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• Patch Notes·25 Sept 2025Official

  The Non-Player And Open-World Update: Hotfix Patch

  Fixed Minimap Rendering: Resolved issues with the minimap failing to display correctly, ensuring players can navigate the open world with accurate visual guidance. Corrected Weapon Equipping: Fixed a bug where weapons didn’t appear properly during initial equipping, making first-person combat visuals seamless and reliable. Stabilized Dialog Camera: Adjusted the dialog camera to stop tracking NPC head movements during conversations, providing a smoother and more natural interaction experience. Improved Bow and Arrow Mechanics: Fixed an issue where equipping an arrow type after a bow failed to set the correct arrow, ensuring proper arrow rendering regardless of the equipping sequence. Enhanced Station Slot Updates: Corrected crafting station slots to update instantly when items are dragged or dropped, resolving issues with the interface not properly updating to the true contains and inventory states. Fixed Player Loading Position: Resolved a bug causing players to appear as if landing upon scene load without having truly been "airborne", preventing landing during scene startup. Restored Loot Icon Visibility: Fixed loot identifiers not appearing due to an uninitialized quadtree system, ensuring collectibles are properly displayed in every scene.
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• Patch Notes·21 Sept 2025Official

  The Non-Player And Open-World Update

  A Monumental Update: Polishing the Core Experience and Expanding the Open World After nearly a year of dedicated development, we’re thrilled to unveil this massive update. The amazing wishlists for our early alpha build showed us that players are truly excited about the game’s potential, inspiring us to focus on refining the game more to ensure that it feels and plays amazing. We invested lots of time and effort into our first-person gameplay, expanding the open world, and bringing deeper life to NPCs, creatures, and combatants. This update polishes core mechanics, enhances immersion, and introduces our first fully featured town, Waterwatch—a vibrant hub filled with NPCs, rich dialog, engaging quests, and captivating lore. We’ve also laid the foundation for expanding content into other towns like Wolfpine and Montero. Below, we outline the technical advancements, gameplay improvements, and core elements of the exploration and building loop that define this milestone. Enhanced Interface and Notifications: Improved the user interface to ensure notifications, like quest updates, trigger reliably, even after crafting at stations, for a smoother gameplay flow. Refined Melee Combat: Standardized weapon skills, balanced weights, and fine-tuned sword and axe handling for a more responsive and satisfying first-person combat experience. Seamless World Loading: Optimized dungeon transitions by removing loading limits and added new scene references to support a larger, more fluid open world. Smarter Enemy AI: Upgraded creatures like Landor and Styr with advanced AI, enabling dynamic behaviors like tactical retreats or aggressive pursuits for engaging encounters. Updated Development Tools: Integrated the latest stable Unity tools to streamline coding and ensure a robust foundation for future updates. Immersive Audio Enhancements: Added dungeon-specific soundscapes, fixed missing quest and interface audio, and introduced persistent night-time sounds to enrich Waterwatch’s atmosph...
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• Patch Notes·6 May 2024Official

  General Improvements Update

  In this update, we've continued the process of improving AI entity behavior and expanded the behavioral palette and made general world content and interface improvements. Here is a short-list of progress: - Enhanced the ambiance of the Taldera region by meticulously updating insect and bird sounds, creating a more vibrant and realistic auditory landscape. - Revamped sound sequences throughout the project, adjusting values and settings to achieve smoother transitions and more immersive audio experiences. - Streamlined building structures by eliminating SteamGeometry components from doors and windows, resulting in optimized performance and reduced overhead. - Addressed terrain layer settings in the Ancestral Tomb, ensuring accurate rendering and collision detection for a seamless exploration experience. - Fine-tuned the AudioConfigurationManager to accommodate updated sound arrays, enhancing the overall audio management system. - Updated building prefabs to reflect changes in design or functionality, providing players with more visually appealing and interactive structures. - Revised biome profiles across the game world, refining environmental parameters to better reflect the desired atmosphere and gameplay mechanics. - Implemented chunking of world sectors in the Overworld for improved performance and efficient resource management. - Upgraded to the latest version of Unity (2022.3.27f1), leveraging new features and optimizations provided by the engine. - Improved AI traversal logic to ensure better movement across different platforms. - Added logic to allow NPCs to use the same interactors players are able to use, including doors, workbenches, and other NPCs for dynamic NPC-to-NPC dialog. - Added more world interaction nodes for NPCs to help drive them around the world for more immersive behaviors. - Made many overall improvements to the building process based on community feedback and internal testing. These comprehensive updates aim to elevate every aspect of the p...
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• Patch Notes·20 Mar 2024Official

  World Content Update

  After finishing the first pass of our non-player character systems, we turned our focus to the implementation of non-player character content. Now that our core code-base is complete, our primary goal is the creation of vasts amounts of playable content. Over the last 4-5 months, we've built an elaborate set of tools to make content production much easier for our small team. Therefore, going forward expect to see frequent updates with small bursts of content. In the meantime, here is a list of our latest implementations: - 12 new non-player character; 5 quest givers - 10 new quests - 3 interior instances - 200+ new weapons (Axe, Greataxe, Sword, Greatsword, Dagger, Hammer, and Greathammer types) - 10 new armor sets - 2 new magic gauntlets - Character leveling progression - Skill level progression - 4 new environment combatants - 17 new building elements including indoor and outdoor light sources - Many new interactive sources including light sources - 5 new towns (WIP) - Massive overall update nearly all aspects of the game. Throughout the rest of this week, we'll be focusing our attention on completing testing of 12 more quests and the inclusion 23 new non-player characters for many of the new towns. We'll also be completing the implementation of the new Tutorial Panel and Skills Panel (which will feature a skill tree preview). We will also be finishing the skill system which will allow the player to trigger unique attacks with melee and ranged weapons, and various magic spells with magic conduits such as magic gauntlets and wands. Since our last major update, we've brought on an amazing Systems Director for the project, and he's slowly fleshing out combat, tools production, and gameplay systems to take the game to the next phase of production. So, expect to hear more from him and so much more over the next few weeks!
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• Patch Notes·5 Feb 2024Official

  The Non-Player Update

  - Completed the initial-pass implementation of the non-player character technology; added a new armors/clothes, customizations, quests, and housing. - Many updates to the overall process of building and harvesting. - Added new building cues such as a UI panel with building information while in the "Placing" state. - Added new building effects and building components. - Reduced building element's resource requirements. - Added new building furniture including a new storage container. - Increased axe and pickaxe attack speeds by 10%. - Completed a massive overhaul of all combat-related systems to create a common-formula for handling all combat properties. - Completed the initial-pass implementation of the item generation system; this system generates items such as weapons and armor from a pool of uniquely specified properties. - Added more recipes for the Alchemy Workbench, Cooking Station, and Campfire. - Added many new harvestable resources. - Added many new character customizations to the character creator. - Individualized all races to have proper lore-specific body customizations. - Completed the initial-pass implementation of the overworld map panel. - Updated the loot drop chances and content of barrels and creates. - Completed a massive overworld environment update to include new towns, new town art, and new points of interest. - Completed a massive backend unification of all character components to seamlessly share behaviors and content between players and non-players such as how attributes, statistics, skills, and abilities are utilized.
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