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Why yes, it indeed does. This looks bloody awesome, if it is even a bit like Front Mission i´m gonna love it to death!

They're both mostly turn-based SRPGs involving giant robots. The biggest difference is the SRW series is freaking huge, though even less of it is in english, from a 'percentage of whole series' sense. Iirc, we've only got three (one of them not an SRPG!) SRW games officially translated into english.

Four of the SRW games have been fully fantranz'd, though. The original (GB), SRW 3 (SNES), Alpha Gaiden (PSX), and SRW J (GBA).

Haha, I've miscast ice beast and summoned (hostile, of course) '1's. Some of the miscasts are pretty powerful.

I don't have a release date. I've always said, 'at least a year', and honestly that's overly optimistic. If I had to throw a date out right now, I'd say potentially October 31st, 2012 for the finished new game -- i.e., two years from today. But really that's just random speculation. I have no idea what will happen between now and then. To put this in context, the copyright comment at the top of all my C++ source files all says "Incursion, Copyright Julian Mensch 1999-200X" -- so it apparently took me a full seven years (!) to get the original game to a state where I wanted to release it for the first time. In that context, I guess I'm making good progress?

This web page is actually a substantial nuisance to update for me, which is why it happens so infrequently. In fact, I've decided that I probably won't update it unless I have something concrete to show, and will instead post any news and progress on the game's Google Group, located here:

Julian Mensch          View profile   
    More options  May 17, 1:00 pm

  Hi, folks,

  Incursion is still being developed. I still don't
 have anything to demo. I still don't have a release
 date beyond 'substantially far away, more than a
 year at least'.

  My life has been chaotic recently -- I just finished
 a move -- and I've been getting back to coding on the
 game more regularly over the last few weeks. Progress
 is good, but the amount in the still to do pile is
 simply IMMENSE.

  Thank you for your continued interest, however.

-- Julian Mensch

Boss Mensch has had long hiatus periods like this, before, so the answer to "is it even getting developed" is "if he's still alive (signs point to yes!), then more likely than not." It's probably still going to be a while before we see anything concrete, though.The October 31st, 2012 date is pretty likely for, at least, some beta stuff of the new engine.

Well, I was lawful evil and I got the same message when I attacked a fleeing Elf. I changed to Chaotic evil after than. Although I died a few seconds later by some slime.

Yeah, you were getting alignment hits. Definitely turn off complicity in the options and read up on alignment in the manual. The only alignments that don't really have to deal with, well, alignment, is neutral and chaotic evil. NE is what you want to play if you don't what to mess with that junk, though. It's perfectly neutral in relation to alignment benefits and penalties (CE has some penalties and bonii) -- the only malus is that holy (Not blessed, mind. Not the same thing.) weapons (which are fairly common, as paladin-template'd enemies have their weapons made holy) do extra damage to you.

In that case, it's not that they hate each other, it's that the AI doesn't give a flip if something's in between them and whatever they're shooting at. Fratricide, basically.

If you had fair charisma and/or diplomacy, you were probably getting a message about diffusing anger... something along those lines. Basically talking your summons into not turning on each other. Maybe, anyway. Would need the exact message to be sure, heh. If you have complicity on, though, it might have been a you-feel-guilty message indicating an alignment ping (from attacking an ally/non-hostile, if only by proxy). Non-evil characters that use allies/summons will not stay non-evil if they don't turn off complicity transgressions. It's a known AI thing and one of the reasons for ye' old refactoring.

There's a few ways to make resting safer, but very few to make it actually safe. Beyond the ways you mentioned, you can cast the alarm spell to (probably) negate the initial coup chance during getting woken up or play as elf, who can't be caught asleep (though elves have... other problems). You can rest inside a rope trick or, if you luck out in generation, use ectoplasmic cocoon. Halflings start off with a number of hearthstones of o-something, which guarantee a safe rest. You can earth meld into a wall and use one of the dirt-to-mud spells to create a one-tile area that you probably won't be able to be attacked in. Finally, every few levels there'll be a room called a sanctuary, a lil'green-ish walled circular room. You can rest safely in sanctuaries for a certain number of times, after which their power gives out. Finally, high fort saves and things that reduce chances to be crit can make it so you're more likely to actually survive getting ganked in your sleep.

Generally, you'll sleep as little as possible and rely on sanctuaries. Before you pass clvl four (i.e. hit five combined class levels), you use the inn. Usually, you'll have enough resources and power by that point to not need an extended rest.

That faerie fire might be persistent debuff. It'll last all bloody day if it is, heh. Generally, if it won't let you auto-rest to clear a debuff, it's a persistent effect. Several of the traps hit you with persistent versions of normally non-persistent spells. They're nasty like that. I forget if FF's a naturally persistent spell, though. Eh. E: Ah, right. It'll go away once you rest, heh.

Running out of gems? That... shouldn't be likely. You're making alchemist gems and extracting stuff from white/green/blue metal items, right?

Alchies do pretty good against advn parties, though, mostly because the golem likes to suck up murder-shots. Helps that the effects of golem resilience was massively improved this beta

That, and a maxed explosion expert alchie bomb basically hits the entire ambush map. Still, adventurer parties are massive risks for most characters. You get the wrong combination and number of classes and you're just outright fooked. Like a farportal boss, but split into several critters, heh.

Ah ha. In that case, perhaps a sludge elf or naga transmuter? Casting power with enough melee dakka to spice things up a bit.

Could give a warper a shot. They seem to get some surprising wins in. Never tried one, though...

Linux version was terrislow for me last time I tried it

Give it another shot

If it's still happening, drop a post by the forum or stop by the IRC channel. I haven't heard any performance complaints from the linux users hanging around. The game's mostly developed on linux, so performance issues can probably get squashed pretty quickly. Darkgod, T4's main dev, does most of his work on a linux machine.

As for DDL: Windows music and no music versions. The latter is considerably smaller, file size wise.

 The site's occasionally a bit slow, especially on release days. Part of this is because it's integrated with the game itself, heh. Anyway, try again in a bit if those don't work.