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AVWW Beta 0.915 "Dire Servant... From The Meadow?" Released!
« on: March 25, 2012, 07:49:44 PM »
New one: http://arcengames.blogspot.com/2012/03/avww-beta-0915-dire-servant-from-meadow.html

This one has yet another batch of bugfixes, but also four new/revised features:

1. Actual glass in windows, with periodic cracks and everything.

2. Healing Touch now not only works in multiplayer, it's a lot more useful in how it works in multiplayer and solo.

3. Skelebot Guards are now Skelebot Grunts, and way less annoying.  Elite versions of the grunts will be added later with new abilities/behavior to make them more challenging, but for now the grunts are pretty simple cannon fodder for the start of the game.

4. A new summon spell has been added to the game; it's something you can get starting on the second continent.  It's got a funny name and appearance, but it's actually pretty powerful -- depending on the circumstances, actually moreso than the rhino.

More to come soon.  Enjoy!

This is a standard update that you can download through the in-game updater itself, if you already have 0.500 or later. When you launch the game, you'll see the notice of the update having been found if you're connected to the Internet at the time. If you don't have 0.500 or later, you can download that here.
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Re: AVWW Beta 0.915 "Dire Servant... From The Meadow?" Released!
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 07:55:08 PM »
Two key things happened I thought:

1. As I was downloading the demo, I read the blurp that was a "call to arms" of players to help the game get finalized for 1.0
2. I played the intro with a "blind-eye" of not knowing what the heck was going on.


So I was able to provide the prospective of the competent gamer in an unfamiliar world. I experienced more vividly the good, the bad, and the ugly. So when those skelebots made me consistently think "I'm trapped. I want to escape this land and explore other ones!" I felt something was horribly wrong.

I seriously think that in their previous form it would turn off many potential players, because it set the difficulty and frustration bar way to high.

EDIT: One analogy would be like in AI wars during the tutorial the game threw an exowave to you yet you couldn't knowledge grab or take advantage of golems or other weapons before they slammed you.

May play tonight, maybe not. So tired...
« Last Edit: March 25, 2012, 07:57:03 PM by chemical_art »
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Re: AVWW Beta 0.915 "Dire Servant... From The Meadow?" Released!
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 08:01:45 PM »
Cool! Will install the previous version and this tonight. Hopefully, my "rescued survivor getting blocked by nothing" bug is fixed.
Will this path also retroactively fix regions that had too many pre-placed platforms removed?

4. A new summon spell has been added to the game; it's something you can get starting on the second continent.  It's got a funny name and appearance, but it's actually pretty powerful -- depending on the circumstances, actually moreso than the rhino.

Hmm...summon lolcat?

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Re: AVWW Beta 0.915 "Dire Servant... From The Meadow?" Released!
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 08:51:26 AM »
Cool! Will install the previous version and this tonight. Hopefully, my "rescued survivor getting blocked by nothing" bug is fixed.

Yep, that bug should definitely be fixed.

Will this path also retroactively fix regions that had too many pre-placed platforms removed?

No, unfortunately existing chunks that had that happen are stuck that way forever.  But it won't happen on new chunks in your existing world.
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Re: AVWW Beta 0.915 "Dire Servant... From The Meadow?" Released!
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 10:40:15 AM »
Hmm...summon lolcat?

Well, it definitely isn't my suggestion of "launch beehive".

A more dangerous creature than the rhino is the hippopotamus. If it sees you it murders you.

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