Epic Tavern

We\'ve now completed our main overhaul of the adventuring experience. Micromanaging hunger and starvation effects are a thing of the past. In its place is a whole new system for managing Spirit through midday Rest stops. Each day, your parties in the field will receive a popup offering a choice between Resting (+10 Spirit) or going on one of our new Side Quests, each with 10 different results.Side Quests include three new popup shops (Weapons, Armor, Accessories) with rotating inventories, exploring a seemingly deserted cave, gambling at an Undermarket pavilion, helping rangers track down dangerous fugitives, and lots more. In all my time testing this new feature, I have yet to encounter the same Side Quest result twice.I\'ll break down the Side Quests a little more in the patch notes for the upcoming Stable release, but we wanted to put it up this weekend for those wanting an early peek at the new adventuring system. Also included in this update is our first big shift toward explicitly labeling when one of your skills has changed the story. You\'ll see lots more of that labeling in the coming months as I work my way through more than half a million words of Epic Tavern adventures to update them.Huge, huge thanks to the folks who spent time into our past few testing builds and provided invaluable feedback to help us tune these new features. This was a substantial change to our adventuring system and getting it all tuned right wouldn\'t have been possible without your help.How to Access the Unstable Testing BuildDisclaimer: Unstable testing builds can be, well, unstable. If you’ll be using a beloved tavern in the test build, we always recommend creating a backup of your save file, just in case.1. Go to your Steam Library2. Right-Click Epic Tavern3. Select Properties4. Click the Betas tab at the top of the pop-up window5. Click the drop-down arrow and select Unstable - Public Test TavernWe are all kinds of psyched to roll out this overhaul to our adventuring system for everyone next week. Have a great weekend and happy adventuring!

We\'ve been working on completing the latest round of updates for quest assignment, questecution, and quest UI in general:Stage generation during questecution has been reworked so as to protect against broken quest states like the infamous Make/Break Camp loop bug.Hunger and starvation now accumulate in stacks that will correlate with character effects messaged by all new UI elements.We now have a quest progress indicator for parties in the field, additional contextual messaging for various party states and events (resting, departing, returning, etc), and a much better way of viewing quest underway or completed via a modified form of the questecution panel.We\'ve also begun improvements to some map elements such as success/fail icons on quest markers with returning parties, improvements to quest marker info pop-ups, more consistent display/cleanup of party avatars, paths, and quest markers.Finally, optimizations that improve quest log recall speed, and endless random bug fixes related to the map scene.