Hello everyone,
A new update is available to test in beta for Arcadian Days, featuring the return of Zuzuiata Hills!
Before making it official, your feedback helps massively so let me know if you encounter any bugs, and in particular we focus on performance and progression clarity.
How to Access the Test Version
Saves: Your saves should work absolutely fine between the different versions now!
To try the Test Version, please follow these steps:
Open Steam
Right-click on Arcadian Days in your library
Select Properties
Go to the BETAS tab
Enter the password: bucuriandreams
Choose "betatesting"
Wait for the game to update the files (if nothing happens, restart the Steam client)
Launch the game
Changes and features
Zuzuiata Hills map, completely revamped with clearer points of interest, and interesting things to discover and explore.
A quest around Zuzuiata involving the Spiridushi and bringing back the bees to the homestead. You will now see some beehives in the homestead lilac garden that will hint at what needs to be done.
A corn maze in Zuzuiata, can you make it to the other side?
You can now save the progress at Muma Shrines. The game also saves automatically when travelling between locations and progressing through the story. It is recommended to save at the Muma Shrines often.
The old autosave has been removed which should now help ensuring you won't get stuck somewhere and have to restart the whole game.
Significant optimization has been done, and there is now an option to change the Global Illumination in the settings which can boost FPS! I recommend changing this settings from the main menu only otherwise the game might crash and you'll have to restart.
More to come so not all quests are ready in this testing version, but they will be ready for the official update which is almost finished! I am curious to hear your thoughts on the new saving system and performance, so please do let me know in the forums or Discord.
Thank you so much,
Calin