Hey Colonists!
This month we celebrated the two years of Early Access!
The next Major Update Life of a Colonist is around the corner and comes December 9th!
I would love to share some info about it:
LIFE OF A COLONIST comes December 9th
Last month new devices were introduced, such as elevators to allow vertical movement of astronauts and robots and cable cars to transport goods over long distances and multiple stations.
With the upcoming update, to make astronauts more "human" and less NPC, more effort is required to provide for them. Together with the already-existing needs, oxygen consumption and fulfilling comfort are added.
OXYGEN
Providing oxygen to the astronauts is now mandatory to make them able to live on the colony.
Without it, humans will simply lay down on the floor and notify need of assistance.
But no worry! You can share your own oxygen or build the oxygen barrier to rescue them.
Moreover, the barrier will now turn red if not enough oxygen tanks are provided.
COMFORT
As an additional need, it won't punish the player, but rather help to increase efficiency.
When the level of comfort is high, all other needs are consumed slower. Now astronauts are checking if there are enough decorations placed nearby.
Improvements
As always, every update brings more improvements overall:
1. Hearing many complaints, I decided that the starting hotkey layout has to be reworked, making it more similar to other established games.
- Q - construction menu
- Tab - Inventory
- H - hide hand / selection mode
2. UI elements got reworked with more round backgrounds and icons.
3. The interaction panel will appear hovering objects to let players know when unique interaction is possible.
2 years of Astro Colony on Steam
It's incredible how fast time flies by and how the game development is progressing.
The game since the Early Access launch has received over 260 patches and at least 5 major updates, such as:
- ARCHITECTURE - hundreds of architectural elements and themes to customize them
- PERFORMANCE - huge performance boost together with shader movement system for stations
- TERRAFORMING - animals and plants collected on planets, new environments in universes II, III, IV
- SANDBOX - new game modes giving freedom of construction
- MULTIPLAYER 3.0 - with more reliable experience and solutions for default engine problems
We are not stopping there! On the way to release 1.0 I foresee additional updates, as illustrated in the current roadmap.
Techtonica released
Our friends from Techtonica recently released their title!
It's a game about building factories and exploring voxel underground worlds.
Don' t forget to check it out as you like the genre!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/43157/Techtonica__Astro_Colony/
Please don't forget to join Our Discord community to let me know about your Astro Colony wishes ;)
Thank you for your support!
Tefel (Terad Games)