Turrets
For some time, you have requested to add more ways to defend your shop or home. We agree this is an excellent addition to Saleblazers, so we're excited to introduce automatic turrets in this patch!
There are 16 new turrets to research and craft, starting with the meager rock thrower and working up to electric-powered M4 and AWP turrets.
- Mk. I turrets are coal-powered and feature some early-game ranged weapons.
- Mk. II turrets need to be hooked up to a generator and boast more firepower.
- Mk. III turrets require even more electricity but feature the highest-tier firepower in the game.
After researching the turrets, you can craft them at the weapon forge. We can't wait to see your turret defense set-ups in the Community Hub screenshots or on our Discord channel!
Defensive Spikes
We're also introducing Bamboo, Wood, and Carbon Iron spike traps to the research tree to supplement your turret defenses. These spikes can be crafted in the Sawmill and placed around your shop. Enemies will try to run through them but will be forced to slow to walking speed and take damage over time while they do.
The spikes' damage increases as you use better materials to craft them, and the Carbon Iron spike traps can withstand significant damage before breaking.
Nighttime Attacks
We've added some new nighttime attack mechanics in the Under Attack update. Once the sun goes down, there is a chance for Ghouls to spawn around your location and attack you. These attacks can occur while exploring or in the shop plot, so consider making your way to a defensible location once it starts getting dark. Your new turrets and spike traps should help you keep your shop safe and running overnight, but you can always sleep through the night to avoid the bulk of these attacks.
We plan on adding more depth to the system for attacking shop plots, including more ways to counter these attacks, so we look forward to hearing your feedback on this mechanic. We've been having a good time setting up turret kill zones at our shops for these enemies, so we hope you also find they make the nighttime gameplay more exciting.
Peaceful Night Setting
We know that some players aren't fans of being attacked at the shop and would prefer to continue shopkeeping in peace, so we have added a Peaceful Night lobby configuration setting that will allow you to turn off these new attacks, as well as the existing Watcher Ghoul spawns around the shop plots. Regular enemies can still chase you to the shop, but we hope this will also be a good first step towards accommodating more peaceful gameplay.
Clothing Dye Station
We heard you wanted some more control over the color of your clothing and general appearance. The first step toward that goal is the Clothing Dye Station. With this workbench, you can input a piece of clothing and some clothing dye and select which colorway you want to apply to that item. After researching the dye station, you can craft clothing dye in your crafting table using coffee beans, plant fiber, seaweed, coal, or ink.
Steam Spring Sale and Pre-Sale Early Supporter Bonuses
We're working on getting Saleblazers out to as many people as possible to get more shops up and running, more worlds to invade, more friends to build the North Star with, and more resources to continue developing toward our 1.0 release.
To reach more players, we're excited to announce we will be participating in the Steam Spring sale later this week!
However, we want to ensure that all of our players who have already supported us get a proper thank you, as we couldn't be where we are today without you. So, anyone who purchased or activated the game before 03/14/2024 will unlock some exclusive items.
- Gold Nameplate and Airstrafer Insignia
- Gold Airstrafer Jacket Colorway
- Black and Gold Airstrafer Apron Colorway
- Supporter Medallion
- Black and Gold Airstrafer Wallpaper
This is the perfect opportunity to try out the new Clothing Dye Bench. Your exclusive colorways will be available when you dye an apron or any of the Airstrafer jackets.
You can swap between the gold nameplate and the normal white one from the ESC menu using these arrows.
The Traveler will also have a special message from us to you, so head over to Invasion Island and chat with him when you can.
The rewards and the Traveler's message can be claimed at any time if your purchase or activation date meets the requirements, so there is no rush to claim it.
We are hoping to do more time-gated colorways and nameplates like this for other big moments like our 1.0 release and potentially as achievement unlocks, so let us know what you think of them.
Hold to Pick Up Containers and Large Items
By popular demand, you now have to hold down the pickup button for containers and large items so that you don't accidentally pick them up and spill their contents everywhere.
Items will still spill out when picked up. This change only makes accidental pickups less common. It's also a much-needed balance change to prevent spam throwing large items to ragdoll people.
Thank you to everyone who has brought up this suggestion and been part of discussions surrounding it.
New Quarry Quest
You can now find a small camp of refugees south of the quarry. Talk to them to start a new quest in the area where you can free some Ronin captives from the mines.
The reward for this quest isthe new first NPC Summon item since the License to Sell update introduced the summon walkie-talkies. We think it's pretty fun and look forward to seeing you try it out.
As a part of implementing this quest, we also optimized the quarry and redid some of the paths and ziplines to make it more fun to traverse.
We believe this quest fills out this part of the world more and adds some goals for the quarry area, which was previously more of a sandbox dungeon zone. We hope you enjoy it!
Boiling Cups and Bowls of Water
As another survival tool to handle dehydration, you can now use your campfire or stove to boil dirty or salt water collected in cups or bowls to make it safe to drink.
Experimental Outpost Clearing and Raid System
We're working on a new feature to make outposts more fun to find, explore, and clear out. Outposts will have a name, and the faction that owns them will be displayed when you enter. A cleared percentage bar will display your progress as you fight the enemies inside. An additional reward will spawn once you defeat all the enemies in an outpost. Currently, this reward will be a chest of items based on the outpost. Once cleared, the Outpost UI will display the time until the outpost resets and can be cleared again.
Every time you clear an outpost, you risk triggering a retaliation attack from the faction that owns it.
We think this clarity and additional rewards make outposts more fun to discover and make farming outpost loot clearer and more rewarding.
So far, we have only made this experimental feature live on a few outposts for you to try out. You can try this mechanic at the following outposts near the starting area:
- Ruins Overlook Outpost
- Skull Coast Forward Outpost
- Skull Camp Major Outpost
➡️ Changes
- Added clothing dye station and clothing dye items to recolor apparel
- Added early supporter colorways for the airstrafer jackets and apron
- Added early supporter wallpaper
- Added early supporter nameplate that can be equipped from the ESC menu
- Added message for early supporters from the Traveler
- You now have to hold down the pickup button for containers and large items so that you don't accidentally pick them up and to balance throwing large items to ragdoll people
- Added new quest to the quarry
- Optimized the quarry
- Added new ziplines to the quarry and turned existing ziplines into unlockable anchors
- Polished character selection and creation UI
- Polished interaction prompt UI
- Added 16 new turret items
- Added 3 tiers of spike traps
- Increased HP for several Ronin units
- Quest pop-up information stays up for longer and fades in/out properly
- Sleeping now ticks spawner timers forward
- Added the ability to boil dirty and salt water to make it drinkable
- Added defense item category for the turrets and spike traps
- Sped up haggling UI and chance bar
- Removed Stop Right There audio from police
- Slowed-down sprint speed and adjusted animation timing to make the movement feel more grounded
- NPC Summon items can now randomly summon from a pool of characters
- Added night raids that spawn ghouls which attack the player between 10 pm and 4 am
- Added light, medium, and heavy night raid spawners
- Added a peaceful night toggle in the server set-up menu to disable night raids and shop watcher ghouls
- Only one revenge encounter will spawn at a time now. Increased the delay between revenge encounters
- Revenge encounters no longer interrupt other dialogue
- Centered employee research tree nodes in the default page view
- Adjusted watcher ghouls to have less downtime
- Adjusted ghoul voice liens to be less grating
- Killing ghouls now makes them stop making sounds
- Reduced some attack delays in Leyasoon's fight
- Increased XP for defeating Leyasoon
- Reduced cases where Ronin and Samurai AI would stand around in between attacks
- Fixed floating gas lamps in an outpost near the swamp
- Added experimental outpost feature that tracks cleared percentage and spawns a reward when all the enemies are killed
- Set up the new outpost clearing feature at the Ruins Overlook Outpost, Skull Coast Forward Outpost, and Skull Camp Major Outpost
- Updated item hover and dialogue UI
⚙️ Optimizations
- Removed expensive dither shader and have the player hide their rig instead when up close
🛠️ General Fixes
- Fixed cases where players were stuck loading world
- Fixed cases where players were stuck loading resources
- Fixed a rare case where players could not complete the Rest in the Hot Springs part of Pop Pop's quest
- Fixed ink bottle LODs
- Fixed issues with enemies spawning under the decks at the Skull Camp Major Outpost
- Fixed some rare cases where a section of terrain would fail to load after a teleport
- Fixed Skull Camp Major Outpost mini-boss spawn location
- Fixed pooled enemies not reoccupying spawn cells properly
- Fixed some localization issues with item names and descriptions
- Fixed floating zipline near Pippo's bakery
- Fixed equipment instruction in the prologue level to better reflect the new UI
- Fixed issues when pressing ESC while in first-person mode, causing the character to become invisible
- Plastic bowl stack count is now 99 to match the other cups and bowls
- Fixed bamboo armor colorway icons
- Fixed some issues preventing new wallpaper from being applied over old wallpaper
- Fixed a case where items would lose their attributes when automatically added to a crafting workbench from the inventory
- Fixed an issue where enemy death box data wouldn't clear, causing items to sometimes spill out
- Fixed cases where AI witnessing a stolen item would not put back the stolen item
- Fixed various disconnects
- Customers can sometimes swarm shops in unintended numbers
- Rare disconnect from interacting with the wiring tool