Monster Crown News

Hey guys,

The next patch is now live, with it come a number of adjustments and tweaks thanks to all your excellent feedback on here and on Discord. I was hoping to put a bit more time into the Notebook system so you could review your crossbreeds but there's a huge thunderstorm heading to my house and the power is already flickering, I didn't want to risk not getting this out to you guys tonight!

Be sure to let me know what you think if you opt in to the branch and get hands on! Let me know what you think of the tweaks, are they moving in the right direction? Do you feel I've over-corrected?

Tomorrow morning I'm going to devote few hours to polishing up online battling.

Thanks for all your support in our amazing second day of EA, I love hanging out with you all!

Closed Beta v1.441
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+Stampede nerfed from base power 10 to 7
+Overall increase in battle speed and major reduction of delays, feels tighter
+Reckless charge has recoil now (as it should)
+Wardrobe UI made more clear and easier to exit
+Buffed flee chance by 60%
+Boss Collure now tameable
+Bug in last build where KOing a foe's first monster caused you to win fixed
+"Save was successful!" message added. If you don't see this, feel free to @ me anytime.
+Set FPS limit of 120 as some powerful system fellas were hitting in the 3-400s!
+Swallow water (and other healing moves) no longer heal the foe!


#Please note that we want to keep the primary EA build stable so new builds will be uploaded to the EA-BETA branch for 24 hours before being moved to the main stream. Anyone can access this branch, just right-click Monster Crown in Steam, go to properties and select the EA-BETA branch to have the up to the minute, bleeding edge updates.

Hey folks!

Thanks for playing Monster Crown once again, what a crazy 24 hours!

I was planning to work on a patch all day today and release it later, however, I think delivering the fixes fast and hard to all of you is more important so I'm upping my morning's work now, with another on the way this afternoon and likely two more tomorrow. I'm going to work hard for all of you to make Monster Crown smoother and more bug free as quickly as possible!

Here's the details of our latest patch, right now I'm polling the forums, discord, and our bug reporting tool to assess the highest priority fixes that provide the most benefit to you. If you feel there's something higher priority that I should address ASAP feel free to @ me or reply, I want to make sure I'm working on the things that benefit you the most!

Closed Beta v1.44
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+Body Tackle nerfed to 4 power instead of 5
+Starting cash amount doubled from 150 to 300
+Raining inside much less likely to happen
+Can now forfeit
+Can no longer get free to move in the overworld during battle
+Brutus nerfed from lv23 to lv19
+Skull icons added to dangerously strong foes that can wipe you out with ease
+After mom tutorial forced monster to refollow the player properly instead of remaining stationary, this had caused a softlock for at least one player
+Killing yourself with Dark Deed and the foe at the same time no longer causes a softlock
+Pretty sure I've eliminated all ways you can have a scout going on and have that lead to:
+Breaking free and moving in the overworld during battle
+Breaking free during a chat/cutscene
+Big improvements to the world loading code, should fix the "wrong walls/collisions" issue but if you encounter it in specific areas be sure to @ me anytime.

#Please note that we want to keep the primary EA build stable so new builds will be uploaded to the EA-BETA branch for 24 hours before being moved to the main stream. Anyone can access this branch, just right-click Monster Crown in Steam, go to properties and select the EA-BETA branch to have the up to the minute, bleeding edge updates.

The build will be live in about 15 minutes!

Hello Folks!

MASSIVE thank you to all of you that supported Monster Crown today, shared your sick creations online, and told friends/posted. Your support means the absolute world to me and things are certainly catching on fire, today definitely feels like a success, and entirely thanks to all of you!

Thank you all for the bug reports on here and on discord. I've got the rest of the weekend and Monday and Tuesday scheduled off to work hard on fixes and get out patches to make the game a lot easier and fun to play very soon. For those of you unfamiliar with our discord you'll find it here:


https://discord.gg/WwRvm9B

If you're looking to get a little primer on the breeding system, check out Gym Leader Ed's video to get you started:

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Some of you have discovered ??? monsters! These are wild hybrids that are one in one hundred encounters. They are naturally occuring crossbreeds, sort of like if you found a Wolf X Coyote hybrid outside right now! Because you discovered it, you get to name it!

Also, you may encounter one in a thousand *brilliant* monsters, which our like this game's shinies. You know already you can pass down colors via breeding so we had to have a pretty special color right? Briliiant monsters cycle through the rainbow.

A few people coming from Pokemon backgrounds asked some questions that I thought I'd clarify a bit:

1) Not all monsters are created equal! Two monsters at level 10 will not be equivalent if one seriously outranks the other (for example, Brutus vs. poor Rodask!)

2) The world is very dangerous, if you follow the guides in-game and stick to the road you'll be fine, but if you don't, well, you might not be! So explorers make sure you're well prepared.

Have any of you tamed a Duserp yet? Have any of you located the legendary GIGADRILE?

I look forward to hanging out with you guys all weekend!

Hi all!

Today is a great day, because Monster Crown is now available in Early Access on Steam! 4 years of hard work by Jason Walsh have lead up to this very moment, so please head over to the store page and consider buying the game! If not, please add it to your Steam wishlist, as that would help us out a lot as well!



If you have any questions about the game, please check out our FAQ: https://steamcommunity.com/app/830370/discussions/0/2792747051068948438/

Thank you all and have fun in Monster Crown!

-Marten