Dear community,
Thank you for your support on our most recent Major Update, we have taken your new feedback and considerations to improve and add the following:
Version 0.5.39.16 changes:
- Integrated a new engine for displaying plants and trees, with better performance and view
- You can now place buildings over trees and in forests
- Added more trees and plants to the outdoors. The number of trees is affected by the quality settings
- Buildings now remove the grass and plants around them when built
- Tweaked the lighting and shadows for a better performance and looks
- Tweaked the level of detail vs. the performance. Large cities require 70% less GPU
- Fixed issues where FPS would drop when near the goblin village
- Optimized LoE's game engine. CPU cost is reduced by 60% when in a large city and/or with a large army
- Optimized LoE's pathfinding engine to run smoother and faster
- FPS on Indoors and large indoor maps have been doubled
- Fixed issues with the minimap not appearing or appearing after a few seconds when moving between places
- Fixed citizens holding the wrong tools while working
- Fixed main menu lighting when returning to the main menu for the second time
- Placed the EA disclaimer text to the main menu since loading the game is too fast to read it
We have begun working on our RPG system and our 'Sphere of Influence', as well as some new graphics overhauling that together will considerably increase gameplay time and the general aesthetics of Legends of Ellaria.
Because of the complexity of these new features, new updates will take longer to publish, but we will still do bug-fixes and optimizations to keep the progress while these release.
Our next update(Mid April) will include First Person View, all path finding fixes, as well as more optimizations and small features.
If you have any ideas that you would like to see in Ellaria, please let us know through our Discussions, comments, Steam Reviews or our Discord, in which we do Dev talks every now and then to directly hear your thoughts in a friendly chat :)
Thank you for supporting us in building a whole new world, we will keep working tirelessly to bring you an epic game.
Sincerely,
The Larkon Studio Team