Happy Day 3 of FEE3 2024!
Check out this year’s Hetja’s Quest FEE3 video!
Thank you to Izzy Idsardi for their Hetja art, Celeste Sousa for their Off the Beaten Path painting, Lilly Ashton for their RPG Club art, and Ferdy Uno for their Meriette + Tacita art. Additionally, thank you to Nicole “mage tears”, Jay “Crywank”, @Darrman, @Mekkah, and members of both the RPG Club Games and hollow cavern discord servers for lending their voice acting talents.
Finally, v0.8 of Hetja’s Quest is here! This patch is the result of 40+ test patches and 9 long months of work. Download link has been updated in the OP.
Collaboration with Illusory Dungeon & Embrace of the Fog
Play as Meriette from ID by entering password “ILLUSION”
Play as Tacita from EotF by entering password “THESCALE”
Thank you to @Flouxni and @Lord_Tweed for agreeing to this collaboration as well as working with me during development to get things to their liking.
I usually include patch notes alongside version updates, but the full patch notes were too long to fit in a single post. I’ll summarize the “major” changes, but you can find the full patch notes here. The hetjasquest website is in the process of being updated with all the new information. Credits have been updated on the website as well as in the patch’s accompanying CREDITS.txt.
Hub Rework - Menu based hub traversal + new facilities + new facility upgrades + passwords are now entered at the Tavern
Chest Event Rework - Replaces chest event with 20+ run progression specific events (similar concept to Slay the Spire Question Mark events)
Endless Mode Rework - Goes up to Chapter 99 with enemies’ levels scaling to the current Chapter
Bonus Stage - When ending a successful run, given the option to play a randomly selected mini game
Timed Hits - Hetja’s new personal skill allows them to increase damage dealt and decrease damage taken by pressing “A” as attack animations connect
New playable Characters - Including community voted playable Bosses, recruitable by completing Achievements
Run Modifiers - Different ways of playing the game, including a “more true to traditional roguelikes” mode where most meta progression is banned and wexp is reset every run
Game Based Unit Passives - Units gain a specific bonus based on their game of origin, including Thracia 776 units starting each run with 0 gold but also learning Capture
Unit Personal Abilities - Special callable events that provide various beneficial effects
Character Creation Boons/Banes
There were a couple things I couldn’t get done in time for release, so I’ll be putting out another small update here on FEU soonTM with those additions as well as any needed bugfixes.
Thank you to the PTC Patch Testing Team in the RPG Club Games discord server, I would not have been able to get everything tested and working properly without their assistance.
With the core aspects of the Labyrinth’s gameplay fleshed out to a point I’m comfortable shifting focus, I will now be turning my attention towards continuing to implement the story for v0.9. That will save the majority of the music and ui additions/changes and wrapping up the story for the last major patch, v1.0. No release timeline, just assume they will be released during a future FEE3.
Thank you (yes, I’m talking about you!) for playing, thank you for the feedback, and thank you for the kind words. I hope that you are enjoying FEE3 so far and continue to check out all the cool stuff being shown off this year.
I’ll close this out with a few relevant links.
Install Instructions
Illusory Dungeon - Roguelike FE romhack
Embrace of the Fog - Roguelite FE fangame made in Lex Talionis
Archanea Monthly Vol 1 - E-Zine about FE romhacking from @Gultykappa, featuring a whole section on Hetja’s Quest
Unofficial FEE3 2024 Creator Interviews - Learn a bit about some of the projects being shown off this year as well as their creators, being updated as project videos are revealed
“An overwhelming feeling that there is something you must accomplish” Playlist - A spotify playlist featuring non-video game songs included in the hack
“Endless Mode” Playlist - A spotify playlist featuring the vast majority of the song references used in Endless Mode Chapter titles
