Patch notes

Patch notes for version 0.9

• Made significant visual and gameplay changes to the Pyramid Island
• Added a new gameplay section to the Water Tower
• Added the ability to listen to music in the gallery
• Added music collectables that can be found around the world
• Added the ability to play animations in the gallery
• Added the ability to sprint
• Added an option to change sprint mode to either toggle or hold
• Added the ability to control a dragon with the keyboard
• Added a new dither effect for when the camera is too close to the player
• Added new music to the volcano island
• Added a new landing animation for when the player lands from a jump
• Added sound effects for drowning in water and falling into lava
• Added splash particles for when the player falls into the water
• Added more ambient sounds on certain islands
• Added an additional checkpoint to the Crystal Islands
• Added more falling leaves to islands
• Added an option to sort gallery items by name, artist or unlock method
• Added an option to filter gallery items by type
• Added rocks to the L-shaped island to block an unintentional route and guide the player to climb up the vines
• Added light ray effects to collectables
• Added support for Intel Macs
• Added macOS app icon
• Added an advanced video option to toggle render dependency graph parallel execution (off by default on macOS due to causing significantly reduced performance)
• Improved location descriptions of many collectables
• Improved the collision of the checkpoint statue
• Improved the visuals of the lava
• Improved the crystal effects
• Improved the formatting of the credits
• Improved the visuals of the last dragon
• Improved the dragon curse effect
• Improved the visuals of the altitude meter
• Improved player animations
• Adjusted the process of attaching to a dragon after letting go to prevent it from happening unintentionally
• Adjusted the effect of the look and flight sensitivity sliders
• Reduced the noise of the Pyramid Island dragon's flight path
• Removed and repositioned certain flight rings
• Moved hint messages to appear at the bottom of the screen
• Moved the respawn indicator to appear near the center of the screen
• Moved buttons on the button and door island to more visible locations
• Moved the first checkpoint of the L-shaped island to a higher location
• Changed dragons to slow down when flying them near certain parts of islands
• Changed the visuals of the door status indicators
• Changed the checkpoint radius from a sphere to a hemisphere
• Changed checkpoint statue sphere to glow when the checkpoint is active
• Changed the player camera to retract based on the amount of movement instead of immediately retracting as far as possible after it no longer collides with geometry
• Changed the default gamepad key bind for diving to the right shoulder
• Changed the default gamepad key bind for respawning to the Left Shoulder
• Changed the free look camera position to match the fly camera position
• Fixed an issue where water was rendering incorrectly with certain GPUs
• Fixed an issue where freeing a fire dragon did not unlock the “Free a fire dragon” artwork
• Fixed an issue where the fire dragon would periodically glitch when flying straight up or down
• Fixed an issue where hint messages wouldn't appear under certain conditions
• The credits now appear after completing the game

Patch notes for version 0.8

• Added leg animations to dragons
• Added 2 new ring trials to the later islands
• Added 2 new artworks that can be unlocked by completing the new ring trials
• Added more breakable crystals to the later islands
• Added new textures for the player
• Added cloth physics to the player's loincloth
• Added inverse kinematics to the player's legs when the player is not moving
• Added an option to change flight sensitivity to the control options
• Made grass bend when the player walks on it
• Made dragons 20% larger
• Improved blending of player's animations from ground hit to movement
• Improved dragon navigation
• Changed action bar to collapse when there are no actions to show
• Reduced jitter while climbing on a dragon
• Fixed flight ring speedlines not showing when flying the fire dragon
• Fixed framerate affecting the length of flight ring speed boost
• Fixed framerate affecting flight sensitivity and dragon free look sensitivity
• Fixed look sensitivity not affecting dragon free look
• Fixed invert look y not affecting dragon free look
• Fixed being able to collect collectables through crystals by punching

Patch notes for version 0.7

• Fixed not being able to respawn while climbing a vine
• Fixed being able to jump while a landing animation is playing
• Fixed artwork unlock pop-ups occasionally flickering
• Fixed fully pressed buttons making a sound when stepped on
• Removed a crystal from the Button and Door island
• Adjusted the scroll speed of text in artwork unlock pop-ups
• Decreased the required amount of hits to break crystals from 4 to 3
• Increased the hit radius of the player's attack
• Increased player gravity to make movement feel less floaty
• Changed the environment to account for the change in player gravity
• Changed buttons to press down faster when being stepped on
• Changed flight paths of dragons to be more deterministic
• Changed flight paths of some dragons to be less linear
• Improved the audibility of sound effects
• Improved the feel of flying through rings by increasing the fov and adding speedlines for the duration of the received speed boost
• Reworked crystal visuals
• Made crystals that are attached to dragons glow more prominently
• Made it possible to attack while moving
• Made it possible to repeatedly attack by holding down the attack button
• Added an option to disable hold to attack
• Added an additional vine to the Water Tower islands
• Added an additional checkpoint to the Pyramid island
• Added an additional checkpoint to the Volcano island
• Added new textures for the first dragon
• Added a VFX that plays when a checkpoint is activated
• Added a pulsing sound effect to crystals that are attached to dragons
• Added dragon eggshells to the first island

Patch notes for version 0.6

• Fixed resolution scale option incorrectly showing 0.25 before being changed for the first time
• Fixed action bar not showing in cutscene pause menu
• Fixed foliage and view distance quality options not applying without reloading the save
• Fixed foliage quality not affecting grass density
• Fixed view distance option working incorrectly with grass
• Fixed not being able to re-attach to a dragon under certain conditions
• Fixed a bug where player's climbing animation kept playing while riding a dragon
• Removed shadows from purple grass to make them appear consistent with other vegetation
• Moved the point where the player dies in lava from waist to feet height
• Changed jump off impulse's direction to account for player's position on the dragon
• Increased the radius of checkpoints from 2.4 and 4 meters to a flat 4.5 meters
• Increased the draw distance of grass, dragons, crystals and trees
• Improved camera behaviour when flying at dragon's max altitude
• Improved dragon dismounting by disabling camera blending when jumping off a dragon
• Added keyboard icons for action bar actions
• Added new animations for when the player hits the ground
• Added an animation that plays when the player finishes climbing up a vine

Patch notes for version 0.5

Here are the fixes and additions for this version:

• Fixed collision not being enabled for rocks around Water Tower islands
• Fixed show button prompts option not applying when loading a save
• Fixed camera jittering when climbing certain vines
• Fixed a minor visual artifact on the first dragon's tail
• Fixed altitude meter's color not starting as white at base altitude
• Fixed being incorrectly able to climb down vines in certain spots
• Fixed a checkpoint at Water Tower islands spawning inside ground
• Removed the ability to climb on the backside of vines
• Reworked flight ring visuals
• Various visual tweaks to the game world
• Changed climbing with gamepad's analog stick to use 2 fixed speeds instead of the speed being fully analog
• Adjusted climbing animation speeds to match more closely with the movement
• Made sideways climbing on vines slower
• Split video options into two categories (game and video)
• Added various graphics quality options
• Added option to change anti-aliasing mode
• Added DLSS support for RTX GPUs (Windows only)
• Added an option to reset gamma to default value
• Added macOS support

0.5.1

• Fixed ending cutscene not playing properly

Patch notes for multiple versions

Version 0.2 patch notes

• Initial release

Version 0.3 patch notes

• Fixed vine climbing bugs
• Fixed gamepad navigation in credits menu
• Fixed playtime not being tracked when Show Playtime is disabled in settings
• Changed credits to auto-scroll and loop
• Changed respawn tip to say hold 2 seconds to respawn (was incorrectly 3)
• Changed altitude meter base altitude to match the height at which the current dragon initially resided
• Added fade to black on death
• Added button prompts for diving and respawning (shown while falling)
• Added debris to Water Tower islands
• Added an additional checkpoint to Water Tower islands
• Improved camera blending between the player and the dragon

Version 0.4 patch notes

• Fixed game crashing when opening a save with version 0.3
• Fixed lava uv
• Fixed launchpads clipping into the ground on volcano island
• Slightly reduced dragon jump off impulse
• Improved the effect of camera being submerged in water or lava