We've brought yet another update, the first one after the Playtest Opening. We will be letting in more players with this update. This update mainly focuses on polishing the game, much-needed performance fixes, and new features. New Features

• Added a Collection Button in the Storage Panel. Currently, it only shows discovered items but will also display enemies and maybe even some lore.
• Added a loading screen when opening the game to improve performance.
• Added many new items.
• Added an Autosave feature.
• New item discovery notifications.
• The shop now displays your amount of gold at the top of the screen.
• Added a "hands" option in the battle system if the player has no weapon equipped.
• Added a little "Interaction" that hints at some lore ;).
• Added Steam Cloud Save for player save files and settings.
• Added 3 new Hidden Achievements.
• Added and balanced battle rewards.
• Added credits page in the main menu.
• Added many more secrets and references.
• Added a new area, with all new enemies and items.
• Added new crafting recipes.
• Added random text when you loose a battle. (thanks Azwuky)

Changes

• The backend for nearly everything has been reworked to improve performance. This includes, but is not limited to: The World Map, Location Exploration, Battle System, Inventory, Main backend processes, and the Main Menu.
• Multi-threading has been implemented to increase performance.
• The Battle System UI has been changed.
• The World Map UI has been changed.
• The font for buttons and some other text has been changed to a new font.
• When the player levels up, it now shows a popup to make it more noticeable. Leveling up now also increases the player's Max HP by "+50" per level.
• Enemies in the battle system now have level scaling.
• Updated the look of the shop and workshop.
• All new walk text created by Azwuky.
• After losing or winning a battle, you no longer get sent into another battle. This was only used for testing purposes and was never meant to stay.
• Updated [spoiler]Go find it yourself...[/spoiler] to have a new "Go Deeper" button.
• Changed the style of the navigation button in the top left.
• Gathering resources will now always give you at least 1 item, instead of sometimes dropping nothing.
• Player Stats now show in the storage player stat bar.
• The walk button now has a half a second cooldown, to not overload the game with requests.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with the Discord RPC not displaying the time properly.
• Fixed various bugs with location exploration.
• As mentioned earlier, performance has been enhanced through many, many methods.
• Fixed a bug where the player would not level up when available.
• Fixed a bug where the AFK panel needed to be clicked twice after switching panels.

Project Viper is entirely funded by my passion for this game. I've been making games for 8 years now, and started with RPGs in batch script. This game is meant to form the vision I had with my first-ever games. The game is coming together pretty well, and I want to thank all of our Product Testers, who have tested all of the games me and my team have made.

Just as a disclaimer:

Your Save Has Been Wiped. This was done to clean up old variables that could still be lingering from previous versions. The save wipe also helps prevent potential issues with certain variables whose default values have changed and are static (meaning there is currently no way to increase or decrease these stats in-game). This ensures a smoother experience moving forward. We apologize for the inconvenience. The old save folder and files are still there; you just need to move them from 'C:Fennixindi\player_save.json' to 'C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\ProjectViper\player_save.json' if you prefer to restore them manually. -Seabass