Hey all,

I’ve decided to release one last update, just in time for Steam’s VR Fest!!

I finally found some extra time and motivation to give this little, experimental project one last tidy up and bug-fix. I’ve now solved some previously known issues and made some much needed improvements.

I’ve now started work on my next project and I can’t wait to share with everyone!

I’ve also set up a Patreon for anyone who’d like to follow along in my journey. There I’ll be sharing updates and providing access to pre-alpha builds of my current projects.

Thank you again for checking out this short narrative experience. So many people gave their time and helped me out with this University project, and I’ll be forever grateful for the experience.

I hope to see you all at my next project release!

- Bec




[h5]13 July 2022 | Major Update (Final)[/h5]

• End game achievement added.
  
  
• Picking up objects uses an offset. So you’re holding from the point you’ve picked it up.
  
  
• Re-built the player controller. You now have two hands (aka mittens) that can pick up, teleport and interact with UI. Full instructions are in the main menu scene.
  
  
• Audio Tour no longer overlaps. Will restart each time you collide with the silver panels.
  
  
• Menu pop up available throughout the chapters so you can quit easier.
  
  
• Some tweaks in appearance with UI and items.
  
  
• And my favourite: audio has been improved… a lot.
  
  
• Emma was moved to behind the counter to reduce the levels. How the audio was initially set up, Emma and Jaime share an audio source, which means they share volume. So, I just moved her next to him. They’re really good friends, so it still makes sense.
  
  
• I found a workaround that should have removed the crackling/distortion that occurred on some launches. I’ve tested a lot and it hasn’t come back, but I’m still worried it’ll pop up. Please let me know if it happens again :)

[h5]Known Issues[/h5]

• Sadly, there might be headsets that aren’t supported. Only the Quest, Rift and Reverb G2 have been tested and they appear to be working. There are no plans to add support with this project, but I will definitely aim to incorporate more in the next project.
  
  
• Okay, let’s face it, the dialogue system ain’t the best. Unfortunately, fixing this would mean a massive overhaul, and I think I’d rather learn from this mistake and put the effort into my next project. So, thank you for your patience with this ːsteamhappyː It’s not terrible, just not a great user experience.

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Howdy Folks!

A huge thanks for all the feedback and support. Great to see all of the new and existing players enjoying Mercury Fallen. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on tweaking and fixing a whole bunch of things. There are still more tweaks and fixes in development, but I wanted to get a bunch of them out the door now.

There are more tweaks and fixes coming, but keep an eye out for the next Developer Log where I’ll cover some of the larger changes and additions in development. Thanks everyone and have fun out there!

Check out the release notes below.

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Changes

• Replaced mining selection audio effect
  
• Updated or added UI audio effects to provide better consistency
  
• Color picker will now close if clicking the color button again or selecting a color
  
• Botanists harvesting wild crops will now drop the crop on the ground instead of putting it in their inventory. This allows them to move on to gathering more crops instead of bringing the items back immediately.
  
• Solid fuel generator will no longer consume fuel if not connected to a power network
  
• Solid fuel generator will no longer consume fuel if there are no active consumers on it’s power network
  
• Aquarium now shows the Drop Harvest On Ground toggle when waiting for egg delivery. This matches the behavior seen in algae farm, crop field and aeroponics farm.
  
• Added Drop Harvest On Ground toggle to water trap
  
• Decreased base efficiency of water trap.
  
• Robot equipment items now have a separate item category called robot equipment
  
• Robots now have their own selection sound effect
  
• Secret audio effects that occur on specific dates

Fixes :: Language Strings

• Fixed: Missions header language string not working
  
• Fixed: Missing language string for Disable All Mods button. Added language string: modmgr.disableallmods.btn
  
• Fixed: Missing language string for new save game button in save game list. Added language string: savegame.createnewsave.label
  
• Fixed: Missing language string for track/untrack button tooltip. Added language strings: uiwinmissions.trackmission.tt, uiwinmissions.untrackmission.tt
  
• Fixed: Missing language string for randomize button on new game interface. Added language string: uigen.randomize
  
• Fixed: Attributes and quirks headers in new game interface not using existing language string data

Fixes :: Audio

• Fixed: Toggle buttons playing click effect audio multiple times when clicked or being played when toggle is being initialized
  
• Fixed: Incorrect audio effect for key remap buttons
  
• Fixed: Incorrect audio effects for load game list items
  
• Fixed: Incorrect audio effects for save game list items
  
• Fixed: Incorrect audio effect for game menu button click
  
• Fixed: Missing UI audio effects for various UI controls

Fixes :: Misc

• Fixed: Mining selection mode not properly disabled if switching to build mode via the eye dropper function
  
• Fixed: Newly spawned robot not auto selected when activating inactive robot
  
• Fixed: Water Trap bait bonus applied even when no bait is provided
  
• Fixed: Water Trap bait tooltip says bait is required when it is not. Tooltip updated.
  
• Fixed: Assigned colonist as trainer for Memory Transfer Station preferring to use other training equipment when they should be training.
  
• Fixed: Custom scenario missing iron ingots in default supplies
  
• Fixed: Several formatting mistakes in story dialogs
  
• Fixed: Last column of color picker cut off by scroll bar
  
• Fixed: No Water hover icon appearing over objects that aren’t constructed yet
  
• Fixed: Colonist action planning and state data not properly cleaned up. This caused memory/performance issues over longer play times.

Hello sim racers!

A new RC build of rFactor 2 is available to download, including the addition of some major physics improvements, such as dynamic track temperature, new ABS and TC options, Tender Springs and more!

Find out all you need to know on the Studio 397 website, link below:

https://www.studio-397.com/2022/07/july-release-candidate-now-available/

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." The better staff you hire in ZooKeeper the easier the zoo management is going to be. Employees can largely deal with the zoo on their own, but you can manage their activities by giving them personal instructions. It's easier than you think. Just right-click on the task objective and then select a command from the list.



No one is the same, everyone is unique in their own way. Nor is everyone perfect. Every employee has their own levels, which increase when doing any activity. In the left bottom corner of the employee icon, you'll find its current level.
Clicking the employee icon will result in opening skill points distributing window. It is used to learn skills, which increase the productivity of that specific worker in many different ways. The higher the price of the employee, the more skills he has available to learn.



If you are good at something, don't do it for free - that's a golden rule of most businesses. It is no different here. In ZooKeeper you will have a panel where you will hire, fire, and manage your employees. To open the panel just click the suitcase icon. There you can view all the information about the staff and hire them. In the case of employees, you should always pay attention to the number of paid days. If it is approaching 0, you should pay for the next with the pay button. The bonus button allows you to instantly store up energy.



We know that energy costs are quite high these days, but we want to familiarize you with a different kind of energy - staff's energy. Every employee has an energy bar that shows their willingness to perform specific tasks. Let's take for instance the red color. It suggests that employee needs to rest. If this condition continues for a long time, they may leave their jobs or be even attacked by aggressive animals.
In order to increase the energy of your staff, you can send them to the employee yard for a break. On top of that, you can pay them bonuses that will definitely cheer them up.


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With the next update, we will add a total of six new items to increase the variety of items while you are playing.
For the controllable items, there are 2 new items, and for the effect items, there are 4 new ones.

But what are the new items exactly? Let us briefly explain each one.

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When the ball collects this item, it will shrink the ball temporarily. When the effect ends, the ball will return to its previous size. Also, the effect is stackable, so it is possible to shrink the ball 2 times, 3 times, or even more times.


This item is the opposite of the "shrink ball." So when the ball collects it, the ball will be enlarged temporarily.


When the ball collects this item, a glitchy distortion filter will be applied to the arena. This will temporarily decrease the visibility of the arena and makes hitting the ball(s) correctly more difficult for the player.


When the ball collects this item, the ball will be split into 2 balls. If the cloned ball leaves the arena, e.g., a goal is scored, the ball will disappear for ever and will not be spawned again.



When the player activates this item, all other item slots of the opponents will be locked temporarily, and the opponents can no longer use their items. After the effect ends, the item slots of the opponents are unlocked, and all players can use their items again.


When the player activates this item, a barricade will be temporarily placed in front of the goal of the player who activated it. The barricade deflects all balls and therefore protects the player from losing life or preventing other players from scoring.

隨著盡界戰線正式公開測試，在這邊幫大家整理一下開服後的活動：

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

活動一、開服登入雙週領取專屬獎勵
為慶祝盡界戰線公開測試，每日登入盡界戰線即可領取各種獎勵，登入七日與十四日即可獲得芙蕾雅活動限定造型：戰場上的純白茉莉以及戰場上的暗夜茉莉。

活動時間：7/14 10:00 a.m. - 8/14 09:59 a.m.
活動注意事項：此活動無須連續登入，只要在一個月內有符合獎勵資格的登入天數即可。




　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

活動二、命運羈絆之人
遊戲開發組希望大家都能玩到自己喜歡的角色，然後把自己的命中注定之人帶回家！盡界戰線開服後的一個月內的五六日全英雄免費遊玩，只要在死鬥模式中遊玩同一隻角色達15場，即可將該角色帶回家，這是只有開拓者能創造的羈絆！
活動時間：7/14 10:00 a.m. - 8/14 09:59 a.m.
活動注意事項：命運羈絆之人共可兌換兩隻角色，活動結束後仍有兩週可兌換角色的時間，若超過兌換時限則視同放棄。



　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

特別活動一、觀看實況主實況領取專屬表情！

這次我們很高興能邀請到多位重量級實況主，實況直播盡界戰線！我們團隊為了回饋這麼支持我們的實況主與各位開拓者，與實況主們合力製作了在對戰中可使用的實況主專屬表情圖示！

兌換方法如下：
Step 1：直播主們會在直播中提供兌換的序號
Step 2：各位開拓者只要進入盡界戰線的遊戲，在商城左下角輸入，就可以得到各實況主專屬的表情套組囉！
兌換時間：各實況主有兌換時限規定，請參見實況上的說明！

另外請各位特別注意!
每個帳號最多只能兌換 3 名實況主的表情圖示！
每個帳號最多只能兌換 3 名實況主的表情圖示！
每個帳號最多只能兌換 3 名實況主的表情圖示！
因為很重要，所以說三遍！

心動不如馬上行動，趕緊看看下面的時間表，關注你喜歡的實況主的直播時間！
快在遊戲中秀出各個實況主的表情符號，聲援自己最愛的實況主吧！




　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

特別活動二、媽我上電視了

v0.2.3 Changelog

• Pressing F12 no longer opens up the console screen
  
• Pressing "Right Click" on Mouse now returns you to the previous screen on the menus
  
• There is a new button on the Class selection screen that acts as Quick Setup for entering Castle Greyrot (After you complete your first stage)
  
  
  
  
• Added a new item "Retreat", which makes you quit the battle and return to the Castle... with Game Over!
  
  
  
  
• The default option for Synch Monitor is now ON, players who have 60+ FPS monitors should enable that.
  
• Disabled Keyboard input on Name Input screen in case of getting stuck on the screen.
  
• Selecting a stage no longer shows up the "Choose this stage?" question.
  
• On the Class selection screen, hovering over "Continue" and "Reset Choices" now shows up as a red icon

ACCESSIBILITY

• Set all the accessibility text-to-speech queue delays to 100 ms. These values ranged from 200 ms to 1000 ms, which on fast text-to-speech rates added noticeable delay to the messages. In the case that 100 ms is too low, this value can be adjusted in future patches.
  
• Changed the order in which the blacksmith accessible group is navigated. The success rate of reforging is now read out before the reforge button element.
  
• When opening a tooltip pop-up with the CTRL key, any currently spoken text-to-speech text is interrupted for a more responsive tooltip.
  
• During a battle, the auto-attack type of a unit is read out when highlighting a unit on the grid.
  
• Added a new help entry describing the layout of the battle grids. The help entry can be found in the help menu under the accessibility header.
  
• Fixed an issue where the hero tooltips didn't read out the selected hero's star rating correctly.
  
• Fixed a bug where the party overview displayed incorrect bonuses. The bonuses should now be displayed correctly at 1 or more, 3 or more, and 5 matching ability traits.

BUG FIXES

• Reduced the rate at which random dialogue events were displayed in chapter two and chapter three. The rate was incorrectly left too high on the patch before version 1.0.0.
  
• Fixed a bug where any score was incorrectly set to zero at the end of a playthrough. This was caused by changes to the save file format from version 0.9.1 to 1.0.0.
  
• Fixed a bug where a single quest incorrectly used the wrong and deprecated 3D environment.
  
• Fixed an audio issue where Maryu's ability Sage's Advice caused clipping.
  
• Fixed an audio issue where clipping could be heard when entering the deployment mode with multiple party members.

1. YuLv material and initial action update
   
2. Attack effect update