Behold the Ectoplant! The most effective way to collect ectoplasm in the known universe.
Resource collection for crystals is interesting because you have control over the process in a lot of ways. You can balance resource investment and time into drones or manual mining, and expand multiple bases, and seek out the gold crystals for extra.
However, collecting ectoplasm leaves you at the whim of the random drops from enemy. This weeks patch starts to address that by adding Ectoplants. You can go and find an ectoplant grove and collect them yourself. This gives you some control over dealing with ectoplasm if you're after a specific item or upgrade, and are will to trade time to go and collect it.
The resources also shuffle around a bit on the non-tutorial maps. This means each playthrough the location of crystals is a little different. This should help make things a bit more dynamic. As we add more maps and enlarge the current map, this will get more interesting.
On top of that, we just have a bunch of small fixes and performance tweaks. There's a lot of stuff we're working on in the background which we'll have for you soon too!
Changelist:
- added ectoplant
- added ectoplant groves to scene
- added resource randomizer
- balance economy pass to reduce ectoplasm
- reduce fighter drone move speed
- reduce fighter drone scan range
- reduce medic drone move speed
- increase macaroon shot rate
- fix viveport path issues
- fix friend drone spamming alerts
- fix friend drone crash
- fix friend bot particles issue
- fix medic drone particles stuck on
- fix assault drone moving into ground
- fix teleport sound
- disable some logging for performance
- disable single pass stereo rendering
- tutorial enemies now wait till you attack
- tutorial music play timing improved Report bugs or chat about the game here: FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/ Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o Stay funky!