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New Features:

• detailed graphic settings menu

• improved light crystal sound

• more sound effects

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Fixed Bugs:

 

• performance issues in the desert

• spelling mistakes

• All are reborn through fire achievement triggered multiple times

• ritual can be unlocked without being in the cave (subquest missing)

• improved lighting quality

• triggered dialogue triggering multiple times, overlapping itself

• Ingame Menu stretched buttons

• lense puzzle achievement triggered multiple times

• "We will see about that" triggered at the chest in the second playthrough

• player not teleporting when ging down in the desert

• player won't stop breathing heavy

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Not-yet-fixed Bugs and Issues:

 

• Performance Issues due to not stated graphic settings(?) (example Fabians PC)

• directx12 is required to play the game (example Lucas’ PC, not sure if fixable)

• Audio Settings 

• loading times

• Garret LODs

• smoke particles attached to dragon when flying

• intro framerate / artefacts

• NPCs casting no shadows

• Questlog sometimes flickering

• Garret Obelisk dialog circles through other dialog branches when asking to repair the obelisk???

• Lightmap seams in cave visible

• Make fire UI to present/big when unlocking

• checkboxes flickering in menu

• sometimes dialog audio gets chopped off / muted

• floor tile puzzle can get stuck in the ground making progress impossible

• PERFORMANCE ISSUES in the cave

• note to me: look up foliage actors, might improve glowing crystals?

 

Missing features:

 

• spawn dialogue sound in 3d space (reverb in cave)

• optimization

• antenna for tent with radio unit?

• voice line for trying the soup

• sound effect for taking items

• resolution settings higher than HD / settings for ultra-wide

• phone for garret to make him text dr. Kanwar, fixing his animations

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V15 V1-V8 - 16.-19.05.22

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(internal versions with different performance tests)

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V15 - 16.05.22

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New Features:

• Cull Volumes to increase performance

• improved dragon movement sequence, dragon now able to walk on the third bridge

• dragon landing sound

• reduced the quality of the human NPC (MetaHuman) to improve framerate

• switch on/off sound at lanterns

• button feedback sound in menus

• NPC waves to player

• Added dragon quest and lock questlog during ending B/C

• player can try the soup in the tent (restores to full health)

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Fixed Bugs:

 

• player kept playing footstep sound

• Dragon wing shape

• player missing impact sound on jump

• volume level on emerging bridge cue

• player outrunning weapon chest dialog leading to late quest updates, overlapping voicelines etc

• UI make fire not showing

 

 

 

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V14 - 14.05.22 - Pre-Alpha

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New Features:

• intro cinematic

• random dragon sounds through cave

 

Fixed Bugs:

 

• dragon moonwalking instead of stopping at target point

• no light in desert cave 

• random chosen answers are not random and you have to click to proceed

• if the player walks into an npc while he is walking the npc will run in place forever

• Dragon Collision 

• healing not working in the desert

• missing textures in the dragons lair

• no voice line when respawning

• "play again" didn't reset dragon dialog options

• NPCs getting stuck at objects

• cave texture

• obelisk puzzle background wrong position

• dragon dialog being triggered multiple times

• screen flickering at start

 

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V13 - 12.05.22

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New Features:

• obelisk puzzle

• dragon movement system

 

Fixed Bugs:

 

• Sister Dialogue lines switched up

• hieroglyphic voice line to loud

• obelisk voicelines missing

• after spoken to garret the radio exit sound is played

• after talking to kanwar the radio stays on

• garret doesn’t repair the obelisk no more

• voice line broken door missing

• after reading murals no new quest is added 

• does anyone even read these patch notes except me

• neither the big lense nor the bridge is moving after solving the puzzle

• wrong voice line at “are you sure you are real” 

• spelling mistake kin/kind

• dragon doesn't take of after talking to the player and choosing ending b or c, however, was flying when starting a new game

• portal not opening after ritual performance

• radio staying on ater talking to Dr. Kanwar

• after choosing ending B or C the portal still isn’t open to go back to the desert

• “new game” doesn’t reset all endings, nor does it clear the inventory

• trigger sphere for first meeting with dragon to narrow?

• dragon is not attacking the player after choosing ending a

 

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V12 - 11.05.22

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(internal test version)

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V11 - 11.05.22

 

New Features:

• fall damage (or no damage and splash sound if impact on water)

• added reset button for the first floor-puzzle

• working inventory, randomised loot, did i mention the woking inventory

• player falls unconscious if taken to much damage

• player can heal itself using medikits (desert level) or green berries (cave level)

• Implemented Endings B and C as playable level sequences (animation bugfixing still missing but all the rest is there)

• Amara / Kanwar dialogue

• Amara / Dragon dialogue

• more achievements

• improved end screen and main menu design

• Garret and Dragon follow player with their head

• added sound effects for the dragon, radio unit, pain/damage, footprints, players journal

• obelisk puzzle

• dragon walking and flying movement system

 

Fixed Bugs:

• Reworked the Achievement system (unlocks only once)

• Collision settings of bridges

• scaled down the collision of the floortiles so you cant stand on two at the same time and break the puzzle

• after ritual garrets help with obelisk dialogue shows up again

• radio unit works again

• lense puzzle: can’t insert crystal

• player cant get out of fire cause of fire damage: big fire bowl blocked, added unconsciousness state

• inventory not being saved during levels

• Endings not working due to dialogue update

• Rise of the Morningstar quest disappears after talking to Dr. Kanwar

• footstep sound will keep playing when player talks

 

 

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V10 - 04.04.22

 

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New Features:

• New music

• New temple design

• Cave is blocked during ritual

• Puzzles! (moving lenses, loot chests, pushable objects, combination lock, floor tile puzzle)

• Collectables

• sound effects

• New Journal Design, easier to read, includes maps and collectables with dragon trivia

• Footsteps

• Ability to swim

• deleted all the blocking volumes in the cave; it's more open-world now

 

Fixed Bugs:

• Garret calls player multiple times

 

 

 

 

 

V9 - 21.03.22

 

New Features:

• Player Character Animaion (walking and sprinting movement)

• A few new assets in the camp

• remade the Quest System: Questlog works as intentend, unlocking new quests adds them to the log, UI is functionable

• cinematics are skipable (use esc two times)

• Dialogues support voicelines now, jump automatically to the next paragraph and can be skipped (note: not all voicelines are recorded yet, thats why some will play the wrong sound and some diaologues will skip since they are playing an empty sound with 0 duration)

• New music

• New temple design

 

Fixed Bugs:

• Garret is now reliable (at least regarding the obelisk, his character not so much but that's another story)

• Achievements unlocking after re-entering the desert

• make fire UI is back and the look at fire UI will disappear when the ritual is ready, so the interactions don’t interfere with each other anymore

• play again button doesn’t block controls any more

• Garret can be triggered multiple times

• Main Menu now includes Credits, Language Menu got a facelift, Video Settings now work (but badly)

• Questlog jittering

• Quests unlocking not adding them to the log

• Look-at-obelisk diappears randomly

• Audio Settings

• Morningstar Quest in cave level 

• Tessellation clipping at screenborder (caves and gate)

• player can outrun triggered dialogs

• plant LODs in cave

• sky sphere reflectioning inside the tents

• player can confront garret about weapons multiple times

• When players click to next dialog the sound still plays until finished

 

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V8 - 09.03.22

 

New Features:

• Quest System (press TAB to open and close Questlog)

• Dialog Sytem Update, now has unlockable dialog options, triggers game-changing-choices and supports audio files(we haven’t been in the recording studio yet so the cues you heard are just examples that indicate that it works)

• New Side Quest

• 2 different Endings (Placeholders)

• Achievement System

• Cinematics (mostly Placeholders)

• End Screen with your statistics

• “Environment” behind Portal (if you look back from the Dragon Cave)

• More Dialogues (I still kept out all of the main story and/or censored the spoilers, don’t worry)

• Camp Assets

• Atmospheric Fog, bitches!

 

Fixed Bugs:

• Pause Menu blocking Main Menu

• Player Camera going through walls

• Achievements get unlocked multiple times

• Player kept moving when entering dialogs

• VR Controls going crazy

• climbing on tents

• Player gets stuck in stone at the middle of the temple

• Voicelines or Dialogues overlapping

• Subtitles on the right mural clipped (Voiceline will be altered accordingly in the future)

• Dialog at obelisk stop if player moves a bit (increased the radius, you can still cancel it if you ran away, thats intentional)

 

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