I spent most of the week enjoying the great outdoors ("camping"), so there isn't a huge amount of development to report.
Looting the dead
You won't normally find such a huge graveyard, but I needed to illustrate the point...
When you find human remains there is now a chance that they will spawn useful equipment (or cold hard cash!). Just walk over them and see what happens, but try to be respectful about it, OK? That's one more reason to check out those former human settlements...
Spiders
Somehow, there were no spiders. For 8 years. There are now. And their attacks can sometimes trap you in webs, so look out!
New Shipwreck Images
I recently added images for the racial shipwrecks, and when David saw them he immediately set out to make better ones :D They're in there now, including new ones for mercs, narcratu, and sil.
If you particularly enjoy killing intelligent beings in video games, there's an officer skill dedicated to creating more intact shipwrecks. It's an operative skill, and it's called "Crippling Shot". The operative is a social-division class that isn't immediately available, but is easy to unlock by visiting an alien embassy.
Yendor Difficulty
I've been talking a lot lately about the "Amulet of Yendor" victory, and making it more difficult. I had another idea about how to do that, and I recorded my first live development stream about making it happen. Check it out on Twitch and get an inkling of what makes this thing whole thing tick.
And you know there are 8 other ways to win, right? Get out there are talk to those aliens!
Bugfixes
I was alerted to a few bugs on the Approaching Infinity Discord, and I handled them quickly:
- Fixed an out of bounds error in the new warp screen.
- Fixed the progress bar not going away in the map editor.
- Fixed racial offense carrying over from game to game (retribution strikes in sector 1!)
That's it for now. I'm going to spend the week further tidying up version 1.6 and getting ready for some really big things coming up... You know about some of them from the Starmap, but others should still be a surprise ;)
Steam Sale
ENJOY THE STEAM SUMMER SALE!