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Version 4.0 has been in development for almost three full years but it’s finally ready to be officially released. As you can imagine it’s full of additions, changes and fixes. Look after the jump for the changelog and the download link.

Moving forward I am not sure if I’ll continue to post “full versions” here on the website or not. It’s a lot easier for everyone to just keep an eye on the Github Repository.

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It took over a year but it’s finally here! Battle Arena 3.2 is done and is now available for download.  As usual it’s chalk full of additions, changes and fixes — most of which will be listed after the jump.  Hope everyone has happy holidays.  See you in 2017.

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It’s been nine long months and Battle Arena has undergone a lot of various new additions, changes and fixes.  The final release of version 3.2 is drawing closer but still has a little ways to go.  As it stands today, here’s some of the main highlights:

ADDITIONS:

• Added the Supply Run type battle. In this battle type players need to protect a wagon against a wave of monsters.
• Added new augments
• Added new monsters and new monster dynamic names
• Added new enhancement point shop items/skills
• Added new items
• Added new achievements
• Added new Torment levels to challenge players
• Added new dungeons
• Added the ability for players to obtain a second accessory slot
• Added a new (optional) battle system that uses Action Points to perform actions.
• Added “Gear Sets” that allow players to swap between equipment effortlessly and fast.

CHANGES:

• Changed the max number of access-controlled characters players can enter into battle
• Changed portal battles to make it easier for everyone to get a drop
• Changed the amount of HP monsters have
• Changed the way the bot displays the weather changes so that it’s customizeable by bot owners
• Changed maximum amounts of certain skills and styles for players who use Final Getsuga and are reset
• Changed what !items displays and moved several other item types to their own commands
• Changed alchemy so that it is now possible to craft weapons directly
• Changed armor so that it no longer adds the stats directly to the player’s file (except HP and TP)
• Changed armor so that it no longer affects players’ levels
• Changed a few things with dragon hunting for when players’ average level hits a certain amount
• Changed capacity point gain rate to be increased by the number of achievements the player has
• Changed the dynamic naming system slightly

FIXES:

• Fixed a bug with Stoneskin in the enhancement shop
• Fixed a bug with AI in dungeons
• Fixed a bug with clones being able to use items
• Fixed a bug in which enhancement skills (0 cost) would show up in !shop list skills
• Fixed a bug where using !misc items multiple times would cause duplicates to show up
• Fixed a bug where NPCs/trusts could survive no-npc/no-trust battle conditions on uncapped portals
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to get infinite HP while using an ignition
• Fixed a bug that was preventing accessories with more than one type working correctly.
• Fixed a bug with the techonly AI types
• Fixed two bugs with the Predator fight
• Fixed an issue where certain battle types could override mimic battles
• Fixed an issue with absorb inside of dungeons and torment
• Fixed an issue with clones being able to use skills multiple times without a cooldown
• Fixed a description issue with ToxicMelody

This is actually just a small portion of the current changelog for 3.2.  As always, you don’t have to wait until release day to get the latest version as the project is available on Github.  Just follow the link and clone the repository and you too can have the latest versions.  For those who don’t want to use Github and would rather have the “Complete” zipped version… all I can say is soon.  I’m aiming to get it done by the end of October but it all really just depends on how fast certain things can get finished.  But hopefully it will be sooner rather than later.

Version 1.5.4 is now available for download!

For some reason I forgot to release version 1.5.3 so this post will serve as a way to talk about what I did in that version as well.

For version 1.5.3 I did the following:

• Added the USER LEVEL command: !haiku This command will cause the bot to attempt to create a haiku using the 5/7/5 syllable structure. It’s not perfect and the counts will often be a little off but it’s a start. Needs the LB Brain to be on in order to work properly.
• Changed the “Answer Search” code slightly so that it tries to find more than one answer to the same line. This may or may not help/improve anything.
• Changed the LB brain so that it stores the starting lines in memory instead of loading them every single time something is added to the brain file.
• Changed the way the filter works slightly so that when it adds things to the LB and basic brains it can run one of the same functions. This reduces code a little and makes it cleaner.
• Fixed the Twitter aspect so that it works with the 1.1 OATH system.

It wasn’t a lot, but it was just minor improvements to try to improve the way the bot works (especially loading all the starting lines, as a huge brain file makes the bot pretty slow).

Version 1.5.4 was simply another fix to Twitter, as I was having some issues with it working reliably.  It now uses the CoreTweets.dll which is soooooo much nicer.

As always, the source code is a horrible mess.  Kids, don’t use this project as a way to actually learn how to program or hold it up to some high standard.  I’m honestly surprised this bucket of bolts even works with the way I’ve jerry-rigged it all together.  Having said that, it does work so feel free to download and enjoy.

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It’s taken a long seven months to get this version finalized but it’s finally done and ready for everyone to download!  With this version I think I can safely say that Battle Arena is now one of, if not the, largest IRC bot RPG ever made.   As always, the changelog and download links are under the cut.

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The eight month wait is finally over and version 3.0 has been released! Aren’t you excited? I’m excited. The changelog and download link after the jump.

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