The Brew Barons News

Beta Patch:
📜 Patch (0.990)

• 6 additional missions with over 400 new voiced lines added.
  
• 12 new unlockable pilot traits added
  
• Brewery upgrades now accompanied with art visuals.
  
• Foggy and Overcast weather chance added.
  
• Mission prerequisite flight time now visible on HUD when appropriate pilots are paired.
  
• Fixed the sudden pirate gunship slowdown that would occur after being defeated.
  
• Minor balance applied to the end game sequence.
  
• Fixed several pilot and pirate voice lines that weren't playing their audio.
  
• World map depicting outside of playable area added.
  
• Tumble frame takes slightly longer to flip and Gamblers Frame earns a more appropriate amount of money per boss hit.
  
• Boost targets upgrade added, if you want to see what it is like to go at 1500kts+
  
• Tour plane minigame added
  
• fix Big Picture mode steam keyboard would not appear if closed and reopened
  
• fix Brewery tutorial softlock if steam keyboard opened and closed in bottle phase
  
• fix Brewery clicking finish button quickly could create duplicate inventory items
  
• fix Time Trial sometimes teleports plane to LZ when results panel showing
  
• Pirate encounters will now return in open play after final battle has been completed, just cos there isn't much to do otherwise...
  
• fix salvage minigame awards duplicate recipes
  
• fix newspaper incorrect or placeholder text
  
• fix incorrect player position on map when in interiors
  
• inventory sliders now have acceleration if activated by controller button hold
  
• collecting spoiled ingredients now triggers the smog screen effect
  
• fix Ena negative trait speech playing incorrectly
  
• fix Nigel negative trait speech lines not playing
  
• fix Irena negative trait audio persists when entering bar
  

Our release is coming up at the end of the week! A big thanks to all those that helped with their bugs with their bug reports in this latest patch or prior ones!

LINKS

• Twitter
• Discord
• YouTube

Our first Backer Beta patch is here!

Beta Patch:
📜 Patch (0.897)

• Added 6 pilot missions with over 200 new voiced lines.
  
• Added 3 new minigames.
  
• 1 new unlockable trait for each pilot.
  
• Distance between islands slightly reduced.
  
• All brews of level 4 & 5 quality have a unique thumbnail visual.
  
• New UI screen particles placed throughout several areas of the game.
  
• The "compact frame" fuselage converted into a bi-plane.
  
• Fixed a few tutorial sections that had missing voice lines.
  
• A handful of portraits slightly polished.
  
• Bombing ring is more visible.
  
• Fixed several unwanted underwater salvaging sound effects.
  
• Fixed missing voice lines for submarine boss.
  
• Made water bombs a bit less likely to fill your screen with particles.
  
• Steam cloud saves enabled
  
• Multiple input devices supported
  

To access the missions there is a small gameplay requirement, hopefully it will be clear what that is, if not then let us know, we might need to signpost it a bit better.
For those interested in using HOTAS and pedals, multiple inputs are now supported, we don't actually have any pedals so it was tested using HOTAS + joypad, so if anyone does have pedals please let us know if it works for you.
All bugs and feedback are welcome, preferably on Discord or through the bug reporter.

LINKS

• Twitter
• Discord
• YouTube

Our first Backer Beta patch is here!

Beta Patch:
📜 Patch (0.880)

• fixed terrain that was snagging ship boss
  
• increased cycle rate of the brewery ingredient wheel
  
• art fixes for Irenas night trait
  
• fixed bugged refueling planes
  
• torpedo damage radius increased and fixed description
  
• prevent photomode being using in interiors
  
• removed duplicate recicpe
  
• corrected a mis-voiced bar owner line
  
• speculative fix for cocoa bean missing material
  
• reduced vacuum distortion
  
• engine dimmer quicker to update
  
• speculative fix for over bright interiors
  
• speculative fix for lingering underwater sfx
  
• voice volume slider added
  
• fixed broken UI in market
  
• fixed text UI scale in recipe book
  
• dandiewheat spawners release less
  
• end content balance adjustment
  
• fixed stacking ambient shipyard sfx
  
• fixed a bad tooltip in the hangar explaining yeast
  
• Spinning stars at night fixed
  
• info gathering and potential fix for plane sinking bug (probably not fixed but so rare I need more info)
  
• explosive buoyancy or game freeze long pause fix
  
• floating grass fix
  
• unable to collect higher tier wheat after purchasing upgrade fix
  
• front end improved validation to prevent invalid game names from being entered
  
• fix water plants showing incorrect icon when equipment warning is displayed
  
• fix farm plants not displaying icon for equipment warning
  
• fix plane inventory saved when new plane is loaded causing double counting when plane is reloaded
  
• additional check to prevent crash restart on islands that have pirates present
  
• pause menu sometimes unable to reopen after being opened once fix
  
• materials that are transferred from drop off were lost if game was saved and reloaded fix
  
• remove red faced portrait for bar patron
  
• skipping recruit conversation skipping would not stop audio line fix
  

Feel free to join us on our discord to discuss these and ongoing work.
LINKS

• Kickstarter
• Twitter
• Discord
• YouTube

We're pleased to announce we've been selected to present at the PAX rising showcase in Seattle! https://west.paxsite.com/en-us/features/pax-rising-showcase.html

Come by to play the demo, try out some new content and chat with the developers. We'll be presenting September 2nd-5th in the Seattle convention center. Hope to see you there!

This is potentially our last demo update as we ramp up full-time production.

Demo Patch:
📜 Patch (0.025)

• Pirates - will parachute money bags on defeat
  
• VFX - added close proximity water sparkles to slightly help judge your landings
  
• SFX - pontoon landing sound volume now tied to softness of landing
  
• UI - Cargo and fuel icons added to hud
  
• UI - money that is earned or lost will now briefly display next to your total funds
  
• VFX - fixed pontoon water vfx not triggering when exiting the hangar
  
• VFX - fixed boost effect not triggering on light frame fuselage
  
• Added UI and SFX to plane forward/reverse toggle
  
• Minor city buildings optimization
  
• Shoreline terrain gradients improved
  
• fix fuel consumption being zero for new planes
  
• fix tassel screen glitch on world translate
  
• removed kickstarter logo
  
• add no roll camera option
  
• manual cameras reworked to change position on water, descending from altitude, cruising
  
• camera distance sliders and in game inputs added
  
• manual mode autolevel bound to L, or left stick click
  
• manual mode yaw much more useable (uses new method of steering)
  
• manual mode default input bindings changed (throttle to should buttons, ability cycle to X, free camera to d-pad left)
  
• manual mode scale inputs at very high speeds to make plane more controllable when boosting
  
• timer removed
  

LINKS

• Twitter
• Discord
• YouTube