Hello everyone!
We feel that it's a good time to share what we have been working on and how things are looking for the next major update in December.
We firstly want to thank everyone for great amount of feedback that we've been getting and this is really helping us shape Desert Revenant for the better!
We will keep pushing minor patches and hotfixes until 1.1.0 is ready mainly for bug fixing, game balance and quality of life / performance updates.
What we are currently working on:
Performance
We're working on improving the performance of the game as a whole when playing on low-end PCs and also reducing the "in-game" loading screen time.
We're also trying to make sure that patching Desert Revenant becomes faster overall.
These performance updates will be rolled throughout multiple patches to make sure that the game gradually performs better and better and especially on lower end PCs.
We are hoping that the entire performance will become substantially better by 1.1.0. And this work will obviously continue after 1.1.0.
New Player Experience
We're adding a much more robust tutorial to Desert Revenant, to make sure that the game feels more impactful at the beginning and will really help new players settle into the game. This will also help players get more in tune with the Lore of the game from the get go. Expect to also see improvements for the experience as a whole from the beginning till Victory or defeat before jumping into another run!
User Interface / User Experience
Great improvements are expected for the UI and the UX in general. We felt that there are more details that we can focus on to make many elements more clear and visible to players. We've already started to test some more improvements in battle and we're hoping that this will make tracking spells much better since the game is quite spell heavy and has tons of status effects!
Arena of Vengeance
New content of course! The major update will be the addition of an entire new map (Will be the third map so far). It will also be the first time where you can expect an optional Elite battle with plenty of awesome rewards!
There will obviously be new NPCs that will be able to offer their unique powerful cards, and many Storylines to enjoy and learn more about Elmyr.
Get ready for more challenging enemies and very engaging battles! We're currently making sure that the encounters are fun and unique, we definitely do not want repetitive combat / strategies implemented into the game so we're doing our best to make each encounter fun and unique.
So far, the progress has been great and we can't wait to release this major update in December!
We'll make sure to drop more Dev updates and also Stream more often.
We hope that you enjoyed this Developer update and thank you for reading it!