Major Update 1.2q (Environment Visual Refresh)

The 58th update for 'Shell of a King' is here with a ton more visual polish! This will make Shell of a King more performance-intensive, but I will be working hard to make it run as smoothly as possible. As always, if you find any bugs, especially game-breaking ones, please let me know via the official Discord!

1.2q Change List:

• Add a ton of new environment objects, new tiles, particle fx, etc

• Add Queen's Garden flashback cutscene

• Add viewable Sthena and Auri portraits

• Add a cave background to the Swallowed Cave

• Add various new sounds

• Add more attributions to the credits

• Add a bunch of unloading optimizations to account for the large number of new game objects

• Add more enemies/move some of them to fill out the world a bit more

• Add new key item 'Faded Remnant'. These are key items that raise the item drop rate of all enemies, notably they carry over to NG+ as well. 5 can be found in the Queen's Garden, Chapel of the 1, Meadow of Whispers, and 2 in the Grand Library

• Pots get a new look

• Moby's lasers get a new look

• Stairs are now 3d modeled

• Redraw a bunch of the pixel art assets by hand to make the game's art style more consistent

• Slightly rework various areas of the map to favor the default camera rotation

• Auri's first location is moved to right before the Congealed Soulmass

• The Stone Push Puzzle is moved to the center of the Meadow of Whispers

• Convert all gravestones from 2d to 3d

• Map is redrawn to accommodate some new layouts

• Replace/rework some old/placeholder assets

• Expand the ending desert

• The Small Heart and Agate Dagger pickups are now trapped

• Improve enemy pathing for Rats, Bats, Scorpions, and Land Snakes, having them avoid walls when moving randomly

• Fix the left web wall in the Infested Hollow not saving correctly

• Fix a bunch of visual bugs

• Fix a bunch of other gameplay bugs

• Introduce a bunch more bugs lol