This weeks's update unlocks the final form of the Mechalodon. Everyone's relentless slaughter of the innocent sea creature has (hopefully) helped iron out the last of its issues and its back with a vengeance.
The seafaring kaiju has picked up some new tricks over the week but primarily a fleshed out reward system. Destroying any of the Mechalodon's vitals now provides a resources reward to every attacking crew and a new quest series can be completed to unlock cosmetics and a unique pontoon.
Other changes clean up miscellaneous bugs, further improve airship rendering performance, and rein in the indomitable pressure wells with a damage-causes-drain mechanic.
Join us on Discord for public playtests Friday at 12pm ET, Saturday at 3pm ET, and Monday at 7pm ET.
1.12.8
Major Features
- The Mechalodon gives a resource reward for every part destroyed before its destruction rather than a single reward at destruction. The reward also contains resources other than Arcenite depending on the part destroyed.
- Added new cosmetic rewards for Mechalodon related challenges.
- Added the domestic Mechalodon, a reward for completing the Mechalodon Mastery quest.
- Performance improvements for rendering airships.
Minor Features
- The Mechalodon corpse will despawn after 2 minutes.
- Removed the glowing barrel effect on fixed cannons. This caused performance issues.
- The angular velocity cap scales down with mass.
- Improved drone laser visuals.
- Swapped the Mechalodon drone for a new unique variant. This version has higher damage output, is more durable, and features a large critical spot on its back.
- Increased Mechalodon lance damage.
- Increased the amount of parts the Mechalodon can hit with its nose ram.
- Some of the Mechalodon drones will target nearby players.
- Reduced vertical axis drag torque cause by buoyancy parts in water.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed drones not arcing out of deploying.
- Fixed dying while mining nitranite causing instant recoil on the next weapon swing.
- Fixed dead body parts spawning at high speeds.
- Fixed the Mechalodon sometimes ramming its own parts.