Saving Grace

Hi again!

Oboy have we done some work, you can now save and quit and return to a run through our save zone system which exists in-between biomes. We have also done a ton of world optimizations that should make the game run so much smoother, we still have a few more to do, but not much left!

New Content

• Save between biomes and continue run added

• Save-zone

Monsters & Combat

• Slightly easier and readable monster attacks early on and harder later on

• Monsters now have more reliable intervals between attacks

• Monsters now pause a bit before exiting their attack phase letting the combo finish

• Improved monster dodge behaviour

• Less Blood on dealing damage and monster death

• Optimized and created new Monster spell limbs visuals

• Improved Monster rendering optimizations

• Improved death lag-spikes

• Added culling to eyes

• Web slingers

• Bombers

• Electric wave casters

• Not all limbs detach all of the time from a dead monster

Player

• Life and Bottle state is now saved between zones but can be refilled at the save zone

• The player no longer does extreme poses near borders

• Animation: Pick up Items

• Animation: Interact

• Animation: directional casting

• New optimized cloth simulation

• Low-hp threshold now is 30% instead of 20%

• Improved shadow for Player

• Blood wave balancing

World

• Darker Loam Land Water

• Optimized Tower of Knowledge

• Optimized Loam Land

• Optimized Water rendering a lot

• Removed Deep Background rendering layer to optimize light rendering

• Skill tree rendering optimized

• New Post-effect and water in Forest of Lies

Other

• Bloom is now cheaper on the lowest settings

Bug Fixes

• Monster Positioning Bug

• Interactive grass in Loam Land did not fade movement properly

• Clicking Space on The Third Gate Conversation froze the movement of the player forever

• Skill tree node selection lag-spike

That is all for now, cheers!