Hello Draconians! With this patch, we are introducing the targeting system and adjustments to the character camera, marking the first phase of combat changes. Both features were available for testing over the past week, and we have made additional improvements based on your feedback. Below is a summary of the changes we have made: Added: New NPCs and story bits Added: New daily quest Added: Interactive level art Added: Experimental collision check when turn offset is being applied to avoid wallhack Added: New targeting system Press t to target Press t to switch between targets Hold t to disable targeting Added: New major story location (currently inaccessible until the first world event is ready) Added: Experimental LODs to larger level assets Added: Upscaling methods Updated: Interacting with NPCs can now unlock new dialogue branches when talking to other NPCs Updated: Made further performance improvements Updated: to Unreal Engine 5.5.1 Updated: Several locations to be ready for more storyline implementation & the addition of first major world event Updated: Interaction animations and default idle state of some already existing NPCs Updated: Fae dragon egg description Updated: First and second island Updated: Newly installed game's default video settings will be set to low instead of epic (only if no config file found in AppData) Updated: Misc. Settings got renamed To "Gameplay" Updated: Reduced interaction trace size to avoid interaction through thin colliders, e.g.: landscape Updated: Increased render distance of large level assets Updated: Constructions that generate items will now generate up to 10 different items; they can now generate 4x as many items; their crafting costs have been doubled; the construction limit has been set to 1 personal generator and 3 clan generators (subject to change) Updated: Some interaction texts Updated: Turn offset and camera lag (to decrease character offscreen situations when flying at high speed), acceleration, dive speed, dive acceleration/deceleration, turn speed/arc, etc. of all 4 flying characters Updated: Free Cam (hold ALT/LB) reset speed can now be adjusted in the settings Updated: Controller input - Added scrolling through menus/lists with RTB (R-Stick) Refactored: Camera system Fixed: Various code changes/errors/warnings caused by engine version switch Fixed: Silent assert error caused by old and deprecated code usage in our gameplay system Fixed: Simmatres missing its opacity Fixed: Luxmatres blocking interactions Fixed: Some level assets being misplaced Fixed: building mode Place/Cancel text being cut off Fixed: Jump not working when using a controller (Y-Button) Removed: Old targeting components DEV KITCHEN A few images and videos of the other things that have been cooking in the dev kitchen.
The finished Behemoth model

The new Eastern Dragon models got their default skins.
The Quetzacoatl concept art. While the Quetz will still be mainly scaled, we changed the scales to imitate feathers. The final model will feature both, the typical leathered membrane and bird-like wings merged into one.
Here is a peek at the head of the new Quetz model. You can find more work in progress images of the rest of the body on our Ko-fi page.

Work in progress Kirin skin.
The Crabling skin has been finished and our texture artist has moved on to work on the Goliath crab skin.
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