Hi, everyone. Welcome to another week's developer's diary.
This week's main focus is on polishing existing game systems. Here are some of the highlights of the changes we got.
1, A lot of new Butterfly locations.
We got 6 new locations you can teleport to in Liu, 2 new locations you can teleport to in Queensmouth, and 1 new location you can teleport to in Egypt. Most of them require you to have visited those locations once to unlock. The progress will likely be quite natural as you progress your journey at your own pace. As more and more locations get added to the game. This change may help solve a problem that is to make traversing across different areas easier.
2, Sell items in bulk.
You can now select a certain threshold of item quality and sell everything below that quality in one go. As the game progress, you may get a lot of random loot. It becomes tedious to sell everything one by one. Thus, this new feature can make your profit from trading much easier. Some unique items will not be automatic. You can also avoid an item from being automatically sold by equipping them, dropping them on the ground, or storing them in your home before you use this new feature.
3, More cheats
You can now get a new cheat item that can give you various pets you can get during normal gameplay. It's understandable sometimes we just want to slack back and use some cheat code to get some pets instead of trying to capture them. Meanwhile, there is also another cheat that is designed to fix a max sanity bug that I will talk about below.
4, Bug fixes
It's rare that we have bugs in this game. But, sometimes they do exist. Thanks to all the bug reports. We've fixed some issues that occur when calculating the max sanity value with shade corruption and some issues in certain Boss fights.
All the above are thanks to some of the game's most ancient players coming back to play this game this week. Thus, I received some quite good feedback. Without that, those changes may not happen. Thus, I'd like to thank everyone who provided those suggestions and bug reports. You are making the development of this game such a fantastic experience! Even though the world changes so much over the years, something about this game may never change as it becomes our shared memories.
In addition to the life improvement changes we also have some other content updates this week, those are:
1, More Enemy Types and Better Location Selection Flow in Wonderland Travel Agency.
Without the need to go check all the details after selecting a location, you can now get information about a location such as its size, enemy types, and environment information before selecting any of them. Essentially that shall save some clicks.
Meanwhile, new enemies such as bats, vengeful spirits, and ghoOoOoOots may now appear in random locations.
2, The other side of the coin. The Shade.
One of the most defining features of this game is freedom. Thus, you can totally go against everyone's expectations. Instead of being a hero, you may be the one that brings the end of the world. Previously, you got all kinds of choices to join the dark side. Now, let's go a bit further. You can actually find a new NPC to teach you some shade-related skills. You will need to have a certain amount of shade corruption level to gain access to this NPC and learn and use those skills. But, they are all relatively quite powerful. Those skills you can acquire right now are the "Shade Touch," and the "Shade Binding."
"Shade Touch" has been used by many shade enemies you encountered during the story. Now you can have this skill yourself. What makes it more devastating is, the power of this skill is scaled by a character's shade corruption level. The more you are corrupted, the more powerful this skill becomes. After all, if you seek power even at the cost of all humanity, it will be a quite disappointment if you cannot get something eventually will become apocalyptic.
"Shade Binding" is another approach to fulfill your dark agenda. This skill allows you to turn some shade creatures to become your pets while in all other normal circumstances that is impossible. But, since you are so corrupted under the shade's influence, you can now force your will upon those lesser than you.
There may be more to be added in the future. Even after embracing such dark power, to be a supervillain or a dark hero is all your choice. I am not here to judge. I'm just here to provide some supplements to the story you are going to write.
3, A new character and the story development in the Wonderland Travel Agency.
Another part of the Wonderland Travel Agency is now accessible. You can find a train conductor inside. He can tell you another method to travel around the world in addition to relying on magic or ley lines. That is the science. (Or at least that's what he claims.) With those trains empowered by "science," you can travel between stations in the blink of an eye.
You can use his appearance on your customized main character or teammates.
What's the catch?
The first station you can travel to is known as the "Marinas Station."
Marina means something about the sea. And yes, we are heading to a beach.
But, what's more? That is the same name of a location that appeared in previous iterations of this game and that online game known as Stone Age Online. The difference is, we are now in a different time. Thousands of years have passed.
That's for this week. As a new location is now under development, a lot of art assets need to be processed. It may take a while. But, it's almost August now. Maybe we will also finally officially conclude chapter 2 of the game soon.
Today's changelog:
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[Wonderland Travel Agency]Added a new location selection window that can display all the information before selecting a location to check for details.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]The flow to select a new location is now shortened and becomes smoother.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]Different locations may now have different costs to enter.
[Map]New Location: Marinas Station.
[Wonderland Travel Agency]You can now travel between Liu and Marinas by train.
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Reduced the drawing layer priority of the map names.
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