All changes should be announced

[jomonog]

I've noticed over last period of time there have been a number of balance related changes made "in the background" without making it into the official change release announcements. Sometimes you find out about them on discord directly from the developers and other times you only uncover them through playing.

I know its probably a painful job of documenting and releasing change logs every announcement but it would certainly make it much easier if all changes were documented and made public, both for players but also for future developers.

[Spyre]

All changes are meant to be announced. There is sometimes a few that get missed in announcing in both places; however, bug fixes are usually the ones not announced.

The latest hak update was to fix a few bugs. Nothing new was introduced in that one. And any change since was announced.

But we will always try to remain vigilant on ensuring it’s released everywhere.

[jomonog]

Thanks for the reply, its good to know that is the intention. There do seem to be a few happening though that are more than just bug fixes where things are getting tweaked in the background and not making it into official change notes. There were a series of changes awhile back to how much damage polymorfed forms could do with hideous blow, change to how weapon finesse works and, apparently, a new change to include a root after using whirlwind. Apologies if these are not actual changes but just rumours (although devs have confirmed at least two of them on discord). One of the problems though with not announcing all changes is then you start to get all these conspiracy theories about "shadow" nerfs and its hard to know whats true and whats not haha

[Spyre]

The intention is to be transparent with changes to the game systems and how it handles things. Obviously we can’t be entirely transparent with how some mechanics work due to potential exploiting and so forth. But, I shall continue to encourage and monitor our change logs to ensure accuracy. I don’t want people to discover things were changed without notice.