24 Dec 2023Developer postOriginal post (opens in a new tab)

Big Christmas Update 0.4.5

Big Christmas Update

Today we are happy to announce our one of the biggest update of this game. As we fixed many of the bugs from the beginning of our journey, we were able to focus on implement many new mechanics to the game. We have changed couple of base systems to improve your gameplay and give us more freedom to implement another feature. Although this is one of the biggest update we have ever done, we wanted to launch christmas event on time so we decided to update game part by part, that means this is the first part of the update.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Christmas Event

You can now find a pine tree on the maps that has a Present next to it.

When any player click this Present box, every player can earn random reward from it.

It has 5 minutes cooldown time

Rewards can be; Money, Experience, Christmas Cat or Santa Sledge.

Reworked

Main menu changed and recoded.
- We have changed Main Menu design, and fixed couple of errors that causes by menu itself.
- Now it's more user friendly, and give you much more information.
- Resetting to Default and Detecting the System features added to Settings menu.
- Seperate shop system is removed and now you can easily switch between shops from the top slider.
- Redeem system added to the game, we will share Redeem Codes with you time by time.

NPC events reworked
- Some evidence events like "Writing a Book" now have higher priority than other events.
- If NPC cannot complete the randomly selected event, it will select another event instead of delaying.

Video camera recording system fully reworked.
- We have changed the video camera system to make your recordings more accurate.
- This is still experimental to see how it affects to the game and network.

Added

3 new Maps; Algus Town, Twilight House and Hangar added to the game.

6 new Characters added to the game.
- This is the first update that we have announced 6 characters in once from the beginning.
- These 6 characters implement couple of new mechanics to the game.
- Aaliyah (Adventurer)
-- Aaliyah can equip her own special item Torch, which slows down Mystics and scare any creature that hate from fire.
- Hera (Healer)
-- Hera can equip a small Resurrection Stone which we have removed from the game in previous updates.
-- Hera can place that Resurrection Stone to the ground to resurrect someone.
-- Once someone use the Resurrection Stone, it will be destroyed.
- Lilly (Cursed Child)
-- Lilly has no special item to equip but she can use Cursed items without affected by their curse.
-- Also she change the behaviour of the cursed items.
-- Arbatel: Doesn't lower her sanity while tracking the ghost.
-- Bear: Can banish Tiyanak or Moroi when it placed to their area.
-- Goat Head: Can banish any type of Creature except Stalkers instead of just Spirituals and Ghosts.
-- Mirror: Creatures never try to attack.
-- Verum: She can use verum directly without a lighter and heart bottle.
- Elena (Alchemist)
-- She has a special salt item which lower the requirement time for banishing Spirituals from 2 minutes to 1 minute.
- Taeyang (Electirician)
-- He can equip a Generator with him which is working like a power station when it connected to house lights.
-- You just need to place it to the ground and run it.
-- It will affect all switch in specific range.
- Vincent (Cameraman)
-- He has own special hand camera which has nightvision mode in it, and let you to earn more money from recording.

16 Character Skins added to the game.
- Character skin system is newly implemented feature to our game.
- They are mostly added for level system but you could buy couple of skins from the Skin Shop in the Shop section of Main Menu.

8 new Vehicles added to the game.
- We have added Historical Ambulance, Rider, Blaze, Army Jeep, Old Man, Helicopter and Plane for Level system.
- We have added Santa Sledge for Christmas event.

13 Pets added to the game.
- 5 color of cat added to the game. 3 of them can be buyable, and 1 coming from level system while last one is coming from christmas event.
- Beagle
- 2 color of Cane Corso added to the game. 1 of them can be buyable and another one can only obtained from level pass.
- Celtic Wolfhound
- 2 color of Hellenic Hound
- 2 color of Pug added. 1 of them can be buyable while another one only obtained from level pass.

3 new Item Skins added to the game.
- A strong flashlight skin added.
- Spotlight and Double Spotlight skins added.

2 new Items added to the game.
- Glowstick (Has a very low amount of light, can be equipped 6 at once)
- Strong Pills (Can replenish huge amount of sanity)

Level pass system implemented to the game.
- You can now collect rewards at specific levels from the Level Pass section on Main Menu.
- We haven't fully implemented all the rewards to our game yet, you will able to collect them once we implemented.

Pet selection section temporarily added to lobby screen.

Car selection section temporarily added to lobby settings menu.

Added a temporary text that shows game time in end game screen.

New quests added to the game.

A graveyard added to Train Yard.

Fixed

Arbatel detection system changed and improved to make it more accurate.

An issue that forces Mystics to attack players again and again fixed.

An issue that causes Mystics and Stalkers consume your Protection Talisman and Crucifix fixed.

Now quest requirements change depends on maps.

White lady continue to spawn gravestone as she cannot banish with it anymore.

Couple of issues that causes drawn symbols not working.

An issue that causes items drop down of the map.

Wrong owning amount of items that bought before the updates.

Changed keys keep resetting to default when game closed.

An issue when the player disconnected from the session, still seems connected.

Couple of map bugs that causes player stuck.

Fog strength balanced for maps.

Changed

Lobby character selection page changed to open more free slots for new characters.
- You can change character skin by using Next and Prev buttons next to character image, once you have locked.

NPC sound event now spawn on the ground instead of sending it to player's itself.

Nightvision and spectate modes changed.

Night Street textures and structures changed to avoid network issues.

Removed

Thermal mode removed from cameras because of causing a lag.

Spawn points inside Graveyards removed.