SALUTATIONS, GHOSTFOLK!
This next big update brings you the Eternal Mists, A new plane of existence where the Ghosts of Eville reside. No longer will you have to watch your fellow players helplessly fight for their lives.
Now you can support them and explore the (not so) Endless Mists. If you're looking for a quick summary of our update you can watch our devlog here:
The endless mists
Once you die you will find yourself in the Endless Mists.
Some of the coin you made during your life will be exchanged into Spirit Tokens. You can use these to buy items that have an influence on the remaining living players.
These abilities and items are unique to ghosts and give some exciting tools to play around with and help your living friends.
Your ghost - your choice
You may choose your own Ghost skills. The Endless Mists have their own teacher for eager ghost apprentices to learn a range of unique abilities. It's up to you how you can influence the living.
- Make your move - teleport from player to player or dash around quickly
- Protect your friends - by healing them from the beyond or disarm traps so they can't run into them
- Make mad dosh - by stealing the coins of the living, or be kind and grant players your inheritance
- Help the assassins - by granting your fellow conspirators temporary invisibility
Fill your ghastly bags
There is also a vendor for ghost exclusive one-time-use items which you can also buy in the Endless Mists.
You may wake up sleeping players, help conspirators blow up tunnels for direct access to innocent villager homes or mark bodies that haven't been found yet.
There are ways to gain Spirit Tokens for these items and abilities which is to:
Help ghosts and return to the mortal world!
But how do you pay your teacher? How can you make enough money to buy those items?
Well, worry not! There are many ghosts here that have unfinished business and need your help. We have expanded the quests to ghosts. We have 8 new quests given to you (for the most part) by ghosts.
You'll have to travel to the world of the living, to rewind time, hunt down lost souls, scare away ghosts and find old incantations. In turn the ghosts will provide you with Spirit Tokens you may use to help your friends. They also might offer some lore for those of you that read quest texts.
These Quests also help the living restore order or cause chaos in the town, although way more slowly than the quests of the living.
The Old Fortress
We have finished the fortress area. People lived here ages ago. Some ghost quests will take you there and you'll also find Red Gem Dust spawns there.
The fortress has multiple levels, an underground, and tower you can get to. Some places are only accessible as a ghost however.
User Interface Changes
With all the new ghost content out of the way we also had time to change some older UI parts and add controller support - the trading and crafting menus. The crafting menu also shows ingredients and info about the locations you can find them at.
We also remade the role claim and role assumption menus (with controller support) as well as their notifications. They are now up top and don't overlap with the other notifications anymore.
Other changes, Balancing and minor improvements
- Ghost Appearance - Players now have red/blue colors depending on their previous role (conspirator or villager)
- Ghost Appearance - Ghosts now have the same avatar you had before - only ghostified
- Ghosts - When players die at night they immediately become a ghost
- Ghosts - improved the ghost movement and jump distances
- Emergency Bell - You now have a protection no-kill zone when the bell is rung until the vote starts
- Detail - NPCs now look at you when you are close to them :)
- UI - Quest accept and completion menus - close buttons removed
- UI - Day/Night notifications now have appropriate icons
- UI - Added controller support to game start screen
BUGFIXES
- General - Pickups didn't work for stacked items (such as people on the same quest)
- General - Picking up items now pick up the item you actually look at
- General - Pickup range now is in line with the UI hint for pickups
- Vote - You could theoretically survive burning in the cage when eating enough food (multiple times) or being healed during the burning.
- Vote - The bell timer started when a corpse was shown, not after it - as intended
- Seer - Watchful Eye - the game could end with more villagers than conspirators alive, since Seers in the eye would not count as a living player
- Seer - Watchful Eye - You would sometimes not wake up when using it
- Seer - Watchful Eye - If you locked your house while using the eye the house would never get unlocked
- Seer - Watchful Eye - you could carry around NPCs and players after using the eye at night
- Seer - Track - Footsteps are now left behind when bunny hopping
- Trapper - Traps could not be placed properly at some locations
- Trapper - Traps could be placed inside houses (from the outside)
- Trapper - When falling into a snare trap while being dead (by axe) the trap would trigger and stay active visually
- Trapper - the game could rarely crash when you walked into your own spike trap
- Ghost Whisperer - Opening a chest now stops once you die during looting, you would get the item as a ghost before
- Ghost Whisperer - Player selection could not be cancelled
- Thief - Opening a chest now stops once you die during looting, you would get the item as a ghost before
- Thief - Stealing an item would not show an error message for clients if their inventory was full
- Guard - You could use your Pike while being dead (and not being a ghost yet)
- Slanderer - The nameplate number did not update when you switch the appearance
- Camera - Fixed several camera issues with the engine update
- Camera - during corpse reveals the camera could glitch under the pingable map
- Conspirator - The black market vendor had no items
- Conspirator - Fixed multiple possible axe kills when they swing at the exact same time
- Ghosts - fixed ghosts sometimes not being visible to themselves or other ghosts
- Ghosts - Ghosts could not chat at night
- Ghosts - Day/Night changes had no influence on ghosts
- Ghosts - Ghosts would see everyone as 'Unknown' on the next day
- Ghosts - You could report ghosts...
- Visual - you could not use paintings on some stone walls
- Visual - the environment lighting was wrong at night for most clients
- Visual - Ghost Whisperer - chest did not glow sometimes for dead players
- Visual - Detective - desks did not glow sometimes
- Visual - Vendor icons were always visible on the minimap
- Visual - The house lights stayed on at night for the host. Now they can sleep as well :)
- UI - Status effects didn't properly refresh for ghosts
- UI - Speech bubble was too slim and hardly readable
- UI - Custom Game mode was shown when you closed the menu and then searched for lobbies
- UI - Pause menu sometimes didn't open when pressing ESC (host only)
- UI - Controller bars did not scale properly for other languages
- UI - The player amount in the main menu showed "1-4" in the difficulty description
- UI - The start of a vote now cancels you abilities if selecting players/locations
- UI - You could open the Game-Guide while in other menus
- UI - Only using whitespaces as a name now gives you a random name
- Audio - Night music played for a few seconds at the start of the game
- Quests - Arrow now points to areas where objectives are
- Quests - Quests that required multiples of a specific item only removed one
- Quests - Arrows disappeared when you stood close to the ghost portal
- Quests - If you emoted while digging or using an ability you get interrupted and can't dig anymore after that
- Quests - clients sometimes had no guiding Quest Arrows on a bad connection
- Animations - Ghost chat animations weren't shown properly
MORE FANCY STREAMS AND PLAYTESTS
We're currently planning additional streams for ya'll! Also if you're one of the alpha testers you can join our community playtest sessions!
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