Pretty Standard Update

You know, I forget how many drivers you have to update when installing a new computer part. You never know what's going to go bad, even with something that seemingly has no effect on the other. For instance, after I installed the new graphics card, I had no sound and my wireless internet was dropping off constantly. I just reinstalled the same driver for the sound on my motherboard (thing is 5.1 surround sound out the box! Who'da thunk it?) and it turns out that when I had my computer put together like half a year ago they installed the wrong driver for my internet anyway.

But that didn't stop me from providing an update for you all. Two new areas, probably jam a few sidequests in it. There will be a clear reason to visit the area, but I'll probably throw a few "go here and do something" things in there as well as I "I don't like you, so die" option.



Now you're probably thinking what could you possibly be doing down there? Well I'm not going to tell you, other than these two are involved, if you play your cards right (or wrong as it were) you'll find out what happens when you apply both the vampire and half golem template to a second level fighter (it's not pretty!), and it's not what you think!





There a whole slew of screens here you can check out. Many of them are from the opening cutscene for the area where you walk in and get escorted back to the throne room to meet the resident, to simulate looking around at your surroundings. Some of it is kind of nasty stuff:



And it's still not what you think!

But anyway, it was kind of ridiculous. It literally took me four hours to get this thirty second cutscene working right, where the player follows an NPC through a hallway. I tried to do it the stupid way first because I thought it would be more efficient, and tried for several hours to make the stupid way work. Then I took fifteen minutes to do it the "right" way and another few minutes to tweak the delays on the camera.

But anyway, that's pretty much what's going on. More to do, more to do.