Jul 23, 2023

Artificer's Tower - Jason@RodentGames

Has it only been two weeks since the first regular update?! It feels like months, but with the few small patches in between, I've posted more than I thought I would.

First, let's talk about recipe tooltips. While watching other people play the game, I noticed how hard the tooltips were to read with missing ingredients. To fix this up I've changed the design to use the red background / white text I have in other areas of the UI.

Next, I've made some improvements to the crafting system. I wanted to reduce the use of keyboard input, and based on your feedback, I've made changes that should simplify the crafting experience.

I've added convenient plus and minus buttons for adjusting the quantity. For larger adjustments, hold shift while clicking to change in increments of five, or control for increments of ten. I've also introduced a new indicator over the Orders tab to keep you in the loop to show things are happening.

The latest feature addition comes courtesy of a suggestion from WanderBots - a new drag and drop functionality for your orders. This change should make managing your tasks much easier. Big thanks to WanderBots for this fantastic idea!

Looking ahead, I'm excited to introduce the final room for the full game: The Lounge. This room is a place for your mages to kick back and relax...well, for about 20 minutes before they get back to work!

Ignoring my roadmap for a moment, I've decided to leap forward and focus on creating more art for the game. So, instead of switching back to tower defense adjustments, I'm going to be working on backdrops! Stay tuned for sneak peeks of the concept art I'll be modelling this week.

As always, your feedback is invaluable to the development of Artificer's Tower.

Other things of note:
- Backquote was not easy to use in inputs due to it's use in the console which has been fixed
- Trap Room was able to equip Gruel! Removed this funny but not useful bug
- Tutorial pointer will point to mage clothing first instead of weapons
- Tutorial pointer will suggest building the Dining Hall first to avoid waiting on crafting ingredients for the Barracks
- Mages that were lying down were hard to select as the collision detection wasn't rotating with them
- Fleeing mages that could go straight back to work with little movement kept screaming while working...
- Added colour to the traits in the mage tooltip for quick identification
- Glossary page for Rooms displayed the cost per day but didn't tell the player the meaning
- Fleeing mages will properly update their current status when selected
- New loading screen tips have been added - need to add a button/interaction to pause for readability
- Room Names have been fixed up to have actual names
- Allow crafting with no amount selected which will default to 1

Thanks,
Jason

Jul 23, 2023

Sell Your Campground

Fishton: A Town to Remember - Queenfish Games

Campground

Visit Lordfish to sell the campground back to him for $40000.
Change your mind? Visit him again to buy it back.
Selling will also pay out any outstanding profit.
Selling will pay Lordfish any money you owe him.

Item Spawns

NPC will check its location more often. Dropping more vehicle parts (3-4 per location) before removing vehicle parts from the area.
Sports Car parts at Lordfish Mansion spawn more often. If needed for the story, each location has a max of 5 parts. When not needed each location has a max of 3. These areas will be cleared on exit.
Spawns unlocked with Tylers Weapons spawn items more often to a max of 4 in each location. These locations will be cleared on exit.

Fix

Vehicles no longer have cinder blocks when leaving the lift with wheels.
Fixed bumper placement on Euro Sports Car and Heavy Truck.
Starting vehicles has correct sound again.
Resized Euro Sports Car Dash.

Jul 23, 2023

Scheduled Server Maintenance - July 26th

Closers - adeenabajrai

Greetings Agents,

We will perform maintenance on the Closers World server according to the following schedule, based on your time zone:

UTC: July 26, 2023 at 5:00 AM – 10:00 AM UTC
PDT: July 25, 2023 at 10:00 PM - July 26, 2023 at 3:00 AM PDT
GMT+7: July 26, 2023 at 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM GMT +7

Please log out of the game before maintenance begins. During this period, you will not be able to access the game, and the website may not function properly.

To stay up to date with news and other information, please visit our website or follow us on social media.

We appreciate your patience and understanding!

If you have any concerns or bug reports, you may contact us at:
https://www.closersonline.com/support/qna/

Or, email us at:
http://support@closersonline.com
support@closersonline.com

Jul 23, 2023

WE'RE RELEASING August 15th!

BrVR Backrooms Virtual Reality - WooStudios

Thanks to all of our good feedback and positive interactions with our wonderful community, we've grown from a showcase of janky mechanics to an actual pretty polished game. Through tireless hours of fixing bugs, and even more adding suggested and original content, we've come a long way.

So, since we think the game is up to certain standards, we're releasing full release on August 15th. This means, to take the time we need to polish every last thing for full release, we will be pausing the weekly updates until August 15th. This means a likely massive changelog for the full release.

Thank you BrVR Family for doing what you do and being awesome!