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Announce News Post #2388

Telepathy

Written by: Keroc
Date: Monday, April 6th, 2015
Addressed to: Everyone


Hi minions,

I've completed a huge rewrite of Telepathy, finally getting rid of some
of our oldest code and updating it to our newer frameworks. Along with
this comes a host of changes to freshen up the skillset a little and
to setup the backend in a more appropriate manner. You might find some
abilities act a little differently, but it should all be mostly the
same.

You can find the changelog below for the biggest differences:

- Mindnet is now MIND NET <on|off>.
- Mindcloak is now MIND CLOAK <on|off>.
- Link is now MIND LINK <target> and MIND UNLINK.
- Clairvoyance additional equilibrium cost reduced to 1 second,
down from 1.5.
- Command being usable off balance is now a part of Clairvoyance.
- Command equilibrium time reduced to 3 seconds, down from 4.
- Removed bonus damage if you had trauma to the head from Crush.
- Crush now increases slightly in damage the less willpower and
endurance your subject has.
- Telesense now gives you access to the Vision version to cut down on
redundancy.
- Hypersense now bolsters what information you receive from Telesense,
no need to activate it.
- Radiance can no longer be saved against (bypasses starburst, etc) and
leaves no corpse.
- Mindlocks now always have a message when it breaks from leaving the
area on both ends.
* Unless the telepath has the 'gentle_break' artifact, then only the
telepath will know.
- Cloak now hides the telepaths name from the Bell tattoo.
- Removed Mindsense and added a new ability: Probe.
- Barrier now completely protects your subjects mind from mindlock
attempts, regardless of when you apply it.
- Barrier is now hidden to your subject, should you be employing Cloak.
- You are now told when you lose your mindlock due to someone
overtaking your subject with their own mindlock.
- Pacify no longer needs a mindlock to be used.
- Modified various mana and willpower costs of abilities. The value
changes are subtle, nothing was changed drastically.
- Some older messages have been modified and some new ones have been
added.

Penned by my hand on the 5th of Haernos, in the year 445 MA.


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