Day of Dragons News

[h3]VERSION 1.J.G.0[/h3]
Server/Client Patch

FIXES IN THIS PATCH

• Patched several holes in the map where players frequently get stuck
  
• Fixed an exploit allowing flight without burning stamina
  
• Fixed Character panel controller keybind - it now properly works for controllers
  
• First Flight Music can now play more than once (just not at the same time)
  
• Fixed bug granting Acid Spitters perma Sprint after using Social Panel
  
• Acid Decay no longer sometimes heals players
  
• Fixed a bug granting bile to admin hatchlings
  
• Night is slightly darker, last patch made Night a little too bright eliminating the need for Nightvision
  

Greetings Dragons, first let me say that this is not the Aug/Sept Content Update that will include the Scent system and the new AI Creature - the Spined Scrab - that content will be coming in the Aug/Sept content update Version 1.K. This is a Quality of Life Update for the current 1.J version to provide admins and players tools for an improved user experience.

[h3]VERSION 1.J.F.0[/h3]
Server/Client

SERVER ADMINISTRATOR QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Added a Player Name Filter to the Admin Panel
  
• Added Admin panel Disband Clan button allowing admins to disband the clan of selected player
  
• Admins can now chat to each other with @admin that non-admins cannot see
  
• Players can now ping admins with @admin allowing players a private way to communicate to admins
  
• Added Restore admin panel button allowing admins to restore a player character to a player only if the character that died was a juvenile or older. Restorations are only available for 30 minutes after character dies.
  
• Added new Ban player Admin panel button allowing admins to ban players from within the game. Admins can now ban in-game or from the config. In-game bans must be removed via /unban command or by deleting the steamid.sav in the /bans folder on the server. Config bans are separate and have not changed. Use config to ban when the server is offline and admin panel to ban when running.
  
• Added new /unban chat command which unbans players who were banned via admin panel
  
• Added new PvP server config option bFlagHatchlingKillers=true that causes adult or older eyes to glow red for 20 minutes after killing a hatchling notifying other players that their hatchlings are not safe. Safelog is unavailable while Flagged when this config is enabled.
  
• Added new server config option iMaxClanMembers=0 that allows servers to cap clan size. Only applies to clans made after this update. Server owners will need to either disband the clan in-game or wipe the SaveGames/Clans folder to force clans to re-make under new clan size limits. Clan members can be configured in the range of 8 - 1024 members.
  
• Admin Port/Summon now ports/summons 5 meters above the player to prevent falling through the world
  
• Admins now have infinite Stamina and Bile while in Super mode allowing them to do their duties without needing to rest
  
• Added a system message notifying admins they have nametags on/off
  
• Muting players now persists on the server indefinitely until unmuted
  
• Player Chat command /anyadmins now only shows admins that are online and not incognito to prevent players from breaking rules when no admins are online (now they might be watching incognito)
  
• Admin Panel now shows character info regardless if their character is rendered
  
• Admin Panel now displays ping of players if ping is less than 1000.
  

PLAYER QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Added new /verystuck command that teleports player to the nearest group member. Can only be used while stationary every 5 minutes and only after trying /stuck. Sets health to 1 and roots for 5s. Use only when necessary.-
  
• Added /anyrevives chat command to let players know if they have a character that can be revived and how much time is remaining on the revive. Characters can only be revived by admins and must be a Juvenile or older upon death to be stored.
  
• Added an "Apply Shimmer" button on Character panel allowing Kickstarter Backers with Shimmer Skins to apply the shimmer effect to nested-in Dragons with non-shimmer skins. After applying, player must go to Spawn Menu or safelog. Skin will be applied on next spawn in.
  
• Added a struggle hint telling players how to struggle when picked up
  
• Aiming reticle is now white when you can fire and red when you cannot to help our color blind community
  
• Hatchlings on PvE servers can now only be picked up by group members to prevent griefing
  
• Character Panel can now be mapped to Controllers
  
• Developer nametags are now always visible to players (no more biting someone and then finding out they're a dev) ːsteamhappyː
  
• Tooltips now look cool
  
• Servers with Friendly Fire (group damage) enabled now display Friendly Fire On/Off in the group social panel
  
• Chat command for making clan announcement is now "@clan " (used to be "/@ ")
  
• Nights are now slightly brighter
  
• Slightly increased Stalk Speed of all Dragons
  
• Elder Walk, Swim, & Fly speeds are now capped to Adult speeds
  

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a server-side memory leak
  
• Loading Flaps should no longer persist into the character menu
  
• Left mouse click on keybinds now properly allows player to rebind key
  
• Improved flight sync to reduce camera jitter when being carried in flight
  
• Unknown Parents & Clanmates should now display when player is offline even if player is not on Steam friendlist (requires player to logon before going into effect)
  
• First Flight Theme should no longer play more than once
  
• Players can no longer walk on the bottom of the pond in the far NW corner of the map
  

On July 21st, Beawesome Games released the much anticipated Day of Dragons Genesis Beta Update.

Since that day, long time backers and Dragon fans have been flooding in to our game and Discord in the past two weeks as excitement (and popularity) grows for our very successful Kickstarter-funded open-world Dragon Survival Game, Day of Dragons.

Players are loving our physics-based flight system, our in-depth genetics and nesting mechanic, our user-friendly clan system, and our skin-crafting as well as our first playable Dragon, the Shadow Scale.

We appreciate all the positive reviews and support from our fans! It has been a wonderful and very exciting week for us as we keep hitting new highs each day in concurrent players with new servers and clans and players coming to Day of Dragons on a daily basis.

We look forward to introducing to you all our next playable Dragon, the Flame Stalker (currently being animated) in the coming weeks and months ahead.

For those new to Day of Dragons, welcome to Jrakhon - the world of Dragons. And for returning players from the Alpha, welcome back! We re-arranged the furniture ːsteamhappyː

Day of Dragons has come a long ways, and we have a long ways yet to go, but thank you for being a part of our journey! This is DoD, and we have DRAGONS!


[h2]Day of Dragons Genesis Beta Release Notes[/h2]

[h3]ADDED[/h3]

Creatures

• Shadow Scale (Starter Dragon)
  -Special Ability Cloak (Q)
  
• Acid Spitter (DLC)
  -Special Ability Decaying Bite (Q)
  
• Thornbacked Crawler (AI)
  -Poisonous effect when consumed
  

General mechanics

• Physics-based Flight v1.0
  -Crash and Fall Damage
  -Hatchlings can now glide if dropped from high heights
  
• Swimming v1.0
  -Swim Bladder buoyancy control (Acid Spitter only)
  
• Night Vision v1.0
  -Unique Night Vision for Shadow Scale
  -Unique Night Vision for Acid Spitter
  
• Mutations and Genetics
  
• Hatchling Carry and Struggle v1.0
  
• Nesting v1.0
  -Skin Crafting v1.0
  -Prompt for when ground is not flat enough for nest placement
  -Nest Waypoint
  -Ability to build a nest
  -Nests can now be destroyed with pierce/blunt damage if unprotected. Nests are unprotected if the sire or dam are more than 50 meters away. Only the sire or dam must be within 50 meters to protect the nest, not both
  -Courtship Emote (5)
  -Nest Panel v1.0
  -Custom Nest Models for Acid Spitter and Shadow Scale
  
• Campus and Waypoint Marker
  
• Dynamic Growth system including Hatchling, Juvenile, Adult, and Alpha growth stages
  
• Death Camera
  -Death SFX
  
• Ragdoll Corpse physics and carrying
  -Corpses now spawn a blood pool decal where they died
  
• 1st Person Camera
  
• Persistent Clans
  
• Alpha Growth system and unlocking mechanic
  
• Custom AI system
  
• Added Animation IK/FK
  
• Melanistic skin is unlockable for non-Kickstarters. Good luck!
  

UI and HUD

• Character Panel (I)
  -Growth Bar at bottom of screen
  -New Stat system
  
• Social Panel (O)
  -New Group/Clan invite system through Social Panel
  -Ability to go Offline to avoid appearing on Social Panel player list
  
• Admin Panel
  -Admin panel auto-refreshes every 5 seconds
  -Admins can now mute/unmute players to restrict their ability to use global chat
  -Admins can now replenish players hunger/thirst/sickness
  -Admins can now grow players to juvenile or adult
  -Admins can now reset AI and clear corpses
  -Admins can now slay, port to, or summon players
  -Opening Admin Panel puts Admin in "Super" mode
  
• Character Select Menu with full DLC support
  -Players can have 1 character per species per server
  -Skin selection
  -Can now select Kickstarter and Patreon Skins
  -Can now select Shimmer skin effect for exclusive skins (KS2019 skins)
  
• New Loading Screens and Icon
  
• New / commands including including /help to list all commands
  
• Status Effect icons for Hunger, Thirst, Poison, Bleed, Super, and Decay
  
• New HUD Graphic
  

Survival & Combat Systems

• Stamina exhaustion mechanic (when stamina is fully drained, it takes a while before starting to regenerate)
  
• Bile exhaustion mechanic (when bile is fully drained, it takes a while before starting to regenerate)
  
• Resting Mechanics (sit/lay/sleep)
  
• Health now receives a regen boost when really low
  
• Sickness Mechanic
  
• Added ability to drink from any water source (hatchlings can drink from puddles)
  
• Hints for interactions (talk, eat, drink)
  
• Many new damage types (Piercing, Blunt, Plasma, Acid, Fire)
  
• Decay/bleed stacking, both stack up to 3 times
  
• Added armor and bile regeneration
  
• Added targeting camera (aiming ranged attacks)
  
• Wound, Bleed, and Decay VFXs
  

Setting and Server Configs

• New Game options
  
• New Video options
  
• New Audio options
  
• New Input options
  
• Simple Profanity Filter
  
• Full Partial Gamepad Controller support + keybinds
  
• Many new server config options
  
• Admin command and player kill logging
  
• Streamer mode to hide location and mute in-game music
  
• Spectator mode
  

Environment

• Forgotten Forest Biome v1.0
  -Interactive foliage dependent on creature size
  -Nharogk, Jrakhon's moon
  -Map theme music now plays when spawning in map for the first time
  -Footstep SFX for various surfaces
  -Edible Fauna
  

[h3]Changed[/h3]

• Removed playerholder dragons, AI, and maps
  
• Keybinds changed
  
• Improved Safelogging system (to safe log, you must sleep for 60s, exiting sleep should cancel timer, check timer on your ESC menu)
  
• Redesigned Chat system (All, Global, Local, Group, Clan)
  
• Removed many slash commands as new Character panel makes them obsolete
  
• Optimized chat data to decrease packet size
  
• Chats now use a queue system to prevent chat lag
  
• Redesigned starvation and dehydration mechanics
  
• Revamped Bite Combat
  
• Redesigned Projectile/Bile Combat
  
• Steam Master Server List should now show player counts
  
• Game now runs a hardware benchmark on first startup and adjusts video settings accordingly (please delete your Save/Settings/Graphics.sav file)
  -Can now run benchmark from Video panel
  -Benchmarks no longer run at startup
  
• Game now load Medium settings as default
  
• Shadows can no longer be disabled to prevent gaining an advantage over other players
  
• Low foliage setting no longer disables foliage, just reduces it further
  
• Unlimited frame cap removed (capped at 60 FPS) and replaced with 4 settings, Auto, 30FPS, 45FPS, 60FPS.
  
• Save setting save names changed to remove any issues when updated to version 1.0 from version 0.8
  
• Refactored & optimized server/network code
  
• Refactored game code
  
• Server tick rate & replication frequency increased to attempt to reduce movement jitters
  
• Client>Server network optimizations & smoothing improvement
  
• Network optimizations
  
• Netcode optimizations
  
• Updated FMOD to version 2.01.09 increasing SFX performance
  
• All creatures have been balanced with the new systems
  
• Group size is limited to 10 players
  

[h2]Closed Beta to Open Beta Patch Notes[/h2]

ADDED

• Players on PvE servers can now type /pvp to flag themselves for combat allowing dueling or death. Flagged players have red glowing eyes. Flagging can only be toggled if safelog is available. To safelog, go to sleep (Hold Shift+R). To unflag, type /pvp again when safelog is available.
  
• Added new exotic skin crafting recipes for both Shadow Scale and Acid Spitter
  
• Added missing controller icons to keybinds menu
  
• Added more landmarks and water locations to the map
  
• Added more AI spawn locations
  
• Added more mushroom spawn locations
  
• Added more player spawns
  

CHANGED

• Shadow Scale Dragon is now available to all players as a starter character
  
• Deprecated Day of Dragons Alpha (goodbye cruel world) Players switching versions must delete their save game folder and app data saves folder (2 directories).
  
• Day of Dragons now supports Vulkan. To switch RHI, type -dx12 or -vulkan in the Steam launch parameter. -dx12 is recommended for Windows 10 users having issues running the game.
  
• Updated various SFX
  
• Nights are now darker
  
• Admin /unstuck ability now fixes even more common player bugs
  
• Hatchling struggle ability is now 100% guaranteed to escape on PvE servers with an increased chance to escape on PvP servers
  
• Tweaked mushroom spawning & spawn rates
  
• Rebalanced ASD and SSD armor and damage stats
  
• All chat channel now shows different colors for different channel chats to help distinguish the channels better
  
• Accepting a nest invite of the same species now reduces your corpses food value to 1 to prevent corpse feeding from egg invites
  
• Reduced Stamina drain on Acid Spitter
  
• Increased Acid Spitter & Shadow Scale swim speeds
  
• Improved flight takeoff syncing
  

FIXED

• Improved player collision detection at high speeds to prevent flying through terrain
  
• Fixed missing physics on some water ponds on Forgotten Forest
  
• Fixed up some AI spawners using old method that caused a server infinite loop lockup
  
• Trees no longer look extra sharp
  
• Players should now correctly spawn randomly around the map (fixed bug causing players to spawn in only a few spawn points)
  
• Fixed multiple floating grass areas on Forgotten Forest
  
• Fixed bug where wounds would appear on a dragon after server restart even if they were not damaged
  
• Fixed bug where players who pick up a bug as it is despawning can no longer pick up bugs anymore or fly.
  
• Fixed an issue with admin corpse tags showing for corpses that have already despawned
  
• Fixed several audio bugs
  

[h3]VERSION 1.J.E.1[/h3]
Server Hotfix

FIXED SERVER-SIDE

• Eggs can no longer be slain by admins
  
• Fixed issue where character progress could be lost on respawning, server restarts, or by logging out a fresh spawn before auto save
  

FIXED CLIENT-SIDE

• UI buttons for egg invites no longer overlaps themselves
  

[h3]VERSION 1.J.E.0[/h3]
Client/Server Patch

Due to an increase in server crashes since the last patch, a new patch was needed to fix the server crashes. We apologize for any inconvenience but want to get the servers stable as our player base is growing

CHANGED

• Slightly increased Acid Spitter bite damage
  
• Slightly increased Acid Spitter pierce resist
  
• Slightly decreased Acid Spitter blunt resist
  
• Mutation Mastery is now properly Orange when selected
  
• Removed test models from map
  

FIXED

• Fixed rare save-related server crash
  
• Fixed common null-pointer server crash