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Full Newcomer : A Language Learning RPG update
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What changed
- UI and audio
- Gameplay
- Events
Language Expansions:
6 new target languages have been added to Newcomer! These languages are now available in beginner and intermediate mode.
German
Portuguese (Brazil)
Spanish (Spain)
Turkish
Dutch
Tagalog
Content Additions:
16 new NPCs added
Collectable gold coins spread around the world.
Knowledge orbs that can be found and bought. Knowledge orbs unlock new vocabulary to practice in battle.
Feature Modifications:
Level-ing up has been removed from Newcomer and replaced with Town Chapters. Upon reaching a new town, in beginner mode players will receive new expressions that can be used. Players receive a letter where they can cycle through the new expressions and words unlocked.
Phrasebook has been changed. Now, players can view words and expressions for each town chapter.
Feature Improvements:
Intermediate mode chat experience improved!
Faster speech to text
NPCs have more dynamic personalities
NPCs have better reasoning allowing them to more accurately trade items and detect task completion
Intermediate tasks cover a wider-range of conversational scenarios such as talking about the past, present, future, hypotheticals, and event narration in a variety of ways.
NPCs aim to converse at an intermediate level.
Players can now type 3x longer messages to NPCs.
NPCs can now talk about other villagers and towns in interesting ways.
Faster NPC responses.
Miscellaneous Improvements:
Faster translation generation when searching
Added a gold indicator
Removed account creation and sign-in
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