Hey everyone,
We know that you’ve been waiting for the next content update, and we’ve been working really hard to get everything ready for release. We were aiming to get this out by the end of the month, but we want to make sure that all our planned content works fine in this build, so we decided to release the official update a little bit late. But we offered a way called open test that you guys can experience the new content before the official update.
If you want to know how to do that, please go to the discussion board, and find the thread named Open Test Branch, you’ll find the details of how to switch the branch.
If you don’t have time to get to know the new Portia by yourself, then you can check the content that we wrote in this article and get more details of what we’ve been adding in this update. For example, there are more stories and missions – that’s what you guys expect most , new features in riding system, moving items by directly holding them, the most romantic mini game – ride hot air balloon, new hazardous dungeon and abandoned ruin, new monsters, new mining tool, and etc. Let us introduce new main features one by one for you. By finish reading this post, you’ll know what you’re expecting.
More Stories And Missions
I believe stories and missions are the part that you guys, at least most of you guys expect most. Well then, in this update, you can expect more new stories that related to the bus stations in the South Block, wind from desert, News camera, and Dada’s debt. Besides, you’re also gonna see more stories and side quests about Phyllis, Ginger, Gust, Paulie, Albert, and Emily.
Upgraded Riding System
In the 5.0 version of Portia, you can ride horse already. But the horse can only be rented, and the horse can only walk but not dash or jump. It feels like the riding system has been castrated. So, in this update, you can buy the horse, train your horse, and have more interactive options with them.
In addition, the horse in this update have different attributes, which can be improved by training, feeding, or petting them. The whole procedure is that once you buy the horse from the McDonalds’, you can train your horse till all their attributes reach the max. While you train your horses, you’ll also need to be aware of their loyalty of your horses, cause the low loyalty will make the horse disobedient. For example, when you dismount or you want your horse follow or stay, the horse with low loyalty probably will go back home. Or when you’re riding the horse, and you want them turn left, the horse with low loyalty might turn right or stop walking instead. Feed and pet your horse can increase the loyalty number (but the animation of horse being disobedient and the petting will not be added into this version).
Moving & Repositioning Items
Well, moving items by directly holding them, we believe, is also the feature that you guys want most. In the 5.0, if you want to move the item and re-position it, you’ll need to use the axe to recycle the item first and re-position it. But now, you can just press F to hold it directly and move it to anywhere you want it to be. Plain and simple.
The Most Romantic Mini-game
Do you remember our first trailer? In the last scene, you an Emily were taking the hot air balloon, flying in the sky across the Portia town. How romantic it is. Well, you don’t have to be jealous about it. In this update, you can take the hot air balloon mini-game with your friends, your lovers, or even by yourself. We provide 5 routes for you to take a look at the Portia world in different angle.
New Hazardous Dungeon And New Abandoned Ruin
A new hazardous dungeon named Ingalls Apostrophe has been added into the game, where you can meet new monsters. Besides, a new abandoned ruin has also been added into the game. In this dungeon, you can dig out new types of mine like aluminum and magnesium, and you’ll have chance to find out new relics too.
New Mining Tool
Speaking of mining, there’s one new awesome mining tool in this update that we want to mention is drill. This is a tool that has a faster speed and can dig out much more materials than pickaxe in the same time. What a cool tool!
Award-Wining Fan Art in Game
In the last, we want to cognate again to the winners of our Fan Art competition. We have picked out two great works from tons of marvelous submissions. And as we promised, we’ve added them into the game (we did some minor changes of course to make the picture fit in).
So that’s it - the summary of the new features in this update. We really want you guys can have a great fantastic game experience in Portia. So, we’ll try to add as many fun features as possible, just to make sure you don’t feel boring in Portia. Hope you really enjoy the game.