Hi everyone! Terra Invicta version 0.4.18, our biggest update in some time, is now available on Steam for all players.

Important Note: Version 0.4 builds do not support version 0.3 saves. Follow these steps to keep playing your 0.3 saves.

• Go to PROPERTIES -> Betas menu in Steam.
  
• Select and revert to version 0.3.138.
  
• This version will remain available indefinitely.
  
• Some players have reported crashes after reverting. If that occurs, first validate your files in Steam. If it still doesn't work, reinstall Terra Invicta.

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Geographic Expansion: More than 80 regions added to the Earth map, with changes to meganations and new breakaways including:

• Switzerland
  
• Austria
  
• The Netherlands
  
• Serbia
  
• Moldova
  
• Latvia
  
• Lithuania
  
• Estonia
  
• North Macedonia
  
• Albania
  
• Lebanon
  
• Republic of the Congo
  
• Ghana
  
• Malawi
  
• Cabo Verde
  
• Uganda
  
• Djibouti
  
• United Arab Emirates
  
• Sierra Leone
  
• Liberia
  
• Papua New Guinea
  
• Palestine
  
• Somaliland

• Large Comets: Now travel throughout the Solar System, displaying prominent tails as they approach the sun. These comets are potential sources of water and volatile materials, beneficial for colonization in the arid zones of the inner Solar System.
  
• New Moons: Recent astronomical discoveries around Uranus and Neptune have been added, now with more creative names than their original catalog numbers.
  
• Kuiper Belt Enhancements: Updated with the latest data, providing a more accurate representation of this distant region.

• Named Officers: Ships now feature named officers as a new form of experience system.
  
• Promotable Officer Classes: You can promote up to 15 different officer classes, such as admirals, captains, and weapon officers, each providing unique bonuses.
  
• Officer Development: Most officers will spawn and enhance their abilities during battle, contributing to strategic advantages against alien and human adversaries.

• Economic and GHG Emission Linking: Improved modeling to better connect national economies with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
  
• Sustainability Rating: Introduced a sustainability rating for each nation, reflecting GHG output in relation to expected levels based on the nation’s population and economic size.
  
• Welfare Priority Implementation: Added a welfare priority system to boost sustainability ratings up to a set maximum. Reaching this maximum involves significant technological advancements and concerted efforts.
  
• GHG Removal: Once the maximum sustainability is achieved, nations will begin actively removing GHGs from the atmosphere.
  
• Natural Uptake Mechanics: Refined the mechanics for natural GHG uptake, increasing the difficulty of improving sustainability ratings as they near zero emissions.

• Enhanced Progression: Redesigned the fusion propulsion technology tree for clearer progression paths.
  
• Consolidation: Condensed weapon and electrical propulsion development to streamline technologies.
  
• System Updates: Eliminated several older drive systems, replacing them with more advanced and intriguing fusion systems.

• New Progression: Updated particle weapons technology sequence, now consisting of e-beamers, ion cannons, neutral particle cannons, antimatter cannons, and neutron cannons.
  
• Damage Capabilities: These weapons can inflict normal thermal damage and penetrate standard armor to cause radiation damage to vulnerable systems such as computers and crew.
  
• Strategic Impact: While particle beams are not typically lethal to ships themselves, they can disable crucial onboard systems and result in the loss of crew and officers.

• New Enemies: Added three new classes of alien ships, tailored as their own versions of the escort, monitor, and cruiser.

• ECM Modules: Enhanced to potentially impose a forced cooldown on any weapon that targets the ship equipped with the ECM.
  
• Missile Defense Capability: ECM modules can still disable incoming missiles before impact, but this no longer applies to nuclear and antimatter missiles, which will detonate upon reaching their target.
  
• New Module: Introduced a targeting computer module that allows ships to counteract enemy ECM effects.
  
• Cooldown Duration: The length of the forced cooldown is determined by an internal success-failure roll.

• Damage Exit Dynamics: Adjusted so that under certain conditions, damage from kinetic, penetrator, or beam weapons with a small point of contact can exit a ship rather than being applied internally.
  
• Weapon Immunity: Explosive warheads, nuclear weapons, and antimatter weapons are not affected by this change and will continue to deliver internal damage.
  
• Increased Survivability: This modification aims to enhance ship survivability by preventing some forms of damage from affecting the ship's internal systems.
  
• Expanded Role for Explosive Weapons: Provides a broader operational niche for explosive weaponry, emphasizing their effectiveness and distinct impact in combat scenarios.

• War Simulation Enhancements: Improved mechanics to more accurately simulate prolonged, attritional wars as well as rapid invasions against significantly weaker opponents.
  
• Invasion Difficulty: Increased the difficulty and duration of invasions when targeting near-peer nations.
  
• Occupation Dynamics: Extended the time required to occupy large and densely populated regions, reflecting the complexities involved in controlling such areas.

• Scaling Effects: Adjusted so that benefits impacting national statistics now scale with a country's population. Consequently, progress on goals like GDP growth or reducing inequality will occur more slowly in larger nations like China compared to smaller ones like Botswana.
  
• Strategic Trade-offs for Meganations: Introduces more complex decision-making for larger nations, balancing their size with the agility needed to implement changes.
  
• Enhanced Advisor Role: The 'Advise' councilor mission has been significantly enhanced to improve a nation’s economic performance more effectively while active. Deploying a high-administration councilor to manage capitals of large empires can help mitigate the challenges these meganations face under the new system.

• Enhanced Armaments: Introduction of several new weapons and modules, including the 40mm autocannon, siege coilguns, and a variety of high-performance missile systems.
  
• Additional Ship Features: Added the flag bridge and the salvage bay to enhance strategic and recovery capabilities.
  
• Alien Arsenal Expansion: The alien forces have also received new, potent weaponry for use in the late game, increasing the challenge and diversity of combat encounters.

• Habitat Core Costs: Small habitat cores now require more mission control (MC) resources, while larger habitats cost less.
  
• Mining Module Changes: Mining modules no longer consume MC resources.
  
• Mine Cap Adjustments: The cap on the number of mines you can operate without additional MC costs has shifted from a per-planet to a per-mine basis, allowing for more strategic flexibility.
  
• Technological Impact on Caps: The cap on mines will now increase as technological advancements are made.
  
• Expansion on Mars: The number of habitat sites on Mars has been expanded to 25.

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While this update includes extensive adjustments, there's more to explore. For detailed patch notes, visit: Pavonis Interactive Patch Notes.

Reporting Issues: If you encounter any crashes or bugs, please report them via our Discord server or email us at support@pavonisinteractive.com with the following:

• Your save file
  
• Player.log and Player-prev.log files from %HOMEPATH%\AppData\LocalLow\Pavonis Interactive\Terra Invicta
  
• A description of the steps that led to the issue.

AI Stability Concerns: You might encounter a prompt indicating that the AI has encountered an error, particularly at the start of the campaign. We are actively working to identify and resolve these rare bugs.

Combat UI Updates: The user interface for reporting damage from ionizing radiation to enemy ships in combat is still under development and being refined for better functionality.

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Thanks to all our players who spent time trying out the build and helping us hunt down bugs and giving us feedback -- with an extra shout-out to the researchers, veterans, and generally well-read folk, as well as a particular nuclear engineer, for lending us their expertise and keeping many aspects of the game in the realm of plausibility. We’re ultimately a small team making a big game, and the support of our players during EA makes this a better game for everyone. We encourage everyone to join our Discord to take part in the feedback process.And there’s more to do. No doubt there will be bugs to fix and things to balance in future 0.4 patches. We’re also working hard on new gameplay features and also the UI and AI improvements we know the game needs before we can take it out of EA. (We do shout ‘git gud’ at the AI every single day, but we think it’s ignoring us.)

Content changed:

- The "Freedom" achievement is now being unlocked.
- Texts that didn't appear in the Portuguese version are now working perfectly.

Multipliers for the next weekdays in Karos Classic:

💛15.04 - Experience x4, Fletta x4
💛16.04 - Experience x4, Fletta x4, Carats x4
💛17.04 - Experience x4, Fletta x4, Drop x4
💛18.04 - Experience x4, Fletta x4
💛19.04 - Experience x4, Fletta x4, Pet Experience x4

Play with pleasure!

Multipliers for the next weekdays in Karos:

💚15.04 - Carats x3
💚16.04 - Pet Experience x3
💚17.04 - Experience x3
💚18.04 - Drop x3
💚19.04 - Fletta x3

Play with pleasure!

Let your favorite game bring a good mood, and let the rates bring you a quick pumping!

In the near future you can fall under the good magic of rates:

🌸17.04 - x2 drops
🌸18.04 - x2 varnish
🌸20.04 - x2 drop, x3 varnish
🌸21.04 - x3 experience, x3 varnish

We wish you brilliant victories!

Let your favorite game bring a good mood, and let the multipliers bring you a quick development!

In the near future you can fall under the good magic of rates:

🌷17.04 — x2 experience
🌷18.04 — x2 drop
🌷20.04 — x2 drop
🌷21.04 — x2 craft

Please note that the schedule may change during the week.

We wish you brilliant victories!

It has been more than a month since Fountain released. Looking back at the announcements I had written, I suddenly realized that I was making an independent game. Why should I wrote announcements seriously like a game company... It just happened that there wasn't much update content this week, so I want to write something else, to chat with everyone.

Let’s first talk about why we start this game. The idea came to me when my wife was pregnant with my daughter. I thought that I was going to have my own child. As someone who likes games, I should try to have my own game, so I talked to my partner artist and started this project.

Because I'm not very good at action games, I play strategy games more. The ones that most influenced me were Fire Emblem and Advance Wars from Nintendo. I like the fantasy background of Fire Emblem and the combat system of Advance Wars. So I try to combine the two into one game. The cavalry in Fountain is similar to the tank or armored vehicle in Advance Wars, the infantry is infantry, and the archers correspond to artillery or rocket launchers. The archer has blind area and can't attack after moving also come from Advance Wars. You guys who have played Advance Wars will probably feel this.

In addition, I played a lot of roguelike games, and I also like the turn-based Deck Builder game. However, there are already many such games, so I want to integrate turn-based tactic with roguelike more. I have also played one of the best roguelike turn-based tactic games, such as "Into the Breach" for dozens of hours. In Fountain, I wanted to make some different flavors. So I started my attempt.

By the way, let’s talk about the current development content - "Rare Relics". Rare Relics will have a more significant impact in commbat than the common ones. Such as the "Loyalty Medal", which cancel the cooldown of our unit's "Rush to Rescue" and launch an "Sentinel I" after rescue. Bell and Sam are the start heroes. In order not to introduce complex abilities too early, their captain abilities are simple +ATK/DEF. This rare relic "Loyalty Medal" can be regarded as a little compensation for Sam (of course Bell also has another one) . The first release of some rare relics is expected to be in late April.
OK, enough chatting, I'm going to test the new relics now.

• Optimization: Add Mod loading progress prompt in the status bar.
  
• Optimization: Add mouse hover prompts to some UI (for example, the toolbar above editing mode will prompt corresponding shortcut keys, and the status bar icon below will prompt corresponding names).
  
• Optimization: Improve built-in help documentation.
  
• Optimization: [PC Mode] When grabbing an object and holding down X, scrolling the mouse wheel can rotate the object around the Z-axis.
  
• Optimization: [Editing Mode] When adding a new decoration, the attribute window will synchronously display basic information such as the position of the decoration.
  
• Optimization: [Editing Mode] Supports clicking the arrows on both sides to collapse the hierarchy and attribute windows.
  
• Optimization: [Editing Mode] Add a hierarchical window for easy viewing or multiple selection of various objects in the scene in the form of a list (objects that accidentally fall out of the scene no longer need to keep falling down!):
  
  
• Fix: UV scaling error in built-in model Pegboard.
  
• Fix: Scaling rigidbody objects that use the Joint component (such as chairs) will deform.
  

Development log: Due to the runtime performance optimization of Unity, it is currently not possible to achieve the function of model vertex alignment. There is still a lot of room for improvement in the editor, and I hope it won't become too cumbersome in the future.

- Added full sound coverage to UI of all game, including Main menu, Victory, Death of player, Upgrades, and a lot more
- Added sounds when picking cards / upgrades
- Sound when player takes damage slightly reworked
- Added soundtrack to Main Menu and Victory
- All soundtrack was changed to NO-Copyright songs to avoid further issues

There's was a lot of missing feedback from the game like:
- lack of progression feeling
- Ammo and Weapon problems.

So i decided to add some new features like:
- Error inciating type of ammo you lack to shoot from that weapon and how to change weapon to another

- Each weapon you buy will be automatically picked up
- Upgrade button onDeath and after Victory which indicates you can spend essence which you just earned

- Rework of Victory Scene, it will give more feeling of progress and achivement of beating the game
- Weapon shop will ALWAYS sell weapons untill you bought any 2, but prices still increasing with level


- Added screenshake to some events: player dies, player Defeats a boss
- Effect of vignette when player at low health

- Player Death new effect/UI and more remarkable
- Added conveyor of enemies to some scenes, which changes with each difficulty you beat





- Speed of spending essence was changed: the more you press the faster it goes
- Big improvement to LaserSniper gun, now its just obliterates enemies
-slightly decreased ammo per pack of lightning
- Big upgrade of final boss, especially boosted versions
Chaser HP 700 -> 2000
Shields of Chaser HP 400 -> 1000
Sniper HP 700 -> 1800
Sniper now shoots 2 times in a burst mode

因4月初作者身体不适，2024年清明节特典现计划在中元节（2024年8月18日）更新。