Coop + community feedback
I've been quite busy since release. Some of you had some feedback that I have already managed to look into. I will try give you guys a seperate list of what I have worked on based on your feedback and a list of things that I would have done anyway (regular update). I had also worked on a coop wave defense mode.
The following things have been done exclusively as a result of player feedback:
Regular update / council changes. The coop related ones are indirectly also done as a result of players wanting PVE game mode options. Here's the list:
Draft roadmap:
There currently is no set roadmap. That being said some features have been requested already so those have a very good chance to be added to the game in the near future. Here are some of those requested features:
- Coop vs AI (wave defense will already be in the next patch)
- Construction circles for buildings
- Fix sometimes shipyards spawning in eachother
- Allow players to set popcap in SP and MP
- Carriers
- Different languages
- Bugfixes
- Height indicators when moving ships in 3D space
Thats about it for now. Thank you guys for supporting the project so far and I hope you guys are having fun!
PS: If you want to help out please share the link to the steam page or the patreon wherever you can. That really helps keep the project growing!
The following things have been done exclusively as a result of player feedback:
- Made scrollbar brighter in the ship editor (players couldnt find it)
- Made loot drop tooltip button and multiplayer start game visible on screens with less than 1080 height (players with widescreens couldnt press start)
- Made the back button in the lobby list higher for those with a screen with 768 height
- Moved ship designer elements to make them less confusing
- In the next patch I have increased the laser shield cooldown from 15 seconds to 30 and decreased the range from 150 to 100. The latter I wanted to do myself to make it so that they cover a less large area and thus seem more like 'personal defenses'. This is after feedback of missile shields feeling OP to some.
- Made a seperate host Skirmish, Host Coop wavedef and Host battle royale button (some players seemed to think the game only had 1 or 2 game modes)
- Added bot with roles to the discord (players wanted to more easily find opponents)
- Made burst artillery 5x more accurate (players found artillery too inaccurate)
- Made Storage, Habitat Stations and some similar buildings less expensive
- Buildings now derive their costs from the actual game objects rather than manual input. This fixes the "Plasma artillery laser cannon costs incorrect" bug @Feathy reported
- I have unlocked campaign mission 2. I actually wanted to wait until I could have added the voice overs, but I also want to give as much content as possible to people trying the game(got feedback about that). I also promised to unlock one campaign mission roughly 3 weeks and I want to make sure I stay on schedule with that too.
- Shipyard explosion is now bigger
Regular update / council changes. The coop related ones are indirectly also done as a result of players wanting PVE game mode options. Here's the list:
- Magma Cannon: increased damage to 24
- Magma Repeater: increased damage to 16
- Duo Cannon: increased damage to 32
- Cutters: reduced range to 200
- Fixed bug of players start a multiplayer lobby getting the wrong team
- Fixed movement command destination too high/low
- Added a button for guides and the discord to the main menu
- Allied surveyors now shouldnt draw lines towards the building the player is trying to place
- Player projectiles and missiles now actually hit enemy ships in multiplayer coop
- Players can now hit transports again
- AI units in coop wavedefense should now always be red again
- Zabu generators in coop should now change to the allies color if captured
- Allied smartlasers in coop wave defense should no longer shoot down friendly missiles
- Fixed AI healthbars not visible in multiplayer coop
- Fixed projectilee colors wrong + sometimes 2 projectile visuals attached to 1 object
- Coop wavedefense scorescreeen should now display everything properly
- Added coop difficulty sliders to the network lobby
- Client now reads difficulty sliders in the network lobby
- Players are now forced to be the same team in coop wavedefense
- Client team dropdown now disabled if game mode is wave defense
- Team dropdown is now visible again when switching back from wave defense game mode to skirmish or battle royale
- Custom values can now be saved per lobby for its settings
- Added a check to see if we still need to check if we can hit enemies or not. If we can already hit them then stop doing more checks; they are redundant
- Made it so that the client cant touch the wavedef settings
- New accuracy for artillery
- Made flak artillery 5x more accurate
- Made plasma artillery twice as accurate
- Made the repressor turret 100% accurate instead of 'largely accurate'
- Made the missiledef cannon 3x more accurate
- Made plasma fortress 33% more accurate
- Fixed player projectiles not hitting AI in singleplayer
- Magma cannon is unlocked by default again
- Added the Challenger Warship
- Fixed bug of some menu buttons not working after doing the tutorial
- Removed 'Exit Game' button from the multiplayer menu
- Guides and Discord button now dissapears when you go to multiplayer or singleplayer selection
- The Raider medium ship is now unlocked by default. This gives new players access to 3 light, 3 medium and 3 heavy units by default
- Added the Gautling cannon
- Fixed issue with enemy surveyor tooltip bugging due to not being able to retrieve weapon and module slot data
- Made storage more expensive again, fixed an AI surveyor tooltip issue
- Coop wavedef enemy units should no longer spawn at the centre of the map
- Enemy ship colors in coop wavedef should now be red instead of the player color
- Transports no longer spawn in wave defense
- AI ships no longer have the host name in the tooltip in coop wavedef
- Reset wave defense difficulty on going back to the main menu to prevent wave difficulty desyncs in coop
- @LaOch made it so that there is no change in unit health under difficulty 10
- Made it so that singleplayer and multiplayer coop enemy units health are the same
- Each difficulty vs AI above 10 (the default) will now increase the health AND damage. This means that on 10 difficulty ships will have 100% health and 100% damage. But on 50% difficulty they will have 500% health and 500% damage. This is in addition to the extra amount of ships that will spawn
- Health sync test check for difficulty 1: done
- Fixed colors for real now in the coop wavedef
- Fixed coop wavedefense allied smartlasers shooting down friendly missiles
- Fixed coop wavedefense double tooltips
Draft roadmap:
There currently is no set roadmap. That being said some features have been requested already so those have a very good chance to be added to the game in the near future. Here are some of those requested features:
- Coop vs AI (wave defense will already be in the next patch)
- Construction circles for buildings
- Fix sometimes shipyards spawning in eachother
- Allow players to set popcap in SP and MP
- Carriers
- Different languages
- Bugfixes
- Height indicators when moving ships in 3D space
Thats about it for now. Thank you guys for supporting the project so far and I hope you guys are having fun!
PS: If you want to help out please share the link to the steam page or the patreon wherever you can. That really helps keep the project growing!