Hello everyone,
we bring you a new minor update.
This year, we joined the 3rd anniversary event and the Halloween event in one. Some players do not like these events, so from now it is possible to turn them off (in the main menu).
But there are also many players who are looking forward to these events;)
This update is relatively smaller and rather focuses on minor repairs of new or older bugs.
We spent a lot of time dealing with nVidia cards and integrated graphics - this issue has caused us a lot of problems (when the game was runs under integrated graphics).
We know that the update rate of the last months is not as frequent as before.
But we still have big plans with our game, and some steps require a really big hit in the whole game (tuning the characters animation, which will allow us to implement firearms and horse riding - but this is really a big step that takes a lot of time and work) .
On the other hand, we have to keep our game / business in positive sales numbers - unfortunately, the sale numbers is slowly falling and is no longer able to make a reasonable profit for fulltime development. Therefore, we also need to take additional steps to ensure a sufficient income for the development of this game.
Soon we will inform you more - but certainly Novus Inceptio does not end - it is our child and primary project!
(only we need to ensure sufficient income for further full-fledged development)
Thank you so much for your patience, loyalty and support!
EDIT:
We certainly did not want to unleash a discussion on company income etc.
We just wanted to prepare the our players for situation when we must create and finish a new smaller project (about which we want to inform after the new year - the new project is already in the finishing phase) at this time.
And also that it will not threaten the development of the NI.
New small project is to ensure the continuation of our company and to support the development of NI.
New Content
- Starting the 3rd Anniversary Event.
- Starting the Halloween event.
- Both events can be turned off in the main menu.
- Halloween event quest - A new Hat is the main reward (include 2016 and 2017 Hats).
- 3rd Anniversary Quest - A new sculpture is the main reward (include 2016 and 2017 sculptures).
- Two new achievements that will be fulfilled after the 3nd Anniversary quest is finished.
Gameplay Changes
- Removed the ability to turn off the dark edge around the game - this graphic element has been completely removed from the game.
- It is now possible to disable the collision model of the camera (when is disabled - the camera ignores collisions with surrounding objects) turn off or on you can in Settings -> Gameplay
- In the underground temple was removed the inactive teleport (which caused some misunderstanding during the quest's fulfillment).
Issue fixes
- Fixed a collision door model in the dungeon.
- Fixed the quest display in the quest journal (if the tutorial quest and normal / event quest is displayed at one time).
- The logic of "Mix of dried herbs" and "Dried specific herbs" has been fixed, this item is no longer defined as a pure herb (which caused problems and confusion / consumption of these items during the production of oneself).
- Correction of the FPS indication (when the color definitions were swapped (red and yellow).
- Fixed some small bugs in game code.
- Dungeon - slightly increased performance.
- Added libraries for some nVidia cards that improve the compatibility for nVidia GPU systems and integrated graphics (to launch the game directly under nVidia and not under the integrated GPU).
0.53.017
- Fixed a small typing error
0.53.018
- Correction of inventory icons for 3rd statue.
- Alchemy station no longer produces silk.
- Correction of the collision behaviour for the stairs in the dungeon.
