New Features in Alpha 2 Thread - Ancient Arena

Here are all the new features and fixes in Ancient Arena Alpha 2.

New Features
- Brand New Arena: Lost Sands Interior
- Fight inside the deserted Lost Sands Arena, but watch out for the dangerous cliffs!
- Shadows and animations add a new layer of immersion in this new arena

- New Singleplayer Mode: Campaign
- Fight through the first two arenas
- Travel through hidden rooms to stop the bots from spawning in Lost Sands Interior
- Your current objective will be detailed out on your HUD
- Camera zooms and fades as you enter a new level
- Powerups have been replaced by potions only in campaign mode, and the player must smash open crates to find these new items.
- Three separate slots to save your progress, with the ability to delete a saved game

- New Player Abilities
- The ability to sprint and block
- You can attack enemies while they are knocked down, but you will do very little damage
- Sprint attacks and jump attacks give the player two new ways to knock enemies over
- The bounce back ability enables the player to do loads of damage after being knocked down
- A new weapon, the spear, has been added, along with all new player animations while using the spear to attack, sprint, jump, block, take damage, and get knocked down.

- Brand New Music and Sound Effects
- Listen to the all new music in each of the different game modes
- All new sound effects for the characters and the crowd

- Brand New Splash Screen
- Animated Splash Screen for Morale Boost Games

Additional Changes
- Mouse controls on all the main menus

- The ability to mute the sound in the pause menu during a game

- Tweaks To The Gameplay
- Decreased the number of enemies that spawn at one time during waves/survival
- As you progress, this number will slowly increase, increasing the difficulty
- The new weapon, the spear, is spawned after wave 4 or after 120 survival seconds, to help the player advance farther
- Player and enemy speeds have been reduced, the new sprinting ability makes up for this
- The higher your attack combo goes, the more damage you will do to the enemy
- Some health is replenished in between waves
- Critical Hits and Misses are now spelled out with the damage amount above an enemy/player

- HUD/Interface Changes
- HUD will now fade out if an enemy or player is underneath it
- Redesigned the positions of text for a better flow
- Re sized to fit better on the top of the screen

- Ability to select which arena you want to fight in for each game mode outside of campaign.