Update 3 (0.21) - Resource-gathering rework, accessibility and more

Fellow Hogardians!

Although we support Iris and The Order, we have a treat -no tricks- for horror fans: a new update!

Before we hand out some candy-ish features, we’re also celebrating a Halloween-themed building contest on Discord. Almost anything goes, whether it’s your take on Dracula’s castle, stone-made jack-o'-lanterns, or even wooden monsters.

That said, here’s what version 0.21 includes:

[h2]Resource gathering system rework[/h2]

• Workers can now be increased or decreased for each resource-gathering building.
  
• Warehouses now only increase resource storage and no longer serve as a destination for pawns.
  
• Added a new piece to optimize resource-gathering.
  
• Highlighting pawns shows carried resources and highlights the building of origin.
  
• A button was added to instantly recalculate the path from the gathering building to the core.
  
• Resource-gathering values have been rebalanced.
  
• Removed resource-gathering improvements from Sandbox Mode. Now, resource-gathering will correspond to a normal vanilla level.
  

[h2]Units & Horrors[/h2]

• Units that are already attacking should ignore aggressive movement orders.
  
• Now horrors from waves will be spawned in random order within a spawner
  
• Horrors will no longer be able to traverse the borders of the Wetlands in Endless Mode.
  
• Updated unit grouping tutorial keys.
  
• Improving the Partisan correctly increases his HP now.
  
• Horror dens will now gather nearby wander enemies as part of the spawned pool.
  
• The Siren shouldn’t stay at 1HP and not die indefinitely.
  
• Iris spawn behavior has been improved in the Level Editor.
  
• Waves from the second tutorial shouldn’t come from unexpected places.
  
• Unit description now auto-scrolls even if the game is paused.
  
• Horror dens and lamps are now removed from targeting to better calculate horror area.
  
• Increased explosive horror’s vertical radius.
  
• The lamp from the tutorial starts as conquered.
  

[h2]Pieces & Buildings[/h2]

• Pieces rebuilt with undo will preserve the health they had when recycled.
  
• Now when a built piece is restored using undo, it will be built instantly.
  
• Building and Squad panel binding and behavior changes
  
• Blueprint flow fixes.
  
• The piece picker should work with improved entities too.
  
• The horizontal wooden surfaces of the new roofs should be walkable and deployable.
  
• Fixed the HP of the new roofs.
  
• The B key should close the building menu if it’s opened.
  
• The construction panel hotkeys now work as a combo with alt+
  
• Fixed the blueprints menu not updating while the game is on pause.
  
• Bridges and lanterns are available on Skirmish levels.
  
• The collision between the recycle, undo, and piece picker buttons has been solved.
  
• Healing pieces by undoing shouldn’t work any longer.
  
• The roof corner with support and the roof with support can now be saved as blueprints.
  
• Solved an error causing players to exit building mode with deplanized pieces without any confirmation pop-up.
  
• The waves panel was broken in the SavesEditor prefab.
  
• Smoke should be disabled if a piece isn’t conquered.
  

[h2]UI & UX[/h2]

• Horror units and dens and human units limits UI implemented for Level Editor
  
• An exclamation mark particle was added to notify an aggressively moving unit that an enemy had been detected.
  
• Changes in UI to better indicate whenever resources are not being produced/consumed during the night.
  
• Added UI scaling (experimental).
  
• The camera position will be restored after skipping events when needed.
  
• The execution text will no longer be visible in-game when the UI is disabled.
  
• Solved the errors caused by opening the menu just before the final UI fade on level The Defense of Hogar.
  
• The icons of different tools from the Terrain view in the Level Editor shouldn’t remain highlighted after deselecting them.
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]

• Changed the level flow in The Defense of Hogar to lessen player frustration after listening to our community.
  
• Small adjustments to Pallid Bay.
  
• Improved the spark buff.
  

[h2]Miscellaneous[/h2]

• Removed the speedrunning achievement.
  
• Added accessibility settings (UI scaling, background for subtitles…).
  
• Subtitle background can be enabled for animatics from the options menu.
  
• A new setting allows the player to start a load a save file with the game paused by default.
  
• Improved feedback for capability action buttons.
  
• Added the option to key bind the bug reporter.
  
• Dither distance slider has been added to the options menu.
  
• Added a perla escape tutorial to the tutorials menu.
  
• The pop-up asking for player confirmation (exiting/loading a game and whatnot) can now be confirmed by pressing the space bar.
  

[h2]General Bug Fixing[/h2]

• Added custom error message to handle missing maps trying to be loaded.
  
• Adjusted Wetlands to restore ambient music after an event starts.
  
• Fixed tactical buff soft lock in the tutorial.
  
• The bug reporting panel now hides correctly after pressing Escape.
  
• Fixed soft locks on the first level.
  
• Fixed weird behaviors in the terrain editor.
  
• The cursor is set when leaving the Entity Editor.
  
• Revised the amount and frequency of notifications to reduce noise.
  
• Fixed memory leaks.
  
• The game shouldn’t stop working anymore if GameAnalytics initialization fails.
  
• Fixed infinite loading screen when returning to the war table in some cases.
  
• The “restart level” option shouldn’t be shown upon victory anymore.
  
• Explosion range modifications.
  
• Fixed an issue causing some behaviors to miscalculate the occupied tiles.
  
• Time Anchors in custom levels now have a correct diurnal thumbnail.
  
• Fixed a soft lock situation caused by players holding the click button when loading a level from the war table.
  
• Updated InitialSave on level Mistfuel Firepower.
  
• Fixed weird deploy problems and overlapping exploits.
  
• Fixed pause not being triggered during the victory screen if the last chain was skipped on The Defense of Hogar.
  
• The camera height button colliders have been revised so they can be easily clicked.
  
• Bug reporter now should close when pressing Escape.
  
• Other bugs related to the Bug Reporter.
  
• Drag deployment should obey the CTRL key to apply aggressive movement.
  
• Removed the ProsperityProgressBlocked notification.
  
• Players can select a block underneath the Elite’s Quarters when clicking in the middle of it.
  

[h2]Thanks for your feedback[/h2]

That’s it! As always, thank you for your tireless support. Your feedback on the Steam forums and reviews, as well as on our Discord server, has been priceless. Let’s keep improving Cataclismo together!

Have A Boo-tiful Halloween! 👻