Hi everyone!
Here we go with update #4. As with the previous 3 updates since launch, this update is a patch that brings lots of bug fixes and a few key features.
Most importantly, we've improved plasma turrets to make their shots far more effective, added an in-game achievement browser (shown above), fixed localization issues, and added several features to make alert notifications less annoying.
We've also overhauled the icons in the campaign mission list that show the difficulty at which you completed the mission:
However, we're simultaneously working toward Content Drop 1, which will add several new buildings to the game.
We're dying to announce it! Stay tuned ... we expect Content Drop 1 sometime in the next 3-6 weeks.
We're also hard at work with our partners at Team17 to give you a roadmap that will shed some light on what we're planning over the next few months that will incorporate all your feedback to make Aven Colony even better.
Changes in this update:
- Added an achievement browser off the main menu. Although Steam shows which achievements you've completed, this browser allows you to see your progress toward completing any achievement -- and also shows off the shiny gold achievement medals we created for PS4 and Xbox One!
- Tons of fixes to localized text and UI
- Major improvements to plasma turret shots: shots are now faster, have larger collision spheres, and have better logic to help them hit creep spores and plague spores
- Re-added the "defeat" stinger music that's supposed to play when you lose the game and the defeat splash pops up
- Vastly improved the art for the mission completion badges in the campaign mission list; also added tooltips for these
- Alert notifications now beep much less often: they now must wait a minimum of 40 seconds (of real-time) between playing alert beeps for subsequent notifications of the same type
- Added a "mute" button to the upper-right corner of all notifications that can automatically pop up. If you get annoyed by a notification popping up too often, just mute the notification and all subsequent notifications of that type will no longer pop up automatically
- Fixed a bug where placing multiple buildings using the SHIFT key wouldn't show radii for buildings that completed construction during placement (lightning towers, drone stations, plasma turrets)
- Plague spore microbes: fixed a logic flaw that often prevented microbes from turning left/right in tunnels when they should have been able to, which prevented them from spreading as far through a colony as intended
- Clicking on a citizen's portrait in the selection pane will now center the camera on them
- Added a bit of disclaimer text to Vanaar and Sandy Gulch to make clear that they're easier than subsequent missions
- The nanite indicator tooltip now states when you're manufacturing Consumer Goods. Users sometimes get confused or discouraged by the consistent nanite drain that Consumer Goods manufacturing can cause; this should help make clearer what's happening and what you need to do to fix it
Thank you for being part of the Aven Colony community and helping us continually make Aven Colony even better.
-Paul