Alexandra here with a post-Adventure Mode beta launch update. We hope you’re enjoying all the mischief and mayhem that the beta has to offer. Some of the stories you’ve been sharing have been hilarious and thought-provoking to say the least. This story about stealing a shield gone wrong made me laugh a lot.
Today’s Patch
A big thank you to everyone who has been submitting bug reports to the tracker. The team already patched early this morning with some fixes:
- Fixed region map scrolling crash
- Crash fix related to multithreading
What’s Next?
In the beta, as you may have noticed, you can create a party in character generation, visit your old forts, retire, unretire, get NPC companions, take quests, fight monsters with the various melee/wrestling/ranged options, set fires, tell stories, and travel the world. Portraits are available for dwarves, humans, elves, goblins, kobolds (minus some clothing variations), animal people (no items), and necromancer experiments (no items). These portraits are in both modes on the beta branch.
These are the features and improvements we have planned for Adventure Mode, as listed by Tarn in his devlog yesterday. We plan on keeping the beta branch up till the full launch on the main branch so you’ll be able to continue to play as features get added.
Even just the first few items on the (non-exhaustive) list below might take a few weeks so you can expect the beta to last quite a bit longer than that, which unfortunately means the launch won’t be extremely soon, despite what we thought and said previously. We promise we’re looking at how to be as efficient as we can. We don’t yet have a target date for the full adventure mode launch, but you’ll know as soon as we do, and keep updating regularly.
Planned improvements, though not sure in what order they'll be attacked exactly yet:
- Quest log / information screen
- Butchering and crafting
- Ability use, from necromancy to pet animal to spit
- Composing
- Motion/attack indicators
- Building interactions (levers, doors, etc.)
- Wrestle button
- Stealth vision arcs
- Better UI for stuff like going through hatches over ramps
- Some other info like movement speed / encumbrance
- Tracking / odor / weather / light / time etc. information
- Some travel map stuff like visible armies and zooming and highlights
- Minimap / map memory
- Trading and bartering (and the town shops being generally a mess)
- Assuming false identities
- Full personality customization in chargen
- Graphics and audio that didn't make it in for the initial beta release
- Get Classic conversions for the new buttons etc.
- The new stuff: chosen mode with deities, town improvements, dungeon improvements, healing options, and so forth
As we’ve said before, cabin building is a larger interface project, so that'll have to wait until after the rest of Adventure Mode is launched. We might also shift some of these improvements to be post-Adventure Mode launch, depending on how things look as we go. We’ll keep you updated.
The Adventure Mode Soundtrack is Available!
Also, after a bit of a hiccup on the backend, the Adventure Mode soundtrack is now available on Steam. You can even get a 10% discount on it and the other OST, if you already own the base game.
Check it out!
That’s all for now! We really appreciate all the support and kind words as we continue our own adventure (of development!)
-Alexandra + Tanya + Bay12
