Crossing The Sands News

Crossing The Sands Updated

Adds combat sounds, more spell sounds, and directional building entry.

Changed the towns (Grand City, City of Assassins, Arcane City, Ratkin Stronghold) so that buildings can only be entered from the street-facing or door side. Previously if a location could be entered, it could be entered from all directions. That was a limitation of the map design code that has been overcome.
All spells now have sound effects, and the spell sound effects have more variety.
Combat now has hit and miss sounds. Sound effects can be enabled or disabled via the settings menu (escape key -> settings).
Fixed an issue that could cause the game to freeze in some cases.

Custom portraits have been implemented. You can change a character's portrait by clicking on their portrait on the character sheet. That will let you browse for a file to use. Note that these portraits are NOT saved in the cloud and won't transfer across PCs (though if you have images with the same exact file path for the same image on both machines, they will still load). If a character's image is not found, it will pick a random one from the available character images. Be sure to save your game after selecting character portraits so they're remembered.
The amount of hitpoints and mana that a character has gained will now be shown in the level up notification message.
Improved the Thief class's ability to identify and disarm chest traps.
Saving the game (resting) at an inn will now cure sleep on any characters affected by it.
Immobilized (sleeping, paralyzed, etc) characters can no longer identify items.
Fixed an issue with quests being duplicated on the quest log window. Also made some formatting improvements.
Fixed an issue with losing focus while typing in the feedback form.
Fixed an issue where quitting to the menu and then starting a new game could start the new party in an incorrect location.
Some translation improvements.

Changes in this Version of Crossing The Sands:

Added tooltips to the spellcasting screen that give a quick summary of what a spell does so you don't have to refer to the manual as often. They'll appear when a spell button is hovered over with the mouse or has keyboard focus.
Made an adjustment to the camera field of view and added a field of view slider to the escape key settings menu. It can be adjusted from 75 to 105 degrees, with 90 as the default, and is a computer-specific setting.
Added more things to the City of Assassins (buildings, furniture, etc).
Changed the ring of swiftness quest reward to be usable by all (was previously Monk-only).
Updated the end-of-combat gold drop message to be accurate (it was still showing the amount of gold per character rather than for the full party).
Improved the rendering code. Large zones with many buildings, like the Grand City, will perform better on older hardware now.
Added messages to the demo version to make it clear when an exit to another zone is only available in the full version.

Fixes an issue that caused unique item loot drops to repeat.

This patch solves a couple issues caused by the big update and adds rendering of shadows.

Fixed a problem that could cause a new game not to start when selected from the main menu.
Fixed textures for some mushroom models in the game.
Fixed an issue that could prevent being able to sell items in a shop.
Added shadows to the game. You'll see objects like trees, rocks, and buildings casting shadows now.