Monke Simulator Demo: Beeg Patch

Apes, we've deployed some beeg changes to the demo today, we hope you enjoy. Please see the patch notes below.

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Patch Notes:

Gameplay:

Player: • Made changes to the slide allowing a player to hold the slide key to enter a slide and release it to stand up again. This should prevent instances where the player is stuck in a dive state in the air

• Added a minimum slide speed so the player can move faster whilst in a sliding state at the cost of mobility

• Made changes to Dive for it to have a greater impact on trajectory and be more useful in general

• Made changes to sliding uphill so that you no longer will be kicked out of a slide when going uphill

• Reduced the amount of boosted actions possible after slamming

• Implemented slide duration timer, slide jumping bonus speed is tied to duration of the slide to make longer slides rewarding and prevent mashing being the most effective at gaining speed.

• Added more camera shake to the player

• Changed wallrunning to make it clear which surfaces can and can't be wallrun on (Made wallrunning angle more restrictive as the player can essentially latch onto anything for a split second)

• Increased base Stamina regeneration by 33%

• Lowered the Stamina regeneration bonus on the 'Regenerape' Skill from 35% to 25%

• Added 'Slide Launch' worth 50 score costs 25 stamina to use and implements the slide jump changes listed above

• Made changes to the Slam ability, allowing a player to freeze in the air to charge their slam, leading to increased momentum and damage

• Added Banan Nuke Ability, activated by landing a fully charged Slam while cooking a Banan.

• Added a damage window to the slam animation. Allow damage even without the 'Slamsplosion' upgrade. Additionally, this allows all the interactions of a standard melee attack, e.g. hitting banans.

• Implemented Dynamic air control system, this stops a common complaint of having too much air control at slow speeds, leading to over correcting trying to land on platforms.

• Slightly Reduced overall air control to make actions more committal and improve usefulness of dive/slide/dash as tools to redirect in the air

• Implemented Slide Duration tracking, allowing longer slides to give larger slide jumps

• Implemented slide angle adjustment using ‘A’ and ‘D’

• Implemented dive momentum allowing a dive to build up speed the longer it is held, additionally exiting a dive will stop the player falling as quickly.

• Increased strength of wall running eject (Forward and side momentum) to make it harder to re-run on the same wall and be more rewarding to use from a speed perspective.

• Implemented wall run eject air control lowering. This prevents a player from immediately heading back onto the same wall which is horizontal with the player. This is to offset the bonus of wall run adding to momentum

• Eliminated slide friction. You can now always maintain your speed using a slide.

• Reduced speed decay in the air as an incentive to stay in the air

• Added 'slippage' to wall runs, allowing a player to better tell when the wall run is about to end and make them feel smoother in general

• Increased Wall run max length 0.5 (1.5 -> 2 seconds)

• Increase push off of wall in the instance that a player runs out of wall run duration (it was much easier to re-attach to the wall when running out of time vs leaping off)

Grindrails: • Adjusted the maximum speed on grind rails to better maintain momentum

• Improved control over grind rail speed

• Widened Grind rail snap on area

Swing Bar: • Added a grace time before the swing occurs, this prevents accidentally cancelling the swing by hitting dive which is common when trying to chain many 'Diving Swing Bars'

• Reduced added speed to account for decreased speed decay in the air

Catapult: • Reduced speed added to account for slide changes, technically this still feels the same as before

NPCS:

Don: • Added new clothes (damn he look good)

Enemies: • Re-did soldier model and gun audio

• Re-did Tiki model

• Added new Sniper Model

Weapons:

Tesla Coil: • Increased projectile speed substantially

Maps:

Tutorial: • Completely reworked layout for better onboarding

Um'bolo's Arena: • Reduced overall health of Um'bolo

• Reduced damage resistance to regular shots

• Made corrections to pathing to better stay in front of the player

• Added an additional attack to make the fight more engaging

• Added bonus damage when stunned (After getting hit by parried projectile). We now recommend parrying projectiles back at him for optimal play

Wild Wat: • Extended the first grindrail section

• Adjusted a catapult

• Reduced the rubble pile after the grapple, as it was too easy to clip

Monke Hub: • Culled some of the science tanks in the skill purchasing shack to improve performance.

Winding Waterway: • Removed a catapult

• Made the first catapult section more generous

Congo Chasm: • Removed kill all enemies objective

• Altered terrain slope to allow less speed gain from simply sliding

• Widen first jump

Rapid River: • Removed swing bars to account for increased player speed

Cracked Canyon: • Altered the ending cave for better readability and slightly higher difficulty

Stinky Sewer: • Added wooden gangway over sewer for enemy placement

Monke City Skyline: • Removed planks and replaced with bridge, for clearer pathing and better performance

UI: • Redid tutorial messages in some levels to require the player to click continue before the message disappears

• Added a setting to turn off FOV changes at speed

• Added a setting to invert the mouse Y Axis

• Added a ‘level type’ text to the level overworld box

• Added options for rebinding WASD as movement keys in control settings

• Updated Level Medals to have a 3d model which matches the image

• Added setting to disable motion blur in the graphics menu

• Added setting to disable Post Processing in the graphics menu

• Fixed scaling on the 'Real Gun' Icon

• Added the option to start a level by pressing 'Space'

• Implemented Coloured hitmarkers for when shooting armoured targets, such as hitting an enemy shield

VFX: • Added directional sliding animations

• Added offset to legs whilst diving to make slide direction clearer

• Added Motion Blur

• Added CRT effect

Bugs/Fixes: • Partially fixed an issue where sounds were not affected by the appropriate audio sliders

• Fixed an issue where completing all levels achievement wasn’t unlocking

• Made changes to Acceler-Ape 1 and Acceler-Ape 2 interactions

• Added missing death lines when killed by a Triffid Plant

• Fixed an issue where you can collide with a Banan Bomb in air

• Fixed an issue causing the Secret level portal to appear on top of the player

• Redid the collision on the fences on Monke City Skyline to prevent clipping

• Fixed an issue where you can finish a level despite being dead

• Fixed the desync of outlines on bounce birds

• Fixed the bird on Rapid River moving backwards when completing a loop

• Corrected the alignment of the crosshair and hitmarker

• Changed the Lisan Al Munkib fountains to not return you to the overworld on interact

• Further fixed an issue where slo-mo duration was tied to FPS

• Fixed an issue where the Triffid plant took no damage from slide kicks

• Fixed an issue where explosives would push Um'bolo off his path

• Fixed an issue which would cause the player to lose their double jump without using it

• Fixed an issue preventing AI from attacking the player as intended

• General performance improvements

• Added LODS to some foliage to aid with performance with no real visual cost

• Changed the texture resolution of some textures