Giga Early Access Update is out of beta! 🕷️

Scouts! Did you miss us? 🖖

This time the announcement is short, but it changes pretty much everything. 👀

We decided to take a different approach to our beloved game: the experimental update leaves the beta stage, which means that the changes it brought are now applied to the main Early Access build of the game. 🎉

👉 We already covered this topic in the previous issue of Lumencraft’s Steam news

🔧 Key features of the update:

• Procedural maps: from baked handcrafted maps to 100% procedurally generated roguelike levels!

• New Weapon: Lumenal Discharger - a dramatic armament charged with a lightning beam.

• Balance changes: many costs changed from metal to Lumen, requirements added for some upgrades (eg. have a building placed)

• ** New Steam achievements:** unlock 80 new achievements - some are easy and some are tricky!

• New languages: the game is now available in French, Spanish and Russian.

• **Improvements and fixes: **various UI, VFX, and sound changes.

📰 Full list of changes lies below. ⤵️

### Added

• added randomly generated maps

• alternative to regular maps, where each playthrough is unique

• generated features include tunnels, ore patches, enemy waves, treasures

• there are basic settings for map difficulty and length

• there are also advanced settings available where you can tweak different parameters

• new translations: French, Spanish, Russian

• added new secret weapon: Lumenal Discharger (available in the editor)

• shoots a lightning beam that automatically targets the nearest enemy and jumps between enemies

• uses Lumen as ammo

• Steam: Added 80+ new achievements:

• Long list of achievements was added. Some are progressive, and you will get them naturally by playing. Some are easy, and some are a bit … goofy. Like the one for cleaning the map of every bit of terrain. You will have to work for those.

• added option for changing game UI color

• Lab will now display a timer if Automatic Discovery was researched

• added option to change game blood color

• added dash sfx

• added player terrain collision sfx

• added blood splatters to swarm enemies

• added player recoil animations and shooting feedback

• burst fire now decrease stability

• added 2 machine gun audio sets

• repair gun now can carry items, Lumen, metal and clean debris

• added more prompts to the tutorial

• added Auto Harvest technology - makes Lumen Farm mushrooms harvested automatically at a fixed rate

• added Magnetized Storages technology - makes Storage Containers attract resources

• added Amplifying Stands technology - standing on a Stand connected to power will increase weapon damage

• Lumencraft can now be used as a default application to open .lcmap files

• added critical hit chance to weapons for 2x damage

• Steam: Added a special hidden achievement -> get it by clicking Change Log window's title twice

### Changed

• player dash now faces direction of the dash
• balance changes, many costs changed from metal to Lumen
• requirements added for some upgrades (eg. have a building placed)
• changed dash behavior to less sliding
• increased stamina regen delay from 0.75 to 1.0
• reduced running cost from 0.5 to 0.4
• screen shake works better with gun feedback
• decreased terrain and walls destruction caused by exploding buildings
• Lab roll is cheaper (10 Lumens from 20)
• improved gate placement
• Turrets Upgrade tech split into 3 sequential upgrades
• laser sights are slightly less bright
• reworked Reactor range upgrades
• now it's called "Reactor Level" and also affects HP
• the Reactor Durability technology was removed in favor of the new system
• number of turrets is now limited by the Reactor level
• reworked building requirements
• now a building might require another building to be constructed first
• turrets will now display technology required to upgrade instead of being non-interactable
• Key item name now includes its color
• limit guaranteed weapon tech in Lab to happen only once
• buttons with many options can now be right-clicked to select previous option
• Escape will again close build menu
• if you want to pause in build menu, bind another key for Menu action
• improved positional audio at map edges, when playing in single player
• demolishing will again decrease resources dropped by building (down to 80%)
• building, upgrading etc. will now first use resources from player's inventory rather than storages

### Fixed

• fixed performance drops while switching weapons
• fixed info center showing wrong paths for some monsters
• fixed bullets drawing above weapons
• fixed one hand drawing above weapon
• Saving: Health Center healing bar is no longer always full on load
• fixed Player 2 inventory not working
• Shredder will now properly handle small amounts of items
• fixed wall interaction highlight displaying wrongly
• fixed co-op controls
• fixed wrong power socket position in Lumen Farm
• LT/RT in options is not hidden if not using joypad
• fixed not being able to cancel workshop queue or Lab research if you have insufficient resources
• optimized save storage. A slot will no longer keep copies of multiple maps
• going back from controls settings now correctly opens main options screen
• fixed Crystal GRUBAS possibly getting stuck when going with wave
• fixed resources not attracting after throwing full stack with full inventory
• fixed inventory not refreshing when another player upgraded it
• fixed Alt+Enter crash on map loading
• fixed Message Boxes not being scrollable in certain cases
• tweaked building power ranges, to make them more reliable
• optimized non-wave enemy swarms (holes, nests, standalone etc.)
• fixed Sniper Turret sprite not matching its blueprint position
• fixed stack merging when one of the stacks is full

### Editor

• added "Disable Physics?" option to chests. Useful when putting chests under monster lairs
• added Lumen Chunks
• added Chunk Slots property to the Reactor
• added event conditions: Reactor - Lumen Chunk Delivered
• added floor surface texture: Blood
• added Extra Turret Limit setting, to bypass the default turret limit -> can be negative
• added Resource Efficiency, to customize rate of dropped resources from drilling
• Blood is now the 4th default surface floor texture. It's internally used for blood effects, so it shouldn't be changed
• fixed Destroyed event of the Reactor not triggering
• fixed tech descriptions not appearing in the Player settings tab

Enjoy! We hope you’re gonna love the changes as much as we do. 🕷️

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‼️ The last, but not the least: The release of Lumencraft’s full version on PC is scheduled for Q1 2023! 🤖

The game will debut in 2023 also on Nintendo Switch. 🎮

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