300 wishlists!
After 5.5 months of development, I gained 300 wishlists. Thanks to all wishlisters! A rather large portion of that came during the last 5 days when I released a new trailer, so check that out!
There's also a new updated gameplay video:
Sadly, I also got a cold and couldn't work for a few days so there aren't as many updates as I'd like there to be...
Changes:
Robots
I refined the health system. Previously, there were 4 different components, each with their own health, which was too UI-heavy and complex. Wasn't happy at all so I went back to a simple 1-Health-bar system. The subsystems still exist and can be damaged. But instead of a separate health bar they are now simply damaged or not.
Job queue now allows to delete and reorder existing jobs.
Energy Refill can be individually set for each robot. Changes of these settings create a job, that needs to be performed by a crew member before becoming active.
Crew Management
Eating and sleeping were set at the start of the day, which wasn't a good idea as it takes away too much control. Now, you can send each character to sleep or to eat separately.
Added a few more traits:
Generator specialist: 10% bonus generator output when assigned to the generator station
Robot Engineer: 15% faster on performing jobs in the robot bay
Combat
Changed the ranged monster to a different model since I didn't like this weird scorpion...
New monster designs (only partly implemented):
2nd ranged monster that buffs surrounding monsters (screenshot)
Artillery monster (maybe?)
Defender ability: Shield Reload
Ammunition system:
Manual reload ability
Automatic reload when ammo is depleted
Changed the vision drone (removes Fog of War) to a stationary scanner with a fancy animation (screenshot)
Next steps:
My main goal now is to finally have an alpha build, which (SURPRISINGLY!) takes a long time, if I keep adding new stuff to the game.
Therefore, I will add the most important functionalities, which include:
Research
Basic Main menu
Main goal (Basic story of the game)