Frozen Water & Visible Shields – July 20th 2022

We have two updates this time, one of them is slightly cosmetic while the other can bring some major changes to gameplay.

First off, in Dusk Tactics weapons and shields will show up on your unit in battle. Since there are 3 different types of Shields (Light, Medium, Heavy) each of them now has a different look to let you know what the unit has equipped.

The Heavy Shield is on the bottom left, the Light Shield is on the bottom right, and lastly the Medium Shield is on the middle right (the female warrior).

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The larger update is working on a feature I have been looking forward to for a while. The ability to freeze water! Whether it’s via magick or due to the weather, when water is frozen it can be walked across as if it were a bridge.

To achieve this, and to make it look somewhat decent, we had to use a series of bit masks which tell the engine what tile to display as ice so that it gets the edges correct.

In the above gif, you can see how when the water tiles turn to ice, they tend to have the proper ‘edge’ so that they look somewhat natural. It’s still a work in progress but soon there will be abilities that can make bridges across shallow water!

Note: Remember, some of the images and gameplay depicted here may be outdated and does not represent the current state of the game!