EPICA News

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1.3.3
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Added more lights to various roads
Added vendors and guards to Arhain
Added a water mill to the starting town
Added a basic loading screen
Enabled the ladder, available from the ingame menus

Under active development
The player animation is not optimized when walking on stairs.
Ladder climbing is not added
AI enemy spawns are not optimized, since the region is under development
Player swimming is not optimized
Combat skills need to be extended
Loot needs to be extended

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FEATURE LIST
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Some features are not yet fully integrated.

Connectivity
Steam
Steam leaderboard
Steam savegames
Multiplayer (not enabled)


Player
Character creation
Crafting
Professions (mining, herbalism)

Multiplayer
Trading
Combat (Party shares experience when nearby)


AI occupation
Farmer
Fisher
Guard
Healer
Major
Miner
Monk
Quarry worker
Soldier
Trader
Woodchooper

Entities
Boar
Dogs
Wolf
Snakes

Environment
Dynamic weather
Day and night cycle

Factions
Humans
Elves
Dwarfs
Orcs
Goblins

• Added swimming
  
• Vendors are now greeting the player
  
• The chat window hides after awhile, returns on new chat messages, or when the player hovers the chat with the cursor.
  
• Added wolfs.
  
• Improvements to the entrance of Castle Brunt
  
• Improved weapon arming / disarming
  
• Added an armor vendor to the starting town
  

NPC spawn now dynamically
Lights trigger during dusk and in the morning hours

CASTLE BRUN
Added Lights
Added Guards
Added outdoor floors
Main building,it is now possible to walk to the top.

STARTING TOWN
Added Lights

Even though a top down version was introduced earlier this year, the new build goes back to the original 3rd person view and in addition the plan is to add a multiplayer mode.

This build has been published to introduce the new game focus, and the plan is to enable multiplayer in January.




Current features are basic and will be further tweaked. There is the starting zone with two towns and a castle has been setup. The player inventory can be opened by pressing the "i" key. This also brings up the cursor - enabling pickup. Interacting with vendors or quest givers can be done by pressing the "e" key.

Further there is the combat system, pressing the left mouse button will draw the current weapon. Though, there are many aspects not yet fully integrated, for instance other weapons beside the default axe.



Next updates will add more detail to the starting zone, including more NPCs, quests, swimming, the crafting system, and much more.

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Updated the game client to Unreal Engine 4.27.
Added trees to the Naerocks Field region.

The next update will further improve the existing levels, and add a second region.