It's been a hectic week for me. I don't about all of you, but I'm looking forward to the upcoming Spring Recess for some extra free time!

This week, I got down to drafting the scenario for the "Countess in Crimson" quest. I've sketched out a map of the layout while adding in notes of aspects I want to add to this short dungeon. I also finished making some of the new sprites for the characters in this quest and importing all of their character portraits into the game. With that step out of the way, I can begin map building and event scripting!

The loyal maid, Lauren Lindholm's character portrait and expressions are all done. I also finished the colors and shading for another character, Captain "Redbeard" Gloria:

I haven't finalized all her expressions yet, as I'm waiting until I'm done writing the script for her scenes, but I cleaned up her look a lot from the initial sketch and I'm quite satisfied with how she turned out.
I want to use the some of the time I have working on this update to clean up some other things in the vampire route. Stuff like adding in additional character portraits and adjusting some maps come to mind. Are there any small aspects of the vampire route that are nagging you? Let me know and maybe I can address them in time for this update.

That's all I have for you this week. Until next time, everyone!

Hi all,

We're pumped to let you know that KBM support for Ultra Mega Planet Battles is in the works.

Player 1 can either play with the KBM or a supported controller, whilst players 2-4 can play with supported controllers.

A new version of the playable demo that includes KBM support will be available in the next few weeks.

Thanks for all your support, and take care.

Tim and Carlos.

Updates to the game include:

• There appears to be a lot of difficulty particularly with the 'Bottom of the Well' flag - have nerfed the crushers at the end to make it easier.
  
• Have updated the challenges in the mini-factory to make it easier.
  
• Fixed a couple of bugs relating to sound, music and tutorial videos.

Thanks!

Quick fix after I noticed a small bug cropping up.

- Fixes a bug that creates a loop in Ending 1/5

- Added the ability to cook the F1 grenade by holding RMB. Just be quick with selecting the trajectory, but if you run out of time, simply keep RMB held and switch to another weapon, and it won't explode in your hand. Other grenades cannot be cooked due to their already short fuse time.

- Fixed a bug with Panned/Fixed mode where toggle dosimeter doesn't work.

- Fixed a few raven perch spots so when they get killed their they will fall to a place reachable by player

- Updated the grenade explosion effect

A few updates we weren't able to include in the previous updates.

• Fixed a bug where the Sol and VH House Drama could fail to return control if triggered in certain regions.
  
• Vess now triggers the correct conversations if you complete her Quests but converse with her in different orders. This allows for easier access to her Bottle quest.
  
• Added additional safeguards to ensure control is returned to the player after all House Dramas.

Quick Fix. Sorry about all the quick little fixes.

Fixed

*UI updating on boss
*Boss now attacks properly

Added
*Added Boss name to UI.

Online

Intermittent freezing improvements

• We've made significant improvements to how the game remedies dropped packets by increasing the amount of historical frame data within each packet. Previously, a major cause of freezes online was one of the game clients not having enough input data from other peers to progress the gameplay. This was not as much of an issue for players with extremely stable connections, but for players that may drop up to two or more packets in a row at times, a freeze could occur frequently. Now we bundle enough historical input data in each packet to allow up to the full rollback window range, which gives the maximum amount of time possible to backfill any missing data.
  
• A bug was fixed that caused false-positive desyncs to occur frequently, specifically after resuming from a freeze up. This should greatly reduce the likelihood of seeing an inaccurate desync notification.

General

Optimization

• Assist cut-in graphics are now cached before a match starts to optimize spawn timing.
  
• Improved tracking on graphical memory allocation for damage counters to ensure a more reliable cleanup after being destroyed.

Menus

Controls

• Fixed bug that prevented the right trigger deadzone setting on controllers from being saved by the profile.

Playable Characters

CommanderVideo

• Rainbow trail
  - No longer removed by non-flinching attacks (e.g. Welltaro’s double jump projectile).

Octodad

• General
  - Hurtboxes tightened on up strong, down strong, crash attack, assist call, assist call air and portions of up special.
  
• Hurt Heavy
  - Updated with completed pixel art.
  
• Crash Attack
  - Sketch updated.
  - Voice sound added.
  - Dust effects added.

Stages

The Spire

• Pillar graphic slightly adjusted.

Custom Content

• Character content ids and sprite entity ids no longer need to match in order to render damage counters correctly (previously the icon and name would not render).
  
• Fixed bug where matching music content ids from different namespaces could result in the incorrect track being loaded on a stage.

Fraymakers Api Types Plugin v0.1.5

• New PlaySoundArgs: autoPrefixByResource, autoPrefixResource
  
• New GameObject methods: attemptHit(), getCostumeShader()
  
• New Match method: freezeFrame()
  
• New GlobalSfx constant: MENU_CLICK
  
• Removed unused ProjectileStats field: inheritPalette (can still apply palette shaders through code)
  
• Removed unused DisplayObject field: mask (use MaskFilter instead)
  
• New Shader class fields: shared, priority
  
• New Shader class method: setPriority()
  
• New EntityEvent constant: DISPOSE

Updates will be coming time after time. But we are back up and running. For Avalon!

Ahoy, mateys! Long time no see!



We are inching ever closer to the game's full release. Version 1.6.3 adds 2 new maps: the Octogon (new bossfight), and the Crimson Trench (new ship battle level).

Here are the other changes:
Monsters get stronger at a faster rate above level 35, 45, 55, 65, 75
Added stun resistance stat to enemies - most giants and Corsair Strongmen have 50% chance and duration reduction. For bosses it's 66%
Added Hermit crab enemy type

Added Whirlpool spell. Most useful as crowd control.

The repeater got a new, more historically accurate look

New secret boss fight in Crumbling Cellars

Added Captured Specimen pickup type - always gives a pet type. You can get it from the Arena, or from certain bosses.

Added Seagull minion type
Revamped ship GUI. Added lifebar. Ship wheel now glows green while ship is being healed

Rogue/Infiltrator/Heavy Cavalier now has cape instead of backpack
Company Elite / Weapon Smuggler model tweaked
Imps and Demons now have thematic decorations on their backs

Renamed Sandal item to Shoe
Otherwordly Servant projectiles no longer pierce by default, but a new Perk has been added to enable it

King Crab's base life increased from 900 to 1000
Frenzy costs double powder amount on Tridents
Revamped Pit of Souls encounter after Kraul's death + added exit circle to the zone
Survivor's Hideout fiddle interaction is now started by a use event
Expanded the southern edge of the Forgotten Shrine by a bit (mostly visual change)
Moderate visual changes to the Mudskipper Grove zone

Minor visual changes to a lot of maps
Lava is now rising slightly slower on the Shattered Peak
Added particle effect around ships moving in lava + new texture for lava splashes
Added limit do damage number scale, and now it also scales with monster level
Integrated dodge mechanic into tutorial
Changed title of Ungodly Beast hint journal page
Minor touchups to some doodad models
Fixed: violin was not healing ships
Fixed: buildings can no longer be stunned
Fixed: Did some terrain cleanup of the randomized cave tileset
Fixed: Squid Tentacle no longer interrupts attack when out of range
Fixed: stationary units can no longer board ships
Fixed: Squid Tentacle attacks had no effect sometimes because the projectiles spawned underground
Fixed: Destructible Rocks had wrong death sound effect

Editor:
Unit type lists in the editor are now sorted alphabetically
Added various new trigger conditions and actions
Added a couple of new doodads

That's about it for today. As always, a lot of changes may cause a lot of bugs. If you have any issues or suggestions, reach out on the forums, or even better, on our Discord server!

Smooth sailing!
Borington