SAVAGE The Shard of Gosen Alpha Demo 8.6 file

Alpha 8.6 - 2018.1.19

FIXES AND UPDATES

• Fixed insect nest spawner sometimes turning invisible or being assigned an impact sprite instead of nest sprite
• Fixed enemy objects and corpse objects landing on spikes and displaying the correct blood color on spikes
• Fixed enemies getting thrown into solids or other enemies, if they can bleed, dripping the correct blood color
• Fixed enemy hitbox check when initially lifting a stunned enemy to allow for more successful lifting of stunned enemies
• Fixed spike spring traps not getting bloodied when player hits them
• Fixed "platform wasps" not moving
• Added corpse lifting tutorial slab
• Added upward and downward attack tutorial slab
• Fixed some tutorial typos
• Fixed Kell getting stuck in the ground (especially slopes) when holding "up" and jumping into grabbable ledge that is too close to a solid below Kell
• Added new Essence Orb pickup
• Player now drops Essence Orbs and BP on death -- can return to the site of their death to reclaim them
• Conditions on death can potentially create some interesting and deadly results (including spawning in a shadow version of themselves)
• Randomized encounters on the world map will now be "locked" on death, allowing you to revisit them to reclaim your essence. Elements like time of day, season, etc. will still change the encounter appropriately, but room composition and location will be locked.
• New Gosen Hills Binding Stone location
• Fixed getting stuck inside of elevators by... well, killing the player.
• Added random essence drop encounters being SAVED to your save file, if for example, you quit the game without reclaiming your essence/orbs. Your last death location ad the type of dropped essence will be loaded up the next time you play
• Fixed random encounter room arrays not producing the correct information (and breaking the death essence drop locations)
• Fixed the manner in which the game records the last "safe" location of the player (like when you die on spikes and have a ressurection token)
• Fixed dropped essence/orbs NOT spawning on the player's last "safe" location on room start if you enter the room you died in last. This keeps them from spawning on spots with hazards like spikes
• Fixed a certain weapon spawning ALL THE TIME in EVERY broken container
• Fixed weather FX drawing in the foreground when the character is underwater (looked stupid to have snow and rain falling all around the player while they are underwater!)
• Fixed some of the ocean and underwater parallax effects, especially to accomodate deeper underwater regions
• Fixed some unusual room choices and tidied up some object placement
• Kuchvek's crossing now has raisable platforms
• Rewrote some dialogue
• Added a 'burning' status effect to enemies and corpses
• Nerfed the 'stunned' state for most enemies. Enemies now have a default maximum stun time (weaker ones remain stunned for longer). This will also work with one of your sub stats dealing increased stun time to an enemy
• lessened the amount of essence needed to create an Orb to compensate for the new Essence drop mechanic

2017.09.13 - Updated to 7.0

NEW FEATURES

• Upward and downward attacking added across all appropriate player states
• Dynamic weather system with multiple weather types
• New weather and sky sprites and effects added to enhance day/night/seasonal systems
• New zodiac system added to show dominant constellations in the sky
• Moon phases

2017.05.06 - Updated to 6.1.1

BUG FIXES

• Raising a shield against Thug enemies in the tutorial section sent them rocketing into outer space
• Changing aspect ratios in video options caused game to crash on next startup
• Using the forge after obtaining smithing hammer crashed game
• Dropping broken equipment did not update the inventory slot as "not broken"
• Inventory did not update to "not equipped" when weapons broke from death
• Shields now take properly take durability damage and will break on death
• Water FX shader is not drawn on video options screen when turning on the effect - older machines (while possibly running anti-virus software) caused the game to crash when trying to draw water FX shader. IF THIS IS HAPPENING, go into Options > Video > turn Water FX to OFF

IMPROVEMENTS

• Dodge roll can now be executed by simply running forward and tapping the DODGE button (in addition to ducking and tapping DODGE button)
• Dodge roll speed is initially set higher
• You can now drop broken equipment
• You can now sell broken equipment (at a very low value)

2016.09.04 - Updated to 5.1.2

• Alt tabbing no longer causes certain screens to become unresponsive
• When application loses focus (alt+tabbing or clicking outside of game window), added click prompt to unfreeze game
• Fixed a bug that caused playtime to reset once you exit a procedural encounter on worldmap
• Fixed the game crashing if you navigate to the 'skills' or 'quest' menus
• Fixed mining prison elevator wait time
• Pickups are now drawn in front of everything to make them more visible
• Improved game scaling based on display size
• Tidied up a couple door, tile, object and enemy placements in mining prison
• Fixed save/load system and ironed out a ton of bugs (more probably remain)
• Deleted save files will clear their display data when deleting a save slot from the load game menu
• Game would crash when backing out of Sound menu if a "yes/no" prompt was up
• Smith hammer drops off of a certain boss

2016.08.28 - Updated to 5.1.0 - Save System!

• Added fully functioning Save, Load, and Delete save system
• Added 'Continue' and 'Load Game' options to main menu, as well as some visual clean up
• Shield doesn't get created when loading or continuing a game
• kell can't attack when colliding with anvil object
• Slavers no longer drop gold keys
• rewrote gamepad and keyboard input
• there was a problem on Windows 10 while using an Xbox 360 gamepad - button mapping was all messed up and most buttons would not register
• removed 'global.fortOpen' checks that were crashing the game
• fix burning village NPCs not showing up
• pickup forge hammer
• static values (like what sprite a weapon or armor should draw in the UI) get messed up on loading a game file
• rewrite save system to re-initialize static values
• create seperate data file to save load screen display data to so that we are not opening 3 massive save files
• display forge hammer in UI if found
• can only use forge if a forge hammer is owned
• Create "up" arrow effect when able to interact with anvil
• create 'no hammer' prompt when trying to use the anvil without hammer
• going back to burning village after escaping mining prison starts the beginning of the game all over again

2016.08.23 - 5.0.2 Fix

• Fixed a bug where you could not move "left" on the overworld without holding or pushing the jump button (weird!)
• Blacksmithing required reagents properly display again
• Increased Dogcatcher boss HP values

2016.08.22 - Updated to 5.0.1

• Fixed bug where previously opened doors retained their "shut" collision box
• Fixed overworld map placement when exiting the mining prison area
• Pickups dropped by containers, chests and corpses (when struck) speed decreased
• Added the ability to skip cutscenes initiated by pressing the 'B' button on a 360 pad, or the 'Q' key
• Fixed (quick and dirty) Argeshii archers getting stuck against walls, and facing the player when set to "static" behavior
• Removed debug items and functionality
• 'Escape' key no longer outright quits game -- this instead brings up the menu, from which you can exit the game there

2016.08.21 - Lots have changed in this update -- it's practically a whole new game! Give it a shot if you're curious about how development is going, but be warned: It is broken, unfinished, buggy and unbalanced!