Hello Tamers,
here with another patch! This one focuses on a visual tune up along with some miscellaneous fix ups.
The overworld now has several visual monsters just hanging about, or butting heads with a foe!
Or just scenic additions like these cats in Mill Town and Nio Kio.
New Monster
As promised, there's a little extra content coming throughout the weeks from here, be sure to check out the Deep Chasm for a brand new monster, it's a tough one with a very cool design by Dandey who is a super talented monster designer and pixel artist.
The CROWNED transformation is here!
It's been a very long time since we annouced this feature, here's a video from back in 2018 that explains what it is, max your synergy and get a super boost!
Our battle UI has sure come a long way since then!
While this looks visually cool, and provides a type advantage, it's also a 1.5x multiplier on your attack, defense, magic and resistance.
While its easy to build synergy by defending, you'll have to swap with full synergy to pull off this strategic transformation. Be sure to use it strategically as a tanky monster can pass over a huge boost to a more versatile team member.
There's no tutorial for this skill in-game as I wanted people to have fun discovering it on its own, and its pretty straightforward once you've pulled it off once!
Fun
Some additional fun comes with this update, for example, using the skating power is much faster now, as well as providing a payout if you do super well, here's me trying it out, think you can beat my high score of 152? If you catch a screenshot of a higher number I'd love to hear how you pulled it off!
Riding monsters using the saddle icon now works seamlessly, there was some issues with it before not lining up quite right.
Also, if you have Thunderstomp and use it when a monster like Staglus or Mimika is flying overhead you'll be unceremoniously challenging it to a duel! Be sure you're ready to take 3+ of them on at once if you're so bold!
Thunderstomp's graphics have also been improved and even glow at night now.
Patch Notes
Here's the full patch list!
+New, cleaner and easier to read font
+Evening and morning phases now half as long, with day and night phase lasting longer to make up for the gap, these are more transitional phases and should be treated that way rather than morning and evening being as long as day and night.
+Color balancing work
+Moon can now be seen in battle in certain areas
+CROWNED transformation now available after unlocking synergy
+Many overworld monsters added (with a few fun secrets)
+When monsters fly overhead, thunderstomping challenges them to a battle (be wary!)
+Long black ice skating is now faster, has a counter and rewards cold, hard, cash
+Syleendra's overworld icon now glows at night
+Amidia's indoors sprite color fixed
+Saddle monster action icon now allows you to ride your monster seamlessly
There were many more fixes as I worked through our bug tracker:
Visit the tracker here
You can read up on every little fix on there but I wanted to summarize some of the major things you'll notice. If you have a bug to log, feel free to use anon/anon rather than having to sign up.