We are excited to announce that Crea's latest update, "Rebirth" (v1.2), is now out! Rebirth brings several new key features along with an abundance of changes making this Crea's biggest update ever!

Death Penalty

For those who crave some punishment, we've added a death penalty to normal mode. Upon death a pack will drop containing all of your inventory items except for Way Shards. You must return to your death point to reclaim your items, however the heavier the bag, the more Shards it will cost you. Don't worry though, if you don't want this "feature" then you can simply switch to "Easy" mode anytime through the settings.

Anomaly Events

Various events known as Anomalies can now occur throughout the world Crea. These Anomalies will bring life to your worlds and offer new challenges and rewards. There are already a handful of anomalies out there, and you can expect more in future updates. My favorite is easily the "Chaos Crystal" anomaly which sees a Way Crystal become corrupted by the world's chaos forcing you to purify it!

Character Rebirth

Upon reaching the maximum level you can now "Rebirth" your character. This resets your character’s level and talents to 1, but grants a few extra infusion points allowing your character to become a bit stronger than before. Moving forward we may extend this feature so feel free to chime in with suggestions on the forums!

Player Feedback

With Crea's 1.0 launch there was a flood of new players and feedback. We have been hard at work and have incorporated a great deal of the feedback into this update. Here is just a highlight of some of your feedback that made its way into this update.

• Inventory and toolbar are now expandable
• Combat and movement "feel" has been given love
• Key rebinding has been improved and now includes support for mouse and numpad
• Treasure chest capacity has been increased

Bug Fixes

A great deal of issues have been resolved to make both singleplayer and multiplayer much more enjoyable experiences. This includes that annoyingly persistent "!" marker, as well as the frequent multiplayer crash when traveling to other realms. Controller support with the various NPC UIs has been greatly improved too.

State of the Game

Crea is at a much more stable place now than it was at 1.0 launch. There will still be the occasional crash, and some machines will still have troubles running Crea for one reason or another, but overall things will be MUCH better after with this patch. Multiplayer is finally at a state that I'm not hesitant to recommend it and it will only get better from here. One area that Crea does need some work in is the performance side of things. While many players run at 60+ FPS, there are many that do not, despite having machines that should easily achieve that framerate. Crea was developed to be extremely moddable by writing most of the gameplay logic in Python. Unfortunately this has made optimizing Crea quite tricky at times. Moving forward I am going to do my best to alleviate performance issues as much as possible. If you are experiencing performance issues then reply to this forum post. Full Rebirth (v1.2) changelog

[ 2016-12-20 21:44:22 CET ] [ Original post ]