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Simfest and first update! 🌈

Hello everyone,

We have some exciting news to share! Diluvian Winds is now part of Simfest, a great Steam festival celebrating all things related to simulation games.

During Simfest, you'll have the opportunity to explore the latest and most thrilling simulation titles. And here's the best part: From today until July 24th, 2023 at 10 am PDT, you can enjoy a fantastic 20% discount on Diluvian Winds!

That's not all! We're also thrilled to announce the game's first update. We've added new settings and difficulties to the game modes (Story, Sandbox, and Scoring). Plus, we've introduced a photo mode so you can easily share beautiful screenshots with your friends!

Make sure to check out the full patchnote for all the details:

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Summary

-New sandbox settings
-New scoring and story difficulties (easy and hard)
-A new photo mode
-Quality of life improvements
-Bug fixes and balancing

/!\ KNOWN BUGS /!\

-Loading an old save in story mode (saved before update 0.6.0) may result in a soft lock (the query you need to perform in order to progress is not present)
-Localization is not complete for some languages

GAME MODES

We've added a seed system for the scoring and sandbox game modes. It allows you to have the same start using the same seed and the same parameters when launching a game.

Story
Two new difficulty modes: Easy and Hard.

Sandbox
-New parameters for customizing a game
-Disaster on/off
-Disaster phase frequency
-Intervals between disasters
-Rainbow weather duration
-Quantity of plans obtained
-Starting prototype points
-Fire weather penalty
-Morale weather penalty
-Quantity of starting resources
-Overheating gauge size
-Number of restarts in the caravan

Scoring (BETA)
-Two new difficulty modes: Easy and Hard

PHOTO MODE

We've also added a photo mode. Take your best in-game photos and share them with your friend!
It includes the following settings:
-Staging
-Zoom level
-Show / Hide room interiors
-Lighthouse light orientation
-Display settings
-Brightness
-Contrast
-Saturation
-Filters
-Frames & Decorations
-Thumbnail Size / Intensity
-Frames
-Fancy & Decorations
-Logo
-Caption


CHANGES AND BUG FIXES

Story mode
-The "Build a Mine" objective validates correctly if a mine exists before unlocking it.
-Waves appear correctly when continuing a game after completing Chapter 4

Sandbox Mode
-Sandbox Mode is now permanently unlocked

Scoring Mode
-Scoring Mode is now permanently unlocked

Rooms
-Addition of new room tier icons
-Tooltip added to icons when rooms are about to suffer disaster damage.
-Corrected visual overlay issues during room reinforcement
-Traveler lighting no longer depends on the position in the room

Meals
-Tooltips added to symbols in the recipe book

Fire
-Low fire feedback added to the game interface
-New color gradient for fire gauge
-Fire level added to HUD

Net
-Sending someone to the net no longer crashes the game
-Added net levels to unify net upgrades
-Net information added to HUD

Traits
-Added :
-Fish expert
-Insect Connoisseur
-Veggie Fan

Interface
-The main menu music stops correctly when starting a game
-Added validation screen to warn of permanent changes

Options
-New resolutions added
-2560 x 1440
-1280 x 720
-1366 x 768
-1536 x 864
-Added option to show/hide room interiors
-Alignment of visual elements

Weather
-More detailed disaster tooltips
-New icons for Catastrophe weather

Save
-Added save difficulty level to the screen
-Empty save no longer appear randomly
-Autosave icon added to save the tutorial box


Accessibility
-Added a screen containing all tutorial boxes
-Added option to enable/disable lettering
-Added option to adjust screen shake intensity

Localization
-Correction of numerous typos in various languages
-Portuguese (BR): {morale} tag correctly replaced by its in-game value


Balancing

Overheating
-Gauge size (Normal difficulty): 10 -> 12

Caravane
-Starting arrivals: 3 -> 4

Net
-Level 0 (Base)
-Fish
-Quantity: 8-12 -> 9-14

-Level 1
Fish
-Chances (%): : 60 -> 55
-Quantity: 13-17 -> 14-19
Wood
-Quantity: 12-15 -> 14-19
Vegetables
-Chances (%): : 15
-Quantity: 14-19
Insects
-Chances (%): : 15
-Quantity: 14-19

-Level 2
Fish
-Chances (%): : 50 -> 45
-Quantity: 13-17 -> 19-24
Wood
-Quantity: 12-15-> 19-24
Vegetables
-Chances (%): : 15
-Quantity: 14-19
Insects
-Chances (%): : 15
-Quantity: 14-19
Oil
-Quantity: 1-1-> 1-2

-Level 3
Fish
-Chances (%): : 50 -> 35
-Quantity: 13-17 -> 24-29
Wood
-Chances (%): : 10 -> 15
-Quantity: 22-25-> 24-29
Vegetables
-Chances (%): : 17,5
-Quantity: 24-29
Insects
-Chances (%): : 17,5
-Quantity: 24-29
Metal
-Chances (%):: 5 -> 10
Oil
-Quantity: 3-3-> 4-6


Traits
-Fish Expert
When the meal contains Fish: Moral +3
-NEW Insect Connoisseur
When the meal contains Insects: Moral +3
-NEW Veggie Fan
When the meal contains Vegetables: Moral +3

Room reinforcement
Rooms now have a unified reinforcement cost depending on their size
Size 1 (1x1)
-Tier 1
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 5 Wood
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 5 Metal
-Tier 2
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 5 Metal
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal
-Tier 3
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Metal
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 15 Metal
-Lodgement
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Wood
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal


Taille 2 (1x2 or 2x1)
-Tier 1
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 15 Wood
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 10 Metal
-Tier 2
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 10 Metal
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 15 Metal
-Tier 3
Reinforcement Lvl 1 -> 15 Metal
Reinforcement Lvl 2 -> 20 Metal

Cellar
-Storage: 10 -> 20
Dormitory
-Cost: 55 -> 45
Kitchen
-Debris: 20 -> 30
Mine
-Debris: 15 -> 20
Oil Press
-Debris: 35 -> 40
Squirrel Hideout
-Cost: 55 -> 50
Storage
-Storage: 15 -> 20
Cold Chamber
-Storage: 25 -> 40
Safe
-Cost: 45 -> 40
Tank Habitation
-Cost: 45 -> 35

Meteos
-Reduced the fire loss of all weathers by 1 to allow the addition of the corresponding difficulty setting.

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