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.


[h2]Creatures[/h2]

• 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
    

[h2]General Mechanics[/h2]

• 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
    

[h2]UI and HUD[/h2]

• 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
  

[h2]Survival and Combat Mechanics[/h2]

• 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
    

[h2]Setting and Server Configs[/h2]

• 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
  

[h2]Environment[/h2]

• 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
  

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• 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
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• 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