Hey guys! What a crazy week (it actually hasn't been a week yet!) I'm very proud to say that in under 72 hours of Early Access we surpassed the success of our entire Kickstarter campaign, which blows me away and is ENTIRELY thanks to all of you. https://www.gameshedge.com/monster-crown-beat-kickstarter-72-hours-release/ I'm truly humbled by all the appreciative words, the enthusiastic monster creations you're kind enough to share with me and of course the excellent bug reports. Together we're going to take Monster Crown to the next level! I always joke that I just made this game because I love retro monsters and wanted an infinite feed of them sent to me, well, you're certainly making that a reality! :D So let's get into today's patch. Closed Beta v1.446 ---------------------- +Shortened a couple of attack descriptions that were too long for the description box +Adjusted Scarred/Desperado transition for more accurate wild encounters +If you fight mom and get KO'd you can end up with a party with all 0 HP which can lead to a situation where you enter a battle and are unable to send out any monster, and are locked. This has been fixed (mom is kind enough to heal you now :D ) +Big improvements to item bank UI and functionality +RNG Tamer Trades were only bringing up blue monsters of the relentless persuasion, now fixed, so have fun with more creature diversity :) +Trading tamers can no longer create duplicate party pointers +Must now double press to flee, some people accidentally ran from Brilliants! Can't have that! #Please note that we want to keep the primary EA build stable so new builds will be uploaded to the EA-BETA branch for 24 hours before being moved to the main stream. Anyone can access this branch, just right-click Monster Crown in Steam, go to properties and select the EA-BETA branch to have the up to the minute, bleeding edge updates. ----------------------- While bug fixes are always the top priority I definitely wanted to get in that much requested double-press to flee feature. I know some of you missed out on Brilliants (1 in a thousand rainbow monsters) and that's just no good with how rare they are! Definitely a great suggestion guys.
Oh, also we had two people try to launch Monster Crown and it couldn't get passed the loading screen. After much investigation we discovered it was their antivirus stopping the game from loading, so if you encounter that, please ensure the application is fully allowed. After another patch or two my attention will go toward our first content pack with more monsters and several much requested new features. It's not too far off at all :)