v0.3.0 - The Weather Update

New Content

• General Systems:

  • New Enemy Capture Mechanic: Now you can only catch one enemy at a time. You will have to drag them with physics to the ship. They can escape just like before, but now you will receive a detrimental effect if they do. You can release the rope with right-click and reattach a rope to the net with E while holding the net launcher in your hand. If you break the line of sight (for example, behind a wall) for more than 5 seconds, the rope will break.

  • New Weather System: Now each map has a list of available weathers and a probability for each one to appear:

    • Normal: No modifications.

    • AdjustedRainyIt rains in the outdoor area, reduced visibility, and monster spawns are affected. More dangerous monsters appear. Starting from intensity 2, the map floods gradually (depends on the map, some cannot be flooded).

    • Stormy: It rains very heavily in the outdoor area. More dangerous monsters appear. The map floods (if allowed). Every now and then, lightning strikes across the map. If lightning strikes a player, it deals 75 damage and slows them down for a few seconds. If it strikes an enemy, it deals 50 damage and stuns them for a few seconds.

    • Foggy: A dense fog appears across the entire surface of the map. It reduces visibility. Depending on the intensity level, the fog is denser.

    • AdjustedSunnyIt is daytime throughout the entire expedition, which reduces enemy spawns and eliminates the possibility of enemies like Whisper spawning. At intensity level 1, enemy spawns are simply reduced. At intensity level 2, if you are outside while being directly hit by the sun for a while, you will start to scorch and take damage; likewise, metallic items exposed to the sun will become incandescent and you will take damage if you grab them. At level 3, the sun eclipses; it is similar to level 1 but more enemies appear and their aggressiveness increases, in addition to increasing the spawn probability of difficult enemies.

  • New Health System: Now you gradually regenerate health. If you are below 20% health, you recover even faster.

  • New Save System

    Infinite save slots are now allowed! It is no longer limited to just 3 slots.

    Ship

• Ship:

  • It's finally back! The ship moves when taking off and landing (please report any bugs related to this).

  • Now there is a transition when changing maps, a loading screen will no longer appear.

  • New entrance to the ship through a hatch in the bottom area.

• Maps:

  • Warehouse:

    • Weathers added:

      • Normal

      • Rainy

      • Foggy

      • Sunny

      • Stormy

  • Mansion:

    • Weathers added:

      • Normal

      • Rainy

      • Foggy

      • Sunny

      • Stormy

  • ¡New Map! Laboratory, the game's first procedural map. Contains:

    • A total of 11 different rooms, including:

      • Teleportation between floors.

      • Biomass compression rooms.

    • Weathers added:

      • Normal

      • Rainy

      • Foggy

      • Sunny

      • Stormy

• Artifacts:

  • Pipette (New)

  • Microscope (New)

  • Flask (New)

  • Biohazard Paper (New)

  • Eye (New)

• Items:

  • Battery (New): Used to recharge the charging station.

• Graphics:

  • New graphic style.

  • Improvement to the Outline Shader.

  • UI:

    • Removed the health bar. Now you will see the screen turning red as your health drops.

Changes

• Enemies:

  • Statue:

    • It now has a victim list. If a player looks at Statue, it adds them to its list. Therefore, if you have never looked at Statue, even out of the corner of your eye, you don't have to worry if you hear it: it will never come after you!

    • Additionally, it now has a cooldown of between 10 and 20 seconds after killing a player during which it cannot move.

    • If it follows you for more than 30 seconds (20 in singleplayer), it will stay still for 10 to 20 seconds before chasing you again.

  • Turtle:

    • New patrolling method and improvements to the investigation system.

    • New animations.

    • New attack (PullForce): If you are far from the turtle while it chases you, it will levitate and start rotating on itself, generating a force field that will pull you towards it.

  • Whisper:

    • New patrolling method and new animations.

    • Now, when it is near you, it first prepares to jump and after 2 seconds launches directly at your head. If it touches you, it has the same effect as before, but if you dodge it, it returns to the attack.

    • It no longer remembers the last seen position of the player. As soon as you leave its cone of vision, Whisper goes back to patrolling.

    • Upon killing a player, it will undergo mitosis and another distinct Whisper will spawn!

  • Nimbus:

    • New mechanic: If lightning strikes it or you try to stun it (with the electric net or anything else), it will charge with electricity and deal more damage both with its acid rain and to the nets.

• Ship:

  • Simplification: There is no longer a need to press buttons to close or open doors, it is now done automatically. Due to this, the ship is no longer a 100% safe place and enemies will be able to enter whenever they want.

  • Now items in the ship's Storage area and in the Ark's selling area cannot break.

• Inventory:

  • Now items you wear on your head do not count as an inventory slot. You can carry 5 pocket items + 1 item on your head.

• Stamina System:

  • Now, when you run out of stamina, you have to wait 5 mandatory seconds to be able to run again.

• Graphics:

  • UI:

    • Inventory icons now have other colors that are more pleasing to the eye in dark environments.

    • Items with recharges (like the net launcher) better show their cooldown progress.

    • The stamina bar no longer has a white background, it is now a semi-transparent dark blue.

    • Now on the save game selection screen, its information is displayed (Current level, day, money...)

Balancing

• The base biomass quota and scaling are much higher.

• The base time to explore any map has been reduced from 15 min to 10 min.

• Maps:

  • Warehouse:

    • More enemies spawn and faster in an unlimited way. But now it has a maximum of simultaneous enemies.

    • Increased the number of artifacts to spawn.

    • Reduced cost per minute: 100 credits/min -> 50 credits/min

  • Mansion:

    • More enemies spawn and faster in an unlimited way. But now it has a maximum of simultaneous enemies.

    • Increased the number of artifacts to spawn.

• Enemies:

  • Statue:

    • It can no longer be catched.

    • Reduced its spawn probability in Warehouse.

Bug fixes

• Biomass is now calculated correctly and the capsules have an appropriate size.

• Optimized all maps, mainly the Mansion.

• Optimized collisions.

• Now objects that are charging in the ship will not disappear when changing maps.

• Nimbus no longer shoots lightning at the center of the map.

• Music volume is adjustable again.

• Nimbus can no longer appear indoors.

• Nimbus can no longer pass through indoors to reach an outdoor area.

• Flashlights now turn off when stored in the inventory.

• Players now revive if they were in the minibot in the ship.

• Players now die if they are left behind on the ship.

• Players will no longer fly out of the ship while it is moving.

• Voice chat no longer gets corrupted upon reviving.

• Now the ship's thrusters are synchronized between the server and the client.

• Interfaces no longer bug out upon dying.

• Now objects are saved correctly.

• Now inventory objects are saved.

• Fixed a very old bug where leaving and re-entering the game prevented you from moving the camera.

• Upon losing, it no longer forces you to deliver biomass the first time.

• The flashlight no longer bugs out with the net launcher (they do not overlap).

• If a player leaves in the middle of the game, it no longer crashes all clients.

• Now you can buy nets in the net shop and they are saved.

• Clients no longer see each other's local lighting zone.

• Most items already have an icon, and for those that don't, a fallback image now exists.