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Pipe or Die Playtest›Events›September 4th Changelog
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September 4th Changelog

Pipe or Die Playtest · published 4 days ago

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Added

  • A tutorial. Pick TUTORIAL on the main menu for a ten-minute training shift on your own: a small, quiet mine with no monsters that walks you through every control and the whole day, one thing at a time. Moving, the lamp, sprinting and crouching, the door, pipe crates and loose pipe, the extractor, planting it, the wrench and the grinder, laying a line, the glow stick, the pipe bomb, pulling crates, hauling them to the elevator, gold scrap, the smog and your mask, the decoy, the shutdown lever and the ride out.
  • It teaches the between-days screens too. After the ride up you get the real day report, the job board and the shop, each with a short guided tour, and you buy an upgrade with the money you just hauled. It all happens on a practice company. Your real save is never touched.
  • Lessons that stop the clock. The first time you do something, the game pauses on a short note pointing at the thing it's about on your HUD: stamina after your first sprint, the lamp battery, the air readout, your belt, and so on. Click OKAY or press Enter to carry on. ESC still opens the menu.
  • Arrows and a trail. The tutorial marks whatever the current step wants with an orange arrow, and draws a dashed trail along the floor to it the way you'd actually walk, not a straight line through rock.
  • You step up onto small lips now. Walking into a low threshold or ledge pops you up onto it instead of stopping you dead. Pipe runs across the floor still need a jump.
  • Backslash toggles the FPS readout, same as F8.


Changed

  • The end-of-day report looks like the rest of the terminal. Same screen, same type, same telemetry column as the menus, and the buttons are text lines like everywhere else.
  • Your name is your Steam name. The crew name box is gone from the main menu. What you're called in the lobby and above your head is pulled from Steam.
  • The "Steam online" line is gone from the main menu. It only speaks up now if Steam is closed, since hosting needs it.
  • The elevator readout just says ELEVATOR ARMED. The long instruction that used to follow it is gone. The lever's own prompt says the rest.


Fixed

  • Everyone was called "Player". Leaving the crew name box blank named you Player, and nearly everyone left it blank. Steam names come through now.
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