Hello Vampires!
I want to show you what we have been working on since the last devlog.
First of all, we upgraded Vampire Clans to Unreal Engine 5, there is some work to finish, but it looks much better even now. We added Lumen Global Illumination, a lighting system that works like a ray tracing, but it works by software. It means, that you don't have to have an expensive graphic card to use it. Also, a Temporal Super-Resolution helps to play in high detail on not the newest PCs/laptops. TSR can upsample 1080p to 4k without noticeable changes in quality. So, now on the laptop with graphic card 1050 Ti and Intel i5 - 7300U, we reached a stable 30 FPS on high settings (120 on low) in Full HD with software ray tracing turned on (Lumen) - without TSR in this setup game runs at unstable 12 FPS.
Another thing we made is a quest system and questlines. Besides the main story, there will be a lot of side quests that will help e.g. with collecting unique alchemy ingredients to make powerful potions or with finding artifacts. There will be random quests in-game too, which will let you help people (or hinder) with achieving their goals. Why a vampire should help someone? Apart from additional rewards, those citizens will be loyal to your clan.
Equipment and stats - we made a statistics system. A lot of stats that can be upgraded on every level of vampire. Stats are highly connected with equipment, every item has bonuses to stats, and the amount of bonuses and their power depends on the rarity, type, and upgrade level of an item.
Also, we added a lot of new things that vampires can do in the world e.g. looting chests, and corpses, making potions, or even cutting a tree... but wait, that's not befitting a majestic vampire, so we made slaves system. Vampires now can kidnap people and close them to a prison, then they have to listen to orders from vampires (I mean, they won't always be, but vampires can just drink their blood and throw corpses into dogs' caves). To have good slaves, vampires, unfortunately, have to take care of them by giving them food or not letting their overwork. Mental health is also important, working with corpses for a long time is not good for people.
Tell us what you think about this update on our Discord channel. Feel free to share your ideas and suggestions.
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