Hi everyone,

A small weekend patch cuz I finally figured out why this sort of murky darkness had descended on the visuals. It was a faulty shading issue caused by the sort of low lying shadow the Edge cast. I had been trying to correct with post processing leaving the game a bit murkier than before the Edge update. Now that I found the culprit I reverted the color grading settings to a earlier setting.

Also fiddled with some more minor balancing and fixed some streetlights and light fixures from not being fully lit.

changelist:

• fixed some lights not turned on on imperial buildings
  
• Fixed an ugly dark wash that had come over the world in the edge
  
• Fixed ambient occlusion not properly fading down on the edge
  
• Reduced base output of wood extractor
  
• Reduced base output of stone extractor
  
• Reduced base output of iron extractor
  
• Increased the required power of a tower to reach max output of capital class vessels from a commander (it needs to be bigger)
  
• reverted color grading

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...with potential for long-term, consistent updates.

A lot has happened since the last MGL—wow! The environment is full of abandoned life capsules on the LAB LVL, with new life support systems and simple yet powerful interactive crafting. Let's look at it one thing at a time.

1. Life on the lowest LVL of society is maintained in the smallest capsules possible, in mostly abandoned territory.
   
   
2. Indeed, a small capsule, but it can still be very cozy and functional to live in.
   
   
3. The very first thing to craft will be some food for you and your dear friends, the rats. After choosing a dish, you will need to use the pestle firmly in the mortar with your mouse to prepare the desired food.
   
   
4. Two new life support systems help you "float for now": a lifeguard robot that saves you if you fall into water and a drone that delivers leftovers to the elites, who care about waste recycling at the end of the day.
   

Stay alive on the LAB LVL; one day, you will buy your ticket to move up.

New Items:
Tome Of Motion
Recipe: Blue Page + Blue Page + Kinetic Shank + Yellow Page + Yellow Page.

• Passive. Use this item to toggle it on or off.
  
• Movement speed ramps up as you move, from 20% to 300% over the course of 6 seconds, resetting to 20% while standing still.
  
• Lose some speed when you press one of the four movement keys.
  
• Creates a damaging radius around you, its size and damage scale with your velocity, up to 10x.
  
• Upon hitting an enemy, the radius disappears for 2 seconds.

DNAilgun
Recipe: Nailgun + Body Shard.

• Fire1: Rapidly fires bursts of two nails which move in a helix pattern.
  
• Nails damage enemies and heal allies.
  
• On hit: Certain enemy types become friendly. This effect’s duration is additive, being able to stack instead of resetting with each hit.
  
• Friendly enemies lose 5% of their health per second.

New Status Effect:
Thunderstruck

• Lose your velocity 10 times per second.

Other Changes

• Crystal Trench area now opens by crystals growing and destroying the platform.
  
  
• Added a small decoration to the bench on top of a tree to the north of the Start Shrine, and moved it to be between the Rain Fountain and Cherry Blossom.
  
• Updated the Warp Stone map to reflect the changes above.
  
• Rain Fountain now has a flower which blooms over the course of a run, fully opening once the countdown reaches 12 hours to reveal a crystal that can be destroyed to start the rain.
  
  
• Updated the rain bestiary spawner and achievement icons to reflect the change above.
  
• Friendly enemies have a clock icon showing their health, similar to the one that shows sentry durations.
  
• Friendly enemies don't count to the "weight" used by the spawn wave system.
  
• Lightning Staff, Surge and the Thunder Bird enemy apply the new Thunderstruck effect, for 0.5, 2 and 1 seconds respectively.
  
• Changed the Tome of Vampirism visual effect to have transparent lines moving up, similar to the Pyramid elevators.
  
• Barrier and Mirror are now spells instead of weapons.

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Hey everyone 👋 I have an important poll for you all! I'd like to hear your thoughts on what should be the next major update for Heard of the Story? I've laid out a few of the key features which I think would be the most fun and make the most sense given the game's current state. But I want to leave it up to you all to decide! 😄 To cast your votes, please head to the Discord where you can react to this poll with emojis of the relevant features.

• ⚒️ Guilds & Fame: as you specialise into your favourite craft, find others with like-minded interests and establish your own guild. Likewise watch your villagers forge their own across different disciplines. Construct a guildhall and develop your collective experience to improve the items you produce. Rise to fame by developing your town's unique hallmark trade craft.
  
• 🌹 Romance & Marriage: connect on a much deeper level with more dialogue, gifts, and new shared activities. Unlock new mechanics and events such as having villagers follow you around, kissing, sharing houses, and more. Marry your favourite villager, and watch others find their own partners, or get into drama over toxic break-ups.
  
• 👑 Autonomy & Governance: raise a manor house to establish building and gardening zones for your villagers. Watch them start their own construction projects or beautify the town with well thought-out decorations. Establish more general rules and policies dictating villagers' overall conduct and witness just how exactly society will evolve.
  
• 🌾 Fields & Farming: purchase or gather seeds for various fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Plant any crop in any field, water it, and care for it. Finally, harvest the fruits of your labour and sell them for profit. Set up organic plantations by drawing the exact area in which you'd like the vegetation to grow, be it a big circle, small square, or a star-shaped farm.
  
• 🗺️ Towns & Conspiracies: open up a new world map showing a drawing demarcated by district lines, denoting towns, forests, mountains, and ancient ruins. Hear about events happening across the world - whether royal marriages or tough droughts. Uncover conspiracies, mysteries, relics, or ancient legends through stories from visitors.

Resolve two errors: One an invalid image for Older Grendel and the other zordering for Isai and Miss Potts

-Hit Marker Updates
-Map changes
-New Rotary Cannon Sound
-Aim Assist Overhaul, similar to Halo Bullet Magnetism.

Greetings,

the latest patch for Darfall is ready and released.

• Rectangle selecting units and holding Shift will now add them to selection
  
• Holding shift and clicking unit mini-portrait will now remove them from selection

• Campaign: Fixed legendary items dropping in campaign missions where they shouldn't
  
• Campaign: Fixed rare case where camera animation can get stuck
  
• Fixed framerate is too high in game startup splash screen
  
• Fixed unit upgrade tooltip does not hide in some cases

If you encounter any issues or want to share a suggestion, feel free to do so in our discord suggestions forum, or bug-reports forum respectively.

Farewell,
SquareNite team from beyond the darkness of Darfall Wastes

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Reworked the save game system so:

feature: cloud syncing across platforms should work
bug fixed: the demo version won't wipe out saved games from the full version.