“Ever discover that swinging the sword downward put you at an enormous drawback?” Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone requested earlier this week on Twitter. “It is all the time bugged me, however I had tuned it that method in order that the realm of impact would match the visible. For 1.6, I made a decision that recreation really feel is far more essential than exact visible accuracy.”
I’ll admit that melee fight just isn’t the very first thing that leaps to thoughts once I take into consideration Stardew Valley. It is all about festivals and farmer’s markets and bringing within the crops and discovering a life mate and hats and cats and hats on cats—however fight?
Properly, sure, that is all a part of the farm life too. And that is not fully inaccurate: Farmers usually pack warmth in a single kind or one other, though explosive ammo and bombs are a rarity, at the least round my neighborhood.
In fact, this explicit patch is strictly about melee fight, not capturing issues or blowing them up.
- Prolong the realm of impact of downward going through melee assaults.
Barone confirmed in response to an inquiry that the repair is for “each weapon, together with golf equipment and daggers,” however will not have an effect on issues like picks or axes, that are extra general-purpose instruments: Helpful for clobbering in a pinch, however not likely constructed for that kind of factor.
Barone additionally mentioned that the change emerged at the least partially from his work on Haunted Chocolatier, the Stardew Valley follow-up he’s 100% for positive going to start out specializing in as soon as Stardew’s 1.6 replace is out.
“For HC I had this in thoughts from the start and drew the participant animations in a method that ought to match with the hit bins higher,” he tweeted. “And I am being far more deliberate about ensuring every path you face is equally viable. However yeah I believe it did trigger me to rethink Stardew’s.”
The Stardew Valley 1.6 replace is about to roll out on March 19. The complete patch notes will likely be revealed when it goes dwell, however within the leadup Barone has been amusing himself by tweeting out particular person patch notes at a fee of 1 per day. You possibly can preserve observe of all of the adjustments in our not-at-all-hyperbolic rundown of every thing Barone’s revealed to date.
