Update 1.0.0 Patch Notes

This is our biggest update yet! We are switching to Unreal Engine 5, adding two new dragons, and a remastered map! This update also brings updated textures for all of the dragons and tons of new content.

Creatures

• Added Inferno Ravager (starter dragon)

  • Special ability (Q): Inferno (flame cloak)

• Added Biolumin (KS)

• Special ability (Q): glow

  • New glow effect to all dragons

  • New emotes and animations

General Mechanics

• Added Physics Hover Flight v1.0 (G) for Biolumin and upcoming Blitz Striker

  • Hovering ignores pitch inversion setting

  • Hover pitch controlled using Shift/Space; angle controlled using A+D or W+S

  • Biolumin can hover-eat (holding E) when given prompt on a flower

• Added new “Camera-based” (current) and “Input-based” Movement Modes

  • Options are toggled in Controller Menu

  • Input-based allows players to move and rotate their character independently of the camera

• Added settings to enable Camera Clipping when looking up in 3rd person

  • Allows players to see underneath their dragon

• Enabled flight physics substepping

  • Meant to enhance flight experience for those with low FPS

• Added 5-minute AFK timer to spawn menu

  • Prevents players from taking up server spots while AFK

UI and HUD

• Added Title selection and display from Social Panel

• Tweaked UI layout

  • Added new tabs to character panel: inventory, genetics, and survival

• Added a player name filter to Social Panel group invite list

• Going into Photo mode no longer notifies that you are in photo mode

• Updated controller input icons

• New Cursor should show on things that used to have touch hand cursor

Survival and Combat Mechanics

• Added Dragon Pearl and Inventory/Loot system

  • Pearls may be cosmetic, provide skin overlays, or give buffs

  • A dragon’s tier class determines inventory size and which modifier pearl tiers may be carried

  • Shimmer, Gold Skin, and Sky Jelly effects are now a pearl overlay

  • Skin overlays reset after death

• Added Second Wind for all fliers

  • An extra stamina reserve, recharged by resting on the ground

  • Can recover up to ¼ stamina by gliding while flying at upper altitudes

• Added Stamina Exhaustion

  • Running out of stamina adds stamina decay, which is removed via sleeping

• Updated hitbox detection for bile attacks and in-flight biting attacks

• Added new damage type “Armor Piercing”

  • Acts similarly to Pierce damage except that some damage is not mitigated by pierce defense and is more likely to cause bleeding

• Biolumin meat applies poison effect

  • Acid Spitters are immune to poison

• Biolumin’s Glow ability (Q) can be stacked 5 times

  • 5th stack causes glow to last 15 minutes instead of 60 seconds

  • Can be removed by going in water

• Inferno Ravager’s Inferno ability (Q) removes Consuming Decay

  • Consuming Decay consumes all armor, resulting in more susceptibility to Acid damage

  • Provides immunity to Consuming Decay while ability is active

Setting and Server Configs

• Added PvP, PvE, DvE, CvC game modes

  • CvC: only clans can non-faction PvP; clans may only invite same clanned, allied clanned, or nonclanned dragons, preventing nesting with non-allied clans, nonclanned players have red glowing eyes and nametags always visible, unable to pickup hatchlings unless in a Clan or in same group

  • PvE: Elemental faction is disabled

  • Faction PvP enabled for PvP, CvC, DvE modes

• Added Survival (no quests/loot) game mode, Fantasy (quests and loot) coming soon

• Added Roleplay Naming System and UI Prompt Players can name individual dragons when playing on RP servers RP names replace Steam name in group/local chat, player list and, nest lineage

  • Min Characters: 2

  • Max Characters: 17

  • No Spaces allowed

  • First letter must be capitalized

  • Only one capital letter allowed

  • Only one dash "-" allowed after the first 2 characters

  • Allowed Characters:

    • Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

    • Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú Ćć Ĺĺ Ńń Ŕŕ Śś Ýý Źź

    • Ââ Êê Îî Ôô Ûû Ŷŷ Ĉĉ Ĝĝ Ĥĥ Ĵĵ Ŝŝ Ŵŵ

    • Ää Ëë Ïï Öö Üü Ÿÿ Ẅẅ

• Added new Server Configs:

  • Force same species grouping

  • Admins to spawn all dragons with E stats

  • Growth Rate Scale Multiplier config

  • Disable growth

  • Disable nesting

  • Set an auto server restart shutdown time

  • Chat Filter to redact words from chat

• Added Static Coordinates option

• Added Fullscreen option

• Added Lighting and Reflections in Graphics settings

• Added New Graphic Settings for Nanite

• Added Auto Resolution scaling

  • Will dynamically adjust asset resolutions without sacrificing visuals in attempt to maintain 30+ FPS at Quality and 45+ FPS at Performance

• Added Auto-Detect Optimized Graphic Settings button

• Added Fur/Feather graphic setting

• Added muli-keybind input support

• Hovering over a keybind and pressing Delete will remove the keybind

Environment

• Added Biobloom flowers

  • Added effect of eating is restoration of a small amount of stamina

• Added New Forgotten Forest map

• Added clouds capable of being flown through

• Added Interactive Water

Changes

• Changed to Unreal Engine 5.2.1

• DX11 and Vulkan are no longer supported

  • Players must use DX12

• Made some optimizations for lots of players in the same area

  • Optimized Animation Logic to increase performance by 25-50% when 20+ players are being rendered

• Thornbacks and Spined Scrabs no longer leave a red blood pool on death

• Court emote (5) now uses half stamina

• New genetic updates, including skins and recessive genes

  • Spawning applies the Dominant Skin as the Recessive, Spawned Random Dominant Genes are capped at C (+5%) and Hidden Spawned Random Recessive Genes are capped at A.

• Upstatting mechanic has changed.

  • Broodwatchers (coming soon) have the ability to upstat any Gene by 1-2 grades

  • Upstatting without a brood watcher is still possible.

• Dominant Mutation now allows players to see their recessive genes

• Pressing F to pop out of flight while flying no longer gives you free altitude

• Backing up speed is faster and turning is slower

• Updated Game Menu splash

• Made changes to flight acceleration

  • Fixes some issues where boosting would not accelerate properly

  • Acceleration should be much more fluid and responsive

• Admin heal now removes all status effects

• Admin Password prompt now shows mouse cursor

• Devs/Admins can now skip special access allowing them to play as normal players

  • Great for playing while off-duty

• Fixed Admin spectator mode

  • Added speed controls (mouse up/down/middle reset)

  • Admin tags now show up on spectating bodies

• Added server warning messages that are sent to admins to notify of unusual activity

  • Admins may toggle this using the /warnings chat command

• Added server file encryption, making it unable to replace save files with those of other players

  • Still able to back up and restore saves from the same player or transfer files across servers

• Admin chat now shows 4 digit player ID's

• Added mutation stat encryption

• Slightly increased fly bank speed for Shadow Scale and Flame Stalker

• Tweaked Shadow Scale’s combat values

  • Reduced frost mitigation

  • Slightly reduced pierce armor

  • Slightly increased blunt armor and pierce/fire mitigation

  • Increased Shadow Scale’s health

  • Increased Shadow Scale’s plasma damage

  • Reduced Shadow Scale’s charged plasma shot damage

• Shadow Scale’s Cloak ability (Q) no longer costs stamina to maintain

  • Costs stamina to activate and prevents stamina regen while active

• Flame Stalker Thermal ability (Q) stamina costs tweaked

• Scenting no longer costs stamina

• Biting another dragon should now produce blood splashes

• Tweaked bile regen rates for all

• Reduced penalty for flying in high altitudes to allow for cloud flight

• Tweaked flight braking, now more responsive

• Night Vision now works at anytime of day

• Creatures now look wet when going in water

• Updated skins, models, and textures on all dragons

• Added/Updated many SFX

• Updated FMOD banks

• Increased Shadow Map page pool

  • Virtual Shadow Maps is disabled by default

  • Can be re-enabled in Graphics settings if you have a beefy GPU

• Can no longer move head while eating, drinking, and sleeping

• Can no longer chat while sleeping

  • @ and / commands are enabled during sleeping

• Can no longer pick up and carry juvenile or adult dragon corpses

• Removed /pearlon and /pearloff commands

• Player progress is now saved per server while dragons are saved per map

• Updated credits

Fixes

• Tweaked Auto Res Scaling feature so quality no longer drops below 50%

• Fixed FMOD audio bug trying to play invalid sounds after divided by zero

• Fixed Sound FX Slider, can now go to 0

• Audio no longer continues to play when emote is interrupted

• Scent sound no longer continues to play when sniffing stops

• Fixed a bug preventing foliage interaction from working if camera was beyond 4m from the plant

• Fixed an issue where being bitten with very little armor would result in being one-shot

• Fixed flight not working on peers after they enter render distance

  • No more watching people scoot along the ground in hover animation

• Fixed a bug where player could continue to run after losing stamina if they never release shift

• FOV no longer resets after flying

• Mouse cursor should no longer be locked to game window

• Added root motion to some emotes to correct issues with hit box detection

Known Issues

• Rivers can be walked on top of in some areas

• Some SFX may be missing or need further polish

  • Some emote sounds missing

• Some skins/textures/animations may be missing or need polishing

• Some Baby Biolumin animations missing

• Flame Stalker, Bio, and Shadow Scale skins all show as iconic but are unique skins

  • Will be fixed in a hotfix

  • Players should select the skin they want and it will show after the hotfix

• Shadow Scale cloak is not working properly