More Arcadia Testing

Today has been another day of testing the new Arcadia rework! After several hours played we've far from unlocked everything, which is great. While I only get to the second floor of Evergrind and Fred gets to the later floors of the whole thing, we've unlocked things in approximately the same amount of time, which is as we intended.

The time it takes to get enough gold to unlock new buildings actually feels surprisingly well balanced in our opinion, but that might of course change once we upload everything to Frontline and hear more opinions!

As always when looking at something you haven't touched for a while, there's some eyesores. In between testing (when waiting for Teddy to upload patches with bug fixes), I went ahead and fixed a bunch of smaller things:





I forgot to draw an arrow from the old to the new money bags, but needless to say, the left one is the old and the right one is the new. The portraits have been slightly touched up. I still have a dream of going back and remaking a bunch of the older portraits one final time before we release the game properly, but for now these quick touchups will have to do :) 

With this testing we're getting closer to an actual estimate of when the Arcadia rework will go live on Frontline as well! If nothing unexpected happens, we aim to have it done around 10-12th April, basically somewhere early that week. There are still some small things we need to add or fix graphics wise, and we have a lot more systems to test as well, but this estimate includes the time we expect to spend on bug fixes.

Can't wait to hear your feedback once this goes live!
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6 comments:

  1. I have 200+ hours in the current arcade mode. I hope that will be really difficult to unlock things on the rework, because I really like to play it and have some goals on it hahah

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    1. Thanks! We think unlocking all buildings will take around 12 hours or so right now - in terms of pure gold per run - but then there are a lot of other things to spend time and gold on on top of that (collecting pets and fishes, buying housing item and getting the rest of the unlockables). Hopefully it will keep people entertained for a while! :)

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  2. btw, thanks for the nice work! It seems that will be really great that arcadia rework

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  3. Quick question, do the quests reset? (Like the Red Slime Quest?)

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    1. They don't! So for some character unlocks, you will get both the character and the reward in one go, if you already completed their quest :)

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    2. ...but you can always reset your arcade mode file if you want to redo the quests in the order they become available now :)

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