Check out the new Morning Star weapon and enhancements to melee combat in the free Alpha 3 update for Dragonfield!
A new weapon has been added: The Morning Star! Use it in the newly enhanced melee combat to devastating results. Attack enemies with a heavy strike from behind to knock them out instantly!
Enemies can now get staggered! This interrupts their attacks for a moment and leaves them open for further attacks
A huge variety of impact effects have been added. Your sharp weapons now leave marks in the environment! Arrows create holes and even your kicks leave behind footprints.
Thanks to everyone that has wishlisted the game and left their feedback so far, there are many more free updates coming!
~Vincent~
As always, the Dragonfield Alpha is completely free, wishlist the upcoming Steam release of the beta and beyond here.
Full Changelog
UI
- The damage direction indicator will now show you how much block damage you have taken, the bigger it is the closer you are to having your block broken
Maps: Shorebreak
- The spawn camera has been moved to a more aesthetically pleasing position
- A few more rocks have been added to the sides on the path up to A
- Rocks are now less brown and more grey and have their contrast lowered which makes them appear cleaner
Weapons
- Added a new weapon, the morning star. Hitting an enemy from behind will make them fall over. Bonk!
Gameplay
- Melee attacks can now stagger enemies. This interrupts their attacks and makes them unable to attack for a short time. The chance to stagger them increases with the damage dealt.
- Horses running into enemies will also stagger them
- Kicking will stagger enemies too
- Close explosions will stagger
- Kicks from behind will now always have enemies fall over
- Increased player protection from falling over after getting hit by projectiles
Graphics and Animations
- Changed third person shield block bash animations slightly
- Overhauled one handed swords sprinting animations
- Updated transitions from attacking to combat animations in first person to be smoother
- Updated spear animations, light attacks are much faster now
- Updated spear model slightly to make it look sharper
- Made arrows getting stuck in things less likely to have an incorrect looking position or rotation
- Melee environment hit impact effects that are based on the weapon used like slashes, stabs and scratches
- Explosions leave burnmarks in the environment
- Kicks leave footprints in the environment
Technical stuff
- Updated Unity to 2021.3.10 which has provided potential cpu physics performance improvements
- Fixed dropped/thrown one handed sword collision model to represent its length more accurately
- Fixed camera rotation being very wrong when spawning, Im happy nobody had noticed that yet haha
- Bots doing a block bash can now actually hit something with it lol
- Impact forces now get applied to ragdolled knights. Wheee
- Increased horse collision force. Wheeeee
Alpha 2.1 changes
- Increased horse health
- Made the A point on the map Gray Tower not be captureable from below
- Fixed being unable to spawn on the beach side on the map Shorebreak
Another update, Alpha 4 is coming soon and will bring new gadgets and further gameplay changes and improvements!
Come and join the Dragonfield Discord server, everyone is welcome!
As always, the Dragonfield Alpha is completely free, wishlist the upcoming Steam release of the beta and beyond here.