Game Development Log 3

This month I haven't made much new stuff but instead focused on finished and adjusted a lot of stuff.

There was a huge amount of smaller bug fixes and quality of life improvements that I took care of as well.
I also finally was able to fix a bug that could cause the game to "randomly" crash when playing for longer sessions.

===New Version News===
There will be an early access demo coming on patreon in the future, including all the changes as well as new content for all that want to support and play new updates early.
The patreon price will be 5$ per month if you want to have early access to the newer version.
The game is planned to be added for download here as well, once the game is completely finished, at a later date.

I currently still working at fixing bugs but it's planned go online next month if no other big bugs getting discovered that need fixing first.
I will make a seperate post once it's up.

===TF Progress===
The stories and areas for the first three new transformations have been finished and playtested by myself and a friend.
Only thing missing may be balacing later on, but ignoring that, they are finished and playable.
I also finished making their alternative endings and added extra skills for them to learn at the dojo.

===Area Progress===
This month I haven't made much progress on new areas. Instead I focused mainly on the south-western plains which now are almost completely finished. I also programed a new type of puzzle that can be encountered in some of the old areas and in the new area.

And I did the ground layout for new snow areas but they are still very unfinished and empty

Like before, older areas have been getting updated and some new enemies got added as well.
A lot of smaller things got fixed and optimised in the older areas as well.
New game plus also got some new features to buy related to the casino!

A new quality of life feature is to be able to change party members at a lot more places now.
You can find a yellow crystal pretty much near every teleport crystal now to change your party. No more traveling back to guild or your home!

Also the casino finally got finished!
Currently it's possible to play gacha or play the slots

===Side Quest===
Three new side quest got added, not much to say besides that. I also finally playtested all new quest as well.
Don't know where to put this segment so I mention it here. I started to work on two new weapon classes: Gunner and Mage
So Guns and Staffs will have weapon skills soon as well.
They will be unlocked with enough reputation like all other classes. They aren't finished yet but are in the works.

Also new learnable skills got added to the dojo for some of the old forms.

And I made five new buffs/debuffs and since they are a bit different compared to other buffs, here is what they can do:

-Supplemental Dmg
Adds three extra hits to dmg dealing skills and normal attacks. (Can't Miss)
-Flurry
Deals two extra hits to three random foes when using dmg dealing skills and normal attacks. (Hits can miss based on characters accuracy and foes dodge rate.)
-Flawless
Makes the character immune to any kind of dmg and also counters all kind of attacks. Even Ultimates.
-Pure
Pure is also something special, it is neither a buff nor a debuff. It removes all normal positive and negative status effects and also makes one immune to all of them. It also changes the attack element to Plain.
-Tranformation Locked
As the name suggest, Player can't transform.

===Community Changes and Improvements===
Some suggestions and feedback from the community that I also changed/included to make the game better.
This months there was a lot that has been found and fixed.

• Rework some Status Effects Durations and shortened some durations.
• Rework the Charms, Necklaces and Amulets equipments effects.
• A very serious softlock got fixed that could potentially lock the player out of 5 side quest when ignoring the Search for Shelter Side Quest.
• Fixed the "Dark" field effect gets not removed after sleeping till day.
• Fixed a Bug involving collecting Acorns for a certain quest
• Fixed a bug involving Boss Ultimates activations
• Fixed a annoying bug that can lead to the game crashing when playing for a long time without break.
• Fixed a bug involving the New Quest Alert System.
• Rebalanced a certain form to maker her skills stronger.
• Fixed wrong skill icons for weapon skills and updated some skill icons.
• Fixed a soft lock that could get caused when using a certains form second ultimate.
• More spelling mistakes fixed

For all the other changes go check out the previous logs.