Site Notice: KB and Near Future

So first of all: in the past few months the King's Bounty posts have been updated to be more completely accurate, all the way through to Dark Side. This particularly impacts Warriors of the North and Dark Side's posts, as they were always much less complete than the posts for the first two entries, but even all the way back to The Legend there's more accurate statements about how eg attacks that do multiple damage types work (It often doesn't work the way you'd guess), more accurate descriptions of mechanics, and of course new explanations of bugs. In a notable number of cases this basically resulted in me reversing statements on some topics, because some fiddly mechanics point or nigh-invisible bug meant my original conclusion was not actually accurate.

Some notable highlights include...

-In spite of what the games tell you, ranged units that do poorly in melee only rarely have their melee damage exactly half their ranged damage; the posts now include the true melee damage of ranged units as a separate damage entry.

-By a similar token, with units that have multiple displayed damage types, the game only rarely actually divides the damage evenly between them, such as by using different damage types for different attacks. (eg Archmages doing Physical in melee and Magic at range) Notably, Unicorns and Black Unicorns do pure Physical damage except against Undead and Demons, where they add a modest amount of Magic damage, making their damage display in-game particularly misleading. Posts are much more consistent about displaying such information completely and accurately now.

-In spite of the series trying to be pretty thorough about communicating essential information, there's still quite a few cases where the game simply fails to mention important qualities that don't necessarily come up in any given usage; Ogre Rage on Ogres, for example, clears Weakness from them, which is not alluded to by the game itself and is really easy to miss. Posts have a lot more such hidden qualities included.

In the coming months I'll be making another pass over the posts to straighten out any lingering inconsistencies that almost certainly resulted, too. (By which I mean I've already started this process, but can't say how long it will take to finish)

Second: the next FTL post is the last one I'm doing. After that I'll be taking a break for a month before moving on to the next big project of XCOM: Chimera Squad, though I'll probably put up at least one post during this break for stuff I'm not going to do a big series on.

See you around.

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