Slipways News

One thing you quickly learn from being a game developer: more people play your games on Saturdays. That's a good thing, but it does sometimes make for busy Sundays when a bunch of bugs get discovered in quick succession!

This here is another small patch, fixing the following issues:

- Machine Sentience/Cybernetic Bodies: An earlier fix to another problem broke the delicate seventyfold balance that is crucial to making these technologies work correctly. The balance should now be restored. If you were already experiencing problems with machine sentience/cybernetic bodies in a run, this patch unfortunately won't retroactively fix old saves - but the problems should no longer occur on new ones.
- Greener Pastures mission: Various problems caused by activating a terminal and then doing a deep undo many steps back should now be taken care of.
- Insecurity sector quirk: This quirk fell into the classic trap of activating again once it was already inactive, specifically with projects that were adding new needs (eg. Megastructures). This resulted in crashes when products that were already exported got removed. This should no longer happen, and the quirk will only look at "base needs" that are part of the planet's core industry.

After these fixes, the version numbers should be up to v1.3(b1077) on Windows and v1.3(b1078) on Mac.

This is another small patch fixing the following issues that were reported in the last few days:

- Project interaction: Megastructures and Elysium did not play along when built on the same planet, resulting in duplicate, unsatisfiable needs. They're now best buddies.
- Void Synthesizer vs Fargate Terminal: Void Synthesizers had a bunch of weird behaviors when connected to a fargate terminal in the "Greener pastures" mission, leading to crashes. These issues should now be resolved.
- Automation dependence quirk: the behavior of the quirk did not match its description, affecting structures as well as planets. It should no longer do so, and the description is more precise about what's going to happen.
- Campaign: The forebear archive and fargate terminals now have an option to return to them later after you trigger their completion event, instead of forcing you to go through with activating them.
- Isolated sector: "Borrowed" technology options that are duplicates of what you already have are now greyed out and disabled on the "copy techs" screen.

After these fixes, the version numbers should be up to v1.3(b1074) on Windows and v1.3(b1075) on Mac.

This patch has both small quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes:

- Game summary screen: You can now fold the run details - especially useful with the ranked "peek at a run" feature, where the full run record can easily take half the screen
- Key shortcuts: the key shortcuts for the various "lenses" (the views enabled by the "eye" icon in the bottom right) are now rebindable to whatever you want

- Ranked: Sometimes, a previously downloaded run by the same player would be displayed instead of their current run.
- Campaign: A tooltip was visible when you moused over empty space, revealing spoilers about the campaign's third act.

This patch bring the version numbers up to v1.3(b1065) on Windows and v.13(b1066) on Mac.

Another small bugfix patch, tackling the following problems:

- Vattori mission: Labs in rifts incorrectly started producing science even before researchers (vessels) were provided.
- Isolated sectors: Duplicate technologies would appear for two council races in the "copy techs" screen, causing issues. The random generator now ensures no duplication happens.
- Steam Deck: Fixed touchscreen errors appearing on the new Proton version.

This patch bring the version numbers up to v1.3(b1059) on Windows and v.13(b1060) on Mac.

Things are quieting down a bit on the bug front, so this is just a small patch, covering the following issues:

- UI: Having a controller attached could still cause weird problems due to left-over experimental controller code in the game. This code should now be fully dormant and should no longer cause issues with controllers plugged in.
- Isolated sectors: Runs with this sector type should now have the "borrowable" technologies correctly randomized according to the sector seed. Before the fix, they were always the same for all runs.
- Ranked: A problem was fixed that would have prevented tomorrow's seed from working correctly.

After these fixes, the version numbers should be up to v1.3(b1053) on Windows and v1.3(b1054) on Mac.