Release Notes for Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II

New Journal design. The journal in the original release
Subtitles for all cinematics. Turn them on or off in the game settings or by pressing ‘z’ during a cinematic.
Dyslexic font for texts. Since there is a lot of text in Herald we looked into providing support for different fonts. There is now an option to turn on a dyslexia-friendly font (OpenDyslexic) in the game settings.
New text rendering method. All texts in the game should be crisper and easier to read because of the new text renderer.
Starting a new game on chapter 2 (or later) will now use the decisions you made the last time you completed chapter 1.

We’ve upgraded the engine from Unity 5.6 to Unity 2018.3. This allows us to make use of many new features going forward.

We’ve fixed many bugs throughout the game (and probably created some new ones too!).

Controller Support for most Dual Analog Stick gamepads.
Alternative control scheme for controllers. Select 'Use Gamepad' in the Game Settings menu to switch between click-to-walk with the mouse and direct control with a gamepad's left analog stick.

If your dual analog stick controller doesn't work with Herald, and you think it should be supported, please drop by the community forum! We have only been able to test a limited number of controllers and will patch in more later.
Daniel now has his own theme, which can be heard when he tells you about himself in the Galley.

When quitting the game, you now get a warning that you will lose unsaved progress since last checkpoint.
The graphic for checkpoints (spinning compass) now also says 'saving.' underneath, so you know your progress is safe.
NPCs' dialogue boxes now disappear when you click on them.
Various dialogue choice texts and help notes were rewritten for clarity.

Sometimes the game would not remember whether you found out certain information about Senator Morton, making a later dialogue branch harder to reach than it should be. This has been corrected.
VSync & Target framerate are now correctly reset after cinematic interludes.

Added a message about which version of Herald you are playing that ends up in the editor log. This can help us with troubleshooting.
Adjusted various camera and character positions to improve the cinematographic effect of certain scenes.
Made it impossible to walk to certain areas of the Captain's Cabin the first time you get there (this was never intended).

Fixed a bug where Devan would think he already had the oil or the lamp, even though he didn't.
Fixed some noticeable graphical glitches when loading certain scenes.
Fixed a bug where it was possible to get the journal in an incorrect state.