Artifex: The Art of Combat

Artifex Changelog

Fixes

• Fixed Execute Specialty not activating on mobs above the HP Threshold

Adjustments

• [Specialty ~] Iaijutsu: As level increases, timer duration now decreases while damage increases.
• [Specialty ↑] Iaijutsu: Level 1 damage increased from 250% to 300%.
• [Weapon ↑] Battle Axe: Removed movement speed modifier
• [Weapon ↑] Flanged Mace: Removed movement speed modifier
• [Weapon ↑] Greatsword: Increased Better Combat reach from 3.25 to 3.5
• [Weapon ↑] Greatsword: Removed movement speed modifier
• [Weapon ↑] Halberd: Increased Better Combat reach from 3.5 to 4.00
• [Weapon ↑] Halberd: Increased Vanilla reach bonus from 1.25 to 1.50
• [Weapon ↑] Javelin: Increased Better Combat reach from 3.5 to 3.75
• [Weapon ↓] Scythe: Decreased Better Combat reach from 3.5 to 3.25
• [Weapon ↑] Odachi: Increased Better Combat reach from 3.0 to 3.5

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Additions

• New API changes: Specialties are now data-driven and can be added to any weapons, though proper functionality and compatibility is not guaranteed.
• New API changes: You can now register your Creative Tabs to be animated.
• Combo stacking HUD texture is changed.

Adjustments

• [General ~] Adjustments are made for the combo stacking timer to scale properly with the weapon's melee attack speed (Proper functionality and compatibility is not guaranteed with throwable and ranged weapons).
• [Weapon ~] Katana: Adjusted BetterCombat damage multiplier distributions for different attacks.
• [Weapon ↓] Battle Axe: Reduced damage scaling based on item tier.
• [Weapon ↓] Sickle: Reduced damage scaling based on item tier.
• [Specialty ↓] Iaijutsu: Timer now resets when the holder is hurt and timer heavily increases based off on specialty level.
• [Specialty ↑] Iaijutsu: Timer speed now triples when player is standing still or moving slowly.

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Additions

• Added new specialty: Iaijutsu
• Added new weapon type: Scimitar
• Added new weapon type: Rapier
• Added configuration to change the render offset of combo overlays and throwable overlays
• Changed execute specialty particle animation

Adjustments

• [Weapon ~] Katana specialties: Added Iaijutsu II, Added Two-Handed I, removed Sweeping II/Finesse II
• [Weapon ~] Odachi specialties: Added Iaijutsu I, removed Sweeping I/Finesse I
• [Weapon ↓] Odachi reach bonus: 1.2 -> 1.0
• [Weapon ↓] Katana damage bonus: 2.5 -> 2.0
• [Weapon ↓] Katana attack speed bonus: 1.75 -> 1.5
• [Weapon ↓] Dagger maximum drawing time: 0.25s -> 0.5s
• [Weapon ↓] Spear maximum drawing time: 0.5s -> 0.75s
• [Weapon ↓] Battle Axe attack speed bonus: 0.8 -> 0.75

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Additions

• Made LootingLevelEvent crash-proof by adding DamageSource null checks for it.

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Additions

• Added a new specialty: Rogue
• Fixed dagger crafting recipe conflicting with the shortsword

Adjustments

• [General ↑] Throwable weapons movement slowdown when using is heavily reduced.
• [Weapon ↑] Dagger specialties: Added Rogue I
• [Weapon ↓] Dagger movement speed bonus: 15% -> 5%
• [Weapon ↑] Dagger: Completely removes movement slowdown when using.

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Additions

• Added a throw time visualizer in the crosshair for all throwable weapons.
• Thrown item projectiles no longer play the arrow sound when landing on the ground.

Adjustments

• [General ~] Throwable damage tier scaling: 1.2 -> 1.1
• [General ~] Throwable damage now scales with throw time
• [Weapon ↓] Spear throwing base damage: 5.0 -> 4.5
• [Weapon ↑] Javelin throwing base damage: 4.5 -> 6.0
• [Weapon ↑] Javelin throwing base velocity: 3.0 -> 5.0

And a few more miscellaneous features!

Artifex Changelog

Fixes

• Fixed crash with collective
• Attack speed stacking for weapons with the Finesse specialty are much smoother now
• Ranged (crossbow and bow) weapons no longer benefit from specialties' melee abilities

Adjustments

• [Weapon ↓] Knuckles base damage bonus: 1.5 -> 1.25
• [Weapon ↓] Shortsword traits: Finesse II -> Finesse I
• [Weapon ↓] Halberd traits: Crippling II -> Crippling I
• [Weapon ↓] Halberd attack speed: 1.2 -> 1.0
• [Weapon ↓] Glaive attack speed: 1.0 -> 0.9
• [Weapon ↓] War Door disable cooldown multiplier: 0.0 -> 0.3
• [Specialty ↓] Armor Piercer damage scaling: [0.2 + (level * 0.15)] -> [0.15 + (level * 0.15)]

Artifex Changelog

• Adjusted the Impact Combo specialty's damage scaling.
• Fixed a crash with Apothic Attributes.