EPICA News

Updated to Unreal Engine 5.

Setup the second region, which is now accessible via waypoints, once unlocked. The town of Arhain has been moved to the new region called Marck. The new region can be accessed in the northern parts of Naerocks (starting level).

Next updates will work on the new environment (landscape editing, flora and fauna), and extend the new region. The general scope is to have several regions instead of one big one. One reason is that this approach in level design makes it easier to tweak difficulties, and reduces the work.

Open issues
The ai in dungeons is not always properly moving. This will be addressed in coming updates.

Optimized map boundaries and added mountains. In next steps there will be other regions added, where the player can travel to.

Further updated NPCs with quests, they can now also move or have a special task / emote.
All NPC can perform tasks, we now have the code for this in place. Tasks will be further setup as regions evolve.

Examples of tasks

• Standing
  
• Sitting
  
• Laid down
  
• Moving
  
• Talking
  
• Combat
  
• Carry item
  
• Cooking
  
• Dancing
  
• Pointing
  
• Playing guitar
  

The code for the ai moving around has also be improved, they now pick a random patrol point. This will likely be extended, for instance that they switch their task from time to time, or talk to each other.

Updates

• The town of Arhain has been updated with fires and related chimney smoke.
  
• The rivers in Tarnmill have been updated.
  
• Disabled Steam VR.
  

Added

• NPC patrol, meaning that none player characters can now patrol on defined paths.
  
• Random generated characters townsfolk, also setup random Orcs which will be added soon.
  

Examples of the new characters and setups:

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