With new year come new ideas, resolutions and plans! I've divided 2023 into month-long chunks. Today come the first of the bigger updates: new improved images and portraits! I won't be meddling in them anymore which gives me more time to polish up the story texts and finish up the features I'd promised to deliver. I would also like to announce that the wiki is coming up nicely and should be ready next month!
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Apart from the pictures, I also improved three texts of the story. Enjoy!
1.Fixed the problem that bottled Gas and its high level skills do not disappear when the active skills are released after Great Beauty has passed Divinity; the active skills can not trigger the bottled Gas now. 2.Fixed the problem of not releasing skills after dodging to 60 withShadow Steps. 3.Fixed the problem that the damage of Common Bathroomfly generated by splitting is incorrect. 4.Fixed the problem that the range does not become bigger after the Avatar of Life and Death. 5.Fixed the problem that the range of the Living Death does not become bigger after Synergy. 6.Adjusted the dice mechanism, uniformly consume 10% of current HP, each throw will reduce defense 7.Adjusted the Even Loan. 8.Tile By Combat cooldown is unified to 3 seconds, experience multiplier is -90%/-60%/-30% respectively when it synergys 9.Adjusted Fake Master effect. 10.Adjusted Fake Master effect. 11.Adjust the brightness of special effect when picking up money 12.Fixed some wrong text.
Good news!!! Steam has approved my playtest/beta build and the Steam keys are in! To request a key, watch my dev stream at https://twitch.tv/bjcampolo, Mondays and Wednesdays at 8-10pm ET. Click Follow and use your Channel Reward points on the item named Starship Empire Beta Steam Key.
Added "To Desktop" option from in game menu screen instead of having to use "To Title" and then the "Quit" option. Game will now open into Full Screen now. Use F4 if you want to exit full screen back into windowed mode.
Salamander County Public Television has been updated to v1.1.1! It's a relatively minor update, containing a few bug fixes that were in the console release, along with a few other bug fixes and changes for the Steam version specifically.
Gameplay Changes
Donut Production Line: multiple changes to make the game more consistent, especially for speedrunning:
for the first 50 donuts, roughly every third donut is guaranteed to be a match (non-guaranteed donuts still have a 1/3 chance of being a match)
for donuts 51-100, roughly every sixth donut is guaranteed to be a match
it's now easier to score a perfect donut
combining incorrect donut halves now reduces your lives by 1
Medal Target Changes
The Dog with the Strongest Tongue: reduced bonus from 300 packing peanuts to 250 packing peanuts Cheese Eater: reduced bonus from 1000 rotations to 500 rotations
Bug Fixes
Game Select: fixed an incorrect control icon for Pineapples Suck Mitosis Bowling: set the minimum physics refresh rate to 60 fps to make the physics more stable on low-end hardware Burger Building Bonanza: fixed a bug where pausing the game could cause the next topping to become undroppable Pineapples Suck: improved performance Pineapples Suck: fixed a bug where the vacuum sound could overlap when restarting or exiting the level Defeat the Boss: fixed a bug where the vacuum sound could overlap when restarting or exiting the level Taco Tom Can Dab: fixed a bug where the notes could become permanently desynced from the music, often when streaming the game on Discord Taco Tom Can Dab: improved performance
Other Changes
Game select: updated description for Synchronized Lawnmowers On Ice's bonus Defeat the Boss: the credits will only be loaded the first time the level is beaten Taco Tom Can Dab: adjusted the background video colors Credits: minor update