Major Demo Update #5 - v0.615

Hey all, we have been busy working on a big update in the past 2 months.

We prefer smaller updates, but as we overhauled a lot of different vital game systems we decide otherwise. Expect more frequent updates in the future.

Check out all the cool new features and improvements!!



[h2]Wizard Incarnation Feature[/h2]

• Spell has to research first in the Laboratory.
  
• Wizard can be called to a formation or a base without a tower.
  
• Incarnation costs mana upkeep for the time the wizard is on a formation/base without a tower.
  
• Having not enough mana break the incarnation.
  
• Wizards can cast spells when incarnated.
  
• There is additional research available that brings down the upkeep costs significantly.
  

[h2]New Tutorial[/h2]

• The tutorial is now separated from the main campaign and can be played anytime from the main menu.
  
• There is a complete new Tutorial UI.
  
• some tutorial steps are skippable some need to be done to make sure vital controls are understood correctly.
  
• story and tutorial text are now separated, this made it much easier to write better tutorial commands/help.
  
• Sending units, selecting nodes should be much clearer now!
  

[h2]UI overhaul[/h2]

• All Icons have been redone.
  
• All UI screens finally have a consistent look.
  
• Map Editor UI has been completely revamped.
  
• All buttons react to mouse-overs with animation and sound, we are not done in that regard.
  
• UI supports HDR rendering.
  
• UI is much more vivid and responsive.
  
• UI uses the correct material for the linear colour scheme.
  
• Fixed the look of dropdowns.
  

[h2]New Dialog System [/h2]

• Removed the old portraits from the game. They looked cool but didn't fit the style of the game.
  
• Added voxel characters (which are not yet polished).
  
• Characters are now moving in and out in conversations,
  
• Up to 4 characters in one conversation possible.
  
• Dialogues can now be narrated with the new system.
  
• Added sound effects for speaking and narration, character pop-ins etc.
  
• Lights fade in and out on active characters.
  
• All over more fluid and fun to read the story.
  

[h2]New Quest System and QuestUI[/h2]

• Map editor has a quest editor, trigger and quests action editor with pre-configured trigger types.
  
• Check out the blog post for more details on the quests editor.
  
• Added new quests to all demo maps (this is just a start, expect a lot more here!)
  
• Quest has progress which is shown in the upper left corner and is frequently updated.
  
• Clicking on a quest gives you more details on it and you can browse through all open/resolved quests.
  

[h2]New Story Texts[/h2]

• Less tell more "show". :)
  
• Wrote background stories for all characters to have a better understanding of their traits, emotions etc.
  
• Dialog text is as short as possible.
  
• Lots of narration added.
  
• Story should be much more relatable.
  

• Selection in player input standard can now be locked/unlocked by tutorial.
  
• Base selection is now much better visible.
  
• Build slot positioning has improved significantly.
  
• Improved mouseover decal for bases.
  
• Added trigger events to the game.
  
• Fixed some possible crash bug in minimap -> tweens were not correctly killed sometimes.
  
• Fixed a problem in tutorial manager not finding the correct game objects sometimes.
  
• Added a new function to building utils for finding research buildings on a base.
  
• Removed cast ring from wizards, for now, will probably add them back later with some cool effects.
  
• NPC wizard has finally some animations.
  
• Added a bunch of new sound effects.
  
• Fixed all light cullings masks.
  
• Game statistics in now also saved in savegame.
  
• Rebalanced research, buildings and units.
  
• Improved AI behaviours when attacking an enemy.
  
• Added new AI personality for "The Jivalon Incident".
  
• improved AI behaviour when there are no siege units available.
  
• improved how the AI is calculating attack/defence values.
  
• quest actions -> spawning units at a random formation gathering position.
  

• Fixed a bug where ground melee attackers would in some cases attack flying enemies.
  
• Fixed a possible crash bug in HealthBar.
  
• Fixed a possible crash bug in PlayerInputStandard when pressing the Tab-Key very early after loading.
  
• Fixed some possible crash bugs in UIPanelFader.
  
• Fixed IntroUI not showing in DEV_DEBUG is on.
  
• Fixed a possible crash bug in SettingsUI when a certain resolution does not have a specific Refresh-rate.
  
• Fixed another possible crash in panel fader.
  
• Fixed problems in CampaignMenuUI -> would not correctly reset on enable/disable sometimes.
  
• Fixed bug in bugreportingUI -> discord button was not working correctly.
  
• Fixed bug in bugreportingUI -> description text had wrong mask set which leads to wrong text formatting.
  
• Fixed bug in build UI which would sometimes show even though there were no buttons active.
  
• Fixed a bug in quest details UI and hidden/inactive quests.
  
• Several bugfixes in DialogUI and StoryManager.
  
• Several bugfixes in MessageUI.
  
• Fixed a big bunch of (crash) bugs reported via Trello. Thanks for all the players reporting!
  
• Map Editor crashes should be hopefully be fixed, this was a Unity Engine bug in TextMeshPro.
  

• Save/Load during mission might have issues on some maps in certain situations. Expect crashes. Crashes are automatically sent to your Trello board.
  
• The Incarnation feature is still missing a bunch of SFX and gfx effects. They will be added in the upcoming days. It might also have some weird bugs.
  
• Missing icons in result statistics and some other places (should be fixed by tomorrow).
  
• Pressing Escape while a dialogue runs show the pause menu, resuming to the dialogue might show/hide the UI. (should be fixed by tomorrow).
  
• Probably a few more other problems we haven't discovered yet. ːsteammockingː
  

Thanks for reading,
The HoM Dev Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1368160/Heart_Of_Muriet/