Summary
Welcome to the big ol’ grand ✨ Performance Update ✨. We’ve improved loading, we’ve improved transitions, we’ve improved shaders, surfaces, FPS stability, memory usage – the list goes on! We’ve also added a few QoL changes, a little bit of polish and a bunch of various bug fixes. Plus a bunch of engine upgrades! See the change log for the full list of changes.
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Change Log
Improvements
- Drastically improved performance for loading maps, transitioning between screens, etc.
- Improved performance for shadows, interiors, tall grass, overworld objects and the minimap
- Improved performance for all entities that use surfaces and shaders
- Sped up most screen transitions
- Lengthened the DBattle transition
- Added a splash screen on startup
- Lower BGM when ambience is playing
- Added button hover effects
- Added party swap animation
- Made some improvements to SFX
- Added VFX when running over sand, dirt, water, etc.
- When gaining items, items that you can use in battle are auto assigned to the battle wheel if there is an empty space
- Party portraits are now always displayed in the inventory
Fixed
- Fixed many, many, many issues related to Gamemaker upgrades (70+)
- Fixed some flickering that may occur when starting cutscenes
- Fixed confusing minimap arrow in bandit camp
- Fixed crash when interacting with certain bandits in the bandit camp
- Fixed an area where you could get stuck and soft-lock in the bandit camp
- Fixed an area where you could get stuck near wiska forest
- Fixed some enemy attacks not occurring
- Fixed the countdown clock showing hours in battles
- Fixed DBattle music playing after a transition and not before
- Fixed party members who are not in party any more levelling up and gaining exp in debates
- Fixed Continue From Save breaking when in a battle triggered by a cutscene
- Fixed flashing battle bar at the start of TTBattles
- Fixed use item in inventory not applying when clicking on the characters face
- Fixed automatic inventory assignment causing duplicate entries
- Fixed white border on fighters in opening cutscene
- Fixed action events not visible after valid cutscene without map reload
- Fixed post cutscene events may run out of order when loading a map
- Fixed shaders breaking when entering into the menu from inside of a house
- Fixed an infinite popup that may occur when interacting with a locked door
- Fixed input may be checked when the window is unfocused
- Fixed double shader effect inside buildings
- Fixed laggy skill up button
- Fixed being able to click on buttons during a screen transition
- Fixed infinite dialog box popup
- Fixed minimap crashes
- Fixed interior crashes
- Fixed title screen buttons disappearing when pressing back at the start of the game
Other
- Upgraded Gamemaker to v2023.11.1.160 Runtime
- Upgraded Steamworks SDK
- Upgraded DLLs to work with x64 configurations
- Reimplemented all Debates to use Chatterbox
- Changed input handling to use Input
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Other announcements
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