Public Beta Patch Notes 0.2 - Free Playing Mode & Three Brand New Levels

Public Beta Patch Notes 0.2

☀️ Fixes & Improvements Based on Community Feedback

New Content:

• Added sectors 08, 09, and 10.

• Introduced a new star system: Paradeira.

• Added a new star, new color palette, and new asteroid shapes for Paradeira.

• Added 7 new buildings.

• Added 15 new resources.

• Added 3 new alien plants.

• Added 9 new achievements (local only while in beta).

• Added a new cutscene.

• Added alien tentacles (“Wigglers”) and an alien eye.

Free Play Mode

• Added the first iteration of a Free Play Mode / level generator.

Improvements:

• ☀️ Sector 02: Landing pad dialogue no longer progresses when placing the landing pad on the wrong asteroid.

• ☀️ The upgrade button now displays a lock icon as long as the perk required to upgrade the building further is not unlocked.

• Non-purchasable buildings (such as Volt Shroom or Strangelet Detector) are now previewed in the building inventory before they are obtained.

• When discovering a plant for the first time, a “Plant Discovered” effect now spawns.

• Added a system for obtaining Strange Points via Module Quest progression in Sectors 08–10 and in generated sectors.

• ☀️ The Melter building now only respawns ice it actually melted when deleted.

• ☀️ The target framerate setting is now disabled when VSync is enabled.

• Added missing building LODs in the Map view.

• Improved distribution of resources across asteroids.

• The Wiki no longer opens when left-clicking a building inventory button; it now only opens via right-click.

• Save files are now compressed and have a much smaller file size.

• Removed solar panel upgrades for balancing reasons.

Bugfixes:

• ☀️ Fixed asteroids being generated without resources.

• Fixed the Small Explosive unlock being available in Level 04 by mistake.

• ☀️ Fixed Map ambient sound not being affected by the volume slider.

• Fixed asteroid plateaus being counted as connected despite being separated by a gap.

• ☀️ Fixed several issues that could cause holes to appear in the asteroid surface.

The best place to give feedback is our Discord server. There, we are running a Smart Ticketing System: Leave feedback, vote up change requests and bug reports from other users, and help us to prioritize tasks in the further development of Star Birds.

🙏Thank you so much everyone for the overwhelming response, all your feedback, comments and bug reports! This helps us a lot to prioritize and identify issues with the game. We're trying to address the most critical issues as soon as we can. Please be patient though, since we're a small team and might take a while to address specific issues you're experiencing!🙏