Hey everyone! Here's another Developer Update covering enemy drillships, wrecked drillships, turret modules, screenshot contest and more.
ENEMY DRILLSHIPS
Enemy drillship will now be surfacing all over the island so you will have to be more careful when crossing the map.
- Each drillship will have its devices and COGs that will guard it
- You will be able to attack the drillships for loot and even destroy them completely
- If enemy drillship is on a specific landing site, it blocks the point and you won't be able to surface there with your ship
ENEMY DRILLSHIP CREW
COG units won't spawn directly in villages and close to lava pools anymore. Instead, they will come from the surfaced Drillships and walk to their assigned location.
- When an eruption is coming, all COGs will return to the drillship and go under (this will add more interesting situations where you might run into a group of COGs "going to work" or running from the eruption as well)
- If you land in the same landing site node as the enemy drillship, COGs will keep attacking your drillship
Below you can see the enemy drillship deploying COG units.
TURRET MODULE
Works as expected. Defends drillship from enemy units attacking it. Be warned tho, as the same turret will be guarding COG drillships as well!
DESTROYED DRILLSHIPS
- If drillship's hull HP drops to 0, it will explode and be destroyed, killing everything inside and in close proximity
- This can happen when all modules are destroyed by enemies, or by a volcanic eruption
- Torso of the destroyed drillship stays on the landing site until it is scraped for resources or future eruption takes it away completely
- If your or COG drillship lands on the point, the torso will be removed as well
NEXT UP
- Finalize implementation of all the features mentioned above
- Localization support - community will be able to create translation sheets for the game
- Testing, testing and more testing so we can hopefully release a new update next week
COMMUNITY SCREENSHOT CONTEST
These past 2 weeks players could submit screenshots from the Alpha to participate in the community screenshot contest.
Big thanks to everyone that participated and here are our top 3 picks:
"Drillship" by Mustaro
"End of my life" by Piterkooo
"Caught red handed" by The Politest of Cats
We'll get in touch with the winners and hand out prizes.
If you'd like to participate in the Volcanoids Alpha, you can sign up on our website: https://www.volcanoids.com/
To keep up with all the latest news, contests and sneak peeks consider joining our Discord server: https://discord.gg/volcanoids
Thanks for reading and see you next Thursday!