Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation ha recibido la actualización alfa 9 que está disponible en la rama "beta" de Steam (sí, se que es un contrasentido lo de la pestaña de betas siendo un alfa, pero ¡eh! yo no hago estas cosas)
El caso es que esta nueva actualización trae 1 nuevo denomino, 4 eventos aleatorios, 7 nuevos artículos y 2 nuevos atributos de supervivencia, y más cosas >>> |
New Content
A new demon - Caorthannach, the fire spitting demon was added.
There are 4 new random events providing new challenges and rewards.
Existing random events now provide more rewards when solved.
7 new items and 2 new survivor traits were added as well.
Note that while we add a little content every update to keep things interesting, we are focusing more on mechanics and polish during the Early Access. Our plan is to add the bulk of the content in the finished version of the game, including the main story. This way even those players that played in the early access will enjoy a whole new world of content in the finished version.
Survivor AI
In some situations, the survivor AI that assigned tasks was acting sub-par. It already contained many very specific conditions to prioritize specific tasks, and was starting to feel like patchwork. In order to improve it, we decided we had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, using a more simplified utility-based AI architecture. While the changes appear to be minor, it took almost a week to rewrite and re-test the AI while maintaining (most of) the original behaviour.
The new AI is much simpler, we solved some issues in which survivors didn’t behave as a player would expect them to, and it’s now much easier for us to add or modify the AI as needed.
It pains us to spend so much time of an update on a feature that seems to have little impact on the game, but it was necessary and is now behind us.
Localization Support
Definitely a beginner’s mistake - large parts of the game’s text were not in a separate language file. Texts were spread all around our configuration files, and worse, some of them were hard coded. We spent a very large portion of this update in locating and moving all the texts into dedicated language files, and it is now possible for us to support additional languages!
While the infrastructure is there, official support for additional languages will not be added before we exit from Early Access, since there are too many and too frequent changes to justify the extra work in translating and testing every build we release. But there is a bright side, since we now have all the texts in a separate language file, community translation mods are now a possibility! More on this in the mods section.
Modding support step 1 - Items & Langauge
Step 1 in modding support is rather basic, but it’s a first step. Members of the community can now modify the items file, to add new items or modify existing ones. It’s also possible to add new icons to be used by the new items.
In addition, community members can now create translation mods by modifying the texts in the original language files. This is limited to languages that our fonts support, at the moment (latin alphabet).
We’ll be adding more elaborate modding documentation real soon, in the meantime if you’d like to create a mod or a translation, feel free to contact us at [email protected],we’ll gladly cooperate.
Plans for the future include Steam Workshop support to share your mods, and in-game UI that allows you to enable/disable mods.
Full Change List
A new demon - Caorthannach, the fire spitting demon was added.
There are 4 new random events providing new challenges and rewards.
Existing random events now provide more rewards when solved.
7 new items and 2 new survivor traits were added as well.
Note that while we add a little content every update to keep things interesting, we are focusing more on mechanics and polish during the Early Access. Our plan is to add the bulk of the content in the finished version of the game, including the main story. This way even those players that played in the early access will enjoy a whole new world of content in the finished version.
Survivor AI
In some situations, the survivor AI that assigned tasks was acting sub-par. It already contained many very specific conditions to prioritize specific tasks, and was starting to feel like patchwork. In order to improve it, we decided we had to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, using a more simplified utility-based AI architecture. While the changes appear to be minor, it took almost a week to rewrite and re-test the AI while maintaining (most of) the original behaviour.
The new AI is much simpler, we solved some issues in which survivors didn’t behave as a player would expect them to, and it’s now much easier for us to add or modify the AI as needed.
It pains us to spend so much time of an update on a feature that seems to have little impact on the game, but it was necessary and is now behind us.
Localization Support
Definitely a beginner’s mistake - large parts of the game’s text were not in a separate language file. Texts were spread all around our configuration files, and worse, some of them were hard coded. We spent a very large portion of this update in locating and moving all the texts into dedicated language files, and it is now possible for us to support additional languages!
While the infrastructure is there, official support for additional languages will not be added before we exit from Early Access, since there are too many and too frequent changes to justify the extra work in translating and testing every build we release. But there is a bright side, since we now have all the texts in a separate language file, community translation mods are now a possibility! More on this in the mods section.
Modding support step 1 - Items & Langauge
Step 1 in modding support is rather basic, but it’s a first step. Members of the community can now modify the items file, to add new items or modify existing ones. It’s also possible to add new icons to be used by the new items.
In addition, community members can now create translation mods by modifying the texts in the original language files. This is limited to languages that our fonts support, at the moment (latin alphabet).
We’ll be adding more elaborate modding documentation real soon, in the meantime if you’d like to create a mod or a translation, feel free to contact us at [email protected],we’ll gladly cooperate.
Plans for the future include Steam Workshop support to share your mods, and in-game UI that allows you to enable/disable mods.
Full Change List
- Mechanics: It is now possible to move some objects, mainly workstations built indoors.
- Mechanics: It is now possible to rotate many objects when building.
- Mechanics: The survivor AI has been re-written. The new system is more robust and solves several behaviour issues.
- Mechanics: New food system & food balancing. Food are now divided to categories, and each category provides bonuses to survivors that it it.
- Mechanics: Added Day/Night cycle. At the moment the mechanic is visual only, we are still considering if/what kind of gameplay effects it should have.
- Usability: When trying to build something but not enough resources, it now appears red.
- Usability: When equiping survivors, if no items available for that slot, it will now show appropriate text instead of an empty window.
- Usability: Show tutorials is now checked by default only in the first game (user can still enable it when starting additional games from the new game window)
- Usability: The rituals tutorial window will now pop automatically when researching rituals, if tutorials are enabled.
- Usability: Changed the layout of the research information window so things appear clearer and text is not cut out.
- Usability: Selecting a single survivor and right clicking an object will now show an option to create task + assign (previously needed to create task first, and then right click to assign).
- Usability: Changed display in resource bar to be more consistent. Food & Water now show amount of resources instead of hours remaining.
- Usability: Pause button now blinks in red when game is paused, so players can notice it more easily.
- Usability: Error messages are now displayed in the center of the screen for a short time, and an error sound is played.
- Content: New demon - Caorthannach, the fire spitting demon.
- Content: Added 4 new random events: Blackbox, Desperate Times, Eureka & Dark Curse.
- Content: Added new items: Werewolf Pendant, Quarterstaff, Sledgehammer, Wooden Shield, Metal Shield, Ginger Extract & Sandalwood Bracelet.
- Content: Added new traits: Adventurous, Clever
- Modding: Language file can now be modified so community translations are possible. The Wiki will be updated to provide instructions soon.
- Modding: Users can now create and use mods that add/modify items. The Wiki will be updated to provide instructions soon.
- Visual: Added a subtle animation when opening/closing windows.
- Visual: Survivors are less likely to start with hats now (players can still add them in the survivor customization window).
- Visual: Changed some hat colors so they are not all gray/blue.
- Visual: Added shadows to some objects that were missing them.
- Visual: When finishing the last mission of the Early Access version, there is now a visual ending and not just textual.
- Visual: Added more pant options.
- Visual: Mission summary now only shows the "Other" section if there is anything to report.
- Visual: Replaced the search animation (survivors now crouch while searching debris)
- Visual: Healing ability now has a short effect when used.
- Audio: Added error sound, new sound for enemy attacks and healing abilities.
- Balancing: Sheep farm now costs wheat (which is also needed to feed the sheep).
- Balancing: Removed stone cost from Water Conservation research, and added it to Rainwater Collection.
- Balancing: Hex Scroll duration reduced to 10 seconds.
- Balancing: Rain dance ritual now boosts farm growth rate in addition to not needing tending. It also no longer costs food to perform, so it is a viable way to speed up food production.
- Balancing: Increased duration of Soul Harness and Demon Stamina rituals.
- Balancing: Reduced demonite costs of Mutate ritual.
- Balancing: Reduced metals cost of Divine Inspiration ritual.
- Balancing: Industrial areas are now a bit more likely to have metals for scavenge.
- Balancing: Some random events can only happen once now.
- Balancing: Night Howls and Bad Omens now earn a reward when completed.
- Performance: Opening the research window is now much faster.
- Performance: When multi-building (with shift), or attempting to build in an invalid position, the build UI will reopen, but continue smoothly.
- Fixed Bug: Unexpected errors when survivor had no hat.
- Fixed Bug: When selecting an object for the first time, it always showed a tree image instead of the selected object.
- Fixed Bug: When selecting a construction object it now shows the name of what is being built instead of "Construction"
- Fixed Bug: Legion creature was missing a description.
- Fixed Bug: Projectile animations were animating incorrectly in 2x speed.
- Fixed Bug: Survivors would automatically shoot at enemies in fog of war if they were in their range (sniper rifles), and the enemies would not react.
- Fixed Bug: When an enemy attacked a survivor and then disappeared in the fog of war it would cause him to become stuck.
- Fixed Bug: When training, survivors would shoot at a nearby dead enemy (right after combat) instead of the training dummies.
- Fixed Bug: Ending combat with a survivor moving would mess up their animations and make them uncontrollable when they got back to base.
- Fixed Bug: Sometimes female characters were referred to as "He" in random event texts.