Glad Giraffe Patch Notes, now with more bug fixes!

Glad Giraffe Patch Notes

Hey everyone! A new unstable build is upon us! This means that a new stable build is nearly  here. Need a reminder of how unstable updates work? Here you go!

• We automatically upload everything we’ve changed in-game to the opt-in Nightly branch each night.

• When we’ve completed the update we’ve been working on, we push the update to the Unstable branch. You can learn more about opting in to the Unstable branch here.

• When we’re sure that the update isn’t causing crashes or terrible bugs, we push the update to the Stable branch.

Click 'read more' for a changelog listing the most significant changes we've made to the game since the last patch!

• Vehicles are a work in progress! You can purchase/repair them at the outpost, but the repair UI is... definitely WIP.

• Some one-handed, unique and biome weapons which still use the old system will be replaced in a future patch

Weapons

    - Generated and tiered two-handed weapons now have special abilities that can be activated using right click. Many (45+) possible abilities are available for various classes of ranged and melee weapons!



        - Yes, some guns now have flashlights




    - Change to hammer mechanics: hold left click to wind up, release to fire

    - Change to spear mechanics: continue holding left click after a swing to keep the spear out to fend off enemies

    - Several new classes of hard-to-find unique weapons: boomerangs, chakrams and fist weapons. Find blueprints to upgrade these weapons into even more powerful and specialized versions!

    - A few miscellaneous unique weapons and items such as flamethrowers and remote-detonated grenade launchers












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Major changes to monster and NPC combat mechanics

    - Lots of new unique monsters found throughout the galaxy

    - Hostile monsters now damage the player on touch

    - Knockback is more powerful and reliable

    - Monsters have clearer ‘telegraphing’ to indicate when they are about to attack

    - Remade shields and improved blocking mechanics

    - Replaced electric stun status effect with Electrified, which periodically damages other nearby enemies












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Vehicles **

- New system for player-controlled vehicles which can be spawned and despawned using Vehicle Controllers (acquired at the Outpost)

- **Hoverbikes!**



    - Great for travelling across planet surfaces quickly!

    - They include a passenger seat so you can transport your friends!

    - Come in several attractive colors!

    - Drive carefully to avoid blowing yourself up!




- Coming Soon! - Boat and Mech vehicles replace previous tech equivalents

- Repair your vehicles using auto chips, which can be found in the world or purchased at the Outpost





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Quests

    - Quest givers’ portraits are shown on quest dialogs and in the log

    - Colonists now occasionally give players new procedural quests to help improve their house or social standing

    - The abandon button can be used on procedural quests and the same quests can now be declined




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Added lots of biome content to Tier 5 (frozen) worlds

    - New ‘Midnight’ planets

    - New ‘Frozen’ planets (replaces Tundra)

    - Prism, Steam Spring, and Hive sub biomes

    - Lots of new microdungeons and other improvements to all underground biomes, including background caves and parallaxes




- Loads of item descriptions have been fixed/replaced/added, including lots of Novakid ones!

- Too many new objects, items, costumes, colony tenants, etc. to list

- Too many bug fixes, item tweaks, and balance changes to list

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Glad Giraffe, now a little less

There's a new unstable patch out!  This will hopefully be the last patch before we release a new stable, if everything goes well.  For a list of everything new that will be in the next stable, see this post.

Here is a list of just what has been changed in the most recent unstable update:

• Fixed a bug causing players to get stuck in barbed wire

• Fixed a bug causing colonists sometimes getting stuck in the ceiling

• More hover bike and boat vehicle tweaks, both visually and in behavior.  The hover bike now feels much better and can climb steeper slopes

• Changes for how vehicles are sold and repaired

• Much better vehicle spawning from the vehicle controller

• Fixed some more bugs involving lounging, removed the ability of two players to sit in the same seat if they timed it right

• Added knockback for shields

• Changes for how status and movement modifiers are applied to be more clear and more capable

• Armor dyes!

• Fixes for terrain generation at the bottom of oceans

• Fixes for the floran boss damaging too much, also make the ixoling smarter.

• Fixed chat bubbles rendering behind certain interface elements

• Versioning fixes importing characters from previous versions

• Assorted networking fixes, mostly revolving around items

• Fixes for displaying quest rewards

• Several fixes for projectiles so that they don't miss when a small target is near their point of impact

• Fix endlessly repeating sounds

• Fixes for the turret object

• Fixes for the trictus monster

• Fixed monsters sometimes ending up invulnerable near death

• Fixed monsters not aggroing PvP players

• Fixes for capture pods

• Include some things in our distribution for using the Tiled map editor

• A bunch of other miscellaneous fixes too boring to accurately describe!

We're currently working on a modder's guide for using Tiled, which should include everything you need to create dungeons and missions using it.  There should be a post later today or tomorrow with more details.