Draconia
Patch 0.5.0.8
Added: Rarity color gradient background for items
Added: Secondary item description which will tell you what an item does if it has any interaction options
Added: Item values (bottom left corner of the item tool tip, doesn't apply to all items)
Added: Item types to item description (bottom right corner of the item tool tip)
Updated: Item descriptions and rarity levels
Updated: Doubled Aahnunka effect duration
Updated: Food and water potions can no longer be found in barrels
Updated: Refactored item database
Fixed: Several typos in item descriptions
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Feedback on Draconia
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- The Draconia Team
Patch 0.5.0.6
Updated: 'Small Meat', 'Meat' and 'Large Meat' thumbnails
Updated: Reduced 'Small Meat', 'Meat' and 'Large Meat' food restoration points in favor of a new consumable tier
Updated: Reduced wood spike damage by 25%; now applies medium bleeding effect instead of heavy bleeding effect
Updated: 'Glass' applies medium bleeding effect instead of heavy bleeding effect
Updated: Slightly reduced bloom & fog intensity
Updated: Reduced chance of thunderstorms, rain and snow to occur
Updated: Item descriptions of plants and fungi
Updated: Loading screen plugin
Updated: Consumable effects (plants, fungi)
Updated: Level streaming changes (experimental)
Fixed: Tarax using the wrong normal and roughness maps
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Patch 0.5.0.5
Updated: Status UI - time is now being shown in seconds/minutes, stack count only visible if needed, timer outlined for better readability
Updated: Refactored initial gameplay effect gathering to avoid latency and late replication issues after player connects to server
Updated: 'Unstuck' cooldown now properly updated in any situation
Updated: Forcing server utf-8 file saving
Updated: Character names now use forced utf-8 encode before save happens to avoid weird names that can break json db
Updated: Save system to avoid corrupted files in the future
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Patch 0.5.0.3
Updated: 'Unstuck' cooldown effect is now being saved on death too (and saved character wide when logging out while effect is active)
Updated: Various texture resolutions
Updated: Landscape LODs
Updated: World partition loading ranges
Updated: Reduced cloud render quality
Updated: Constructions with light component now using Max Draw Distance / Max Draw Fade Distance properly
Updated: Screenshots taken with our screenshot tool are now being saved in "Documents/Draconia/Screenshots"
Updated: Camera turning stop to be less hard capped
Fixed: Possible crash reported via sentry
Fixed: Our internal screenshot function
Possible Fix: For item duplication exploit
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Hotfix 0.5.0.2
Updated: Switched back to Unreal Engine 5.5.1 for testing purposes
Updated: Wyvern camera zoom range
Fixed: Flying acceleration not scaling with level
Patch 0.5.0.1 & Dev Progress
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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SKIN CHALLENGES
We have also started running weekly skin challenges on Discord that everyone can participate in.
These challenges are for players who enjoy creating skins based on specific themes.
Here are the top skins from the challenges that have concluded so far.
SOCIAL MEDIA
DISCORD: https://discord.gg/draconiagame
INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/draconiagame/
BLUESKY: https://bsky.app/profile/draconiagame.bsky.social
YOUTUBE: https://youtube.com/draconiagame
REDDIT: https://reddit.com/r/draconiagame/
Patch 0.5.0.0 (beta branch) is ready for testing
If you want to join the testing, right-click Draconia in your Steam library and go to "Properties > Betas > Beta Participation" and select "buildtest - public developer build branch".
You can only join the testing server "[US] Draconia - Test Server #1" while you are on the testing branch.
We are primarily looking for feedback on:
- The new character + camera movement (movement has not been reworked entirely, only the character camera which is movement based!)
- The new targeting system (Use "t" to target enemy AI)
- Render distances of level assets e.g., foliage, rocks, etc. (please include your video settings)
- Performance
However, if you notice anything else new in this patch that doesn’t feel right, feel free to mention it here.
Patch notes for this beta patch:
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 core c++ classes
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: 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
Refactored: Camera system (part 1);
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: Simmatress missing its opacity
Removed: Old targeting components
Patch 0.4.0.8 & Upcoming Additions
This patch removes the Halloween event and introduces a small Christmas event, which will remain active until January.
The second island has undergone significant changes, with many new locations waiting to be discovered and explored.
The coming months will be an especially busy time for us. Most of our old character models are nearly phased out, and with the new models, rigs, and animations mostly ready, we can finally focus on major additions and changes to the game.
Our main priorities are combat + movement and the new character creator.
We aim to move away from the "face tanking" and LMB spam that have plagued the animal survival genre for years. These should only be last-resort options when a character has exhausted all other means of defense.
You might be wondering why we are revisiting the character creator.
The answer is simple: the character creator plays an important role in how characters and their progress are saved. It also lays the foundation for future features like nesting and the skill tree, making it a crucial step in Draconia's development.
Over the next few months, you can expect to see updates focused on level art and character progress, while we work on mechanics in the background. It will take some time before we’re ready to showcase the first changes.
Patch Notes
Added: Proper character hit sound effects
Added: Lindy dialogue sfx
Added: New location to island #2
Added: New caves and tunnel systems
Added: 3 new fast travel points
Added: Ctrl+LMB moves items of the same type between inventories
Added: Hide HUD button (backspace; can be rebound)
Added: Item pickup & inventory SFX
Updated: Ka'sai movement transition
Updated: Lindworm character cam
Updated: Burn and poison effects applied via fire/shadow/poison breath no longer stack but timer gets reset when target gets hit again, timers have been increased to 10-15 seconds
Updated: Azulite cave
Updated: "Show stat labels" now shows actual current / max values to find clamping issues faster
Updated: Gamepad controllers now use 0.2 dead zone by default on both sticks
Updated: The limit of Bone/Oceanic/Crystal stashes has been increased from 2 to 20, upkeep has been increased to 4 (Tier 1), 6 (Tier 2), 8 (Tier 3)
Updated: Using "unstuck" now adds a visible cooldown de-buff and saves with character when logging out
Updated: Construction inventory is now being saved immediately after every operation in single-player
Updated: Basic healing items - Elderblood & Simmatres now regenerate health over time, their buffs do not stack; Elderblood's total health restoration amount has been doubled
Updated: Craft time text in Crafting tab
Updated: Icons of items in crafting tab are now greyed out they aren't craftable
Updated: Sleeping/Resting - Tab H to toggle resting state, hold H to toggle sleeping state (J has been removed); keys can be changed in the settings
Updated: New constructions inherit PvP/PvE state from totem
Updated: Upgraded constructions keep their previously set PvE/PvP state
Updated: Group member scent visibility
Updated: Spiders won't attack spawn village anymore but will still spawn in the forests nearby
Fixed: ToD audio actors not working
Fixed: Missing construction repair UI for listen server owners
Fixed: Missing character class texts in Clan member list
Fixed: Missing fluid sim sockets for Wyvern and Lindy
Fixed: Stats being properly clamped at their max
Fixed: Volcanic fireplace not applying comfort buff
Fixed: Rare server crash caused by carry/grab
Fixed: Server crash caused by player spawn failure
Fixed: For previously existing patterns that have been removed; resets patterns to default to make edits possible
Fixed: Quest rocks still glowing after accepting a quest
Removed: Halloween event
If you want to see more frequent news on upcoming game updates make sure to join us on Discord!
Want to report a bug or want to know what other things we have on our to-do list visit our Trello Board!
Patch 0.4.0.7
Updated: Spiders are a bit stronger and give less XP
Updated: Firebreath, Shadowbreath, Poisonbreath damage
Optimized: Navmesh generation, should have less impact on clients when playing in single-player
If you want to see more frequent news on upcoming game updates make sure to join us on Discord!
Want to report a bug or want to know what other things we have on our to-do list visit our Trello Board!