New Saloon Girl Outfit & Day/Night Cycles!!! (Patreon)

*EDIT* - Wanted to update the post with some pictures of the rain revamp and night time photos coming in 1.3.7a. Enjoy!!!

Greetings Maiden Nation! This is your Maiden Commander speaking!

It's that time of the month and we are beyond excited for this upcoming build. Tons of amazing improvements with new and exciting features are on the way in the 1.4.7a build of League of Maidens.

First up, we've done a significant amount of work to improve the performance of the game. One of our primary focuses for open alpha is to get the performance of the game to a place where we can reduce the minimum specification. We will obviously need to do more work on this front but we are very happy with the results.

Next up is the exciting return of Day/Night Cycles. This is a feature we used to have but removed due to several issues. We're excited to bring this back into the fold and very excited to see the screenshots incoming with this update.

Lastly is the new addition of the Saloon Girl Outfit skin. We've had inquires about creating more complex outfits and we are very happy to announce that the Saloon Girl outfit will be our first outfit with a configurable option to enable/disable the skirt within character customization. Super excited to implement this for players to enjoy!!! If you'd like to see some of the other updates and improvements coming in the next build check out the current patch notes listed below.

As always we want to take the time to THANK EVERY SINGLE SUBSCRIBER of Maiden+. Without you none of these amazing improvements would be possible and we are SO VERY THANKFUL for your continued support which enables us to keep this amazing project going. THANK YOU!!!

Don't forget to join our Discord and follow us on Twitter for more exclusive pictures and more updates on our progress! Also follow us on Twitch to catch our livestreams where we demonstrate the updates for patches when we get the chance to stream.

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Revision: LoM v1.4.7a
Release Date: TBD
Patch Size: 51 Issues addressed

Review the build/patch/hotfix list below for a detailed list of resolved issues in the associated build/patch/hotfix. Please post any bugs that you may find in our Bug Reports & Supports section. Lastly, feel free to join our community on discord to discuss the game and what you would like to see added!

1 - We've noticed that many players are unaware of quest items or NPCs or objectives in the game world. Information readily available by viewing the map. Because of this we have added a new compass/navigator that enables players to easily view map related data and icons within the player's field of view without having to open the map.

2 - Upgraded to the latest version of the Unity engine mostly to capitalize on the performance improvements.

3 - Separated the Cube Stack side quests from the NPCs that dealt with "The Younglings" for those that preferred not to take this quest but still wanted to farm Cube Stacks.

4 - Fixed a bug that caused going into the Major's office to hang under certain conditions.

5 - Update the black color palette option for wings to be pure black and not grey.

6 - Adding the navigator exposed an issue with the quest NPC placement in the open areas. Seemed like 85% of quests were concentrated in two of the small zones in the open area (the Resistance Camps) which seemed like a waste of making use of the rest of the map. We've repositioned most of the repeatable quest NPCs in Freedom City and Necropolis Desert to areas on the maps that make more sense and make it more convenient to pick up a quest to kill mobs in that same general area. This change makes things WAY more convenient and it helps to spread the quests out across the map instead of having them all concentrated in the resistance camps.

7 - Added the ability to left mouse drag on the large map to move them map around to view other portions of the map not immediately visible within your map window.

8 - Added the ability to right mouse drag on the large map to rotate the  map.With this last function the player now has the ability to zoom in/out, move and rotate the large map which feels good and is very convenient. 

9 - Added text instructions on the new map features at the bottom of the large map.

10 - Added options in the "Interface" settings tab to hide the new navigator and another option to hide the "Looted Items" pop up icons which we added several builds ago. If players don't want to see either interfaces they can hide them.

11 - Fixed a bug that made map icons for NPCs disappear while you were talking to them.

12 - Added a moving map icon for the Helicopter in the open area so that you can see exactly where it is and it's progress on getting to you when you call it using a flare gun.

13 - Assorted fixes and updates have been implement for performance improvement.

14 - Lore has been cleaned up with 4 of the 5 gates (books acquired within game) being updated. 

15 - Significant updates to the flow of questing has been made with new quests added.

16 - Fixed some bugs that caused the helicopter to land incorrectly under certain conditions.

17 - Fixed many new bugs related to the engine upgrade.

18 - League of Maidens now fully supports STEAM CLOUD. Users now have the ability to end their playing session on one system and pick up from any other system when logging in using the same Steam account.

19 - Added a system to REPORT A PLAYER. This will allow users to report players (complete with automated in-game created screenshots) that are in violation of our Terms of Use. Anyone wishing to read the Terms of Use for our products can visit this url. https://www.maidengaming.net/terms-of-use

20 - Changed the default key binding for selecting assets to Tab.

21 - Changed the default key binding for using the cellphone to BackQuote.

22 - Fixed a bug that causes the new Dragon Tail to warp when scaled.

23 - Moved the pets default resting place 20% higher and further to the left of the player.

24 - Reduced the battle mode ready stage countdown timer to 30 seconds.

25 - Improvements have been made to the in-game shadows.

26 - The cape system has been revamped to improve the games cape physics.

27 - Improved the visual effects of Meteor Strike and Gravity Core.

28 - Also fixed the visual effects of Invisibility Cloak and Darkness Cloak.

29 - Added the ability to easily cancel a keybinding once the keybind UI has opened. Previously the only way to cancel a keybind was to rebind the same key.

30 - Fixed several associated bugs related to keybinding. 

31 - Added a pop up notification/warning when a player attempts to bind a reserved/locked key. Binding locked keys in the past allowed the possibility of binding two actions to one key making it difficult to understand why multiple keys were bound to the same action. Now this isn't possible and a warning is displayed so that the user understands that the attempted keybind has failed.

32 - The highlight around the selected warmaiden in the Warmaiden Manage, Create a Warmaiden and Exit Manager interfaces has been brightened to make is easier to see which warmaiden is actively selected.

33 - Baseball sliding has been disabled in the lobby.

34 - The timeout for the Revive your Warmaiden UI that pops up when your warmaiden dies has been removed. Now the UI stays up until the player selects an option or closes the UI with the X button.

35 - A link for video tutorials has been added to the Revive your Warmaiden UI so that players having a difficult time learning the mechanics can watch our tutorials for assistance. 

36 - Stronghold respawns have been returned to every 15 minutes. 

37 - Feral Essence now reduces mob respawn time by 50% instead of 25%.

38 - Sniper Rifle Shot sound has been updated.

39 - Assassin flying speed has been reduced by 20%.

40 - Fixed a bug that caused the Warriors initial melee attack to not enter dramatic mode at the correct time.

41 - Added a transition animation when going from crouch to crouch walking.

42 - Tank Run and Sprint Running animations have been updated. 

43 - Fixed a but that caused the Bullet Rain Icon to indicate the skill could be used at a time when you did not have enough MP to use it.

44 - Fixed a bug that caused players to have to walk away and walk back to the helicopter for the UI to pop up after using it a first time.

45 - Fixed a bug that prevented players from zooming out during melee when zoomed all the way in.

46 - Fixed a bug that cause the auto highlight and ENTER to confirm to not work with the Vendor UI.

47 - Fixed a bug that caused icons to flash on the new Navigator.

48 - Change the bottom enemy mob and boss bar to Blue for Netherian warmaidens.

49 - Added a link to our new Tutorial videos to the desktop.

50 - The 'Shadow Level' slider has been renamed to 'Shadow Quality'. Also the slider has been fixed to work correctly now.

51 - More improvements have been made to clean up the Keybinding system and UI. One example is that when attempting to bind a key that is already bound the UI will show not only the existing bind but the attempted bind. That way it is clear what action is taking place.
52 - Rain has been revamped. The rain particles themselves have been improved as well as droplets on the screen and warmaidens bodies getting wet have been added.

KNOWN ISSUES:

Due to the upgrade of the base engine we will see bugs coming up from certain aspects of the game that we have not had the ability to test. As always if you notice a bug in this build simply report it as normal. We will do our best to catch and fix any bugs related to the engine upgrade as well as our normal bug fixing workload. This is the last engine upgrade we intend on completing before the open alpha build.

Updates were made to the keybinding system to fix a bug which will require a keybind data wipe.

NOTES:

Anyone that has reported issues with the radio not working. You are free to manipulate the channels and their URLS by modifing the text file in this location of your data folder.  C:\Users[YOUR_USER_NAME]\AppData\LocalLow\Maiden Gaming\League of Maidens\Radios_user.txt in conditions.