☀️ = Fixes & Improvements Based on Community Feedback
Audio:
Implemented and improved more sound effects.
Improvements:
☀️ Total Score is now initialized once with the sum of all existing savegame scores.
Sector 2.1: Natural resources are no longer selected randomly, so the maximum reachable score stays consistent.
Sector 2.1: Changed the score achievement to require 75% of the maximum reachable score instead of 100%.
Improved Gamepad UI navigation in some places.
Discovering & entering asteroid now works with X on Gamepad, A is only used to draw interplanetary connections.
Added bird restaurant Seed → Fertilizer recipe.
Bio Energy Reactor is now placeable on Slime.
Nuclear Reactor no longer requires Cooling.
Improved edge rotation when placing a building or drawing a pipe with Gamepad.
All secret resources are now previewed on the Rewards screen.
Updated and improved English texts and dialogues.
Sector 14: Added some new dialogues.
☀️ Added UI to display how many quests need to be completed before the Alien Trader returns.
☀️ Rover can now be controlled directly via Left Stick on Gamepad or WASD on keyboard as an alternative to rover path drawing.
Added ambience volume slider.
Rover now ignores pipes when being placed, and pipes ignore rover when being drawn, making the behavior consistent with actual rover movement ignoring pipes.
With every new free play mode game, if there is any secret resource craftable with the current settings, one is made available, displaying its crafting recipe in the Wiki. It can be selected as goal resource and discovered in the sector.
Slightly increased goal complexity values for medium and high complexity in free play mode.
☀️ Changed Alien Trader reward generation to prioritize rewards that have been given out less often than others.
Alien Trader no longer offers two quests that give the same reward.
Changed crafting recipes of bird buffet recipes that turn more complex food into Fertilizer to produce two units instead of one, output into the same pipe.
Fixes:
☀️ Fixed asteroid ambience sound not stopping when leaving an asteroid. This caused layered ambience sound and also caused general sound and music to cut off after some time.
Asteroid now rotates in the star system map when cycling between launch pad and landing pad nodes with Gamepad.
Fixed rover mistakenly connecting to launch pad and playing an old sound effect when doing so.
☀️ Removed outdated crafting recipes that caused non-craftable resources to be counted in the maximum score calculation.
Fixed interplanetary connection drawing behavior while the camera zooms or auto-pans to the selected asteroid with Gamepad input.
☀️ Fixed Launch Pad level 03 upgrade not changing rocket capacity.
☀️ Fixed Alien Trader always requesting the same resources after all potential Alien Trader resources had been requested once.
☀️ Fixed bug in pipe drawing that could cause other systems to break as a consequence, resulting in asteroids not being unloaded and multiple asteroids appearing merged with each other.
☀️ Wigglers in free play mode no longer request secret resources with unknown crafting recipes.
Fixed bug causing free play mode potential goal resources to exclude resources originating from plant products.
☀️ Fixed some resources being considered as potential module quest resources twice, resulting in the game displaying a missing module quest but not actually generating one when clicked, displaying an empty speech bubble.
☀️ Fixed bird buffet Fruit → Fertilizer recipe crafting speed not being affected by building upgrades.
☀️ Wiggler eyes in free play mode can no longer spawn in lava, removing the lava in the process and causing unreachable surface where the lava was before.
Fixed Geothermal Reactor and Cooling Tower displaying wrong hover UI info while being placed.
Fixed bug reporting tool blocking UI interactions when opened and therefore being unusable
Minor improvements for sector 02 and sector 04
More save/load fixes for old savegames
Sector 13: Alien Trader now keeps on appearing after victory was reached, giving access to more tradable plants and buildings
Stats screen and victory screen now also display level achievements that were completed before the level started
Gamepad: Fixed bug creating duplicate 3D pointers when switching to Mouse input in asteroid view
Gamepad: Added LB/RB input to switch between star systems in Level Selection
Gamepad: Navigating to "Skip dialogue" toggle in Level Selection now doesn't happen when navigating down from Continue, but when navigating Right from Start New
The best place to give feedback is our Discord server. There, we are running a Smart Ticketing System: Leave feedback, vote up change requests and bug reports from other users, and help us to prioritize tasks in the further development of Star Birds.
🙏Thank you so much for your feedback, comments and bug reports! This helps us a lot to prioritize and identify issues with the game. We're trying to address the most critical issues as soon as we can. Please be patient though, since we're a small team and might take a while to address specific issues you're experiencing!🙏