Hardland Release 22 and 23 update notes!

RELEASE 23 PATCH NOTES:

(It's available now!)

• All 4 continents significantly improved. Hills, forests, and landmarks in much closer vicinity to each other.

• Full controller support in all game screens through virtual cursor.

• A new demo character with more weapons available right from the start.

• Heavily optimized memory use. Save games should no longer crash.

• Cut down the polycount of the game scene by about 40%.

• Goblin corpse loot is now randomly generated. (see the GIF above)

• Extensive set dressing for Cursed Mansion:

• Dead NPCs no longer play back their various effects (animation, sound, boosts, etc) when you go back to them the next time.

• More variants of the small houses along the roads.

• Procedural forests can appear closer to big hand-made landmarks due to tighter landmark bounds.

• The color of the terrain around objects is tinted towards the object's color.

• Terrain and object darkening at a distance.

• Background separation blur:

  The new HUD is also visible in this screenshot.

• Bug fix: Memory leaks from the physics system.

• Bug fix: Assassination quest with Monk 47.

• Bug fix: Small rock infinitely duplicating.

• Bug fix: Objects floating in the air.

• Bug fix: NPCs turning erratically when following a path or when standing on angled terrain.

• Bug fix: Bright edge artifact in motion blur. Still some issues with DOF.

• Bug fix: Bunch of smaller fixes.

• Known issue: Framerate capped at 30.

• Known issue: The glow on the hand of a certain type of Forgotten won't follow the character.

RELEASE 22 PATCH NOTES:

• Blue noise based forest distribution with denser forests.

• HUD overhaul:

• Damage numbers.

• Critical hits visualized, damage chaining.

• Cursor in inventory controllable by the gamepad.

• Quick slots redesigned: now only takes ranged weapons and healing items.

• Boost drops (ammo, armor, health and stamina) for NPCs.

• Almost complete controller support (minus main menu and some steam controller issues)

• Goblin corpses randomized around the world.

• Basic sleeping at campfires (time passes).

• Better destruction effects for books and some other items:

• Level upping scares enemies away.

• Screen space directional shadows for low grass and after cascade shadow maps end.

• Road-side tavern interior.

• Dodging when aiming.

• Interior fog.

• Quick save (F8).

• 13 Trading Cards, badges and emoticons!

• Bug fix: Many crashes and hangs.

• Bug fix: Endless dungeons.

• Bug fix: Objects hanging in air or being underwater.

• Bug fix: Blacksmith's hammer quest.

• Bug fix: Temporal AA black pixel propagation.

• Bug fix: Objects disappearing at wrong times due to culling.

• Bug fix: Sliding NPCs.

• Bug fix: Straight stretches of road.

• Bug fix: Throwing a carried NPC.

• Bug fix: Disappearing grannies when carried at night.

• Bug fix: Projectiles hitting each other.

• Bug fix: NPC knockback.