Hello again, I have decided to revert the "remove the Strategic Resources" change and they have been re-enabled. Most of the resource capacity changes are still there, but some of the projects have been returned to their former selves. This change was made in order to make things a little easier to manage, as well as to reduce the AI's stupidity.

Changelog:

• Re-added Strategic Resources

• Removed Energy Capacity, Nanocomposites Capacity, Chromite Capacity

• Any project which used previous capacities has been returned to its former self

• AI Value and weight adjustments

• Project upkeeps rebalanced

• Increased amount of plinktonium gained per prestige
  
• Added visual effects where missing in minigames like Rainbow Trail in Unicorn Minigame and Walk Animation in Loser Minigame and more.
  
• Started on Cosmetic System, almost finished just needs tested more (Hopefully will be added in Next Update)
  
• Added some effects to the main menu

• Added compatibility with more tools for map makers: Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, Water Plugin

• Added port customisation because some guy asked me to

• Fixed an issue with the video settings menu sometimes turning shadows off completely. Added some new video settings.

• Fixed the main menu always reverting back to 1280x720

• Removed a lot of unneeded content from the core packs

• Limited FPS in main menu to 60

• Added a way for creators to specify recommended video settings for their map, that users can automatically apply

• Fixed thumbnails not being added to package

• Added 'Log pak file' button - dumps contents of pak file to console

Nothing very exciting here, just stuff I discovered was very necessary while making maps last week. Cooler stuff coming soon!

🎉 Official Announcement – The Day Of Survival Is Now FREE! 🧟‍♂️💥

Hey, community! How’s it going?

Today, I’m sharing a very important (and special) decision with all of you who’ve been closely following the development of The Day Of Survival. After a lot of thought, testing, and conversations with the community, we’ve decided to make the game 100% FREE for everyone! 🙌

💬 Why this decision?
Our main motivation has always been to see the game being played, enjoyed, and shared by as many people as possible. The Day Of Survival is a passion project, and there’s nothing more rewarding than seeing it come to life in the hands of the community.

We want to build something real, shaped by your feedback. Making the game free is our way of opening the doors so more players can jump in, give their opinions, and be part of the project’s evolution.

🎯 What changes now?
From now on:

• Free access to all future updates and improvements.

• The community can contribute with ideas, suggestions, and even content!

💡 What about the future?
Of course, we’re going to keep working hard! Soon, we’re thinking about adding ways to support the game such as voluntary donations, optional cosmetics, or maybe even a deluxe version with extra content for those who want to support the project even further.

✨ At the end of the day, our goal is to build The Day Of Survival together with you — no barriers, no BS, with transparency and deep respect for everyone who believes in what we’re creating.

📥 Download now for free and share it with your friends!

This project is made with a lot of love, and I’m developing everything on my own as an indie dev. So I truly appreciate all the patience and support from each one of you.

Thank you for being part of this journey.
Let’s survive… together! 💀🔥

Warm regards,
xHARDHeMPuS

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/518150/view/509584385882722090If you were experiencing issue in this recent update check out this patch we just put out with some hotfixes:

• Fix for map vote getting stuck at end of round

• Fix for doors not spawning open upon room join

• Fix for Cliffside Raid extraction van materials

• Fix for Oceanside gray wooden door sound material

• Fix for Discord Rich Presence errors

Your version number should be 3275

The third game in the There's Always a Madman series has just released! In the interactive spy novel There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder, a madman named Zeus seeks to build a weather machine and rain down destruction upon the world. Well, we can't have that - it's a good thing you always bring the thunder, agent!

Although each game in the There's Always a Madman series is a standalone adventure for secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West, all three released games are on discount right now for the Steam Summer Sale.

There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight

There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst

There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder

With the release of the third entry, now is the best time to catch up on the entire series (with all three released games currently on discount). And the fourth and fifth entries are available to wishlist on Steam now as well!

There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin

There's Always a Madman: V.I.C.T.O.R.

Best of luck agent - because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!

A new build for There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst has just been set live to coincide with the release of the next game in the series There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder (just released right now).

This new build of TAAM: DYW fixes a few bugs and updates the call-to-action at end of game to purchase the next game of TAAM: BTT (as opposed to wishlisting the next game, which was the previous call-to-action).

Although each game in the There's Always a Madman series is a standalone adventure for secret agents Franklin Benjamin and Virginia West, all three released games are on discount right now for the Steam Summer Sale.

There's Always a Madman: Fight or Flight

There's Always a Madman: Do Your Worst

There's Always a Madman: Bring the Thunder

With the release of the third entry, now is the best time to catch up on the entire series (with all three released games currently on discount). And the fourth and fifth entries are available to wishlist on Steam now as well!

There's Always a Madman: The MacGuffin

There's Always a Madman: V.I.C.T.O.R.

Best of luck agent - because there's always a madman, and you're the best agent we've got!

This is mostly a bugfix update correcting issues reported since the Milestone update, as well as a few nice QOL things particularly for postgame players. We're working on more Big Cool Things in the background... :) (Note: Mac build will be updating roughly 12 hours after PC)

• Improved challenge mode pause and resume!

  • When pausing a post-game challenge (Tower Tourney, Draft Challenge, Mountain Expedition), instead of quitting to the title, you return to the game overworld and can go explore / play online matches / do whatever you want

  • You can resume the challenge where you left off anytime by returning to the corresponding character

  • This makes starting challenges way less of a commitment

  • This is an expansion of the implementation that already existed for Tower Tourney and Draft Challenge. Most notably, all of the above is newly added to Mountain Expeditions, so you can now pause and resume those mid-run as well!

• Super Tower Tourney difficulty select

  • When starting a new run, if you've previously had a long streak, you can choose to start at higher difficulty levels thus "skipping" the easier challenge of early rounds.

  • This does not actually advance your streak counter, so it's purely an optional challenge with no advantage towards setting a new record.

• Added the ability to sort the Beastiepedia and Team Reserves by whether a given Beastie can metamorph or not

• Resized some gui elements and changed some render order so that key info is not obscured when navigating UI during a sports match in Detail View

• Fixed the new issue with Riven's display name after localization was added

• Fixed an issue where Thriller didn't trigger Noizard's recruit condition

• Fixed an issue where the top of tall hats would be cut off on the player render

• Fixed a layering issue with hands when a player with Vibe 05 is holding a phone

• Fixed text spacing on post-game results cards, particularly in Russian

• Fixed some crashing issues from frame-perfect pauses/replays at the same time as a cutscene trigger

• Improved text language detection and rendering for names in the credits of various languages

• Improved the auto-nickname feature for downloaded Beasties such that Beastie specie names now won't be substituted in place of a custom nickname

• Made it impossible to receive a phone call while viewing replays/in an online match/in matchmaking

• Made a change such that when viewing a replay, the "match end" music never plays; this makes it so that you can freely scrub forward and back even after viewing the end of a match without interrupting the BGM.

• Fixed an issue where downloading corrupted away team data prevented future away teams from appearing

• Added a fallback wherein Craig will unlock the Beastiepedia if you interact with him and have skipped obtaining it somehow (speedrunners....)

• Fixed a couple more edge cases with bad save/load locations around Jack in some areas

• Fixed an issue with certain secret Team Titles not appearing in the list of options after discovering them

• The previous patch was uploaded using the wrong engine runtime, which meant there were a few previously fixed memory-related crashes that were mistakenly re-introduced. This has been corrected, so "random" crashing should happen a lot less often now.

• Fixed various obscure crashes

• Fixed misc. typos