Hello folks and Happy New year!

I hope you all had a great holiday 2020 and a huge thanks to the influx of new players over the holiday during the Steam sale, it warms my heart to see all these new players get to know Monster Crown and fall in love with specific monsters, all the while creating their own, it's the most beautiful thing to me!

In this build you'll notice that several menus have had touch ups or redesigns, new sound effects and general menu responsiveness and ease-of-use (the item bank for example is much faster and easier to use). You'll even be able to check out your monster's stats right from the party screen.

Additionally, Meerlin, Teedon and Walerus now have new, more fitting genetic variants, be sure to check them out as I think you'll really enjoy them - Malicious Walerus is a personal favorite!



There's also been some *serious* bug fixing going on, which you can see the latest of on our bug tracker:
http://bulletcpu.com/mantis

No need to signup, you can use anon/anon but if you have an issue you'd like to hear back personally on it can be worth signing up so I can find you and you will get email notifications if I post on the issue.

There are currently 36 active issues on there, all of which I plan to have remedied by month's end if things keep going as smoothly as they have been. If you have an issue you think we missed, please feel free to add it on there. I think in October we had almost 200.

Content Pack #5 is still on the way later this month (expect more details soon) but Content Pack #6, planned for next month is one we actually just decided to beef up and add even more new things to, so be aware, there's a lot of new content on the way (monsters, content and features!).

Be sure to check out Mantis if you want a longer bug log but here's the highlights:

v0.1.55
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+New Teedon variants
+New Meerlin variants
+New Walerus variants
+New monster party screen
+Icon over Humanism Chief to notify players of what to do next and make sure they don't get stuck not knowing what to do next
+Tamers spawning with level 1 teams fixed, these tamers were always meant to be even tougher, so now a few wild tamers will have full parties AND outlevel you!
+Friendly monster popup no longer sticks around after speaking
+No longer automatically pick up fruit after battle if you are standing in front of one at battle start
+Mac users no longer need to worry about missing monster icons or one with red/blue placeholder colors
+Respect points no longer consumed if breeding fails
+No longer level up by 2 levels in the early game when you should increase by only one
+Now have a visual indication of both the item being used and the amount left while applying items to your monsters (thanks Kyle Toom you're the best)
+Separate Music and SFX sliders
+Scanline setting saved
+Many more tweaks and adjustments and refinements

Have a good weekend tamers!