Diving in at the harbour
Your mission now starts in a dive capsule at the harbour – program the airlock to get out. Plus characters with faces, a bubbling fountain and voices for more languages.
New Features
- The briefing room is now a dive capsule moored at the island harbour – with wall screens, consoles, lights and portholes looking out over the harbour.
- The airlock is your first coding task: close the inner door, tell the pump how far to raise the pressure, open the outer door. If you get stuck, REPL offers to fill the gap for you. Then the gangway extends, you walk ashore – and the capsule dives behind you.
- A bar at the top of the screen shows the airlock steps at a glance.
- The «Loops» basics station now also explains while – exactly what you need for the pump.
- New characters for everyone: faces with eyes, brows, nose and mouth, real hands, relaxed arms and six skin tones. Captain Marina on the ferry is now a real character too.
- The fountain on the island plaza is an open basin with clear water and a fountain jet.
- New voices: Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese are now fully voiced, Romanian with a female voice. Ukrainian gets a new, more natural voice for every role.
- Male REPL: in 27 languages, the male REPL now speaks with a real male voice.
- Lots of new sounds – hissing valves, a thumping pump, seagulls over the harbour, footsteps on metal and wood, a creaking pier, a success and an error tone at every terminal – plus the «Sound captions» option for everyone who prefers to read.
Improvements
- The briefing room is calmer: no music, dimmed light – and as soon as the outer door opens, the harbour comes to life.
- Colours across the whole world are richer: a red shirt is now really red.
- The basics card wraps long answers and buttons cleanly in every language, and its text grows with the resolution.
- Lines that sounded wrong in an automatic listening check were generated up to three times; the clearest take was kept.
- A lantern lights the pier at night.
- The ferry now casts off towards the open sea.
- The island runs a little smoother.
- Falling off the pier into the water puts you safely back on top.
- Saves from the old briefing room load at a safe spot.
Bug Fixes
- After a new game or a language change, the gate in W1 and its switch sometimes showed blank white signs.
- Japanese characters on the basics card appeared as boxes.
Still in progress
Czech and Hungarian are only partly voiced so far, and in Indonesian, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese the new airlock lines are still missing. Bulgarian stays text-only for now. Where a voice is missing, you still see the text. All of this follows in 0.18.1.
Bugs, wishes or feedback? The report button is in the pause menu – every report comes straight to us.