Lich Skill Tree Rework and Bug Fixes

Anthony Palermo - 5/11/2023

For this week, I have begun working on the revamp for all the skill trees in the Slimegeon, along with having to work on some minor and major bugs. The most significant bug I had to fix was solving the issue why our second boss, Sevarog, was unkillable. Last week, I thought I had fixed it, but unfortunately the issue came back. I have now made it so Sevarog will take damage, and while working on this, I also made changes to our HUD. I made the health and mana bars take up a little less space and moved boss health bars to the bottom of the screen so the mini-map doesn't cover it.

I began the process of reworking the skill trees and I am beginning with the first skill tree I made, the lich tree. For the rework, I will be making the skill trees a bit more uniform with each other. The skill tree will consist of damage ups for the attacks, mana cost reductions for the non-damaging abilities and large mana cost abilities, and some changes to how some of the abilities and attacks function. I will also be making each skill tree the same size and shape.

While working on the lich skill tree, a couple of bugs related to the skill trees have come up that I am working on fixing, which should be done by the end of today. While in the tutorial, some of the skill trees can not be exited. This is due to an issue with loading the skills from a save and the tutorial level not using the save. This is an issue that either I am going to fix, if Jemari hasn't already as of writing this. 

The other skill tree bug is one that I have known about for a very long time, but with the unimportance of the skill trees in the previous builds, I did not find it worthwhile to fix at the time. The issue is that if the player uses the return button, which undoes the selection of skills, the player would not be refunded the spent skill points. This is a simple fix that requires the skill points amount to be saved when the skill tree is opened, which has already been fixed with the lich tree.