Wow, we've had a lot of players in the beta this past week! Thanks to you we've been able to zero in on a lot of bugs and usability issues. This patch addresses a lot of 'em.
Fossil Hunters Patch Notes
Beta Version 2017-12-15
Shops are back!
- Buy all the Lamps, Supports, Bridges and Bombs you can afford
- Unlock shops by finding the hidden people in the mines
Final Levels Progress
- The final levels are well underway, if you can manage to get that far, you're in for a treat!
- Multi-Schematic doors should function properly now
Fossil Improvements
- Small fossils now rotate to a more useful angle when you pick them up
- Adjusted the colliders & connection points of many fossils to make them fit together better
Improvements for Mac Users
- Lava now renders properly
- OSX Metal support has been disabled, the game now renders in OpenGL (Surprisingly, OpenGL appears to be running faster than Metal was on our machines)
- More Macs are now supported
Controller Specific Action Prompts
- Most interactable objects have action prompts on them now
- The button graphic should match your current input device; right now Keyboard, Xbox, and PS4 controllers are supported.
Dialog System Improvements
- Dialog windows should work much better now; we fixed a number of animation glitches and wierd alignment issues.
Various Bug Fixes & Tweaks
- On first launch, game should set itself to max resolution
- New intro screen more clearly introduces newcomers
- Fixed a tent that blocked the camera in the lab
- Fixed an issue with the level patcher that in some cases could make the game not launch
- Fixed colliders and dialog triggers on the hidden people throughout the mines
- Fixed an issue where a player that quit while their controller was rumbling would cause endless rumble
- Lamps now have a brighter ambient light
- Backer Plaques in the final levels will no longer rotate to talk to you (though that was kind of cute)
- Fixed the gold pickup material, and improved it's magnet-pickup behaviour
- Fixed issues in the Start Screen that prevented users from no save-data from playing
- Fixed issues with default save-data preventing users from selecting a player
- Performed our first big pass of Texture compression; Fossil Hunters installation is about 200mb smaller now!