Starseed News

Another small update. Don't worry, I am working on the big updates while working on these, I just think these are sometimes more important and pushing them quicker to get a stable experience.

Some of you might've noticed this new area blocked off, this is where the lava area will be. With new resources and burning rocks, cracks and lava, some of them can harm you - these might operate like simple puzzle gameplay that you can turn them off for a short time to get past. Stay tuned!



So for this we have rain working more consistently. It was a bit weird and inconsistent, sometimes rarely showing up. It also rained in the mines, which was silly. The rain audio is much more improved, its almost ASMR-like now and will be muffled when entering a building or the mines.

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Then some other bugs with the dronehub losing targets sometimes. And other small fixes and cleanups.

Technical:
- Fixed rain scheduling
- Removed rain appearing in mines
- Dronehub fixed, sometimes could lose its targets in mines
- Other small bug fixes

Gameplay
- Rain audio improvement

Thank you!

This time we had an issue with transmitters getting stuck, automatically
reported by the error reporting and I immediately jumped on it to fix it.

Also finally solved the issue reported by a user of specific crop missions being completed by the wrong crops

Technical:
- Fixed issue with wrong crops completing wrong missions
- Fixed issue with transmitters


Happy to see the error reporting has shown it's worth already.

Thank you for the support and patience thus far

Another small patch

Fixed issue with rice and corn sometimes not appearing
(This still needs improvement, rice will appear after unlocking but only on new seeds/planets, this will be changed - reasons for this kinda thing was initially to
give players a reason to start new planets but we're starting to change our mind on that, it seems people prefer sticking with a main world and using others as a sort of extra.
So that's our first BIG gamestyle change based on feedback - we will be allowing players to have a bit more freedom and feel less locked into game decisions)

Another issue we are thinking about is customization. Part of the game theme was that you get these people/operatives/astronauts that you have to work with (with their pros and cons), pick the best of them for the task/your playstyle with minimal customization.
Kinda mirroring the real world. We don't just get to customize those we work with or befriend haha, but we can help and guide them to grow and improve and that's why there are upgrades and stats (we are still planning on adding a localized upgrade system)
- but people want customization too badly, so we will be thinking about this further down the line!

Technical:
- Fixed crop sorting, sometimes player body could appear through crops
- Fixed issue with rice and corn sometimes not appearing
- Other small bug fixes

Gameplay:
- Nothing this time

Reported issues:
- We had a reported issue of crop specific missions being completed by any crop, this needs a bit more investigation, have not yet reproduced it.
(If anyone who experiences this as well can provide images, video or info about this in the forums that would be very helpful)


Thank you and keep providing feedback, it's been really helpful so far!

This is our first update that's not a quick fix patch. We have gotten some valuable feedback to make some changes. The biggest being having better descriptions and refunding deleted machines and placed items.

We added the crash reporting which is opt in. It would help a lot if you could accept it but we understand those who won't be comfortable with it.

We continue to work on the Hazards update which will bring lava and better implement the health system.

Technical:
- General fixes and improvements
- Cleanup labels, text, descriptions
- Added Unity cloud diagnostics Crash Reporting (opt in or out) (Really makes it a lot easier to debug and gather info on errors without annoying players by asking them too many questions)
- Improved tutorial explanations
- Machines and placeable objects will now be returned to inventory when deleting
- Fixed machine ui panel labels
- Improved atmospheric environmental audio (sea, river, wind, etc)

Gameplay:
- Added Items and Recipes: Sandstone, Glass, Lens, Solar Cells
- The start of resources on the beach (Sandstone will spawn now)
- We've started adding the Lava area (This will bring the first hazards which cause damage) so you might see some parts of it but it's WIP, you won't be able to access it yet


This crash report popup will be shown on first start:



The tweaked audio gives more calming atmosphere:
Beach:
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Walking through grass and river sounds:
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Thank you for the continued support!

Simple improvement of tutorial explanations and making it clearer that you should press the button for more info.



Thank you