Viking Journey 1.7 (Build 1H704)
It's a really big update. As before, we have incorporated many of your suggestions, especially on the GamePlay management. With the new feature "Power & Intrigue" we have started to build up a new game strategy, which represents another challenge for our hero Ulfberth. With this in mind, we have also revised all dialogues (content & translation) and adapted it to the new game features.
- We also extended the terrain with many new natural elements - rocks, trees and landscapes.
- We have also optimized the entire code base in order not to suffer from the increased performance requirements disadvantages in graphics performance.
- Also, the handling of the game itself - rotation lock, key and mouse operation, we have expanded. Below is the details of these changes.
The changes described above goes deep into the structure of gameobjects, dialogues and terrain. Therefore, after upgrading to version 1.7, we recommend to start a fresh game.
Have fun.
Changes in detail
Power & Intrigue
Some of the inhabitants have turned away from the old faith and became Christians. They keep their new faith in secret and are no longer well-disposed to you. They want to spread their new faith, but you and your followers are a big obstacle. Therefore they try to sabotage all your efforts to let the island grow to prosperity and power. They burn down houses, grapple with your enemies, they do not even shrink from murder. You have to identify them quickly and make them harmless, because the damage they do is significant and will eventually lead to your destruction.
Chest Key
Most of the hidden treasure chests now require a master key. Find it and carefully check the contents of the chest before using or taking it. But this key does not help with every chest - some chests you have to open by force, others take you violence extremely bad.
Potions - Treasure View and Hazard View
These potions have been expanded to reveal now most of the treasures and most traps. But remember, you still can not use the potions portioned. Once activated, they consume themselves.
Additional key assignment
We have added many new keystrokes, so that you can reach relevant menu items now also by pressing a button. The function of the previous keys is retained.
Rotation lock camera
Normally, your view though a camera is aligns with the mouse cursor movement. However, this also applies if you want to reach a menu item located on the edge of the screen - the camera moves with the mouse.
Now, by pressing the key [q] the camera rotation is blocked, so that you can now reach the menu items with the mouse cursor, without any camera moving. Pressing the [q] key again unlocks the camera. In the course of this change, we have also connected other menu functions to keystrokes.
All new modifier keys:
[Q] Key: rotation lock on / off[M] Key: Opens the game menu[Esc] Key: Opens the exit menuKey [6]: Inventory menuKey [7]: Construction menuKey [8]: Mission ManagerKey [9]: Opens the minimapKey [0]: Status messages of the production sites
Quality Settings
The speed of the graphics depends not only on the depth of detail, pixel quality and graphics settings, but also on the number of objects to be displayed. That's why you can also choose the level of quality before every launch of VikingJourney, allowing you to customize the game to suit your PC and its performance.
In version 1.7 we now offer additional options to choose the game settings so that the game behaves optimally with your PC.
Quality level: Good (and worse)
- Shadows: no
- Clouds: yes
- Moon: yes
- Stars: no
- Dust clouds transport: no
- Drop shadow fire: no
Quality level: Beautiful (and better)
- Shadows: yes
- Clouds: yes
- Moon: yes
- Stars: yes
- Dust clouds transport: yes
- Twinkle shadow fire: no
Means: in order to optimise the performance the Quality Level 'Good' does not show up every detail of the scene.
Instead of this the Quality Level 'Beautiful': it shows every detail of the scene, but eats a lot of pc power to present this. If you further increase the quality level - the texture quality, the shadow quality and the light quality increases.
It's best you check yourself what is most suitable for you.