Content upgrade & fixes | Major v0.1.94

Swords & Crystals - Dragon Hatchling Pet · published

A huge new update has arrived, bringing tons of new content, systems, balance changes, and fixes to greatly expand and improve the overall game experience.

🌋NEW

  • A real volcano is now visible on Dark Volcano Island
  • Live Top 10 highest-level players can now be seen in the Rank Panel
  • Daily Quests and Group Quests have been added
  • Several new interactable objects have been added to the world, including crackable eggs, breakable nuts, and openable shells
  • The number of unique items has been increased from 93 to 200+
  • The number of unique quests has been increased from 25 to 101
  • Seasonal events have been added for Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Christmas
  • The Alchemy skill has been added, allowing players to brew their own potions with 10 unique recipes
  • The Smithing skill has been added, allowing players to forge their own gear with 25 unique recipes
  • Mining ores can now be forged into bars at Forge Ovens
  • Several new achievements have been added

⚖️CHANGES

  • Removed all pay-to-win in-game currency DLCs and replaced them with new cosmetic DLCs
  • Balanced all combat values, including gear, enemies, HP, damage, armor, food, and enemy abilities
  • Reworked several uninteresting achievements into more meaningful ones
  • Balanced XP gain across all 10 skills for a more consistent leveling rate
  • Alchemy, Mining, and Fishing skills are now required to gather certain herbs, ores, and fish
  • The entire economy has been rebalanced, with every item value and cost adjusted
  • Sell value for all items has been reduced from 50% to 10% of the purchase price
  • Leveling is now approximately 7x slower, providing longer progression per zone, more challenge, more quests, and a much longer overall gameplay experience

🛠️FIXES

  • Fixed all desync-related bugs, including rollbacks and lost items or progress
  • Fixed achievements that were not properly triggering
  • Reduced unnecessary transmitted buffers
  • Slight performance optimizations

🚧 CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT

  • A first basic player-to-player item trading system
  • A more PC-friendly GUI using buttons instead of a scroll-based layout, while still maintaining a great experience on Steam Deck and with controllers