The following update is released to the BETA BRANCH.
Instructions:
Right click the game in your library and select properties.
Then betas and then select BETA from the drop down menu.
New Features and Content Update 1.2.5
Hello and welcome to the first update of 2020. This update has quite a few changes to core systems as well as adding some extra goodies to general gameplay. Due to the core changes this update will remain in the beta branch for some time until I am happy that it can move to the default branch. May I suggest that you give the beta branch a try, your save games will work and continue to work once you switch back to the default branch.
New Screen Support
The game was designed to work on the standard 16:9 ratio monitors and as such has been an issue for those with 21:9 ratio ultra wide screen monitors since launch.
To this end I have created a new interface for the 21:9 ratio players.
On the right is the normal game play window for the game, however on the 21:9 screens you can see that I have relocated the Settlement statistics display to the left of the screen and the whole right hand side has been given over to the text update panel.
4:3 and other screen ratio monitors. I have made sure the game still plays in the 4:3 square monitor ratio and a new setting is available in the options menu: Force 16:9.
What Force 16:9 will do is make sure the default display is used no matter what monitor ratio you are using.
Monitor Hot Switching
For those with more than 1 monitor, in the options menu there will be a display of up to 3 monitors connected to your computer. You can click on these images and instantly move the game to which ever monitor you wish. The game will automatically re-scale the GUI and fonts for the new monitor even if in the middle of combat.
New Sound System
Due to a few historical sound issues and 1 recent sound issue, I have changed the code for the sound output. If you had an issue with game freezing due to sound before, please try this current release and give feedback on the issue.
New Content
The Thrasher
A new rare boss event has been added to The Spawn boss encounter. This event will not trigger until at least era 6 or unless you have increased the boss challenge rating.
Bosses, achievements and the Boss Hunter Book
All rare bosses have now been added to the Boss Hunter book, along with the shadow images of their equipment. New Steam Achievements have been added for all of the rare bosses and an extra one for 5 rare boss kills.
Monsters and Pets
- 3 new monsters have been added to the game as well as 3 new character pets.
- The new pets will allow you to have your very own barb spitting plants.
Hard and Challenging Difficulty Changes
On the higher difficulty levels some creatures can use special abilities not available to them on other difficulty settings. Some of these have been changed:
Growth and use Bandages: These actions are now restricted to enemies in the reserve rows and if used they will not be able to have an attack that turn.
Regeneration: This is a new ability given to some enemies. It will give them a chance each turn to heal some hit points. This ability is unaffected by the enemy combat position nor does it stop them from attacking.
Restricted Spawns
Changes have been made to the spawning system. Examples of this are the Sandmen. They will no longer be able to attack settlement 7 nor group in staging areas for this location. The reason for this is that the swamplands are the domain of the vampire and are avoided by the shapechanging sandmen.
Many other Changes
Many other changes have been made as listed below.
- Waiting monster numbers now update when spending diplomacy.
- New characters no longer have the chance to inherit dead character backgrounds.
- You are now stopped from spending diplomacy and coin once the gathering numbers of enemies have reached 0.
- Attack animations have been added to the Ice Worm Queen.
- Greater Ice worms can now appear in settlement 6 from era 9 onwards.
- New artwork and animations have been added for Greater Ice Worms.
- Changed the artwork for the ice worm lava.
- Scouts now have increased chances to find what they are looking for.
- The Cartographer skill has been given a boost to better assist scouting.
- Fixed an issue with the Boss Hunter book not showing the templates for items.
- The world map did not correctly update scout activity when sending scouts
- Cleaned up many various GUI niggles.