Patch Notes Update

Demo v0.27-22032025-1418

[Game]

• This version is officially designated as a demo.

[UI/UX]

• Minor navigation improvements.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Added water graphics settings.

• Fixed incorrect cubemap placement.

• Fixed an issue where water appeared pitch black on certain devices.

• Improved performance for ambient occlusion (AO) settings.

Developer Notes

This version has been deemed stable and is now released as a demo. The final release of the game is uncertain, as I am currently busy with other commitments and experimenting with new game mechanics (unrelated to this project). However, development may continue if time allows and I feel motivated to work on it.

The development version (unreleased build) currently includes work-in-progress content such as two additional maps, a tutorial level, new characters, and an extra game mode, though their final inclusion is still undecided. Feedback on the demo is highly appreciated!

v0.26-14032025-1553

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.
• Fixed an issue where the pause menu animation would not play under certain conditions.

[Gameplay]

Most balance changes focus on reducing excessive movement speed in the late game.

• Threat Level Adjustments :
  • Level 2 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +5% → +10%
    • Attack Speed (A.SPD) → +10%
  • Level 3 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +10% → +12.5%
    • Attack Speed (A.SPD) +10% → +15%
  • Level 4 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +20% → +15%
    • Attack Speed (A.SPD) +15% → +20%
  • Level 5 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +35% → +20%
    • Attack Speed (A.SPD) +20% → +25%
  • Level 6 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +50% → + 25%
  • Level 7 : 
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +75% → +35%
  • Level 8 :
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +100% → +50%
  • Level 9 :
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +125% → +75%
  • Level 10 :
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) +150% → +100%
• Special Building Buff Adjustments:
  • Burger Restaurant :
    • Buff duration reduced 15s → 7.5s
  • Donut Restaurant :
    • Buff duration reduced 15s → 7.5s
  • Ice Cream Restaurant :
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) multiplier adjusted 1.25x → 1.15x
    • Buff duration reduced 15s → 7.5s
  • KFP Restaurant :
    • Movement Speed (M.SPD) multiplier adjusted 1.25x → 1.15x
    • Buff duration reduced 15s → 5s

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed a regression where water foam was not rendering in DirectX11.
• Removed occlusion culling due to rendering issues in certain scenarios.
  • A new occlusion culling solution is needed, as most objects in the game are dynamic. expect lower performance on current build

[Characters]

• Gura (Dino) : 
  • Ability Movement Speed (M.SPD) buff reduced 1.5x → 1.15x
• Ame : 
  • Ability attack speed buff duration reduced 3s → 2.3s
  • Speedup ability DoT interval reduced 0.25s → 0.15s
• Ina :
  • Speedup ability DoT interval reduced 0.5s → 0.25s
• Kiara :
  • Stomp hitbox range increased +40%
  • Ability hitbox range increased +60%

v0.25-13032025-1110

[UI/UX]

• Redesigned pause menu UI based on playtester feedback.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Optimized Ray-Traced Global Illumination, Ray-Traced Reflections, and Ray-Traced Ambient Occlusion for better performance.
• Added Denoiser and PBR Accumulation to Screen Space Reflections for improved quality.
• Adjusted specular maps on specific buildings to increase reflectivity.
• Added a ‘Very Low’ option in Level of Detail settings.
• Fixed TAAU on DirectX 11, which previously failed to work in some cases.

[Characters]

• Gura (Dino) : 
  • Attack Stomp speed slowed from 1.50s → 2s.
• Ame : 
  • Attack Stomp speed slowed from 1s → 1.30s
• Ina : 
  • Attack Stomp speed slowed from 2.30s → 2.45s
  • Increased base attack speed from 1.30s → 1.15s.
• Mori : 
  • Attack Stomp speed slowed from 1.30s → 1.50s
• Kiara : 
  • Attack Stomp speed slowed from 2s → 2.20s
  • Increased base attack speed from 1.10s → 1s.

v0.24-11032025-1238

[Game]

• Initial Early Access release on Itch.io.

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed a regression where volumetric fog could cause the entire screen to render black.
• Adjusted Ray-Traced Global Illumination and Ray-Traced Reflections for better performance.
• Fixed an issue with occlusion culling that sometimes caused object flickering.
• Updated DLSS 4 from v310.1 → v310.2.1.
• Fixed a crash on lower-end devices (e.g., Intel HD/UHD/Xe Series) when running on DirectX 12.

[Gameplay]

• Adjusted spawner logic for improved functionality.
• Improved navigation to reduce Takodachi and vehicles getting stuck in nav-mesh corners. (This issue is not completely resolved, as a low-quality nav-mesh is used to optimize performance.)

v0.23-04032025-1801

[UI/UX]

• Fixed an issue where mouse navigation occasionally caused the scrollbar to become stuck and unresponsive.
• Adjusted the stats bar on the character selection screen:
  • Reduced max dash multiplier from 3 → 2.

[Gameplay]

• Fixed an issue where the player would repeatedly spawn in the same location after character selection.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Significantly improved character spawner loading by implementing a new method:
  • All characters are now pre-placed on the map and removed when unselected, replacing the previous method where characters spawned only when called.
• Increased fixed time step from 0.05 → 0.075, improving performance in dynamic object-heavy scenes. (This may cause some physics interactions to appear lower-framerate.)
• Added experimental occlusion culling:
  • This feature is still experimental since all objects in the game are dynamic.
  • Please report any cases of object flickering when objects should be visible without interruptions.

[Characters]

Gura (Dino)

• Increased dash multiplier from 1.5x → 1.6x.

Ame

• Increased dash multiplier from 1.8x → 1.9x.

Ina

• Increased ultimate duration from 4s → 6s.
• Decreased dash multiplier from 1.5x → 1.4x.

Calli

• Reduced ultimate cooldown from 30s → 25s.
• Increased dash multiplier from 1.5x → 1.8x.

Kiara

• Decreased base movement speed from 5 → 4.

v0.22-03032025-2212

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Camera]

• Increased maximum FOV based on playtester feedback, addressing difficulty in seeing tall buildings.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed a regression where volumetric fog failed to enable automatically at game start (previous fix did not fully resolve the issue under certain conditions).
• Locked framerate in the main menu based on VSync and frame cap settings.
• Re-adjusted RT-Reflections and RT-GI volume profile settings to improve both performance and quality.
• Improved SSGI performance by ~2-5% on some hardware.
• Fixed DLSS config detecting GTX Series GPUs incorrectly.
• Performance increase by re-adjusting some LOD on “Original” LOD Presets.
• Fixed an issue where some VKD3D/DX12-compatible hardware did not perform shader compilation properly.
• Optimized shader compilation speed after the first run.
• Added Volumetric Clouds on ‘Graphics Settings’ preview.

v0.21-03032025-1700

[Characters]

• Adjusted Kiara’s ultimate by increasing animation speed.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed SSGI causing a fireflies effect.

v0.20-020325-1623

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed regression where volumetric fog failed to enable automatically at game start.

[Other]

• Added a developer-only test scene.

v0.19-280225-2050

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Camera]

• Fixed Ame’s camera FOV min-max range.

[Animation]

• Fixed unscaled time animations that varied in speed depending on framerate.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Fixed volumetric fog scaling issues in-game.

v0.18-270225-1806

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Added volumetric fog to graphics settings.
• Removed DX11 support on Linux, replaced with VKD3D/DX12 only due to crashes reported by playtesters.

v0.17-270225-1041

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Graphics / Performance]

• Reworked RT-GI functionality.
• Removed FSR2 support due to random crashes and lower quality compared to STP.

v0.16-260225-1945

[UI/UX]

• Minor UI/UX navigation fixes.

[Camera]

• Increased default camera FOV.
• Removed vertical camera movement due to discomfort and clipping issues reported by playtesters.

v0.15-240225-2115

[Other]

• Initial playtest release.

v0.01 – 0.15

(Limited development release, internal builds only)