MINI Update!

- Fixed sensitivity (hopefully).

- Optimised stuff, so you shouldn't see any more frame drops.

- Added new sound effects to customers and improved visuals.

- Added new icon cue for when the goblin is causing mischief.

- Fixed small bugs

Let me know if anything needs tweaking!

We’ve dialed back the frenzy by lengthening the time between each Smiler respawn—take a breather (or at least try to).

Once the Smiler shows up, it now sticks around a little longer. No more “blink and you missed it” surprises.

The Smiler can no longer lunge through walls.

Smilers now spawn closer to their designated zones instead of popping right in your face (most of the time).

The number of Smilers per blackout now scales with both player count and chosen difficulty.

If you blind the Smiler with your flashlight or lean in for a closer look, it’ll still one-shot you. Some habits die hard!

- 일부 랭크던전 배경오류 수정
- 실시간 채팅 테스트
- [타키] 번개 역할 추가

- Correction of some rank-down background errors
- Live Chat Test
- [Taki] Add lightning role

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1、修复了更新后玩家存档可能无法加载的Bug。

Attention, freelancers!

Here is the next update for the game. Check out the full change log below!

*Please note that these changes are not in any particular order.*



Please let me know of any bugs or issues you may encounter so I can fix them. This update will be available for download shortly.

A friendly reminder: if you're enjoying the game so far or have ideas you'd like to share, please consider leaving a review for the game. This not only helps with much needed visibility, but also gives me important feedback for the game to help it become a better final product. Also, if you have questions, concerns, or requests, please visit the official Chaos Chain Steam Forums or join the official Discord Channel! I've gone ahead and started an official Patreon Page to help bring in financial support for the game going forward and you can also grab the support DLCs on the DLC Page to get some extra in game goodies and help support the game's continued development!

For more info on the game, visit the store page below!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536730/Chaos_Chain/

There's even a demo to try the game out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2324430/

Official Links:

• Corrosive Studios Store Page
  
• Corrosive Studios Discord
  
• Official Patreon

That's all for now, enjoy!

Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.

-Cryptic ːCStudiosː

Until now, the game would automatically launch in fullscreen on startup.
As of this update, the game will no longer force fullscreen at launch.

🎮 A new option is now available in the main menu to manually switch between windowed and fullscreen mode (⛶).

🪟 The game window should also be resizable and responsive, to better adapt to your screen.

🔧 If you still encounter display issues, or if any new problem appears, please don't hesitate to let me know so I can investigate and fix it quickly.

It's been a hot minute! We're happy to bring you a lot of important changes that hopefully will bring a lot more stability to the game. We know that it's been quite tough recently and we appreciate all the honest feedback and reports that you have been sending! This is another update in a long line to come!

With this update, we hope to have brought the most stability with saves getting corrupted and multiplayer stability, so we're looking forward to your reports!

We'll continue on working in the background to bring the next batch of fixes soon, that we're hoping to will solve a lot of the quest progression shenanigans!

Little Sim World version v0.52.3

• Fixed Corrupted Saves to not crash the loading menu.
  
• Fixed Error not allowing saves to join Multiplayer.
  
• Fixed steam input keyboard to be able to type in multiplayer join code

• Fixed shampoo quest item. You can't place the shampoo on the ground, only inside inventories.
  
• Fixed "Beau-tification" quest progression lock. Whoever lost the shampoo accidentally will receive another shampoo in mailbox and will be able to use the shampoo chair.
  
• Fixed summer calendar displaying the Festival on all days.
  
• Fixed the Quest App not being visible.

• House furniture will no longer disappear from your house after entering Build Mode.
  
• Fixed controller / keyboard interaction for University Board.
  
• Fixed controller / keyboard interaction for Phonebooth.
  
• Fixed pause menu enabling virtual mouse when pressing select stopping you from pressing back to leave the menu.
  
• Fixed an issue where using interactions inside of dialogue could register player actions, this was leading to some locks, specially when trying to buy medicine from E.M.A

• Speaking to some NPCs in multiplayer seems to softlock sometimes, especially when they're invisible on the counter!

Please remember to update your game on Steam so the patch can be applied!
We will continue to push fixes as fast as we can!

Final update of "Fengshen Zhuan: Huang Feihu Passes Five Levels"

1. Update the final level of the Four Symbols Formation and the Xiqi Guardian Battle, and add some new treasures to the Treasure Store

2. Traditional Chinese version synchronized version launched

Level Introduction of "Fengshen Zhuan: Huang Feihu Passes Five Levels"

1. N ü wa Palace 2, Xuan Yuan Tomb 3, Imperial Garden 4, Battle of Meridian 5, Four sided Siege 6, Mianchi (optional)

Wuguan Line: 7, Lintong Pass 8, Tongguan Pass 9, Chuanyun Pass 10, Sishui Pass

Jiameng Line: 7, Feifengshan 8, Jiameng Pass 9, Erlongshan 10, Meishan

Qinglong Line: 7, Wuyishan 8, Qinglongguan 9, Huanghuashan 10, Juelongling

Alright, I've finished up with the 24th week of development, so its time for the 24th week devlog.

You can always follow development more frequently in other locations.

• My bluesky account posts daily progress for Cosmic Construct.
  
• You can join the Cosmic Construct community discord server.
  
• Wishlist Cosmic Construct on Steam!
  
• Follow the steam page where I post these weekly devlogs.

Each week I cover development goals for the game set at the end of the prior week's post. Then review if those goals were hit.
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6 more crops. Yep gonna just do the rest of them.



Behold! All 6 of the crops I planned to do this week got finished. In the top row we have Soy, Cabbage, and Hops. In the bottom, Potato, Rice, and Squash. Soy produces Edamame which I might also have turn into Soy Sauce or something. Cabbage, probably needs a pepper of some kind to go along with it later (I can't believe I didn't do a pepper now.) Hops will be used by the Brewery for beer production. Potatoes and Rice are just staple food items. I think I can turn Squash into an event thing on certain dates or

Energy and food consumption for the player and pawns.



Food of all kinds can now be consumed. Both player an pawns have a maximum of 100 energy. On the above screenshot, it is the cheese shaped bar. When the energy bar is fully depleted, the players movement speed will be halved, and will start to loose health over time. This will be the same for pawns, but will also damage their stress.

Food restores and amount of energy equal to 10 times its tier. This means higher quality food is generally "less efficient" for restoring energy, but can be eaten more quickly. Additionally, the food diversity of the settlement will be used in the calculation that determines the number of tourists who visit attracted by food.

HP DoT for certain environments, as well as "death". (I'll clarify that later.)

I didn't finish this entirely, and its in a way I can't easily show visually. The intent is to have some environment object damage the player by simply being around them. This will occur in a couple of biomes, but most recently the Grotlands. There will be a miasma which damages the player continuously will within. This also means the Grotlands willn't have its own roaming settlers.

The difficulty comes from trying to find the objects that damage the player within the players area. The sounds they create, etc... Normally in gamemaker, finding a nearby object is an easy thing to do. Usually with distance_to_object(obj), which would give the closest instance of the object you want to find. The objects on the map of Cosmic Construct are not objects, but is an arrangement of strips of sprites called from three 2d arrays. Finding an object requires checking each cell in range, calling one of these arrays, finding if its value matches one of the damage objects, and determining its distance. The damaging miasma is every easy on the step event; if currentbiome = "Grotlands" {hp -= 0.005}.

This is just one of many of the things I've done before I am able to fully implement damaging objects properly.

As for "death", I've decided that permanent stakes for death is very poor in a game intended to have a cozy atmosphere. At the same time, I do want to give the player an activity which earn rewards for doing "combat" of some kind. I think teleporting the player back to the totem or house, and putting a "death stone" into their inventory, is a sufficient penalty.

(If I have time, I'll do some of the new building UI elements.)

I did not get around to this.

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Cursors



I was tired of seeing the windows cursor in game, and decided to fully replace it with a custom cursor. Clickable objects change the cursor shape, and some cursors are informational. If you hold control while in the inventory it will inform you that you can trash items, and in a menu that has a confirmation, it will show a checkmark. Things like that.



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This upcoming week is going to be very different to other weeks, as I don't really know what can get done.

This is because I have two separate trailer videos for Cosmic Construct that need recording and features implemented to show off what the game can currently, and will soon be able to do.

I can't create a list of todo items, because I don't know what needs to be made during this process.

Basically, the entire next week devlog will contain unplanned content, which should be interesting.

The week after will return to normal, where I will be working on buildings and starting to implement gameplay features. I would like to have a minigame finished sometime soon.

That is all for this week. o7