The time has come...
The Customization Update is now live and to celebrate the release Volcanoids is 20% OFF!
Let's take a look at what the update brought this time!
What's new?
Color Customization
This feature has been requested for a very long time and we're really excited to finally add it! With the addition of paint tool, you can now change the color of the drillship to ANY color you want! Don't want to have the entire drillship in one color? That's cool too, you can change the color of each part (drill, wings, etc.) separately. Or have a blend between two or more colors horizontally or vertically. You can even go as far as having each module in a different color (you lunatic).
Oh, and you can even paint the interior if you want.
DECALS
But wait there's more! Along with colors, you can also add decals with the paint tool and place pretty much anywhere. The decal library offers everything from simple shapes to a freaking steampunk octopus.
New Drills
From now on, each time you install a new drill upgrade, the drill is going to completely change its visual. The laser drill is the tier 4.
And here's the tier 2 (left) and 3 (right).
Melee Weapons
The first two of many melee weapons have been added: The Saw Gauntlet and the COG Pickaxe!
Gunner Seat
This one's reeeeally fun! Just build it anywhere in your drillship and take manual control of any of your turrets. You can easily switch between them with the scroll wheel, close them, open them and even choose which one should be accessed first when you use the gunner seat.
The UI inside the turret gives you all the info you could possibly need such as reload cooldown, turret health, ammo, and a small guide in the top left corner.
Lingering Fog
After the eruptions, the island is now going to be covered in a thick fog for some time reducing your vision significantly.
And for that occasion, we also added the shoulder light that you can deploy with the "N" key.
New Devices
3 new devices will be making it in this update that you can build in the interior as well as on the exterior of the ship.
The dispenser spews out 3 items of your choice from the ship's inventory so you can just quickly grab them on the go.
The medic and armor station will replenish your health/armor instantly after using it. You can use each one 4 times before there's a cooldown.
Item Dropping
Finally, you will be able to drop stuff on the ground. Not a big deal for singleplayer players, huge deal for co-op players!
Additional Patch Notes
- Damaging modules from the inside is going to deal much more damage than from the outside
- Shoulder light and drillship remote call hotkeys next to the toolbar - many players has no idea they can call their drillships to nearby landing sites remotely
- Remaining module marker - marks the remaining modules on almost destroyed drillships, making it easier to spot that one roof module that is overlooked
- Backpack above soil - backpacks now get pushed up, it should no longer get stuck under soil hills when ship leaves a landing site
- Water damage over time - water will no longer instakill you, instead will deal low damage
Paint Tool Guides
I would highly recommend you to consider checking out one of the two paint tool guides below. Even if you just want to learn the basics.
Since we wanted to give you the freedom to create pretty much any paint job you want, the system can seem complex at first. But once you get the hang of it, it's really straight forward and these guides are going to massively help you with that.
Here's a video guide from Tomas with timestamps going from basic to advanced stuff:
And here's a written guide from TheFireDragon:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2489200340
Really hope you enjoy the new stuff! As always, if you got any questions, feedback or suggestions, don't hesitate to let us know in the comments or on our socials.
Have a blast y'all!
- Rich and the team
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