Hello!
To begin with, what I’ve been working on recently is adding new character portraits to existing characters whom I want to have a greater role in the story. The two examples shown are the trinket shop owner (whose pregnancy does affect the portrait) and Ragloot’s boss. I have also gone over some of the older portraits and given them a bit of a remaster to make them look better, as well as adding new expressions so they can show different facial changes and reactions during dialogue.
The second set of images are of the two final areas of the town: the city gates and the western area known as Old Town. This brings the total area of the city to six medium-sized areas (larger than originally planned) but spread across smaller maps rather than the massive map the game currently has.
Moving on from that, I began fixing the dungeon in the same manner. The dungeon is also being broken down into smaller areas, which can be more focused on the quests linked to that area, hopefully making them more interesting. The first area, for example, now has ruins in the northwest that function as a simple monster-infested labyrinth with treasures, other secrets, and quest objectives.
The other dungeon images are of the second area, which now has a Minothot encampment. The purpose of this is similar to the other mini labyrinth, but it allows players to talk to Minothot NPCs if they have the Ring of Taurus equipped, which allows the player to speak their language. There will be similar NPCs scattered around that allow communication if the player has equipped the Rings of Pisces and Scorpio.
The final images in this preview are of the fast travel system being implemented into the game. Naturally, with more maps, the player needs a way to quickly move from one side of the world to the other. The underground train network, unlocked after a specific quest, will fill this role. After players find an LTS (Local Transit System) bunker and restore the train summoning system, they can travel between any of the stations they have found across the maps.