It is once again time for early testing of the next Thrive release, 0.8.1. This release has a lot of new gameplay features like environmental tolerances, radiotrophy and reworked thermosynthesis gameplay. And there’s also the usual bunch of smaller changes. One other highlight is that there is now an exclusive fullscreen mode that should improve things for everyone on Windows who want to play in fullscreen. Please report to us if the one pixel border and slightly wrong resolution problems are gone now.
This testing build is a bit more raw than we would have preferred as the environmental tolerances feature was literally “finished” just a few hours ago. So please don’t be too harsh on it. But do report back how it changes the feel of the game. There is a known problem where the tolerances GUI gets messed up when loading a save made in the editor, so please don’t report that again as we are aware of it. Also it is very easy to get into negative MP when using the tolerance sliders. There's been multiple reports about that already so we don't need more, thank you.
To access the beta build, right click Thrive in the Steam client and in the properties opt into the "beta" branch.
As usual please post any feedback you have on this test build on our forums or the comments below. We are especially interested in the current game balance as many of the new features haven’t had time to be balanced well so we expect them to be unbalanced currently. We will try to get the game balance as good as possible before the full 0.8.1 release in one week.