Star Birds · published · build 23970295
☀️ Fixes & Improvements Based on Community Feedback
Steam Deck & Controller Support
Added a floating keyboard for entering text with a controller.
Added UI scaling for building-button tooltips.
Improvements
Added sunray visual effects when placing solar panels in areas with high sunlight intensity.
Improved visuals for high sunlight intensity spots.
Improved error handling in the bug reporting tool.
Pressing Esc now cancels building placement before opening the in-game menu.
Improved the visuals of slime areas.
Implemented several additional visual-effect fixes and improvements.
Added visual feedback to working energy producers (i.e. Solar Panels).
☀️Added special visual effect on the star map for asteroids that have a strange object.
Bugfixes
☀️Added several potential fixes for Free Mode challenge progress being reset after restarting the game, including the Prime Slime and Crater Caterer challenges.
Fixed a game-breaking issue that could occur when starting the game offline before connecting to a Steam leaderboard for the first time.
Fixed an issue in Free Play where Ice Extractor research could request resources that themselves required an Ice Extractor to obtain.
☀️Fixed Cinnakeet factory upgrade perk (Reshaper) not being obtainable in Perk Shop.
☀️No longer displaying unavailable free play mode challenge in UI.
☀️Made savegame functionality more robust and added more logging for failure cases.
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.