Pre-Alpha Build 11

Update date:	29 January 2016
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External links
Pre-Alpha Build 11 on compulsiongames.com

Core game changes[]

New difficulty settings:
"We've Come to the End of Our Time": The core experience. You only have one life. Good luck!
"Wakey Wakey": You'll wake up in a shelter after you die, minus some of your belongings.

Added tutorial elements: Some tips and quests have been added to help guide new players as to what to do.
New foliage: The quality of our flowers and foliage should be substantially better, without affecting performance. Some flowers added to garden district houses.
Denser world: We've done some work to reduce the island size, and increase the density of interactable buildings on each island.
Wastrel female variants: Like the Wellies, female Wastrels now have their appearance randomized to an extent.

The player menu no longer pauses the game and is no longer fullscreen, instead showing some of the game world in the background.
Usable items are no longer restricted to use out of combat, however most have animations that can be interrupted in combat.
Equipment can now be changed in combat but equipping has a slight delay that also can be interrupted in combat.
Journal screen enabled: The journal allows you to keep track of storylines, encounters and objectives in the game, both big and small.
Alt-tabbing now pauses the game. (This behaviour can be changed using the "Pause In Background" setting in the graphics options.)

Loot distribution: The loot tables have been rearranged in an attempt to make them a bit more predictable.
Crafting recipe adjustments: Crafting has also been updated and with new components and recipes.
Many recipes now start locked: Unlocking recipes ususally involves finding its ingredients or interacting with particular encounters in the game world.

We have reduced the world size, to help improve performance.
We have implemented the Wwise audio engine which gives us a huge range of tools to improve the audio experience.
Integrated Unreal Engine 4.10 for better engine features and stability. Unfortunately, this also requires a significant rebuild and thus redownload of many game assets.

Islands will occasionally spawn without connecting bridges. This is a side effect of creating better controls for which bridges spawn where, and will take some time to fix - likely our next update. In the meantime, we suggest using the ghost console command to get to isolated islands.
Filler buildings occasionally have a nasty habit of appearing in the middle of the road. We are also looking into this.
Rare crash when returning to the main menu from the game. Saving still occurs normally when using "Save and Exit", so no progression should be lost in this fashion.