Our second update is live! Combat encounters are the biggest addition but there are a host of smaller changes to polish the game and fix bugs. We’ve been taking inspiration from your feedback, in particular one suggestion that the game needed more opportunities to acquire and use weapons. Combat encounters provide both but if you don’t want to participate in such earthly shenanigans, you won’t have to and what’s more, the lama will approve! We’ve designed the encounters to echo Kipling's accounts of the trials and tribulations of his countrymen so if you do want to get caught up in this sort of thing, remember that while the towns and the heartland of British India are relatively orderly, the hinterlands are less so!
Changelist
v0.1.5 -> v0.2.0
New Stuff
- Combat encounters added
- Kim has a spinning Buddhist wheel icon after he has been still for a few seconds
- New shader, we switched from a cutout shader to a more standard fade shader to improve handling of alpha cutoff, which required updates to the cloud and shadow systems
- New Merit graph on Scores screen
Changes
- Clearer objective information in Kim's notebook
- Travel line on the map fades to show recent journeys
- Train stations have sensible exit points
- More bandits in remote regions
- No more Merit penalties for violence in self-defence
- More NPCs have the star icon
- Serais and Campsites have more entry points
- Kim's sprite does not grow as big
- Slightly more food in abandoned campfires
- Lama follows Kim less closely
- Many conversations updated
- Various UI panels polished
Bug Fixes
- Can no longer get stuck after missing the train
- Issues with train stations with 4 destinations fixed
- Stats correctly modified after collapsing and waking up elsewhere
- NPCs do the correct amount of damage with fists
- Keyboard commands not appearing in Info fixed
- Stealth correctly modifies NPC alert time when lock picking
- Melee attack particle effect fixed
- Now possible to delete final score
- Incorrect HUD buttons flashing fixed
- Horses in country stables get dark at night
- No more national warrants issued outside British India
- Sounds never audible on title screen
- Combat icons sort above NPCs and plants
- Combat and stealth modes turned off when time skips forward
- Partial reloading no longer saved
- Lama icon no longer under objective icon on map
- Topless British farmer now has a shirt