Wicked Island 0.8.4.6 released! (2024)

UI overhaul, level design changes and new combat options, amongst many other things.

Change notes:

Added

• falling through the map should now teleport you back to start of map. Preferably you shouldn't be able to fall through the world, but shit happens
• torches
• codex input mapping under inputs menu
• ability to change building height (shift + scroll)
• added black birds circling overhead of most points of interests (dungeon entrances, camps etc)
• All trees will procedurally spawn a stump when cut and will spawn logs when falling to the ground. Also added effect for tree trunk shrinking when cut as well as tree falling.
• added some more coal to palces missing it
• stun as a status effect
• power attacks that will stun enemies but cost stamina (attack + ctrl)
• dash attack will stun enemies in its path
• 2 troll animations that for some reason wasnt added before
• Quest descriptions for each stage of quests
• ability to spawn specific item in cheat menu
• Actor count in cheat menu, this is for debugging purposes, it counts all actors across the map and displays the count
• goats

Changed

• Removed stamina cost of normal weapon attacks
• Interaction text to be in the middle of the screen
• reduced size of some text widgets
• increased out of combat stamina regen
• nightly spawns should no longer appear near buildings
• hid pubic hair options in menu as they don't currently work
• replaced all ruins with new meshes and made them much bigger (and added a new one as well)
• replaced graycott village with a much larger and more detailed village
• replaced stonhelm castle with a much larger and more detailed castle
• disabled several unused plugins
• changed so that the mouse should always be locked to viewport, even after alt tabbing
• replaced the model of coal ore and the item description
• increased respawn duration all ores
• increased size of iron ore
• increased time before cooked food spoils (from 15 to 30min for standard tier and to 45min for high tier foor)
• added a delay between an item drops and before it is auto picked up
• removed mallet from crafting list as its not used for anything currently
• changed the model of branches to make them easier to spot
• changed the model for wheat
• Reworked UI design across the game
• Journal and codex are now in the same UI, also changed the look of how quests are tracked
• naming the character will now prompt you before starting a new game, to prevent players missing it
• enemies with weapons will have the weapons hidden during scenes
• changed face light to be rectangular for better eye reflections
• changed default keys for dodge, jump and toggle walk (jump = space, dodge = alt, walk = f)
• tweaked jumping to feel better overall and made jump height higher
• quests will now look if item already exist in inventory as well as if its being added when checking for collection/crafting/giving birth
• made limbs harder to cut off enemies and made feet cuttable before death
• tweaked AI to be better at detecting the player and not getting random blackouts mid fight
• Changed AI flocking behaviour to only affect certain AI,s the others will instead have a home location they go back to
• location of character presets, this means some presets will be added by default to all installs. To move your old presets, copy them from%LocalAppData%\UnrealEngine\5.3\Saved to you game folder\WickedIslandFull\Windows\WickedIsland
• Renamed weregoat baby to satyr
• horse is now summoned by a warhorn (item) rather than a key
• Changed horse model and mount system completely to be more fluid in movement and nicer to control
• Disabled enemies/POIs on compass/map until i get it sorted properly
• removed skillpoint gain from discovering landmarks until load/save of them can be fixed

Fixed

• Unable to eat cooked meat
• Can now repair bows
• unable to build after closing build menu using the close button instead of right mouse button
• You should no longer be able to randomly end up on top of dungeons after scenes
• load button sometimes now spawning in main menu even when a save game exists
• NPCs walking away during dialogue (RUDE!)
• unable to sleep unless jumping
• building inside houses should no longer be counted as unstable and break placed object, same goes for cliffs
• cancelling sleep blocking inputs
• trees turning completely invisible at large distances
• presets now work properly without having to spam to add morphs (randomly, thanks unreal, i guess..)
• enemies/npcs sometimes not spawning correctly after level transitions
• blacksmith dialogue not continuing (this prevented initiating trade, which should now work as well)
• name of mayors quest missing
• fixed tattoo intensity to default to higher, making tattoos more visible, also increased max intensity
• items should be refunded when placing a building that instantly breaks
• Isabell quest should now be able to turn in
• rabbit and pig ragdoll
• item auto pickup covering entire map when loading a game
• some followers/pets not following the player (werewolf/werebear/nightmare/drake/minotaur should now follow player)
• being able to sit while swimming
• Minotaur offspring
• Mount point dragon
• build placed sound now playing where building placed, not in a distant galaxy

Performance

• refactored code running on tick to running event based in multiple places
• enabled nanite on more meshes
• tweaked grass for better performance
• optimized sky for medium or lower settings, should add some performance boost
• removed several unoptimized prop meshes that could tank performance for non-nanite systems
• optimized a few shaders to be more performant
• optimized some code for the dragon to make it run in a separate thread

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