Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone, the developer behind the comfortable farming simulator Stardew Valley, is taking a special method to the sport’s upcoming 1.6 replace releasing on March 19. Most builders would in all probability minimize collectively a trailer or ensure that their replace was included in some high-profile sizzle reel from an enormous writer. Stardew Valley is a sufficiently big recreation at this level that they may seemingly safe a spot on a Nintendo Direct only for their updates in the event that they wished. As an alternative, they’re tweeting by it.
Starting just a few days in the past with the fruitful information of an replace to fruit bushes, ConcernedApe has been sharing the occasional stray line of patch notes for Stardew’s packed 1.6 replace, and the neighborhood has been consuming up each morsel they will get. The day after the fruit bushes drove everybody bananas, ConcernedApe adopted up with a fair larger replace that confirmed the long-suspected fan principle that harvesting crops in a sure route was sooner than one other. Now, they’ve confirmed one more long-suspected principle: Downward sword swings put gamers at a drawback, and a forthcoming replace will repair that.
In accordance with ConcernedApe, the impact has at all times been supposed, because it matched the animation of the downward swing, however evidently “at all times bugged” them. The need was for the world of impact of the swing to match the animation, however within the years since, their place has shifted to imagine that “recreation really feel is far more vital than exact visible accuracy.” Verify in your Stardew buddies, I don’t assume they will deal with this a lot change.
Stardew’s 1.6 replace, which is shaping as much as be larger than I believe ConcernedApe initially supposed, has changed into an opportunity for the devs to have enjoyable with the neighborhood, ship much-desired fixes, and safe the sport’s future for an extended whereas to return. In spite of everything, it was first billed as a quality-of-life replace for modders, who typically hold the scenes round video games vigorous with their very own fixes and extensions on the prevailing title, and now it’s bordering on a tiny enlargement, full with a brand new competition, dialogue, and “secrets and techniques”. Although ConcernedApe hasn’t shared a lot on the modding entrance, it at the very least looks as if they’re sharpening the sport to a superb level earlier than handing it over to modders for an indefinite time frame.
The transfer is sensible contemplating that Stardew’s 1.6 replace is gives a little bit of a break from the event of ConcernedApe’s religious successor to Stardew Valley, one other cozy RPG referred to as Haunted Chocolatier. Although we don’t know a lot in regards to the recreation, you possibly can in all probability anticipate to listen to extra about it as improvement picks up after the discharge of Stardew’s 1.6 replace subsequent week. Within the meantime, what massive change do you assume ConcernedApe goes to announce subsequent?