When we released Heaven's Vault we thought people might play through the game once, maybe twice to see how the story changes itself around what you do.
... But players are dedicated. Really dedicated. And many are on their sixth or seventh play-through - and our language system is giving them translations to crack that are seriously long.
So today we've released an update specifically to make long translations more fun to play. That means two small changes with big impacts:
- You can now exit an incomplete translation at any time (no more fussing with little words)
- Aliya no longer removes guesses from long, unfinished translations before using them in the story
... together, this means even when you're translating something much longer than you can crack, it should feed back into the story in more interesting ways.
We've also expanded the dictionary. ("Increased the level cap".)
Also new in this version:
- confirmation before leaving a moon by walking back to the ship (no more falling off Elboreth by accident)
- a significant find for plot-minded people
- ... and we've taught a Certain Royal Person a lot more mean words. Enjoy, wretch.
(There's the useful round of typos and fixes; thanks to everyone who reported them.)
The distant past awaits!