The Dawning Clocks of Time
4.5.2501
This is the full changelog of what this patch fixes, improves and adds general quality of life improvements to the game:
-Fixed DPI scaling issue on the launcher.
-Fix size of lazer on milky way map.
-Taken out redudant color coding explanation on intro tutorial.
-Maine is now more zoomed out than before, allowing for easier navigation and can see more of the map.
-Fixed Auto-Dash not working.
-Fixed Maine Overlay lampost issues.
-Fixed Maine signs issues.
-Fixed Library at Maine building corruption.
-Added cloud overlays in Maine for corrupted areas.
-Fixed not being able to get time relic in proxima a grotto.
-Fixed paralyze infinate bug.
-Fix HP% and DWN& being unreadable.
-You will now be placed next to Raliegh when leaving Aether Outpost making him easier to find.
-Removed Bugged mouse cursor and icons.
-Fixed Markus and Alexander dissapearing from party when Raliegh joins you.
-Fixed Pluto staying in the party when he shouldn't.
-Fixed bug where it was possible to paralyze some bosses.
-Fixed bug where it was possible to skip 'Summon Pluto event' causing a bugged cutscene to happen and putting pluto in a bugged state.
-Rebalanced Behemoth's attack.
-Fixed a bug where it was possible to collect Dawning Relics before speaking to Irvine in Motel Room, causing a potential game break and bugged cutscene with Kate.
-Fixed a bug where collision with car near garage is bugged.
-Fixed a bug where leaving Sanctuary Sanctum could cause Sanctuary to be bugged.
-TV in Motel moved to left wall where picture was.
-Wall made into stage area for later scene.
-Pluto now seen after introducing him first time in motel.
-Wolf difficulty lowered.
-Fixed typo errors on Aether intro custscene, along with adjustments to wording.
-Zoomed out Sanctuary Hotel.
-Zoomed out Sanctuary Catacombs.
-Increased Rune Grid performance.
-Rune grid is now zoomed out by default.
-Rune Grid now updates amount of Time and Space Relics shown.
-Reduced volume of Blue Moon SFX.
-Zoomed out Blue Moon outpost.
-Changed items Crissie sells to Pure Water.
-Prison Ship on Blue Moon Cutscene Restored.
-Reduced minor lag when obtaining items.
-Fixed wrong portrait version being used for Moon on Dark Hallway fight.
-Rebalanced Rune and Cybernetic Damages.
-Mode IX now increases by 200%, with the potential to attack up to four times depending on AMG upgrades..
-Time Acceleration now at 200%.
-Kalyks added to Proxima A Grotto. They were missing before.
-Aether now is now more zoomed out.
-Summon Pluto on Relic Grid has been changed to Pluto Character, as Pluto sometimes joins you in battle if you only have three characters after this has been unlocked, making it less confusing what this option does.
-Changed Pluto's normal attack to deal more damage and animation and sound.
-Added Blue Moon Landing area cutscene instead of the Termi 57 being inside the Archon prison.
-Added Blue Moon Creatures to Sanctuary City.
-Updated Markus' face art to help differentiate between him and Alexander (though being twins, they both have different face gear).
-Spacefarer music on cinematic volume has been reduced.
-Updated Parts Cinematic Text styles to keep with the rest of the fonts of the game.
-Updated Blue Moon Sets.
-Updated Aether Sets.
-Updated Kate Normal Battle.
-Updated Kate Vita Batte.
-Updated Kate Face Art.
-FIxed bug with ATB system which could cause slow battles.
-Fixed Hooded figure at the beggining with new graphic.
4.4.2301
-Features-
-You can now shoot using the Termi-57's Laser gun when travelling through space with the 'A Key" or the R button on the controller. This was suggested to us, that there should be more to do when going from sector to sector. It's early work, and there's more action coming to the game at a later stage.
-If you enter an uncharted section of space, you have the option of warping using the 'W key' or the L button to a known sector (usually near a galaxy gate or planet.) This was heavily requested the players that were getting lost.
-You will also now have a notification on which sector of space you are in, instead of having to rely on memory and the map, making exploring much more enjoyable!
-Energy Cores will flag up as being in Energised or warped sector, making them easier to find than before.
-The Time & Space Relic count will now be shown in the Rune Grid when moving between nodes, without having to go back to the centre to view the amount avaliable.
-Bug Fixes-
-We've fixed a bug in the save window where graphics would not display properly.
-We've fixed a graphical bug in the Sirius System map.
4.3.2201 Patch
We are happy to announce our partnership with Psychronic Games, developer of Star Shift Series. With this partnership, they have worked alongside us to bring many new graphical updates to The Dawning Clocks of Time.
We are also very excited to announce that an amazing team is now working on voice acting for the game. It will some time yet before that update will be here, but in the meantime, you will see a 'Enable Voices' option in the game. Currently, it is disabled.
With that, here is the full list of changes that this patch brings;
New and Improvements
-You can now land on Proxima B! The planet didn't make it into the game, until now. In the future there will be more of the planet to explore, but the artwork has been completed, so we are so happy to add the planet to the game.
-New overhauled graphics for the Archon Prison on Blue Moon, more fitting for the sci-fi setting. Special thanks to Psychronic Games for thier beautiful artwork here.
-The mini-map is now transparent instead of having a blue surrounding which allows you to see more of the game's screen.
-Further to our work on making the game widescreen, we've enhanced scenes such as Aether where the cropping reduced the view of the area.
-Improved launcher startup time by optimising code.
-Support on the launcher will now check if you are running the game from an SSD for optimal gameplay.
-The launcher will now show the CPU clock speed and SSD alongside the GPU for support purposes.
Bug Fixes
-Fixed Blue Moon Plains being too zoomed in making navigation difficult.
-Fixed an overlay issue with Blue Moon outpost being displayed incorrectly.
-Fixed aspect ratio display issues on certain scenes.
-Fixed a potential crash from occuring on some PCs.
4.2.1901 Patch
-Improvements
-We've reduced the installation size from 9GB to 6GB by removed redudant patch files, allowing the game to be downloaded more quickly.
Fixes
-Fixed Credit icon from appearing over text in the menu.
-Fixed Summon Pluto consuming a large amount of Dawning. It is now fixed at 35% for each summon.
-Pluto Strike and Pluto Wish damage has been doubled.
-Fixed message not appearing if missile launch ability has been learned but not if a missile is in the inventory.
-Increased Time and Space relic drops for some foes.
-Fixed foes not dropping Aid Sprays later in the game.
-Better Time and Space rewards from bosses.
-Slower scrolling speed of text on Progenitor Scenes.
4.2.1801 Patch
-The game is now finally presented in widescreen! This was a huge effort as the game had to be resized piece by piece and all assets and events redone to fit. We cannot thank our community and players enough for their feedback for the game. We've finally got there!
-Dawning is now regenerated slowly when landed on planets or walking around. This does not apply to starship flight
-When landed and travelling, you'll recieve payments every now and then from Vita Base. Amount awarded depends on Sven's LUCK stat. It's only right you should get paid for fighting for the galaxy!
-We've added the option to try the Karak Invader fight again. In line with this, we have corrected story elements to say that the party almost got killed instead of saying they won.
Fixes and mprovements
-We've updated the 4x4 hog sprite to a more modern one on the Aether intro.
-Adjusted zoom levels of maps to show more surroundings but keeping with the cinematic look.
-Zoomed out Relic and Synthesis Grid to show more nodes.
-Depixellated and smoothed out character portraits.
-Moved Credit on menu next to character, instead of at the bottom.
-Fixed graphics glitch when travelling through galaxy gates, the animation would get duplicated before.
-Fixed cutscene error in Progenitor System.
-Vita Base is now more zoomed out for easier navigation.
-The mini-map was too zoomed in before, making it difficult to pinpoint locations. We've zoomed it out to show more of the map and objects of interest.
-Synthesis Upgrades now properly increase Chariot's AMG Moxie stat.
-Progenitor Weapon base moxie stat adjusted for rebalance.
-Added message of how to resurface when first going underwater.
-Fixed Ending Scene layering issues.
-Fixed bug where it was possible to skip picking up the Progenitor Axe and temporarily break progression.
-Fixed bug after talking to David Corwen would not change the quest to 'Find Vita' to 'Travel to Pallas'.
-Fixed bug with map menu on areas.
-Added Sven speech when interacting with Progenitor Derelict, pinpointing that you need to find the intact ship in Alpha to help avoid confusion.
-Added Finale DLC load point and initial teaser movie of Ing's Planet after ending of the game.
-Karak Marshall HP has been reduced to rebalance difficulty.
-Swamp Hound HP has been reduced to rebalance difficulty.
-Progenitor Ghost HP has been increased to rebalance difficulty.
-Gigatan NU'L HP has been increased to rebalance difficulty.
-The Nullifier HP has been increased to rebalance difficulty.
-Engine Fix- When the game window loses focus, it no longer pauses and interupts movie playback and stops desync happening to audio. Also incredibly useful for streamers!
-Fixed swarming of karaks when in Progenitor Battle cutscene.
-Updated Game Engine that fixes performance issues.
Expect some further updates along the way, as part of our development effort for the next installment 'Finale'. Due to the huge amount of changes this patch brings, we will be performing some smaller A/B testing updates as we finalise our vision for the game.
4.1.1701 Patch
So it's new year and we have a new patch!
It fixes / improves the following;
Bugs Fixed
-Fixed a bug with windowed mode in which it would not resize to normal resolution.
-Fixed bug where Summon Pluto would be required to be unlocked when Kate already has it.
-Fixed crash when standing next to the tree near Archon City gates.
-Added Time Space relic drops for foes in Blue Moon. They were missing before.
-Fixed crash on launcher related to a deprecated sound plugin in Windows. Sound in the launcher has been removed.
-Fixed clock that could be stepped on by player in Maine
Improvements
-Increased base Moxie stat for Ing's Blessing (Kate's normal attack)
-Increased base Moxie stat for Metal Staff.
-Updated Sven's portraits to reflect his new appearence in the planned 'Finale' DLC.
-Improved Sythesis upgrades, Sven's LUCK and MOXIE stat will now be increased with every three node unlocks on the grid.
-Added Spacefarer 2023 cinematic logo.
Engine and Front-End
-Improved internal upscaling algorithm, increasing performance.
-New launcher interface with Windows 11 design.
-New support options, with easy links to the game manual, performance checker and more.
The Finale Expansion - Coming 2023
We are so excited to share some updates with you all. The Finale Expansion for The Dawning Clocks of Time is well underway and is due for release in Summer 2023. It is both a continuation of the story and gameplay which closely follows the book, but is also a huge re-imagining and rework of the entire game as a cohesive whole.
What to expect
-The New Beginnings Chapter of the story, which includes new characters, spiritual beings and a Film Noir style presentation with incredible cinematics. We have been using Unreal Engine 5 to render the 3D (Instead of Unity, as we used previously) and then using compression to create 2D frames. The character models are getting revamped, along with enviroments. We are still keeping the original charm of the game by adding pixellation.
-A new graphics engine- We made a huge overhaul with the recent 4.0 patch release, but we are going even further. The technical underpinnings of the game engine, although upgraded to Direct3D11, it's really starting to show it's age, so we've been reworking the entire engine. When we release The Dawning Clocks of Time - Finale the game will present itself as 5.0. That's because, essentially, it will be a whole new game. This will bring beautiful graphics with 3D parralaxing techniques. Ing's Planet in the story needs 3D to be presented well, so we are making these changes as required.
-The Expansion will still be free. Although it's the biggest one yet, and the technical work going into this is immense, the DLC Expansion will, like the others, remain free. We may however, need to raise the base cost of the main game to recoup these costs.
-New Battle System- The battle system is being revamped. It will still remain turn based but we are going to add more action into it's working. No button mashing, but more tactical style gameplay.
-More characters and choices matter- If you've read the novel! There's some brand new characters that are getting added to the Rune Grid, who will be essential to play as you reach the grande Finale!
-Weekly development updates- We will be releasing, starting with the new year, weekly development updates as we close in on August 15th. (Release Day) This will include new screenshots, concept art, beta test invites and more!
-We invite all of your feedback and comments!- It's been a great year for Spacefarer and it is all thanks to our players. More than ever we invite you to come join us on this development journey as we progress towards making this the best version of TDCOT that we can. We look forward to sharing the journey with you.
Happy Holidays!
4.0712 Patch
This version of the game vastly improves on the game overall and in preperation for the New Beginnings DLC Expansion. It includes some new features, along with many needed bug fixes, performance improvements and support for new hardware and Windows 11 22H2.
Specific improvements and bug fixes are listed below;
-Character and object 'shaking' on screen scrolling has been fixed.
-Added rounded and gradient fonts.
-Extra bug fixes to ensure graphics load properly under heavy GPU loads.
(This bug has existed since the initial release of TDCOT and was very difficult to fix, requiring a complete engine overhaul hence the bump to 4.0)
-Removed ECG monitor from New England Cutscene.
-New Mosiac effect on dramatic scene changes and locations.
-Smooth cursor movement and animations.
-Added overwrite prompt when saving games.
-Mouse cursor is now hidden while the game is running.
-Removed Internal Resolution setting for the game. Game will run at optimised defaults.
-Fixed fog from appearing under scenarios where it shouldn't.
-Changed colours of gauge bars to blue shades to match game personality.
-Removed Equip command from battle as it was redudant and prone to crashes.
-More bug fixes to relic grid, ECG monitor on display while on tutorial fixed.
-Updated battle system engine.
-fixed seams on Maine area.
-Remove message on game startup if computer does not meet requirements, and have demoted to a warning button instead. Post-processing is no longer turned off automatically.
-Added Energy Weapons X2 Attack for Simpson (logical, as he carries two weapons).
New Beginnings Expansion
We are happy to announce that The Dawning Clocks of Time New Beginnings Expansion is now under development. This continues the story of the game from the previously unreleased Part Four of the novella!
-New Features-
-A whole new Relic Grid to expand the characters
-New enemies, a new story and locations to explore
-Timed Attack Battle System
We cannot wait to post new details and updates soon!
3.14159 Patch Final
-Further quality of life improvements;
-Game engine bug fixes and performance improvements
-Further migration to Unity codebase
-Fixed an issue where the ECG monitor would sometimes freeze under heavy CPU load areas
-Fixed clipping issues and collision detection with large sprites
-Fixed infinate loop bug with Karak Invaders mini game section
-Reduced lag inbetween frames for FMV sequences
-Upscaled FMV sequence frames