Samsara: Wheel of Extinction

Fantasy 3D-ARPG inspired by the spiritual traditions of esoteric Buddhism, Tantra, and Bön.

BUILD 0.1 NOTES

*** TO LEAVE THE STARTING AREA, GO TO THE JADE SHRINE TO THE LEFT AND PRESS 'E' ***

* If the difficulty is too high, please consider trying the Aristocrat class (starts with a stronger sword), or choose the Warrior class and speak to Madame Wung in the starting village. She will give you a strong Greataxe. *

* You can change the keybindings and graphics settings in the settings window (Esc > Settings) !! *

* You can level up your abilities will skill points by going to the Skill Trees panel ( C > bottom tab ). Use your abilities! *

Known Bugs

• Trouble unequipping item from left and right hand. You can equip but can't unequip. Working on fixing this ASAP.
• Spawner issues. Issue with enemies resetting/respawning when the player re-enters the spawn zone.
  
• Block and Resistance calculations are unreliable.
• Dropped weapons can display their text in the wrong position.
• Mesh occlusion issues when changing some items of clothing.
• Issues with overlap of dialogue UI and player UI.
• Various other UI issues, such as item info placards not adjusting for length.
• Randomized seed for levels does not always fire, so the level remains generated by the same seed each time.
• Combat can hit through walls. Working on fixing this.
• Butter Men stop attacking after a few moves.
• Skeleton mesh demolitions can cause performance issues especially in large groups. Looking for ways to improve this.
• Frame rate drop on level load, sometimes severe.
• Oni models have animation dropouts.
• Cangue can’t be removed by NPC yet.
• All sounds and music are placeholders.

Known Graphics Issues

• Occlusion masking not implemented yet, so buildings block the camera.
• Some issues with occlusion culling on body when switching clothing items. Changing the item back should fix this.
• LOD drop-in on some trees and cloth banners. these kinda look freaky sometime and I might just keep it.
• Water displacement interactivity is not functional in build (works in editor…)
• Various issues with skinned meshes clipping and bad textures on models. This will be fixed in due time.
• Textures and height maps are not set up for terrains.
• Environmental reflections are not set up.
• Some lighting issues in the boss fight area. For now let’s just go with it.
• All particle effects are placeholders.
• All unarmed combat animations (kicks/punches) are placeholders.

Unfinished

• Quests, NPCs, and branching narrative are all far from complete.
• Karma mechanic is not currently functional.
• Tutorial features are extremely rudimentary, just a panel with the default controls for now. More to come.
• Balancing is completely off, hasn’t been done at all really.
• Very little pathfinding or AI implementation at all yet.
• Settings menu is not complete, both graphics and audio.
• Skill trees are a mess.

Planned Future Additions

• Proper responsive dynamic Day/Night cycles.
• Item prefix/suffix system.
• Bows and Spears. 
• Ragdolls.
• Parry.
• Riding.
• Cutscenes.
• Many more items.
• Quests.
• Souls-style lock-on.
• More NPCs and story.
• More enemies and bosses.
• Proper dungeons.