Dear Community,
We're excited to announce that our second major update: part 1 is now LIVE
As many of you know, we opened a beta for LoE owners and the feedback has been amazing. Thanks to you, many fixes and improvements were possible.
Version 0.5.39.05 includes the following:
Completely overhauled the construction:
- When placing a building: Buildings check if they can be constructed by their shape and not by general distance from other buildings
- When placing a building: Buildings cannot be built inside a mountain or close to a cliff - which removes bugs related to doors inside mountains or buildings in the air
- When constructing a new building, the terrain gets flat exactly where it should, and not as a general circle around the building.
- Buildings snap to the terrain by their entrance and not by their center. The front entrance is always linked to the terrain smoothly
- To compensate for the new system, old saves will try to snap the buildings into a more manageable position. If you encounter any problem with old saves, please send us your save file and we will fix it.
Completely Overhauled the Weather and Sky:
- Included a new cloud system that looks more natural and full
- Improved the weather and sky performance
- Rain is more epic, and storms are darker at night
- Night time lighting and sky is prettier.
Improved Some Graphics:
- Included a new grass system which looks better and has touch - bending
- Improved some of the terrain textures
- Some objects in the game react to rain and wetness. More to come
- Improved 25% of the texture and memory usage. Much more to come.
- Improved Camera effects and general game atmosphere. More to come
- Temporarily removed VSync. VSync will be added to the options menu in later versions
Made General Fixes and improvements:
- When Pressing "New Game" and then pressing the Escape button, the game doesn't start a new game
- When falling through the ground or from the edge of the world, your character will be returned to a normal position
- Fixed an issue where the terrain would be flat or have flat portions
Improved AI:
- Enemies try to avoid the Circle of Fire spell whenever possible
- Completely rebuild the Pathfinder system; NPC goes smoother and smarter from place to place.
- Improved Followers and RTS Commands:
- Followers can now follow you indoors. When you enter a dungeon, 3 of your best soldiers will go in with you.
- Followers won’t wander too far from you unless instructed to. When in combat, followers will disengage and return to you in a tactical way if you are too far from them.
- Also, when pressing the “Follow” command during combat, soldiers will immediately disengage and retreat towards you
- Soldiers react to Attack, Move and Follow commands even when in combat mode
Of course, since it's Early Access, there are some known issues:
- Followers may get stuck in dungeon, they will teleport to you eventually
- Sime civils still may act funny
- Some bug causing some creatures to not equip weapons(rare)
- Many systems were renewed or changed. Please press F8 and send us a bug report for any issue you encounter
On part 2 & 3 we will be working on further fixes, optimizations, and the implementation of some features like:
Fixing the above Known issues
- Continue to optimize the game - Memory usage reduction
- Improve the graphics
- Create Combat Formations
- Vastly improve Character movement
- New Construction(optional)
- New maps and quests
Major Update part 2 will be released on March 3, 2018, so there will be many changes inside Ellaria in the upcoming weeks & months.
As always, let us know your opinion through a Steam review, by opening a steam discussion, or by chatting with us directly through our Discord Server
Please contact us if you want to participate in further beta testing
See you in Ellaria,
Larkon Studio
Update - We uploaded new versions to fix important issues
0.5.39.06:
- Fixed a game error when exiting a cave after your followers have died
0.5.39.07:
- Fixed an issue where your followers attack the barracks captain
- Fixed an issue with the positioning of the player between scenes
0.5.39.08:
- Fixed an issue where enemies would not spawn
- Fixed colliders on trees
0.5.39.09:
- Fixed Player home interaction with objects
- Fixed weather rain not showing rain effect
- Removed the Halloween effects and Halloween related issues
0.5.39.10:
- Fixed an issue where some enemies don't attack you when indoor