It’s that beautiful time of the month once more! The Universim is even more glorious and filled with life than ever, thanks to our latest and greatest patch, Beast Hunter.
In this patch, we are finally releasing the Hunting System. However, we ask that you keep in mind that it is not fully implemented yet. There will be quite a bit more to add and tweak as we go. The foundation is all here, though, which allows you to construct the Hunters Hut and place a few traps around. Let’s see what prey your hungry, barbaric Nuggets can scrounge up. This new system can be a true gift for the early portions of the game. Food for everyone!
The next step from here is to add animal retaliation. Right now, animals are passive and will not attack back. In the near future, animals will be able to analyse the situation and see if their best chance of survival is to run or fight back. There will also be random animal attacks on the village, which will require the construction of Guard Towers to keep the area safe.
We are also rolling out video tutorials with a beautiful voiceover that may just blow your socks off. At the moment, the tutorial will start playing when you open the Creator Power panel for the first time. We will continue adding tutorials similar to this across the entire game. Let us know what you think! Here, check it out: Here
We’ve got other great goodies, too!
Iron Mine
Welcome to the Iron Mine. Collect your pickaxe and report to the nearest rock for further instructions. While Iron is certainly a magnificent find for your civilization, you’re going to have a hard time finding ways to use it at the moment. You can mine as much as you like, but the main system is still on its way. It will be used to far greater extent in our upcoming patch V0.0.25. That’s when we start rolling out the updated residential buildings.
Fire and Wind
What a destructive combo! The scary new system is here. Fire can start at any time, whether it’s from a lightning strike or extreme heat in certain climates. Based on the speed and direction of the wind, the fire will spread and incinerate anything in its path, including your unfortunate civilization. If only there was a god out there who could put an end to this madness! Like, drop a rain cloud overhead or change the direction of the wind. That would be great.
Remember that trees are directly tied to the global climate and oxygen levels. Fewer trees means less clean air and higher temperatures. Save the trees!
Performance tweaks and optimizations
We’ve also done some rather fiery technical optimizations as well. We now perform object culling a little better and improved some of the materials (3d model skins) to increase performance. That said, it is very experimental, so we really need your opinions on whether or not the performance has improved. Let us know how you feel about general performance and how it stacks up to other games.
Our biggest performance hog isn’t necessarily related to graphics. There are hundreds of simulations occurring in the game every second. Some you can see, others are a little more in the backend. For example, rain increases the amount of fish and water in the water bodies on the planet. It also grows fruit on bushes and can extinguish fires. All of these systems added together are very complex. Our team is constantly trying new things to improve every aspect of the game. Be sure to let us know what you think of systems and performance after every patch.
Another thing that we’re changed in this patch is the layout of the patch notes as you can see. Instead of categorizing everything based on features, we highlighted each individual developer’s work to show how much they do. We know that the game’s progress may look a bit slower than expected, but it honestly never feels slow to us. There is an insane amount of work going on. Considering our size, we are extremely proud of the progress we have made. We are getting close to our 4th year of development, and we can easily say that 80-90% of core systems are implemented.
The project was built from the ground up, with no existing assets being available to help us out. The team has done a phenomenal job of getting the game to where it is now. We are also constantly redesigning systems to ensure they are top-quality, based on the excellent feedback you provide. With your help, the game has improved tenfold. However, this is a very decisive year for The Universim. We are going live on Steam this year, which is enormously exciting considering we’ve hit over 250,000 wishlists. This has put a great burden on us to get things as smooth as possible. We have a huge responsibility to both you and future fans. We absolutely cannot let you all down. We want to exceed your expectations, but it’s never an easy road. We are extremely honored to have a community like yourselves. We love you and appreciate all of the support and positive comments you provide.
We have also been hard at work with our amazing community on the translation of The Universim into more languages. In only a few days, The Universim has already been translated into German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, French, and Russian. To test the waters, we are rolling out Russian language support in this patch. More languages will be added in our next patch. You can check out the progress and help translate the game into other languages here. If you’re a native speaker, we’re looking for great proofreaders to ensure that the translations are A+ material. The most active translators will be added to the game's credits! Thank you to everyone who's helped out so far. You're incredible!
Мы рады сообщить о том, что мы добавили Русский язык в игру. Вы можете переключить язык в Options. На данный момент перевод не является конечным и вы можете встретить ошибки, поэтому он будет всегда дорабатываться. Если вы найдёте неточность или ошибки, вы можете сообщить о них на форуме. Спасибо за вашу поддержку.
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