The Last Plague: Blight · published · build 21962499
The NPC update has finally arrived! In your travels you may run into small camps of other survivors that may be friendly or hostile. Also to better facilitate these new characters you meet, a whole bunch of character customization options have been finally added to the game!
Please note that this update (along with all others in the Early Access period) should be fully backwards-compatible with previous save games. Although starting a new game is probably the best way to experience the bigger updates.
Survivor camps can be friendly or hostile. Friendly camps allow you to speak to them, help them with simple requests, ask them about nearby points of interest and trade with them for potentially useful items.
Their behavior is fairly basic right now, they will make sure their fire is going, hunt any nearby creatures, and make sure they have water to drink. Much more advanced functionality and story integration will be something that arrives in the 1.0 release.
Also note that the current NPC AI system is not fully fleshed out and they may end up behaving oddly in certain situations, this is something that I will be continually improving over the next few weeks.
As mentioned before, trading and a new economy system is an important feature in this update. Three coin denominations have been added to the game: florins, groats and pennies. Florins are 100 groats, and a groat is 20 pennies. These coins are mainly used for trading, but bartering with items only is also possible. NPCs will tend to value their items more than yours however.
As with the NPCs, this economy system is vast and required a lot of calculations and tweaking. Things will be dialed in over time to make more sense.
A bunch of new character customization options like skin tone, eye color, hair and color, and face shape have been added. It's not a very complex system but I will keep adding more functionality and customization options in the future. Thanks for your patience!
One thing to note: this new customization is only for new games, loading previous games will not allow re-customization, sorry!
Fixed chromatic aberration setting not loading properly when the game starts
Fixed mouse wheel sensitivity consistency across all framerates and OSes
Fixed missing localization for no injuries text
Fixed parts of the character disappearing during certain animations and camera angles