Hi everyone,
This week we continued working on “investigate cautiously” skill check which is made with “thievery skill”. Now all suitable overworld battlemaps have this option. Hero can check the enemies at battlemaps before the battle. As explained last week, he may have the opportunity to make a surprise attack. At nights, this skill check will be somewhat easier, because the hero can hide in darkness and investigate from the safety of shadows.
Another improvement is made regarding hunting incidents. When hero finds the tracks of a deer, either at the camp or as an overworld incident, he had the option to follow the tracks. We realized this option was not working as intented. It always found two deers no matter what, although it should have been a Wilderness Survival skill check. But this will be corrected and improved with the next update. Based on the hero’s success at the skill check, he will be able to find more or less deers. If he rolls a critical success, he will find three instead of two deers. Critical failure will also be a thing and it will spawn a forest enemy like snakes or giant centipedes. We will test and fine tune this feature.
“Follow the tracks” skill check will be affected by rain. On a rainy day, the tracks will be obscured, so it will be much harder to track the animal. But experience points will be more.
We added a new animal for hunting: rabbit. Since the game has rabbit legs and rabbit steak for cooking, this was a needed addition. Rabbits will have low health but high defense because of their small size. Like deers, rabbits will be trackable too.
Improvements on the flavor texts also continue. Here is another example:
Old text: “You found giant beehives. Do you want to investigate?”
New text: “You found giant beehives standing like guardians of the wild. The thunderous hum of countless bees resonates through the foliage. What bold move shall you make in the face of this natural wonder?”
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. May the tides bring you triumph!