After a few months of work, the first build of 2021 is available now. This brings a lot of bug fixes and quality of life improvements. It's also the first build that includes a few major changes, as part of a massive overhaul (coming into new builds in the future).

Game

• Re-wrote part of the prologue.

• Added name tags to NPCs.

• Adjusted some of the text.

• Tidied up the Options menu.

• Added a scroll bar to improve the visibility of the options.

• More details are now shown in the pause menu.

• Changed the icon of the inventory option in the Actor Command.

• When an enemy guards and an attack with an element that he’s weak to hits, it will show Guarded instead of Resisted.

• Removed Row Formation.

• Moved the option to show hints from the start of a new game to the Options menu.

• Improved some of the maps.

• Balancing changes.

• Tweaked the Automatic Crash Report mechanism to improve the context of a crash (see the included Readme or the eManual for more information).

• Adjustments to the cache for the game.

• Fixed a crash when the migration tool ran in certain cases.

• Fixed an issue where some shops didn’t use the linked shops.

• Various bug fixes.

Northbridge

• Changed the theme from Office 2019 Black to Fluent Dark.

• Removed code that is no longer necessary.

• Improved start-up time.

• Consolidated some of the code to the core library.

• Fixed some bugs.

Installer/Microsoft Store

• You now have the option to remove the included copy of WebView2, if you have it installed.

• You now have the option to remove the Standalone version from the computer, if you install the Microsoft Store version.