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Final Update Before the Demo Launches Summoners of Soulstonia , thank you for taking part in the Steam Open Playtest ! This chapter is almost over, but the next one is about to begin. Your feedback and playtime throughout the Playtest helped uncover bugs, highlight balance issues
Changes Summoners now share bank space Tutorial quest objectives have overlay instructions for idle goals to help new players better understand the idle goals interface Improved speech bubbles font Color coded equipment skill requirements in their item tooltips Color coded quest
Changes Implemented the gear stats info modal in the equipment panel Idle goals now check for both empty inventory slots and a valid stackable slot before banking Goals tab now only highlights during create idle goal tutorial quest objectives Prevented thieving from market stalls
Changes Implemented search bar in the create goals panel Implemented progress bars with percent of quests completed in each region to the quests panel Implemented aan act break narrative screen fade moment at the end of each region's main campaign Goals progress in goals panel no
Changes Added various insects to each region Added lily pads floating on top of the water Added swarms of fish, coral reef and algae underwater Added seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn) Implemented seasonal temperature in each region Some trees turn color during autumn, and
Changes Improved Nightspawns hostility detection Implemented camera shake when characters take damage Implemented compare tooltips for equipment Hostile enemies now have behavior state icons above their heads Improved character soft collision, especially for summons Summons now m
Changes Improved Summons pathing around their Summoner Improved pathing recovery when your Summoner gets stuck not moving Added a time of day sun & moon dial to the HUD Added Magic, Ranged, and Summoning gear Improved visual quality of the landscape Hostile quest NPCs now spa
Changes Added Farming to Idle Goals Added Soulforging to Idle Goals Added building construction to Construction Idle Goals Added a Runecarving interaction menu to Altars for manually carving runes Quest objectives in the top-right HUD now highlight on hover to make them more clea
Changes Implemented all metal varieties of Battleaxes Added Return to Hermit as the concluding tutorial quest Improved quest rewards Added fortress walls to the central hub town Battleaxes and Greatswords now require Strength and Defense respectively instead of Attack Magic Myste
Changes Implemented the central hub town Added archer, mage, berserker, tank, and assassin varieties to nighttime enemy spawns Summons now grant Summoning XP when dealing damage Enemies killed by Summons now count toward combat goals Enemies killed by Summons now drop loot correc
Changes Implemented Autopilot Goals Implemented goal queueing Implemented Grasslands quests Implemented hostile enemies spawning at night Added region discovery Added village discovery Randomized village names Implemented crafting multiple items at once Implemented Runecarving go
Changes Added Fast Forward button to the HUD Added keyboard input bindings to the settings Added procedural building generation to each region Implemented hover and click button sounds for all UI Replaced the cooking sound with a sizzle audio effect Added a quantity selector to t
Changes Implemented WASD movement Implemented Fast Forward buttons Implemented tons of quests Dialogues are now skippable Added an auto-pilot button to the HUD Implemented Conjure Soulstone spells (I/II/III) Linked all the tutorial and main regional quests in sequence Implemented
Changes Implemented various bits of quest logic Made arrow keys pan super zoom Thieving anim no longer shows your weapon Spacebar only pauses if no modals were closed Fixed combat targeting bugs for NPCs, Summoners, and Summons Summoner icon in panel now flashes red when at low h
Changes Prevented walking on water Implemented more sound effects Implemented quest-based NPC spawning Fixed Skill XP and level up detection logic Increased the duration of speech bubbles Balanced NPC loot rates and drop tables Fishing spots now only spawn on the water Lootboxes
Changes Implemented the Spellbook, Spell Scrolls, and Spellcasting Implemented many new audio effects Implemented accessibility settings Improved character movement smoothness Item tooltips in the crafting panel now show item crafting recipes Quest HUD now has a New Quest button
Changes Implemented 7 new Shopkeepers Implemented golden tools yielding double resources Implemented Fog of War saving and loading Combat music now plays when aggro'd Mounts no longer play attack animations Villages now cool Summoners off/keep them warm Updated current quest step
Changes Reduced overall tree density Implemented locked chests quest objective Fixed NPC dialogue bug skipping first line Building slot modal now closes after crafting a building Crafting modals now always show all options, sorted with available at top All quest entries now highl
Changes Implemented more quests Enemy aggression enabled during nighttime NPCs in the Grasslands now speak plain English Replaced "Game Over" with a ten second respawn timer Fixed bugs with equipping items to the toolbelt Dealing 0 damage now says "Miss"
Changes Implemented quest logic for NPCs, objects, items, and buildings Quest givers live in houses now Shrank the world size, increasing object density Improved loading times and eliminated gameplay startup lag Removed erroneous crafting options from sawmill modal