On November 17th the latest version of Skara became available. That’s one week later than planned, but we had to spend all our time fixing bugs and waging war with the lag that players were experiencing.
Because of that, we could release a more limited update this coming week, but we decided it would be better to work on more substantial features that really enhance the gameplay instead.
So here is the list with almost all the changes you will see in a little over one week:
0.4.1 BUILD Changelog
· IA: Added bots to every match. If a player joins a battle, he will enter a Spectator Mode until the bot dies.
· Combat system:
- Unstoppable attack: now it works holding X (controller) or E (keyboard)
- The unstoppable attack doesn’t consume stamina anymore. Now it has a cool-down timer, check the icon on your lower left corner.
- Attacks and dodges are not ruled by stamina, but by penalty timings.
- Stamina will be used for sprint and block control.
- Camera moved slightly away from the player, in order to allow players to see menacing objects behind them.
- Hit, block and thrust values were tweaked.
· New menu and UI: Now it is simpler and cleaner, and works with the controller.
· New Celea Armor (skin): now you can select from the menu the Celea Mid Armor. It works as a skin for your character - meaning it has exactly the same stats as the basic armor.
· New HUD: the health and stamina bars have been redesigned, including your player name in the upper left corner. Bots and human players also have their Steam names over their characters.
· Some lag problems are solved. However, this is a long term task and won’t be 100 percent resolved anytime soon.
· Black screen problem with certain resolutions is solved in the current version.
· Some FPS performance issues were solved as well, but we still need to refine some assets in the Coliseum in order for it to work perfectly.