Beachside Tactics Alpha (v2)

• Added settings for water animation speed, simplified water, text speed, and Discord Rich Presence.
• Client settings are now stored in settings.cfg.
• Added accounts and cloud saving. Save data is now stored on Passports. A new service created for storing Beachside Tactics’ player data.
• Old clients are now rejected automatically.
• Added a tutorial.
• Added a wardrobe and cosmetics. Few are available at this time.
• Added chat bubbles above players’ heads.
• Added a Discord button to the main menu.
• Lowered base stamina to leave room for shop upgrades from Simon.
• The first swim from Simon is now free.
• Fishing rods are now equipped automatically when they have more rod power than the current one.
• Fish far below your fishing power now appear less often, so higher-value fish are offered more.
• The Bamboo Rod can now be used with bait.
• Fishing minigames that take too long now fail automatically.
• Chat can now be opened while fishing, and it closes when a fish is on the line.
• Removed the delay between the end of NPC dialogue and the menu opening.
• Added a short cooldown after a menu opens, so it cannot be closed immediately by accident.
• Improved logging, including the player’s username in log entries.
• Added more drops to the swimming minigame.
• Simon now offers a shop in which you can purchase upgrades to improve the swimming minigame.
• Tweaked prices of swimming minigame.

The following changes have been made after testing

• Centered speech bubbles better so they appear centered on the player.
• Shortened the timeout on the network.
• Hopefully kicked the player in some places where they’re not kicked.
• The overworld music now loops.
• You can press E or Left Mouse Button to skip immersive dialogue.
• Legacy save importing has been properly added.
• The main menu also swaps the water based on the player’s settings.
• You can’t ratelimit & sign yourself out by spamming the Settings menu.
• Fixed the Discord RPC plugin adding itself in builds of the game that can’t support it.
• Fixed the level not removing itself properly (like leaving to the Main Menu).
• Certain UI elements don’t overlap.
• The player’s fishing speech bubbles don’t stay in place.
• The player can open the chat while fishing (with a bobber out) again.
• Added the Shipwright NPC, Noah, who’ll tell the player about there being different islands with a hint for the future.
• Added an alert on Shelly if you have unredeemed bestiary rewards.
• The Pearl is now a Junk and not a Fish.
• Sheldon’s dialogue directly mentions Shelly in his introduction dialogue.
• Tweaked prices for the swimming items so swimming is more worth it.
• Empty vendors shouldn’t have an empty bait category.
• Prevent repeat too tired notifications when swimming.
• Fixed a busted upgrade with Simon causing the player to be unable to swim.
• Improved the dialogue with Simon to make it more personable.
• Simon won’t let the player open the shop if the player is too underleveled.