Development Update 31.10.2025

Hello everyone, welcome to this week's progress report. 

Level: 
This week, we continued work on the A-quality blockout for Umbar and on detail meshes for Apoc. In parallel to that, we finished updating our landscape textures, which are now waiting to be implemented on the story mode world map. The world map terrain mesh is also progressing through its detail pass, and it's looking better and better.

Code:
This week, we implemented a group token system for our combat AI. This system ensures that only one NPC has full activity during a fight. All other NPCs will have reduced activity, so you don't get overwhelmed by too many enemies attacking at the same time.

We also continued work on the Tattoo system - a new Tattoo Shop UI is being developed for story mode to be able to add and remove tattoos at the cost of Pearls

Character:
Last week, we improved the eyebrow behaviour for all the female humans, this week we completed the procedure for all the male humans. We also started work on small lizard characters based on Djablo’s skeleton. These will be easier enemies who populate the lizard regions of Kerpal.

Animations: 
In the animation department, we implemented some more NPC routine animations for the lizards of Adûn this week: sitting, guarding, spear practising, chiseling plates, chiming ritual bells and drilling for ores. We also implemented the item use animations for eating fruit, eating meat, eating meals, and drinking potions and mopped up some additional small tasks from the backlog like missing turn-in-place animations. 

Design:
We have fleshed out the cannibal leader boss design, looking to give him that brutal, intimidating vibe that'll make encounters epic. We have also been setting up the bandit character classes, defining things like what loot they drop and what gear and weapons they use. We are making solid progress on the first balancing pass for all the combat-related values, as well, i.e. weapon stats, enemy stats and player stats.
On top of that, we worked on a do-over of the main quest in the Lake village. Max can now gather information about the Kerpali from several characters, which will hopefully be a better version of the first contact quest.

Thank you for all your continued support,

-Wild Life Team