Hello Everyone,
less than two weeks ago, we released Rainbow Reactor Version 0.43 – which is now further improved and upgraded to Version 0.44 :lunar2019grinningpig:
Don't let these small numbers fool you, we really packed in quite a bit of important new things, tweaks and fixes. To recap, the last update brought the new game modes "Single Shift" and "Party", which enable you to make your own rules by means of modifiers, and really duke it out for the ultimate score – either online, by competing in 9 separate score tables for each “Shift”, or locally with friends who can use a keyboard to enter their names into a local score table. On a side note; don't forget to enter their names before they play, and make sure the Rainbow Reactor window is active, so you can use the space bar to type their name.
We made some little enhancements and added fixes to these modes, but the main news in 0.44 are the revamped game options. For the first time, we introduced a new language for our Rainbow Robot's voice over. Soy9000 Model “Dietrich” is making his debut as a German speaking HoverBot. Hopefully we'll be able to activate some of his colleagues for more languages. If you want to help us out by translating or even voice-acting in your native language, please do contact us!
Another big step is the introduction of different settings for the overall graphics quality. As a super small team of newcomers, we didn't want to fulfil that cliché of releasing a no-budget-game with ugly stock graphics and instead poured a lot of effort into the visuals of our Rainbow Factory, which has been improved by lots of new moving parts in this update. However, being n00bs in a way, we overdid it apparently. Some of you complained that the throwing mechanics feel laggy or even buggy for them, and that shouldn't be the case – as we spent ages fine-tuning these. So the culprit seems to be our somewhat heavy polycount in conjunction with expensive anti-aliasing and lighting settings. IF you encounter any weirdness in throwing, like balls dropping like stones, then this is caused by performance issues. In that case, please try gradually lowering your graphics setting and/or “GFX RES.” (resolution) parameters, or work your way up from “low” to find out what works best on your system. However, we didn't leave it at that, but also spent a huge effort optimising our CG models, stripping away up to half of the polygons, which brings a noticeable performance boost, even on “High” settings ːsteamhappyː
If you want to see all of these new feaures in motion, have a look at the "Quick Look" video we added to the Store Page. That same video can be found on Youtube with subtitles in English and German: https://youtu.be/qHQFPdUS-o8
And here's the full list of Patch notes:
RAINBOW REACTOR VERSION 0.44 / 0.43
///PATCH NOTES
- achieved huge performance boost through graphics optimisation
- added three graphics quality setings: “LOW”, “MED” and “HIGH”
- added German Voice Acting
- added animations to the Factory and our HoverBot
- several bug fixes & fine-tuning of scoring system
- added new game mode "Single Shift" with Modifiers
- added 9 individual Highscore Lists for "Single Shift"
- added new game mode "Party"
- added a localized Highscore List for "Party"
- added new options:
- ability to change the volume of Robot's voice
- ability to rotate hands by 90°
- added "News":
- messages from the Rainbow Reactor's management will be shown here
- minor improvements to sound effects
So, we hope all of these additions will make Rainbow Reactor even more accessible and fun – as always, let's hear your thoughts in the discussion section where we prepared some threads for General Discussions, Bug Reports and Feature Requests. If you like what we're doing, don't forget to write a Steam Review :lunar2019coolpig:
Lastly, if you don't own Rainbow Reactor yet or want to get your friends on board, we have a discount coming up later in the day – keep your eyes peeled! :quid: