Here’s all of the new backgrounds for Battle Mountain.
I miiight need one or two more, but I think this is probably enough.

After looking over the results of that previous performance test, I’ve decided that the requirements on Steam will be…

“Recommended: 2Ghz CPU x2, or better”

I’m not going to bother with a minimum requirement, because that just depends on what level of crappy performance each individual is willing to put up with. But that recommended requirement should be fine for medium quality at standard definition.

If you want to go up to HD or high quality, you’ll need a lot more power. I don’t recommend ever using both of those settings at the same time though. Whether you find anti-aliasing or a higher resolution more important, is up to you, I guess. But I think a higher resolution in a lower quality looks better.

Another thing I noticed is that running the test outside of browsers sometimes led to a huge improvement in performance!

On my PC in particular, performance was massively worse inside of Firefox. For others the difference was smaller or non-existent. I guess this depends on browsers, operating systems and settings, but clearly running EBF4 as a standalone application will have a noticeable performance improvement for many users.

That is all.

Here’s the final preview of the new maps.
Next up: New battle backgrounds!

This area isn’t canon, so you get to actually murder this mammoth.

Don’t drink that water.

Here’s some more screenshots of the new area.

I’m gonna regret putting this puzzle in the game. (this version actually has an X in the wrong place and probably isn’t solvable…)

Praetorian MkII is just chilling out above a bottomless pit.

Here’s two screens from the new area. Don’t worry, I won’t spoil the most interesting parts.
I’ve finished 9 out of 18 screens so far.

Oh look, one of those mazes where you can’t see the path, just like in those old NES RPGs.

Anna’s all by herself because the rest of the team haven’t been compiled.