It has been such a long year and we wanted to thank everyone for the support they've shown us and Wood & Weather by making a Picrew!



For those of you unaware of what "Picrew" is, it's a little web-based character creator. Use it to make a wooden toy version of yourself, a friend, a weirdo, someone you wish was in the game or just anyone you can think of!

A huge amount of work went into putting this together by our artist Cole and we've already seen so many fun creations already!

Thank you also to everyone who has Followed, Wishlisted and played the demo of Wood & Weather. We appreciate all of the feedback and kind words people have said to us over the year. We also really loved being able to do some in-person events this year too!

We had high hopes of releasing the full game this year, but things didn't work out as we originally planned. That being said, next year is going to be a big one for us and we can't wait to share what we've been working on! We're on a much needed break until Jan 2024(!)

Hope you all have a great holiday break and snap up some decent games in the Winter Steam Sale!

Love you all,

- Paper House ːwombatloveː

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677010/Wood__Weather/

<Ver 1.50>
- Settings: Added Aide automatic selection [OFF/alternating/random].
- Added Skill Reduction.
(Magic items can be strengthened using monsters whose skills have been strengthened to the maximum)
- Additional special equipment. (2 types)
- Territory war loop processing. (up to halfway)

Armies gain experience points in battles and upon reaching necessary experience they get promoted.
Veteran armies are stronger then New recruits. Veterans can get promoted to Fanatics, who are again bit stronger and radiate Power and Fanatics can get promoted to Elite units, which radiate more Power and have some Theocracy-specific bonuses.

Alien invasion is now a real battle. When "Intergalactic Travel" knowledge is discovered, the Aliens will start to invade the planet by very strong units. In the previous versions the Alien invasion immediately ended the game. Now you have a chance to still fight for a victory for few more turns...
The Alien invasion also dramatically increases Monster strength, so if you managed to save some Monster miracles for late stage of the game, the Monsters can help you delay the destruction by the Aliens. Good luck :-)

"Balanced random" locations distribution was added as an option for new games. This option guarantees more even distribution of Holy Regions on the map.
You can now also change Knowledge discovery speed for a new game, so you can play either technologically faster evolving games, or exactly the opposite.

You can now create your own maps using the Map Builder.

This version supports mods / scenarios.
I will soon release some scenario and description how to create them.

Starting bonuses for Theocracies were slightly increased.
Defense bonus for hills decreased from 75% to 50%
Bug fixes including a bug which caused too many Pagan monsters in some games.

A couple of hotfixes for bugs in the new update! Thank you all for your reports and patience.
- Fixed duplicate quest for 'Beginnings of a Bestiary II'.
- Fixed a crash that happens when releasing a creature that is assigned to a pen.

Miki

Happy Holidays, and seasons greetings from Santa-Artisan (non-festive version further below)!




The last two months have been quiet as usual during the end of the year, as we finish up obligations and take a break for the holidays. We recently finished setting up the build for early feedback and testing, with a focus on how the narrative and progression experience feels before committing to polished work.

This also will help us in the coming year, when we move into overall script editing and rewrites.

Sprite Work
Since our last update, we’ve completed almost all the game’s sprite work! The Artisan now has his complete sprite set, giving him more variety in poses he uses to stalk plucky heroines.



We’ve also completed a sprite set for an unrevealed character! They’re one of our favorite characters, and require a bit more thought in how we portray them in story scenes compared to characters like Essie or Giselle. Figuring out how to solve that, though, has given us more potential ideas for how we can improve overall presentation during scenes for when we get to polishing.

As always, thank you for reading! Happy Holidays, and have a Happy New Year.

• New Roguelike mechanic in "Eternal Suffering" mode, adding an EXP system when killing monsters;
  
• 72 skill cards added in "Eternal Suffering" with various effects and rarity levels;
  
• Stage 3 added;
  
• First boss available in stage 3: "Devermon";
  
• Added visual lighting effects in the new stage;
  
• New moving platforms;
  
• New Alice letter in stage 3;
  
• "Flappydenptio" minigame added to the game;
  
• 5 cutscenes added to the game (expected 11 in the final version);
  
• EXP gained from each enemy in "Eternal Suffering" can vary based on factors such as shooting accuracy, time of death, number of Eclipses, among other variables;
  
• Enemies become more damaging, faster, and have more life based on the number of Eclipses the player survives in Eternal Suffering;
  
• During the Eclipse, various enemies are summoned (with the number increasing with each Eclipse);
  
• Control scheme selection (Windows, Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo);
  
• The control scheme changes the buttons displayed during the tutorial and menu screens;
  
• Buttons appear in the menu when using a gamepad and disappear when using keyboard and mouse;
  
• 3 Stars added for completing all stages (1 for completing the stage, 1 for eliminating all enemies in the stage, and 1 for collecting all letters in the stage);
  
• Full Gamepad support added;
  
• Added unique projectile impact effects for each weapon color;
  
• Option to enable or disable controller vibration;
  
• Devermon added to the Bestiary;
  
• EXP and Score display during "Eternal Suffering" gameplay;
  
• Level, Eclipses, Score, Enemies killed, Time, and Accuracy display during "Eternal Suffering" pause screen;
  
• Active enemies in the stage display during "Campaign" mode gameplay;
  
• Time, Enemies killed, Secrets (Alice letters), Deaths, and Accuracy display during "Campaign" mode pause screen;
  
• Control scheme selection option added in the Control settings menu;
  
• Game menus completely redesigned in a new style;
  
• Alice's letter diary added with the Bestiary;

• Visual effects of weapon impact explosions modified;
  
• All Alice letters have been rewritten;
  
• Lava modified (transparency effect removed, and lighting effect modified);
  
• Life and damage of some enemies have been changed;
  
• Overall game graphic quality improvements, choosing between High, Normal, or Low quality;
  
• Enemy bodies stop following the game view in Low quality to improve performance;
  
• Modification in how the Sword slash is launched;
  
• Modification in how enemies appear in "Eternal Suffering";
  
• Texture errors fixed in all stages;
  
• Shadowing errors fixed in all stages;
  
• It is possible to navigate menu buttons with the gamepad using both the analog stick and the D-Pad;
  
• Menu navigation improvements using the Gamepad;
  
• Some enemy activation locations in the campaign have been corrected;
  
• Weapon selection wheel with gamepad support;
  
• Achievements "Bestiary," "Dear Alice," and "Ruthless" with progression numbers;
  
• Tutorial texts modified;
  
• Removed the "Color Correction" option from video settings and replaced it with "Scenery Effect" (which modifies some screen effects in specific stages);
  
• Bestiary removed from the pause menu, accessible only through the designated button;
  
• Adaptive music and sound effects during the menu;
  
• Fixed texture error when changing from high quality to normal quality;
  
• Different music during the reading of letters and the bestiary;
  
• Positioning and visibility of some active enemies in the scene modified;
  
• Time between flower spawns in "Eternal Suffering" modified;
  
• Map border modification;
  
• Alice's letters no longer appear after collecting them and completing the level;
  
• Dust effects on level 1 doors fixed;

• Fixed issue with game process not stopping
  
• fixed most of the yellow messages about AK events
  
• added claymore trigger sound
  
• worked on weapon reload sounds (switches in animation bp)
  
• fixed aim / toggle perspective
  
• added knife melee sounds
  
• added survey at end of game
  
• Fixed floating attachments in TPS
  
• lined up weapons for RDS
  
• changed knife socket location (to leg)
  
• fixed 'join' button in server menu
  
• Fixed the 'Delete Player Data' button. It will now do a full clear. (No need to manually delete files now, and XP level won't be reset)
  
• Made sure all suppressors and attachments look good (on all weapons)
  
• Released Christmas weapon skins!
  
• Changed the game icon

| Performance |

Various vehicles texture optimisations

Skeleton geometry has been even further reduced from 4908 to 4362 polygons, providing more performance when more are on screen at once.

Max Reflection resolution reduced further

Better LODing on Crown Currency Drops

Better LODing on Skeleton Accessories

Pub Keys new light has had a shadow resolution adjustment

| Audio |

All Mechanical Weapons volumes have been adjusted. + Even More Oomph.

| Quality of Life |

Eusten [Silenced Variant] has been swapped for the Eusten Mk.II in both TINSELTOWN and OLDTOWN

| Bug Fixes |

Fixed a few more areas where you could sit outside of the enemy’s navigation zone

Unit Overview UI mostly done

Greetings to all vivid/stasis players! This is the changelog for the version 2.8265 update.

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