Update #79 - New Shards and Graphical Updates

your comment was so agressive that i took 10 damage from it but do not worry. i have potions.
i knew you were kidding, i just didn't do anything to make it look like i got the joke.
btw now that i see my comment again i notice that i wrote a lot of shizpost. gotta edit that. 

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They explained a bit how it works and Mana also commented on Discord (i didn't saw, but others do and also commented).

As far as i understood, Invert works like this:

When you use Invert, Miriam's gravity is affected and thus, the Castle is inverted (in reality, Miriam is inverted, but let's not go into that). The castle STAYS inverted until you use it again to return it to normal. 

Invert doesn't work properly on open areas. Areas that doesn't have a celling, Miriam "falls", hit the "void" and Invert cancels itself. That's exactly what happened on the video of this update. Mana (IGA's translator, helper, artist, etc) said that she personally tried Invert on open regions and the game crashed because they was still testing and forgot to consider that situation. So, it was suggested for Invert to do exactly what we saw there: Spin and spin again, to add a gimmick feature to it (like the video, where you actually need to use Invert limitation to reach that chest).

It was also stated that Invert can be used anywhere in the castle. It doesn't work on the village or Galleon Minerva, because it is a Shard tied to the castle itself, for some reason.

Really nice update and a nice read!

Also impressed with the look of the "white marble church" where Miriam demonstrates for us the Reflector Ray directional shard ability.

And Bloodless is gorgeous

"Did we do a good job" you ask? Yes, yes you have!

Nothing is “easy” in videogame development. Sometimes a simple change can produce weeks of headaches because one line of code destroyed your game and now there are 50 new bugs and nothing works.

Haven't been here for a while, but I have to chime in just for that Invert footage. Talking about excitement, ahh.

I mean, look at that sky background. IT'S BEAUTIFUL. Really, the graphics improvement in a whole is surely night and day.

Miriam doesn't have shadows but it's no big deal, most likely some shaders are turned off for debugging / testing.

I haven't personally used Invert yet, so I can't say exactly how it works. Mana did jump onto Discord on February 14th and had this to say about it:

Question from Goobsausage: Mana, what was your reaction when you learned Miriam cool invert the Bloodstained castle at any time?


Question from Kylestien: Can you invert at any time and does it affect more then gravity? I was just thinking if it made changes in places like inverted castle, and the castle without inversion was still the biggest castle, we got double biggest castle AND whatever else surprise iga has in store.

Save some potions for the next boss. You never know....

Whenever people ask if there will be any Jojo's references in Bloodstained

me: ^