Hey everyone,
We have just released v0.15.0.5 to all platforms.
New
Add natural talent selection for captain creation.
Add several new characteristics.
Add Arthritis and Sarcopenia age related health conditions.
Add cognition health vital which currently affects the ability to learn and keep skills.
Improvements
The game, music and sfx will now pause when the game window loses focus.
Add an option to allow the game to continue to run in the background if the window does lose focus.
Ensure entities/pawns cannot be selected if under fog of war.
Various menu and tooltip updates.
Improved how the average age is calculated on pawn creation.
Optimised how skill experience is calculated.
Experience difficulty thresholds now adjust the amount of exp needed per skill level. E.g. A lower game difficulty requires less exp per level for each skill.
Pawns can now generate with an age related health condition.
Improve how age related illnesses are calculated.
Characters now have a chance to be naturally talented in a skill, granting them more exp. This is influenced by their profession.
Change how incapable skills are chosen. They are now influenced by characteristics as well as the pawns profession.
Improve how characteristics and sexual orientation are chosen.
Improve work button tooltip information.
Improve feedback when trying to force crew to do things.
Balance
Increased melee accuracy per skill.
Increased ranged accuracy of all weapons.
Various other improvements to combat.
Increased crop yields by roughly 20%.
Ensure the time between incidents are a bit more predictable when on Harmony game mode.
Greatly decreased skill atrophy.
Increased all skill experience gains.
Increased the amount of experience gained for older characters when first generated.
Language
Updated French translation files. Thanks Danieel53
Fixes
Fixed: Some incorrect texts.
Fixed: Pawns could incorrectly move off the edge of the map and leave your crew.
Fixed: Various issues with forced combat when black alert is activated.
Fixed: Texture bleed on the selector sprite.
Fixed: Transfer vent did not occlude light when it should.
Fixed: Ambient light in space was casting shadows causing some visual issues.
Fixed: Some characteristics incorrectly conflicted.
Fixed: Work buttons tooltip would not update correctly.
Fixed: Not all thoughts would be added correctly.