What's New

Player viruses

• Three types of viruses with different effects (spoiler info will be added to Discord)

• Viruses are unlocked after a certain number of divisions

• The chance of outbreaks increases the more clones you produce

• Player viruses can be transmitted between the player and clones

  • Some are transmitted by proximity and others require contact with shed virus particles

• Viruses can be cured by interacting the new ciliate, Halteria

• All viruses have a post-cure immunity period which is indicated by a status effect icon on the bottom right of the screen

Halteria

• A new ciliate that eats viruses, inspired by Halteria in real life

• Appears when there is a virus outbreak and leaves when the outbreak is over

• Eats drifting virus particles and cleans them from infected cells

• Divides from eating viruses; many Halteria indicate a severe outbreak

• If you are infected with a virus, you can be cured by touching Halteria’s mouth

• Touching the long bristles will cause Halteria to panic and flee

End scene animations

• The end screen now plays a special animation for each type of death (virus death not added yet)

In-game hints, popups, and tutorial overhaul

• Added small text popups at the player’s location for events like double growth, +speed boost, etc.

  • This replaces the old text (eg you’ve been poisoned) at the top of the screen

• In-game tutorial mostly removed now that there is a separate tutorial

• Added text and visual effects to frenzy event

• Added text label to boost indicator icon

Improvements and Bug Fixes:

• Significant improvements to the nutrient cloud system

  • Changed how bacteria are produced so nutrient clouds are more effective without performance issues

  • Bacteria from nutrient clouds no longer respond to Colpoda feeding pull or count toward their division progress

• Colpoda virus is significantly more contagious

• Fixed Colpoda infected status not being reset on pooling, causing them to become immune to viral infections later in the game

• Stylo food vacuoles are more visible and properly synced with its digestion

• Stylo now eats bacteria opportunistically

• Fixed hunger status affecting player scale during frenzy event

• Fixed biofilm bacteria sometimes piling up excessively

• Container clusters now wiggle to make them more noticeable

• Reduced container cluster spawn rate

• Container loot bacteria are now worth 2 growth but spawn fewer per cluster

• Fixed some issues with audio stacking during rapid events

• Changed tips reset button in settings to avoid confusion with tutorial

• Save button is now hidden on the audio panel since it is not needed there

• Fixed boost indicator animation stacking when many boost bacteria were eaten close together, causing scaling issues