As we've been shutting down the operations of Monothetic, we've collected a selection of past versions of Beacon that we've uploaded to https://archive.org/details/beacon_collection for anyone who's interested in exploring past versions of the game. We've hand selected only the finest builds extending from the very earliest prototypes in 2015 to the end of Early Access in 2022. We understand that this is a niche game with a small audience interested in exploring the past of the game, but for the dedicated players who are interested we wanted to show how the game has evolved over each year of development. Included are early prototype builds that have never been released before, the earliest public demos we shared at various conventions before our Early Access release, and various milestones throughout our First Access and Early Access releases.



As well as past versions of the game, we've spent the last few months assembling a digital art book to document the two projects we developed over our 12 years as Monothetic. The book collects concepts, mockups, explorations, visualizations, previews, renders, screenshots, and insights from Beacon along with our original FPS interdimensional horror game that we scrapped, Haven. We scoured dozens of folders and archives of our work as Monothetic to try and share the fullest picture of our efforts over both projects. The digital art book and previous builds can be found at the link below.

https://archive.org/details/beacon_collection

We'd like to again thank everyone who supported us throughout our lengthy development, and hopefully this selection of builds and collection of our artistic efforts is interesting to some of our fans.

Hello, woodlanders! Today we have fixes for the three broken achievements, as well as an attempt to fix a crash on start issue for Mac. Thank you to everyone who has reported these and other issues, and thank you for your patience!


Fixes in this patch:

• Fixed distance moved tracking so it doesn't reset every time the game is closed. This makes getting the Scouting Ahead achievement more reasonable.
  
• Fixed a breakable pot in Portman's Slough not being targetable. This makes getting the Bog Breaker achievement possible.
  
• Changed the requirements for the Sus achievement so that it is obtainable. We'll leave the exact requirements a mystery, but it's not too hard.
  
• Potential fix for an issue that caused the game to crash on launch on MacOS.

- The UI has been adjusted for widescreen compatibility.
- Gem spawn positions have been fixed.
- Upgrade description text sizes have been optimized for Steam Deck.
- The application icon has been updated.

This week the Black Friday and Cyber Monday items are returning to Battleon via the Mysterious Stranger and BattleTron Defender. But beyond returning items, they’re bringing some new goodies too! The Mysterious Stranger has some blacked-out versions of some iconic AdventureQuest items while BattleTron Defender has a new selection of Hard-Light code-themed items.


For the next 2 weeks, we are going to have a half-off sale for all inventory slot purchases. Along with this, we’ve increased the amount of Inventory Slots that can be purchased increasing the amount maximum amount of slots a player can have by… a lot.


We’ve made a faction tracker that you can now find in the Adventures / Book of Lore menu under the “Factions” button. When you get your first rank in a faction it will now appear here and display the percentage of the faction’s ranks you’ve completed with the added bonus of being able to fast travel to the map the NPC is on so you don’t have to go digging in a wiki to find out where they’re located.

Voiddivers rejoice! A new daily has been added to the Voiddiver faction to make earning Super Crystals just a tad easier. So, go out there brave Voiddivers and protect Lore!

With the return of Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes the return of some exclusive Treasure Chest items that pop up around this time of year. So While the Black Friday and Cyber Monday events are going so to will these items remain within the Treasure Chests.


We’ve got two promo items for November. First, is the Ancient Dragon Ultra Greatsword, to get this massive blade, just purchase any package in the upgrade shop, now with 50% extra Dragon Crystals on select packages. For those that have one of the Guardian upgrade packages, you will also get the Guardian Dragon Ultra Greatsword at no extra cost.


🐉 Meet the Dragon Riders, a guild where camaraderie, organization, and passion converge. With a rich lore and 100 active members, this guild blends epic storytelling with a vibrant, supportive community! Come meet the [DRACV] guild on the Design Notes at https://aq3d.com/news/guild-spotlight-dragon-riders-dracv/
✨ Do you want the chance to have your Guild featured on the Design Notes? Here's how to enter your guild: https://aq3d.com/news/adventurequest-guild-spotlight-series/
🌈 Endless colors coming for skin, hair, beard, lips, and stache! No longer will you be stuck to predefined colors -- find the color palette that's perfect for you.
🏆 New creative contest (well, actually, two…)
🎄 Frostval, Friday the 13th, and festive frivolities soon!

Battle on,
Clarion, Artix, Beleen, and the AdventureQuest 3D Team

Another slew of minor fixes

• Further brute forced a fix for Carter being invisible in cutscenes and being placed incorrectly afterwards
  
• Fixed the blocker for a piece of unfinished content being traversable
  
• Fixed the trigger for the Observatory basement being accessible outside of the building

This patch may introduce hitching at the start of some cutscenes. If you notice hitching, don't hesitate to let me know as I'm looking out for it.

Hey Folks!

Ostranauts v0.14.1.3 is now available on Steam, and your clients should be updating shortly.

This is a hotfix update to our recently released "Across the System" update, and makes some improvements to how the quick actions menu, tooltips, and Esc key work.

Saves from v0.14.0.0 and later should work. Note that if you were experiencing issues in the older save, this patch may fix some, but others may persist depending on the cause.

• MegaTooltip and Quick Action Buttons no longer close when inventory opens.
  
• Tooltip no longer goes out of screen.
  
• Quick Action Buttons no longer goes off screen when target does.
  
• Esc key will now do actions in the following order: exit PDA, exit control panel, deselect item, close inventory, close Esc menu, close zones UI, then open Esc menu.
  
• Middle mouse button dragging now pans the camera.
  
• Quick Action Buttons now temporarily hides instead of closing while item is attached to inventory cursor.
  
• Quick Action Buttons no longer opens on paperdoll wounds.
  
• Dragging the Quick Action Buttons no longer clicks through, causing character to pathfind to clicked tile underneath.
  
• REDACTED ship comms rumors no longer appear in Quick Action Buttons when player selects self.
  
• Quick Action Buttons buttons are no longer illegible and dark if they had an unrecognized action type.

Most of the changes here address issues players ran into with the new floating Quick Action Buttons (QAB) and tooltips.

Previously, the QAB would close when the inventory opened, or snap to the inventory copy of the target if applicable. And both cases erased the pinned setting and location the user chose earlier. This patch should now honor that pinned location until the user changes it manually.

Furthermore, some targets would go off-screen with the QAB following, making it invisible/unusable. The QAB now stops at the edge of the screen when its target goes off-screen.

This goes for tooltips now, as well. They should remain on screen and legible even when the mouse is over an item near the top/bottom of the screen.

The Esc key also had a few changes made to it, so it can more reliably back out of open menus and UIs in sequence. It previously would sometimes close multiple UIs at once, but should now close them in a more logical order. Also not that the Esc key can now deselect the current object, closing the QAB and MegaTooltip. (The old way, left-clicking the selected object, still works.)

Since some users mentioned they expected the middle mouse button to allow camera panning, we decided to add that, since it was pretty simple to support!

And we included a few other fixes for bugs and edge cases.

Note that we have a few more HUD changes on the way, including a change to the date/time widget, and the current selected character portrait. So things are still going to move around a bit.

As always, there's plenty more for us to fix, change, and add! And we'll be continuing in roughly that order. In the meantime, let us know if this patch helps you out, as well as if it reveals new problems!

Best,
Daniel Fedor
Founder, Blue Bottle Games, LLC

Bugs Addressed:
- Dr. Akai's name in Demi's memory is missing a space (FR)
- Teacher's cabinet should say "nastavnički kabinet" (CR)
- Floor numbers should have a fullstop after the number (CR)
- "Time Out" should say "Soba za pauzu" (CR)
- Body bags should be "mrtvačke vreće" (CR)
- Incision point should be "mjesto reza" (CR)
- Demi's room should be "Demina soba" (CR)
- Text displayed when starting new game is incorrect. (ES-EU)
- Elevator call button is untranslated (ES-EU)
- Text should be "Registros de CPU" (ES-EU)
- DOMINO - Name tag (above character) doesn't follow the translation (PT-PT)
- JONES - Name tag (above character) doesn't follow the translation (PT-PT)
- "Cell 2" is displayed as "2-AS CELLA" (HU)
- "Storage room" is displayed as "Raktárhelyiség" (HU)
- "ICU" is displayed as "INTENZIV" (HU)
- The name of Foxe is still displayed as "Foxe" (HU)
- The "\n" at the end of the line makes the "No" field too big (All Locs)
- Instead of "salle d'operation", it should be "Table d'opération" (FR)
- Haze comments on the lockbox, but the Actor is "Context" (All Locs)
- "COLOR" is displayed as "SZIN" instead of "SZÍN" (HU)
- the door out to the Hallway B1 says LAUNDRY instead of HALLWAY.
- Foxe's dialogue and Haze's reply will show up if you leave the kitchen with the lights out in Act 1 Part 1
- "RESEARCH LAB" displays as "KUTATÓLABORATÓR" (HU)
- In Demi's ICU-altar memory, while standing in the 4F skyways, the "3F" label is untranslated (KO)
- The quotation marks are too big / not the right symbol should be "« »" (FR)
- A door towards the end says "SÖTÉT ÁTJÁRÁS" instead of "SÖTÉT ÁTJÁRÓ". (HU)
- German Disclaimer not translating properly

Changelog:
- Reimported: Items, actors, dialogue, and log jones 1 (EL)
- Reimported: Dialogue_hr, UI Inputs_hr, META TEXT_hr, logs
- Reimported: Disclaimer (PT-PT)
- Reimported: Dialogues and UI inputs (NL)
- Reimported: Dialogues, UI inputs, Log Demi 3, Log Krane 1 (FR)
- Reimported: All Files (HU)
- Reimported: META TEXT, all Logs, UI Inputs, Items, and Dialogue (rows 193, 230, 1490) (KO)

v1.24.11.19.0
-Added save redundancy system for most save files, so that 2 backups of save files will be kept in case of issues involving save corruption.
-Also added better error handling for loading save files and settings files, which should hopefully take care of the occasional "object reference not set to an instance" bug that was seen occasionally.
-Removed Wallpaper and Theme selectors from Customization App since most people change these from the Wallpaper and Theme folders on the desktop anyways.
-Added V-sync toggle and "Badge Notifications" toggle to Customization App.
-Added option to turn off fullscreen borders on OneShot window when maximized.
-Also added another fullscreen scaling option for OneShot window when maximized, "integer", which will scale the oneshot screen to the highest whole number multiple it can fit on the screen (for example, in 1080p resolution it will scale the OneShot screen to 1280x960, a 2x multiple).
-Fixed rare softlock that could occur when using the bell in the secret ram room.
-Added special characters for European name input screens and Russian name input screen, to better support the languages' characters.
-Fixed minor graphical bug where certain rooms (like Maize's room) would show as blank/collision tiles for the first frame of a map transition.
-Fixed minor graphical bug where fireflies wouldn't show up in Glen maps until 2 frames after the map transition began.

• NEW Welcome modal;
  
• NEW Tip during tutos, how to build up, how to rotate, how to cuboid select/delete.
  
• SX "modelchip" instead of "start";
  
• CX Signed tuto with unremovable input;
  
• MI Help grading system;
  
• FIX Reset UI Scale without restart on reset;
  
• UX Helpers moves between spot;
  
• UX Helpers doesn't point a UI element anymore;
  
• SX End of chapter modal;
  
• CX Help on Signed number tuto;
  
• UX Alignement issues on Signed number tuto;
  
• MI No community challenge in main;
  
• UX Checkmark takes the color of the grade in perf report;
  
• UX Background in Bonus screen when coming back from a level;
  
• UX Bonus levels sequence revised unlockable in order;
  
• CX No memory challenges for release;

- Fixed a bug in which enemies remained after the boss was destroyed
- Reduced the damage of some attacks on the third boss
- Reduced the damage of some attacks on the final boss