Hi all,
I'm back! Refreshed from my holiday break, I'm ready to plough the hours into Overcrowd and continue improving it as best I can. And yes, it was lovely, thanks ;)
First some news. While I was away I got an email (yeah I checked some) saying that Overcrowd has been nominated as Best Strategy Game 2019 in the highly respected TIGA Industry Awards. I'm pretty hyped about it - it's really amazing to get that recognition alongside some industry titans like Wargroove, Escapists 2 and the latest Total War. Wish me and Sarah luck on November 2nd!
But back to business. This beta branch update fixes a few 4k mode things and irons out a few niggles too. I'm just warming up to final big staff automation patch which I'll be doing this week and next before this beta goes live into the stable branch.
And just to let you know, translation in other languages is coming along nicely, and I'm still on track to go live in a host of languages soon.
If you want to help translate the game into your language, visit https://www.localizor.io/ where you can also earn coins and get free games for your linguistic efforts.
Beta testers - it would be nice especially to hear from any French or Italian users or any 4K users about the new language/scaling options being here.
Alpha 128:
-Cannot enable 4k (high DPI) scaling if your screen does not support high DPI
-Scroll bars only drawn in menus if required in 4k modes
-If game was set in 4k scaling mode but you close, set native res to low res and restart game, game detects that native resolution is too low and turns of 4k scaling mode
-4k scaling option is offered to first time player configure menu
-Allow goal completion and 5 star track completion in Zone 1
-Cannot call train with signal relay key press at nighttime
-Signal automater does not call trains while paused
-Fixed labelling explaining zooming when anti aliasing/downscale toggled
-Fixed a hard crash when toggling to full screen from windowed mode after increasing window size to greater minimum window size
-Game turns off "infinite money" if left set on after Sandbox mode if you subsequently play Commute of the Day
-Correctly saves and loads key acceleration settings between sessions