UPDATE NOW AVAILABLE!
Greetings, Space Corps Operatives!
Beyond Contact Version 1.0.3 is now available!
This includes the highly requested mass deconstruction of your shelters, better weapon tooltips, construction time on buildings, and more!
Highlighted Changes:
- Added the ability to mass-deconstruct an entire room of a Shelter / Habitat at once (alt + right-click by default)
- Improved the tooltips of Thermo Bulbs and Oxygenators to help identify invalid Shelters / Habitats
- Added a short construction time to buildings
- Weapon tooltips now show primary and secondary attack key bindings
- Players can now change most settings on their existing save files
- Added new temperature screen effects - colours will now shift towards colder or warmer hues based on the player’s temperature
Other Changes:
- The Void Nexus can now be scanned and inspected
- The Brachylon Trader button now says Buy and Sell instead of Trade
- Renamed Basic Walls and Doors to Basic Fences and Gates to reduce confusion
- Added a new visual effect for when Kangah dies and is revived by his skill, ‘Kangah Cannot Lose’
- Updated building placement sounds to match the new construction behaviour
- Updated sounds for the Plasma Welder
- Added new ‘mission accepted’ sounds
- Added background music when talking to the Admiral near the end of the game
- Added creature alert sounds
- Improved urchin combat music
- Improved weapon sounds
- Made Void Rift audio more menacing
- Updated the smoke and spark textures for the Void Nexus Stabiliser
- Recent players are now displayed on Steam
- Added a visual fuel indicator to the exterior of the Geothermal Generator structure
- The current research is now displayed in the Research HUD button’s tooltip
- Void Seeds now generate a small damage pulse while under construction
Fixes:
- Fixed various spelling and grammatical errors
- Fixed the ‘No Research In Progress’ indicator remaining visible after all research had been completed
- Fixed inconsistent key binding order for the movement and camera options
- Fixed some map inconsistencies in the Wildlands biome
- Tooltips will now refresh their text when changing languages
- The Data Laboratory can no longer accept unscanned items
- The Oven’s output slot size now matches its input slot size
- Fixed Metal Sheeting being able to stack up to 40 in the player’s inventory but only to 20 in a Storage Locker or Storage Vault
- Removed C.A.R.L.’s ‘scan more’ reminders
- Clicking anywhere to close an inventory will no longer cause an attack action to be executed
- The Credits reward text no longer overlaps the XP text when acquired at the same time
- Fixed the Corapod hit sound effect not playing correctly
- Fixed an issue where a death event would be processed when Kangah was revived by his skill, ‘Kangah Cannot Lose’
- Fixed an issue where talking to Clawtooth could incorrectly progress the story and prevent some objectives from being completed
- Fixed the name of the Captured Shock Sprite
- Fixed missing mouse-over audio for the ‘Free the Forge Cores’ objective
- Added a backup claim button for completed Daily Missions
- Fixed an issue where Kangah’s body would contort sideways when taking hazard damage while running
- The Forge Heart no longer points to artefacts stored inside the player’s backpack
- Fixed a crash caused by placing the Forge Heart in a Storage Locker or Storage Vault
- Fixed an issue where raiders sometimes stopped attacking during a raid
- Fixed some textures and pathing issues in the Lava Magma Flow and Lava Steam Vents biomes
- Teleportation now occurs on release of the left mouse button instead of on press to prevent accidental teleports when dragging the map
- Fixed an issue where players were unable to progress objectives involving Cence if another player started and completed earlier parts of the Octomian storyline
- Fixed a few crashes caused by inventory transactions and map updates
- Fixed an issue where the Lush and Bountiful Kepple plants did not display their names on the map
Balance Changes:
- The First Aid Kit now heals 100 instead of 55
- The First Aid Kit now requires ×1 Shock Sprite Gel instead of ×3
- Increased the maximum stack size of Organic Data, Mineral Data and Crystal Data from 100 to 9,999
- Increased the initial Obelisk detection range so that players can more easily find Obelisks earlier in the game
- Increased the incoming Corrupted Defender warning time from 1s to 1.5s. This also applies to the reinforcement waves that defend void structures.
On behalf of the United Worlds Congress, we sincerely thank you for your continued patience and support.
From all of us at Playcorp 💙 and PLAION. 💚
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