3079 v2.9.1b incoming! Thread - 3079

Hey all,

Welcome new Indie Royale customers! I've been updating 3079 about once a week, so expect lots of updates :-)

New stuff in v2.9.1b is Humoid and Neander cities (I first called them military complexes, but they came out to look and feel more like cities!). You also will start in a friendly Humoid city which should help new players out a bit

As a result of the new biome (and a shift in biome centers), you will likely notice odd biome behavior in previously saved games where terrain was already generated. This shouldn't prevent you from playing and enjoying previous games, though

A complete list of changes:
* Humoid and Neander cities/complexes now implemented!
* You will now start right above (and wake up in) a friendly Humoid city/complex
* Combined keys into one "interaction" key to talk with leaders, merchants & toggle doors
* Many updated textures: trees, dirt, buildings, grass, storage etc.
* Friendly characters should no longer attack each other when fighting in a group
* Reduced the number of free, random items found in buildings
* The server name you are trying to connect to is now trimmed of extra spaces
* Increased the demo time limit a bit
* Mining drill now destroys all soft terrain in addition to rocks
* Corrupted items with no graphics will no longer cause a crash, but an "error" item instead
* Changes to how items store data, which should help multiplayer network performance
* Followers don't cause other characters to auto-follow you anymore
* Followers don't disappear after death now

I am uploading the update to Desura now, and then Desura needs to approve it. This process may take 16-32 hours :-/

Edited by: Phr00t

Woot

Awesome! Can't wait!

Hey phr00t, what exactly do you mean by cities/complexes being implemented? Are they just a dense area of one type of faction? Please respond if you can, thanks!

I made a new player.

I see somethings like roads

I hang over the surface

I look around me

Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing !

Yeah, kinda like a dense area with just one faction. There are walls providing shelter to the bases, and all the buildings are one faction -- there is a little more to it, you will see :-)

I just created a new character! Damn, this is awesome!

Pretty good. But too much traders around!

Fantastic! =3 Been playing it for about two hours now. The only problem that's messing with my gameplay is that during the day/night and night/day cycle the change in lighting makes my game drop to like 1 frame per 3 seconds. >_> The game runs almost perfectly at all other times, so if you can find a way of working on the lighting changes taking up less processing power, that'd be AMAZING. =3

Is there any chance that you can make an option to have characters auto follow you? it was kind of usefull.