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Update 0.16 Two new playable characters. Tons of new quests & more.

Hey guys! Big update today. Two new playable characters have been added along with a ton of new quests and mechanics. New Characters Danny The Dolphin Danny the Dolphin is one of the new playable characters!

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Hey guys! Big update today. Two new playable characters have been added along with a ton of new quests and mechanics.

What changed

3 fixes15 additions4 changes0 removals

Gameplay
Balance
UI and audio
Performance
Fixes

addedHey guys! Big update today. Two new playable characters have been added along with a ton of new quests and mechanics.

addedDanny The DolphinDanny the Dolphin is one of the new playable characters! His ship building comes with a new challenge of you must also find water tanks to fill the ship before you can take off. Danny as well provides a neat new mechanic for attacking. He has bouncy explosive beach balls. Danny shoots out beach balls and can trigger them to explode whenever he pleases to impact maximum damage on enemies.

addedTons of new questsThis is our largest dump of quests yet! there are 18 new quests that have been added to the game, with 26 new characters that have been added to support these quests and a new type of puzzle. Lots of the new creatures have new mechanics and will present interesting new ways to fight and work with them. Here are a few of them!

changedAdding more variable weightThings on your ship will now weigh it down! There are new creature types that will latch on to your ship and keep you from taking off! As well grappling things will make your ship accelerate slower.

addedFinal thoughtsThis has been a large update and thanks in part to you guys! We have been streaming development of Operation Zeta on Twitch and have loved having you guys get involved and watch the development process. If you checked us out there you will recognize a lot of the new characters! As always let us know what you like and don't. Leaving us a review on Steam helps us out a ton! Thanks guys, I look forward to sharing even more updates with you guys soon.

added0.16.0Added new playable character: Danny The Dolphin

Operation Zeta changes

addedHey guys! Big update today. Two new playable characters have been added along with a ton of new quests and mechanics.

addedDanny the Dolphin is one of the new playable characters! His ship building comes with a new challenge of you must also find water tanks to fill the ship before you can take off. Danny as well provides a neat new mechanic for attacking. He has bouncy explosive beach balls. Danny shoots out beach balls and can trigger them to explode whenever he pleases to impact maximum damage on enemies.

addedThis is our largest dump of quests yet! there are 18 new quests that have been added to the game, with 26 new characters that have been added to support these quests and a new type of puzzle. Lots of the new creatures have new mechanics and will present interesting new ways to fight and work with them. Here are a few of them!

changedThings on your ship will now weigh it down! There are new creature types that will latch on to your ship and keep you from taking off! As well grappling things will make your ship accelerate slower.

addedThis has been a large update and thanks in part to you guys! We have been streaming development of Operation Zeta on Twitch and have loved having you guys get involved and watch the development process. If you checked us out there you will recognize a lot of the new characters! As always let us know what you like and don't. Leaving us a review on Steam helps us out a ton! Thanks guys, I look forward to sharing even more updates with you guys soon.

New Characters

Danny The Dolphin

Danny the Dolphin is one of the new playable characters! His ship building comes with a new challenge of you must also find water tanks to fill the ship before you can take off. Danny as well provides a neat new mechanic for attacking. He has bouncy explosive beach balls. Danny shoots out beach balls and can trigger them to explode whenever he pleases to impact maximum damage on enemies.

Larry The Little Green man

Humans have always wondered about little green men interfering in their business. Turns out Larry is one of them! Larry is under custody of 'Special Agent OZ' and he needs you to help repair the dimensional portal to get back to earth and away from this warzone. Larry wears a beret and has a crippling addiction to Starcups Drinks.

Tons of new quests

This is our largest dump of quests yet! there are 18 new quests that have been added to the game, with 26 new characters that have been added to support these quests and a new type of puzzle. Lots of the new creatures have new mechanics and will present interesting new ways to fight and work with them. Here are a few of them!

Adding more variable weight

Things on your ship will now weigh it down! There are new creature types that will latch on to your ship and keep you from taking off! As well grappling things will make your ship accelerate slower.

Final thoughts

This has been a large update and thanks in part to you guys! We have been streaming development of Operation Zeta on Twitch and have loved having you guys get involved and watch the development process. If you checked us out there you will recognize a lot of the new characters! As always let us know what you like and don't. Leaving us a review on Steam helps us out a ton! Thanks guys, I look forward to sharing even more updates with you guys soon.

0.16.0

Added new playable character: Danny The Dolphin
Added new playable character: Larry The Little Green Man
Added 18 new quests!
Added 26 new NPCS & Creatures
Added New puzzle type: Line puzzles
Added new enemy type: Glazorbos
Added 4 new Achievements
Added 2 new planet lore entries;
Added 4 new Items
Added tons of new music and sound effects for new characters.
Changed: Items will now have weigh when on a grapple
Changed some of the environmental textures.
Changed: the 'clippers' item is now pickupable
Changed: some items now have more weight than other items..
Fixed bug where tooltips would flicker if your FPS dropped below 60
Fixed bug where you could talk to NPCS while in a puzzle
Fixed some rare lag issues that could occur when lots of explosions are happening at once.

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Steam News / 28 April 2021

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