It is just four days until we release in Steam Early Access! Make sure you have added the game to your Steam Wishlist!
We already have an amazing community of players who have joined us during the last couple of years in development and are looking forward to growing that number with those of you who are purchasing the game via Steam.
We have a more detailed Dev blog which goes through the process of display names and transferring to a Steam Account. If you a re a Founder, you can read more about that by clicking the link below.
The Vanguard Edition
We had stopped selling the Founders Edition from our website in preparation for our imminent Steam launch. Players who purchase the game after October 9th will become Vanguards (until the next stage of development). Founders will keep their Founder title within game but will also receive the unique crafting recipes from the Vanguard edition.
Those crafting recipes are:
The Vanguard Lamp Post
Light the way and provide another layer of visual flair to your buildings
The Vanguard Statue
A special statue which is a cardboard recreation of the Vanguard ship in Robocraft.
Check them out below:
Those of you who would like to see what ship this was inspired from, we have an image below of the Vanguard ship within Robocraft.
When the game launches on October 9th, we will welcome the Vanguards with open arms! We know you're going to make some incredible things.
The Official CardLife Wiki
We partnered up with Gamepedia to create the official CardLife Wiki. There are already 329 pages so far and we need your help to improve upon it! Visit the Wiki now, contribute and we will be giving out prizes to the top contributors after the first month.
https://cardlife.gamepedia.com/CardLife_Wiki
Planned Server Maintenance and Server Reset
In order to prepare for our Steam release we are preparing our servers to be down for maintenance at some time on Monday, 8th October. During this time we will be resetting the servers, which unfortunately means that any building that you have created will be removed, terrain will be reset and any items in your inventory will also be removed.
We are hoping that this will be the last time that we will reset the servers. However there may be a time in the future when a technical issue may require a reset. But we will do our very best to maintain them from now on to protect your buildings on our official dedicated servers.
Stay tuned to our twitter account @CardLifeGame to be kept up to date on when the servers will be back up and running.
The Big Bug Squash
The team has spent the last four weeks squashing as many bugs as possible. During this time we have not focused on introducing new features to CardLife as we wanted to release the most stable and polished version on October 9th. During this time we eliminated over 200 bugs but below are a list of the ones that we felt you’d be interested in seeing addressed as part of our most recent patch.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed a bug where Creatures are glitching through Doors
- Fixed a bug where crafting a large stack of new projectiles, after running out of the previous set, causes them to be unusable.
- Fixed a bug which caused caves to be pitch black when the cave contained light sources.
- Fixed a bug where the sloped fence foundation and sloped fence had the wrong sprite.
- Fixed a bug which caused the health and stamina bars to incorrectly update.
- Fixed an issue which caused players combat animations to not appear correctly.
- Fixed a bug which caused players who disconnect from the server to lose mouse functionality on the Main Menu.
- Fixed a bug which caused Cobalt items to not fully appear in the crafting menu in Creative Mode.
- Fixed an issue which caused the game to crash due to being out of memory.
- Fixed a bug which displayed an error message reading “str [ok]” when disconnecting from server instead of the expected error message (“You have been disconnected from the server”)
- Fixed an issue where players were able to see low level detail on the environment from up close (instead of only happening to terrain in the distance).
- Fixed a bug which caused items to lose enchantments if dragged straight from the enchanting table to the equipment slot.
- Fixed a bug which caused newly set key bindings to not update on some crafting tables.
- Fixed a bug which caused your selected mods to be forgotten when you log out and back in.
- Fixed an issue which caused some creatures to stay in a 'T' pose instead of animating correctly.
- Fixed an issue with the Direwolf Pelt which caused it not to tile when applied to items.
- Fixed an issue which caused items not to properly craft if you typed in an amount to craft (instead of using the mouse to click the '+')
- Fixed a bug which caused creatures to stop attacking you if you turned your back to them.
- Fixed a bug which caused the creature UI not to appear above your health bar if shot from range.
- Fixed a bug which caused the creature names to be invisible if they were in front of water.
- Fixed an issue which caused the animation of the crossbow reloading to finish before you could actually fire the crossbow.
- Fixed a bug which caused the crossbow recoil to change depending on the direction you faced.
- Fixed a bug which caused terrain drops not to fall to the ground when digging upwards.
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused users to not to be able to place stairs opposite doors.
- Fixed a bug with crafting which would accidentally cancel the crafting queue if you hit 'I'.
- Fixed a bug which caused you to hear all the games audio at once when leaving and rejoining a server.
- Fixed a bug which caused stats which were being hovered over to stay on screen even after closing the inventory.
- Fixed a bug where pressing 'F' whilst having a drawn bow would not reset the bow to idle.
- Fixed a bug which caused you to place terrain you had selected when clicking resume on escape menu.
- Fixed a bug which caused creatures to slide towards you from long distances if you turned towards them after running away.
- Fixed a bug which made the chat expander extremely hard to select. Fixed a bug which caused your shadow to react erratically when holding a torch.
- Fixed a bug which caused your hotbar to scroll when scrolling through the journal.
- Fixed a bug which caused your hotbar to scroll when scrolling through crafting tables.
- Fixed a bug which caused the user's client to crash if they walked on to specific tiles in the world.
- Fixed a bug when eating food which caused the game to say '2x Food' was consumed instead of 1.
- Fixed an issue where an invisible barrier was blocking players in certain locations in the world.
- Fixed a bug with scrollbars in the Permissions Console.
- Fixed a bug which displayed (str) near some menus in permissions console for players given permission to edit.
- Fixed a bug for players who maximised the size of the Connect the Dots screen, as they could not minimise it after.
- Fixed a bug which caused creatures breathing loops to sometimes stay active after despawning.
FEATURES:
- We have implemented an interest management system which will only load structures, terrain and creatures within a certain distance of you, improving performance.
- Multiple customisations of the same item will now each save as unique items, instead of overwriting the original customisation.
- We have made a significant improvement to the infrastructure of AI which will make them more reactive and will improve performance. This is our first step towards better AI in CardLife and further improvements are planned.
- Infinite Servers: We have implemented a new feature which will cause buildings to decay over time, if the user does not log in within a certain period the building will be destroyed and the items will become lootable.
We posted about the Infinite servers in the last blog. You can read more about that by clicking the link below:
http://cardlifegame.com/index.php/devblog/247-dev-blog-93-reactive-world
IMPROVEMENTS:
- Made changes to the name field on the Connect the Dots screen to make it more readable.
- Made the right hand side of the Permissions panel display a “Coming Soon" message as that panel currently has no functionality.
- All equippable items now have run animations.
- We have added in an “inventory is full” message.
- Improved frame rate performance for players near large structures.
- Reduced the long hang players were experiencing when returning to main menu
- Improved available space for some items which had restrictive Connect the Dots screens.
- Improved the hitboxes for sliders in escape menu
Thank you for supporting us so far
We’d like to issue a MASSIVE thank you to all founders who have joined us over the last two years and to those who are looking forward to joining us on October the 9th. Your support has been invaluable helping us to refine the CardLife experience and we hope that you enjoy playing the game. Steam is the next leg of our development journey and we have a ton of plans to continue to improve and add to the game.
Remember, you can share your thoughts on the game within the forums, on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit.
All the best,
Chris