Update 0.95.10 Out Now (Main Stable Branch)

Update 0.95.10 has now been moved over to the main stable branch. If you're opted into the Experimental branch there won't be any change.

Please report any bugs or crashes via our Steam or Official forums and we'll look into them as soon as possible.

FEATURES

• Unlocked southern map section. New content and factions!
• General performance improvement with Ogre 2.0
• Smuggling is now a career option. Buy narcotics or illegal goods and sell them wherever they are illegal to make huge profits. (You'll have to find where to buy/sell them yourself).
• Added narcotics production to the tech tree
• Tweaked the camera limit so you can look upwards a little more
• A messagebox now tells you what item caused you to get arrested for smuggling
• Added some feedback arrows to stealth mode
• Added options setting for displaying the floating damage numbers
• COMBAT:
  • Unarmed combat added.
  • Added a block for "thrust" direction, so you can now block unarmed and animal attacks
  • Added dodging to the combat system. You dodge when unarmed, and it can also be used to break out of stun-lock states
  • Characters now have rear-direction block animations
  • Made block animation blending look a little nicer
  • Added a few more combat stance animations for different weapons
  • Armour can now have skill bonuses for unarmed, dodge, and fist damage.
  • Backpacks now negatively impact dodging
  • Characters can no longer attack with their broken arms, they have to resort to kicks or whatever they can do
  • Likewise if your sword arm is broken you can't block, so you'll have to resort to dodging
  • Defensive combat mode now applies the +20 bonus to dodging if you are unarmed

• EFFECTS:
  • Tweaked the formula for character muscle visibility. Its no longer affected by strength (which now only affects bulk) or toughness. The idea is to make characters end up looking a bit different to each other based on their skills (as opposed to everyone just ending up big and muscular)
  • --the new formula is: max(dexterity, martialArts) * 3.f + (athletics + swimming) - (cooking + science);
  • It now gets wet when it rains.
  • Added sound effect for barefoot characters

• GAME BALANCE:
  • Increased amount of food sold in bars
  • Added more slaves to the slave towns
  • Added the plastic surgeon to empire towns
  • Low-level slaves are a bit more likely to join you, others like captured bandits now a little less likely.
  • Encumbrance and other penalties have a slightly lower effect on move speed
  • Dismantling buildings now gives back some of the materials
  • Increased the amount of fog men, there's also a rare fog man swarm
  • Animals can now bash down your gates, no more raptors hanging around outside
  • Slaves are now valued by skills

• WEATHER:
  • Characters now feel the weather.
  • Duststorms strongly affect visibility and hearing range, and prevent tracking by smell
  • Rain affects visibility and hearing range a small amount
  • Certain clothing can protect you from the elements. Goggles are good in dust storms.

• Some fine-tuning for stealthy raids:
  • NPC hear range is halved when you are indoors and they are not (or vise-versa). Range is halved again if the door is closed
  • alarm range is halved, and gets halved again if you are indoors, and then halved again if the buildings door is closed
  • stealth knockouts take into account your visibility more, and you can't knockout someone if they are in combat unless they are totally unaware of you
  • Tweaked the follow AI for escaping slaves/prisoners so if you make a run for it they will keep up rather than stay behind trying to fight everyone
  • guards standing outside of a building will no longer keep the door open
  • shopkeepers won't talk to you if you are an enemy