Starlight Mining Company Demo v0.8.2

Starlight Mining Company · published

Enhancements

Tutorial Rework

  • New players are now recommended to select the Orientation difficulty

  • Tutorial planets only appear in Orientation difficulty

  • Orientation only has 1 jump before Boss Planet

  • Narration and subtitles to help players progress

  • Tutorial planet first day starts after player has built enough buildings to survive the first night

  • Increased Starlight Drill speed on Orientation planet to decrease game length

  • Music is disabled in Orientation for narration

  • Added confirmation dialog when starting harder difficulty before Orientation is beaten

Cargo Bay Rework

  • Added "Scrap" currency

  • Scrap is awarded on each planet

  • Additional Scrap can be earned if completing the Bonus Objective

  • Bonus Objective now has a time quota component

  • Scrap can be spent at the Cargo Bay to unlock new buildings in your starting kit and upgrading buildings to higher starting levels

  • Buildings in Cargo Bay can be sold for Scrap at a reduced rate

  • Free wall can be purchased if sold by accident

  • Starting Cargo Bay capacity decreased from 6 to 2

  • Players no longer store buildings from the previous planet in Cargo Bay

Enhancements

  • Added setting to disable orientation narration

  • Added dedicated volume slider for voice lines

  • Added game version to save files

  • Changed planet "Survivability" to "Difficulty" to be more clear

  • Decreased difficulty across the board

  • Added 40s to first planet setup time to allow for setting up base with only a wall

  • Removed the ability to place "solid" buildings (walls, Starlight Laser) on top of players

  • Increased Mineral Synthesizer stats

Bug-fixes

  • Fixed saved games not loading properly when restarting game

  • Fixed black screen when loading incompatible save game

  • Fixed main menu ship not resetting when returning to menu

  • Fixed enemies sometimes not attacking the wall

  • Fixed eventlog behavior option not persisting

  • Removed unused hotkey settings

  • Fixed Boss Planet not initializing properly

  • Fixed sound volume sometimes overwriting music volume

  • Fixed classes other than Miner getting a free Miner wall, they now receive the wall for their class

  • Fixed selection panel action buttons not highlighting properly in some situations

  • Fixed Factory and Mineral Synthesizer refund amounts

  • Fixed issue where chat wouldn't wrap properly with long messages

Up Next

  • UI Refresh

  • More progression unlocks

  • Ranged enemies, unique enemy interactions, unique boss abilities

Starlight Mining Company Demo v0.8.2 · Starlight Mining Company patch notes · SteamPeaks