Dude, this game is awesome!

Today is labor day, a day Americans, and perhaps people of other nationalities, use to celebrate the fruits of their labors. In that vein, I invite you to celebrate with me the fruit of 10 days hard work. The next concept demo of grave of redemption is here, Loaded with cool new changes and features! Go grab it right now at:
Grave of redemption
And let me know what you think! All feedback welcome, whether it be bug reports, feature suggestions or just compliments to me about my awesomeness (jk, though seriously, I'm super excited about this release).
Enjoy! And follow @theGreatAthlon5 on twitter to keep up with my development.

I haven't finished my first full round, but I'm liking a lot of the new stuff.
My only thought is that when the turn switches, you don't really need to say whose turn it is; they're doing something and their name is announced there, so imo its just extra spam to tell us this again. Great job!

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I'm not sure if this is intentional, but the status menu out of combat is displaying the description messages, when the manual implies that it would provide the numbers.
Is there any way to make status give us a more detailed view at health out of combat? Maybe the total and a list of the most badly hurt parts?
Also, it seems like it takes a lot of resting to fix yourself if you've got multiple bodyparts hurt, and that the order they get fixed is awefully random. Are there any plans to make this smarter/configurable?
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Maybe a minute after submitting the above, I ended up crashing. I probably should have copied the call stack, but here's what happened:
I was fighting a lone giant beetle with my newly added surprise.
The beetle perched out of weapon range, and next turn I got an index out of bounds error.
Going back for another round; this is fun! If I get another crash I'll be more specific.
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Looks like we can't wear boots? I'm currently playing a fighter, and have several different types of boot, but I can't equip any of them on feet.
Also, the change battle formation option in the party menu currently does nothing, is this intentional?
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I need to make the status menu better. Out of combat, it will probably display the numbers as well as parts that are about to be mangled and parts that are. In combat, the numbers should be replaced by the text.
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Yep, I forgot to allow you to be able to wear boots. That was my screwup.

here are the answers to your suggestions, in order:
no, your attributes are determined by the race and class you choose.
yes, I do plan to add ranged weapons in the future that can attack flying creatures.
yes, I'll add in effects similar to those. Maybe not those exactly, but I'll definitely have a lot of eeffcts to add.
I do plan to add different damage types, as well as elemental damage.
I will not add the unarmed combat skill until I start working on the boxer class, which will be an unlockable job.
Press s to check the health of your characters during battle.
There are currently no chests on the maps. I haven't created enough objects to put in them
problems:
the no equip boot thing is a known bug. I'll put it in in the next version.
No, you can't control his actions.

Hello folks! KeyIsFull, thanks for your answers.
Best regards, Haramir.

Hello folks, I received the following error message when my partner tryed to attack a giant beetle:
Call stack size: 10

Function: void character::goSpec()

Function: void character::doCombatAi()

Function: void enterCombat(party@, string = "")

Function: void time_pass()

Function: void rest()

Function: void mainLoop()

Function: void init()

Function: void playgame()

Function: void titlemenu(bool = true)

Function: void main()

Best regards, Haramir.

Hmm, I'll defeinitely look at the Combat AI function. I usually never went back up to the first floor after getting the pet, so I never actaully saw that bug occur. THe problem is rpobably because the beetle doesn't have a torso and the animal is trying to attack the nonexistent torso. For now, just stay on the second and third floors with your pet once you get it.

Hi,
I've just started messing with this and haven't broke it yet.
However, thought I should let you know that you've already got me invested emotionally in the pet.  Congrats!  As i've said before, really looking forward to seeing what this grows into.

Could you possibly pack this into a .zip archive? Avast is being screwy, but I can't uninstall it because other people use the computer.

Yeah, would be nice to know how it's going.