Ready your blades and magic, U12 of Blade and Sorcery has finally landed, complete with an extensive list of notes. It’s been a few months since U12 was announced for development, as overhauling features were being introduced periodically. From adjusted physics mechanics to wiping away bugs, KospY and WarpFrog have been hard at work to deliver the next step in Blade and Sorcery‘s VR timeline. There’s so much to check out, as U12 brings in a couple of videos that you can view through the official notes. If you’re looking for just the changelog for Blade and Sorcery U12, we’ll provide that below. More information is available through the aforementioned notes link.
Blade and Sorcery U12 – Full Changelog (The Mod Manager Update)
Features
- Physics-based swimming (with Tutorial)
- Added water drag area on some items
- Added Breakable items
- Overhaul of Shield enemies
- Dynamic music system for Dungeons
- Custom-made music tracks for each arena
- Brand new Menu with Mod Settings Support
- New dungeon outpost rooms, including underwater sections and new interactive elements
- In-game mod manager (based on mod.io)
- New moddable area system (used for dungeon generation)
- Armour modding support
- Trap doors
- Added a shortcut for the player log in the F5 menu
- Added text for what is being loaded during Game Loaded
- Added keyboard system which modders can use
- Added AMD FSR 1.0 upscaling (PC)
- New cheat – Free climb, enable to climb on any surface
- New cheat – Easier dismemberment
- Spell wheel now supports more than 10 spells without overlapping
- Mod manifests now have icon support
Enhancement / Changes
- Updated to Unity 2021.3.17f
- Added side rooms and doors in some dungeon outpost rooms
- Updated models for a lot of props (crates, barrels etc)
- Dungeon areas with Ocean no longer instantly kill player when you fall in to them, added climbable areas to return to the area.
- Added ocean to Chapel river.
- Updated some arenas with updated models for minor props (like flags)
- Adjusted what props spawn in Arenas
- Tweaked dungeon outpost layout and misc changes about some rooms
- Shield enemies in general should be more competent, and will opt for a more turtling and riposte fighting style than their non-shield counterparts.
- New player menu
- Improve text quality on all the UI (updated texts to TextMeshPro)
- The rock used for tutorial’s wall jump section will break after some time, allowing for a quick and easy climb instead.
- Adjusted colliders of arrows to have better piercing.
- Some props in Arenas and Dungeon now spawn via a loot table.
- Removed Exterior Doorways (the one which only was in 2 rooms).
- Improved memory usage by unloading despawned weapons and armour
- Improved memory usage by optimizing shader loading (expect a 2-3GB memory reduction without mods)
- Improved level loading times
- Added EventTime fields to Creature events in the EventManager
- Added new options: Screenshot Resolution, Render Quality (PC) , and Upscale Filter (PC)
- Added new sandbox options: Breakables, and Free Climb
- Colour gamut is now fixed on Nomad – No more red tinge
- ‘Head’ is no longer an option when creating a new character
- Added screenshot message
- Pressing grip will now cancel a spell charging (doing a fist to punch should be easier)
- Screenshot file name now contain level name and dungeon room name if any
- ColliderGroupData now allows you to filter which spells can imbue a collider group
Fixes
- Fixed underwater effect not working with spectator camera
- Fixed underwater caustics being too bright and staying on screen
- Fixed Ruins terrain having no physics collider
- Fixed several localization and language bugs
- Removed “Reload JSON” from the Menu.
- Removed unused props used on the exterior of Market
- Fixed very rare issue where Dungeon runs would end early and not have an “End” room.
- Dungeon rooms with Sunlight cannot spawn next to eachother, to prevent light darkening on room enter
- Dungeon rooms with Ocean cannot spawn next to eachother, to prevent Ocean leaking in to other rooms
- Fixed Wooden pierceables not making sound when stabbing with
- Improve brain pooling performance
- Fixed Rugged Trousers and Worn Sandals missing reveal/blood
- Fixed wrong reveal normal mapping on Mercenary Armour
- Fixed wrong reveal normal mapping on the Claymore
- Fixed refresh rate not updating correctly when changed while in-game
- Fixed memory leak with reveal
- Fixed physics bodies falling asleep too quickly when pushed slowly
- Fixed spell wheel locking in place when opening then crouching or jumping
- Fixed memory allocations from creature navigation every frame.
- Fixed an issue where NPCs would stretch when sliced on specific parts
- Fixed memory leak with the mirror in home
- Fixed rare issue where imbue emission would not light up
- Fixed issue where the player menu randomly switched the opened sub-menu from the user clicking on another button
- Fixed light color of Fireball Impact being a wrong tint.
- Fixed NPCs not defending themselves from one of the easter egg weapons
- Workaround for the “grab bug” issue where sometimes pressing grab will cause you to jump to the last thing you had grabbed.
- Added Breakable script
- Added Tooltips for a lot of components
- Added “Spawnpoint” to each item. This now adjusts the location/rotation of the object when spawned.
- Reworked ItemSpawner
- Removed ContainerSpawner (merged in to ItemSpawner)
- Armor modding support
- Dungeon/Area modding support
- New “ReflectionSorcery” component for Fake views.
- Added new Physics Material “Ceramic”.
This is quite the extensive list of changes that are now available for Blade and Sorcery warriors. Ever since its initial launch in December 2018, outstanding improvements have been made, coupled with a Quest 2 release for expanded access. U12 has been in the books for a bit now, so why don’t we charge up our magic and sharpen our blades as we check out the new and improved virtual reality content?
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