Hey guys!
First of all Thank You!
Thank you so much for joining us on this journey! We just had an amazing launch of No Place Like Home and we couldn’t be happier to see so many of you playing our game, building the community and sharing your feedback. But we are also well aware that at current Early Access stage, its far from perfect and this is just the beginning of our work.
We are dedicated to make this game a best experience that we can and we can’t wait to share more content with you. We are already working on new animals, new crops, new crafting recipes, new npc with their own stories, dialogues, quests and of course new zones to explore! This is what we love to do and we hope that it will be a game that you love to play!
But most importantly we are working on delivering fixes to all current problems.
Your feedback
We have gone through all of your reviews, comments and suggestions and we have recognized issues that we want to address asap. Based on that we have prepared a more detailed roadmap plan for upcoming weeks and months.
Full focus now is on fixing all the bugs and making game much more user friendly and much better optimized. After that we will focus on upgrading current mechanics and providing more exciting content and new features.
What has recently happened?
We were so excited after a launch that right after short holidays break we have worked tirelessly to deliver you new patch. Just today for a brief moment we have updated the game with all the bug fixes but some very strange issue caused a further FPS drop and we had to revert to the previous version. We will fix it asap and patch the game on Tuesday. Thank you for your patience and please check out full plan below:
Patch Roadmap
5th of January – Patch 0.11 - 1st minor Patch for Tier 1 stage of Early Access
For this patch we have fixed lots a bugs and introduced few adjustments. Save system should work much better now. (but still needs some fixing). We still need however few days to better optimize the changes but you can already check the patch notes below:
Night Owl perk was removed – we need to work on it more as it sometimes broke the game
You no longer loose bought items once your inventory is full
Station should work normally after loading game
In-game date should not produce errors after loading game
Early Bird Perk has been fixed
Issue where game broke down after night in some rare cases has been corrected
Grass disappears under placed fields and buildings
Floating Trash was fixed
Interactable Buttons now connect to targets with pipes (temporary fix)
Bosses have less HP and Pickahmmer deals more dmg
Pickhammer has bigger hitbox
Water filter is now also available in shop (as it still sometimes vanishes from map)
More Potatoes Seeds on map + there is one spot when potato seeds respawn daily
Multiple Spelling Errors
Electro Waste has bigger stack in inventory
Indestructable Salad Seed cubes piles can now be destroyed
Fungal garden can now be rotated
All poisoned trees are now accessible
Decorative bed works as bed
After going to sleep Ellen doesn’t fall throught the floor
Many places that could make you stucked (although not all yet)
Items from trash should not fly too far away now
Cubebots should walk now as intended
Birdfeeders do not disappear anymore
You can now build next to sprinklers
Cubebots do not levitate anymore
Chciken petting animation is faster now (still need to work on it more)
Water now deals dmg to enemies
Few trees and grass fixes
Petting fox doesn’t brake game anymore
15th of January– Patch 0.12 - 2nd minor Patch for Tier 1 stage
Full tutorial and in game helper
Progress on Game Optimization
More graphic options (quality, motion blur etc)
More enjoyable tools system and watering system
More bug fixes
Enemies and combat fixes, enemies health bars etc
Overall crafting and economy system overhaul
Improved animal behaviour
More bug fixes
If your game is crashing before launching or loads too long it means game may be too demanding for your computer system. We aim to fix that as well and run game for older computers on much lower settings.
15th of February – Patch 0.14 - 3rd minor Patch for Tier 1 stage
New Journal System – Crafting info, Quests, Encyclopedia etc
Dash ability for combat
Bigger Optimization Update
Saves in steam cloud
Key Bindings
New features and bug fixes
March 2020 – Patch 0.20 - Major Patch for Tier 2 stage
Language Editions – Polish, German, Spanish, Portuguese French and more announced soon.
House customization and upgrades.
2 new zones with new adventures, 20+ new quests, 2 new farm animals and 2 wild animals, 5-10 new crops, 3-4 new farming equipment, 2-4 new NPC with their own buildings in Village, 1-2 new tool mechanics, new decorative items, dungeons and much more!
Q2 2021 - Patch 0.30 - Major Patch for Tier 2 stage
Full Content to be Announced
Q3 2021- Patch 0.40 - Major Patch for Tier 2 stage
Full Content to be Announced
Q3 - Q4 2021 – Full Release!
We are also aware about a lot of other content and gameplay issues and we want to let you know that we are working on those as well. For March Tier 2 Major path we should have full gameplay fixed and from then on we will keep on adding great content and features.
Ok guys, that it for now, we are back to work and will see you on 8th of January with a new patch and update.
We can’t wait to keep on developing this game together with you!
Take care of yourselves, have fun and have a Happy New Year!
All the best,
Chicken Launcher Team