Release 197: New Universe, New Worlds, and New Characters!

[james]

Updated OP for details of Release 197.1.

@james

Overview:

This update enables purchasing Cubits and Gleam Club in the Exchange.

Future updates will expand the Exchange for collecting wearables, masks, and body paints.

Note:

The Exchange contains a Tint Kit item that will be used in the future for colouring and customising wearables and body paint.

The Tint Kits can not be used to recolour any blocks or crafted items in the game worlds.

Release 197.1:

• Art + Animation + Assets:
  • Elemental effects on elemental creatures.
• Crafting + Resources + Equipment:
  • Grapple behaviour improved so that you should be able to build up a larger and larger swing with back and forth motion, and be able to perform much larger swings on larger range grapples that will nearly be able to restore height of the down swing as long you keep pushing forwards with the controls.
• Creatures + Combat + Characters:
  • Doubled the effect of Luck on getting rarer drops on blocks.
• Sanctum + Tutorial + Objectives + Progression:
  • Permanent day time ends at Level 6 if still in the tutorial.
• SFX + Music:
  • Starving audio.
• Bug fixes:
  • Fix not showing correct data for player locations on planets in the sky outside the sanctum!
  • Server-side patch to force a redownload of region-map data for atlases to deal with old data from old worlds from hunting universe/testing in players caches. If you saw atlas regions behaving strangley like unlocking the wrong regions etc, this will resolve that.
  • Fixes/improvements to the god-rays, depth-of-field and bloom post effects to make them cheaper/more accurate. God rays should not have any sampling artifacts even in extreme cases now, and will no longer have a “frame-drag” effect where they would appear to lag 1 frame behind whilst rotating the camera.
  • Fix for some "{EMPTY} " region names in the new worlds, there was a bug in the worldbuilder that produced these, and whilst we will not fully regenerate the regions, we do migrate the worlds to change these to a more sensible “Wilde” naming scheme for the existing worlds, so they will be very unique regions in the universe as no new worlds will ever have them!
  • Some issues near waters edge fixed where player would jump a short height whilst stood against an underwater wall even without pressing space, and player should no longer get stuck not able to put their heads above the water (was actually fixed in the last release as a side-effect of another bug fix, but wasnt noticed at the time).
  • Fix some issues with particle-effects in the gui (eg the forge gui) from interacting strangley with what is on the screen behind the gui at times.
  • Fix issues with multi-block doors sometimes glitching visually when opening or closing them if your computer is “too” fast (yes… too fast), this would effect other multi-block modifications, its just that doors are the most common of these by far.
  • Fix for portals spawning creatures inside of meteorite blocks.
  • Fix exchange items being bought even if you cancel the purchase, if you then claimed a reward item before leaving the exchange.
  • Fix exchange items not being bought if you exit the screen before the animation has progressed far enough even if the purchase button was already pressed, this was already the case for reward claiming.
  • Fix for server crash when a hopper explodes after resisting damage from a player.
  • Fix for constant updating atmosphere status effect.

[sztosz]

Journal Objective New World Order (Tier 3 Core Objective) tell you now correctly to Craft a Warp Augment using a Workbench but when you do craft it at workbench it still does not register.

[Jiivita]

how do we change the text chat color??? (after getting the gleam club)

Also is it supposed to auto fuel others beacons that are associated with your purchase?

the animation for returning to sanctum has changed

[Zoin]

I would very much like to know this as well ;o

[Peyago]

Instead of using health on biitula and other t3s toss 4 points into kinetic armor and you will be immune to everything except the explosions.

[michaelb]

My GC Experience

The colors are the CSS colors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors, either using hex or by lower case name, eg :#ff0000:hello or :#red:hello.

My GC Experience

The emojis the list from Twitter emojis Twemoji entered by name :name: ,eg (same as here) https://twitter.github.io/twemoji/preview.html

[CreativeWorlds]

Are there any other things being planned to be added to Gleam club or The Exchange besides what’s listed? Inventory expansions like in other MMOs? Notification system for when materials are done being crafted?

Do I need to buy a tint package on the Exchange to use the advanced Gleam Club Tinting?

Do my beacons have to have fuel in them for them to autorefuel?

[schasm]

@CreativeWorlds

Do my beacons have to have fuel in them for them to autorefuel?

I am curious about how this works too.

[Snazzle]

Yes, currently you have to add fuel first. Then the amount of fuel is equal to the time left you have in your GC subscription.

[schasm]

Much obliged!

[Aridhol]

NOW they fix luck, after I have spend 3 days grinding diamonds super hard XD

[Xaldafax]

Well you certainly aren’t the only one. We have had 3 people grinding all the gems so we can complete our full set of all the machines today. So we feel ya…

[schasm]

I feel like 800 cubits/£6.38 to reset your skills once is far too expensive.

Cosmetics etc. yeah in the Exchange I can see that but skill resets being that costly seems unnecessary.

[Xaldafax]

Well you are getting cleanse points and free resets. If you use them smartly instead of just burning through things that could make it so resets aren’t bought often. People shouldn’t need to reset skills often and instead use skill sets once they’ve earned the points.

[schasm]

Yep I took that into account before making my comment. The freebies seem like they are there for new characters who make mistakes. Regardless of whether they exist, the price still seems high. If we assume we’re in a position where we need to buy them, the past freebies are irrelevant to the current price we face. Just putting it out there, it seems a lot for a game mechanic.

[Tillweed]

I see there was a patch today of ~100MB… but I don’t see any patch notes?

[CreativeWorlds]

More people would buy resets if the price was lowered, to experiment more n’ more. Should be at least half the cost IMO.

[james]

They’re in the original post.

[Kirinvar]

@Kirinvar

@Wablamo

@james @lucadeltodecso @dave are mobs supposed to be aggressive on the surface if you’re way under the surface digging? Shouldn’t you be able to get away from mobs if you’re way underneath them?

I have the exact same problem, I have my workshop on a level 3 planet, build into a mountain and i can see monsters on the compass aggroing in caves on the other side of the wall. There are no doors or windows.

Just have a look at my radar:

[Heureka]

When i get killed in my base by a sneaky cuttle, or spitter, i am respawn away from my beacon.
With the very low hp/sp after death i easy get killed again when i try to run back to my base, and then get throw even farther away with more deaths as result.

Can i please respawn in my base if i get killed in my base?