Language Expansions:
6 new target languages have been added to Newcomer! These languages are now available in beginner and intermediate mode.
- German
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- Spanish (Spain)
- Turkish
- Dutch
- Tagalog
Content Additions:
- 16 new NPCs added
- Collectable gold coins spread around the world.
- Knowledge orbs that can be found and bought. Knowledge orbs unlock new vocabulary to practice in battle.
Feature Modifications:
Level-ing up has been removed from Newcomer and replaced with Town Chapters. Upon reaching a new town, in beginner mode players will receive new expressions that can be used. Players receive a letter where they can cycle through the new expressions and words unlocked.
Phrasebook has been changed. Now, players can view words and expressions for each town chapter.
Feature Improvements:
Intermediate mode chat experience improved!
- Faster speech to text
- NPCs have more dynamic personalities
- NPCs have better reasoning allowing them to more accurately trade items and detect task completion
- Intermediate tasks cover a wider-range of conversational scenarios such as talking about the past, present, future, hypotheticals, and event narration in a variety of ways.
- NPCs aim to converse at an intermediate level.
- Players can now type 3x longer messages to NPCs.
- NPCs can now talk about other villagers and towns in interesting ways.
- Faster NPC responses.
Miscellaneous Improvements:
- Faster translation generation when searching
- Added a gold indicator
- Removed account creation and sign-in