This is a major milestone for Rodina – our first NPCs! Continue the game’s storyline in order to create Baby Automaton Bots and bring your ship to life! Bots will wander around your ship and look at the various contraptions, saying their names in Robot-ese. They can follow you around. And each one has their own unique brightly colored, animated, and only slightly creepy eyes!
This update also comes with Mod Support. After playing the game once, a “Mods” folder will be created, into which you can drop new Mod directories. The files in the Mod folders will be loaded when the game starts, and can override game files in some cases. Now there’s no need to manually overwrite files to install mods!
Here's the changelist from the readme:
**** RODINA 1.2.0 ****
* Story Update: New messages and story elements, picking up at the end of the original story
* New Feature: NPCs. Includes Vision Sensor, Eye Shader, and Procedural Voices
* New Feature: Mod Support
* New Feature: Run Toggle
* New Feature: "Limnal Assist" particles while in Cruise Mode show you when your ship is getting a speed boost in deep space
* Improvement: Enemy ships no longer respawn
* Improvement: Player position added to Scanners
* Improvement: Many story/UI polishes, inluding flashing UI Icons for target entities, and more tutorial elements
* Improvement: Major internal physics refactor
* Improvement: Scripts loaded automatically (without LoadScripts file). Errors generated when compiler finds broken dependencies.
* Improvement: Texture generation scripts refactored and much simpler now.
* Improvement: Added "Convex" and "Mesh" physics types for entities (not tested extensively)
* Bugfix: Gameplay script context was not being garbage collected, leading to hitches
* Bugfix: Fixed vehicle formation movements in non-highprocess, causing crazy distant ship movements