Hello, we hope that you’ve had a fantastic New Year and are all set to venture under the Dome in the company of your faithful companions. Today's issue will be short but very important.




We know we promised the patch in late December but unfortunately - due to technical reasons - we had to postpone the release until January. But this month we will definitely have new content waiting for you. The extra time of development allowed us to polish new locations and mechanics, as well as fix some bugs.

Can't wait to see what new content is waiting for you under the Dome? Then visit our Youtube channel. The latest episode of the development diaries is waiting for your viewers.




One of the main changes of the patch will be the new locations; the Fallen Fortress and the Mysterious Caves. Here you will find new enemies, equipment, treasures and mysteries of the wastelands.

And you will be able to drive away with those riches on completely redesigned transport: you can repair or blow up any vehicle under the Dome and these repaired cars can be used as a personal vehicle. There will be a place to park them in each location.




Players with large monitors will appreciate the new contrast mode and the long-awaited ability to change the font size. You no longer have to strain your eyes to read any text again. Another change - which will please owners of gamepads - is that we fully adapted the interface and added support for hotkeys.

And we’re always in the market to hear your suggestions to improve the game; we’ll try to add what we can.





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Hi friends,

We're back with the first devlog in 2022 and some good progress, hoping to release alpha 9 for our gold supporters next week.

Before we go into details, let's take a look at the updated Steam wishlist: 30,671!

Based on user feedback, David#NaN and Jonas#1 have spent lots of time finishing a new UI for the business schedule.

Before, it was split into two screens: One for adjusting the business hours, and another one for setting up the employee shifts. Now it's all in one screen where you can easily set the business hours, add or remove work shifts and assign employees.


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Many of our gold supporters asked for office businesses - and finally, we've got there! Jonas#1 implemented the new building type for office space and everything required to use it.

Mr. Scott will be happy to provide you with everything needed to furnish your business. He opened up his office supply store next to the existing furniture store.

The first office business available to set up is a law firm, employing lawyers. We all know that making big money starts with a good lawyer suing all competitors out of business!


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Jonas#2, assisted by Jonas#1, has implemented a new POI system. Finding your way should be more convenient now with those nice-looking icons. On Voogle Maps you'll additionally see a marker indicating your current position.


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One of the most frequent complaints was the camera rotation, which felt inverted to many players. Jonas#2 added a setting allowing you to choose your preferred style.


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Currently, name labels are shown for every single item. This can look pretty chaotic at times, particularly when they overlap. Most of the information won't be needed anyways - I'm sure you recognize a mop even without a label.

In alpha 9, labels will only be displayed for relevant items - those containing additional information or buttons. Just in case you need all of them, you can still activate them temporarily by pressing <Alt>.


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We didn't like the "world border" just showing an empty area, completely ruining the immersion in the game. That's why Jonas#2, assisted by 3d artist Paul, added buildings, roads, and the famous "fog of war". The city now seems to continue, simply keeping you back by roadblocks. No big city without road construction!


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Now you can pack just everything! Eager to move into a new, bigger, more luxurious apartment? Stuff your bed, fridge, and everything else into a box - and off you go!
Besides, to make life easier for newbies, boxes placed on the floor can be picked up through left-click as well. Of course, right-click still works just as well but didn't seem to be very intuitive for new players.


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• #524 - Taking a loan before having a job
  
• #672 - Massive FPS drop when speeding up your shift
  
• #715 - Map no work when in car.
  
• #716 - Infinite loading screen
  
• #717 - Endless loading sreen is shown in case saved with equipped hand truck
  
• #718 - Supermarket: Can't add anything to shopping basket
  
• #719 - Possible to leave supermarket while holding a shopping basket, impossible to discard it afterwards
  
• #720 - People don't immediately get spawned in shops on reload if saving paused game
  
• #722 - Forklift in drive-in wholesales is for single use only
  
• #723 - Can't pick up anything in drive-in wholesales except paperbags
  
• #724 - Objectives: Buy paperbags and cheap gifts not registered as done if bought earlier or separately
  
• #725 - New "blocked-out" buildings don't hide when walking in front of them
  
• #726 - Player doesn't walk around cars anymore since introduction of new traffic system
  
• #730 - Drive-In Wholesales: Expensive gifts sold as single item
  
• #731 - Buildings hiding too late when driving car
  
• #732 - Invisible Doors
  
• #733 - Weird Circular effect
  
• #735 - No doors for toilet areas in buildings
  
• #737 - 17th Third street occupied

Coming soon to a Steam client near you!

Big Ambitions alpha versions are available exclusively to our Gold supporters. You can order the Gold package of Big Ambitions at https://www.bigambitionsgame.com to get immediate access.

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Don't forget to add Big Ambitions to your wishlist!

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All the best,
Jonas#1 & Daniel#2

• Fixed caused an exception that could occur when undoing and only having upgraded once
  
• Made Money Pit neighboring bonus a type of decimal so that it goes +$5, +10, 11, 12.1 etc.

We are delighted to announce the arrival of a new DLC for KARDS!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1869350/KARDS__US_Starter_Pack/

Aimed at especially newer players, but also useful for veteran players, this new DLC contains everything you need to expand your US collection. Highlights of this DLC are the Elite and Special cards together with a unique card back.

This new USA Starter Pack DLC contains the following items:

• Card back 507th PIR
  
• Elite Card: 507th PIR
  
• Special Card: B-17 Flying Fortress
  
• Limited Card: 1st Marines
  
• Limited Card: M7 Priest
  
• Limited Card: War Bonds
  
• Limited Card: We Can Do It!
  
• 2 Standard Cards: 5th Infantry
  
• 2 Standard Cards: 7th Regiment
  
• 2 Standard Cards: Stars & Stripes

During the introduction period, this DLC is completely free on Steam. After this initial period is over, the DLC will cost $9.99.

Don’t wait, grab this DLC for free as long as it lasts!

v.1.7.7 (January 14, 2022)

• Added: Load multiple prefab files. You can now select multiple .c3dp files in the file select window.
  
• Added: Load multiple tileset images. You can now select multiple image files in the file select window.
  
• Added: Move crosshair to mouse position relative to the invisible plane. Press Space+C to move.
  
• Added: Select Edge Loop action. Located within the Edges sub-menu when you right-click the 3d scene while in Edit mode. You must have at least one edge already selected for it to select connected edges.
  
• Added: An option for deselecting everything when clicking on nothing. Go to Edit > Settings > EditMode > Deselect when clicked nothing.
  
• Added: "Combine Instances" action. This combines the selected instances into a single Object. It will also replace the instances in the scene with a new instance of the new object. The "Combine Instances (Object only)" action will simply create the new object without replacing any instances and won't add any new instances to the scene.
  
• Added: Added flashing indicator when trying to move crosshair when grid rounding is set to 0.
  
• Added: Apply UVs action now randomizes tiles if a Tile Palette is selected. Use Alt+Left Click in Draw mode to apply uvs to existing tiles. Eyedropping a tile with Alt+Right Click will deselect any selected Tile Palette.
  
• Added: Apply random tiles to a selection of faces. The "Apply Tilebrush UVs to Faces" option in the Edit mode context-menu will choose from the selected Tile Palette.
  
• Added: Tile Palette Mode (random/sequence). When sequence mode is enabled, tiles will be chosen from the palette in order from left to right.
  
• Improved: Placing random tiles won't replace the last random tile placed unless mouse moves off of it first or mouse button is released.
  
• Improved: Default tilesets should now load in the same order everytime.
  
• Fixed: Swapping tiles in a tileset would affect tiles in the scene that used a different tileset.
  
• Fixed: UV Unique On/Off tooltip wouldn't display correctly when starting application.
  
• Fixed: When exporting .obj via right-clicking in the Scene panel, the .mtl file could contain spaces in its filename, which would cause issues when importing it. It now will replace spaces with _.
  
• Fixed: Was able to inadvertently select edges behind Objects/Cameras.
  
• Fixed: Was able to inadvertently drag vertices behind Objects/Cameras.

Remember to report any bugs you may encounter!

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After hanging around in beta for quite some time, the Italian localization is now available for everyone!

(Also not sure if I should to apologize for (deliciously) reducing Italian to 🍝🍕. But forget Michelangelo, Galileo, Leonardo, and folks -- pizza is where it's at! Especially 🍍🍕 #teampineapple.)

Anyway, this patch is a smaller maintenance & fix patch with the usual bunch of improvement and tweaks. The performance (as in frames per second) should be up to 30% better as we've been optimizing the game and the engine for lower-end hardware. For other changes, see the full change list below.


- Italian localizations.
- Performance optimizations.
- Option for player indicator circles to tell co-op players apart more easily.
- Green dot indicator for gear you can afford to upgrade.

- UI tweaks.
- Allowing using larger windowed resolutions but hiding the window title bar and using thinner frames in those cases.
- Decal tweaks and sharper sources graphics.
- Player no longer receiving damage during cutscenes (prevents you from dying to poison puddle while you can't move).
- Launchpad tunnel doors are now always open if the player has finished the game.

- Localization fixes.
- Player death position set properly for both of the players (using position for whoever dies the last).
- Acquiring map happens right after you leave the first link tower even if there are notifications queued.
- Showing built structures like turrets in the map before loading the actor type assets.
- Fixed quest items in "Hot Head" not returning to destructible when they should.
- Walking animation does not get stuck anymore during "Warm up the engine" main quest phase.
- Saving now works correctly when exiting the game while sitting on the campfire.
- Clicking special tool icon now correctly changes the special tool instead of the primary weapon.
- Mouse and gamepad controls now use the same minimum and maximum camera tilt values.
- Usual open world fixes to visual glitches and some objects.



We're still working on releasing the game on pretty much all the meaningful platforms out there. The new content will be available after everyone gets the 1.0 version, so it may still take some time. The estimate for the first content update is still Q1 (this year).

We may or may not release another fix update before that. Basically it depends on if we're able to fix enough of those smaller things you've reported. There are lots of minor bug reports waiting, but we simply don't have the resources to fix every single one of them. For example we know that if you enter a tomb with all the slots filled with materials you can't drop (such as fuel cells or mana stuff), you're not able to pick up the tomb reward nor leave the tomb. You're stuck, so you have no choice than to restart the tomb, go and store your materials, and do the tomb again. Ideally there'd be a more elegant solution to this, but as this doesn't get you permanently stuck, it's fine for now.

Happy new year and buon appetito!

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We hope you spent a good time during the holidays! On our side, the studio members took a well deserved holiday break and had a great time. We feel reinvigorated and we are very motivated for this upcoming exciting year to work on Astral Ascent!

How to better start the year than with a brand new Playtest version? We have been delaying this new version as we wanted to do a major update with polished content before collecting your thoughts about it, this new version includes:

• the Red barrens (second world of the game) with new enemies / challenges
  
• 5 new bosses to face (Virgo, Leo, Sagittarius, Lupus & Pegasus)
  
• 3 new room types to discover
  
• 2 new hub NPCs to meet with new progression systems
  
• 10+ new Auras
  
• 13 new spells to use
  
• and plenty more...

You can check the dedicated patch-note here, it is probably not complete as the update was so massive but we tried to be exhaustive.




Virgo, Sagittarius and Leo


You need to have the Playtest app unlocked on your Steam account, if you already have it the new version will update automatically, if you do not have it already:

• Join our Discord Server and follow our Kickstarter Assistant instructions in the #kickstarter-rewards channel to get your backer Discord role.
  
• React in the #playtests-register channel to get the Playtester role.
  
• Welcome to the #playtests channel where you can ask for a key.
  
• Use the key in Steam.

Your last playtest saves will be saved if they were from 0.21.10 or more, if you lost your saves you can now press LB and RB while launching the game to skip the intro tutorial.

We have created a new survey here to collect your thoughts about this new version. We have improved the game a lot thanks to your previous feedbacks so thank you if you take the time to answer it this time again. You can also create suggestions tickets in the #suggestions channel of the Discord Server.
Unlisted commented Youtube videos (without comments is fine too) are extremely appreciated so we can better see how you react to the game elements.


The second world of the game is now content complete, we have recently added new traps that will appear on the explorations room to make those rooms more dangerous and lively. We did not want to add traps at the beginning of the development but we love how it turned out.
You'll see that they also are tools to deal damages to your enemies.




Fire geysers





Fire Statue

We have also added new traps in the Fragmented Plains (first world), these elements only appear in the Exploration rooms to make them feel more unique and more rhythmed.




Carnivorous Plant



For some time, we felt that Auras lacked funny and gameplay-changing elements, we decided to work on this giving unique gimmicks to work with and create combo with other effects! There is plenty of new Auras to discover and new interesting combos between the Auras or between Auras and Gambits, we hope you'll like them as much as we do!




Aura combo explosive dash + fire projectiles

We have also added new content to the main hub: Two new NPCs have joined the cast!
The first one is a familiar face, Sieur Bapy from the Kickstarter stretch goals has finally arrived at the hub and will now keep track of your achievements and even giving you extra rewards to help you during your journey.




Sieur Bapy Achievement menu

The second one is a mysterious and ancient being that everyone named Dragon for obvious reasons. You will now be able to get access to new auras to unlock during your next adventures!




Aura NPC


One of the main changes we have made since the previous version is changing the structure of the runs:

• Fight rooms will now exclusively give keys - merchants became much more important
  
• Higher tier loots are rarer than before - collecting gambits became more interesting
  
• Exploration rooms have been shortened - experience is more dynamic all around

Those changes implied a lot of changes on progression during runs and, if you try the new version, you will see that it's quite different from what we had before, all of your feedbacks regarding thoses changes are welcomed!
Among the progression changes, we decided to add a salvage mechanic to the game, giving you the possibility to salvage unwanted spells/gambits and tranform them into quartz to use in the next shop, you can also salvage Auras into difficulty stars.
It is now always exciting to find these rewards because if they are not fitting your current build you will still get currency to invest in something you need for your build at next merchant.





We really hope you will appreciate all this new content as much as we do.
Don't forget our Backerkit shop and our Discord Server to speak with the community and give us feedbacks on the game!




Hard working team

Have a wonderful day,

-The Hibernian Workshop Team

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Dear All,
Welcome to our weekly Devblog!

tl;dr - as promised, the new, improved Prologue 2 is coming!

This time we would like to share with you some news about the changes that will be implemented in the free version of our game - Builders of Egypt: Prologue. We follow our social networks on a regular basis and often. We read all your comments and very carefully the reviews you give us after playing the current version of the Prologue and we have very good news for you!

A while back we promised to expand Prologue's content, and of course, our plan is still the same. Obviously, we're very focused on working on the final version and this is naturally our top priority right now, but we also want to interest new players and, above all, to inspire those who have already played!

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The Prologue's relaunch will take place just before the base game's release. We don't have a specific date yet, but that time is getting closer and closer! What you are probably most interested in at the moment is the content - primarily the improved tutorial. We know many of you have had difficulties with errors in the tutorial - we saw a lot of that in our reviews ;) - and we apologize for that. The new version will certainly be more readable and without reported description bugs. We plan to add new content, which will not be accessible in Playtests and was not available in version 1, and to update the previous one as well.

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After the premiere of the first Prologue, we've received a lot of feedback and it made us apply many user-friendly changes, gameplay solutions, and most important, players' ideas. We want version 2 to contribute to the improvement of the reviews and that everyone who felt that something was missing could rediscover the charms of Ancient Egypt once again. We also plan to announce in advance the exact missions with a short guide, especially for those for whom the first edition did not meet their expectations. We take very seriously every comment, no matter if it is positive or negative. We also value constructive criticism. With that being said, don't forget to check the news and our blogs. If you have any questions, you can always contact us directly on Steam, Discord, or Reddit. We're here for you! Let us know what do you think about today's new Prologue's content small preview.

As always, we would like to thank everyone who supported us with the first version and we strongly believe that the second one will be even more interesting and challenging! Special thanks to the most persistent who are still with us today and follow our work! Cheers to that and see you next week in our regular Devblog and introduction!



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*** PS. We aren't sharing link to the new Builders of Egypt: Prologue 2 Store Page due to ongoing site issues which we've reported to Steam and now we're waiting for the Steam Support fixes. As soon as it's resolved we'll let you know!

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Both games are regularly a combined $35, but during this special Daily Deal Sale on Steam, the dogs and the kingdoms can be yours to defend for just $17.48 - a total savings of 50% when you buy the bundle. The Daily Deal will run from today through early next week, so get to rescuing those pooches and saving those kingdoms before it’s too late!

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Alpha 1.0 & 1.1
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Alpha 1.0 Changelog:
- Player win/loss ratio now displays in lobby
- Players can kick people from the lobby
- Melee system improvements and fixes
- Russian faction playable
- British faction playable
- Cavalry added
- Artillery added
- New map added
- New units added to French & German rosters
- Animal avatar animation plays only when selected
- Entrenchment system added

Alpha 1.1 Changelog:
- Optimization overhaul
- Additional graphical options
- Max orders increased to 8
- Max units increased to 16
- Open order formation added
- Square formation added
- Field UI movement debuff information added
- Field UI entrenchment information added
- Unit damage vulnerability system added
- Armory system fully implemented
- Unit card tweaks