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Quick, Little Patch 0.344 p3
Some of you may have encountered some lag spikes when playing the game over some hours. I hopefully corrected it now. I accidentally did not initialize a thread (which was supposed to run in background) properly, resulting in a lag spike all 0.5 seconds.
Cheers and God bless :)
December V 0.344 1st Advent :D | Christmas
Hello there my fellow players. Since December started there have been some updates.
Christmas is around the corner and the first advent week has started!
I am planning on potentially making a special Christmas Mini Game for December 24th/25th.
I hope I will make it :)
Currently most of the work done is not seen directly, since it has to do with ACT III.
I hope you will have a wonderful Christmas Time :)
Here is the change log.
-The game has now an official main theme :D
-Fixed the issue where you could save during the sequence between jason and michael in the sewers.
-If an item gets detected by a trade sensor, it will be destroyed in the time record.
-Raw meat can now be converted with the sir atom
-Fixed cars spawning in prior to 1900
-Foxed where Luke would not talk to Sandy
-Changed the exterior looks of the mansion slightly
-Added Christmas Event to the menu
-Fixed the bug where you are still stunned after reloading from a Game Over Screen
-Switched some calculations on a secondary thread resulting in a performance increase
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-Removed Cinematic time travel due to a game breaking bug removing all items in the car.
-Fixed the window blinds name and typos
-You can cook on campfires now :D
-Fixed the saving of the flower book turning into the urban book
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-New engine sounds
-Fixed the bug where no bandits appear in the bandit cavern except the Quest boss
Cheers and God bless.
Quest Reset Bug | other fixes coming
There have been lots of reports from you, that your quests where resetting.
I pinned it down to some problem in the saving. I think it may have to do with the item tracker (where items are being saved in their time lines).
In any case I think I might have fixed it now and just to be sure, I moved the quest saving process before any of the items.
Along with that will come a few smaller fixes, such as save station spawns.
I got some reports, where in you would die instantly after spawn. The issue was with the fall damage. So I added a wait call, so that the map loads completely before applying any fall damage.
The update should be out either by today or tomorrow. It will be one of the updates in the lead up to a small christmas special :)
Thank you all for the bug reports and I hope these will be fixed. If they will reappear again after the update report them as soon as possible.
I wish you a good time and a good start into the christmas season.
Cheers and God bless.
-Erathor
Update 0.343 | Mobile Stove | Bugfixes
First of all I wanted to thank everyone for reporting any bugs they came upon. I spent the last week with my small group of helpers to fix as much as possible. I also added stoves recently,
so have fun camping out with your car and frying some freshly hunted steak! :D
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November 25th v0.343
-Started private development on Act III`s first quest (not available to the public)
-Fixed item duplication glitch
-Added a grill to the 6/12 store
-Added meat
-All meat has to be fried first
-Fixes made for the Accordion Man Quest
-Fixed the issue where you loose items and the car bugs out once your other self jumps in.
-Redwood collision boxes are now fixed
-Fixed that trackers trigger box in 1940
-The machanic now has a house in the 1940s
-Recalculated the Navmesh
-Hopefully fixed the comic for Act II
- Added cooking feature - Raw meat now drops from Monsters/Critters.
- Added Grill - Can be purchased for the 6/12 store
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-Time Agents do not spawn anymore, after Act II finishes because they are now trapped in 300 bc...
-The leviboard cannot be used anymore to cheat verticality. (You cannot hold and ride it at the same time anymore)
This is it for now. We will have more to present to you soon.
Cheers and have fun playing :D
v0.342 p3 | Quick Patch | Little apology about that Framedrop.
I got some reports, that there was an issue with frame drops. I just wanted to apologize that this happened. I fixed it and patch 3 is out now. The issue was with the Item Tracker (tracks items through time) it was trying to spawn add to a list and delet items indefinitely. So it basically clogged up the memory. Simply a logical error of mine in the code.
Hope all works now.
Cheers and God bless :)
Update v0.3416 | 1 year anniversary | Work on ACT III has started |
I wanted to let you know that the game is now one year old since October 26th :D
Lemme rehash how all came together.
One night I had the idea of making a time travel game. The idea was that you would be actually able to travel to any date in time :D
So I spent the night with a donut and some coffee to work out the basic structure of driving a car / time system / a tracker, which would record the cars actions and so on.
From there I started on a basic story. I was thinking of you selling things to an antiquities shop. The original inventor (who was your co worker) was kidnapped in this version of the story and was forced to work on inventions for the time agents.
This is the original plan for the map. I am sure some of it may actually look better than it does right now. Some might have looked worse. What I am saying is if you liked some of the original plans let me know and I can see if I can implement it :)
This antiquities shop later became E.R. Athors lab. And the inventor himself was now the shop owner, instead of being kidnapped. Originally his shop would have been a shack next to the Burger Lord (As a nod to BTTF with docs shack next to the burger king)
I dropped that idea at some point but you can still see the shack. It is just somewhere different. It is now the blacksmith's shop.
Incidentally the Weathermachine quest (and the character E.R. Athor) is a story I pulled entirely from a semi abandoned RPG I never released. So there is this whole back story. The game is called Dark Sea. It may get a real release at some point, thought it may be an entirely different game by then.
Of course this is not the end yet but see how far we have come in one year. Let us see how far we can get in another one :D
I recently started work on ACT III.
This last act may take a bit longer, because not only am I going to revamp features or add new ones to the list.
I will revamp ACT I with an intro section showing how it all came to be (The escape from the facility and so on).
Act II may also get some changes to make a better pacing though I have no really clear goals on that.
To bridge this time gap I will continue with posting smaller side stories and things for you to do :)
Thank you all for bearing with me on this project and let us see where it all will go.
Here is a changelog for the past additions and fixes:
October 30th v0.33.9
-Hopefully fixed the item tracking
(Basically an explosion of spawning the same item in the same place)
-Added pumpkins for October 31st to decorate streets
-Added a cemetary
-Added many more candles to decorate the cemetary on November 1st and 2nd
-A few changes to the Time Machine visuals
-Added all Hallows eve, All Saints & All Souls Day as events in the Menu
-The Narrator has now more lines.
-The Smuggler in the alternate future sells now the MR. Crafty
November 2nd v0.34
-Made a japanese takeover of the economy in the future
-The burger lord now sells Chips&Sticks in the futures
November 8th v0.341
-Fixed the leviboard
-Items carried do not obstruct the player while walking anymore
-Fixed the inability to drop ingredients for jobs quests
November 9th v0.3415
-fixed an error in the tutorial
November 13th v0.3416
-Added a small locomotive to travel across the tracks
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-Fixed the issue with the Dialogue Box not fading away for certain Npc's
Cheers and God bless.
- Erathor
0.33.7 Imposter-LOD and Items in Time Travel
Hey there one of the latest additions is the imposter system.
I hope it will get out a bit more frames for the general performance.
It is still a bit buggy so I will have to make it a smooth transition. I hope you don't mind for the time being.
This is the actual model
This is an imposter billboard, activated on Distance.
The other noteworthy thing is that items are now tracked through time.
So don't worry about forgetting an item (That you must have handled before) in the past or future.
Except boxes.. ye well they will be empty if you forget them (Just a little heads-up)
Here is the full log :)
October 23th v0.33.5
-Items are now trackable through time (Warning Boxes will be empty when left behind)
-Fixed the Camera Dialogue Problem
-Revamped a part of the Accordion Man Quest and fixed a few bugs
-Disabled crosshair during 3rd persion driving
-Fixed the dropping through the floor on World-Load
October 24th v0.33.7
-Added a billboard imposter system
(basically 2d sprites to look as the real 3d objects at distance)
-Fixed the time tracked items Destroy Call
V 0.33 (Luke needs your help!)
New update and a new side quest!
Luke needs your help. You can find him at the town center.
Here is the changelog:
- Added the Flowerbook to the book store
- Solved the issue with NPCs walking against an invisible wall at the townsquare
- Added the Elanor Quest
- A few additions/changes to the visuals of the car (also a visual addition to the hover upgrade: Hover gear for the wheels)
- Changed the time story save location and data type into the no time installation foler, as a .csv file.
- Increased the brightness for the potato graphical settings
- Fixed the bug where the replica time cars would hit the breaks when you would.
- Made some visual changes to the sky-high way
Hope you like these additions. There will be more coming soon :D
Have fun!
V 0.31 (Npc Update and first Side Quest)
Talk to NPCs in the future or the 70s, in order to trigger it.
Here is are the major additions/changes:
-Added slight camera animations
-Added facial improvements for NPCs
-Added footstep sounds
-Fixed the freelook-option (for flying car) to Tab
-Added the Accordion Man Side Quest
Have fun on your time travel adventures :D
-Erathor
ACT II RELEASE!
The swashbuckling, sci-fi, time-travel-adventure with Edward (inventor) and You (The player),
continues!
Travel through time to save the timeline from the dystopian future of the illusive time agents.
Here is a little game teaser:
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Here is the teaser to ACT II:
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Here is the changelog:
- Revamped flight controls
- Revamped The Tutorial UI
- The questlog now displays the current time as well as the specific quest time
- Added ability to push lampposts/fences out of your way with the car.
- Added scaling for the game map
Setpember 27th v0.3 - Added the second act to the story-arc
- A number of billboards have been added for different timeperiods
- Added custom quality settings
- Made an altitute limit for flying
- Added rain collision (Particle Raycasting)
- The hover train is now ridable and stops between stations
- Implemented Occlusion Culling
- Added monitor stripe effects
- Removed the constant beeping from the time conduction
August 13th v0.29.9
Now Good Luck on your time travel adventures!
- Erathor