To all of the Early Access supporters, I'll never thank you enough. You made my Indie Dev dream come true ; thanks to you I was able to work full time on the game for those last years and to develop much more content than initially planned.
To all future players, I hope you'll enjoy the game and what I tried to do with it.
Too much emotion for me, so let's go straight to the v1.0 feature list:
v1.0 (Build 784):
3 new game modes:
- Under the Sea: Players start in a cave located under a huge ocean of 300 blocks high, with a huge water pressure. Ideal for exploring a new world full of surprises, and / or having fun with the water physics engine.
- Sky World: A world composed of hundreds of flying islands, procedurally generated, offering high replayability value.
- Base Defense: This is a tower defense inspired mode. No exploration here, players only build a base and defend it against the successive waves of attacks.
Creative Mode option with:
- All items free, cheated weapons and armour (those ones were already in "post game" mode).
- Dimensional Brush: to modify terrain & minerals as you wish (press shift for bigger area)
- Water / Lava / Sponge Pistol: to generate (or absorb) water and lava. Be careful! (press shift for more!)
- Monster Gun: spawn monsters and boss at will (press shift for them being aggressive)
- Plan Gun (that I like to call "Totoro gun"): anything that could grow in certain conditions will grow instantly (press shift for bigger area)
Hazardous Events option, to trigger random events about 1 time a day:
- Heat Wave: no rain, fast evaporation, some plants spontaneously burn.
- Rain Flood: massive rain flood.
- Meteor Shower: meteor falling from the sky and destroying everything... have fun!
- Volcano eruptions.
- Earthquake: increases all structures' weight.
- Restless Night: more monsters (occurs only at night).
- Quiet Night: no monsters (occurs only at night).
- Gravitational Waves: a very rare stars alignment lowers the gravity (jump higher, buildings stronger).
- Acidic Water: water and rain turns into acid (green color, and damage to players).
- Drowsiness: all monsters move slowly.
- Mating Season: monsters aggro distance is increased a lot, and they move fast.
- Lucky Day: monsters drop every time. Crital hit for players at every shot.
- Sun Eclipse: instant night during the day (with monsters attacks).
- Mist: lights range are reduced, day darker, screen is grayed out.
- Electromagnetic disturbances: electric system shuts down.
- Sharkstorm: combination of Flood + raining sharks :-)
Soundtrack: 9 new tracks
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All previous saved games (since v0.3) are compatible. You can also activate Hazardous Events on a previous save by using console commands.
If you wish to discuss about those new features, best is to use this forum topic:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/315460/discussions/0/1727575977597731961/
In addition to those major v1.0 features, there is also the v0.99 pre-release I published about a month ago in order to be tested as best as possible before release.
v0.99 most important features:
- New music dynamic system: musics change depending of the "tension" of the current situation and other various specificities
- New console commands: /event (to launch an event), /find (to find an item on the map), /music
- Picked up items displayed in console. Bosses loot now auto-picked.
- Players now respawn near the autobuilder (and never inside a block)
- Improved pathfinding for monsters and drone
- Heavy changes in plants life conditions
- Various balance on drone, shield, crush damage, water evaporation, etc.
- Various bug fixes and minor improvements
The full change log is in this announcement: https://steamcommunity.com/games/315460/announcements/detail/1653264230330850584
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And here are the change that were released those last few weeks, since this v0.99:
Changes since v0.99 release:
General
- Full localization in: English, Dutch, French, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese-Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
- New achievments (auto-builder progress)
- Drag & Drop items from your inventory directly to another player or its name (even if he is far away)
- Add a proximity sensor (detect monster or players in the cell)
- F4 mode to show a lot of information in creative mode: quantity of water, exact light, forces, content HP, achievement infos (and a few infos in normal mode)
- Improve & optimize the spawning repartition of monsters: better take into account stucked monsters in order to better spawn monsters (species and position that let monster reach the player)
Bug Fix
- Fixed various bugs within the Hazardous Events and the Creative Mode tools
- Hide UI fix: reactivate menu buttons, hide console texts
- Fix language of system texts, if the host/client has a different language than your one
- Fix bug that prevented monsters to go through platforms in some situations
- No Peaceful difficulty in Base Defense mode
- Fixed Fire & Miniaturizor input option modification (now works)
- Fix issues with AI sentences
Balance
- Rocket Launcher: reduced push force, increased cooldown and damage
- ZF-0: additional damages on time when locked on an ennemy (from 7 to 12, +1 every 5 hits)
- Drone: goes faster, do not attack species that player didn't kill yet, reduced cost (10=>2 gold for drone, 10=>6 gold for combat drone, 10=>6 gold and 5->4 thorium for war drone)
- Meteors do much more damage, less in water
- Water pump modification (no more Perpetual Motion)
- Sun lamps, teleport and Storm gun light emission slightly modified to prevent self-generating sun lamp + solar panel
- Base defense balance: start game earlier in the day, prices of MK2+ much higher (even more for repair turret, no increase for electricity items). More water, hydroelectric generation should be easier. Added the bosses (only for fun in Creative / Post game mode)
- A little more blood dropped in easy (0.6->0.8), a little less in hard/brutal (0.25->0.2)
- Water sensor, Proximity sensor and Wire Crossing doesn't burn (from lava) anymore
Minor
- Add build version warnings (if hosts and clients don't run the same game version), technical improvements
- Add Discord link in the main menu (instead of facebook) and the multiplayer window, add icons.
- Chat input closed by pressing Escape
- Multiplayer: minor improvements of player names display
- Volume option: more precise (+ left/right keys when mouse over button for max precision)
- Remove achievements in multiplayer (as it actually didn't work client)
- Various netcode improvements
- Multiplayer: a "host is reloading" message is displayed on client when host reloads
- Add some global stats on weapons to help me balance them
