Overview
- Build four different type of roads
Roads modify the movement speed of your workers and are good to improve the efficiency of your economy and optimize the pathways, workers will prefer to walk on them.
- Experience a reworked endgame with new mutated Zombie types
- Decorative Items for the outdoors of your lab
After threat level 50 new Zombie types appear that are very hard to freeze, but mainly get superior weapons that are able to crush your tech four gates. This will make your goal to cure humans a bit more interesting and mainly extends how long you can play the game before you face the strongest Zombies.
Just a little treat to invest time in making your lab look nice.
Detailed Patch Notes
Version 0.19.2:
- Roads! You can now build four different path ways, one for each tier level.
Paths can be drawn like fences, they give your workers bonus movement speed and will be preferred by them to walk on. Use paths to build connections to further away resource harvesting spots and optimize your layout.
Paths can not be clicked once build, delete them with the delete tool. Drawing a higher level path over an existing lower level one counts as an upgrade.
Paths can be build on walkable areas, meaning through gates and through the main storage middle path, so you can build them closer to objects and have more freedom for placement.
- The whole endgame has been rebalanced and five new mutated Zombies with new weapons will spawn past threat level 50 to make the last part of the game more interesting and give Zombies a chances to breach through your ten times layered tier four gates.
- Outdoor decoration assets have been added that look nice together with your roads. (The street lamps will light red with the lab alarm)
- A new hunter boss has been added for normal and hard difficulty. At night 15 a hunter boss appears that is very fast and will hunt down Humbie Level 1s. He quickly can make it through weak gates and workers cant escape a fight with him unharmed. (Hunter has placeholder art at the moment and is only playable in the normal and hard mission.)
- Refill threshold are now respected in all scenarios, an ice pack press close to a freezer tower will only be emptied to refill the freezer tower when it has producer over its take out thresholds. (This was not the case before and could lead to defense towers being constantly refilled with only 1 ice pack).
- You now have additional objectives to send back x cured humans to “win” a mission. A base threat value is added once you cure your first human, which brings you into the endgame, facing more difficult zombies in general.
- 10+ new Zombie weapons added. Where the strongest possible Zombie weapon to spawn could deal 800 damage, the now strongest weapon can deal 10000 damage, giving the Zombies room to grow stronger.
- Rebalanced economy, build costs, resource gather rates and tier 4 research costs to counter various problems.
- Vegetable patches contain half vegetables, Meat growers require more vegetables to grow meat, greenhouses and planters produce less vegetables. Make it harder to sustain worker population with food only affecting vegetable resource type, not necessarily harder to make meat.
- Most tier 4 objects research costs increased by ~50%
- Various build costs increased, mainly T4 objects, endgame objects require more metal and tech.
- Research Tier 2 walls, gates and fences now costs more stone (300 each). Stone costs was increased in general for some buildings, especially tier 3 fences and gates and starting furnaces to make stone crusher a less feasible option.
- Treatment across all treatment chambers more expensive, takes partially a bit longer.
- Especially treatment 1 for Humbie Level 1 now costs 40 glowberries instead of 10, making it way more costly to get lots of Humbies. A focused berry production or gather expeditions are necessary to ramp up your worker population.
- Lab Size threat generation a bit more over 2000 lab size, all missions.
- An extra normal mission elite wave added, little less monotonous zombie wave spawning.
- Some need satisfying objects now consume power.
- PCs need satisfier statistics rebalanced, should be more useful now.
- Better need satisfier objects, higher tiers way more expensive to build (It is a bit harder now to supply your workers with the best equipment for sleeping, training, etc.)
- Slight footprint changes for T3 Humbie 3 treatment, better to place next to wall.
- Tank Boss now has way less health and little more damage, making it a bit more offense instead of a damage sponge.
- In the endgame the zombie wave damage increases quicker, past threat 50, making it harder in the endgame to defend against the new mutant Zombies.
- Harvest speed decreased by ~30-40% for all resources. It now is slower to gain lumber from trees, stone from rocks etc. This is mainly done to counter the huge humbie 1 workforces player can have in tier 2, tier 3 combined with harvest amount boni and Humbie Level 1 not needing to return at night.
- Zombie chasing and fighting workers overhauled. In general zombies are a bit more responsive and can jump quicker from fight to fight, creating new Zombies. Humbies have a higher chance to escape fights unharmed then humans.
- Starting from Artic Zombies (~Threat 40), zombies have a different behavior, starting to hunt Humbie Level 1 again, able to quickly create new Zombies. This is to change the endgame difficulty and make Humbie Level 1 less powerful in the end.
- Zombies spawned from workers (Humbie Zombies) now have weapons.
- Guards from Tier 2 now do double damage, else they have no chance against Zombies past threat 15, which also makes it now easier to contain frozen Zombies escaping from their storage.
- Frozen Zombie storage footprint changed to a general 2x2, one wall side was removed. You can now upgrade from the first storage to the last.
Fixes:
- Power cables won't stay in the air anymore after deleting/ moving/ repairing power poles.
- A bug fixed where landing zone was not buildable at the start of the game anymore.
- Game over state works again, was broken could not lose anymore. Only lose game option is now that main storage gets destroyed.
- Humbie3 Zombie version, fixed backpack material missing in general.
- Fixed ice hockey Zombie scaling, was smaller then intended.
- Humbie 1 now has correct sleeping pod sleep animation
Kown Issues:
WARNING: YOUR OLD SAVE GAMES WILL LIKELY BE CORRUPTED
The sum of the changes will make it probably impossible to load old savegames and even if it works, they probably be corrupted. We will set the 0.18.0 Version as its own beta branch that you can continue to play the old version if preferred.
On high gamespeeds and latest paths workers can slide out of curves, which requires them to make path connections, making them inefficient in reaching their target again. We are on it.
In regards to performance optimization we want to dig deep into the game and will soon right an bigger news post about what our plans are.
