just some improvement to the ui and game start up

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This issue weezled into our code while adding the anti get stuck while vaulting, my apologies for not even considering that it would effect the dialog system. As most of my gaming has been deep in the thick of the jungles where there is little dialog, this oversight has been around quite awhile, So my apologies.

We restored back to the original save system which hopefully should work in all locations now and increased the spawns in the outer zones and islands.

In a recent playthrough, it just seamed like the faster movement system made combat just way to easy in the later stages of the game and perhaps a bit boring so we stepped things up a bit with a reduced damage on higher tier weapons and the stunning blows.

Hope You Guys Enjoy!!
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I discovered an issue within the save game update so I have had to roll back the game version until I can work a fix.

just testing a few fixes

I wanted to address a complaint New Players were having with saving their game progress, which in the past was done by "Getting a room" at the Tavern or Building a Completed House and sleeping there. In either case the Save was intentional and In a large world with remote islands where construction are possible anywhere it can be easy to get stuck in a really bad situation, or perhaps by accident ruin your characters reputation and suddenly not want a save game.

But recent reviews from new players have me a bit on the fence, so for this I thought I would try a new save game approach which will move the starting point from the Docks"starting area" to Town or to any house currently under construction or built.

Hopefully this will give newer players an easier launch getting into the wild, but also does open the risk of perhaps getting stuck in the wilds.

So for this I say, be careful and use those save game slot :P

As always, your feedback is welcome!

We had several patches this week, so I wanted to give a quick summary here.

First, I have removed the speech from the npcs as my voice acting quality was very poor and it wasnt really worth slowing up the dialog system which is now very quick to skip right over those long winded storylines.

We have managed to get all the old Combat Skills into the new directional swing system while maintaining the freedom of movement on all skills with the exception of the spin attacks that still leave the player in place while attacking. We will continue testing as it has somewhat lowered the difficulty of combat slightly, but the change does seem to be much more fast placed, removing the clunky stop and go actions from the old combat system.

We have changed the vaulting and climbing skill so now it should only attempt a climb while Holding "Run" and Pressing Forward. As the run key was pulling double duty with the camera zoom, it made camera navigation difficult up close around the npcs.

We have also added a tool tip popup to many of the non tool based skills that I think alot of players might have been missing - Opening Hatches, Harvesting Plants, Disabling Traps, Reloading and Firing Cannons. Im sure Ive missed many more, but with it in place it should be easy to add in the rest as we rediscover them.

And Finally. A Level of Detail System! How we made it this far without one is beyond me, anyways, you should now see a more properly reduced resolution as objects move away from the player. The reduction does appear to really give a nice boost to performance.

As always, If ya find anything wrong or any ideas on how to make things better, hit me up, I love hearing from ya all.

Hope you all enjoy the update, stay safe and good hunting!!

Some minor tweaks to Spin Combat Moves and Skill Que. Woohoooo!

We added back some of the lost combat moves and cleaned up the dialog system which seemed a bit slow working. Hope you all Enjoy!

The new combat system is up and running and though the animation work still needs some improvements, the character movement while in combat seems much improved. We have really cleaned up our mess of combat attacks into a more simple and streamlined approach all based on directional movement while attacking or defending. Give it a try and let us know how it feels.

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