ZONERS update for 19 February 2024

Greetings ladies, aliens and all in between,

It's time for v0.4 and with it we finally add all the additional plaza staff menu interactions and a couple of extra achievements are now unlockable.

It's Good To Talk
Now when you choose to chat to any of the menu characters you'll get a new menu with a whole load of new dialogue options to choose from! As you complete the cup with more characters you'll also unlock more dialogue for each of them.

This dialogue is not only neat flavour text, some of it has some additional information and opinions of the other characters. I've also made this text all work better than it did before in both display and interaction. Nice!

Achieving Greatness
There's also two of the hidden achievements now unveiled and ready to unlock. One of them, "The Hidden Chest" is especially difficult and will require you reading dialogue to maybe solve a puzzle. "A puzzle?! In ZONERS?" Yeah, just a small one. I'm curious if anyone will solve it!

What's Next?
Probably fixing up the Bonus Games so they are more balanced and fun is next on the agenda. I'm also going to maybe take a look at redoing the Basic Training so it's much more engaging and makes a lot more sense.

Love & Peace,
Paris

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ZONERS v0.40 Patch Notes

ADDITIONS

• Added many new dialogues for all the plaza menu characters. There is now multiple dialogues from the start and more will unlock as you complete the cup with more characters. This means there's a minimum of 8 new dialogues to see for Cent, Gossloth, Jan and Sock & Puppet
• Achievement "Chatterbox" is now unlockable by seeing all the staff character's dialogues
• Achievement "The Hidden Chest" is now unlockable

FIXES & CHANGES
MENUS

• When hovering on the "Chat" option on the bar tab menus, a pointer will display on the character you'll be chatting to
• When you select the "Chat" option from the bar tab menu, a new menu will appear that will let you select which dialogue you wish to view
• When chatting to any character in the menus, their textboxes will behave the same way as when viewing pre-match dialogue in the cup, allowing you to speed up the text and proceed as normal
• When chatting to any character in the menus they will now all have emotes display when appropriate
• Jan & Gossloth now have new non-talking idles when chatting
• Slightly adjusted behaviour of voices and animations when talking to plaza staff
• The Bonus Games option in the Academy registration is now selectable even if none of the bonus games have been unlocked by the player yet
• A secret has been added to one of the menus tied to the new achievement...
• Changed the display of locked bonus games slightly so the name of the game is still readable

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