Brood Watcher's long anticipated "Brooding" ability has arrived! Brood Watchers (male and female!) are now able to assist other Dragons with the incubation and even enhancement of their eggs!
Brood Watcher now has the ability to pick up laid eggs and incubate them in its pouch regardless of temperature requirements or species. Brood Watchers will have the ability to see the stats of eggs before they are fully incubated, as well as identifying if they have a mutation or not (though the mutation will not be specified). Once an egg is ready, the Brood Watcher caretaker will have the option to choose which player to invite to the egg and, (if Dom in Nesting), can even select the gender that the player will spawn as!
The primary purpose of Brooding is to compliment nesting by allowing Brood Watcher to attempt to enhance the stats of an egg utilizing an adaptive RNG system. Crits & Super Crits can occur and raise the stats of an egg, but the chance for this to occur lessens the more the Brood Watcher attempts to increase a stat. Failures or Critical Failures become more common instead (and these will lower the eggs stats!) Having more points in nesting can assist in prolonging Brood Watcher's enhancement success rate.
Added Brood Watcher Pouch Persistence, which means eggs will remain in the pouch even if a Brood Watcher player disconnects or logs off.
Nesters must "flag" an egg for Brood Watchers to have the ability to pick them up. Nesters must also be grouped with the Brood Watcher before they may store the eggs. Only one egg may be flagged per nest at one time.
Added the ability to locally save discarded brooded eggs, which can then be transferred to a private server for use (should the server owner allow it). All eggs expire after 48 hours local time. Instructions for how this will work will be posted at a later date in the support docs in our Official Discord.
Slightly increased Brood Watcher base stamina
Slightly increased Brood Watcher mitigations
Added Brood Watcher "Broken" rare spawn skin
Added Brood Watcher "Bone Breaker" rare spawn skin
Added Inferno Ravager "Tigerclaw" rare spawn skin
Added Inferno Ravager "Burning Ash" uncommon spawn skin
Added Inferno Ravager "Hot Iron" skin to the Inferno Ravager Emote Pack DLC. This skin is automatically available as a spawn option for all owners of the DLC, and can be obtained by all players via nesting.
Menu Setting Sliders are now more responsive to your mouse movement.
Further improvements have been made to flight takeoff so that braking can be done immediately after takeoff, but not while taking off (which causes stalls)
More optimizations have been made to improve performance on all GPU's.
Fixed some performance issues users on old hardware were experiencing after the last hotfix patch.
Server Announcements are now logged under [EventServerAnnouncement]
Server Log now tells you how many players are remaining when someone logs out. (This is helpful if watching the console to know when a server is empty)
Fixed an issue where after closing the game with EasyAntiCheat, the game process would hang for 20-30 seconds before terminating.
Fixed a texture issue causing a spot on the back of female Flame Stalkers.
Fixed the collision on Brood Watcher nests.
Fixed an issue where wetness could be permanently applied.
Fixed a dragon pearl duping exploit.
Fixed an issue where flight became difficult to trigger when 20 or more players were within 500m.
Fixed an issue which made Piebald look speckled on some darker skins
Added a new Steam Deck optimization setting under "Display" that lets the user choose between handheld or external display.
Tweaked the color of Brood Watcher's "Firstborne" skin to allow it to be color shifted.
All Brood Watcher Legendary skins now have an emissive on the horns and spikes.
Offline social status now prevents you from showing up on your group member's map if not in the same clan.
Males now get a generic notification when using courtship calls.
Added an Admin Private Whisper function to the Admin Panel or via chat with @[SteamID] [Message]. This allows Admins to direct message players. Players can respond with @a or @admin [Message]. All whispers can be seen by all Admins.
Added a new server config bDisableEggSaves so server owners can prevent local egg saving. Players can see this setting in the server browser.
The Beawesome Games Team