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# First devblog
### Back End :
#### Waiting PRs :
\- Login revamp -> adding the mandatory email + email validation before entering the game (and avoid bruteforces of account creations)
\- Resources microservices (needed to do the next user stories, like the exchanges between villages)
#### Pushed PRs that will be present in the Alpha
\- Default facilities for food/wood/iron initiated at village creation (so every player can produce the three main resources by default)\
\- A route listing the user's village(s)
\- Up the number of villages per user to 3 to monitor the use
\- testing the Login and the Resources MicroService
\- send some of your non-military resources to one of your other villages
\- add distance limit to the nearest village when creating a new one (to avoid having someone creating a village on the other side of the world and cannot be attacked by the others)
### Front end
#### Android Version:
\- Fixed collision issues on non-build facilities cube (sometimes you weren't able to touch it on mobile)
\- Fixed graphics UI and add button feedback when settings are changed and make it look better with the same style like the rest of the UI from the game
\- added new font and make it look ok in all the UIs -fixed tutorials bugs now works good -re-work some UI
-Scale up the barrack widget so it will be easy to work
-Added new background when the game launches
\- Add back the new icon for the app
\- Add the system that reminds the user token so the player won't have to enter over and over again the email and password
\- Added a disconnect button so you can actually change account even if you auto-login
\- Fix village map (the new facility locations weren't properly added and the new model had another root and a lot of objects collided with others)
\- Remove spaces in user and email when sending to backend server
\- Fixed free slots
#### PC Version:
\- Mutant AI (Onyenacho)
\- Village map building placements
\- Battlemap door-wall attack and disintegration system
\- Fixed Sign in UI bug (BeuMonkey)
### Level Design
#### PC Version :
\- Added a basic animal AI system (Fish, Birds, Deers)
\- Fixed water areas and underwater
\- Updated lighting presets
\- Fixed foliage specular issues
\- Added a simple particle system for the environment
\- Starting menu issue fixed
\- Grass interaction system added
\- Footprint FX
\- Reworked paddy field area completely
\- Distance field shadows/Ambient occlusion added
\- Optimized enemy mutant AI and the mesh and friendly AI and the mesh
\- Most of the foliage bugs were removed/Readjusted to get better results with lighting
\- Added new Battlemap intro UI (Improved player experience with guiding system (widgets), Also made a simple guide for newcomers)
\- Controls settings widget added
\- Added grass transition system on culling- No more grass tile culling issues (Players won't notice grass culling further in the battle map)
\- Village Map weather improvement
\- Gameplay enhancements
\- Huge optimization improvements (DLSS/TAAU both added: Will add FSR in future)
\- Android Version:
\- Village map mobile development/ Blockout
\- Village map android version color themes balanced
\- Culling added
\- Optimized shadows
\- Fixed dark shadow issues
\- Compressed all textures
\- Fixed background areas
\- Landscape optimized (Also the Landscape Material)
\- Fixed village free slots emissive material (BeuMonkey)
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