Hello everyone! It’s that time again: release time! Today, I present version 0.4.3 for your testing and assessment. I wanted to have it put last weekend, but I made the build and during preliminary testing I discovered a couple issues that I wanted to correct before publishing.
New things to look out for:
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New mini dungeon: Refuge of the Condemned.
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Optimizations in the crafting ingredient harvesting and saving systems.
You shouldn’t notice any functional differences in the harvesting and creating, by design, but behind the scenes it’s a bit easier for me to maintain and add new ingredients and recipes for. The saving system is a bit of a different story. Functionally it’s working perfectly as intended, but it’s slower than I want it to be. But let’s make a deal: if you forgive it for now, I’ll make sure it’s a system that I continue to revisit and optimize. Okay?
Refuge of the Condemned is a new mini dungeon available right now. You can find a pre-unlocked fast travel point that you can warp directly to from the starting position. The structure, lighting, and details for the dungeon are set, but the sky atmosphere lighting does make it look a bit weird. I’ve added that as an issue to address soon.
I’m noticing as I play and test new builds that the world feels… well, empty. And I guess that’s because it is, isn’t it? I’m going to start focusing on rebuilding the AI for enemies and get some of them back in the game and start repopulating the areas. I also have a plan for how to further flesh out the world throughout development, but more on that as details are finalized on my end.
Once the upload of the new build is finished, I’ll put up some download links here and in Discord. You can always find updates on the Discord server or at 6fpsNetwork.com, but news and updates related to Cursed Crown will always be found here as well. Unfortunately, I can at least guarantee that there won’t be any more CC dev this weekend as one of my open sourced projects has a couple new issues that popped up recently and they need addressing, and, holiday weekend or not, I have to do some work for my nine-to-five as well. In the meantime, though, be sure to download the new build and take a look. Leave any feedback you can come up with here or on Discord. And most importantly, have yourself a great weekend, whether you have a holiday or not wherever you are. Keep on gaming, everyone!