Version/0.0.245

0.0.245

0.0.245 was released on October 29, 2013 - Pre-alpha press release 2

Bug Fixes
• Various bugfixes and balance adjustments.

Changes

• Plants and such no longer cover bullets as well as sandbags. • Raiders now opportunistically attack any building they happen across if not engaged in combat. Attempt to funnel them at your peril. • R-4 charge rifle now has a unique sound. • Weather (rain/fog) now affects chances of hitting a target (along with light levels and many other factors, good luck hitting someone on a foggy night now). • Hid the trait system to avoid confusion (since traits do nothing). • All weapons now have unique graphics. • Rewrote storage square management system to use the generalized work reservation manager. • Fast-forwarding is disabled during combat where you are under attack. • Balanced down hydroponics growth rate. • Charged batteries now explode while burning. • Rebalanced shooting and melee to make skill more important. • Drafted colonists no longer interrupt when melee attacked. • Traders are now rarer but carry more goods. • Dump sites no longer default to accepting humanoid corpses. Graves no longer default to accepting animal carcasses. • Smoothed out and softened how AI Storytellers handle colony population. • Colonists now gain bad thoughts from sleeping outside. • Replaced all noncommercial free sounds and attributed those under attribution licenses. • Power connectors report power net status. • You can now dump meals in dumping areas. • You can now click on names in the overview to center on the colonist. • Overview now displays health of wounded colonists.

Additions

• Added map size adjustment in an advanced menu at game start. • You can now prioritize colonists’ tasks individually. • Levels now cap at 20 (as designed). • Added max selection size and max drag designate size. • Added raiders: sniper squad and mercenary squad. • Some electrical devices now short-circuit and cause fires if left out in the rain while running. • Split shooting accuracy breakdown into misses due to equipment and misses due to skill. • Added skills (which do nothing yet): cooking, medicine, artistic, crafting • Added work tags (most of which do nothing yet): Firefighting, scary, artistic, cooking • Added credits screen.