Greetings everyone and welcome to our first Developer Diary! First of all, we are happy to announce that Northern Lights is now part of the Steam Open World Sale for a limited time! Check our STEAM Page below for a 30% OFF discount:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1090800
We have also issued an update to solve some performance and compatibility problems related to certain PC configurations. Full changelog below!
With the new optimizations in place, we observed up to double the framerate on certain AMD GPUs (low & mid-end Polaris/RX500 and Navi/RX5000 architectures). and as a side effect, we also observed a boost in performance on pre-RTX series Nvidia graphics cards (1000 series and lower!)
0.3.1 Changelog
- Improved performance for AMD Radeon and older Nvidia GTX graphics cards.
- Improved overall memory usage of the game.
- Updated engine to Unity2019.4 to solve some memory corruption issues related to AMD Ryzen CPUs.
- Fixed some UI issues.
- Fixed some rendering issues.
- Fixed some input system & rebinding issues.
Another thing that we wanted to mention is that we have started working on overhauling and polishing the main mechanics of the game! This will bring a lot of quality of life changes in both core mechanics such as the health or inventory systems, as well as side mechanics such as interactables, fishing & hunting systems etc.
Along with these changes, our 3d artist and our animator worked on creating a higher quality, more detailed, hands model, along with brand new animations for most of the in-game actions, for that extra immersion!
Also, we started to add some features that we had planned for a long time but we had to postpone due to time and budget constraints.
While there is not much we can show for now, we will keep everyone posted in the future dev diaries!
As always, we want to thank everyone for the support and feedback! And as Northern Lights is still an Early Access title, we encourage everyone to get in touch with us over Discord or Steam Community about potential issues or ideas!