We've been super busy working on Signs of Life, here are the interesting recent updates for February 12 - March 31:
New Content
- Added Magnum pistol and magnum pistol rounds, pistol recipe is discovered when you find steel gun parts and the ammo recipe is discovered when you find lead
- Added Laser Pistol Mk2
- Added a secondary function for the wrist scanner tool that scans the area and adds it to the minimap.
- Added a thermite pistol and thermite charges. Steel gun parts will give you the recipe for the pistol and bauxite will give you the recipe for the charges.
- Added a new armor set made from those white speckled spitting guy's skin, it protects from their nasty spit if you wear enough of it.
- Plated hide armor now has a set bonus that reduces damage similar to the armored mobs themselves.
- Added grass seed bag and recipe, lets you throw grass seeds like chicken feed
Changes
- Added some new sound effects and tweaked some existing sounds
- Added ability to quickly transfer items to a selected container by using the grab laser hotkey while your mouse is over an item
- Increased jewel armor value to slightly more than steel armor
- Added x10 increase/decrease buttons in crafting
- Added an analyze button (little magnifying glass) to the crafting window, it lets you target an item in order to find its recipe
- Added a button to sort the crafting window alphabetically
- Added ability to rotate and flip blocks with a hotkey, press reload with a block equipped to rotate it and press g by default to flip it.
- Increased the rate of lower tier ores deeper underground a bit.
- Increased the number of deposits at world gen by 50%
- Added a debug map generator type in the sandbox menu, its for dev purposes but feel free to play with it, its just a blank world with a line of dirt right now.
Bug Fixes
- Kicking collisions should be better
- Fixed some UI issues on lower resolutions
- Fixed a graphics corruption issue that affected a small number of players
- Fixed several rare crashes
I really LOL'd when lazered that sheep to death. And the pistol insect kill...priceless. How long you been workin on the game?
Haha thanks, we've been working on it for about 2 years and some change.
Might be nice to have a random % Chance for lasers to set things on fire? add a nice dynamic to laser weapons I would think