Couchpotato spotted the December update for Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon:
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December update - Cuanacht is almost here!
Gear up and get ready for January!
Hey, everyone!
Since it's the holiday season and most of you are probably busy with last-minute shopping and trying hard not to lose their minds after hearing "Last Christmas" and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" for the millionth time, we're going to keep this update rather brief!
So, first of all, you can expect a small - but really significant at the same time! - patch in January.
It's one of these crazy things about game development that our patch notes for the upcoming update/fix are essentially three bulletpoints... and yet we've spent A LOT of time working on it. There's just so much stuff happening behind the scenes that it's sometimes hard to even describe it properly. But let's try!
What to expect in January
Over the past few months we've noticed that some of you were experiencing very weird, yet very specific crashes - these are edge cases that stem from the middleware we use for vegetation. So, if the game was crashing for you over the past few months, there's a high chance that for really crazy reasons that my non-technical brain won't understand... our trees & grass are to blame ;D
In order to address it we've finally done what we were joking we're going to do for the past four years - we've started creating our own vegetation system. As you can imagine, this takes a lot of time and effort - but we've finally arrived at version 1.0 of the said system and we're really happy that it happened. One of the greatest benefits of this is that we're not reliant - or "at the mercy" - of middleware we have no control over
In short, thanks to this and some further work,you should see three things in the game in January:
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- Less unexplainable crashes of the game
- Some optimizations related to CPU (people with strong GPUs and weak CPUs should see improvement in the game's performance and stability)
- The grass will be greener (and more dense), and there will be more variety in vegetation - new trees, bushes, and so on
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