CHANGES:

AUDIO:

• Added a 1 second buffer when ending combat to smooth the musical transition.
  

CONTROLS:

• Improved Camera control when using a game controller.
  
• Camera control with the mouse has been improved and should no longer behave wildly in some cases.
  

GAMEPLAY:

GENERAL:

• When Frigg dies, the player is now presented with the option of spending an extra life to revive-in-place or reload the saved game.
  
• The player may now change the Game Difficulty during game play under the Gameplay tab of the Settings screen.
  
• In addition to its initial burn damage, the Firebreath ability now ignites targets with a Damage Over Time (DOT) burn effect.
  
• The player camera now smoothly glides and no longer
• snaps* back into place after colliding with an obstructing object.
  
• NPCs now engage in chatter dialog during combat.
  
• NPCs now correctly run to seek help when in a Panic state.
  

EMBER CAVE:

• Slightly increased ambient lighting inside Ember Cave.
  
• Improved Flick's recon flight into the lava cavern inside Ember Cave.
  
• Spiders can no longer interrupt dialog for the quest "Fix It Till It's Broken".
  
• Improved camera positioning in several dialog sequences inside Ember Cave.
  
• At the end of dialog for the quest "Fix It Till It's Broken", Flick now offers to give the meaning of the term 'bug' instead of forcing it on the player.
  
• Added new exploratory dialog area to the elevator roof in Ember Cave.
  

VILLAGE OF EMBER:

• Repositioned Alvis outside the cave entrance to alleviate camera crowding.
  
• During the dialog for quest "A New Hope", Alvis now has Frigg agree to the Hero's Creed if the player questions Alvis about it after choosing the "There's No Time" option at the beginning of the conversation.
  

GUI/UIX:

• Minor tweaks to scrollbar graphics.
  
• Dialog choice selection highlight is now light blue instead of gold.
  

FIXES:

GAMEPLAY:

• Fixed several instances in The Village of Ember where Frigg could become stuck inside buildings or in floors.
  

GRAPHICS & DISPLAY:

• Fixed an issue where the V-Sync setting was stuck on 'Every Other V Blank', which was forcing frame rates to be one-half the frequency of the active monitor.
  

GUI/UIX:

• Fixed an issue with NPC chat dialog that was causing dialog lines to fail to appear in the chat log.
  
• Chat log scrolling using the mouse-wheel no longer scrolls wildly.
  
• Using game controller sticks to navigate the Saved Game list once again works as intended.
  

Attention Fellow Dragons!

| Brand New Intro Experience |

| New Dialog & Questing System |

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| Change Notes |

| Gameplay

• Implemented brand-new RPG leveling system!
  
• Completely rebuilt the dialog and questing systems.
  
• Replaced legacy 'Pick Ups" system with a full-fledged Inventory System. (GUI coming soon)
  
• Added new player spell 'Homeward Bound' to bring Frigg back to the village.
  
• Enemies now reposition themselves during standard combat.
  
• Enemies now have a chance to flee during standard combat on a failed Willpower roll.
  
• Fixed multiple issues with NPC melee attacks not triggering if the NPC was too close to its target.
  
• Corrected multi-cast, overcast, and other issues related to Spell Cool-downs.
  
• Reduced the level requirement for Divine Judgement from 30 down to 24, reduced its cool-down from 45s to 35s, and reduced its min and max damage by 25.
  
• Divine Judgement now consecrates the ground it strikes with a DOT.
  
• Player's heal spells may no longer be interrupted.
  
• For repositioning checks, enemy NPCs now check against their current interact distance instead of a hard 3m value. This has corrected an issue where ranged enemies fail to reposition themselves appropriately if their target has taken cover behind an obstacle.
  
• Slightly reduced Frigg's Magic recharge time.
  
• Adjusted probabilities of some enemy spawns.
  
• Adjusted the starting level of some enemies for a smoother transition between stages.
  
• Fixed an issue where a successful defense roll would negate any damage type, not just physical attacks.
  
• Saved character data that fails to match the base character values is now properly updated on game load.
  
• Mitigated damage may now produce a zero result if a roll against the player's defense is failed.
  
• Reduced the cool-down of Divine Harmony from 30s down to 15s.
  
• Reduced the Magic cost of Divine Harmony from 30 down to 15.
  
• Invoking spells no longer consumes Energy.
  
• Up/Down control is now disabled when flying if dialog is pending.
  
• Slightly adjusted Frigg's Base Damage, Crit Chance, and Base Defense in the player's favor.
  
• Slightly lowered the efficacy of 2-Paw Front Attack and Tail-whip.
  
• Slightly increased the efficacy of Flash of Nature, but also increased its cool-down from 3s up to 5s.
  
• Frigg now starts with 50 of each Eternity Rune.
  
• Increased the range of all NPC summon spells up to 30m.
  
• Tweaked the NPC Spell 'Minor Summon' to include Mini-Archers.
  
• Large Chromatic Orbs cast by Skeleton Mages now home in on Frigg.
  
• Complete refactoring of the Actor Character and Actor Character Data systems.
  
• All enemy NPCs now call out for help when engaged in combat.
  
• Reduced Frigg's maximum look angle from 90 down to 70.
  
• Reduced the health of The Bone King's boss summons by 50%.
  
• Reduced the health of The Bone King by 50%.
  
• The Bone King now summons minions at 90%, 80%, 70%, 60%, and 50%.
  

| Audio

• Gameplay music now changes when combat is engaged.
  
• Fixed multiple issues with Audio Players.
  

| Visual

• Da'Boss now performs a dance sequence as a temporary placeholder for the actual boss mechanics.
  
• Renamed 'Zombie Peon' to 'Zombie Scout'.
  
• Heals no longer have capability to trigger the 'hit' reflex.
  
• Summons by The Bone King are now announced via system message.
  
• A high-contrast system message is now displayed when a Player's spell is interrupted.
  
• Added animated lighting effect to game title on Title Screen.
  
• Added blur effect to the Gameplay Menu and Bonus Screens.
  
• Tweaked Fly-Text to be cleaner and faster.
  

| GUI / UIX

• Completely revamped the player-portrait into an informative Player Progression gauge system
  
• Compass Markers now correctly fade in and out, instead of 'popping'.
  
• Fixed an issue where enemy NPC compass markers would fail to be removed upon that NPCs death.
  
• Collectibles now immediately disable their Compass Marker.
  
• Reduced the Loading Tip show time from 5 seconds down to 3 seconds.
  
• Increased the Loading Tip delay up from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
  
• Added fine-grain joystick control to UI sliders.
  

Greetings Fellow Dragons!

What's Cookin'?

We are Currently Working On:

• a completely overhauled intro level sequence
  
• a brand new dialogue system
  
• Frigg's companion character
  

GAMEPLAY

• Increased the amount of Energy that Frigg begins the game with by approximately 40%, flying and melee just wasn't fun enough at the start.
  
• Reduced the amount of additional reisitance Frigg recieves when gliding at level and upward angles.
  
• Arcane Wind now consumes Arcane Breeze when invoked.
  
• Temporarily drained the moat around Alvis' ransacked laboratory in Ember Village.
  
• Enemy NPCs no longer occasionally pause during combat for no apparent reason.
  
• Adjusted the NPC directional algorithm to soften it a bit and tweaked the turning speed of all NPCs to be more in line with that.
  

VISUAL

• Slightly altered the names of some members of the "Bad Ghoul's Club".
  

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed an issue that was causing the quest-giver's return marker for the quest 'Rescue the Village' to fail to appear.
  

AUDIO

• Background music no longer randomly stops playing.
  

VISUAL

• Tweaked the lighting in Ember Village (Intro) for better visibility and a more "Autumny" feel.
  

SPECIAL THANKS

GAMEPLAY

• Fixed an issue that was causing The PRINCE of BONES to not spawn at the end of level 8.
  
• Fixed an issue that was causing aggro'd enemies to stop following Frigg when she was airborne.
  
• Dodging an attack now negates the flinch and pain mechanics.
  
• BONE KING should once again respect his range restrictions.
  
• Fixed incorrect ranges in enemy abilities that were causing many enemies to get too close during combat.
  
• Enemies no longer meander or appear to get 'stuck on stupid' during combat.
  

AUDIO

• Frigg now has a chance to taunt enemies with growls and laughs when they die.
  

WORLD

• Fixed more funky walls.
  

GAMEPLAY

• Frigg's melee combat attacks are now directionally controlled.
  
• Enemies no longer just wait around to be encountered and now occasionally wander and patrol around their home area -- some more than others.
  
• Increased the health of Skeleton Brutes significantly.
  
• Reduced the Arcane Resistance of all demons from 25% down to 12.5%.
  
• Decreased the social ranges of all enemies down by 10%.
  
• Fixed an issue with spell drops that would occasionally cause them to become unresponsive.
  
• Fixed an issue where checking the game difficulty could cause a null exception.
  
• Re-tuned all player spells for resource costs and efficacy.
  

VISUAL

• Added glowing Casting Circle beneath Frigg when a spell is being cast.
  
• Correctly invoking a spell now causes the cast Eternity Runes to 'pop' in sequence around Frigg.
  

USER INTERFACE

• Spellbook now scrolls correctly when selecting Spell items with a game controller.
  
• Polished Loading Screen tips a bit.
  

AUDIO

• Applied audio softening to pickups that were missing it.
  
• Casting runes now emit their own subtle sparkly audio.