Greetings, survivors!

It feels like we only just launched the game's alpha version, and today the gates of the Wasteland have already opened to everyone! Today we would like to remember the main milestones in the project's life.

Find out more here!

Greetings, survivors!

It feels like we only just launched the game's alpha version, and today the gates of the Wasteland have already opened to everyone! Today we would like to remember the main milestones in the project's life.

Find out more here!

WARNING: Due to some more big changes - this patch will obsolete previous saves again.
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- Fixed an issue where the game would crash when salvaging two entities one after the other.

- Fixed an issue where loading a game would lose track of which grid positions you have visited.

- Put the version number on the main menu screen - in the bottom right

- Added some informational notes to the options menu.

- Increased the amount of time ammo sticks around from killed crewmembers so ships can be boarded for ammo more intuitively.

- Fixed an issue where the key binding to open the captain's menu would sometimes be replaced with the 'p' key instead of the default 'BACKSPACE' key.
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I'm going to make this build live at 2:00 AM CST 06/02/2017.

Once again, continue to let me know of any problems you are having. If it is a crash - the best thing you can do is post your Windows crash log for me. If I can't figure it out with that then I'll probably ask for a save file.

WARNING: Due to some more big changes - this patch will obsolete previous saves again.
___________________________________________________________

- Fixed an issue where the game would crash when salvaging two entities one after the other.

- Fixed an issue where loading a game would lose track of which grid positions you have visited.

- Put the version number on the main menu screen - in the bottom right

- Added some informational notes to the options menu.

- Increased the amount of time ammo sticks around from killed crewmembers so ships can be boarded for ammo more intuitively.

- Fixed an issue where the key binding to open the captain's menu would sometimes be replaced with the 'p' key instead of the default 'BACKSPACE' key.
___________________________________________________________

I'm going to make this build live at 2:00 AM CST 06/02/2017.

Once again, continue to let me know of any problems you are having. If it is a crash - the best thing you can do is post your Windows crash log for me. If I can't figure it out with that then I'll probably ask for a save file.

We have been chugging away over here, designing ever more frightening powers for your adorable kittens!

You'll be happy to hear we've given you more even more control over many aspects of the game!

• New tool: Aperture Anti-Gravity Generator: Equip your kittens with the ability to turn off gravity on nearby objects! Combine it with the kitten cannon to make you feel like you are floating in space!
  
• Sparkles! Whenever you destroy something, you will now earn sparkles. Sparkles are used to purchase new abilities! You keep unlocked abilities forever, even when you switch levels.
  
• Level unlocks! Once you unlock a level, you may return to it at any time!
  
• Star system! Put your skills to the test and attempt to get all the stars in each level!
  
• Balanced strength. It's now equally useful to speed, and even better when combined!
  
• Ragnar's Strength Ray remajiggered. Simply point where you want the cats to go, and pull the trigger to have them jump there with a huge burst of strength!
  
• More hints to the overarching story!
  
• Less lazy kittens. Sometimes they would stare into la-la land for a few seconds. What were they thinking about? We will never know...
  
• More feedback! Sound effects and particle effects will guide your eyes and ears toward your next objective,
  
• Better camera controls for desktop players! You may now edge scroll, and fly through props.
  
• Improved VR user interface! The menu now attaches to your hand, like a painter's palette, if you so choose.
  
• More optimizations! Level of detail for the win!

Happy herding!

We have been chugging away over here, designing ever more frightening powers for your adorable kittens!

You'll be happy to hear we've given you more even more control over many aspects of the game!

• New tool: Aperture Anti-Gravity Generator: Equip your kittens with the ability to turn off gravity on nearby objects! Combine it with the kitten cannon to make you feel like you are floating in space!
  
• Sparkles! Whenever you destroy something, you will now earn sparkles. Sparkles are used to purchase new abilities! You keep unlocked abilities forever, even when you switch levels.
  
• Level unlocks! Once you unlock a level, you may return to it at any time!
  
• Star system! Put your skills to the test and attempt to get all the stars in each level!
  
• Balanced strength. It's now equally useful to speed, and even better when combined!
  
• Ragnar's Strength Ray remajiggered. Simply point where you want the cats to go, and pull the trigger to have them jump there with a huge burst of strength!
  
• More hints to the overarching story!
  
• Less lazy kittens. Sometimes they would stare into la-la land for a few seconds. What were they thinking about? We will never know...
  
• More feedback! Sound effects and particle effects will guide your eyes and ears toward your next objective,
  
• Better camera controls for desktop players! You may now edge scroll, and fly through props.
  
• Improved VR user interface! The menu now attaches to your hand, like a painter's palette, if you so choose.
  
• More optimizations! Level of detail for the win!

Happy herding!

Many thanks to those that have jumped in and started playing and reviewing! Your feedback is very much appreciated! Please continue to let me know of any issues you encounter or ideas that come to mind.

This is a small update that contains several fixes and tweaks.

• Reverse thrusters no longer supersede forward thrusters.
  
• When a player attempts to exit the game before losing all lives, it is now a request to forfeit their session/score instead of exiting to the title screen.
  
• Machine Gunner achievement is now obtainable.
  
• Only scores greater than zero qualify for leaderboards and local high score listings.
  
• Players no longer spawn when other players are in the way.
  
• Small adjustments to gameplay balance with respect to enemy spawning.
  
• Updates to the following languages:
  
  • Spanish
    
  • German
    
  • Brazilian Portuguese
    
  • Polish
    
  • Serbian

• Limit displayed steam names in high score listings.
  
• Fix level achievements.

• You are currently allowed to change the name of player 1 (the player tied to the steam account). Note, that if you do this, then the score will only qualify for the local high scores.
  
• When using the keyboard, adjustments to ship colors and player name indicate left/right arrows, but in fact it is both left/right and up/down that can be used. Note that for colors, this is primary and secondary colors, and for player name this is left/right movement and up/down to cycle the letter.

Many thanks to those that have jumped in and started playing and reviewing! Your feedback is very much appreciated! Please continue to let me know of any issues you encounter or ideas that come to mind.

This is a small update that contains several fixes and tweaks.

• Reverse thrusters no longer supersede forward thrusters.
  
• When a player attempts to exit the game before losing all lives, it is now a request to forfeit their session/score instead of exiting to the title screen.
  
• Machine Gunner achievement is now obtainable.
  
• Only scores greater than zero qualify for leaderboards and local high score listings.
  
• Players no longer spawn when other players are in the way.
  
• Small adjustments to gameplay balance with respect to enemy spawning.
  
• Updates to the following languages:
  
  • Spanish
    
  • German
    
  • Brazilian Portuguese
    
  • Polish
    
  • Serbian

• Limit displayed steam names in high score listings.
  
• Fix level achievements.

• You are currently allowed to change the name of player 1 (the player tied to the steam account). Note, that if you do this, then the score will only qualify for the local high scores.
  
• When using the keyboard, adjustments to ship colors and player name indicate left/right arrows, but in fact it is both left/right and up/down that can be used. Note that for colors, this is primary and secondary colors, and for player name this is left/right movement and up/down to cycle the letter.

Read below for the patch notes.

(savegame compatible with previous version)
[2017-06-01]

• Abilities
• Scythe no longer affects abilities with a base range of zero such as Stomp.
• You can now self-cast Stomp by pressing the hotkey twice, like other zero range abilities.
• Bug Fixes
• Acid reflux and acid puddle will no longer crash when targeted right underneath the player.
• Fixed a bug causing equipped abilities on forms to change on their own sometimes when scrolling the forms window.
• Fixed an uncommon titlescreen crash.
• Resolved an issue with players being able to despawn themselves by possessing the cat merchant before his intro triggers in new game+. The intro cutscene will now no longer trigger if the merchant is dead, missing, or possessed.
• When the game generates a card with favored form "lich lords" it no longer generates a message reading "Loved to be a lich lords".
• You can no longer cast possess on the chimera.
• Zombie minions no longer trigger the zombie tutorial.
• Entities
• Chimera's power and strength reduced slightly.
• Environment
• Cratefish per crate decreased again.
• GUI
• The shop's buy and sell tab now only use a single column. The buttons to sell all epic, legendary and unique equipment have been removed.
• Miscellaneous
• A forced garbage collection now occurs when switching game modes and when zoning between floors. This should help mitigate intermittent framedrops from garbage collection.
• Added code which will (hopefully) detect crashes on load on some systems with certain AMD GPUs which falsely report support for WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear. This code will force run the game with the '-novsync' command line argument the next time the game runs after this type of crash.
• Options
• Pixel perfect rotation option now defaults to off.
• Tutorials
• Added a tutorial that explains destroying bookshelves completely does not yield any additional loot but is fun.
• Form mastery tutorial rewritten.

Read below for the patch notes.

(savegame compatible with previous version)
[2017-06-01]

• Abilities
• Scythe no longer affects abilities with a base range of zero such as Stomp.
• You can now self-cast Stomp by pressing the hotkey twice, like other zero range abilities.
• Bug Fixes
• Acid reflux and acid puddle will no longer crash when targeted right underneath the player.
• Fixed a bug causing equipped abilities on forms to change on their own sometimes when scrolling the forms window.
• Fixed an uncommon titlescreen crash.
• Resolved an issue with players being able to despawn themselves by possessing the cat merchant before his intro triggers in new game+. The intro cutscene will now no longer trigger if the merchant is dead, missing, or possessed.
• When the game generates a card with favored form "lich lords" it no longer generates a message reading "Loved to be a lich lords".
• You can no longer cast possess on the chimera.
• Zombie minions no longer trigger the zombie tutorial.
• Entities
• Chimera's power and strength reduced slightly.
• Environment
• Cratefish per crate decreased again.
• GUI
• The shop's buy and sell tab now only use a single column. The buttons to sell all epic, legendary and unique equipment have been removed.
• Miscellaneous
• A forced garbage collection now occurs when switching game modes and when zoning between floors. This should help mitigate intermittent framedrops from garbage collection.
• Added code which will (hopefully) detect crashes on load on some systems with certain AMD GPUs which falsely report support for WGL_EXT_swap_control_tear. This code will force run the game with the '-novsync' command line argument the next time the game runs after this type of crash.
• Options
• Pixel perfect rotation option now defaults to off.
• Tutorials
• Added a tutorial that explains destroying bookshelves completely does not yield any additional loot but is fun.
• Form mastery tutorial rewritten.