[Preview] Upcoming 0.9.7 Features

Update 0.9.7, which releases this weekend, adds 3 new Prohibitions: Head pieces, Upper armor and Lower armor! It's now possible that suddenly your head pieces, upper and/or lower armor are being disabled - imagine that you are about to get hit and your strongest armor pieces is suddenly disabled. 🤯

Another thing in regards to armor pieces is that when the Randomizer took away armor pieces, so far it was not taking away armor pieces that were actively equipped - this is no longer the case - armor pieces that are currently equipped can now be taken away as well, just like weapons.

What is really cool is that environmental changes such as climate and weather changes as well as additional effects such as Wind Currents now apply in Shrines. This was achieved by giving Shrines the Surface/Sky world manager, so you'll also see clouds and stars in Shrines now!

Speaking of environmental changes, 16 new ones have been added: 8 Wind Currents, 5 Vanilla and 3 Custom visual color palettes. As for the Wind Currents, those point into the 8 world directions (North, North-East, East, etc.) and have a slight elevation to them. And as for the visual color palettes - pretty awesome ones have been chosen with cool lighting and color! My highlight are the custom ones though - I gave my best creating unique ones! Take a look at the screenshots to get an idea.

Let's take a look at the Goal Mode. Last update, the 15 Skyview Tower Maps and the 12 Dragon Tear Memory Movies have been randomized and I thought it would be nice to also have goals for those. So now we got 26 new special goals: 15 Activate Towers, 11 Examine Tears. Also, the chance for special goals to be picked has been slightly increased.

Furthermore, Zonai Device Dispensers no longer drop any items but only Zonai Devices instead. This change makes it more tactical if you need Zonai Devices but they are still randomized. We will see how you like that and it might be changed back but for now use it to your advantage! Also, Stone Taluses with crystals no longer drop less items than their versions without crystals.

Lastly, Phantom Ganon and Gloom Hands can now start spawning via the Randomizer Cycle and no longer forcefully occur at night after deciding on that via a poll. The game FPS measuring has been further made more generous, meaning more people playing above 30FPS will be considered being set to 60FPS mode (at around 40FPS or higher), next to some memory optimizations by reduced RSTB byte padding.

🌟 I hope you are looking forward to this update! I will be streaming the update this Friday/Saturday on my YouTube channel to both showcase it and to make sure there are no issues before releasing it on Sunday.