Improved Shields
We’ve reworked our shield mechanic based on your feedback! Your shield now acts as an additional pool of health while in combat, absorbing incoming damage without requiring you to do anything. However by holding down the Block button, your shield will be able to withstand twice as much damage. Your shield’s HP will now recharge after avoiding damage for several seconds.
We’re planning on modifying the character Health/Stamina/Mana display to display this information in a prominent way, but we wanted to get this change out as soon as possible to see how it’s used in the wild.
Character Inventory in Menu
We have added a new Backpack prop to the home screen (only available after you play your second adventure ) that allows you to open your character's inventory and change equipment items.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=266400464
You cannot drop inventory items in the home menu, only change what you have equipped. This feature will not be used to share loot between your characters, that will be done via the loot shrine which includes the loot stash.
TAG filtering in Adventure Gallery
We have added a new TAG filter list in the Adventure Gallery to allow you to turn off the types of adventures you don’t like and have them excluded from the gallery searches.
Keep in mind that this will only work on adventures that have been tagged already ( approximately 900 tags so far in our database) so as more adventures get tagged, the more accurate this filtering will become.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=266402898
Lots of new ACK Props and Textures
We have added lots of new props and textures in this update - all listed in the change list, but here is a quick screenshot of most of them...
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=266400274
Alpha 3.6 change list
New
- Improved shields with passive and active protection
- Added new backpack to menu to open character inventory
- Added filtering by TAGS in the Adventure Gallery
- Added more exterior arch props (EXTERIOR)
- Added new pine tree props (TREES)
- Added a bunch more new item modifiers
- Added more retaining wall prop variations (MINE)
- Added a bunch of Hay Bale prop variations (EXTERIOR)
- Added new paint textures for STONE category
- Added new paint textures for DESERT category
- Added some new plants (TREES)
- Added new desert rocks (ROCKS)
- Added 2 more BRIDGE styles
- Added 3 new STEPS styles (yay, finally)
- New A-Frame prop (STRUCTURES)
Changes/Improvements
- New look character spawn plinth
- Turn off magic effect on mages left hands when shield equipped
- Renamed some TAGs to better identify platforming adventures
- Updated Greendale to fix broken jump and changed NPC visual
- Implemented proper top of ladder dismount animation
- We now turn off/on player weapons when climbing ladders (only cosmetic)
- Did more work on performance optimisations and the lower quality setting
- Newly dropped ranged weapons will now do slightly more damage
- Troll & Minotaur hits should now be more reliable - no more dbl hits
- Trolls & Minotaurs now do slightly less damage, have slightly more health and attack faster
- Added missing neutral icon from world map UI (for those that rated an adventure neutral)
Fixes
- Fixed not being able to publish your adventure if you used a new sliding bookcase
- Fixed rounding values on some loot modifiers
- Fixed Fire Lord secondary lightning mine attack from doing multiple damage/effect
- Fixed slug enemies sometimes sliding or flying through the air when player was near
- Fixed a rare case where player could break character animation when dismounting a ladder
- Fixed Sand paint tile seam strips not turning off when going from TEST to EDIT mode in ACK
- Fixed missing steps on STEP props to allow them to reach the ground from highest sculpt point
- Fixed full screen not working on OSX