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News, Changes, and New Options
🕑 Added 2023-07-05 21:58:34 +0000 UTCHello, Guapo's team!
Let's start with the News; I don't know if some of you know about it, but we have our current News system (the one that tells you News inside the game).
That feature currently uses a Unity tool named 'RemoteSettings,' the problem is that they (Unity staff) decided to replace that tool with a new tool called 'RemoteConfig.' It's almost the same, and for a player, you won't see the difference, but for creators is different because due that:
- Extra work: I needed to replace all the code related to the old tool and add the code for the new tool. That means learning time, coding time, and testing time. But I already have it ready at this moment.
- More extra work: To make this new tool work, I needed to update my Unity version from 2018.3 to 2018.4, so now we can have new bugs/problems with features that worked well in my previous version, and now they don't. I'm testing the whole game, searching for bugs, but I'm sure some of you will find errors I didn't.
- The News system for all current versions (until v 0.33) is frozen. Because we can't use the old tool, I can't update the previous News system anymore, so the News system will show you updates only on version 0.34 and upcoming versions.
At the same time, I used this chance to change the location of the News system; previously, it was located inside the playing screen (the screen where you can play as Rex), and you can enter by clicking the weather icon at the top left corner of the screen.
But now, the News system will be located only on the main screen of the game, the main menu, that screen you see when you start the app before starting or loading the game. On a button named 'News' at the top left corner of the screen.
Also, now you will have an option inside the pause menu to turn on/off the notification about unread News. When enabled, the News button will show a small animation if you have unread News; if it's disabled, it won't.
Now let's talk about the new options; I will omit the new option about the News because we already talked about it; we have another two new options in the pause menu:
- Autosave: this feature will allow you to save the game by sleeping in Rex's bedroom, the save will be made on the first slot (creating/replacing that slot), and you need to 'turn on' the option inside the pause menu to make it work. The default value for this option is off.
- Graphics quality: this feature will allow you to change the graphics quality of the game while playing; previously, you only were able to change this feature if you played the game on Windows, Linux, or Mac and if you were playing on Android or Web GL, the graphics quality was set by default to the lowest quality, making the lights and shadows look very bad, and making me decide to turn off those effects in those versions by coding. But now, you can play in the best quality in all versions, and the game will turn on/off the light/shadow effects based on the quality you play. If you play in the two worst, those effects are off; if you play in the rest, they will turn on. To understand better how this works, I suggest you try this feature and change the graphics quality inside the bear's house (to open the pause menu in that place, you need to press the number 1 on your keyboard).
Finally, I will add a new optional preference for the game: chibi sexy.
This option will allow you to turn off (skip/hide) all sex-related content inside the new RPG battle system; this is because (even if all my characters are older than 21 years old) some players could find it wrong to watch this style of drawing in a sexual way.
However, you must know that turning off that option will skip/hide some attacks, spells, animations, drawings, and content in general in this game mode.
