I've been neglecting to write patch notes for all of the patches over the past week. Today I made kind of a big change that might cause some of you to worry, so I thought I needed to explain this one.
The characters in your saved games may appear as though they no longer have their special abilities. That's because I changed the way their special ability tooltips get stored. The new system is a lot faster, simpler, and overall better. But it's not compatible with the old way the tooltips got stored. Your characters still have their abilities. It just doesn't show up on their character sheets. Any new abilities that you get will show up as intended.
As a result of the new ability tooltip system, if I update the tooltip for one ability, it will apply to all characters who have that ability. Before now, all the characters saved their own tooltips, which resulted in bloated saved game files and if I ever updated the tooltips, the saved characters did not receive the updated tooltip.
Besides that, here are some other recent significant changes:
- Satsuma has NPCs in the daytime. Shops and nighttime NPCs still to come.
- New sprite sheets and visual effects for several weapons, including Storm Crystal, Bottled Lightning, Windshot Bow, and Shoulder Cannon.
- New crafting recipes.
- Adjusted loot tables to include more drops for various recipes.
And we are still hard at work adding content and fixing bugs. We'll be back with more updates for you soon.