest skill may not be reduced when resurrecting

Balms might need a delay for first tick

Thunderclap does not play when using a recall ring

Was not able to reproduce, the sound played when removing the recall ring.

Creature death sounds play slighty ahead of the killing blow

Creatures not removed when killed under darkness.

Protection from Fire and Ice buff Icon

The Buff Icon ( what shows up on players buff bar ) should be the same as the Spell Icon.

Create a help command to list out all available commands.

Items moving in the same container should not consume a round.

Improve spell selection for casters.

Wraiths will attempt to continue casting blind even when the target was previously blinded. Improve the AI to prevent casting of spells that will not change the target's status.

Aversion from spell effects for CombatAI

Right click to cancel target

Weapon Alignments

Robes do not give +1 Mana Regen

Equipped Ydnacs robe and did not get the +1 mana regen.

Salamander - Fire Immunity

Mana regen may not reset properly when resurrecting

Poison Cloud randomly moves / bounces and does not poison.. Just blinds enemies

I was able to reproduce the random movement. I prevented both Poison Cloud and Whirlwind from moving through closed doors and observed the intended movement. Please retest when able.

I will keep this issue open for implementing poison.

Shark Attack/Death Sounds

Some secret doors re position when blown with Conc

Example is on Kes -1 as you descend the stairs. The secret door was hit with conc and it moved 3 hexes North and 1 East. You cannot move on the the original door hex as the game still thinks it is a wall / unopened.

Mobs will not move onto a Wall hex that has been cleared with Portal

You can still land your jumpkick even when you fail and sprain your ankle

I am personally not a fan of failing a jumpkick mechanic. But you can still land a jumpkick even on a failed attempt as of this moment.

Rats do not see Thieves as Fighters / Do not Squeak

Summoning a Rat traditionally has caused the player controlled rat to see thieves as a Fighter. They also are missing their squeak sound track.

Gold taken vs exp given changes randomly for training

Allow inspection of items from neighboring tiles.

Item buffs do not persist through logins

All gear has to be taken off and reequipped to get the protections back between logins.

Example.

Had protections up and Ydnac never hit me for more than 50 with death. Relog and first death kills me.

Power bar returns to default value after first cast.

Gargoyles movements are blocked by water.. cannot fly over.

Cannot look down on destroyed wall hexes

Wraiths do not melee when out of Mana.

Instead of meleeing when out of mana they move to the player hex then back off over and over.

Allow double click actions within the slot

Ice and Fire Dragon Breath do not have sound effects

Sound playback was implemented inconsistently for spell effects. Lightning played when the effect was placed, but Fire/Ice played from the spell cast. Refactored the code to all play at the spell level.