While I've been gone things haven't been standing still though, check out these things that Teddy has been working on, including a bunch of stuff I made like years ago that finally are making it into the game!
First up, and perhaps most importantly - new damage numbers! We've totally revamped the way these work. Take a look below for the old version:
And now, the new version:
So a bunch of things have happened here! First up, there will be tiny numbers showing how much damage you make with each hit, and a big number showing how much damage you've done in total within a limited amount of time! So long as you continuously damage an enemy this number will continue to increase. When you crit, the damage text flashes and there are pretty stars flying about! We also have plans to have the damage number increase in size the longer/bigger your combo is, and add some smaller stars to the crit-effect as well. But all in good time...
Another thing you might notice in the above GIF is - yes - Health bars above the enemies! Wohoo! I'm personally very happy about this update, as it makes hitting enemies much more satisfying when you can see their hp dwindle. True, you could do so before by checking the lower right corner, but it's just not as effective (at least, I kept taking damage while doing that) or as satisfying. The health bar will appear once you hit an enemy and disappears after a while after you quit dealing damage to it.
And YES, this means health bars in Multiplayer will be a thing! You'll be able to see the health bar of your friends when they go under a certain amount of HP, so now you'll know who really deserved that health orb, and who was the petty thief!
Teddy also added The Western Ruins to the game, so there's one more "Sorry this area ain't implemented yet" notice gone. You can't actually do anything here yet, except look at the scenery and battle a few slimes, but hey! At least it's not an annoying invisible wall:
Also, we've finally added the Buy Back feature, which we've talked about for a loooong time.
Shady Merchant is now officially your go-to guy for buying back anything you've sold in the game, and the Accessory Shop has moved into a building of its own:
Ok, ok. One more thing. In order to make it clearer when a quest has been updated, we're adding this new feature:
This is still an early work in progress, but the idea is that whenever a quest gets updated in some way, you'll get a notice saying 'Update' above your head, after which the corresponding quest window will flash in the upper right corner. If you're currently tracking another quest, it'll fade back to that one after some time, and if you don't track any quest at all it'll simply fade away. This is all to make it a bit easier knowing when you've done something that change the objectives of a quest, or if you're tracking another quest and 'accidentally' make progress in another, so you know what's going on.
We also plan on doing a ton of improvements on the in-game map before Fred is fully done with all the animations needed to implement the scenes in Tai Ming's third zone! There will be a ton of helpful trackers there, showing you exactly how much you've got left to do before achieving 100% on each area. But that's for another post!
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