BUILD 0.1.38

• Mutes all sound when the game window isn't focused
• Adds SFX:
  • Jackal's Howl
  • Rally
  • Gator Stomp
  • Ground Slam
  • Mosquito sting
  • Desert Madman hurt
  • Desert Madman shooting
  • Lab Elevator
  • Water
• Updates SFX for Desert Madman stab laugh
• Mosquitos will now land and stop on swamp tiles instead of avoiding ending their turn on one
• Adds VFX for Water, Oasis and Swamp
• Adds new connected map to Outskirts: Outskirts Tunnel, between Meatcakes' food truck and The Swamp
• Marshal now plays footsteps SFX in the Director cutscene
• Refines timing of Lab Elevator sequencing to line up better with SFX
• Updates Swamp Blisters look
• Refines Gatorlok conversation
• Refines Fie's dialogue
• Refines colliders on swamp tiles, no more hidden corners/edges to get stuck on
• Solar array in Cliffside now requires "hacking" into a terminal to reboot the array but first you have to find the item that allows you to do this
• The terminal in the Desert Sandstorm is now also locked and requires "hacking"
• Lucky and Barney have a new progression flow
• The Outskirts Tunnel is now open with special guests, Tommy Jeans and Nasty Nash
• Refines New Game process, now includes a build step that allows you to spend 3 Attribute Points
• Fixes combat target hit chance readouts from constantly flickering on hover and also will now render correctly above a target's head no matter the height of the target or their elevation
• Moves the VENDOR option in dialogue to the top of the list for every NPC

BUILD 0.1.37

• Revamps the skill trees, some new abilities and some removed. Attempts to rebalance them into 3 distinct categories:
  • Might: Offense
  • Finesse: Balance
  • Systems: Defense
• TECH attribute now increases Bebop's Energy for each point that Bebop spends in it
• TECH attribute now also increases damage for Systems specific abilities
• STR and TECH tooltips now accurately list what they affect
• Adds remaining VFX and poses for abilities that did not yet have any, every single ability (attack or buff) should now play an animation + VFX
• Revamps pistols and staves, includes a new set
• Adds a Resolution setting under Display, which renders the game world at a lower resolution and scales it up to fill the screen, for smoother framerates on older or weaker machines. Menus and text stay sharp at full resolution
• Older Intel Macs now default to 720p rendering for a playable framerate, all other machines default to full resolution
• Fixes the player and party members jittering against the background while walking
• Renders pixel art evenly in both overworld and combat, prior some subtle squashing or stretching was being done depending upon the aspect ratio of the monitor
• Player, Big Billie, Fie, Whistler, Lem, Meatcakes and the Spirit Guide are now drawn at their full size, so their pixels stay crisp at every resolution
  • Bebop is still scaled down so may continue to look fuzzy at lower resolutions. Will need to work on updating his pixel art into a smaller size so we can scale it back to 1.0
• Adds the Spirit Realm to Map Select
• Tidies up the Settings and Map Select menu a tad
• Adds SFX to:
  • Thunderbloods boot logo
  • Barrier/Bulwark
  • Guardian Angel
  • Quickstep
  • Berserk
  • Brace/Mass Brace
  • Targeting Matrix