6 new target languages have been added to Newcomer! These languages are now available in beginner and intermediate mode.

• German
  
• Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• Spanish (Spain)
  
• Turkish
  
• Dutch
  
• Tagalog

• 16 new NPCs added
  
• Collectable gold coins spread around the world.
  
• Knowledge orbs that can be found and bought. Knowledge orbs unlock new vocabulary to practice in battle.

Level-ing up has been removed from Newcomer and replaced with Town Chapters. Upon reaching a new town, in beginner mode players will receive new expressions that can be used. Players receive a letter where they can cycle through the new expressions and words unlocked.

Phrasebook has been changed. Now, players can view words and expressions for each town chapter.


Intermediate mode chat experience improved!

• Faster speech to text
  
• NPCs have more dynamic personalities
  
• NPCs have better reasoning allowing them to more accurately trade items and detect task completion
  
• Intermediate tasks cover a wider-range of conversational scenarios such as talking about the past, present, future, hypotheticals, and event narration in a variety of ways.
  
• NPCs aim to converse at an intermediate level.
  
• Players can now type 3x longer messages to NPCs.
  
• NPCs can now talk about other villagers and towns in interesting ways.
  
• Faster NPC responses.

• Faster translation generation when searching
  
• Added a gold indicator
  
• Removed account creation and sign-in

This update added a variety of small changes that improves the experience.

Change List:

• Easier sign-in process
  
• SFX added for mage bosses, some creatures, and interactable buttons
  
• ~20 First person intermediate tasks added
  
• Intermediate NPCs will now ask you more questions
  
• Intermediate NPC dialogue no longer overflows
  
• Player cursor works properly and changes over interactable elements
  
• Battle UI/UX improved

- Jason

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• Intelligent Translations: Click any word to receive a grammar explanation and definition. In-context learning has never been so smooth (Beginner & Intermediate).
  
• Sentence Building: Beginner mode communication is simpler and better to use.
  
• Lifelike Communication: Intermediate mode communication is much simpler, making it easy to engage in lifelike communication by writing and speaking quickly with in-game characters. (Intermediate Mode Only)
  
• Auto-Correct: In intermediate mode, receive auto-corrections to your input to help you improve your writing (Intermediate Mode Only).
  
• Try Speaking: Search for any phrase and try speaking it. (Intermediate Mode Only)
   

• Winwheat Addition: An entire new village, Winwheat, has been added
  
• Ashar Expansion: The third village, Ashar, has been expanded with a giant explorable tomb.
  
• Main quest continues through Ashar
  
• New NPCs to talk with in Winwheat
  
• 8 additional beginner phrases can be unlocked and used (40 in total)

• fixed many bugs
  
• you can play cross-platform. You can start on PC then continue on mobile (and vice versa).
  
• You can learn multiple languages at once with up to 4 games.

Note from Developer: Thankyou everyone for trying Newcomer. I look forward to receiving more feedback on the current update so that I can continue to improve the experience. - Jason

General Changes:

• Digital keyboard size increased
  
• Jeremiah and Mustafa sales sequence modified for easier trading
  
• For Spanish natives, Grandma no longer sounds like a man.
  
• Added the ability to spawn at the port during the onboarding sequence.
  
• Added password reset mechanism in the main menu
  
• Removed 'Play with no account' for PC version.
  
• Dialogue can be forwarded by pressing 'enter'
  
• Player can be moved using numpad keys (French natives playing on PC now have a proper way to move their character)

Intermediate Mode Changes:

• NPCs do a better job of remembering what's already been communicated.
  
• Current conversation task is always shown
  
• You can submit writing and speaking input by pressing 'enter'
  
• You can start typing by pressing 'enter'

Thanks everyone for the feedback over the first version. I have even more small changes I'm adding to improve the experience. First major content update is planned for January.

Cheers, Jason