Updates and Fixes #30: Stations and Solar Panel with Battery
Farlight Explorers · published
Updates and Fixes #30: Stations and Solar Panel with Battery:
In this new update I fixed a lot of important things and I added to the game something that I think is important in order to make the game more friendly for new players, The Stations.
Stations are pre made structures with all the necessary objects that a machine requires to work. For example, the Water Pump Station has a water pump, a solar panel, wires connected, and some pipes. The Ore Station has the Ore Extractor, Solar Panel, a Robotic arm, some conveyor belts and a Chest... The player only has to put the water station over a water spot or the ore station over a mineral vein and all the objects will appear and the machine will start to work. With this method the player can build a base really quickly and learn how everything works.
I think with the stations, the player can learn how the machines and the robotic arms and other objects works together, only watching the stations, and for example the player can use the furnace station, remove the furnace and put other machine that uses the same objects to work.
I added 9 stations, that I think will help the player to understand how each main machine works and I also added a colony station that will show how to setup a initial colony with all the necessary buildings.
I have an idea in my mind that the player can beat the game using only stations, so the player that don't like put pipes or wires can only focus in create stations that trasnform objects in other objects. I need the feedback of the community to know if that is a good idea in order to develop more this idea.
I added too a Solar Panel with Battery. This new machine can work during the night because it has a battery integrated. This battery can work during heavy storms.
What Next:
I will continue fixing bugs and polishing the game, I think the game has a lot of content so the priority is to focus on make it friendly and fix bugs.
List of new content:
- Added Water Pump Station.
- Added Oxygen Station.
- Added Food Station.
- Added Furnace Station.
- Added Ore Extractor Station.
- Added Hydraulic Press Station.
- Added Bifurcation Station.
- Added Steel Factory Station.
- Added Solar Generator With Battery.
- Added Initial Colony Base.
- Added music for the battle deployment.
- Added music when the battle begins.
- Added music when player wins the battle.
- Added music when the player loses the battle.
- Added environment sound for the battle.
- Added different weapon sounds for the battle.
- Added info in ship controller machine.
- Added info in Map module machine.
- Added message in the galaxy map when the spaceship has not enough fuel.
- Fixed selecting issue in Robotic Arm, Solar Generator and Turret.
- Fixed bug of the spaceship can't fill fuel.
- Fixed bug with the ship controller machine when the spaceship is destroyed or removed.
- Fixed bug when player places objects over a rotated spaceship.
- Fixed Inventory UI in fullscreen for different screen resolutions.
- Fixed Steam Achievements.