What's New?

This update features an entire new quest, the introduction of magic, choices with consequences, extra character interactions, and a multitude of fixes, features, and adjustments.

Magic: There are essentially two interfaces for spellcasting; one for keyboard and one for gamepad. Keyboard controls are your standard hotbar where number keys correspond to spell slots. Gamepad controls are a two-part system where you hold a shoulder button to pull up a spell menu then use your face buttons to cast.  Releasing the shoulder button will cancel out of the spellcasting.

Quest Tracking: You're now able to track quests and view quest objectives during gameplay.

Changelog

Features:

• Added quest: Part-Time Adventurer
• Added spell: Homeward
• Added spell mechanics.
• Added functions to charge and cast spells.
• Added spell selection screen for gamepad support.
• Added player MP gauge.
• Added chat interactions for Rose, Merle, Hicket, Sana, Serlo, and Felicia.
• Added notifications for quest completion / failure to gameplay UI.
• Added quest objective tracking.
• Tracking can be toggled on and off in the quest menu.
• Tracked quests will have their objectives displayed in-game.
• Added companion AI.
• Companions will follow players around the map.
• Companions can be nudged out of the way.
• Added facial animation support to NPCs.
• NPCs now blink.
• Added footstep SFX/VFX to NPCs.
• Added Isekai RPG logo to title screen.
• Added dialogue for Merle which changes depending on the time of day.
• Added small highlight to quest menu buttons to indicate which quest is currently displayed on the main screen.
• Added SFX for various menu interactions.
• Added confirmation prompt when spending stat points.
• Added software cursor.
• Cursor no longer reveals itself over choice buttons when being released to player control.
• Cursor now displays a location indicator when being released to player control.
• Added option to toggle software cursor on/off.
• Added Niagara UI Renderer plugin to display VFX in UI.
• Added prompt to options menu for when a game restart is required.
• Added mask material for doors.
• Doors will now render as transparent objects when open and solid objects when closed.

Changes:

• Adjusted lighting and shader parameters.
• Adjusted the physics on Rose's skirt.
• Adjusted quest info for Panty Goblins? quest.
• Fixed a bug where gold display remained on screen after NPC interaction finished.
• Fixed a bug where name colors weren't being used during choice prompts.
• Fixed a bug where speaker name wasn't used in some prompts.
• Adjusted name colors for various NPCs.
• Adjusted text size for large dialogue prompts.
• Fixed a bug where Rose wouldn't walk into her house during New Neigh-bor cutscene.
• Fixed a bug where cutscene skipping would get stuck enabled during map transitions.
• Refactored head tracking mechanics; fixed various bugs.
• Fixed a bug where screen would fade to/from wrong color when loading from save.
• Fixed a bug where player UI would quickly fade in and out when interacting with objects like doors and windows.
• Adjusted Starter Town collision zones and navigation mesh.
• Adjusted interact zones for Starter Town NPCs.
• Changed title screen music.
• Fixed a bug with cutscene autoplaying.
• Resting will now actually recover player health/mana.
• Drawing weapon or charging spell now displays vitality gauges.
• Fixed a bug where spending talent points wasn't updating vitality gauges.
• Fixed a bug where vitality gauges weren't displayed on character spawn.
• Fixed a bug where vitality gauge hide cooldown would end even with hostile NPCs still targeting player.
• Fixed a bug that would lock up title screen.
• Fixed a bug where vitality gauges would display during cutscenes.
• Adjusted NPC bounding boxes to prevent them from flickering near edge of screen.
• Fixed a bug where there would be a small delay between transitioning from an NPC interaction to a cutscene.
• Fixed a bug where quest menu would be cleared when swapping between main/side quest submenus.
• Adjusted UI scaling to better fit more extreme screen resolutions.
• Fixed a bug where paperdoll actor was visible in-game.
• Increased resolution and material quality of paperdoll actor.
• Fixed a bug where some options wouldn't toggle the Apply button on/off.
• Fixed a bug where gamepad inputs on numerical sliders wouldn't toggle the Apply button on/off.
• Adjusted default settings for some options.