0.3.0 Changelog

Highlights

• * Offline Mode
• * Build from storage
• * Skip tutorial
• ‘A Spark of Hope’ Community Event
• New Bound: Marksman
• New NPCs: Joan of Arc, Edgar Allan Poe, Taliesin the Bard
• * New player character loadouts and body types
• * Edit existing player character from the menu
• Introduction of soft/hard caps on crafts

Game Changes

Art/Visual

• Visual changes to tree felling animations
• Extended range of torch light
• Updated block icon
• Changes to Grenade Tier 1 & 2 VFX

Audio/SFX

• Added sound effects to additional tickbox toggles
• Added sound effect for double click on the Realm Card Machine
• New sound effects for spells when tools are charged with new alternative actions from 0.2 (ex. Sickle throw)
• Applied cooldowns on weapon audio effects when there are multiple triggers in a short timespan
• Suppressed audio when creatures impact with other creatures of the same type accidentally
• Change to medium creature impact sound
• Added foliage foley sounds

Building

• Can enable “Build from Storage” on storage containers to use its contents on nearby blueprints
• Craft from Storage range has been increased

NPCs

• New Essence Trader in Abeyance Realms for the Spark of Hope event
• New quest NPCs: Edgar Allan Poe, Joan of Arc, and Taliesin the Bard
• Added voiceover for Aurelio
• Adjustments to Aurelio’s questline
• Nellie has additional lore dialogue if some Codex entries are unlocked
• Minor adjustments to NPC dialogue
• New Bound unit: Marksman
• New Bound variants: Bound Sunderer and Bound Caprine
• New AOE VFX for Bound Darkweaver knockback ability
• New tiered variants of Apex creatures, Eotens, Swamp Giants and Bound that drop higher quality item drops
• Wisps can now be interacted with in the Realms

Player Character

• New player outfits, body types, and professions are now available in character creator
• Players can now edit existing character visuals in the character select menu
• Players can skip the tutorial by selecting a ‘Start Point’ under the character creator ‘Difficulty’ section
• Various balance changes to the tutorial quest flow
• Balance pass on fishing
• Changed shove animation

Resources

• Changes to tree-felling behaviour, they will now always fall away from the player
• Mushrooms now yield mushrooms when removed from tree trunks
• Lowered resource requirements and/or crafting time for various T1-T3 items

UI/UX

• Recruited NPCs now have a radial menu for quick behavior commands
• Recruited NPC menus now show their name rather than “Survivor”
• Changed Map UI for larger map size
• “Reset Portal” and “Reset Realm” have additional confirmations and warn the players of the effects of the actions
• Changes to tool tip and inspect subscreens: Characteristics and tier can now be viewed on tool tip. Extraction info, infusion details and tool and clothing descriptions have been moved to the item inspect subscreen
• Tiers for crafted items can now be viewed in the guidebook
• Benches display Tier in the default UI when players are nearby
• Various UX/UI adjustments

Weapons

• Ornate Blunderbuss recipe can now be unlocked in the Watch
• Added Tier 3 & 4 Throwing Knives and Grenades
• Items now have a soft cap on stats that will see diminishing returns on stats added to the item, and eventually hit a hard cap on the stat
• New Track magick available in Swamp Astrolabe Realms

Misc

• New POI encounters have been added
• New Hunt codex entries
• Capped loading screens to 60 fps and set default frame cap to 120 fps rather than infinite (but can be changed in the settings to be uncapped)
• Performance improvements

Bug Fixes

Art/Visual

• Mushrooms and ivy should now disappear when an NPC fells a tree they're attached to
• Various animation polishes and bug improvements
• Grenades now inherit gem glass appearance

Audio/SFX

• Knife and Sickle positional audio adjusted in 1st person

Building

• Estate foundations should no longer be blocked from being placed when they are too close to uneven ground

NPCs

• NPCs restored from persistence will now correctly change visuals when their clothing is changed.
• Boss summoning Mechanisms at Sites of Power are no longer destructible
• Creatures should no longer spawn near Estate Cairns
• Creatures should no longer spawn out of bounds in Forest Vaults

Player Character

• Fishing rods above Gear Score 255 can catch fish
• Players should no longer get duplicate companion NPCs

UI/UX

• Removed former ESC menu from being accessed while downed

Weapons

• Blunderbuss secondary attack should now utilize elemental ammo effects

Misc

• Crafting stations requiring fuel will no longer complete all crafts upon logging back in if they have no fuel.