Hello Heroes of Bemesiah!

This July will be the 2nd anniversary for GrandChase Classic! We would like to thank all players for the continued support of the game. We will work hard to create a wonderful experience for all players. As a special thanks to all players for their continued support over the past two years, there will be two special events for the community to participate in.


The first event we would like to hold is the 2nd Anniversary PVP Tournament. Similar to the recently held PVP showcase, the tournament provides an opportunity to all players around the globe to participate and compete.

Game Mode: 3v3 Versus.
■ Deathmatch will not be used for the tournament. This will be strictly 3v3 Versus.

Tournament Dates:
■ Asia: July 29, 2023 (Sat) 10:00 KST
■ North America: July 29, 2023 (Sat) 10:00 PDT / 1:00pm EDT
■ South America: August 5, 2023 (Sat) 13:00 BRT
■ EU: AUGUST 4th, 2023 (Fri) 6PM GMT+1

All details can be found here: https://koggames.com/grandchase-classic/pvp-registration/


The second event is an Art Contest. We ask anyone and everyone to devise the best anniversary design. 5 winners will be picked and will receive a prize of 20k VP.

■ Submission End Date: July 28, 2023 (Fri)
■ Winners Announced: July 31, 2023 (Mon)

Submissions are open now at: {LINK REMOVED}https://tinyurl.com/gcc2ndart

For more information on submission details, please visit the #contest channel in the official Discord: http://Discord.gg/GrandChaseClassic.


We hope that everyone will participate and produce creative artwork for everyone to enjoy!

This update took much longer than intended due to a job I had to take for three weeks putting up fencing. I had intended for 0.9 to be finished by now, but instead I'm releasing this update with most of the performance updates and a few of the balance and visual tweaks that were scheduled for that update. I mostly want to put this out there in case it helps anyone who was having performance issues and also to see if it breaks anything for anyone.

Here is a list of changes:

• Updated visuals for Boss explosions
  
• Added background ships to several levels and updated level lighting
  
• Added a ship wireframe to the fitting menu
  
• Added a progress map to the end game screen
  
• Added player collision to Bosses
  
• Performance Improvements

0.9 Shouldn't be too much longer, so stay tuned, and until then I hope people enjoy this update!

The Fire Cliffs are a dangerous place where few dare to travel. If you are brave enough to find a way on top of them, you may be rewarded with rare resources. But be wary as strong enemies and steep cliff edges are always nearby. A wrong step and you could find your self floating in the ocean far below. The Fire Cliffs are named for their gas vents which spontaneously combust. Get too close and you may not know what happened.



Some of the big ticket items to look for while you play:

• Fire Cliffs biome
  In the distance you can see pillars of island with exploding gas vents on top... I wonder if its safe to visit and how you can get on top.
  
• Green Sea Crystal
  Green Sea Crystals attract water and hold it close to them.
  
• Titan repelling contraption
  If Green Sea Crystals are harnessed correctly, they can be used to ward off Titans from an island.
  
• Green Crystal skeletons
  Things in this world often dont stay dead for long. I heard that Rock Golems are just fish which have been infected with Sea Crystals and encrusted in stone. Are these Crystal Skeletons the bones of dead sailors?
  
• Large Spiders
  Be careful you dont get stuck in their web.
  
• Spider silk
  Useful for quality clothing and fast sails.
  
• Silk hat
  Its better than a leaf hat!
  
• Pig poop explosive gas
  If you throw pig poop, it will explode into a gas cloud on impact. Catch that gas cloud on fire and say goodby to everything nearby.
  
• Fire arrow
  ... Because you need a way to light the explosive gas from a distance. Torches are a little too up close and personal. They also catch anything they hit on fire for additional fire damage.
  
• Petrified wood
• Tile floor variants (red, grey, black)
• Improved world map logic and icons
• Hungarian and Polish language support added
• Updates, Quality of life improvements, bug fixes, and optimizations
  Player re-spawn logic improvements to place them in better locations. Ferry logic improvements. New characters in the Village. Mission flow improvements. New mermaid boat prow on the highest level boat. Reduced resources needed for some contraptions. The new Female NPC visual variant has been setup in more places.

v0.8.03
-Changed Fire Arrow to have a timer for how long it will burn after hitting a target.
-Improved Ferry descend logic to be smoother and correctly start navigation instead of circling first.
-Update to Ferry logic when traveling to a boat so that it exits the player on the boat instead of next to the ferry. This lets players be placed next to Glider Boats on top of Fire Cliffs if they need a way back to their boat but fell off.
-Update to player re-spawn logic to place the player next to Builders Bench or Boats before looking for a random open location.
-Setup wings icon for Glider Boats in the Ferry Shop menu for traveling and recovery.
-Fixed a regression where dropped items from trees and similar objects could fail their under-ground check.
-Update to Black Tile Floor to not take damage from Titan Beams like Black Stone Walls

v0.8.02
-Added Tile Floor Red and Tile Floor Black.
-Setup Pig Poop to turn into a gas cloud when thrown, which can then explode if it catches on fire.
-Setup Fire Arrow item so it can now be built.
-Improve Ferry bubbles.
-Updated Recycle bench to not give the extra resource back from arrows.
-Improved Camera Blending logic to "tighten" it more when blending is turned down.

v0.8.01
-Fixed a online issue where objects would be incorrectly turned off when players are on different islands.
-Improved networked physics objects movement smoothness and accuracy on client machines.

v0.8.00
-Fire Cliffs biome has been enabled in the world with new resources and enemies.
-New Green Crystals.
-New Crystal Skeleton enemies.
-New Spider Enemies.
-New Petrified Trees.
-New Titan Repellent contraption.
-Grey Tile Floor contraption
-Turned on Scout NPC at Village.
-Setup discoverable Titan Repellent contraptions at Pirate Base islands.
-Unlocked Spider Silk Hat.
-Improved Titan rendering performance
-New Titan Death sfx.
-Wrote a patch system to catch when a "required" island is missing from the world on a older save file and to add it in.
-Improved distant ocean render around islands.
-Fixed an audio issue on the glider boat which caused the wind sfx to play when it wasn't moving.
-Update to Hunter Roshi-mission to complete after you complete the Roshi fish mission.
-Setup Volumetric Fog toggle option in the Settings menu.
-Update to spider silk dropped visual.
-Update to Docks so that they will correctly drop contraptions and their contents when destroyed.
-Update to dropped contraptions so that they float in water.
-Changed Titan attack logic so it will respect island proximity for the player even if they are on a boat and not only on-foot.
-Increased floating dock health.
-Fixed an issue where animals aligning to the ground could "drift" their rotation and end up walking at unexpected rotations over time.
-Improved death animation logic across network so client machines sees what the host machine sees.
-Update to Titan Stone Hammer to require Petrified Log.
-Fixed an issue where a terrain mesh could stop rendering near the edge of the camera.

v0.7.92
-Big Game Engine version update which updates the navigation, physics, graphics.
-Changed Wild Nested Chickens so they respect the Passive game mode setting and don't attack players.
-Changed Friendly Chicken Nests to not spawn with a egg.
-Adjustments to golem spawning to make it a bit "softer" if the game is in Passive difficulty mode.
-Setup new visual geo variants for npc in village.
-Setup Mermaid Prow on third tier boat
-Fixed a icon bug where contraption icons wouldn't go away when the object was returned to the pool.
-Visual updates to the world map.
-Changed World Map icons so they always show up for islands even after the island has been discovered.
-Update to Hunter Mission text to better tell the player how to find the Roshi island.
-Fixed Ballista not staying on floating docks correctly after a save/load.
-Fixed an issue where revived boats would not float correctly after being destroyed and the game saved/loaded then the boat revived.
-Update to Player death minimap icon logic so it doesn't show up in other zones.
-Reduced the amount of Seagrass needed for walls, floors, roofs, etc.
-Localization updates.
-Fixed an online object pooling issue where resources would not drop correctly in some situations.
-Setup code to handle an issue where the player could become non-kinematic and "fall" out of the ferry.
-Fixed an issue where in online games, a cannon could be destroyed while a player was controlling it, but the player and cannon wouldn't always be reset correctly.

v0.7.91
-Setup a HUD call to action for finding and talking to the first island archaeologist.
-Randomized NPC clothing colors and added some new equipment to some of the npc.
-Update to online save logic so that it saves client player positions if they leave the lobby before the host has saved the world.
-Fixed a bug where a cannon shot could knock the player out of the ferry while traveling and leave them underwater until the ferry reached the destination.
-Village layout updates


v0.7.90
-Online and system fixes based on user reports.
-Adjusted Max Titan Count reduction logic to accommodate situations with many over the max count and to reduce faster.
-Improved bones in npc hands so the animations look better.

v0.7.89
-IK foot down logic while on boats and slight leaning from characters while the boat tilts
-Custom animation while mounted on a boat rudder
-various system bug fixes

v0.7.88
-Improved online game world pregen speed.
-Fixed a bug where the world may not react to the player correctly in a single player game after playing online.
-Improved world island load perf and smoothness when traveling to another island.
-Added button prompt for how to pickup a single item stack in inventory menus.
-Fixed NPC jitter from a recent code improvement.
-Setup Object PrePooling tech.
-Update to Turtle Titan logic to resolve an issue preventing them from waking up.
-Multiple system optimizations

v0.7.87
-Improved character movement in online to reduce some rubber banding.
-Optimized networking data to reduce overhead and smooth out networking.
-Update to thrown yellow crystals so they expire in online like in single player.
-Improved localization logic and setup.
-Fixed a minor layout issue in world save files menu.
-Logic to help catch when a npc may have moved below the terrain in an incorrect way because of overlapping geometry.
-Hooked up the main menu video audio to the Menu sound track so its volume can be turned down.
-Improved boat destruction logic and related player removal logic.
-Changed hearts to only show up in the health bar once you have earned a portion of one.

v0.7.86
-Multiple bug fixes related to online.
-Minor Localization and Translation updates.

v0.7.85
-Support for Hungarian and Polish language added.
-Improved localization setup and fixed UI loc errors.
-Improved Remote workbench and workbench ui so it will also close when pressing tab, or "r" in the case of the remote workbench.
-Misc UI improved to format translated text better.

v0.7.84
-Update to stat points description to match the new level progression for each point spent.
-Fixed health stat bonus not contributing partial values correctly
-Setup low disc space detection and warning popup when launching the game.

v0.7.83
-Bug fixes and code improvements based on bug reports.
-Fixed Whirlpool network sync.
-Increased large whirlpool gravity well range.
-Improved swim movement logic so the player matches the slope of the wave better.
-Turned "notes" window back on in online menu.

Changelog

• Updated to Renpy 8, which is necessary for future development and will hopefully help Linux/Steam Deck compatibility
  
• Fixed some issues with masteries showing up/not showing up inappropriately
  
• Added a rest point directly after the Volos battle
  
• Added a couple new tools in the cheat menu
  
• Various minor bug and typo fixes because Crys cannot be trusted near a keyboard
  
• New random event in Deepwoods Heart and revamped the wounded Hob event in Arden Expanse; spare/heal/flask-heal the hob for a small chance of him temporarily joining the party temporarily in Heart. You will need to re-run Expanse and trigger him one more time for this to work.
  
• Various UI improvements; the initiative list at top right of battles now shows animated health bars, including temporary allies, and ally sprites show up when selecting them in the ally picker. Maya's expressions get progressively cuter the more Affection she has! This will be expanded on later, but I wanted to try a beta version of that now.

The upgrade from Renpy 7 to 8 may cause unforeseen bugs - I playtested to catch the obvious ones, but some may be more pernicious. Please let me know if you run into any weird issues!

Updated to XeSS version 1.1
Removed erroneous message on game start-up that resulted from disconnecting Square-Enix Members services. The Tomb Raider online servers are still operational.

Hello everybody.

As part of the changes the game went through, we are adding situations where you can be attacked from any direction and any height, and we are also adding ladders so you can reach different areas of the levels. Watch this video for more



If you like what you see, please wishlist Killer Dolls Battle Arena

Basicly that.

• Performance improvements for all constructs
  
• Additional projectiles from weapon stats do now update the range attack immediately (was updating after next skill tree scene switch) 

• Fixed a memory leak when using range constructs
  
• Fixed skill tree node search camera pan after searching for nodes that contained letters "wasd"
  
• Fixed a crash on player death (v.0.8.7.2c)
  
• Fixed a crash due to new improved scene loading (v.0.8.7.2.c)
  
• Fixed a crash on player death while active world events (v.0.8.7.2d)
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a unstable internet connection leads delays in posting leaderboard entries. (v.0.8.7.2e)

Haven't you heard of him yet? There he is:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486950/The_Underground_Man_2/

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/-Gayh8aTU4Y
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Hello Draconians!

It has been less than a week since our latest post but we have made more progress which we wanted to show you!

New Ka'sai animations


Swimming animations


Walking backwards - Yes, this means other characters will be able to walk backwards too in the future!

Wyvern rework



The wyvern is getting a facelift. This time you will be able to choose between a version with or without lips in the character creator. However only the appearance changes. The animations will be the same and we won't have to redo any of them!

Goliath crab model

The goliath crabs are being modelled right now and we are looking forward to replacing the old crabs as soon as they are ready!

New European Dragon illustration

A rare preview of our new upcoming cover art.

Lava zone

A new biome made it into the game: The lava zone! Legacy players already had a chance to explore the volcanic area on our old map. However the new lava zone is much larger than it has been before and will play an important role in the life of one particular dragon species. While it has more of a visual functionality right now, it will come with up and down-sides for various species later down the road.

Tutorials

New players have been depending on the help of others and guides for a while now but we finally started to work on the in-game tutorial to cover the basics of the game. We aim to roll out the first part with the next patch and update it as we add new features and mechanics.

This is it for now. We hope to release the next patch in roughly a week and we might have more news for you by then!

If you want to see more frequent news on upcoming game updates make sure to join us on Discord!
Want to report a bug or want to know what other things we have on our to-do list visit our Trello Board!