Feature-wise, progress for Kenshi has been trickling along slowly this past month or two, however we now finally have some screens of what our artists have been working on while the programmers fix bugs:
^ Another new creature, a giant frog from the swamplands area of the new world map, all modeled up but still in need of animating. Note that Swamp Frogs aren't yet released in game.
^ More mystery ruins for the New Lands
^ Scaffolds of a mining town on the border of the Tar Sands. (Eventually there will be buildings on the flat tops with bridges connecting the flat-topped islands of rock/ small settlements. The tarry canyon bottoms will be fog-filled, unconnected from the tops and poisonous. So far, this is all procedural)
And in our latest experimental update, Chris recently added the small feature of Mercenary Shops. You'll now be able to hire temporary mercs to defend your base - these are currently only in the Experimental build and you'll need to import to a new game for them to appear.
Changelogs
Now for the latest stability patches from over the last week. Remember to import to a new game with new updates:
0.74.25
- Possible fix for characters vanishing into the void
- Fixes for the auto-jobs AI getting stuck. If it still happens in any situations I will need someone to send me a savegame for it.
- Improvement to the "reset positions" import function that will recover missing squads
- Fix for when engineers stand idle as a result of an unreachable building
- A fix for the prospecting window
- A few more small things and stability fixes
- Fix for 32-bit mode not running
0.74.26 (Stable version)
- Walls now don't affect pathfinding until they are 20% built
- Another possible fix for characters vanishing into the void
- Some more auto-job AI fixes
- Re-enabled civilian NPCs
- More stability
- Fixed characters running on the spot when the navmesh updates
0.74.27
- AI fixes for the slave camp
- Another fix for "reset positions" not recovering all squads
- Fix for character movement overshooting the destination
- More small fixes for movement and AI
- Lights don't work until you finish building them
0.74.28
- 2nd AI fix for movement overshooting the destination
- Bugfix that was causing increased loading times at startup
- Small combat animation fix
- Dogs are less bitey, have more time between attacks
0.74.29 (Experimental opt-in version)
- Added a mercenary guild that can be hired to guard your base. Need to import a new game to see their shops appear in towns
- Fixed the "Day" always being 1 in some cases
- A fix for getting stuck in doors
- More stability improvements
Please keep sending in your crash dumps and bug reports, it's been a massive help so far, thank you to everyone!
CURRENT STATUS:
Updates will continue to focus on bug-fixing and stability for the near future, my goal is to get a reasonably stable version released before we carry on with major features.
For this period Steam updates will be frequent- every day or two-, and the "Stable" and "Experimental" versions of the game will be similar. Once a stable build is achieved I will release a new standalone installer for the non-Steam folks. Most of our work will depend on the awesome players who send in crashDump files and buggy save games.