New Game Mode - Endless
Endless mode is our latest game mode release, and a long awaited feature for many players. This game mode allows you to play Wastelander without turn limits, on a MASSIVE map and push your base building skills to the limit without being limited by the length of the game.
Create massive and intricate colonies over a large number of turns.
The goal in endless mode is to accumulate enough resources to activate the optional "Repair Ship" ability in order to escape the planet and survive!
Engineering Lab
For balance reasons, the Metallurgy Lab deployment does not exist in Endless Mode, and has been replaced with the Engineering Lab.
This will unlock the "Upgrade Storage" ability. This costly ability allows you to upgrade a basic storage building into it's deployment counterpart regardless of the underlying tile type. Use it wisely!
Performance improvements
Endless mode required us to overcome some major performance hurdles for the game. Due to the dramatically larger size of the Endless map we had to rewrite a lot of the engine. Creating games, loading games, idle FPS and click performance all got significant performance improvements in ALL game modes.
Miscellaneous
- Tectonic engine description stated that the effect had no radius cap. This was incorrect it was actually capped at 5 radius. For balance reasons we kept it this way and updated the description to match.
- Reduced the amount of scroll wheel steps required to go from max to min zoom.
- Improved loading menu to be more clear about progress and not lock up the process.
- General string and clarity improvements throughout the entire game.
This marks the final major planned feature for our Early Access goals. We'll be continuing to work on the game for the next several weeks and we'll likely release a series of polish and improvement patches, at which point we'll remove the Early Access state from Wastelander and decide what the next steps for development are at that point!
Thanks for your support and we'd love to hear your feedback on the new game mode!