Beta Branch Update 2 - Gamespeed & Balancing
We just released Version 0.15.14 on the beta branch as a larger balancing update. 3x highest game speed instead of the previous 2x, workers move faster, all humbies can use defense towers, a new fridge that produces ice packs ad much more to improve the pacing of the earlier phases of the game.
If that is not enough we are currently working on a cooling chamber as a new room type with frozen zombie storage ❄️ units and adding the mines and quarries as a larger next update. So stay tuned!
The beta branch is accessible to anyone and helps us test an update before we make it an official update.
If you don't know how to switch branches in Steam at all, do the following:
Right-click on the game in your library, and click Properties.
Select the Betas tab, and select the branch you want to switch to. Then click OK.
Patchnotes:
Balancing:
- Zombies can take way more hits now, health range times ten to make room for more towers and new damage balancing. The goal is that players need to build more towers early on and it gets a bit harder to freeze lots of Zombies or complete waves.
- Humbie Level 1 and Level 2 can now use defenses, Level 1 humbie dealing only 75% damage
- Threat value is more mission duration and lab size dependent, especially in normal and hard missions. Will be way harder to reach day 50, 60 and beyond. The worker population has a fix threat gain value per worker. Every 10 days threat levels spike even more.
- Easy and very easy mission threat grows way slower to give room for a slower play style.
- You can play the sandbox mission now to have a relaxed ZCL experience where the zombie damage does not really grow much and the threat value neither.
- FASTER GAME SPEEDS, can be set up to 3x instead of previously 2x
- Workers move ~30% faster, goal was to change game pacing, especially for the early phase, overall you should be able to progress quicker.
- Missing production buildings like grill and meat growers now also have storage tags, their input and output storage will be accounted for by nearby producers. In other words, produced meat would directly go to the grill and not the main storage first.
- Science room machines moved to the science tech tree category
- Added a T1 fridge that produces ice packs very slowly for electricity as an alternate ice pack production to play around with.
- Bellow Breezer produces little more ice packs per hour
- Feeding piles 1 and 2 have more capacity for meat, stacks may look a bit nicer now. (Please report if this creates savegame problems)
- Default auto repair threshold increased from 70% to 90%, important for new players that do not know of this feature, you can change this value however you like.
- Repair costs are even further reduced from 25% to 15% and players with large destruction have a better chance to recover.
- Sleeping Pod T3 a bit better, minor value tweaks
- Treatment training requirement for humbie levels unified to three. Humbie Level 3 only needs to train three times instead of five, which greatly reduced the time until he is ready for treatment.
Ui/ Feature:
- Nicer storage amount UI in info boxes, sliders for refill/ take out thresholds more visible
- Improved look of resource icons
- Easier savegame deletion in the save screen
- Worked on final CrowdIn integration (see localization channels)
Bugs:
- Queued need jobs fix where workers sometimes would not abort jobs for needs (Mainly wood cutting)
- Humbies at feeding piles would cancel before finishing eating leading to satisfying less than 30% and making it difficult to produce enough meat for humbies especially when there is already none and their needs are very low.
- Worldmap even reward sunflowers bug fixed, can now be researched after unlocked
Sound:
- Fixed sound bugs, many tweaks and new sound effects
Known Issues:
- Game speed tooltip still shows slower speeds, but it is actually 3x speed on highest now believe me!
- Grilled meat on feeding piles looks bigger than raw meat on other feeding piles (What really matters)
If that is not enough we are currently working on a cooling chamber as a new room type with frozen zombie storage ❄️ units and adding the mines and quarries as a larger next update. So stay tuned!
The beta branch is accessible to anyone and helps us test an update before we make it an official update.
If you don't know how to switch branches in Steam at all, do the following:
Right-click on the game in your library, and click Properties.
Select the Betas tab, and select the branch you want to switch to. Then click OK.
Patchnotes:
Balancing:
- Zombies can take way more hits now, health range times ten to make room for more towers and new damage balancing. The goal is that players need to build more towers early on and it gets a bit harder to freeze lots of Zombies or complete waves.
- Humbie Level 1 and Level 2 can now use defenses, Level 1 humbie dealing only 75% damage
- Threat value is more mission duration and lab size dependent, especially in normal and hard missions. Will be way harder to reach day 50, 60 and beyond. The worker population has a fix threat gain value per worker. Every 10 days threat levels spike even more.
- Easy and very easy mission threat grows way slower to give room for a slower play style.
- You can play the sandbox mission now to have a relaxed ZCL experience where the zombie damage does not really grow much and the threat value neither.
- FASTER GAME SPEEDS, can be set up to 3x instead of previously 2x
- Workers move ~30% faster, goal was to change game pacing, especially for the early phase, overall you should be able to progress quicker.
- Missing production buildings like grill and meat growers now also have storage tags, their input and output storage will be accounted for by nearby producers. In other words, produced meat would directly go to the grill and not the main storage first.
- Science room machines moved to the science tech tree category
- Added a T1 fridge that produces ice packs very slowly for electricity as an alternate ice pack production to play around with.
- Bellow Breezer produces little more ice packs per hour
- Feeding piles 1 and 2 have more capacity for meat, stacks may look a bit nicer now. (Please report if this creates savegame problems)
- Default auto repair threshold increased from 70% to 90%, important for new players that do not know of this feature, you can change this value however you like.
- Repair costs are even further reduced from 25% to 15% and players with large destruction have a better chance to recover.
- Sleeping Pod T3 a bit better, minor value tweaks
- Treatment training requirement for humbie levels unified to three. Humbie Level 3 only needs to train three times instead of five, which greatly reduced the time until he is ready for treatment.
Ui/ Feature:
- Nicer storage amount UI in info boxes, sliders for refill/ take out thresholds more visible
- Improved look of resource icons
- Easier savegame deletion in the save screen
- Worked on final CrowdIn integration (see localization channels)
Bugs:
- Queued need jobs fix where workers sometimes would not abort jobs for needs (Mainly wood cutting)
- Humbies at feeding piles would cancel before finishing eating leading to satisfying less than 30% and making it difficult to produce enough meat for humbies especially when there is already none and their needs are very low.
- Worldmap even reward sunflowers bug fixed, can now be researched after unlocked
Sound:
- Fixed sound bugs, many tweaks and new sound effects
Known Issues:
- Game speed tooltip still shows slower speeds, but it is actually 3x speed on highest now believe me!
- Grilled meat on feeding piles looks bigger than raw meat on other feeding piles (What really matters)