Carnivorous Ivy A couple of weekend updates:

• new: Log Console mode (Windows) - useful for troubleshooting
• new: startup error reporting for Linux and Mac OS X - useful for troubleshooting
• update: embedded Java updated to 1.8.0_121 (see bugfix with xrenderer)
• update: further scrolling animation optimisations
• update: 'Multi-Player' renamed to 'Custom Battle’ to avoid confusion
• update: smart camera (automatically follows all action) will be restored after 30 sec of inactivity (no mouse movement, keyboard actions)
• balance: few battles' difficulties were reduced
• balance: warlock has morale increased
• balance: abominations have no regeneration anymore
• bugfix: xrenderer (Linux) rendering bug is hopefully fixed
• bugfix: conversations stop game flow while they are played
• bugfix: treasure chest will disappear on mimic spawn

Improvements in progress:

• voiceover for undead campaign is ready. Now we are working on voiceover for humans
• chaos campaign illustrations have been re-drawn. Now we are working on greenskins
• world map functionality is in progress. We need now more graphics to set it up among levels.

I don't think we will be able to finish it for AOF3; nevertheless, World Map is an interesting feature. It will allow us to add more content without modifying campaign flow. Maybe also we can add workshop in the future. AOF3 update:

• forest campaign need its gameplay to be balanced. I will work on it next
• forest campaign story has couple of fixes outstanding. Our storywriter is working on those
• we have booked video producer for video trailer. Budget is quite high, thus result should be really good

That's all folks! Les

[ 2017-02-24 18:46:31 CET ] [ Original post ]