Hi Galactic Survivalists!
Today, while the developers are heavily at work with the galaxy generation, NPC dialogues and such, we will talk about some of the more global content and convenience updates.
Global Updates
- Lots of POI updates, that should have made it to A11 already, like dust and snow versions, fixes on signals and triggers etc pp.
- Multitool: now works with UNDO in Creative mode
- Projectors can have a background layer
- Removed Alien01 and Spiders from starter areas (Crashsite and starter area)
Feature Updates
- Inventory Sorting (alphabetically, item type, food points, mass and volume)
- Increased Stacksize (up to 4000 per stack; Stacksizes are derived from item mass)
- Player Turrets can now be used on any NPC Faction POI (without having to cheat in ammo and ammo boxes!)
(Sorting Options)
There are of course more interesting changes coming with Alpha 12, for example the new SPACE POI DEFENSE mode: Meet the renewed Polaris and Zirax Patrol Vessels, called in as reinforcements when you attack their orbital POI. We plan to do an own dev blog on this topic anytime soon.
(Zirax Destroyer)
On the ground Base Attacks, the Talon got a new building, the Talon Ziggurat, which will serve as a headquarter or ‘end boss' which, when beaten, will stop any planetary Base Attack from that NPC faction. The end of the Base Attacks is also now tied to a so-called ‘headquarter setting’ which any playfield designer can individually set to any POI. For example you do not need to use the Dronebase as a BA Attack-Stop for Zirax anymore, if you do not want to.
(Talon Ziggurat)
More content updates include:
- Reworks are planned for other devices as well (Armor Stations, Warp Tanks etc; feel free to make other suggestions in the comments!)
- We plan to rework the Alien Turrets and give them a consistent design appeal, f.ex for the Zirax
- All-new Energy Turret for the (planned) Legacy Faction ships and POI
- Adding Heavy Blast Doors (two sizes for now)
We’ll of course release more screenshots on the model and blueprints as soon as they near their completion.
(Blast Doors, Size 1 and 2)
(SV and HV O2 Station and Armor Locker)
What‘s on your wish-list in terms of this blog posts context, model updates and alike? ;)
Cheers,
Empyrion Dev Team
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