Greetings Captains
I am deploying the Achievements-And-Fixes-And-Bugs-Oh-My update onto the beta branch of Steam (also called 0.8.2.16). Not only does it fix a huge number of bugs and provide a lot more onscreen help but Undercrewed now has Steam Achievements!
For those that want to get a preview you can download the Beta version of Undercrewed by right clicking the game in your Library> Properties… > Betas > Code: cooltestpilot
Once I know it works fine I will make it available to everyone on live in a week or two.
Steam Achievements
I’m super excited to have Steam achievements now, this is just the first batch and I will add more in the future once I’ve got a gauge of how easy/hard they are.
You can see the achievements here, can you guess where the quotes are from?
I’m tracking a whole bunch of things I think might be used for achievements in the future so you won’t lose out by playing now.
Developer Console
While I have had a developer console in the game for a long time (press ` to open it), I haven’t had any guides or explanation of what it can do. So I’ve posted a small article with some examples of how you can use it.
Bugs and Fixes
With every version of Undercrewed I deploy I always think it has the most bug fixes in it, well this one might actually have the most (if not the most maybe it has the most visible ones).
I’ve fixed a few rare but game breaking bugs and knocked out some that had been on my todo list for far too long.
Most substantial bugs:
- Captain_Richard bug: You can get 5+ people in a lobby when two people play on the same computer
- Hakimodo bug: When playing online its possible for the obj_elonsium_defender to get stuck
- Faces on the win/lose screen could sometimes be wrong colour
- Sound effect now plays when local players join the lobby
- Rare crash in networking when you get gameover
- Going back to the main menu sometimes (read: always) would forget what players were playing
- Loads of the new levels don't have the popup that says what their score is so far
- On the menu I now count number of crew rather than number of players, this was sometimes causing things to get out of align. (and some other bugs todo with this)
- Sine wave gun has bigger shots so they are easier to see
Features
- After a match there are new accomplishments that it will monitor and tell you who did the best
- Enemies are far less likely to pathfind under your ship
- Sounds alert / animation when the ship energy / hull is low
- Some more / better help on the first level
- Outline for things on your ship
- On main menu some particles when new player joins
- Very very minor improvements to how data is saved that might improve load times?
- New sounds for some rooms (those rooms might not even be available
- New / better information about how bots work on menu
- You now select if you want bots on or not from the main menu
- Made the first level a little shorter to speed things up a little
- When you pause with a gamepad the cursor is right over the main menu button so it looks like that is the default button
- Rail gun now uses energy
- If an enemy dies when off the screen warp them closer so the debris floats onto the screen
- Popup message when there are more than 5 people in a party
You can see a full list of all the changes on Trello: https://trello.com/b/pBixGPBN/undercrewed
Lots of love
> David Strachan