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• How long until we complete Prince of Suburbia?
  
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• Will we continue the story or create a sequel?
  
• What are our plans for a third game?

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- Fixed an issue where survival shard dust was tradeable
- Fixed an issue where you could spend medals on an invalid devolve
-Made gear, gold, and mana sell/de-spawn after each wave. The gold and mana change is only for survival
- Fixed wave 125 flair reward
-Fixed survival challenges being awarded 1 wave late
- Fixed an issue where the survival wave selector wasn't updating going from the world map to the advanced view
- Fixed an issue where the defender pack reward was showing a brainless pack
- Potentially fixed an issue where the checkpoint selector wouldn't update properly
-Fixed matchmaking_survival default session message
- Fixed an issue where the loot pop up setting wasn't working for survival
- Fixed an issue where the survival shard buyback wasn't using dust
-Fixed 100,000 gold items not giving gold on use
- Adjusted c13 Scedules ( Waves 111 - 130 )
- Fixed Long Shot shard chaos tier being c6 not survival
-Fixed visual bug with defense resist on godly relics saying it's invalid for tower type

We were not sure what to expect in terms of numbers in a fierce competition on Steam, but you made us quickly readjust our assumptions. We now have over 60 000 players just on Steam! That accounts for around 40% of all players which is a great number!

It is not all about numbers, though. We - and I personally - appreciate all your feedback, your ideas, discussions, community activities here on Steam. The amount of good vibes and genuine interest is unrivaled when it comes to other places where Beecarbonize is available.

We hoped that Beecarbonize can be that one of our games that will make people excited - and you made that happen! So thanks a lot, I mean it.



Some of you are asking how to support us. The best thing you can do right now is review the game, tell your friends about it. And if you are among many who wrote us that we should charge money or that they would happily pay for it, check out our other games. They might not be the roguelike-inspired strategy resource sim like Beecarbonize, but they are doing their own thing, one that is socially-engaged no less.

Attentat 1942 and Svoboda 1945 quite literally made our studio and we still hold these historical adventures dear to our hearts. And now they are on the lowest ever sale! Links below.

So again, thanks so much, it's a pleasure to share this gaming space with you.

Take care
Ondrej
Charles Games

The games:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/676630/Attentat_1942/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1076620/Svoboda_1945_Liberation/

The latest update includes a bit of an overhaul to the letter recipe system and the recipe journal. We have added many new recipes to the game, and removed a couple of the least intuitive ones. However, you don't have to discover them all to complete your recipe book.

If you've already earned the achievement for completing your recipe book, don't worry - that won't go away!


Each letter has some "standard recipes", which look like this in the recipe book when you have not yet discovered them:



Once you discover a standard recipe, it looks like this in the book:



In order to "complete your recipe book", you need to discover all of the standard recipes. The recipe count at the top of the journal shows your progress (this number may change as we make more updates):



But what is that + 4?? That shows that this player has discovered 4 hidden recipes. You may have found some secret characters already, but now we have expanded this system to include regular letters with some of the more unusual recipes. For example, if you discover a hidden recipe for A, it will appear like this in the recipe book (recipe redacted):



This way, you will be rewarded for experimenting and trying out-of-the-box ideas to form letters, but it is purely a bonus, and not a requirement to complete the book.


Thank you to everyone who submitted recipe feedback! If you have more ideas, please continue to send them with this form.

Shift key run-factor changed from x2.0 to x2.5.
Climbing terrain reduces speed.
Water is more toxic.
Helicopter is 16% faster.
Boat is 37% faster.
Ambient radiation-damage no longer reaches player with a delay, but at light-speed, to avoid confusion with damage from energy-projectile.
Red-screen from radiation-damage is signaled screen-upper instead of center.
In-air multi-jump no longer allowed (contact with geometry or ground required).
Updated boat physics to stop boat in contact with static geometry.
Updated boat physics reducing jitter when driving.
Updated game controller zero value to reduce drifting when standing still.
When flying above max altitude there is a warning sound.
Penalty for flying helicopter above max altitude is much higher.
When menu is open game world no longer updates.
Helicopter fuel consumption procedure was refined.
Video footage on cartridges was replaced.
Sequence after game is completed was refined.
Various cosmetic and gameplay tweaks.

Hey, Alchemists!

We're coming up to the end of the Next Fest demo, but don't worry – Moonstone Island will be out this Summer, so you won't have long to wait for the full game (and we won't boot you out after two weeks, either!)

Today, we wanted to show off some of the cards in our game. We're really influenced by games like Slay the Spire, where individual cards can make or break a deck, but you can also create decks that center around one particular mechanic.

Turns out deckbuilding is really hard! You have to focus on balance and creating mechanics and systems that tie into each other in a really satisfying way. We like it a lot, though, and we're really proud of the cards we've created. We know that not all cozy gamers are versed at card-games, so let's break down our cards:



Title: The name of the card! If it has a little + next to it, it's the upgraded version.
Type: Skill or Attack. Pretty self-explanatory!
Element: This matches the type of the Spirit it belongs to. If the enemy Spirits are weak to it, it does extra damage and removes their Armor!
Cost: How many of your Energy points the card costs. Some are free, others cost all your Energy!
Rarity: This rating tells you how rare and also how powerful a card is. The rarity scale goes up to 9!
Description: Tells you what the card does.

So, this card is called Calm Spirit, and it's not very rare at all. It costs 1 Energy, as you can see in the top-left corner, and it has three effects: it draws one card, removes one Armor, and inflicts Calm on the Spirit, which stops it from playing Attack cards for one turn.

Here, you can see three Tackle cards, each doing different damage based on the Spirit's Attack stat, and whether or not the card is upgraded. Tackle cards are the basic cards that all Spirits have, along with Bash cards, which reduce Armor. You can get rid of these cards if you want, but we hear there are cards out there that work well with a Tackle-filled deck...



Here's a slightly rarer card – it's Burgloon's 'Flip Switch', which costs 2 Energy, and deals 8 Electric damage, three times. Combine this with the Attack-boosting Charge buff, and take the Armor off the enemy, and you could be doing massive amounts of damage, because Charge increases the damage of each attack. Instead of hitting for 8 damage, you could be hitting for 15 damage... three times.

We can't wait to hear what kind of decks and strategies you've figured out! The exciting part of making a deck builder is that the power is in the player's hands – there are combos out there that we don't even know about!

~ Kate, community Manager, and Card Shark

Shops, shops, and more shops...

• Bait shop: Fresh fish smell worse than you, which is saying something. Fishing gear might help get more food.
  
• Tavern: Everyone loves a good drink and gossip, plus some occasional brawls to liven up the weekends.
  
• Salon: Maybe it'll convince you to change your face or something.
  
• Clinic: For those sensitive wimps who need more than a bandaid for their boo-boos.
  
• Clothing shop: Change those filthy rags; style doesn't cost anything.
  
• Café and bakery: Food and drinks, duh. Basic survival stuff.
  
• Museum: Boring, but apparently crucial for tourism. Fill it up with exhibits or whatever.
  
• Workshop: That oily mess is all yours. Do your crafting stuff there, far away from me.
  
• Furniture shop: Get furniture and some crafting recipes to save a buck.
  
• School: Some less bright folks here need all the help they can get, so fix that school for them.
  
• Lighthouse: No idea why we need it. I guess to keep those fools from shipwrecking all the time.

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Bark, Bone, and Blood - Wishlist now!

This DLC contains:
Legendary Hunter - Iron Bark
Caldwell Rival 78 - Bonecutter
LeMat Mark II - Hunter's Guide
Knuckle Knife - Traitor’s Tooth

Become the Iron Bark and Wishlist now:
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Bug fixed:
- Where volley shots from the player's weapons fired backwards through the player after changing direction

Improvements:
- In the weapon skill tree, the prerequisites for research are now displayed one window earlier

We're excited to invite you to the Experimental version of the upcoming Sealed Forest Update. It will introduce the proper Sealed Forest biome with unique visuals and gameplay mechanics.

This Experimental Update features only the mechanical aspects. All the visual assets are placeholders that will be replaced when the proper update goes live.

Important: as with any other Experimental Update, the upcoming changes are not localized, there can be bugs, and the balance is likely to feel off. If this doesn’t sound fun to you, we recommend skipping this experiment.

You can find more information about the Experimental Branch in our guide:
EXPERIMENTAL BRANCH GUIDE

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We finally have a solid release date for the Sealed Forest Update. It’s going to be available on the main branch on August 31.

It’s going to happen later than we teased during our Twitch livestreams but we made this decision for a few reasons. Mainly, our team is going to the gamescom fair in Cologne only a few days after the update would go live. We’re worried we wouldn’t be able to properly support the update post-launch and fix the issues that might occur.

Nevertheless, we hope it will be worth the wait!

Now, let’s dive into the changes introduced in the update.

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So far, the Sealed Forest was just a placeholder biome with placeholder effects. Now, we’re introducing a fully-fledged Ancient Seal mechanic that is unique to this biome. Your goal is to find the Ancient Seal and collect Guardian Parts necessary to summon the Ancient Guardian.

Somewhere in this thick and dark forest, an ancient seal is hidden. Even the Ancients, with all their might and glory, could only contain the creatures slumbering below, so they just imprisoned them. Over millennia, their sinister power gradually seeped to the surface, infecting the fauna and flora of this region. Viceroys don't embark here to establish settlements or gain reputation, their main goal is simply to find and close the Seal.

Sealed Forest trees

The flora in this region is bizarrely mutated. Overgrown trees with a lot more resource charges can be found in the forest. Abyssal trees (regular) contain 2 charges, while overgrown trees (large) contain 20 charges. By chopping the trees, you can acquire:

• Wood (100% chance)
  
• Meat (10% chance)
  
• Sea Marrow (10% chance)
  
• Leather (10% chance)

But beware! Your woodcutters don't increase Hostility but every 10 felled trees add 2 Hostility points (scaled based on the difficulty level).

A broken Ancient Seal is hidden somewhere in the Sealed Forest. To find it, you must first look for clues in the surrounding glades. Every glade contains a Destroyed Guidance Stone that points to the location of the Ancient Seal.

Destroyed Guidance Stone pointing south-west

Evil has survived. The Sealed Ones enter our realm through the broken Seal. Terrible plagues are sent to destroy us. Collect the lost fragments of the Ancient Guardian to summon it and close the Seal.

Ancient Seal

This game can't be won by earning Reputation Points. To succeed, you must find and close the Seal. You can still get Blueprint Bonuses and Forsaken Altar activations for reaching certain Reputation thresholds, but reaching the limit won’t finish the game.

Ancient Seal panel

The Ancient Seal panel consists of different elements:

• The Seal Keeper dialogue box.
  
• Plague description and countdown.
  
• Ancient Guardian parts progress
  
• Part variants and conditions.
  
• Part rewards.

Let’s take a closer look at them.

To reforge the Seal you must rebuild the Ancient Guardian by obtaining its heart, blood, feathers, and life essence.

Four parts are necessary to summon the Guardian:

• Heart of the Guardian
  
• Blood of the Guardian
  
• Feathers of the Guardian
  
• Life Essence of the Guardian

There are three different variants of each part. To acquire one of them, you must prove your proficiency in a certain area.

For example, here are three variants of the Heart:

• Heart of Amber - Sell goods worth at least 100 Amber in a single transaction.
  
• Heart of the Forest - Earn 3 Reputation Points from Events.
  
• Mechanical Heart - Install at least 6 Rain Engines in production buildings.

You only need to obtain one of them to progress the Seal and uncover the objectives of the next Guardian part.

After acquiring each of the Guardian's parts, you will receive a choice of Epic Cornerstone from the Seal Keeper.

By collecting all four Guardian parts, the Seal will be reforged! The Blighstorm comes yet again, but the future looks a little brighter. You will receive extra Citadel Resources, the Cycle will be prolonged (only once per each Seal level), and new Seals will appear on the World Map.

The mere presence of the Ancient Seal summons foul plagues on your settlement.

Every year, during the Storm, one of 13 plagues will be unleashed upon your settlement. Some exemplary ones are:

• Plague of Malady - The Sealed Ones have inflicted a mysterious disease. Villagers take longer rests and have a higher chance of consuming twice as much food during a break.
  
• Plague of Darkness - Some say this is the beginning of the end. The Storm season is longer and sacrificing goods at the Ancient Hearth is blocked.
  
• Plague of Blindness - When they lost their sight, they lost all hope along with it. All villagers move slower and have a chance of destroying a production yield.
  
• And others.

You can check what’s the Current Plague and then what the Next Plague will be (and how much time you have left before it starts.)

The Plagues will activate every year, even if you haven’t found the Ancient Seal yet. Finding an Ancient Seal allows you to check which Plague comes next.

A powerful ancient structure that allows you to summon aid directly from the Citadel.

Beacon Tower

The Beacon Tower is a new building, available only in the Sealed Forest biome. You must spend 2 Planks, 2 Bricks, and 2 Fabric to build it.

The Beacon Tower allows you to select up to five, free abilities at any time during the game. They’re divided into three categories: Supplies, Bells, and Miracles. They range from one-time packs of supplies to effects that are active for one season.

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The proper Sealed Forest Update that releases on August 31 will include plenty of new visuals and audio:

• Sealed Forest biome (unique trees, ground, and ambience)
  
• Ancient Seal building
  
• Animation of reforging the Seal
  
• Beacon Tower building
  
• Destroyed Guidance Stone building
  
• Custom icons
  
• Improved Ancient Seal panel
  
• New music tracks
  
• New sounds

In the meantime, we will also monitor your feedback and adjust the balance where necessary.

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In order to play on the Sealed Forest Biome, you need to switch to the Experimental Branch. Here’s how to do it:

• Open Steam
  
• Right-click on Against the Storm in your library
  
• Select Properties
  
• Go to BETAS tab
  
• Choose “experimental” from the drop-down list
  
• Wait for the game to update the files
  
• Launch the game

To switch back to the regular version, please repeat the steps above but choose “None” from the drop-down list in Step 5.

The Experimental Branch includes a developer console that provides various useful commands. You can open the console by pressing the ~ key on your keyboard.

Useful commands:

• debug.worldMap 1 - Allows you to place finished settlements on the World Map by holding Shift and clicking on a tile.
  
• game.win - after embarking, in the city-building mode, this command wins the game.
  
• meta.addEarly - unlocks early Smoldering City Upgrades (up to level 4), completes the Silver Seal, and advances to level 4.
  
• meta.addMiddle - unlocks middle Smoldering City Upgrades (up to level 9), completes the Platinum Seal (Prestige 5), and advances to level 9.
  
• meta.addLate - unlocks late Smoldering City Upgrades (up to level 14), completes the Titanium Seal (Prestige 15), and advances to level 14.
  
• meta.addAll - unlocks all Smoldering City Upgrades, completes all Seals, and advances to level 18.
  
• worldMap.addSealFragments - add Seal Fragments.
  
• worldMap.addModifiersRewards - adds Royal Resupply.
  
• worldMap.addAllMC - adds 777 of each Citadel Currency.

You can find the full list of commands here.

CHECK THE FULL LIST OF COMMANDS

Important: We recommend playing with at least the early meta (meta.addEaly) as the Bronze (Settler) and Lead (Pioneer) Seals require additional balancing work.

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If you encounter any issues, please let us know about them:

• Describe the issue and frequency of occurrence.
  
• (If possible) include a screenshot or a video of the issue.
  
• Include the zipped contents of your entire Experimental saves folder:
  
  %userprofile%\appdata\locallow\Eremite Games\Against the Storm - Experimental

You can send the report with files on Discord or via email: support@eremitegames.freshdesk.com


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If you decide to play the Experimental Update, please share your thoughts with us!

Primarily, we are interested in your answers to the following questions:

• How do you feel about the new Sealed Forest mechanics? Are they fun?
  
• How would you rate the challenges posed in this biome? How did the difficulty feel when compared to other biomes?
  
• Is there anything that stuck out? Any moments that were especially memorable for you (good or bad)?
  
• Is there anything about these new mechanics that makes the gameplay feel worse (especially more repetitive) or better (especially more diverse)?

We can’t wait to hear your impressions once you give the new Experimental Update a try!

May the storm be gentle on you,
Eremite Games

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