Evidyon Alpha 2 - NEW Download (Sat. Jan 24)

[Karl G.]

http://www.unseenstudios.com/evidyon/download/evidyon-setup.msi

This is the bug-fixed version of the initial release, which takes care of a bunch of different things listed over in Cagen's bug post. Major thanks go out to Cagen for setting this up for me, by the way

This version is slightly incomplete, but I thought it would be best to put it out now because tomorrow I need to do some homework and probably won't get the time, although I will be tinkering here and there. One of the things that will be most obvious is that you can't identify other player-characters, but you are able to identify yourself and all monsters. That'll be fixed soon.

Other than that, please tell me how you feel about the flow of the game right now. Is it too choppy? Combat too slow? Melee suck? I know I haven't implemented blocking yet, but within what exists I'd really love some feedback and a little direction on what I should be focusing.

My "big plan" is to do some more background coding for the next release and get the stats menu (and other menus) up to snuff, implement merchants/bazaar/geosids and possibly parties and definitely add more spells, items and abilities. This will be phased in over the next couple of weeks, as I'm looking to start open beta before spring break (in March!!)

[Joe M.]

Link!

[Cagen]

No dice.

Download doesn't work.

[Joe M.]

Ah! There it is. Finished uploading.

[Rabit561]

OMG OMG OMG *ORGASM*


LOLZ

Dling nao!

[deathstalker]

this update is the bomb.
you did a greatttttttttttttt job
with this one.

[Exempt]

Very nice Karl! This is 100% better ifnot more. I've noticed one wird bug where some monsters kinda just freeze up but other then that it's great so far. I wish velo on warriors would last longer but it's still nice to have as is. Been running steady 45fps with no lag i can see anyway.

~Enchantress

[Karl G.]

thanks

The warrior velo is supposed to be a really low-level one that gets replaced later.

Freezing monsters is due to...*ahem*...stupid AI coding.

[Marine2583]

rolf i like the "ahem" there Karl
o well this update is the sh*t!!!!

[Exempt]

Well, they seem to freeze to the point i cannot even attack them. Also there is a place when you go south-east towards the red scorpions that i get stuck on.
When will the stats be enabled? Ah, i almost forgot... The big pillars by the graveyard and the new monsters you made, are they suppost to randomly teleport you between the two?
~Enchantress

On a side note, i think i'm lvl 11 now go me!

Edit: I just noticed another bug... If you drop more then one item from your inventory into a single stack all items below it will be deleted... poor bone armor/helm/broadsword...

Edit: I found a Russet Aegis +0 armor! Woo

[Serenity]

The game runs horrible for me now. I get 45 fps, but everything seems so choppy and awkward... I can't see when I'm hitting a monster or tell if my spells connect with them... I know you're working hard and upgrading things but it almost seems like a big downgrade for me. I hate to be negative...

We will see what the future holds.

[Karl G.]

The game runs horrible for me now. I get 45 fps, but everything seems so choppy and awkward... I can't see when I'm hitting a monster or tell if my spells connect with them... I know you're working hard and upgrading things but it almost seems like a big downgrade for me. I hate to be negative...

We will see what the future holds.

Can you be specific? Or use FRAPS to record a video? I'd be really interested to see what's going on, because this version updates 10x faster than the old version and should is MUCH smoother on every machine I have tested.

[Exempt]

Well, i'm playing as a warrior and as far as melee goes...kinda like xenimus at lvl 1 really. We need stats to tell really. Spin is pretty nice tho, i think the radius is kinda small but it works. The real problems i'm having now is the way monsters group up instead of finding a path to me.

[Exempt]

Wierd, the mouse cursor affects the lightning on my character now.

Edit: Gaints decription is showing up as scorpion.

[Exempt]

What i'd like to see for warrior style fighting is something like wow has rage or energy. They would both work for the pace of evidyon. I think energy would be best, also the mederi spell is worthless now. Maybe like a battle shout that enrages you causing a heal affect on attack.

Edit: I should probably say i would never want energy to be used on common skills like spin and nomal attack. I think battle moves kinda like ej has setup but make them much more powerful...with the energy to limit there uses like mana. Warriors really don't even need mana there are ways to bypass it...

[ubern00ber]

Mouse cursor shading is kinda cool when you select objects.. but it's very buggy in the fully top down view. Half of what you can see becomes dark.. (follows your cursor, too)

[Serenity]

The game runs horrible for me now. I get 45 fps, but everything seems so choppy and awkward... I can't see when I'm hitting a monster or tell if my spells connect with them... I know you're working hard and upgrading things but it almost seems like a big downgrade for me. I hate to be negative...

We will see what the future holds.

Can you be specific? Or use FRAPS to record a video? I'd be really interested to see what's going on, because this version updates 10x faster than the old version and should is MUCH smoother on every machine I have tested.

Yeah I'll see about getting you a video here shortly.

Edit: Ok well it's not as bad as it seemed last night... maybe because I was tired or something lol. I suppose I rely on sounds a lot so disabled sound =

[Sankt Pauli]

One thing that really irritates me is that the installer wants me to completely remove the previous install everytime im installing an update (via system control). :p

[Karl G.]

One thing that really irritates me is that the installer wants me to completely remove the previous install everytime im installing an update (via system control). :p

Yeah, that bugs me too. It should just do it automatically, but I'm not exactly sure how. It's probably just a setting somewhere.

I was just happy it installed something at all, but I suppose it's time to improve it a little