Today Patch 1.2 is released. For this patch we tried to focus on community feedback and outstanding improvements that we still wanted to implement. We are investigating options for localizations and hope that we get to report something on this soon. We are part of the Steam Open World sale so you can get the game with a 20% discount.
Thanks again for playing.
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Patch 1.2
// Lighting
- NEW: You can change the bloom settings from the video options. - FOG: Has a tighter clamp for a more consistent look. - NIGHT: Night time lighting changed and now looks brighter overall. - NEW: Ray Tracing Features enabled.
Ray-Traced Ambient occlusion.
RTXGI (Beta), Utilize Nvidia's Ray Traced Global Illumination. (RTXGI is disabled in some areas of the game)
// Enemies!
- NEW: 5 new enemies added to the game. - Enemy balance changes. (Health & Damage) - New Encounters. - Encounters updated. - Crawin fight now a lot harder on higher difficulty. - Max attacking enemies changes:
Dragon valley: Maximum of 3 instead of 2 on Challenge.
Shadow's Edge: 4 - Challenge / 3 - Adventure
Eternal Pits: 5 - Challenge / 3 - Adventure
// Aron
- When you do critical damage you can stun-lock enemies in groups. (Scales with difficulty) - Improved accuracy Combat soft-locking. - Improved accuracy roll animations. - Low Health feedback: When your health is low, the healthbar now animates every 5 seconds when in combat and every 15 seconds outside of combat. - The Crystal UI now animates when you try to use an ability that you don't have enough mana for. - You can now tweak the mouse/controller sensitivity for when aiming your bow in the controls menu. - You can now keep running after aiming your bow. (No need to press "Sprint" again) - The animations for Having your bow equipped have been changed. - New dodge & Roll for when having your bow equipped. - Two new damage cooldowns added that scale with difficulty. (Does not apply to book projectiles) (This will help prevent Aron from getting stun-locked by a big group of enemies) - Knockback
Challenge - .75 seconds
Adventure - 1.25 seconds
Story - 2.5 seconds
- Upperbody/stagger hit (Shared)
Challenge - .5 seconds
Adventure - 1 seconds
Story - 2 seconds
// Optimizations
- More LOD's - Significant Shader optimizations for lower end PC's. - Collision improvements
// Controller
- The right thumbstick can now be used to scroll through scroll-boxes in the menus. - The back button now also works in the main menu when opening the save/load menu. - Fixed a bug where input ui wouldn't update on switching input mode. - Can now open the action menu in menu's and at vendors. - Fixed a vendor bug. - You can now rebind the secondary input button. - You can now rebind controller sprint. - Quickslot / Slam ability can now be rebound. - Fixed a rebind bug.
// Map Markers
- NEW: Crafting encounters now also have markers on the map. - Crafting encounter markers can be disabled in the gameplay settings. - Markers are now hidden on the map before Aron grows up. - Bug fixes for compass markers.
// Other
- Key-bindings: All UI now updates according to your binds! - Horse: Added missing gallop sounds. - Horse: Added missing jump and landing sounds. - Horse: Improved camera on horse. - Horse: Improved collision. (Less head stuck in wall situations) - Menu: Credits visually updated. - Menu: Credits now using the proper IMAScore song. - Menu: Hiding time played in the save menu since launchers track that anyway. - Menu: Restructured the key rebinding a little bit to make more sense. - Menu: Hard reset added that'll delete the input file for you and restart the game. - Camps: Potential new fix for enemy camp spawning/completion. - Crafting: Tweaked requirements for crafting items later in the game. - Shop: You can now click crafting materials to sell them at a vendor. (no more need for right mouse button/sell) - Shop: You can now sell all when talking to a vendor and opening the options menu. - FOV: can now be tweaked up to 140. (Not recommended unless you have an ultrawide screen) - It's now easier to start climbing. - Subtitles added to Intro sequence. - Audio: Audio levels tweaked. - Save-games: Post Process filter for better results. - Grammar corrections. - Localization preparations.
/ Rive
- Fixed a bug related to the aggressive dogs side-quest and being unable to complete it. - Floating rocks moved back down to earth. - Improved post process effects in the dark forest area. - The NPC scared of the fox has moved on with his life after 4 years of hiding. - Aron Comments added to blocking volumes. - Landscape fixes to remove floating water. - Landscape optimizations. - Foliage lost in rocks cleaned up. - Reduced chances of Aron moving back to the sneaking start location when talking to dad. - Fortress visual changes. - Collision fixes. - Aron's Home border visuals overhauled. - Updated enemy camps encounters. - LOD changes to endless fields level. - Significant performance improvements. (Loading/unloading certain parts of the map) - Subtitles added to the end cutscene. - Parents chests added to the house.
/ Dungeon 1
- Blocking volume added back. - Minor environment changes.
/ Castle
- Changes made to snowy weather for more consistent behavior. - Background changes. - Crawin fades now properly stay on screen.
/ Dragon Valley
- Witch History Quest marker now automatically updates as new rifts are opened. - Minor Landscape optimizations. - Second gate also opened by default. - Destroyed gate stays destroyed after the long night. - Updated enemy camps encounters. - New encounters. - Enemy balancing. - Subtitles added to the witch fight.
/ The Rest
- Made sure to verify info before loading the sub-levels. - Fixed Post Process effects in all training levels.
/ Dungeon 3
- Environment fixes/adjustments.
/ Shadows Edge
- Fixed Post Process Effect not being removed after completing the sneaking quest. - Fixed Post Process blending effects in the shadow-lands. - Updated post process effects. - Minor changes made to Reldan introduction to prevent a rare crash from happening. - Reldan end fight updated. - Minor Landscape optimizations. - Updated enemy camps encounters. - New encounters.
/ The vault
- New Achievement.
/ Eternal Pits
- Minor pacing changes for the ending. - Added an auto-save after speaking to Crawin.
/ Bugs
- Aron: Critical bug fixed that would mess with Aron's Rotation in some instances after having locked on to enemies. - Aron: Additional ensuring to make sure the minimap icon keeps updating. - Aron: Fixed a rare case of slow motion getting stuck on using the ground slam. - Aron: Fixed a bug where the aiming animation would reset when landing while drawing back an arrow. - Enemies: Multiple Aim Offsets fixed. - Enemies: Wyvern air-walk fixes. - Troll: Improved behavior. (Less getting stuck) - Fixed a rare instance where some video settings would reset. - Fixed a bug that'd reset the fog color when travelling between areas. - Fixed an issue where certain post process settings were ignored. - Fixed a few rare instances of a save game becoming corrupted. - Inventory: Dragging over slots changes the colors fixed. - Arrow Crafting: Fixed hover detail for when you don't have enough. - Arrow Crafting: Fixed a bug where only 1 of every material would be removed from the inventory. - Removed damage interface from chests. (no more accidental targeting of chests)
Update 1.13
Hey everyone,
Another patch to fix some bugs and add some requested features.
We're going to take a small break to recover from the heavy few weeks we've had but we'll be back soon and to continue working on patch 1.2.
- Tim & Tom
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Patch 1.13
// New
- Disable tutorial messages. (Gameplay Options) - Training Dummy at the castle to practice achieving critical hits. (this system scales with difficulty)
// General
- Better Icon and a pulse for Aron on the big map. - Shift + Q no longer forces dash. - Enemy camp liberation logic changes - Minor animation fixes Aron. (Unarmed movement and Dual blade attack anim) - Fixed a bug that would block certain input on respawning. (when players tried to open a menu too early) - Skill tree and skill points loading method completely overhauled (In case of failure the restore function has been improved) (unfortunately lost skill-points in broken saves can't be recovered) - Challenge mode now supports interuptable attacks again for enemies to improve the flow of combat. - Minor Controller UI updates - Dialogue - Mouse -> More consistent clicking through dialogue - VO blocked on certain enemies that'd keep making noises after they'd died. - Fixed and issues with the FOV resetting to default values after certain actions. - Fixed a rare instance of a double spawn happening after going to a camp. - Cows are hidden during cutscenes. - Lever animation plays properly on load - Aron's big head will no longer appear in intro menu
// Animals
- Animal logic updates - Changes to animal run logic - Changes to animal patrol logic - New idle animation setup for animals
// The vault
- Saving for library puzzle - Ladder changed - Book projectiles despawn faster - Book enemies now save
// Shadow's Edge
- Changes to enemy spawns - Asset loading changes. - Minor landscape changes. - Minimap fixes (things on the right side) (Known issue: edge icons are still rotated weird on that map but point in the right direction)
// Rive
- Dragon appearance updated - Mom materials updated - Minor landscape changes - Minor foliage changes - Fox now automatically removed after dying. (Corpse won't stay until 8 years later)
// Heavy Training
- Floating after bridge
// Twinblade Training
- inside lighting changed
// Prison
- Ice walls now save
Update 1.12
Hey everyone,
Before we head into the weekend another small update we've managed to put together thanks to your help and your feedback. We hope you all have a fantastic weekend.
- Tim & Tom
1.12
//Input!
- Reset default now automatically deletes the temporary input file for you. (Hopefully this fixes all the rebind issues people had)
//Controller
- Minor tutorial UI fixes.
//General
- Improved loading of skills/skillpoints. - Re-did loading of skill-points. (In a worst case scenario where your skillpoints are reset you still have all your old points to re-invest) - When you're fighting AI, other AI are more likely to come and investigate. - Compass fixes. (North now == North, etc) - Steak achievement fixed - Better set-up for checking inventory items - Few camps that couldn't complete are fixed - Dragon now takes off if it lands in a strange area - Prison voice line now checks if the player found the key - Prison start area changes - Made mines start area harder to escape - Made infinite ham less common - Robbie's pub now more illegal
//Rive
- Removed some items that remained in Aron's home after the intro.
//Castle
- Prevent a rare case of a broken castle save creating after defeating the spymaster. - Encounter adjustments - Minor Terrain changes.
//Recruit the soldiers
- Inside areas tweaked. - Troll fight changes. (Less frequent similar attacks) - Block off access to soldiers when fighting the troll.
//Dragon Valley
- Minor terrain fix - Minor dialogue fix
//Dungeon 2
- Interior lighting fixed.
//Shadow's Edge
- Death-lands encounters tweaked. (More optional, more rewards) - Foliage fixes. - Terrain smoothing for better mount traversal. - Some work on paths and area transitions - Made certain entrances to quest areas more obvious
//Eternal pits
- Enemies received a boost.
//Animals - In Process of being overhauled.
- Less strange behaviour - Idle behaviour changes - Animals now communicate with other animals of the same type
Update 1.11
Some quick fixes for things we noticed after building 1.1. - Edge icon quests hidden when not used with quests. - Camps not completing fixed. - Camp marker removed fixed. - Icons updated for Camp/base UI updates. - Underground effects temporarily disabled. (In some cases they tended to stick and ruin lighting) - Shadows Edge now removes quest markers after collecting ingredients. - Mini-bosses health-bars set in proper locations - Custom render depth enabled on rift enemies health-bar. (Shadow's Edge & Castle) - Potential fix for Aron sometimes rotating the wrong way when equipping a bow. - Icon broom fix. - Floating grass removed (Rive) - Rock collision fixes (Mining valley Rive)
UPDATE 1 - Markers, tweaks and more!
Hey everyone,
Today we're very excited to release patch 1.1!
Once again, thank you all so much. Your feedback has allowed us to not only fix a lot, but make it better!
Having a hard time finding rifts, you can now select one on your map and a marker will be added.
Rifts, bases, camps are all supported.
Markers can also be disabled in the gameplay options
Camera distance multiplier:
You can now change the distance of the camera in the gameplay settings.
FOV options:
Default = 90 and can be tweaked up to 110.
Combo system overhaul:
Everyone now always gets to do their attack combos resulting in a smoother combat experience.
The critical timing is now used for critical damage only.
Slow motion in trainer levels disabled.
Knockback on challenge and adventure mode only given for critical strikes.
Brightness and Gamma settings.
Tweak the brightness
Tweak the gamma
AI changes
Depending on your difficulty you'll have a much harder time stun-locking enemies.
Challenge mode also made all enemy attacks non-interuptable.
Controller
You should be able to play the game with a controller and prompts that you can enable to be on screen have been updated for controller. (The tutorial messages in game are still just for PC for now but you should always have access to the knowledge of what button does what.)
Controller support for skin selection
Controller support for skip intro
*General
- Controller bug fixed that'd break interactable actors. - AI less likely to be stun-locked. (Scales with difficulty) - Day length is now 25% longer. - Photomode screenshot magnifier lowered to x2 to help prevent crashes that come with going higher. (Watch out with x2 on high resolutions though!) - Fox now also recognized as enemy which will prevent auto-saves from happening when being murdered by them. - Work done to help prevent a respawn where you can only walk and not do anything else. - Photomode now tied to 4 to make sure most buttons are rebindable. (Was already the case but now also communicated in UI) - Quest marker have a higher render priority making them easier to select. - Specific enemy small camps required for achievements now have a map icon as well. - Reduced chances of horse interaction showing up while on the horse. - "special" strong enemies can no longer be instant killed by a fully upgraded ground slam. - Ribs/ham icons fixed - Minor changes to the dash to help prevent rare instances of the player getting stuck in objects. - Fixed a bug where talking to the same NPC twice could cause a dialogue bug where you'd get stuck. - Fixed a bug where the horse would get stuck falling into objects. - Fixed some weight paints on armours - Inventory preview now uses an animation blueprint - Better movement for top of ladders - Spelling changes for some dialogue - Cooldown for ladders preventing AI from constantly teleporting in some scenarios - Menu button that shows current build - Certain armor decsriptions updated. - Jumping into deep water with your horse should no longer cause Aron to get stuck. - Changes to dying to prevent a load from going wrong. - Map textures updated to no longer go blurry due to texture settings. - Crafting empty slot removed, Dragon's Valley & Castle. - Elor economy changes. - Dead forest floater no longer tries to run away from battle when things become too tense. - One handed sword bag icons updated. - Fixed a case of the max explosive arrows loaded wrong after travelling. - Update enemy bases for a more consisten base cleared message. - Balance adjustments for the less fun fights. - Camps no longer respawn.
*Intro
- Automatically show that you can hold space to skip for those that didn't know you could.
*Rive
- A lot of small environmental tweaks. - Better collision in certain areas. - Changed house where aron spawns after the intro. (No more LOD's which should help prevent people from glitching out) - Replaced some terribly contstructed buildings. - Removed some overly excited trees that were growing inside homes. - Rift dialogue fixes. - Rift visibility fixes. - Tree collision fixes/changes. - Minor dialogue changes - Updated paths to make side-fights more obvious. - Optimizations for swamp/oathbreaker forest. - 3 New encounters added to introduce harder enemies that'll show up later in the game. - Other minor changes.
*Castle
- Broken ladder removed. - Mr Surprise now a proper scam. - Camera fixes. - Bridge enemies removed. - Foliage fixes.
*Recruit soldiers
- 2nd quest marker placed at the door. (Climb to the top quest)
*Trainers
- Changes to the twinblade combos to improve the success rate of pressing the button at the right time. (white outline)
*Dragon Valley
- Cult area collision fixes. - Extra steps taken to prevent a dead wyvern from flying. - Lava flow fixes. - Light intensity tweaks in lava area. - Rock collision fixes. - Landscape changes to prevent Aron glitching when leaving the water. - Reloading textures on a lot of the characters that are unloaded during the long night. - Dangerous puzzle collision fixes. - Missing rocks fixed. - Multiple nav-mesh fixes making it easier to summon your horse in certain areas. - Tree collision fixes/changes. ' - Dead tree color changes. - Missing grass restored. - Floating grass instances removed. - Tweaked the ending of the long night fight. - Updated paths to make side-fights more obvious. - New encounter and ruin added.
*Dungeon 2
- Fixing light unload issue if game is saved in some areas
*Shadow's Edge
- Audio changes. - Fight balance changes. - Tweaked mini-boss enemy health/damage. (little stronger accross all difficulties) - Tree collision fixes/changes. - Removed the absolutely absurd amount of dead trees growing on 1 rock. - Render distance changes on certain actors. - New enemy camp added. - Big patches of floating grass removed. - Removed infinite skillpoint from lake rift. - AI spawn distance updates. - End fight landscape updates. - Swamp visibility slightly improved. - Quest location updated notify fixed. (Shows up once) - Castle river fixes - Small river fixes - Cannibal quests now updates properly if different steps were taken. - [UpIsDown] Removed ladder as it caused a rare out of bounds glitch - [UpIsDown] Moved some post-process volumes for a more consistent lighting set-up - [CaveOfEyes] Dialogue now plays on destroying a shield piece - [CaveOfEyes] Fixed Ambrose T pose - [CaveOfEyes] Added save points - Last two Crawin rifts activated by default to expose some additional story to the players. - New enounters added to the top valley. - Updated paths to make side-fights more obvious. - Enemy base spawns updated.
*Eternal Pits
- Removed ability to summon your horse. - Louder combat music. - Auto-save forced after intro. - Unwanted dialogue removed from oathbreaker. - Improved Crawin's strength.
// Patch 1.05 - Bugs, controller, rebinding.
For those experiencing issues with key rebinds you can delete the Input config file to reset these settings: %localappdata%->AronsAdventure->Saved->Config->WindowsNoEditor - Input .
Hey everyone,
Thank you all so much for the love and support, we really appreciate it. The next patch is a big one and it's now live!
We hope you all have an awesome weekend! ːsteamthumbsupː
- Tim & Tom
// Patch 1.05
General
- Crafting requirements check is fixed. - Removed old videos. - Fixed a bug that will improve loading of previous save files. (Less chance of error with progress resets) - Additional Checks to see if a camp is liberated. - Invalid AI is automatically de-spawned which will hopefully fixes quests that check if everyone has been killed. - Fixed an issue with rift sometimes not awarding skillpoints. - Minor changes to getting onto your horse. - You are no longer in danger when fast travelling on a horse. - Changed method for quest reward loot being given to the player. - No longer plays particles when hitting dead NPC's. - All mini-bosses now have a proper sound class as well. - Power upgrade destroys prompt properly when loaded and complete - Smoother light changes for lanterns - Animals now spawn loot - Items with gold texture are now converted into real items with icons - Changing the description text on a quest. - Candles now hide particles on off - Removed flashing from random actors in the world. - Now removes interaction icon from horse when mounted. - Aron now properly mounts when he's crouching. - Horse no longer so excited that he feels the need to run inside of you. - Opening the menu with controller tutorial screen now automatically closes that screen. - Inventory text bigger. - Lake material updated. - Fixed clipping issues in crafting menu - Update our save plugin - Foliage on snow less bright.
Rive
- Made harder to glitch out of the room. - If you glitch out of the room and talked to the mayor you can go back upstairs to Kara. - More difficulty to enter the fortress illegally. - Collision removed from some of the farm plants. - Material fixes on potato plant - Added additional checks that will prevent the intro from replaying on a game load that fails. - Minor environmental changes to prevent slingshotting your horse. - Updated jeffrey Dialogue - Navigation changes to dead forest fight. - Removed double audio from archery dungeon. - Updated missing sound class for Movement dungeon music. - Unset note removed.
Dungeon 1
- lower bug fixed - Holes plugged
Castle
- Meet the special salesman now completes properly. - Added additional progression checks to prevent progress resetting. - Updated the arena fight. - Can't open menu during Crawin Cutscene. - Special salesman boxes sounds given soundclass. - Travel locations on the map now more obvious.
Recruit soldiers
- Collision fixes - Sound fixes.
Trainers
- More time between trainer attacks. - Dialogue updated.
Dragon Valley
- Go to baredale quest now auto-accepted after the village quest - Blocking volume removed for village quest. - Potential fix for wyvern staying in the air.
Dungeon 2
- Blocking on top and right of door fixed - flashing mesh fixed - Dragon has higher chance to do ground attacks before flying - Wyvern firebreath attack slightly nerfed. - Northern camp collision fixes - Northern camp boss attack delay bigger
Shadow's Edge
- Minor environmental changes.
Dungeon 3
- wall material fixed. - Mount disabled in reward room.
UI
- Load game main menu buttons updated. - Credits updated. - Merchant buy button updated.
Controller part 2:
- Dynamically switches between PC cursor and Controller cursor. - Better support for controller in menu's with scrollbars. - Controller now works with map actor. (for selecting missions) - Cursor disabled during dialogue if using a controller. - Can now use the back button to exit out of almost every pop-up. - Controller now works for crafing as well. - Controller now works with most pop-up ui interactions in general.
Control rebinds:
- Freed up the following keys, J,M,N,V. - Following can now be rebound in the rebind menu: - Journal - Map - ScrollWeapon. - Quickslot
Patch 1.04 + Controller support first steps!
Hey everyone!
Patch 1.04 drops today with a ton of fixes and our first steps to improving controller support. Thank you all for playing and we hope that you're having a great time in Elor.
What an overwhelming first 24 hours. Thank you all again so much! Thanks for your feedback, reports and just taking the time to leave your opinions.
- Tim & Tom
// Patch 1.04
General - Fixed an input related bug with regards to dialogue that would get you stuck in dialogue without a way out. (Happened a lot more often on controller) - Aron recovers faster from regular hits. - Autosave/saving game now enabled for when horse riding. - When Aron is damaged while horse-riding he'll dismount from the horse. - Spike damage nerfed. - You no longer run away with owen's ring after returning it to him. - Unusable item removed from vendors. - Dive into water disabled. - Some areas for no mounts allowed updated. - Better support for the healing hotkey on azerty keyboards. - Dungeons saved forced on arrival. - Helped prevent an issue that could cause for a save game corruption. - Fixed an issue where pressing escape wouldn't close the mount purchase menu. (This also fixes it for the other locations that use the same menu) - When you talked to someone and go into your menu, the mouse cursor no longer disappears. - Removed credits from the pause menu. - Fixed a rare case of some quests not completing when they should. - Due to a performance issue with key-rebinding it has been moved to the main menu only. - Guard LOD changes. - Can no longer jump down in the dash dungeon and get stuck.
Rive - Collision fixes - Some landscape changes for easier traversal between areas.
Dragon's Valley - Improved fast travel locations. (Position and unlocked radius) - Improved collisions.
Shadow's Edge - Sneaking made easier. - Small chance at specific crash fixed. (This also fixes a lingering post process) - Made it easier for your horse to find a place to jumpscare you in the castle.
*Controller changes Part 1
- Invert X and Invert Y now work as expected. - Big performance improvements when in menu's with a controller. (These impacts on performance would also stick during gameplay in some cases) - Pause menu proper controller support added. - L1 R1 for switching between tabs - B now closes the menu properly. - Can now open the map with a controller - Fixed a bug where LB and RB stopped working after doing a puzzle. - Horse automatically sprints when using a controller. - Dialogue interactions now properly supports controller as well.
Next up for controller! Communication and customization. I'll hopefully get to do both of those in v1.05
// Patch 1.041 Coming a little later today. Tutorial screen for trainer missions on how to "skip" the combos. Hopefully fixes a saving and loading bug that can erase progress in rare instances.
Patch 1.01 / 1.02 / 1.03
Hey everyone
Thank you so much for communicating with us in case of things going wrong. We've submitted some critical fixes that will improve your experience and hopefully reduce the amount of embarrassing horse screenshots we're getting.
Our work doesn't stop here and we've heard you loud and clear! Controller support will be improved.
Thank you so much for the support and we hope that you'll have a blast in our world! ːsteamthumbsupː
// Patch 1.01 - Progression issue fixed in ability dungeons. - Progression issue fixed for Recruit the soldiers level.
// Patch 1.02 - Can no longer stack buy horse menu's - Guards should no longer spawn at shadow's edge after completing the stealth mission.
// Patch 1.03 - Troll fixes for recruiting mission. - Witch end fix. - Aron Load game rotation fix - Horse not getting scared of the big rats. - Dismounting and mounting in rapid succession no longer possible - Should result in fewer side-ways on horse situations.
Aron has released!
Hey everyone,
It's official, the game is out!
We're very excited for you all to go on this Adventure and hope that you'll have a blast!
Thank you so much for all the enthusiastic reactions. We're overwhelmed by the amount of people that have wishlisted over the last few weeks/days!
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Thank you!
- Tim & Tom
Official Soundtrack release!
Hey everyone,
Today IMAscore released the official soundtrack for the game! You can now listen to it on one of your favorite platforms. https://aron.imascore.com/
