Monster Crown News

Hey guys,

About 24 hours ago I got a call from my parents that my grandmother passed away from cancer. They live in a different town so I had to travel to visit them and for the funeral for the next couple of days.

Unfortunately this will introduce a delay for this week's content pack, which includes the last of the three powers you seek in the latest updates.

The content pack was for all intents and purposes complete and I just wanted to test it a bit more, so it will launch next Friday instead, no big delay is needed.

Apologies for any inconvenience, especially after seeing all the buzz around the upcoming Content Pack, I promise it will be available very soon.

Thank you

Hey guys, hope you're having a great weekend!

Next week is the new content pack which will bring about the third power to add to your collection, so for this week we've got some fixes and some new items and improvements to make your playthroughs more fun than ever!

I pushed a new fix last weekend to ea-beta and pushed it to everyone a few days ago that came with some improved loading speeds and a big improvement to the reliability of the monster storage system. Your monsters won't get lost anymore and when you open your box, it'll rescue anything you've lost in previous months. I didn't make a post about it then as I was also working on some online fixes that weren't quite ready yet but I felt it was a good time to mention it!

Online battling is now much more reliable and you should be able to have some good fun with it facing off against other tamers, a great place to find a battle is on our discord of course!:

I can promise you there are tamers on there that will send you reeling from the power of their monsters. Some of them have embedded ridiculous power into cute little defense-less Apo packages, absolute sickos! :D

One thing that's come to my attention as well is that even with scouting, it can be very slow to level up new hatchlings and add them to your team, leading people to not get the most out of breeding and avoiding changing their team up. To remedy this, "Ultra Rare Berries" have been added to all the shops beyond Mill Town (didn't want them available too early!).

How do Ultra Rare Berries work? Well they will quarter the difference between your monster's level and your tamer ceritfication cap. For example, if you could level up to level 100, using multiple berries would work like this:


Monster's level after 0 berries: 1
Monster's level after 1 berries: 25
Monster's level after 2 berries: 43
Monster's level after 3 berries: 57
Monster's level after 4 berries: 67
Monster's level after 5 berries: 75
Monster's level after 6 berries: 81
and so on...


so as you can see if you had a tamer ceritifcation level of 100, and had enough cash, you could level a monst from 1 to 81 in two minutes! These berries are incredibly useful but fittingly pricey, $1500 per berry!

I hope that this will bring you a lot more fun of a Monster Crown experience, making breeding new hatchlings and adding them to your team a breeze.

The other new items added: Kroodle Tenders, Shoreyu Sushi and Big Meat, offer signifcant healing power as it can be discouraging to have to heal your very high hp monsters super slowly with Aloe Leaves. Adding these items to your pack makes long, risky journeys more fun to prepare for and without a PP system, a careful planner can survive without returning to civilization for quite some time!

Hope the rest of your weekend goes well, be back on Friday with your next content pack!


0.1.72
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+Online battling improvements (much more reliable)
+Sunbloom seed fixed
+Party number on the monster info/party screen was innacurate
+Inventory screen alignment adjustments
+New items available in shops (Ultra Rare Berry, Kroodle Tenders, Shoreyu Sushi, Big Meat)
+Optimizations
+Improved box system operations + monster rescue on open.
+Cave Traumata wind gust still happening after being defeated fixed
+Ferrorizer spawning again

Hey guys,

this update comes with a general nerf to the super strong chiefs. On average, their teams will be 4-7 levels lower than before and it definitely feels like a more fair (but still challenging) battle. in my play-throughs over the past week.

Additionally, servers went down for some maintenance earlier this week and it ended up needing an update on the game side to fully restore connectivity, so this patch includes that as well.

Oh an of course some of you have sent me your files over the past few months for testing and those of you with hundreds and hundreds (let's be honest, closer to thousands) have loading times that are a bit longer than I expected! Instead of staring at a black screen waiting for that cornucopia of monsters to load up you'll now get a Gyn loading screen while you wait!


Have a good weekend tamers!

#this build will remain on the beta branch until Sunday, you can opt-in by right-clicking on Monster Crown in steam, choosing properties, and opting into beta "ea-beta".

Hey everyone!

Last week, Content Update #7 dropped and it contains a new chapter in the Monster Crown story, but also new transformative items: Frostbite and Ferrorizer! Learn all about this Content Update here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/830370/view/3026955794077436638
This brings us to today's challenge!

Frostbite/Ferrorizer Challenge
Get your hands on a Frostbite or a Ferrorizer, use it to transform a Monster, take a screenshot of it on the stats screen and drop it in the #monster-crown channel of the SOEDESCO Discord server (https://discord.gg/soedesco) with #FrostbiteChallenge or #FerrorizerChallenge

-OR-

Post it to Twitter with #MonsterCrown and #FrostbiteChallenge/#FerrorizerChallenge (so we can find it)

The person with the coolest, most unique monster wins! Complete one of (or just both) the options above by Tuesday April 6th 3PM CEST to become the Monster Crown Content Pack #7 champion + this special Monster Crown care package of in-game items including a BRILLIANT CRYDIA :O! If you know, you know, but this is a big deal ;)

• Brilliant CRYDIA
  
• 10 booster packs
  
• Frostbite
  
• Ferrorizer
  
• 3000 Gold
  
• 15 Normal Pacts
  
• 10 Aloe Leafs
  
• 10 Gualchops
  
• 15 Campfire Logs
  
• 3 Move Orbs (Enrich)
  
• 3 Move Orbs (Inferno)
  

Entries are limited to 1 per user, please only post 1 screenshot. Winner is the person with the highest amount on their screenshot. Good luck everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to ask :D

-Marten

Happy Friday tamers!





The other half of the monsters from the Frostbite vs. Ferrorizer competition are now in, in total, the following monsters can transform:

Frostbite
Hani
Frostbite
Domigon
Epheal

Ferrorizer
Ambigu
Chuk
Igrawn
Ix
Madis


As well of course as the next chapter in the Monster Crown story! If you're all caught up in the current story you're looking for three legendary beasts, and the second is now here! (the first was available in Nio Kio as of last Content Pack). Start your search in Frobec and try not to end up bitten in half!

This content pack is particularly nostalgic for me, as you'll be returning to an area familiar to fans following us since the early days, the Frobec Mountains were featured in a very early alpha demo, I hope those of you that remember those days feel just as surreal returning to those stomping grounds!

Next month's content pack will expand to the third power, tucked away deep in Appenton :)



This update also brings:

Brilliant monsters now bless the team with a temporarily boosted growth rate by 10% when leveling up in battle or using scouting.

Ton of new attack animations

You'll be prompted to confirm when you decide to save, a much requested change.

Plenty of polishing and bug-fixing.



A while back Ahab's Artwork approached me about the idea of a fan manga for Monster Crown. I was really flattered by the idea. I've poured a lot of work into building Monster Crown's world and lore, and who wouldn't want to have the opportunity to see their world expressed in manga format?



I decided to commission Ahab's Artwork to produce an **official pilot manga** for Monster Crown. This 6-page manga pilot follows a courier and his Monster Companions during a day on the job in the dangerous Desperado Province. You can grab it here:

Check it out Here!

The manga is currently pay what you want and you can decide on $0 and grab it for free if you wish,

right now we're using the reception of this manga to gauge the viability of producing a more normal length manga series in the future, following a tamer and their monster companions on a full length journey. While my focus will remain entirely on core development of the game for the forseeable future I'd definitely be involved with establishing the storyline and ensuring the world aligns with my vision for Monster Crown's world during pre-production.

I hope you enjoy the pilot!




Join us on Discord as we play through the latest content pack, we're happy to help any up-and-coming promising new tamers! Click Here

Patch 0.166
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+Day/Night effects are no longer active when accessing the monster box
+Gigadrile's Boss Indicator no longer shows On Overworld
+The phone in Milldew dosn't have new dialog.
+Party menu opening itself after battles
+Frobec Snow Factory Run Untoggle
+Casino deducting dollars properly now
+Duchess Garden encounters not appearing fixed
+Situation where when you add a monster to your team by swapping using the box system with a team at size 8 could fail fixed
+Some Desperado fences could be walked through
+Appenton city disembodied lamps removed
+Kiry tamer has Yes/No and no longer has an additional cancel option.
+Typo fixes
+Item inventory is updating numbers properly now after tossing items
+Chief tamer text updated to remove references to specific levels of certification now that they can be approached in any order.
+King Tenna no longer doesn't appear until after you defat Nautlus as this became a sticking point for some players.
+Scrave no longer initiates a chief battle
+Hani Honey bug fixed