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addedKissenKitten - ProducerFor this month, the Hypsilophodon and the Carnotaurus took center stage. The QA team has been hard at work helping us nail down the best way to deliver on the hypsi’s spit mechanic. We’ve tried it a few different ways and have a clear heading of how we want it to be applied to the other inhabitants of the island. Which can be more difficult to nail down than you may expect. In addition to that, the carno has come charging into EVRIMA. I know by now most of you have seen some of its new animations here and there. The carno’s special ability charge has been the priority for the latter portion of the month and per playtests, is feeling pretty good so far. We’ll be doing more rounds of testing and iterating on that per usual and anxiously await getting it into your hands.
addedKissenKitten - ProducerAside from the new additions to the island, you’ll also notice some other roadmap changes. One of the biggest decisions was to pull AI from individual updates. As you may know, we wanted EVRIMA's inhabitants to be smaller in stature (comparatively). With larger, apex animals being AI. However, with all the trouble complex AI has been giving us, we had to make some tough choices. Our original intent with AI was to allow server owners with low playercounts to still be able to have an immersive experience whether they had the player numbers on their side or not. In addition to having some large threats roaming around that you may not be able to get the best of. But unfortunately, AI needs more time in the oven. We considered our options and ultimately decided to let you all have the stegosaurus as a playable due to it already being completely animated for it’s AI introduction. Which would allow us to get you the update much sooner and also get another playable in your hands. The other options would have been to significantly delay the update while we pulled AI up to standard or to significantly delay the update while we replaced the stego with a different playable that would have needed to be animated from scratch. Both only served to cause delays. So we instead opted to get you all another playable and keep the update schedule on track. In addition, we’ve made a bunch of new changes to the roadmap with some valuable input from QA that we feel will help streamline production a little bit more while also steadily providing new playables in a scope that keeps each update feeling unique and adding new mechanics at each interval that corresponds with a playable that can utilize those new features.
The Isle changes
addedFor this month, the Hypsilophodon and the Carnotaurus took center stage. The QA team has been hard at work helping us nail down the best way to deliver on the hypsi’s spit mechanic. We’ve tried it a few different ways and have a clear heading of how we want it to be applied to the other inhabitants of the island. Which can be more difficult to nail down than you may expect. In addition to that, the carno has come charging into EVRIMA. I know by now most of you have seen some of its new animations here and there. The carno’s special ability charge has been the priority for the latter portion of the month and per playtests, is feeling pretty good so far. We’ll be doing more rounds of testing and iterating on that per usual and anxiously await getting it into your hands.
addedAside from the new additions to the island, you’ll also notice some other roadmap changes. One of the biggest decisions was to pull AI from individual updates. As you may know, we wanted EVRIMA's inhabitants to be smaller in stature (comparatively). With larger, apex animals being AI. However, with all the trouble complex AI has been giving us, we had to make some tough choices. Our original intent with AI was to allow server owners with low playercounts to still be able to have an immersive experience whether they had the player numbers on their side or not. In addition to having some large threats roaming around that you may not be able to get the best of. But unfortunately, AI needs more time in the oven. We considered our options and ultimately decided to let you all have the stegosaurus as a playable due to it already being completely animated for it’s AI introduction. Which would allow us to get you the update much sooner and also get another playable in your hands. The other options would have been to significantly delay the update while we pulled AI up to standard or to significantly delay the update while we replaced the stego with a different playable that would have needed to be animated from scratch. Both only served to cause delays. So we instead opted to get you all another playable and keep the update schedule on track. In addition, we’ve made a bunch of new changes to the roadmap with some valuable input from QA that we feel will help streamline production a little bit more while also steadily providing new playables in a scope that keeps each update feeling unique and adding new mechanics at each interval that corresponds with a playable that can utilize those new features.
KissenKitten - Producer
For this month, the Hypsilophodon and the Carnotaurus took center stage. The QA team has been hard at work helping us nail down the best way to deliver on the hypsi’s spit mechanic. We’ve tried it a few different ways and have a clear heading of how we want it to be applied to the other inhabitants of the island. Which can be more difficult to nail down than you may expect. In addition to that, the carno has come charging into EVRIMA. I know by now most of you have seen some of its new animations here and there. The carno’s special ability charge has been the priority for the latter portion of the month and per playtests, is feeling pretty good so far. We’ll be doing more rounds of testing and iterating on that per usual and anxiously await getting it into your hands.
Aside from the new additions to the island, you’ll also notice some other roadmap changes. One of the biggest decisions was to pull AI from individual updates. As you may know, we wanted EVRIMA's inhabitants to be smaller in stature (comparatively). With larger, apex animals being AI. However, with all the trouble complex AI has been giving us, we had to make some tough choices. Our original intent with AI was to allow server owners with low playercounts to still be able to have an immersive experience whether they had the player numbers on their side or not. In addition to having some large threats roaming around that you may not be able to get the best of. But unfortunately, AI needs more time in the oven. We considered our options and ultimately decided to let you all have the stegosaurus as a playable due to it already being completely animated for it’s AI introduction. Which would allow us to get you the update much sooner and also get another playable in your hands. The other options would have been to significantly delay the update while we pulled AI up to standard or to significantly delay the update while we replaced the stego with a different playable that would have needed to be animated from scratch. Both only served to cause delays. So we instead opted to get you all another playable and keep the update schedule on track. In addition, we’ve made a bunch of new changes to the roadmap with some valuable input from QA that we feel will help streamline production a little bit more while also steadily providing new playables in a scope that keeps each update feeling unique and adding new mechanics at each interval that corresponds with a playable that can utilize those new features.
Artistically, the concept team has rounded out the bulk of the legacy concept changes and will be shifting into work that supports a major addition to the game. Elders. I know the burning question on everyone’s minds has been, “which creatures will have an elder variant” and I can confirm that all of the playables will have an elder. Considering our massive roster though, you will not see a singular elder update as that would be a staggering amount of models to produce all at once and we doubt you’d want to wait that long to get your elder on. So, the elders, as we complete them, will appear on the roadmap alongside whichever update corresponds to its completion. Working on elders will be an ongoing part of production until each creature has one. So there will not be an elder specific update. We will simply be
