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V0.1 Live! Finally on the road towards 1.0

Duster
A downloadable game for Windows

Whew, its been a long road but I'm FINALLY on the path towards a release version!  I present to you version 0.1! In the coming weeks I will be doing a write up or a "Road Map" of where the game goes from 0.1->1.0. For now, enjoy the new features.


WHATS NEW

  • Every faction has a hat you can now unlock  by beating the game
  • 6 new hats that can be unlocked by doing something in game
  • 10 new encounters/locations to find on your way west!
  • 7 new events that can happen while you're traveling the map
  • 2 more map modifier events
  • New hair options for your character
  • Every new location has a small cinematic related to a factions story.
  • The various factions and towns people will show up randomly throughout the game to talk to you
  • the various factions now drop items unique to them, with different uses.
  • People in the saloon now have dialogue.
  • The various faction hostiles say unique things
  • Sometimes factions can spawn in each others territory, causing them to fight
  • Added a few flavor sound effects throughout the game
  • overhauled the appearance of trains
  • Bees and mosquitos are now present in certain areas
  • Adjusted the tone of the music
  • Adjusted the random outfits neutral NPCs have
  • Added hitchposts in town
  • Actions now take a "set" amount of food or water, vs draining with time.
  • hatchets now destroy objects faster
  • Updated the world map appearance
  • Adjusted the world gen for every area
  • added a confirmation prompt when you leave an area
  • boosted melee damage, but reduced melee speed
  • Enemy path finding should be improved, and run into obstacles a bit less
  • Adjusted when/how often you get events while traveling across the map
  • adjusted the size of area maps
  • simplified and optimized the "shadow" system.
  • Minor UI adjustments

BUG FIXES

  • fixed the way forts spawn their decorations
  • Fixed a crash on mountain maps
  • Fixed a bug where exiting a game, and then going back into a game could freeze things up
  • Fixed some missing icons
  • Fixed a crash where the game would sometimes try to load resources non-stop
  • Fixed a bug where enemies would die, disappear, but reappear when you reload the game
  • Fixed a bug where enemies wouldn't have hair.
    Fixed a bug where where un-equipping items would reset its durability
  • Fixed a bug with melee animations

Files

  • DUSTER v0.1 45 MB
    Version 13
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