Build 15 is released

I'm happy to announce the first Roboden game update on Steam! Stay tuned as there is more to come!

This post describes most changes to the game.

This list may be somewhat hard to read as it was never meant to be a public release note. :) The next release notes post will be a bit better.

First of all, you can now play Roboden on MacOS!

UX:

• Show Dreadnought's health level in the tooltip

• Give an input device prompt for the new players

• Display drone recipe in the Drone Collection menu as well (even for T3 drones)

• Add drone highlighting when hovering over a recipe tab entry

• Auto-fill the player's name from the Steam account (this can be changed in the menu later)

Controls:

• Reworked the default middle mouse button scroll behavior (can be reverted in the keyboard controls section)

New content:

• Added Spectator achievement

• Added 1337 achievement

• Added Gladiator achievement

• New Fortress creep (available via difficulty setting)

• New Templar creep

• New Ion Mortar creep turret (available via difficulty setting)

• A "gold" option that disables the gold resource deposits

• Added a Drone factory-neutral building

• Added a Power plant neutral building

• Added a Turret neutral building

• Added "super creep rate" option in Reverse mode

Gameplay:

• Increase dreadnought max crawlers limit

• Added x2 game speed

• Made x1.2 game speed default (was x1.0, but it's kinda slow)

• Reworked colonies movement

Bug fixes:

• Fixed dreadnought sprite flashing component

• Fixed devourer levels when joining a commander's group

• Fixed an intro mission crash when "keyboard" input method was selected

• Escape/back inside a results screen no longer skips through rewards

• Fixed a virtual cursor click over a screen button like "exit"

• Fixed the right/down edge scroll with its range set to 1

Visuals:

• Improved some effects layer arrangement

• Made screen shaking more intensive

• Added a damage shader to Dreadnought

Balance:

• Bombers now deal extra damage to buildings and dreadnought

• Increased Destroyer's evo points cost (11 -> 17)

• Increased Devourer's evo points cost (11 -> 12)

• Increased Guardians's evo points cost (8 -> 9)

• Make evo points generation slightly slower

• Some drones now use energy when attacking

• Unallocated drone point now grants 2 difficulty points instead of 1

• Dreadnought can now dispatch up to 7 crawlers (this limit was at 5 previously)

• Reduced Ark colony drone limit (100 -> 80)

• Wisps will retreat for longer distances

• Added damage vs buildings modifier

• Increased wave budget scaling in Infinite Arena mode

• Decreased "attack colony" action time cost in Reverse mode

• Scale the number of wisps with a map size

Computer player (colony bots):

• Bot will no longer play a solo base tactic with Ark core design

• A better max radius selection strategy

• A better evolution-related choice selection

• Bot will use Attack action more often with Firebug & Bomber drones

Misc:

• Trim trailing whitespace in the username

• New modes and options are now listed in the rewards screen

Tutorial:

• The difficulty & speed is now configurable via the terminal

• Pinned the special choice that is required to continue

• Removed the radius increase context hint (it's already in the main course)

• Removed the north attack notice (it was redundant)

Replays:

• Disabling replays from mismatching game versions

• Showing the game seed in the replay's description

Steam Deck:

• Showing the on-screen keyboard when appropriate

• Added Steam Deck layout option