Small update to get that fix out. I also am taking the opportunity to put in an achievement I forgot to with the last release. Thanks for letting me know about the bug!
Hey settlersđź‘‹ , Today we're bringing you some highly anticipated barn improvements and quality of Life adjustments. Also a cool function where marked people and animals are highlighted in the world. đź‘€
Patch notes:
Barns, homes with pets and hunters will take their working place more into account when searching for animals.
Barns: Increased search area to roughly 1/4 of the map.
Barns: Allow people to get goods from certain dead animals when they are looking for more animals / sources.
Upgrades can be refreshed even if you only partially have the items.
Prevent material needed for upgrades being stolen by other people.
Children from the age of 5 can help with simple community tasks.
Prevent a rare crash when the faction collects problem reports from the humans in the exact time a human dies and some fields are still in cache.
Marking animals, humans or buildings on the map will temporarily mark it as well in the world if object marking is enabled.
Prevented animation jump after unpause.
Fixed a case where an animation could freeze.
Slightly balanced the community centre material requirement.
Fixed a crash when you delete a market place in the exact moment a buy/sell transaction is executed.
Fixed a crash when someone tries to leave the map but the map transition got deleted in the editor.
We are using three autosave slots to be able to go back three days / 30 min.
The heat mini map is now immediately initialized with data.
Employment view is now initially sorted by workplaces.
Workplaces are initially sorted when the tab is pressed and not already when the view is opened.
A quick rundown of new features and improvements in "Underground Garage" Alpha on Steam, build 5114:
1. Damage System: - Car parts will be damaged when in contact with environment.
2. Garage Hub: - We can now move cars between parking, delivery zone and garage. Can be used by pressing placeholder "GarageHub" near garage entry or by APP.
3. Driving Camera: - We changed behaviour of camera during driving, mainly during turns and when on reversed.
4. Quests: - Uber Quest is now live, preview can be accessed after second tutorial mission.
5. Cars: - We added new car - Nexa 115 and two new engines - I6 and V6.
6. UI: - Added APP to manage Garage Hub, Shop, Inventory and others. Can be accessed by pressing TAB. - We changed Journal, Inventory and Shop, though look is still not final. - Added notification system, right now game will notify player if: car cannot by driven (lack of major components) or new quest is available.
Fixes: - We fixed cars not spawning in traffic. - Few crashes in Mechanic Mode. Optimalization: - +30 fps on High/Epic settings on tested machines.
Known Issues: - Occasional incorrect driving behavior when below 30 fps. - Some car elements cannot be painted correctly. - Inconsistencies in the UI.
Current Priorities: - Expanding notification system - more information for player during gameplay. - Adding more quest content - we are finishing few key features that will allow us to add more quest content. - Fixing all car parts to be properly painted. - Finishing the UI to the final state.
Alpha is currently open to our most active community members on Discord.
Tier 2 Job that can put any spell into Breath form: altered area-of-effect in the shape of a T
Works with almost every spell: Flames, Cure, Haste, Upon Death
Works with other special skills like Guard, Double-cast, Infuse (Melee only)
New Features
Upon the second run-through of the story mode (after finishing the first), enemies have upgraded jobs. They'll have Tier 2 jobs instead of the Tier 1 jobs that appeared in the first run-through. This is to have the second run-through feel different and be sufficiently challenging.
Swap Job Button. If you have correct job upgrades you can more easily swap your Main Job and Sub Job.
New Cloaks of Dragons item that grants Breath: Flames ability and the upgraded version offers the Dragon Knight class.
Hold Down DPAD for faster cursor navigation. Works how you would expect: hold down an arrow key and then after a short time the cursor will quickly move in that direction.
Necromancer's Upon Death may now have AOE. There is a new upgrade to increase its AOE. Lancer's Charge now increases the AOE of Upon Death instead of the ability that it triggers.
Timeline appears when viewing the scene and considering whether to continue casting or not.
More random maps will appear in Bandit missions and Mercenary Training missions.
Expected HP absorption from magic or weapon will appear over the caster when selecting a target
You may now use Guard with Bombard, Direct Shot, and Sniper Shot
AI Improvements
When your party is much stronger than the enemy, the enemy is more likely to engage than delay
Dumb AI units (soldiers, bandits) now think they have more accuracy than they actually do, resulting in them attacking more often and being idle less.
AI no longer considers enemy Rage. Oftentimes enemies attack their own units that they expect to die, to remove any Rage that could be gained by their opponent. It appeared as though the AI was making a mistake.
Enemy is less likely to buff melee units that are not near an opponent.
Fixes
Fixed crash that could occur with Champions and one of its upgrades
Fixed issue where items would disappear when trying to remove an item that grants a job
Change Job Bonus descriptions to be more consistent with the number appearing on right or left of text.
Controller orientation settings now correctly affect choosing direction with Wait
Buffed Berserk HP, Speed, and Concentration to be more inline with other Tier 2 jobs
the state of progress We are working on an update to patch some of the bugs that were reported to us as soon as we can. We hope to have it out in a week or so. We have been working on Bodacious Agents for nearly two and a half years. It has been such a large part of my life and it saddens me that the progress has been so slow. but as we are a small team of two, we have to maintain day jobs as well as making this game.
Price drop After some feedback, we have come to the realization that the price is somewhat high. And have made the decision to drop it to better reflect the game we are able to bring you. This should be updated by the time you are seeing this post.
thank you for taking the time to read this, Pirate Dave
v0.8 is progressing well: new ocean generation, basic modding support and new views (one with visible clouds) are done. Don't hesitate to activate the beta branch to test it! Still a few features to work on before releasing it to everyone.
So, in the meantime, I would like to rewrite here an old post from twitter (2019!) that was explaining the hexagonal generation I've developped for Plan B. Here it is:
How to create a sphere made of hexagons? Hexagons of similar size and orientation?
The most common way to do that is to start from a regular icosahedron (solid of 20 of equilateral triangles), then subdiving each triangle (sphere tessellation). Each triangle vertex becomes an hexagon, as you can see in this pic (credits https://twitter.com/AndyGainey ; I'll come back to him):
Here is a sphere with 5 subdivisions (~10,000 hexagons). It's very nice, that's what I initially planned to use... but it's actually bad for a game. Not because of the 12 hidden pentagons, but because of the non-uniformity of the size, shape and orientation of the hexagons.
Here is what you can see at different positions of the sphere ; north pole being on top. Hexagons are of various shape, size, and orientation ; the result would be awful when you scroll in the game, very disturbant.
A very special and incredibly imaginative solution is the one of @AndyGainey, explained in detail here: http://experilous.com/1/blog/post/procedural-planet-generation To avoid avoid pentagones and predictable irregularities, he decided to do the total opposite: going full irregularity.
When irregularity (in size, shape and number of edges) is everywhere and random, the surface actually becomes regular - homogeneous in its irregularity. Really brillant, but not what I need for my game, as I really want regular hexagons.
So, what I do is that I divide the sphere in vertical "slices". Inside each slice, the triangles/hexagons are set in perfectly horizontal rows, and are (almost) pefectly equilateral. The non-uniformity is grouped in the links between slice.
One big advantage is that the more hexagons there are, the more regular it becomes. And for my game, I'll have a lot, lot of hexagons. Here is the sphere with a few thousands ones.
And here is a portion of the surface, with a few millions of hexagons. Can you spot the irregular shapes ? Not easy ! They should definitely not be a problem when playing on this field.
The "Icosahedron tessellation" method produces only 12 pentagons. With my method I get much more: 720 for a sphere of 14000 hexagons (5%). But the more hexagons, the better the ratio is. For 10 millions of hexagons, only 0.2% are pentagons or heptagons. I have calculated the variation in the triangles edge lengths (are hexagons are uniform in shape and size ?): I get a coefficient of variation of 6.5% for the icosahedron tessellation ; but only 1.6% with my method. The best advantage of my solution is about the orientation of the hexagons (are they "horizontal" ? I check the angles of the triangles edges). I get a coefficient of variation of only 3.8%, compared to the 55% with the icosahedron tessellation!
Here it is. 5 years later, i have no regret using this system, i still can't think of a more suited one. Although, i can say now that i definitely underestimated the technical complexity of using this system in a full game, to properly manage the slices borders.
If I had had more time, i would have loved to research further in this matter. Maybe find a way to avoid the slices. Or something else. If any of you know of some interesting research about it, i'd be very interested to know about it!
Windstorm: Start of a Great Friendship - daniel.chen
We're very excited to announce Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori, an epic open-world adventure game where players will explore breathtaking landscapes on horseback, featuring high-fidelity graphics and unparalleled realism in equine behavior and animation, developed on Unreal Engine 5.
Taking on the role as an ancient courier rider, players will complete difficult missions, cultivate their nomad camp, and train and care for majestic horses as they unravel the mystery of Khiimori, the mythical “wind horse” and the spirit of the earth and sky.
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will launch in Early Access on Steam in September 2024.
In Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori, players will embark on an epic adventure set in 13th century Mongolia, stepping into the role of a young courier rider. Horses will be essential to survival and safety as players breed horses, tame new ones and train them to aid them in their charting of the sprawling Mongolian landscape. As they immerse themselves into the game’s expansive open world full of wonders and intriguing tales, players will need to strategically plan their routes through different biomes of beautiful, yet harsh terrain, and master the challenges of the wilderness to complete their missions.
Building on the open world aspect the Windstorm games are known for, Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori advances gameplay mechanics that are unique to the game’s core experience. As players explore the world and complete missions, they will cultivate their nomad camp along the way, building yurts, managing important items and resources, and training and caring for their horses. Throughout their journey, players will take on quests that test their capabilities and require riding mastery and thoughtful planning in order to build their legacy as one of the greatest ancient courier riders in 13th century Mongolia.
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will launch in Early Access on Steam in September 2024, at a very early stage in its development, so the development team can iterate and develop gameplay based on community input. A roadmap of planned updates during the Early Access phase will be released in the coming months.
To keep up to date on the latest news surrounding Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori, wishlist the game!
Gigantic: Rampage Edition - Gearbox Publishing Europe
Build Number: #614009.0
Hello Gigantic fans,
First, we’d like to thank you all so much for your support and feedback since we launched Gigantic: Rampage Edition last month! With Rampage Edition, it’s been a passion project for all of us as we set out to bring back Gigantic for you all to jump in and have fun playing the game once again after so many years. We are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming support you all have given us, and it’s helped us pinpoint what you all love about Rampage Edition and what could be improved to make it the best experience possible.
Our team has made progress on improving Rampage Edition, such as improving server issues that players encountered at launch – but we’re continuing to work hard on fixing additional issues. Encountering bugs, glitches and crashes can be frustrating, and we take these issues very seriously.
We’ve released a hotfix patch today to address and fix several pressing issues, including crashes players have run into.
Coming up, we plan to release a major update that will fix known issues – such as the PS5 crashing issue we’re continuing to work on fixing, along with region matchmaking issues. Our top priority is improving Rampage Edition for all players, but once we feel it’s been improved across the board, we’ll be releasing a content update with Ranked Mode and classic hero skins for Margrave and Griselma. We can’t wait for you all to jump into Ranked Mode when it’s ready.
Thank you again for your support and understanding. We are determined to make Gigantic: Rampage Edition the best Gigantic experience possible for all players, and we will continue to refine and improve the game.
--Fixes in Today’s Patch--
General - Fixed various crashes across platforms - Fixed crossplay button appearing as always disabled - Fixed match history not displaying match results correctly - Fixed issue with friends’ stats not displaying correctly - Multiple fortune description updates - Multiple description updates for hero skills, skill upgrades, builds, and lore - Fixed multiple localization text issues - Correction of Status Effect icons for Imani - Bot Backfilling - Bots spawned after a player leaves are invincible and do not belong to either team
Heroes - Wu: Typhoon's Fury - Skill functionality updated -- Duration of the Armor and Damage buff is now correctly increased to 10 seconds if the enemy was hit with the skill.
--Known Issues We’re Looking Into--
- PS5 Crash -- PS5 System is non-responsive when closing application after being stuck on the VS transition screen - Region matchmaking - Improving solo queue wait times - Hero balancing - "Creating Crew" bug on Arc -- Temporary Workaround: Switch Arc client language to English - Issues surrounding Custom games
