Quilts & Cats of Calico is a wholesome digital adaptation of the award-winning puzzle board game Calico for 1-4 players. Your goal is to collect as many points as possible by sewing the best quilt designs that appeal to cute but fussy cats. Pet and customize kitties, play solo or with others and explore the intriguing world where cats come first and people compete with machines!
For some time now, our great ambition has been to create the best board game adaptations. For us, creating a digital version of Wingspan was and still is a great developing adventure full of birds and captivating nature. Quilts & Cats of Calico is the next title of its kind that we will be making after Wingspan. We hope you will be charmed by the cuddly cats of Quilts & Cats of Calico as much as we are.
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We also invite you to the Quilts & Cats of Calico Discord server. You’ll find there a sign-up form for the game's beta tests on Steam, about which more information will be coming soon.
It's patch time! There's a lot of new dialog in this patch. It's a lot of little things, but probably the biggest addition is that when you ask people "What's up?" they will gossip about the skills of their other community members, telling you how bad someone is at archery or how great they are at construction, for example.
To help you keep track of all this I've introduced the Character Notes/Brain Scan screen. This was a feature in the original Survivalist - if you had a brain scanner, you could see a screen showing people's personality and opinions. I've reintroduced it, but you don't need a brain scanner. Their personality, relationships and skills are revealed as you discover them by talking to people. (If you have a brain scanner, everything is revealed automatically.) It's easiest to explain with a picture:
You can show that screen by highlighting a character and pressing B. I've also tried to make less likely that people will keep repeating the same lines in response to "What's up?", e.g. if you already know someone likes chili, they won't keep telling you that.
Another big dialog change is I rewrote the questions you ask to determine if someone has invisible strain. I wasn't very happy with the writing before. There are more of them now, and they're less waffly, and the responses are more varied so they help you discover people's personalities as well as if they have Invisible Strain. Speaking of Invisible Strain, infected characters can sometimes just silently kill people in your community now instead of biting them and spreading the infection.
Other notable additions
I've tried to increase the difficulty of fighting NPC communities by making looter settlements hire mercenaries from outside the map to come and attack you, if you are at war with them.
You can make people run when doing tasks for you, by ticking an Urgent checkbox on the Role display on the Inventory screen. They'll also take less time to craft and build stuff. There's a trade-off - they'll get unhappy that you're overworking them. But they will also respect you a little bit. You can also toggle this Urgent setting on and off by pressing the Sprint button as they are going about their task.
Here's the full list:
Added Notes/Brain Scan screen showing the personality, skills, relationships and memories of the person you are talking to, if they are known
Added dialog in reply to What's Up where people tell you about the skills of others in their community
Rewrote the Invisible Strain interrogation dialog, and added the option to accuse someone of having Invisible Strain (available once that interrogation dialog is discovered)
Characters with Invisible Strain can sometimes just silently kill people instead of infecting them
When you are at war with a looter settlement, they will hire mercenaries to attack you
When recruiting people from AI settlements, if more than one would be joining you they will ask if that's okay first
Added surrender dialog for if you carry an unconscious enemy back to your base and bandage them and look after them until they revive
Dialog for if you try to make an alliance with a community whose leader is dead
Ask someone who's drunk what's up, they might say something drunk. Ask someone who's bleeding/infected how they're feeling, they should say 'I need bandages/antigen!'
Added some other bits of gossip dialog, and tweaked some of the existing lines
Added personality type for liking snacks/sweet food, which you can gift cookies to
Extortion squads will demand to be let into your gates instead of just overriding the permission state
Made it possible to open gates of an enemy community if they are all unconscious
Some tweaks to LeadershipDefeated memory to give morale boosts when you defeat raiders
Some tweaks to how roles are displayed on the Community screen
Added Urgent checkbox to roles, which makes them run when they go about the task. Using this makes them dislike you but slightly respect you a bit over time.
People chopping wood etc to take over a building can take more than one piece at a time
Fix for refugees having a negative 'LeftCommunity' memory of others from the group after they all join you
Fix for bandaging sound not playing in multiplayer
Fix for it being possible to throw things outside the terrain boundaries, which could then cause a crash
Allow depressed characters to be controlled if there is no leader, so you can choose a new one
Fix for characters being able to repair or capture buildings outside of their zone
Fix for glitch when you go unconscious in a building and NPCs rescue you, where you teleport back to the building
Fix for NPCs declaring war on you when you throw a single snowball at them
Fix for Stop Role: Supplies command not working
Fix for an odd bug where you sometimes can't speak to people after an Invisible Strain character is deleted somewhere
Fix for some Cyrillic characters not displaying correctly
Fix for same turf war/rebellion/intimidation quest being given twice after change of leader
Possible fix for multithreading crash
Made game less likely to crash if a quest in a mod is deleted
What's this publicbeta thing?
v172 will be in the "publicbeta" branch for a while, before pushing it to the main game. If you want to try the latest features as they come out (and help test them!) it's a good idea to start using this branch. But keep in mind:
Because it's the bleeding edge it could be less stable
If you want to be able to play online co-op with someone you'll need to be on the same version as them
If you go back from the "publicbeta" branch to the main branch you may not be able to load savegames created on "publicbeta".
To use publicbeta, just right-click on Survivalist: Invisible Strain in your Steam library and go to Properties, then Betas and in the drop-down select "publicbeta".
Step into a world full of cats and warm quilts. A place where you can take a break from your daily chores and spend time relaxing sewing and taking care of your frisky kitties. 😼
The world of Quilts & Cats of Calico.
Quilts & Cats of Calico is an adaptation of the board game Calico. Your goal is to collect as many points as possible by sewing the best quilt designs that appeal to cute but fussy cats. 😸
Pet and customize kitties, play solo or with others and explore the intriguing world where people compete with machines! And meet cats. Lots of cats.
We have much more to tell you about Quilts & Cats of Calico. Follow us here, in our newsletter, and on Twitter and Facebook for more tidbits about this cozy universe. We'll tell you more about the cats, the story, and the mechanics waiting for you soon!
Last but not least!
We warmly invite you to the official Quilts & Cats of Calico server on Discord! Whether you're a fan of the board version of the game, curious about the upcoming digital version or just love cats and board games - this is the place for you!
What's more, you'll find there a form to sign up for the closed beta test of the game!
That's it for today. Take care and have a purrfect rest of the week. 😻 Monster Couch Team
New feature that long awaited added to the game; LeaderBoard Ranking. This feature require players to test and see if the leaderboard ranking works for all players. If issues happens, please inform us by commenting here~
Upgraded T-80U MBT with a hard-kill active protection system will be the main tank prize of the upcoming special winter event!
T-80UM-2, main battle tank, USSR, rank VII. Event vehicle.
Features:
Drozd hard-kill APS
Decent armor-piercing rounds
Good max speed
Lacks thermal vision
The T-80UM-2 was one of the prototypes created under the upgrade program of the T-80U tanks, which were produced by the Omsk Transport Engineering Plant. The T-80UM-2 was equipped with the Drozd hard-kill active protection system. After a dynamic demonstration in 1997 of the only T-80UM-2 built, the vehicle did not go into further series.
The main prize of the upcoming winter event for War Thunder tankers will be the Soviet experimental main battle tank T-80UM-2 with the Drozd hard-kill active protection system. The very high combat characteristics of the nimble Soviet top-tier MBT are complemented by an ability of destroying guided anti-tank missiles on approach! Neat!
The T-80UM-2 is a modified T-80U main battle tank already familiar to the weathered commanders of Russian armored vehicles. An oft picked vehicle for high-ranking battles in War Thunder, this tank is distinguished by high speed and mobility, has an automatic loader, capable of firing ATGMs directly from the gun, and is armed with a punchy AP round capable of penetrating over 500 mm armor at all firing distances. In addition, the T-80U is quite well protected, especially at the front, where multilayer combined armor are supplemented by the ERA modules. All these advantages are raised by the T-80UM-2 that offers additional hard-kill APS protection.
The Drozd active protection system is also known to the players in the T-55AMD-1 tank. Unlike the Iron Fist system of the British Challenger Black Knight tank, the Russian Drozd only protects the front of the tank’s turret, albeit in a rather wide sector. On the other hand, the Russian APS has twice as many shots as the British. The Drozd is effective against anti-tank guided missiles, which are the main weapon of the light ATGM carriers and helicopters. With some probability, the hard-kill APS is also able to counteract HEAT rounds at the end of the trajectory, but it still remains powerless against kinetic rounds.
A fly in the ointment is the lack of thermal vision devices in the crew sights. Since the tank was built as a prototype, the old fire control system remained from the original T-80U. In night battles, the T-80UM-2 relies on night vision devices and an IR searchlight.
The T-80UM-2 will become a rank VII event vehicle of the Soviet tech tree, which will go to the most stubborn participants of the special winter event in War Thunder. We will soon announce more information about other prizes and rules of the event here, in the Development Diaries series. Stay tuned friends!
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Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok - Noxfall Studios
Hi everyone! Here's the Official Roadmap we will be following. Just 1 week left!! We are polishing the last details and finishing the last Relics and Achievements! Have a great day!
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Catgirls From My Sweet Dream is already here! A wonderful journey to Nekoville begins here and now! Cute pointy-eared catgirls are eager to meet you, don’t keep them waiting. ːcom_conː
We guarantee you will have the most chill and vibing experience. Light Lofi hip-hop tracks, cute animated catgirls and gorgeous chill backgrounds. ːcom_winkː
Sakura, Miyuki and Yumeko need your help. Together you will be able to solve all their problems and make Nekoville great again! They will be VERY grateful for your selfless acts of help ♥️
We’ve been making this game for a very long time and we’ve been doing out best to ensure that the game is as cute and as chill as possible. I like the end result. Hope you will too ːcom_loveː
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