Update 7 is here and the high and mighty of Simla await you at their cherished Amateur Dramatic Society! They always need stagehands and sometimes more. Since we completed our scoring system last update, it was time to add leaderboards, which you can now view in game. There’s a separate set for scores recorded with Permadeath on! To encourage players to use different items, we’ve added a new set of ‘bargain’ events, which spawn a character, who is selling an item at half price. If you don’t have enough money, they will be waiting for you when you come back, just don’t make any rash decisions in pursuit of a few extra rupees! We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas in the forums or on Twitter or Facebook:
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Changelist
v0.6.0 -> v0.7.0
New Stuff
- Leaderboards screen added, all leaderboards are displayed along with your own entry via button in Scores screen
- New leaderboards for Wealth (with and without Permadeath)
- Gaiety Theatre institution added in Simla (your chance to tread the boards!)
- 7 new ‘bargain’ events added in which an NPC offers you an item at half price (countryside-only)
- Map icon hover effect added, all icons of the same type enlarge and others shrink
Changes
- When Kim is in a level, time passes at half the previous speed
- All characters now take a moment to prepare their weapon before attacking to improve combat pacing
- View cone system updated to create smoother movements
- Train system updated to make them more realistic
- All town colliders updated to reduce pathfinding issues
- New route to Buddhist temple added in Benares
- Weather probabilities updated to make it sunnier
- Rebalanced genders, professions and religions for more variety
- Text panels now always start scrolled to the top
- Turning on stealth or combat mode will close open UI panels
- More lights added to buildings at night
- Chefs no longer sleep in their restaurant
- A few updated assets including the map, lockpicking animation, rain particles and the cut for Kim's face
- Various UI tweaks for neatness and clarity
Bug Fixes
- Blocker in the long version of the tutorial fixed
- Turning on stealth mode will never cause Kim to become unresponsive
- The Kulu Sahiba’s son’s carriage won’t make Kim stop moving
- Windowed mode now possible in more resolutions
- Scores and leaderboard entries will always save correctly
- Speech bubble appearing too soon fixed
- No longer possible to have cheroots case convo with Creighton right away
- UI issues in 16:10 resolutions fixed
- Issue after reopening trait panels fixed
- Small map info panel fixed
- Kim takes a better route when exiting from NE milestone in Umballa
- Issue where you cannot select Lurgan Sahib fixed
- Skipping time now always turns off stealth and combat mode
- Neck-less British women fixed