The next patch is now live, with it come a number of adjustments and tweaks thanks to all your excellent feedback on here and on Discord. I was hoping to put a bit more time into the Notebook system so you could review your crossbreeds but there's a huge thunderstorm heading to my house and the power is already flickering, I didn't want to risk not getting this out to you guys tonight!
Be sure to let me know what you think if you opt in to the branch and get hands on! Let me know what you think of the tweaks, are they moving in the right direction? Do you feel I've over-corrected?
Tomorrow morning I'm going to devote few hours to polishing up online battling.
Thanks for all your support in our amazing second day of EA, I love hanging out with you all!
Closed Beta v1.441 ---------------------- +Stampede nerfed from base power 10 to 7 +Overall increase in battle speed and major reduction of delays, feels tighter +Reckless charge has recoil now (as it should) +Wardrobe UI made more clear and easier to exit +Buffed flee chance by 60% +Boss Collure now tameable +Bug in last build where KOing a foe's first monster caused you to win fixed +"Save was successful!" message added. If you don't see this, feel free to @ me anytime. +Set FPS limit of 120 as some powerful system fellas were hitting in the 3-400s! +Swallow water (and other healing moves) no longer heal the foe!
#Please note that we want to keep the primary EA build stable so new builds will be uploaded to the EA-BETA branch for 24 hours before being moved to the main stream. Anyone can access this branch, just right-click Monster Crown in Steam, go to properties and select the EA-BETA branch to have the up to the minute, bleeding edge updates.
24 hours in! Our first patch is here!
Hey folks!
Thanks for playing Monster Crown once again, what a crazy 24 hours!
I was planning to work on a patch all day today and release it later, however, I think delivering the fixes fast and hard to all of you is more important so I'm upping my morning's work now, with another on the way this afternoon and likely two more tomorrow. I'm going to work hard for all of you to make Monster Crown smoother and more bug free as quickly as possible!
Here's the details of our latest patch, right now I'm polling the forums, discord, and our bug reporting tool to assess the highest priority fixes that provide the most benefit to you. If you feel there's something higher priority that I should address ASAP feel free to @ me or reply, I want to make sure I'm working on the things that benefit you the most!
Closed Beta v1.44 ---------------------- +Body Tackle nerfed to 4 power instead of 5 +Starting cash amount doubled from 150 to 300 +Raining inside much less likely to happen +Can now forfeit +Can no longer get free to move in the overworld during battle +Brutus nerfed from lv23 to lv19 +Skull icons added to dangerously strong foes that can wipe you out with ease +After mom tutorial forced monster to refollow the player properly instead of remaining stationary, this had caused a softlock for at least one player +Killing yourself with Dark Deed and the foe at the same time no longer causes a softlock +Pretty sure I've eliminated all ways you can have a scout going on and have that lead to: +Breaking free and moving in the overworld during battle +Breaking free during a chat/cutscene +Big improvements to the world loading code, should fix the "wrong walls/collisions" issue but if you encounter it in specific areas be sure to @ me anytime.
#Please note that we want to keep the primary EA build stable so new builds will be uploaded to the EA-BETA branch for 24 hours before being moved to the main stream. Anyone can access this branch, just right-click Monster Crown in Steam, go to properties and select the EA-BETA branch to have the up to the minute, bleeding edge updates.
The build will be live in about 15 minutes!
Early Access Day ONE
Hello Folks!
MASSIVE thank you to all of you that supported Monster Crown today, shared your sick creations online, and told friends/posted. Your support means the absolute world to me and things are certainly catching on fire, today definitely feels like a success, and entirely thanks to all of you!
Thank you all for the bug reports on here and on discord. I've got the rest of the weekend and Monday and Tuesday scheduled off to work hard on fixes and get out patches to make the game a lot easier and fun to play very soon. For those of you unfamiliar with our discord you'll find it here:
If you're looking to get a little primer on the breeding system, check out Gym Leader Ed's video to get you started:
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Some of you have discovered ??? monsters! These are wild hybrids that are one in one hundred encounters. They are naturally occuring crossbreeds, sort of like if you found a Wolf X Coyote hybrid outside right now! Because you discovered it, you get to name it!
Also, you may encounter one in a thousand *brilliant* monsters, which our like this game's shinies. You know already you can pass down colors via breeding so we had to have a pretty special color right? Briliiant monsters cycle through the rainbow.
A few people coming from Pokemon backgrounds asked some questions that I thought I'd clarify a bit:
1) Not all monsters are created equal! Two monsters at level 10 will not be equivalent if one seriously outranks the other (for example, Brutus vs. poor Rodask!)
2) The world is very dangerous, if you follow the guides in-game and stick to the road you'll be fine, but if you don't, well, you might not be! So explorers make sure you're well prepared.
Have any of you tamed a Duserp yet? Have any of you located the legendary GIGADRILE?
I look forward to hanging out with you guys all weekend!
Monster Crown is now available in Early Access!
Hi all!
Today is a great day, because Monster Crown is now available in Early Access on Steam! 4 years of hard work by Jason Walsh have lead up to this very moment, so please head over to the store page and consider buying the game! If not, please add it to your Steam wishlist, as that would help us out a lot as well!
Get to know the developer behind Monster Crown, the dark monster taming game
Hi all!
As Monster Crown is launching in Early Access in just 16 hours, we wanted to give you a bit more insight behind the scenes of the game. That's why we sat down with Jason Walsh, the creator or Monster Crown! In this interview we're talking about his inspiration for the game, experiences during development and a lot more! You can read it right here: https://www.soedesco.com/news/get-to-know-the-developer-behind-monster-crown/
I hope you like the read, and of course that you're hyped for the game launch! If you haven't already add Monster Crown to your Steam wishlist, as that really helps us! We're also running a giveaway on Twitter where we give away a Monster Crown key for every 100 retweets! Enter that right here: https://twitter.com/SOEDESCO/status/1288814099061567489
That's all for now, have a great day!
-Marten
Pre Early Access Update
Hey Folks!
As you know, MONSTER CROWN comes to Early Access TOMORROW.
This has been an intense week for myself and Soedesco as we prepare, thank you for all of you planning on buying our project tomorrow and joining the other tamers avidly breeding, exploring and battling!
This is a childhood dream come true for me. After 4 years of development the game is now finally about to enter Early Access. I’d love to hear what you think!
These two new legendary monsters, created by Patrick Ackerman (seriously check out this dude's tumblr he is insanely talented https://patattackerman.tumblr.com/archive ) have been announced!
And many of you have been raving about the mysterious dragon on our cover art, who I'm very proud to announce is a collaboration with artist Mossworm from twitter: https://twitter.com/Mossworm1
I hope all of you have a blast, and those of you that have already joined us in the beta, I'm just itching to hear what you think of the four new monsters that you'll be able to find and tame tomorrow, only the toughest of players will get hands on with GIGADRILE a brand new legendary monster that has never been seen before. If you are tamer enough to find it and obtain it, you will surely prevail in any battle.
(he's the one in the lower right)
What's your favorite monster? What will you be crossing tomorrow to create the perfect monster for you?
Tell a friend and wish us luck!
Thank you all deeply from the bottom of my heart for following my little project :)
Behold the new Monster Crown key art!
Hi everyone!
Today I present to you, the new key art for Monster Crown!
I hope you're all ready to begin your epic journey on Crown Island on July 31st, because that's when the game will be available in Steam Early Access!
Let me know what you all think of this new artwork ːsteamhappyː
-Marten
Brand new logo for Monster Crown!
Hey everyone!
I hereby want to present to you all, the new logo for Monster Crown! A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this one, so please take a look!
Let us know what you think of it! And of course, in only 18 days Monster Crown will be available in Early Access, so make sure to add it to your wishlist right now :D
Have a good one!
-Marten
Live Stream - Monster Crown demo
Hi all!
It's Marten here. Last week we I did a live stream of the demo of Monster Crown, and I had a blast! Just for the people who've missed it, we'll re-run the live stream right here on the Steam page today from 12PM CEST until 2PM CEST today.
Hope you'll enjoy!
-Marten
Monster Crown free demo now available during Steam Game Festival!
Hi everyone!
As Steam Game Festival is starting today, you can play free demos of unreleased games for a full week, and Monster Crown is one of them! Just head over to the Steam page, click download and play!
We'd love to hear what you think of the game, and any feedback is very welcome.
Keep it mind that these are demos of games that are currently in development and that everything you're playing is subject to change. It also means that we're really looking forward to what you think of the games and that your feedback can really help shape the future of what you're playing!
In the meantime, we also have some other check out our other demos we have available this week as well:
🐰 Kaze and the Wild Masks 🍊 Fantasy Farming: Orange Season 🚚 Truck Driver
