Dev Diary 73 - Steam Next Fest!
Today Steam Next Fest starts! I’ve been pushing a lot of updates recent days, and the most important time in this game’s story begins today. The demo is already reopened, so play it! It would help a lot if you left a review - reportedly it increases performance during the next fest. I also will be streaming every day!
Updates
Besides A LOT of fixed bugs and crashes, I made some important UX improvements. You can now drag a worker onto a resource on the map to create a production, as a shorthand of going to production menu. The plus and minus buttons light up red when you run out of orders, and some notifications hide by themselves now. The game also has Steam integration with achievements, and it’s translated into 8 more languages (if you know one of these - please report errors - they are not always good).
I’m also adding more and more content for the full game. One example is the Dark Elves faction, inspired by old MMOs!
Factions are getting more and more distinct features. I try to make some unique armor looks for each faction. Dark elves, for example, will have that sexy armor that you can in theory obtain with other factions. I designed polymorphic system for any kind of creature, and bulky dwarves use the same models as elegant elves!
By the way, demo includes unlockable Dwarves I introduced in previous changelog - I could not leave out digging, it turned out to be too fun.
Changelog
- New content
- Dark Elves faction
- Croakari faction
- Distorted Heart
- Demons in the dungeon level
- Steam integration
- Steam achievements
- Multiplayer connection by IP can now use Steam networking
- Huge UX improvements
- You can now drag a worker onto a resource on the map to create a production
- When you have no orders left, the plus and minus buttons are highlighted in red (except the ones you can undo)
- Fixes with hair and beards
- Tents and houses are now colored after your group
- Metaprogression: 3 currencies earnable by different means. Some of that is even available in demo.
- Factions now have purchasable perks
- Players now get points in an elemental domain (up to 3, upgradeable with metacurrency)
- Balancing invaders
- Story tab improvements: there are now a lot of procedural story facts about workers
- Fixes in the resource overview window
- Fixes in the new workers window
- Fixes in the new productions window
- Fixes with enemy action range when it collides with your action range
- Some notifications now autohide
- Fixed issues with multiple group detachments
- New tutorials
- Fixed bugs in tutorials
- German translation
- Finnish translation
- Ukrainian translation
- Russian translation
- Swedish translation
- Japanese translation
- Spanish translation
- French translation
- Many balancing changes
- Charcoal and Aether are now technologies, so you can’t make charcoal from the start
- More unique weapons and armor for factions
- Helmets
- Improved digging
- New technologies
- Some beasts now have a fixed skill layout
- Fixed invaders AI being too stupid
- A separate quest at the beginning that teaches how to build a house
- Fixed assignment with right click
- Dozens of bugfixes
- New bugs
Have a nice day and see you at Next Fest!