Hi everyone, it's Haste update time again!
It's been a little while since the last one, but a lot of stuff has been going on.
The headline feature for this update is a little bit of an experiment: you can now reorder the items in your inventory! Yes, that means that getting more than five Active Items no longer leaves some unusable! Why do I call it an experiment? Well, we want to check whether it makes people constantly pause their game to cycle through usable items, which might sometimes be optimal but not very fun. Let us know on the Discord or the Steam Forums how it affects your play!
We have also added some more VFX to the inventory, to indicate when items are ready and activated! The team has kept it subtle, but we've also added a setting to disable it if you're more used to the old look. Personally I feel a much stronger connection now between the items I have and what happens in the game!
Next on my list is- oh my! There's a whole new mini storyline for the Wraith, which has been integrated into the campaign of the game! (Don't worry, you'll be able to experience it even if you've already played through the whole story.) That's really exciting, I've been wanting to know more about it. I wonder if this new story also involves her, since-
Hey, what's this?!? There's a whole chunk of new lore dialogue featuring ME??? Those are private conversations, you can't just put them in the game like that!
Not that I'm saying no to a little extra screen time, but... Huh? Hmm...
Okay, so it turns out that they in fact *can* just put them in the game like that. Well, I hope you all enjoy it!
Finally, I also need to share how impressed the team has been with the Haste modders, who have really been on a winning streak lately! Special shoutout to Aetha's Model Swap, which has enabled a bunch of high-quality mods offering new skins for Zoe. Have a look on the Steam workshop if you feel like refreshing your game a little (or a lot)!
And who knows what kind of skins might be added in mods in the future. One day, perhaps even I might be the star of Haste!
Patch Notes:
Features:
- Items in your Inventory can now be reorganised while you run!
Story:
- Added a new side story for the Wraith
- Added new lore dialogue for Riza and the Abbey
Visuals:
- Item Icons in the inventory now have more visual feedback (including a new setting to disable this)
- Improvements to the Hourglass Arm VFX
- Added a setting to disable the Hourglass Arm VFX
- Clamped the max FoV gained when repeatedly adding Speed from items
UI:
- Improved the layout of the Shard Result screen
- Fixed the Interaction UI (the dialogue window) so boxes behave the same at different aspect ratios
- Fixed the Interaction UI so boxes no longer get so big they go off screen with a high UI scale setting
Accessibility:
- Added a setting to disable low contrast biome variants (Do let us know if thre's any biome variants still causing trouble with this!)
Modding
- Updated MonoMod to a version that supports ARM (Yes, that includes your machine (you know who you are))
- Updated Unity version (yes, we know) to 6000.0.62f1
Fixes:
- Fixed the formatting of the credits (finally!)
- You can no longer accidentally trigger items or abilities from the Item Inventory pause screen
- Added missing localization to the Hungry Weeboh's dialogue for languages other than English
Community Art
For this update's community art section, we have to start off with this amazing crossover piece from ish:
We also missed posting this collage back when it was originally made, but we have to include it considering it features the best rendition I've seen of my favourite drink, the dalilatte! By Elliot
And ish is getting a double feature, as the new dialogue in this update means we couldn't possibly skip any Mother Superior art:
We can't have an update without Zoe, and we're always fans of hand drawn stuff around here - By Atris83:
And finally, the grand conclusion to Idiot With a MacBook's quest to turn the entire Haste cast into... fruits, roots and vegetables???
