It’s time for an optional beta! This beta has some fixes for long-standing issues and, more excitingly, comes with 4 (!) new extra levels for testing and balance. Extra levels are fast to develop as most of them don't need extensive new systems and artwork; we can make one of these in just a few short hours but testing them for balance is another thing. They need some feedback!
We are looking for feedback on balance in the 4 new extra levels. You can leave them on our Discord, Steam forum, or official forums.
If you’d like to help out, we’d be very happy for you to give them a spin now! You’ll need to be a Windows 64 bit owner on Steam to join the beta.
PLEASE NOTE! Once the testing phase is over and this update goes live on the main branch, the new extra levels will be removed from the list again, and will reappear periodically after that (exact dates to be announced as the time approaches).
If you would like to join the beta, the code is givemeextraextra. If you don’t know how to join a beta and would like to, follow the instructions below:
- Find Empires of the Undergrowth in your Steam library, right-click on it and choose "Properties"
- Choose the "Betas" tab
- In the box titled "Enter beta access code to unlock private betas", enter givemeextraextra
- After the "Access code correct" information appears, make sure you've chosen "Open beta" from the "Select the beta you would like to opt into" drop-down menu
- Press close - the game will now update to the beta branch.
0.2222 Patch Notes
- New extra levels added to be rolled out monthly, but available in this beta for testing for a short time:
- Occupation - a wood ant level not unlike the campaign level New Home
- Cramped - a heavily infested leafcutter level with a surface, kill all enemies!
- The Culling - a black ant level with interesting enemy spawning mechanics
- Enemy of my Enemy - a unique game where digging is instant and done with the mouse; packs of enemies are hostile to each other. Get them to kill each other before they kill the queen!
- Fixed an issue where non-aggressive buried enemies were heading to the queen when dug out
- Fixed an issue where after a freeplay save one of the enemy colonies would become un-enterable
- Fixed an issue where ubers were linked to the wrong freeplay setup check boxes
- Fixed a pathing issue on The Crucible demo map
- Minor optimisations in plant climbing
- Changes to how AI colonies in freeplay decide which resources to harvest from
- Cheating freeplay colonies can now resurrect more than one dead group at a time if they have no resources and their ants in groups are all dead
EDIT: Has been brought up to version 0.22221 with a small patch.
0.22221 Patch Notes
- Fixed an issue preventing creature spawning and marker placement in Towhead
- Removed a UE4 cone shape from Cramped that shouldn't be there
- Removed campaign rewards and narration from The Culling ending
- Reverted some changes to resource targeting that were causing issues