Happy holidays everyone! Here’s the patch notes for the latest update to Alpha2 (0.3.1.9428)!
General
- The player character is no longer strapped into their seat tightly. They’ll lean into turns, jolt forward when braking and even fly out of their seat on large impacts. Safety first, kids!
- More basic Xbox One Controller support added. Now you can press B to repair, X to enter Build Mode, Y to enter/exit vehicle and A to activate the jets. MORE SPEEEEEEEED!
- The game now pauses when you press Escape!
- The fog on Sandbox Isle has cleared up!
- Some new hints!
- “A mess of updates” - From one of our designers, Asger.
- We updated to Unity 2017.3.0f2. Exciting!
- We updated the look of the water!
- Improved grammar on block descriptions!
- New Power Core Tutorial screen for new players!
- New dynamic force distribution! Larger structures should now react better than before when crashing, breaking and exploding.
- Some new ambient sounds when on Sandbox Island.
- The Bolt pickups are no longer called Stars in the UI. RIP Stars.
Multiplayer
- You can now play Sandbox Island in Multiplayer! No objectives or goals, just you and some friends building stuff and hanging out!
- Multiplayer has a bunch of new sounds related to events!
- Added even more pretty UI elements.
Expedition
- More ball puzzles!
- Ball Puzzle Goal has a new texture.
- Added a lot of pretty billboards at the start point.
- New ramp added allowing you to travel back to Jump Island from Wind Island.
Blocks
- We made some changes (not a nerf!) to wings, propellers and general lift physics. In short, you’ll need more speed to get airborne. Let us know what you think!
- (Changed) Propeller - It spins properly!
- Blocks now have LOD! Exciting!
- (Changed) Wheels - New wheel damping logic.
Builder
- We removed the collider which prevented you from moving the camera underneath your vehicles when building!
- Builder UI has some new, improved icons!
- You can now directly input a speed number rather than use the slider!
Performance
- We’ve added and tweaked our LOD set in numerous places to help performance.
Bug Fixes
- Applied colliders to rocks and other things around the world.
- Fixed the King not dropping his crown upon death.
- Fixed the planet on the loading screen.
- Fixes to some of the earlier Ball Puzzles.
- Suspension Block is now displayed correctly.
- Better seat distance detection when trying to enter a seat.
- Fixed hinges not removing their joints upon being scrapped.
- Fixed one of the jumps on Jump Island.
- Some of the Quit to Main Menu errors have been banished. Some escaped.
- The stat screen that appears between Islands doesn’t display anymore when in Sandbox Mode.
- Fixed an issue in which the game would hang when trying to connect to a server that no longer existed.
- (Hopefully) fixed the crash which happened when Quitting the game.