v7 on Apr 29 2024

https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Shreeps%20-%20Gustav%27s%20Retribution%20v7.knytt.bin

There is a new high quality music pack that you can download separately (256kbps for most) and just replace the music folder: https://mega.nz/folder/xG8WTTwT#zswssDikS6J3Y7BkurhHKg

Thanks to Kilicool64 for the higher quality default nurykabe tracks and Lit Knob for advising.

Higher quality sounds for most sfx are in the new version (7+) and don't need to be replaced.


Other notes and remembered changes:

Penitence Village credits spellcheck

Penitence Village interior 'eye' lights rotated

Some screens with ambi 1 should be fixed, like in Battlefield, Amberleaf, Echo Grove knyghts camp and Peach Woods defense.  new ones might come up?

fixed shadow guy during 1st esmeralda fight at 1hp

Added some message bubbles during tour
Added message bubble to sacrifice

you can no longer go back after triggering the last warp during the final escape screen

fixed some diving spots

fixed sand pit background

Hazelnut a few gradients changed in phase 2/3 to give more variety

added ghost to every screen on last phase of consecrate

Act XVIII message should not play more than once anymore

added save to scarlet hill gem spot

spirits of silverwood shift should put you on top of the eye and fixed void with warp

Fixed Ellictus icon on guide and .png

twilight falls build icon should be in front of the water now
argentfall defend icon should be in front of the water on every screen now

black text on the Wyrmridon Catacombs' half of their credits image.

Abandoned Camp is now just Autumn Plains for world map 2nd phase.

Gustav's farm interior should have a new screen where hes gone for inbetween castle assault and astral corruption

Mount StarFlame defense,  Peach woods defense, and pumpkin village defense are just a little harder,  others may have minor tweaks

Ellictus and Bella are given shields for most phases of their boss fights and so are a decent amount harder, Ellictus is still easy but hopefully bellas not too hard now.

Bella skip should be fixed.  You should be able to run past her and keep going around the zone.  If you come back she will be gone until you leave the zone or come back from the left side.
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Also, this has bugged me for a while, but why are the entrances placed to the left of Mossgate Village's small doors? -  I dont think the author meant for people to go inside these for in his own level paradise last but he just let people use the tiles.

Edit 2: Why is there a second instance of a golden creature at the bottom of this screen of the guide?   -  the icon is just part of the background and the one popping up is a golden co.  it has to be close to the player to pop up and when its collected the background icon version will still show up. 

Edit 4: Okay, so if I understand correctly, the level has two separate flags for the consecration of Silverwood Cemetery and the appearance of the evil wizards, right? And I believe returning to Gustav's house after the former is triggered is what's meant to trigger the latter. However, if you head to the Valley of Rust with just the former, the evil wizards will already be there (but only in the second part of the area). Rescuing Gustav's lion then progresses the story, causing the evil wizard flag to be triggered despite Gustav never telling you his lion was kidnapped. That seems unintentional.  Edit 4: Looking at the guide, it appears that perhaps the evil wizard flag is actually meant to be triggered by saving Gustav's lion in the Valley of Rust. So perhaps it actually is working correctly after all. It's just a bit weird that you can save the lion before even learning that it got kidnapped.  - the wizards occupy valley of rust with the lion after consecrate but wizards camps don't show up in the world until after the castle assault.  the knyghts at the castle tell you to go talk to gustav but you dont have to talk to them or gustav before getting the lion.

Edit 8: Considering it's the knight to the right of the castle rather than the wizard explaining the orb who tells you of the existence of the library, would it not make more sense for the former to explain how to navigate it?  - I think more people will talk to the mage but some might accidently skip the knight

Edit: With the flippers, you can actually dive right through these blocks. Though I'm not sure anything can be done about that. - I think this would be a cool thing to use as a mechanic.  Super-drill?

Edit 2: This text box suddenly popped up when I reached that spot, despite me having already seen the same text when I fell into the Rosecore. Perhaps it's because I also got the text box for the Altar of Xethiz? - This spot is the entrance to the zone from the scorian portal shortcut

Edit 5: The dialog for the yellow wizard who can remove Nyx's barrier is bugged. He falsely claimed I still needed two more feathers. Perhaps it's because you didn't expect players to have not only the two feathers from the evil wizard tents, but also the one from the Rosecore? Regardless, I was still able to progress. - hes saying HE needs 2 more feathers but I took out the word more

On a side note, these weird floating enemies in the Forbidding Archives rotate so rapidly that looking at them too closely actually makes me physically uncomfortable due to my photosensitivity. Can the rate at which they rotate be slowed down? - it seems to be unaffected by whatever anim speed i put, i guess the object's settings override?

Edit 6: Is the entrance to that house supposed to disappear once the Valley of Rust becomes the Valley of Dust? - yes theres no more need for this house and I never even made a post astral version

Edit 8: I believe it got nerfed, but the third-last phase of the Nyx battle is still by far the hardest for me. I find that I can only really keep track of the projectiles somewhat reliably while I'm holding down the button. I usually died either before or after that. Dodging side shooters from both directions at a medium distance is already hard by itself. With the addition of lots of homing projectiles, it becomes more than I can keep track of at once. -  climbing on the side of the solid white  blocks can help a lot here when theres so many bullets

Edit 9: What's that item near the right wall in the Penitence Village shop supposed to be? It looks like the thing marking the last column of the guide. Don't recall what that is, but I don't have it yet. So the shopkeeper's claim that I already have everything he sells except the watch isn't really true. Also, is that magnet supposed to represent anything? Technically, I don't have that either.  -  The icon is the shield for the 'defend' icon, and he says 'basically', there still might be some things juni doesn't have yet but none are significant or worthwhile enough to get or talk about.  a long time ago i made a magnet and was going to require it to progress in lace citadel, probably buying it from Paladin shop.

Edit 10: The moon has plenty of spots where enemies can partially shoot through solid tiles as long as you don't have the radiation suit. Was that a side effect of implementing the whole radioactivity mechanic? - yes i couldnt find a way to place the invis death blocks right on the moon blocks but also have the platforms be totally solid to projectiles.  The parts touching the safe zones should always shield you from shots from the other side

Edit 17: Okay, so Agatrix is also one of Xethiz's minions? In that case, why did she throw the fight in the arena? I originally assumed she was just some random weakling who had no idea what she signed up for. - just to get info on the other fighters and agatrix is supposed to suck and be the weakest of the disciples in his knytt form but he is  still throwing a little in the arena.

Edit 20: The world map behaved a bit weirdly after Xethiz appeared. At first, my movement was slowed down and I couldn't enter locations. But after moving to the screen to the right, the normal behavior was restored again. Was this deliberate? - yes to make it less likely people skip it on accident

Edit 22: At the end of Bella's Eternal Annihilation phase, I could see the screen with Gustav for a split second before it turned white and faded back to it. That didn't happen with the others so far. - dont know why, I see most of them a split second but theres also lots of screen layers and effects on all these screens that don't load before the tileset/gradient

Edit 25: Does its credits image really depict the foliage in the Celestial Oasis accurately? I thought it had a trippy filter applied to it. - just the underwater part is trippy, the regular part is a little misty

Edit 28: The last credits image doesn't seem to say who made the sprites for the five disciples.  - So Much Work So Pointless by Nifflas

V6
 
The first underground section in Silverwood already uses the spikes/sneak flag and the candles complicate things too quickly the way i have implemented them.   So I'm just going to leave those 2 rooms unlikely to be used at that point, since Consecrate comes so soon anyway.


The purple blocks in Lacewing Skies should be spread out more on all screens, and  1 block  from the 2nd half of screens was removed.  The final screen of Lacewing now should have 1 hp left  instead of 2.

Fixed Paladin Temple holy spheres that appear when you step on the button.

Fixed spiked walls in the windmill in Penitence Village,  it seemed to use Bus Pass flag instead of Sneak.

fixed diving spots under Knyght's camp, Valley of Rust and bench under Hazelnut City

Fixed (I think) underwater spot in Scarlet Hillside where you can fall off the edge with flippers instead of floating

Rosecore tunnel enemy change

The Rosecore shop is now 'under renovations' until beating Nyx and you meet Radiant Herald for the first time.  Her dialogue about Rosecore is changed slightly.

The shortcut portal from Scorian Hollow to Rosecore opens after buying Golden Scissors from the Rosecore Shop.  If you exit the Rosecore before buying the Scissors the portal back will disappear after leaving that screen.

Changed the flag requirements on the first screen of hazelnut with the bus, so let me know if this screen causes any issues.  Same with changing Rosecore shop and the portal shortcut to Rosecore.

Bus pass info changed flags in quest guide so it should still count as acquired after consecrate.

added save on reaching bottom level of bus interlude I

Fixed tent sge on sand ditch

luminous ingot deleted from folder full spreadsheet

info on Barrier Visor should only show up in the quest guide after returning to the main world with cape.

The background houses seen from autumn village should be more intact until it becomes autumn ruins (tileset edits)

added a screen to scarlet hillside for after you do Consecrate removing the npc dissuading you from continuing.

I think I'm just going to have the rosecore shop closed until after Astral.  The scissors shares the flag with bus pass and that and Dream Sphere really have no use until after astral.  I don't remember actually having any dream water pre-astral. The Glassland vale has Crystal water but it and eventide/catacombs water gets changed to dream water after astral.  I dont think it can softlock but people could get confused why theres no scissors and not know when to come back later to get them and no point letting people waste the coins on dream sphere so early.

Having the level autosave when exiting the tents was how it worked for  a bit right before release but i changed it back.  Because of how the flag shifts work if you exit a tent and die it will place you back in the pre-astral or non-cape versions of those zones even if you have those.   Sometimes if you ctrl r yourself on the world map it can zone you back to the pre-astral map too.  It should fix though upon actually entering the zone or moving to a different zone on the map.   Also not sure if I can
always have it save directly on the exact tiles due to 3 shift limits.

The cemetery insides dont get fully lit until after consecrate. 

the autumn village background came that way on the tiles but becomes even more destroyed after astral.  Lol. 


Everything else > next version

The timer doesnt start until you touch the shifts and where you start on the screen probably becomes off at certain points.

In the middle a lot of the powerups/events are non-linear.   Its theoretically possible to have the icons for the coins and story items disappear but it would take so many screens to account for all the combinations it would probably be more complicated than the entire level .    Not possible for the GC's though as they don't have flags.

In the next version I will come up with something to give you more info for the items that dont show up in your regular inventory.  Hints where to get it and where to use it depending on how what it is or how far you are.  It will have to be a different screen for each item though.   

The boss fights in this are a lot easier than the last ones I did lol, and you can hologram through the finale.  (The Salty Seas the original insane difficult versions are in this video https://youtu.be/sSXORE9ubqg?si=CJlBcLey4uoWIPlJ  )   Knytt isn't that great for boss fights and I think moving forward theyre better as some kind of 'event' or kept shorter other than finales

v3: https://knyttlevels.com/levels/Shreeps%20-%20Gustav%27s%20Retribution%20v3.knytt.bin

I don't think the fans reset can screw you over.  The candles you have to get from the fan repair are all on the 1st versions of the maps. (You have to get them before this Flag resets) I checked the wall GC30  and it doesnt have a flag check if you go to get it after Luminous turns into Crystalline Infection.   It should just always have its fan on in all versions after astral.

The lava blocks look strange.  I adjusted them slightly so they would match colors  in  Scorian but I cant figure out why they would vary so much from zone to zone.     Some  unique glow from the lava object maybe? 




v3 patch notes:

-Lit Knob fixed the roman siege tileset by anyndel.   

-Added Lit Knob to Torment credits, changed torment credits screen to siege.

-Fixed tippy top to catapults in Torment Village.

-Penitence spelling fixed across game from 'Penitance'

-Autosave when starting Penitence Village invasion

-Fixed floating plant insect thing in scarlet

-Save in Silverwood Cemetery (that reappears after consecrate)  should no longer disappear after getting sneak.   

-Save added save to Meditations/peach woods lake should no longer disappear

-Saves added to Pumpkin Dungeon and underwater section.

-For all you corner lovers out there got something special   Double corner fixed, added to redding tileset and used in Valley of Rust/Dust

-Fixed some corners in Pink Catcombs with double corners tiles, and 1 in the finale but not all of them.  There is not enough tiles to cover every variation. and I think they didnt stand out as much as the Valley of Rust corners.  Didnt feel like making a new tileset also Lol.

-Gustavs fan will say its turned off if you return to Gustav's farm after Astral Corruption without flag 3.  Lace Citadel fan should stay on after Astral Corruption.

The siege machine tiles weird me out too I don't know why they do that,  I can't seem to pin it down.   Maybe its how that specific tileset file was compressed or exported or something?

That NPC is meant to dissuade you from trying to go up the hillside before you do Consecrate.   But I am not a great communicator  Lol.    If you return to that after consecrate later on there should be a tent with a save point.  And another one higher up the mountain.

You can get coin43  without eye in platinum but it is a very tight jump.   You have to put away the umbrella when jumping to get the extra height.  The eye makes it easier.