Hey everyone!
The Graphics Update is now live! We've also made a new trailer for the game, which you can check out below.
To celebrate the release, the game is now also on sale. If you haven't tried out Necesse yet, then now is the perfect time to dive into the fresh new look the Graphics Update has brought! You could even bring a friend or two 🥳🎉
We started working on this update over a year ago, when I hired two awesome artists who couldn't wait to take Necesse to the next level! It's been a wild year, filled with passion and dedication from the team, but now we're finally ready to share our hard work with you - and we can't wait for you to try it out!
This also means our artists are no longer playing catch-up with the content updates, so you can expect faster/larger content updates in the future :D
We will of course be looking at feedback and fixing any issues that come up in the coming hours and days. So please don't hesitate to reach out if you find anything! :)
Below the trailer, you can also check out the changelog containing all the changes coming with the Graphics Update.
Finally, remember to follow us on our social channels. We've started to post a lot more updates there than we've done previously:
Discord: https://discord.gg/FAFgrKD
X/Twitter: @NecesseGame
Reddit: /r/Necesse
Youtube: @Necesse
Thank you for all the support and feedback!
- Fair
0.26.0 changelog
Additions:
Added 16 new achievements.
Added smooth lighting to rocks and walls.
Added wind effects.
Added the ability to sit on chairs and benches.
Added deeper and shallow parts of water.
Added screenshot tool to island map.
Added 20 new hairstyles you can select during character creation and Stylist change.
Added 12 new eye types you can select during character creation and Stylist change.
Added 8 new beard types you can select during character creation and Stylist change.
Added expression wheel, by default used by holding down T.
Added the ability to restore controls to their default key bind.
Added toggle in pouches to disable auto pickup.
Added Hardhat cosmetic item bought from the Blacksmith.
Added Captains Boots cosmetic item bought from Stylist.
Added Pirate Eyepatch cosmetic item bought from Stylist.
Added Pirate Bandana with Eyepatch cosmetic item bought from Stylist.
Added the option to buy settler cosmetic gear from each settler or Stylist.
Added the Stabby Bush found creeping in the wilds.
Added Landscaping Station crafted at Advanced Workstation.
Added recipes for a ton of different rocks and other objects to the Landscaping Station.
Added the ability to change skin and eyes at the Stylist at the cost of void shards.
Added 2 new boss soundtracks for Sage and Grit and the Cryo Queen.
Changes/misc:
Reworked over 3200 assets in the game to match new graphics style.
Reworked how water is rendered, making depth gradual.
Reworked controls settings ui.
Reworked host world ui.
Tweaked health, mana, resilience and hunger bars.
Settlers can now spawn with different genders, hairstyles, skin colors, etc.
Settlers will now sit down on chairs/benches to eat if possible.
Settlers will now sit down on chairs/benches to shorten their work break.
Tweaked some settlers default cosmetics.
Changed shader used for scaling to make pixels less blurry when zoomed in.
Settlers will now walk around holding the items they are hauling.
Increased the interval between settlers update their mood icons.
Made settler full inventory only show when it is important.
Fences now connect to cave rocks.
Hair is now being shown under many hats and helmets in the game.
Journal button will now blink when a new entry is available.
Talking to the elder will now go straight into quests if you can complete it.
Settlers exiting beds will now not exit in cramped spaces and get stuck.
Reworked the character creator and stylist interface.
Stylist can now change your skin color and eyes as well at the cost of void shards.
Settlers can now use banners if you manually give them one.
Banner stands will now buff all settlers within range as well.
Made Strike Banners obtainable, randomly found in village chests.
Flowers can now be placed in the wild as decoration.
Zephyr Boots now no longer disables Zephyr Charm trinket.
Made the start shirt and shoes colors less limited.
Updated all colors of the objects and tiles on the minimap to match the new art style.
Fixes:
Fixed sometimes not being able to place objects near sleeping settlers
Fixed crash when trying to run specific commands.
Fixed too many tooltips shown when having compressed worlds in the world loading menu.
Fixed Windows sometimes deciding not to use the dedicated graphics card if one is available.
Fixed restoring backups wiping some world data, like adventure party settlers.
Fixed worlds running in the background while you are selecting or creating your character.
Fixed ambient lighting sometimes flickering for one second when using non-standard day time modifiers.
Modding/servers:
Made mod patches logging more robust.
Added a bunch of illegal mod patches that the game will ignore around crashes and mod conflicts.
Changed significant parts of window, graphics and sound systems.
Added more launch options, which you can see by using the -help launch option.
And other smaller changes and fixes.