Patch Notes v1.1.2

Hi everyone! Here are the patch notes for this update along with a very important message to all of you:

SLOWING THINGS DOWN

When we released this game in early access, we weren’t really sure for how long we would be able to maintain it there. We just knew it had a lot of potential in it and that getting community feedback would definitely guide us to the right direction. Thanks to your support, we had exactly 10 months of early access before finally releasing the game and, even after the release, we still managed to keep updating the game and improving it based on all the insights the community sent.

It was a total of 27 patches so far, 12 of them bringing major additions and changes to the game. From online multiplayer to house decorations, weekly challenges to robot companions, all this time made Out of Space way bigger and better than what was originally planned. Not to mention the numerous hotfixes released whenever something serious came up lol. Anyway, my point is that it has been a hell of a ride! Thank you for that.

Now we are aiming for another huge goal that requires our attention: taking the game to consoles. This is no easy task, especially with everything that is happening in the world this year, so it is very hard to have any level of certainty regarding this process. Regardless of that, to reduce the chances of delaying the porting any longer than necessary, we will need to slow down our work on the PC/Mac/Linux versions of Out of Space.

From now on, we will keep up bug reports and suggestions, but updates will be more spaced out than before and will become more focused on fixes too. We are very grateful for the support you’ve given us and we hope to bring you some exciting news soon! Until then, here are all the fixes and improvements from patch v1.1.2. BETA WITH EXCLUSIVE CONTENT

While we work and wait for the porting process to end, everyone is welcome to play the game with new types of aliens! All you have to do is to go to Out of Space’s properties on Steam, then click on Betas and opt into the beta (no password required). This will grant you access to new alien mutations that will take part on a future update beforehand. Hope you all enjoy them :D

IMPROVEMENTS

• [COM] The Watering Bot:

  • Will no longer try to clean unreachable players;

  • Now avoids going to sinks too far away unless they need to;

  • Also gives up on getting buckets that are inside of showers;

  • Grabs the closest bucket, regardless if it is full or not;

• [COM] Added an option to choose between US and EU servers for matchmaking (it used to always connect to the one with the lowest ping);

• Now the animation of falling asleep is canceled it another players wakes you up right when you fall;

• [COM] Eggs spawn on doors will now pause for a while if any player has thrown water into that specific door recently;

• Aliens will now stop their “getting things dirty” animation if they are pushed away from the original targets;

• The Chef/Watering Bots will no longer show the out of energy balloon when they are not going back to base;

• Players can no longer be pushed around by others when using appliances like the Recycler;

• The Mixer’s animation is now better synced with the behaviour time;

BALANCE