Hey Drifters,
First of all: Thank you all so much for all the positive words and feedback!
It's been an amazing first month of launch, and the kind words have meant the world to us. We're super glad to see people play and enjoy the game! Currently, we're hard at work crushing all possible bugs (which remains our top priority). In the meantime, we'll be rolling out a series of small Quality-of-Life updates based directly on player requests :)
And this is the first of those updates! A small little update focused on Storages, Resource Management and Readability.
We've added some functionality to Storages. You can now Copy & Paste filter settings between them, filter resources per type for faster setup, and turn the storage filters to allow all resources ON or OFF by default in the Gameplay Settings. And for all of you loot goblins, we've also added a 'Huge Storage Yard' that can store up to 300 resources!
As towns growing bigger and bigger, some visuals that were created in early development became harder to read at a glance. Therefore we'll be applying some visual improvements to increase general readability. We've reworked all Storage Yard Visuals as these were often too detailed if filled with items. Additionally, we've tackled a few more buildings and walkways and will be increasing readability gradually over various Quality of Life updates.
Lastly, we've improved the pathfinding so drifters find more optimal routes, and added new world tiles to increase region variety and reduce some of the randomness of rare regions.
What's next?
Our top priority remains crushing bugs, and improving the UX and UI. More information about development will be shared soon.
This patch is still in development and can be tested on the experimental branch to give feedback.
This is how you can enable the experimental branch of Flotsam. This will only work when you're not in a game:
1. Open Steam Library
2. Right click Flotsam
3. Select Properties
4. Go to tab 'Betas' at the top.
5. Select 'Experimental' in the drop-down.
1.0.1e1: QoL Storages
We’ll be rolling out several small Quality-of-Life updates over the coming weeks based on player feedback! This quality of life update focuses on Storages, Resource Management and Readability.
Storages and Inventory
Storage filters can now be copy/pasted between Storage Yards.
The HUD inventory width is now based on the UI resolution, and the default width has been slightly increased. This was inspired by a mod from NarstyOtter, thank you!
New Building: Huge Storage Yard. This can hold up to 300 resources.
Added Gameplay Setting to toggle whether general storage filters are all enabled/disabled by default when placing a new storage.
Medium Storage's capacity has been reduced to 40 to better align with other storages. Previously built storages are not be affected, and will still have the old visual.
Adjusted resource costs for storages.
Animal Chow is no longer a resource type. All Animal Chow is now 'refined'. Additionally, cleaned up some inconsistencies in resource types.
Pathfinding
Improved drifter pathfinding. They will now find more optimal routes.
Improved pathfinding performance.
Fixed issue where pathfinder would not find an optimal path due to previously made optimizations.
Readability
As new towns grow bigger and bigger, some visuals can become difficult to read from a distance. We'll be rolling out some visual improvements to increase general readability.
Visually reworked Small, Medium and Large Storage.
Improved readability of various resource visuals.
Fixed faulty LODs causing some resource visuals to disappear when zoomed out.
Improved readability for Plastic Walkways, Ropecrafter, Plastic Recycler and Sawmill.
World
Added additional world tiles to increase region variety and reduce randomness of rare regions.