0.4.1 Playtest Patch Notes


What's New

  • Secret areas!
  • New "endgame" content (for the demo).
  • Collectibles!
  • NPC companions can now be commanded to actively follow the Player or remain in place, instead of needing to be summoned.
  • Fast travel points to enable backtracking throughout the entire game.
  • NPC speech bubble text is now animated.
  • Some new sound effects.

Changes

  • Reworked physics system for carried objects! No more getting squished by having things land on your head, auto-picking-up objects, or getting things stuck in walls.
  • New foreground and logo color palettes!
  • New logo!
  • The "command" musical sound effects for Theo are much less annoying.
  • The trap pit during Theo's first appearance now gets filled in to prevent the Player from falling back in.
  • Temporarily removed debug options for demo build (can still be manipulated manually in the options file).
  • Several puzzles have been updates and reworked.

Bug Fixes

  • NPC speech bubble text no longer stutters when the NPC is moving.
  • NPC speech bubbles now remain completely within the camera.
  • Objects can no longer get stuck overlapping the ground or other objects when thrown or set down by the player.
  • Objects can no longer be picked up or set down through gates.
  • Gate open/close sound effect no longer gets stuck if the Player moves through a door while it is playing.
  • Lasso "pull" input prompt now has the correct text.
  • Player can no longer launch themselves or other objects upward or downward by lassoing things in mid-air.
  • Fixed several backtracking issues, such as lever, button, and gate states not saving properly.
  • Updated respawn logic to target the last valid place the Player was standing to prevent possible skips.
  • NPCs no longer collide with each other.
  • Camera focus now properly returns to the Player after lassoing objects in mid-air.
  • Lassoing large objects no longer launches the Player backward.

Files

Harmonicord 0.4.1 Windows.zip 63 MB
14 days ago
Harmonicord 0.4.1 Linux.tar.gz 65 MB
14 days ago

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