Today's test build includes a bunch of updates to the new content, focusing mostly on the early changes. The following are parts that I've played through and tested and feel pretty good about:
- Refined the timing for quests, ensuring that you get Grrrumble's initial quest and the Shaydee Business quest before the Scarecrow quest occurs. This is necessary for the story to flow well.
- Fixed a couple of bugs related to the Haunted Mansion map.
- Updated the Lich's quest dialog, improved his disappear particle, and added a sound effect for it.
- Removed the jump scare from the Mansion as it was silly and often didn't work anyway.
Other additions, although I haven't fully tested them yet:
- Added in some new quests that occur in-between the Orc quest and the Stronghold quest. These are more dialog focused to add more context to the story.
- Added the Deep Dweller spawners to the Stronghold.
- Added all of the NPCs to the Stronghold.
- Refined the stronghold map to clean up a few issues and make it more performant.
- Created the Stronghold quests. The full quest is now set from start to finish, although again, I need to test these more.
- Created the building for the trading post. This isn't accessible in the build menu yet. I'm also having some new art created for it so what is there is placeholder anyway.
Overall the quest should be playable from character creation, to the prologue, and all the way to the final stronghold quest. My focus now is to test the middle and later content and fully hook up the rewards.
If you would like to check out the content, you can get it by doing the following:
1. In the Steam Client Library where it lists all of your games, right click on HammerHelm
2. Click Preferences
3. In the window that opens, select the "Betas" Tab
4. Enter the password to download this build - NewMineTest1 - and click Check Code
5. You should get a message that the code is correct
6. Click the drop-down box and select BigUpdateTest
Steam should immediately start a new download with the test client. The new game should be called "HammerHelm [bigupdatetest]". Once the download is complete you can launch the game and you should see "Beta 14.9.9" in the title screen.
VERY IMPORTANT - do not load an existing save with the test client and any saves you make with the test client will not work with the live client. Also, all of the new quest text isn't localized yet and as mentioned above, some of the quests haven't been fully tested yet.
To get back to the main build:
1. In the Steam Client Library where it lists all of your games, right click on HammerHelm
2. Click Preferences
3. In the window that opens, select the "Betas" Tab
4. Choose “None” from the drop down
5. Steam should then revert back to the main client
-Jonathan "Calandryll" Hanna
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