Wicked Island [v.0.8.5.5] (2023) (Eng) [Unreal Engine] [RawDarkness]

v8.5.5 - 2024-12-11
What's New?
- **Evercoal**: A craftable item that never stops burning
- Ability to **trade with Farmer NPCs** (seeds and produce) and **Barmaid NPCs** (food items).
- **Autopickup** added for wooden logs .
- **Iron ore** now spawns in clusters around large rock formations, but these are guarded by enemy groups.
- **Drake Towers** : Holds a chest guarded by 3 drakes.
- **Mazes** : 6 mazes, each containing a chest and guarded by minotaurs.
- **Speedlines effect** when sprinting ‍♂.

Changes
- Lowered sound of **footsteps** on grass and dirt.
- Tweaked **cave brightness** for better visibility.
- Reverted to the **old breast physics simulation** for improved visuals.
- Reduced **pushback on parry**.
- Deck UI can now be closed using `Esc` or `Tab` keys.
- **Bow durability doubled**.
- Tweaked **gold value** and **weight** of multiple items.
- Increased **auto pickup range** from 800 → 2000 for better item collection.
- Improved **loot lists** for chests and containers.
- Adjusted **EXP gain** for harvesting and bow usage based on ammo type.
- Removed **volumetric fog** option for easier lighting optimization.
- Tweaked **fog density** and removed certain non-functional graphic options.

Bug Fixes
- Logs spawning below ground and incorrect log sizes fixed.
- Collectible cards no longer spammable for duplicates.
- Night spawns now reliably generate enemies.
- **Servants** now spawn with the correct race from the nursery.
- Containers and tables/pots are no longer lootable after being broken.
- Fixed **cursor** not appearing on the death screen.
- Fixed **planking animation** while riding dragons.
- Ragdolls now work properly .
- Numerous fixes to **building systems**, including refunding resources and preventing destruction on load.
- Fixed **stamina bugs**, **fall damage**, and **level/EXP tracking**.
- Improved **dialogues** to avoid abrupt endings.
- Fixed **random character generation** to prevent odd abominations.

Performance Enhancements
- Added **billboard LODs** for many actors.
- Automated instancing of static meshes to reduce draw calls.
- Tweaked settings related to **hardware ray tracing** for stability.
- Disabled unnecessary **network code** in movement components for reduced CPU load.
- Improved performance in **building mode**.

v8.5.4 - 2024-11-05
Added
Notification whenever a follower starts or stops following the player
Footstep sounds for snow and water
Ability to fill milk bottle with breast milk from player (in the pie menu under player)
Followers are now bound to items that allows summoning/unsummoning them at will. Taming a creature or freeing a slave will add a unique item for that follower to the inventory, using that item will summon/unsummon the follower.
Nursing and milking stations to crafting table
Added some ruins and statues to the dragon island
Collecitble cards spread out across the world with pieces of lore on them (images are placeholder for now). With this comes a new UI for looking at cards.
Changed
Decreased hitstop on enemies from .5 to .3s
Slightly reduced the amount ores shrink when harvested to make harvesting last stages easier
Using the radial menu to order follower to stop will stop all followers if no follower is targeted
Increased range for torch and mage light lighting
tweaked brightness levels of caves
Reduced lens flare in caves by a lot to fix torch blinding the player
Tweaked the light in caves as many of them didnt work properly
take all now closes UI
Take all button now rebindable under input menu
Some more visual feedback for hitting trees and ore
Removed vulcan as an RHI option under graphical settings
Snow will now pile up on player character, enemies and armors when snowing
Filling seed bottles must now be done manually from corpses
Decreased actionpoint degen rate (should stay for longer)
power or dash attacks grant more exp than normal attacks
Changed dash attacks to using stamina, as you rarely have action points before battle
Increased hit trace size for pickaxe/axe to make hitting ore/trees easier
Decreased soft lock move distance to avoid the player being dragged efter fleeing enemies
Double sized of dropped coal model
Enemies with broken bones/arms will now flee instead of fight
Redesigned dialogue UI to be more easy to use and read
Made hitting and breaking containers less unreliable
Some minor tweaks to inventory UI
Game will prompt an additional time when exiting and saving is not possible
Tweaked loot drops (mostly reduced them)
Fixed
Bow draw animation as well as shooting with bow overall
Blood trail from sword not showing after hitting an enemy
Fade to black randomly stopped working
An issue with pregnancy durations after loading a save, which could cause massive pregnancy text spam
Scene widget staying after birth
Player unable to walk through doors
An issue making trees and collectibles disappear on Low Foliage graphics settings
Boobs spazzing out with some hairstyles in character creation
Made log spawning check that it is above ground
Servants added from taming didn't respond to not follow commands
Slaves planking after talking with them
Copper ore being used as fuel in forges
Skills panel not being scrollable and tooltips not showing up
Fixed torch, tool and building plan animation not playing on right arm
Fixed some meshes floating above the ground
Misaligned axe/pickaxe as well as scaling
Hitstop preventing ragdoll instantly on death
shadows moving noticably coppy when sun moves over the sky
Sound settings not affecting footstep sounds
player skin seethrough in birth scene
Building plan alignment in hand
Armor bench incorrectly named
Some buildings now receiving snow when snowing
fertility potion not working
Food duration descriptions being incorrect
Energy potions not working
Added interaction text to urns
Slaves having 1 hp
Adjusted 1h sword idle pose to not have a broken spine
Enemies not reacting when attacked or hit
Steel, iron and royal boots not conforming to the character morphs
AI of dead enemies should now stop running completely
Some boots not following their masters around properly
Chests/containers that have been broken can no longer be looted, preventing a duplication exploit
Sitting bypassing laden/overweighted
Performance
Changed some code to only running when player nearby
Tweaked some lumen settings
Changed how landscape height is rendered. It will look a bit flatter on beach/rock areas but will reduce issues and increase performance
Nanite will now be disabled by default, as it leads to better performance with it off. It can still be toggled under settings and some meshes will be more detailed with it on than off. Turning it on can be done on higher end systems to increase graphical quality
Tied the shadow method to the nanite switch, by default with nanite off, normal shadow maps will be used, with nanite turned on, virtual shadow maps will be used.
These changes should result in significant performance boosts on lower end systems (from 19 fps to around 30fps on my low end test laptop)

Update 0.8.5.3.1 Hotfix
Lots of bugs in last release, fixed the most critical ones but some are yet to be addressed. Please report anything you find here or on Discord.

v0.8.5.3.1
Added
R key to take all from loot containers

Fixes
Character having invisible parts on death/masturbation/scene starts
Iron dropping coal
no collision brimstone
no cursor trading with blacksmith
no "e to interact" on crafting stations
Pickaxe/axe giving exp for hitting non tree/mine items
jizz bottles not filling
Masturbation being prevented by enemies nearby
Enemies sinking into ground when hit
Being able to move freely when laden/overburdened
Spear quest not continuing with baelin
Level visually resetting to 1 on game load

v0.8.5.3 - 2024-08-29
Added
Options to make pregnancy belly and breasts not reduce after a pregnancy (making them grow additionally for each new pregnancy)
Option to enable hurting followers with player attacks (by default, player will no longer injure followers)
New Baelin quest that introduces radial menu and resting
Lots of new head/body shape presets for character creator
Several new facial detail shapes such as ears, teeth etc
Ability to customize eye glow color and intensity
Revamped tattoo system with glowing tattos that can be tweaked from character creation menu
A button in cheat menu to save current character preset to json as well as load a previous preset
Graphics options for shading, texture, foliage and reflection quality to allow for more fine tuned control over settings
Completely revamped cheat menu with search to easier find items and loads of new features
Graphic options to change some major graphic features like RHI, feature level, Nanite etc.
Bronze, iron and steel arrows
Several new mask items placed around the world with powerful stats.
Armor bench, now the only place you can craft armors (this is to make the workbench less messy with so many items to craft)
Small push back when attacking enemies
Simple first person mode (toggle with g by default). It wont be great in attacks and such, but its an option if someone wants to walk around in 1person view
A toggle to disable tutorials in settings menu

Changed
Made repairing and destroying build pieces with radial menu work
Increased exp gain rate for swimming
Followers teleporting to player will now teleport to a distance behind the player
Text mentioning skill points on level up
Made rocks and cacti in desert harvestable
Changed how trees fall
Rocks will now split when mined
Trees will fall different (more performant, less realistic, hopefully less buggy)
Ores will shrink gradually when mined
Changed the logic for respawning trees and ores to be more performant and avoid respawning when close to objects such as houses
Coal and brimstone is much more abundant and easier to find
added more iron ore to both demo and full map
cutting down trees has a chance to spawn branches
days are now 30minutes instead of 15, nights are 10 minutes instead of 5
Some improvements around footstep sounds, effects and such
Rebalanced drop rates for wood and ores
Reduced arrow headshot modifier from 2.5 to 1.5
Narrowed the laden/overburdened thresholds. If max weight is 300, laden will now kick in on 285 instead of 255 and overburdened at 315 instead of 345.
Added torches to craftable items on character, seems to have been removed from there for some reason..
Apply/cancel in settings menus will now boot you back to the menu before when clicked
Added time of day/night duration sliders to cheat menu
changed the skeleton for the female character. This means all armor and animations have been reworked (can be some quirks yet to be fixed)
Replaced and cleaned up player locomotion system to be smoother and work better overall
Revamped main menu with a new layout. Loaded characters will now wear the armor they wore when saving the game in main menu.
Character presets will now be stored under %LocalAppData%/WickedIsland\Saved instead of under the game folder, existing presets will automatically be moved to the new location when the game starts

Fixed
Drake seed to servant conversion not working
Green borders around icons
Drake animation dick alignment
Lesbian sex leading to pregnancy
Low res landscape texture in forest
Trees popping in strangely
An issue that sometimes lead to huge loot amounts
pregnancy not going away in main menu when starting a new character
npcs duplicating on game load
Dialogue quest notifications popping up in incorrect style
Bow aligned incorrectly for player
Fixed dick poke for human male carry anim
fps limit settings not working visually in options
Hair color wont go from black to blond if not changed manually in customization menu
an issue where the selected hotbar item didnt update properly and used a previously selected item
added a system to reduce armor clipping, wont be perfect but should help a bit.

Performance
Some changes to distant LOD's to reduce cpu load
New foliage system should be slightly more performant on cpu load
Added new LOD levels to female mesh
Made armors use less triangles

Lots of stuff i forgot to write down to change notes, sorry :(

v0.8.5.2
Changed
Engine version updated to 5.4.2

Fixed
Portal to mage tower not working as well as a few other incorrect level transitions
Initial quick save after new game (this save potentially breaks several systems, therefor it wont be made anymore)
Breast size resetting to 0 after pregnancy
Carrots not being harvestable
Plants remaining if their planter was destroyed
Clicking exit not exiting game the first attempt
Foot IK for females should work better with less quirks

v0.8.5.1
Added
Foot IK to all biped characters
Dialogue to grant the horse horn from farmer
Can now name servants through dialogue
Change
Changed the technology for deforming skeletal meshes on the player, which should result in more realistic deformations
Removed the color feedback in build mode as it was only half working anyways
Changed the minimum value for trade skill to avoid things becoming free
Upgraded to latest Nvidia DLSS version
Fixed
Player character always squatting slightly with overly bent knees
No offspring for explicit birth
Planted items not affected by harvest multiplier
Time of day not progressing
Slaves should now appear outside dungeons after being freed
Made some changes that might fix hair getting put in moustache spot on first spawn
An issue where quests would not save properly in some instances when saving
Footstep sounds should now be more consistent and work better for Al as well
Loading screen should now display until the character is loaded, instead of a black screen.
Lain has restructured the save and load logic, hopefully fixing all issues experienced. Please report any issues found!

v0.8.5.0 Fix1
Logs flying in the air
Unable to initiate any defeat scenes
broken ankles of the player
initiating sex with creatures without animation resulting in black screen permanently
enemies continuing attacks after becoming servants
creatures misaligning a second after scene started

v0.8.5.0
**Changed**
tweaked lighting on landscape material to make it look better
NPC's are now less rude and will face you when talking to them and also wont walk away
The name of the save will default to the players name mwhen starting a new game. Exiting the game will also save automatically.
changed some settings related to loading that might fix issues experienced with progress not loading properly
reduced volumetric fog effect
optimized loading player items to make loading quicker
followers should get their taming bar filled automatically when becoming servants (summons for example)

**Fixed**
Fixed door being only a beam
Conservation box not placing correctly
bed textures being broken
wolf animations not working
wolf textures looking strange
waypoints and landmarks should now work
sleeping removing pregnancy status effect
texture on royal blade not working
defeat points not being spent when used
wereboar moving like a retard
collectin sand not respecting cheat menu
clouds being in a rush getting somewhere
an issue making enemies attributes being calculated twice and giving them 2x damage, hp, armor etc
game loading when dismounting dragon
baby not visible during birth
followers despawning on game load (they wont follow into dungeons, they will be waiting outside)
pregnancy father data being overriden by each new encounter during pregnancy
wildlings not stripping properly for sex
wildling male and female not playing animations properly
reaper/other enemies lacking animation should no longer softlock the game with a black screen
sex with dead enemies
potentially fixed collectibles/trees/mines duplicating. This should also make saves smaller.
castle archway being the incorrect model (stone door)

**Performance**
potentially fixed several collision checks causing lots of cpu load

**Known issue:**
game does not exit when pressing exit, need to press alt + f4 to exit the game.