This month, we’ve been working on optimising the game. We have improved the frame rate, and the game now runs much smoother than before. We will continue to work on optimisation in the next few updates, to ensure that you get the best My Time At Portia experience.
In addition to game optimisation, this update also contains the content we announced in our previous news posts. You can read more on those here:
Development Update
Update on the way: A new location, a new pet, new story and more!
New content on the way: Casual life in Portia
Let’s take a look at what other content is in this update!
We’ve been listening to your feedback about crafting items in your yard, and we have a pretty big feature to add in this update! Once you’ve completed the harbor mission, you’ll be able to visit A&G Construction and build a factory in your yard!
The factory will allow you to automate production. To craft something, you’ll simply need to prepare the machine and the raw materials it needs, click ‘start’, and wait! You’ll be able to automate each stage of the production process, from raw materials to semi-manufactured products, and from semi-manufactured products to final products! This factory is a huge new feature and will save lots of crafting time!
Remember that mission on Amber Island? Mayor Gale said that construction could take place so that Portians could have somewhere fun to go. The Mayor is keeping his promise! Once you’ve defeated the Rat Prince, you’ll be able to go back to this island and help the Mayor turn the cave into a themed attraction!
The Day of Memories is the third holiday to be added to the calendar in My Time At Portia – after the Day of the Bright Sun and Winter Solstice. This holiday will take place on Summer 27th of each year. There will be an activity on this day, and you’ll get to compete against NPCs for a reward!
The difference with this event activity, is that it takes place at night! The activity will start at 9pm, and participants will need to find ghost badges that are scattered throughout Portia town. You’ll have a limited amount of time to find as many badges as you can. When the time is up, the person with the most badges, wins! You’ll be able to trade these badges in for Day of Memories items at the Badge Exchange inside the Commerce Guild.
We’ve had accessories such as necklaces, sunglasses and earrings in the game for a while now, and these have added to different character stats but are invisible when your character is wearing them. We know you want to be able to see these accessories when your character is wearing them, so we’re making them visible in this update. So, if style is your thing, you’ll now be able to match your accessories to your outfit!
We’ve received lots of feedback about the difficulty of managing the items you have because they are being kept in multiple wooden storage boxes. This update will make managing your stored items a lot easier. Now, when you open one storage box, you will be able to manage the items in ALL of your storage boxes! We’ve also added the ability to sort your items at the click of a button! So for example: if you put wood into box A, and then some wood into box B, all wood will automatically be sorted into box A.
We really hope you all enjoy the new content we have added into My Time At Portia. Please keep posting your feedback, and reporting any bugs or issues you encounter, in the Steam forums.
Want to know what else is in this content update? Check out the changelist below!
Please note:
After this update, the trees you have cut down will regenerate, and some furniture may be removed from your house and delivered to your mailbox for placement again. Your skill points will also be reset, and will need reassigning.
You may also find that the loading time when leaving your house is quite long. We’re aware of this issue and are working on a patch to optimise this loading time.
We’d like to say thank you to all players who participated in the open test, your feedback is greatly appreciated. Your save data from v 7.0 will carry over to this version (v 8.0) just fine, but when switching to the main branch, please be aware that you will lose all food recipes (we have executed the programmer who is responsible*)
CHANGELIST
* We did not kill the programmer
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Elleree
7月 25, 2018
Disappointed that this new story only lasted three game days for me. Now I’m back to grinding and storing up materials and gold again.
admin
7月 26, 2018
we’ll keep updating the stories.We spent a lot time to optimize the performance so the new contents wasn’t much : P
Kristoffer
7月 25, 2018
The Day of Memories in Summer would be alot more fun if we could pick up the badges… nothing happens when clicking the pickup button, or any other button for that matters 🙁
admin
7月 26, 2018
Thanks! We’ll discuss about it : )
vorpal
7月 25, 2018
I am so excited for this game. It is coming out for non-Windows platforms, right?
Mac and Switch?
Is there any idea when we can expect a release?
admin
7月 26, 2018
Yeah, we’ll have mac, switch,xb, ps4 version. We were planning to release them all in Oct this year, but it doesn’t seem to be a good time. So we’re still discussing it.
Gen
7月 26, 2018
Your game is amazing, I’m so looking forward to playing in this new patch. Keep up the good work, best Devs ever!
Patricia
7月 28, 2018
“Yeah, we’ll have mac, switch,xb, ps4 version. We were planning to release them all in Oct this year, but it doesn’t seem to be a good time. So we’re still discussing it.”
Can you tell if you’re planning on realeasing on October or after October? Or are you still discussing that too? Because I’ve been seeing this page almost everyday to see when it’s going to release on Switch and it’ll help me to know if it’s just after October. :p
Just saying I don’t mind when it’s going to be released even though I wanna play asap. I’m just asking this because on January I read somewhere it was gonna be in August but after seeing this comment, I saw it’s not so that’s why I’m asking. 🙂
Emily
7月 30, 2018
I would like to make a suggestion about the stable. I feel as though it should be expandable to allow more mounts. I personally enjoy collecting all animals possible and have the white horse, normal horse, and the colorful llama. I would like to be able to have the Cotton Llama as well. I am unsure if you all are planning on extending the mount options more later in the game, but it would be a neat extra. Enjoying Portia very much so far! =)
Plainkoff
7月 31, 2018
Since now there is a drop down menu to manage all storage boxes, it would be nice if we could name they. It is so time demanding to have to click all the generic-named storage boxes in the drop down menu to find the one you want, that is often easier to just ignore this feature and walk directly to it.
admin
8月 1, 2018
Thanks for the feedback, we’ll discuss about this 🙂