EXPERIMENTAL Build - 2.3 Update

[Nikki Severin 1148]

Ahoy Ylanders,

We've been hard at work on the upcoming update, which we titled Elven Expeditions. And before we release it, we bring you the experimental build! 

Available only to Steam users, the Experimental build offers you guys a chance to:

• test upcoming features & changes
• report any bugs & provide early feedback (#experimental_build room on our Discord server is a great way to do that)

 

 

HOW TO TRY THE EXPERIMENTAL BUILD

1. Go to your Steam library and right-click Ylands
2. Select Properties, click the "Betas" tab, and enter "YExperimentalPublic" as the password (excluding the double quotes)
3. This will unlock the "i_will_back_up_my_saves" branch. (Please note that you don't need to back up your saves anymore this is just the name of the branch).
4. After selecting the branch and confirming it, Steam will begin downloading the new experimental branch
    

SUPER IMPORTANT INFO! 

• Any progress you make on the experimental build DOES NOT carry over to your live game!!! 
• When you start playing experimental, we will now copy your live progress into experimental for you. You can try your actual progress in the new update right away (remember that you are playing in a separate environment so it will not affect your progress on live by any means).
• What WILL be copied:
  • Adventure mode progress,
  • All editor scenarios and tools,
  • Non-protected workshop scenarios and all the blueprints you have uploaded to the workshop
  • All your purchased blueprints
  • All your local blueprints
• What WILL NOT be copied:
  • Sharegames
  • Rented servers (if you want any of those maps on experimental, you will need to turn them into singleplayer maps before you start experimental for the first time)
  • Any workshop assets with global user data (leaderboards, game sets, etc)
• Do not copy any local files! Any TAMPERING with local data can lead to irreversible loss of progress!!!
• Not all features that will be released in the full release are necessarily available in the Experimental build. It is possible that some features available in the Experimental build might be changed, balanced, or removed before the full release.

...with that out of the way...onto the good stuff!

 

Highlights

Random Encounter Objectives

We improved random encounters so now you are able to keep track of RE objective progress. We hope it will motivate you and your friends to explore ylands even more now.

Luring lighthouse

A new chapter of the story takes you to the Monsoonal region where strange things started happening. Could this have something to do with the arrival of elves into the region? It is up to you (and Horatio Reginald Elmwood, of course) to find out what's going on!

Gamepad

Gamepad controls is finally here for you. Do not forget that with gamepad we help you a little bit during the combat with the aim assist. 

Quality of life improvements

You may now use freeplace feature for your blueprints, it can be freely rotate and snap to ground at your will. 

EDITOR improvements:

• Polished ease of use of input fields throughout the editor.
• Merged Terrain and Advanced Terrain Tools and split Game Logics into Basic Logics and Script Logics.
• Custom Enums are now a standalone Visual Script Category.
• Custom Localizations basic workflow introduced - create your own localization tables for custom games.
• Positions and Rotations in Visual Scripting reworked to be more intuitive.
• New Project Browser makes searching and opening Editor Scenarios much easier.