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Steam News16 March 20233y ago

Patch 5.0 - New Planet, New buildings, French/Turkish Added

Explore and discover the secrets of the Lost Planet of Z with new puzzles, resources, monsters, and upgrades for you to discover.

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4 fixes11 additions15 changes8 removals
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  • UI and audio
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  • Performance
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changedExplore and discover the secrets of the Lost Planet of Z with new puzzles, resources, monsters, and upgrades for you to discover. We're continuing to fulfill our early access promise of 6 planets with the addition of our 5th planet. We've take you to exploration, wonder, despair, and danger. The Lost Planet of Z will now take you to terror. Part of that is the unknown so we will avoid spoiling too much. Good luck out there captain!
addedSight Beyond SightUnveil the hidden secrets and areas utilizing a new ability that will change the way your play and have you reevaluate the journey so far.
addedMajor Features:New S.B.S. "Truesight" ability
addedMajor Features:Dozens of new Puzzles, some involving S.B.S., have been added to planets 1-5 with additional upgrades to unlock.
addedMajor Features:French and Turkish have been added to the games. Thanks to @Sokoul
changedMajor Features:The building system has been reworked to make it more intuitive and easier to align

Lodestar changes

changedExplore and discover the secrets of the Lost Planet of Z with new puzzles, resources, monsters, and upgrades for you to discover. We're continuing to fulfill our early access promise of 6 planets with the addition of our 5th planet. We've take you to exploration, wonder, despair, and danger. The Lost Planet of Z will now take you to terror. Part of that is the unknown so we will avoid spoiling too much. Good luck out there captain!
addedUnveil the hidden secrets and areas utilizing a new ability that will change the way your play and have you reevaluate the journey so far.
addedNew S.B.S. "Truesight" ability
addedDozens of new Puzzles, some involving S.B.S., have been added to planets 1-5 with additional upgrades to unlock.
addedFrench and Turkish have been added to the games. Thanks to @Sokoul

Explore and discover the secrets of the Lost Planet of Z with new puzzles, resources, monsters, and upgrades for you to discover. We're continuing to fulfill our early access promise of 6 planets with the addition of our 5th planet. We've take you to exploration, wonder, despair, and danger. The Lost Planet of Z will now take you to terror. Part of that is the unknown so we will avoid spoiling too much. Good luck out there captain!

Sight Beyond Sight

Unveil the hidden secrets and areas utilizing a new ability that will change the way your play and have you reevaluate the journey so far.

Major Features:

  • Planet 5 Launched (boss, monster, resources, upgrades)

  • New S.B.S. "Truesight" ability

  • Dozens of new Puzzles, some involving S.B.S., have been added to planets 1-5 with additional upgrades to unlock.

  • French and Turkish have been added to the games. Thanks to @Sokoul

  • The building system has been reworked to make it more intuitive and easier to align

  • New cosmetics are now available to build on the ship. Many are interactable to configure or use. Find one in each planet!

Minor Feature:

  • Upgrade UI has been significantly improved

  • HUD UI has been made more slick and sci-fi

  • Improved progression tracking on analytics

  • Monsters on planet 4 now have an appropriate cooldown on their fireballs and navigate better

  • New beacon puzzle type has been added

  • New invisible wall puzzle type has been added.

  • Dozens of new Salli lines and additional lore have been added to the game

  • Lava will no longer be as dark, so you will have more opportunity to survive inside it

  • Salli will now warn that you don't have the correct equipment to solve certain puzzles.

  • Lore rewritten to add a new demolitions expert, Zehra.

  • Planet 3 and 4 have significantly improved visuals.

  • Water is now more watery.

  • Environment Shield Visuals improved along with new upgrades.

  • Improved Subtitle UI significantly.

  • Performance generally improved in many problematic areas of the game

Hotfixes:

Patch 5.0.3

- Fixed an issue where titanium recipes would not appear in foundries/refineries. - Fixed an issue where one mining upgrade required Tungsten - Fixed an issue where environment shield would constantly active when not on cooldown even when you were not in lava until the game was restarted.

Bugfixes:

  • Placing buildings should no longer hitch as badly on low-end CPUs

  • Planet 4 should have increased performance.

  • It should be much more difficult to accidentally double-trigger a sound crystal

  • Sound puzzles should no longer repeat the same crystal

  • Upgrades and Unlocks in multiplayer should no longer disappear on load

  • Firespitter sounds will not have attenuation

  • Rock-timed closing puzzles have been adjusted to avoid getting stuck as often

  • Building should materialize and de-materialize more reliably and correctly in multiplayer

  • Many strange collision bugs have been fixed. Please keep reporting any you run into via the in-game report feature

  • Let's get growing quest should now properly complete at each step.

  • Shiny pop VFX will now play even on last mine.

  • Planet 1 Boss Lore area should no longer create weird texture stretching on the player

  • Fixing many areas where localization was not working

  • Darkened caves will no longer permanently darken a player's game until reloading.

  • Crabs no longer float in the air and have collision on death

  • SMG no longer has an infinite firing rate when rapidly clicking

  • Fixed a bug that would cause Salli to say some of

Source

Steam News / 16 March 2023

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