Guiding Light (95%) 0.9.5.6

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You won't stay dead, will you? Fitting, no one here does.





THIS IS A WIP MOD. YOU WILL ENCOUNTER NON-FUNCTIONING TASKS. CHECK COMMENTS FOR BUG LIST AND REPORT NEW ONES

had to get that out of the way.


VCQL MUST BE DOWNLOADED SEPERATELY


(to download, click the folder on the github page, and extract into your root folder like most other mods)


This is a storyline that fundamentally changes the goal of your character in Escape From Tarkov. No longer are you simply trying to escape from this place, although that's certainly a goal in the back of your mind. But after you died for the first time, you knew immediately something was horribly wrong with this place. You just died, yet you are still here. And there's this... sound, something like words echoing in your mind... Is this all just the work of Terragroup? Or has something far worse transpired here?


Well, that's up to you to figure out in this story that I have been working on for almost a year.


So, what really is this?

Guiding Light is a massive trader mod, with just over 200 quests given mostly by the primary trader, only known initially as "Guiding Light". However, you cannot play all 200 quests in one playthrough. This is because this story has multiple endings. Yes, you read that correctly. This trader has multiple endings, some good, some bad, most with their own unique ending questline that can only be experienced by "choosing" that ending. However, you won't know what ending you're gonna get until you get it, so read those quest descriptions and make the right choice! Oh yes, you think there could be multiple endings without choices to be made? There is a second trader after all...


However, this is not the bulk of the quests. 200-so quests is way too long for a story from one entity! No, the bulk of the quests are the Skill Quests, the original intention of Guiding Light before the Lord burdened me to speak something of Him through this creation. Every skill in the game* has a short "questline" involving various tasks and challenges related to that skill, which will reward the player with leveling that skill. The amount of quests, and therefore the amount of levels gained, depends on the skill itself. Generally speaking, skills that tend to level up faster in normal play will have less quests, whereas skills that are still level 12 at the end of the wipe will have up to 5 quests. As this mod wraps up development, I will make sure that more of the quests feel unique and interesting to play through.


*Search is not currently included. This is coming soon, don't worry. I have a fun idea for it.


ADDITIONALLY:

-Multiple unique items as quest rewards (no spoilers on what they are!)

-Quests for the vanilla traders (ENDING SPECIFIC)

-"DLC" quests for Skill extended (COMING AFTER FULL RELEASE)

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  • Version 0.9.5.6

    Took out the unfinished search quest, hoping to fix the incompatibilities with UI Fixes. Continue reporting bugs

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  • Version 0.9.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5

    FIXED. GOOD TO DOWNLOAD.

    Thanks, Zodaxa!

    -Added all new weapons to the weapon quests

    -Adjusted "Chaos" to use a placeholder instead of an item that doesn't exist.

    -Fixed being able to sell items to the traders (You are not supposed to be able to)

    -Russian translation properly implemented (thanks again to S3NN0M0!)

    -Removed a lot of old test code (it will be back one day)


    I have not gotten a chance to fix some of the bugs that have been mentioned because I do not have 3.11 installed right now. I am aware of them and will fix this eventually. These bugs include:

    -FL quests retroactively failing once the GL quest is completed even if you already completed the FL choice

    -Jammers on the radar dishes acting weird

    -Probably other bugs that aren't coming to mind at this moment


    You would not have this update this early if it were not for the assistance of Pyr0 and especially Gumbo (and now zodaxa). If you see them in the discord, show them some appreciation.

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  • Version 0.9.5.5 fix

    I have no words.


    Thank you X-Static.

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  • Version 0.9.5.5

    A few fixes.


    I know it's been a while, friends. Do not worry.

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  • Version 0.9.5.4 fix

    I changed the second quest to have a fail condition... and didn't make it restartable. Incredible. Obviously this is now fixed.


    Also, since I forgot to mention it the past 2 uploads... all Mag Drills quests work with MagTape and BlackCore

  • Version 0.9.5.4

    Fixed the folder name

    Originally I would have just edited the previous update, but with 200 downloads already on it, I figure it's best just to push a new version so that everyone sees it.


    I also slightly changed the first couple quests so that it's now based on not killing anything instead of getting a run-through, just makes things easier imo

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  • Version 0.9.5.3

    this took so long

    there were so many ids

    I'm sure I got one wrong somewhere, please let me know if any quests don't work


    99% of this is just a 3.10 update for GL, though there are a couple quest changes here and there. Bug fixes, inconsistencies patched, spelling corrections... Again, generally speaking, if you're still on 3.9 you really aren't missing much. Though, since 3.9 cannot be downloaded, I do not plan on updating 3.9 in the future.

  • Version 0.9.5.2

    Korean translation by Rising_Star! Thank you so much!


    There are no other changes, if you are not using the KR translation, you do not need to redownload. I am aware of multiple bugs and will fix them over the weekend. Currently prioritizing video editing and a different mod for a different game.


    This is a re-upload of the same version from last night, but with the KR locale files in the correct position. My bad ^^

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  • Version 0.9.5.1

    Aiming for weekly-ish updates until release.

    As always, you must download VCQL separately

    0.9.5 Update 1


    -Completely changed Light Vests 2. Please read the task in game.

    -Changed all 24 hour time gates to 16 hour time gates. I wanted the quests to be "come back the next day", but 24 hours meant the quests weren't unlocking until the end of the play session rather than the beginning. There were 8 quests affected by this.

    -Fixed "While They're away" (I think, let me know)

    -Changed "Damage Report" to VisitPlace instead of LeaveItemAtLocation (You no longer need a shotgun shell to "mark" the quest spot)

    -Reduced Light Vests 4 from three repair kits to two

    -Increased the amount of kills needed for Light Vests 3 (20->25)

    -Reduced the amount of kills needed for SR1 (10->5)

    -Slightly adjusted Strength 3 (you must now survive the raid after completing the challenge)

    -MIGHT HAVE FIXED IMMUNITY 5 BUT I DIDN'T TEST IT

    -possibly other things I forgot, I don't actually track these very well


    Please continue reporting bugs, I really appreciate it! <3

  • Version 0.9.5

    IF YOU ARE UPDATING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION, YOU MUST DELETE BOTH GUIDING LIGHT FOLDERS BEFORE INSTALLING THIS.

    Virtual's Custom Quest Loader must be downloaded separately (and, preferably, first)


    Guiding Light is nearing completion. There will be multiple small updates after this, however, this is the last "large version" until full release.


    There are too many changes to list, both because of how much has been added, changed, or removed, and because I have been working on this on and off and have simply forgotten every small thing. THE IMPORTANT ONES ARE THE FOLLOWING:

    -Added three new endings to the storyline, as well as added quest rewards for the first ending and the fourth ending. I will look at the other two and decide what their reward will be.

    -Roughly 50 new quests have been added

    -A significant amount of the original skill quests have been fixed, and some have been changed.

    -Multiple custom items have been added, exclusively as quest rewards.

    -A large number of the quests have been given images. This is also why the file size has jumped massively.


    Again, please. Delete both guiding light folders before updating.

    Enjoy <3

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  • As always, report all bugs! I will return on Wednesday to tackle them.

  • Having the same problem as a few other people where trader pic turned white and name turned to russian. Seems to have happened right after I completed the task where you find nuts, bolts. It froze up and turned white after I accidentally accepted a task that said it was broken as I was accepting all without reading.

    • Also every time I leave and re enter the trader screen the glitched trader duplicates. Also breaks trader scrolling mod. Also breaks the trader intermediary screen. Also duplicates ALL traders on the intermediary screen.

    • Same here the Quest "Finding Materials" is defo somehow bugged. Trader pic turns white and all my other Traders are bugged as well.

    • I appreciate you guys tracking down what specifically was broken! I will get on that in just a few minutes here, hopefully will have that fixed soon.

    • Y'all, I've been looking at this for like an hour, and I'm not seeing anything wrong with it. I'm not getting any of these errors that you guys are getting, I've tested everything I can without spending the next 3 days playing tarkov to get this quest naturally. I'll reupload the mod to Github as it is, please let me know if that fixes it. If not, I'll need more information

    • image.png?ex=67e9d6be&is=67e8853e&hm=d18371cf2d64d79fe03957fdc688dd7dd6f596fdadab8287218bcc394dfe9427&image.png?ex=67e9d677&is=67e884f7&hm=206f686392f0a9a7dff5544a827d698104c16ffe390fa6723c5702ddde974903&If it helps, the trader picture turns white and the name turns russian, and breaks whats above, with no error message.

  • my Guiding Light trader avatar pic is white
    plz help
    no error showen in server

    • Get the Mod

      SPT- Aki Profile Editor


      Make a backup of your Profile! Install Mod, after open it under the Quest Tab find the Quest with the ID


      "675fb07fcdea44ae4beb0310"


      put this quest back to Started and save your profile this should fix the Trader, for now dont try to complete the quest until Mod creator fixes it.

    • Thanks for the reply..

      It fixed it self ig..
      iv done bout 3 missions...
      I love the idea and props for the auther for hes work..
      but it seems that a task is bugged so im waiting with advencimg ..

  • As Hoffman said, have the same bug for a while now, thought maybe those were other mods, but after uninstalling and reinstalling, it is most likely this mod.
    Bug: icon for GL is always loading and neither "esc" nor scrolling traders are not working, everytime I enter traders, it makes a ghost copy usually of prapor with blank white trader icon.
    But unlike Hoffman, after couple of reinstalations, it did not fix itself, load order did not help either, so for now I will probably wait for a fix, still awesome mod, but will wait till it won't break trading menu.

  • The guiding light trader icon is stuck permanently loading for me, and well... If I go to the trader intermediary screen, I cannot use any of my keyboard binds (ESC) and have to manually click off and into my inventory.

    Once the symptoms above happen the trader icons duplicate and well, the trader screen becomes unusable.

    • EDIT:


      Somehow fixed the issue by doing literally nothing.

      Reinstalled the mod like 10 times without it fixing itself, and on the 11th or so try it just worked, couldn't tell you why.

    • Sounds like Tarkov. I'm not sure why that was happening, I'll keep an eye out for anyone else reporting it.

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  • I was wondering if the other trader that comes with the mod is locked behind a quest, or do I have it bugged?

    • If you're referring to the trader [???], yes. This trader is unlocked through the GL quest. And I believe the unlock timing is relatively late (I unlocked it around level 45). Hope this helps!

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    • It does! Thank you so much! Loving the mod so far!

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  • The workout quest doesnt complete for me even after training but i allready had a gym build before getting the mod

    • Just confirming, you entered a raid with the debuff, correct?


      But there's a decent chance that 3.11 has broken it. I will take a look at it soon, thank you for reporting!

    • yes i tried that as well

    • Cool. Well, I'll probably just remake the quest to be something that isn't so finicky. I appreciate the heads up that it's broken again.

  • Hello, I really like the mod you made, but I've encountered two unsolvable problems during my playthrough... (I'm using a translator, please excuse me)

    First problem: I can't place a jammer on the antenna on the roof of the west building while I'm doing the mission [While they're away], I don't know if it's an interaction problem or some other any other problem, but I think maybe I should submit this problem to you? (I had to use the archive modifier for this mission :P)

    Second issue: when I do the mission [REAP], the mission progress resets to zero after evacuating the location, so maybe that means I have to kill enough targets to get to 200 in one battle game? That's crazy, so I think it should be a bug. :P (While doing the mission REAP, I completed and turned in a GL mission, is that a possible reason?)

    Lastly, thanks for the mod, I really, really like it :3 I'll be looking forward to the finished version of it. <3

    • Oops! I must have set REAP wrong, that's an easy fix.


      I think I've had people talk about While They're Away before, I really needed to look into that. I haven't actually launched a raid of SPT in months x-x


      Thank you for reporting!

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    • Thanks for the reply ^v^ <3


      I've finished one of the endings : [ENDING 1/4: WARDEN OF PURGATORY] and to be honest, I really, really like the plot of this ending! It was so cool! It seems that when FL first contacted the protagonist, he clearly expressed his intention to help the protagonist “build a playground”, so is it a two-way street between the protagonist and FL to choose this ending? (Haha, I really like FL!!!)


      There's a couple of minor issues I'd like to keep feeding back to you on: When reaching this ending, it seems that FL's favorability is only 5.98, so it doesn't buy the [Mark of the Beast] injection? (I can't buy it until I'm at favor level 4.) I don't know if this is intentional or what, but I'd like to use this injection anyway XD (BTW, I got this injection by chance before I got to FL, and I was still discussing with my friend why “The real cost is NOTHING...? “? Now I understand, because even if the protagonist dies because of the injection, it will come back to life again and reset everything :whistling:


      One more. It seems that when completing the GL vs. FL selection quests, they somehow fail the quests? For example, for the [Enjoy the show] quest, I talked to FL first, and at that point it showed completion. But when I exit the game and go online again, it shows failed in the list of completed quests.

      Of course it doesn't actually seem to have any effect, it just looks a bit strange XD (I've attached a link to a picture, which you should be able to see if there's nothing wrong with it) I thought it was an interesting question, so I'm sending this back to you!

      This should be a link to a picture


      Anyway, I think I will always support you and this mod!!!I really like it :saint:

      Now I'm challenging the other endings, and these quests are a lot of fun, thank you for making them! I'm looking forward to what kind of fun the other endings will give me! (On a side note, I was wondering if we'll see some hints about the ending conditions once they're made? I see that there are four endings, but I'm not sure what their precursors are at the moment XD Maybe there are some endings with more specific conditions?)

    • I am so glad to hear that you liked the story! That's something I've put a lot of work into, I'm very happy that it paid off ^-^.


      Interesting that completing a GL quest will retroactively fail the FL quest... I had never noticed that before. I will look into a way to get around that, thank you. I'm guessing that's the main reason your FL favorability isn't at 6? It definitely should be. I can also increased the loyalty reward from completing that questline to be a number way above 6 to avoid that happening. And yes, I need to remove the item from bot spawn tables XD


      I think providing some clues into which ending the player is on is a great idea! I will look at how to add that.

      Thank you for such an interest in this mod! I am truly overjoyed to hear that someone had so much fun with this <3


      (P.S. You are almost right about the description of the "Mark of the Beast" item. There is a real cost to it... but FL overrides the description and changes it to 'NOTHING' instead of letting you find out what it is. Perhaps some people know what it is, perhaps some don't. Knowing or not doesn't change anything within the mod, it's just a bit of an easter egg.)

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    • I’m playing this mod with my friends, and we all think you’re amazing! To craft such an incredible story and keep updating it for so long—truly impressive! <3

      Hmm, I do have a few questions though.

      Do you allow players to create fan works based on this mod? (Like writing stories?) Or to promote it? If possible, I’d love to create something to help spread the word about your mod!


      Also, it’s no exaggeration to say I’ve played EFT for years, and I’d nearly lost interest until your mod reignited my passion for it! Love you! (BTW, I looked it up and finally learned the real cost of those stimulants, lol.)


      Another issue: The [Chaos] quest sometimes seems impossible to unlock. It shows [6760c92fa9591580542b423d.1 name] and stays locked. I’m guessing it’s because I completely ignored FL? Not entirely sure.

      (Edit: I noticed you released a new update, but since I’m still on 3.10, this is a 3.10-specific issue. Not sure if it persists in the latest version.) :whistling:


      (Thanks again for your time and responses ^v^)

      Some well-wishes: Wishing you happiness every day and continued success in your creative endeavors!

    • Hi, LightoftheWorld!


      Just wanted to check in since you seemed busy when I last commented (totally get it, life happens bugcatfat ). I still absolutely adore your mod and wanted to ask: would you be okay with me making a Chinese localization patch for it? My English isn't the best x-x but I can annoy my bilingual friends into helping, haha kana_oO


      No pressure though – just lmk whenever you have time. Either way, thanks for creating this awesome mod! 💙 Your mod has taught me a lot of things I didn’t know before, so I’d love to share it with more people! kanayes

  • The quest "Chaos" seems very bugged. It says "hand over what you found in the marked room" with a blue check mark, but can't turn anything in. it also adds the same objective every time you view the quest, along with showing up in every other quest you view.

    • Oh also, i believe 9x19 PBP can no longer be crafted so i can't do top of the line, and Partisan doesn't count for Gladiator :kannatiredofthis:

    • Oh man, I forgot to set Chaos's item to a placeholder. It's asking for an item that I haven't made yet. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.


      Ugh, they keep changing the dang crafts on me! I'll have to look again and see what to replace it with, thank you for letting me know that.


      Ah, yeah, Partisan wouldn't count because he wasn't in the game when I made that quest. I'll add him in

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  • The lack of a guide or walk through for the riddle quest is crazy I get the whole "it'll ruin the fun" thing but not everyone knows how many ball hairs parpor has on his left nut

    • All of the locations are simply locations of quests already in the game. In fact, I directly reference the quest in most cases. That being said, which riddle is giving you trouble? I'm sure I can come up with a hint.


      (Intellect isn't a very important skill in this game anyways, you can always just ignore the questline)

    • I get it i was just making a funny and recommending making a little cheat sheet for those who do little thinking and more shooting, no need for hints as i really haven't even tried lmao.
      Thank you for the reply and the mod :)

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  • this looks like a very interesting mod. but im not sure if i got it right... so does this add a new trader and permanently change the way i normally play the game? or can i stop the guiding light story for a bit and do other traders' quests?

    • It doesn't change the way you play the game in the sense of "You have to fundamentally change how you play Escape From Tarkov in order to experience this mod." It's meant to be a new story, as well as a way to fast-track your soft-skill levels by completing challenges related to each skill. You can absolutely stop the guiding light story and work on vanilla quests, there's no negative interaction between them. In the future, I do plan on having quests that temporarily give a "time limit" / raid limit, but there would be a warning before you get into that situation.


      TL;DR: you can stop the guiding light story at any point and play as if the mod didn't exist.


      Thank you for asking!

    • alright got it, thanks for the reply

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  • I also forgot to mention in the patch notes that Russian translation is in. Thank you so much to

    @S3NN0M0

  • Not sure if this was meant to be here but these are showing up in the storage container section and they seem like testing item not something that should be showing up minus Mark of the Beast

    F81mEIR

  • I FORGOT TO CHANCE THE DAMN FOLDER NAME AGAIN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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    • change* but we understand. I mean you are the Light Of The World

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  • Is 0.9.5.5 compatible with questing bots?

    • Should be! Please try it for me, I don't use questing bots.


      also please wait like 2 minutes I'm updating the mod

    • Love your work, if this is ready to go then I'll be updating my fika server with 62 mods later today to include SWAG and questing bots so with guiding light updated this will be the icing on the cake :) Thanks for your work.

      BTW i found i didn't need to "place" the 7mm shell i just needed to have it in my inventory, dunno if that's a bug or intended, didn't affect me, but just thought id mention it. I think I was placing something else in the same spot for another quest so that might have confused it.

    • New update seems to be working well with questing bots and everything else. Thanks!

  • Hi, I just installed the mod, but no quests are showing up, I'm level 5 rn. Is this normal ?
    I have other traders mod, VCQL, realism, questing/ looting bots, plus other minor things.
    Just to be sure I didn't messed up the install : )

    Thank you !

    • I know that questing bots is a little bugged with the mod because of a single quest error on my end (hurray x-x). If that's not the reason, then idk. I'll be updating the mod sometime next week, God willing.

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  • What is a 7mm shot which should be put somewhere in quests?

  • I'm like, 99% sure that the "Adding a little something" task is failing to work because the "Cutting them off" task allows me to place the jammer, but when I remove the jammer from my inventory and replace it with a marker, I do not get the prompt to place.

    I could also be completely wrong and dont know how to use my brain, but I thought that commenting might help someone in the future with this problem too (Absolutely love the mod so far btw!) <3

  • Hey all! I apologize for disappearing for so long.


    In short, I have been learning how to code at a professional level. As of later tonight (Lord willing), I have completed the Junior Programmer pathway on the Unity page!!!


    I have a church conference that I will be attending this weekend, but when I get back on Monday, this and a mod for another game are tied for my #1 "I want to do this next" spot.


    TL;DR: I will be back very soon and I will fix the things!

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    • As someone who literally just downloaded this mod a few hours ago today I am happy to hear this! I made an account just to come and say that I was shown SPT by a friend and this mod was one of the first that I grabbed. Looking forward to future updates, keep up the great work!

    • Loved the riddle quests in guiding light. Hopefully you can fix compatibility with Questing Bots in the next update :)

    • short update I got hella sick after the conference and am still recovering x-x


      *BUT updating next week unless I'm still incapacitated or updating takes way longer than I expect it to (It has been, 2 full months since I've even looked at tarkov modding...)

    • Congratulations on the qualification! And don't feel like you need to apologize (referring to the Github release notes), I'm glad to hear you're hopefully recovered and glad to see this awesome mod updated!

  • Any chance of getting compatibility with questing bots? Love your mod man enjoying the quest progression and excited to see where this mod goes!

    • Same here :)Keep up the good work and hope the both will be compatible

    • Looked into it, sometimes questing bots gave a good hint in the server logs.

      But it all boils down to a circular dependency on a quest.


      Go to \user\mods\Virtual's Custom Quest Loader\database\quests\SkillQuests


      Open Start_quests.json


      Go to line 622

      change 675e458cdb219e98dda39bc9 to what I assume should have been

      675e44ef86f0af6fce9195a4


      Save the file, (re)start the server, and you should be fine

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    • Fixed. Thanks for sharing this! And good job @Melchoor for figuring that out :D

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  • Hey man great mod but I got to quest 53 or something and now I just have no more quests. Are they locked behind a timegate? But I have remove timegate mod installed? I also might have skipped a couple quests with terkoiz skipper - would this cause any problems? All my other traders and mods seem to work... :/

  • Added a furry picture of your trader in my mod ^^

  • questing bot has been crashed with GL's combat skill quests. I think if a AMC had killing quest likes tarkov shooter or SBH(questlines must kill with some spec weapons), questing bot can't read GL's combat quests or there recoments. I had delet all GL's combat skill quest, and they can play with questing bot plugin has activate. only wants for your help, TA out.

  • Can't use Questing Bots because I'm so far into GL and removing custom traders is a no go. GL is straight up incompatible with the newest version of Questing Bots

  • Picked up this mod kind of on a whim as I was hankering for more quests
    And I absolutely fell in love with it!
    I love the perfect blend of humor and seriousness and how you able to weave some of the game's abstractions into real, diegetic elements of the universe!
    I also really appreciate the encouraging the player to try out new gear that they might not have used before to see if they like it!
    overall, I'm looking forward to future expansions on the story!

  • Is there a way to remove the time restrictions from quests ?

  • when will it be compatible with raid overhaul

  • so 0.9.5.2 is for 3.9?

  • cant wait for the full release :>

  • So really RPG experience has come.