Syma

A small-but-big update here:

Episode IX only includes one small script (a menu within the Game Over screen, as scripted by DoctorTodd) and a single new dungeon. No new bugs have been found and nothing else has been changed.

Howevers; this is not only the largest and hardest dungeon yet, but is also a completely new mission type!

The dungeon is the Bridge Mission, as mentioned in my last blog post and will require you to use all eight of your squad members and then split them up into teams.

The random encounters are vastly reduced within the dungeon, but with small parties to deal with them, resources run low fast. It will be essential for you to carefully plan out what supplies you can afford to sacrifice on the way to the Agents leading the attack, and what supplies will be necessary for the boss fight!

I've run through a few tests now and had a fairly rough time with it myself (I've not been able to do Hard Mode yet; screw that!) but it seems to set up the right atmosphere I was going for.

With the dungeon as large as it is and the fact that it's a whole new mission type, I thought this warranted an Episode of its own, but don't expect all Episodes to contain so few new updates; Episode X is due to have a lot more :)