Plan B: Terraform News

Here is the v0.7.4 update, lot of small fixes. But also significant performance improvement thanks to a unity update ; hightlight of all the depots in range when you build something ; and a useless but nice "follow cam" on vehicles.


[h3]Plan B - v0.7.4 build 807[/h3]

Improvements:
- When building an item, hightlight depots that have this item in their range
- Follow cam on vehicles
- Updated unity to last LTS version (2022.3.16f1) - better performances
- Improved road building when owning only part of the road length (show the buildable part in green, and build it)
- Switch to physical keyboard inputs (it could break some custom bindings)
- Building destruction fx
- Straighters roads on build
- Items icons in color

Balance & tuning:
- Modified some item colors in zoomed out view

Bugs fix:
- Fixed remove stop in pause
- Fixed speed x5 tooltip
- Fixed road count feedback at build if building over existing road
- Fixed UI bug on some UI scale
- Fixed objective text size
- Improved city renaming
- Fixed waste disposal "full" indication
- Fixed shining roads

Minor:
- Update of Pumping Station model and anim
- Warning if too many vehicles
- Simple endgame message
- Allow more characters in planets names
- Fixed default view after loading
- Fixed buildings small containers slot arrows directions
- Upate localisation from crowdin

Hello

Some more quality of life updates : move buildings with a simple drag, show tooltips of items with their full recipe (and where they are produced), and use the control key to fast build or erease a larger area.


[h3]Plan B - v0.7.3 build 800[/h3]

Improvements:
- warning if:
* a truck or train is stopped because the road/rail path was cut
* a supply center / waste disponal is not in contact with a city
* a factory is under water
* a water pumping station has no water
- Dam pumps building improved (no more automatic orientation, use shift to rotate, visible feedback)
- City expansion : city does not jump over obscales (road etc), unless it doesn't find a free path.

Balance:
- Drones (un)load trains in right order, not by stack size (more efficient).
- Drones are not overzealous anymore : they don't try to balance extractors by giving them some containers sometimes (same for factories etc)

Bugs fix:
- Fixed clouds not saved
- Fixed music not restarting after a volume change in options, in some cases
- Space bar does not pause the intro anymore
- Vehicles bug fix
- Fixed reset of recipe when duplicating on itself
- Fixed recipe products red color not reset
- Fixed "continue" home button not refreshed after resetting all saves
- Avoid spamming similar ingame messages
- Fixed landmarks shortcuts text refresh
- Fixed missing UI when pressing Space during intro
- Fixed speed buttons refresh

Minor:
- Added the temperature rise value on the temperature chart
- Added tooltip on resolution option
- Items count clickable area smaller
- Dam pumps still display anim underwater
- Higher contrast on items count

Hello

Some more quality of life updates : move buildings with a simple drag, show tooltips of items with their full recipe (and where they are produced), and use the control key to fast build or erease a larger area.


[h3]Plan B - v0.7.2 build 794[/h3]

Improvements:
- drag buildings to move them
- better tooltips for items with full recipes, and visible more often.
- CTRL to build & delete 7 hex at the same time
- new achievement: finish the game in 100 years
- added invalid build cursor (accesibility) and improve some other cursors

Balance:
- smaller dams

Bugs fix:
- hide recipes when one of the ingredients is not yet unlocked
- fix spacebar bug (closing some windows)
- camera teleport : fixed dark frame
- Prevent minimap camera move if the mouse press was started outside of the minimap

Minor:
- more tooltips
- retake on train model
- city expansion improved: do not build low tech building on a removed skyscraper hexagon.
- levels screen now pauses game
- on select a depot with no item, open item popup
- console UI improvement
- Show delete hex highlight even on empty hexagons

Here is a quick little update, mostly to fix various issues of the v0.7.

Some players had a bug with the temperature and population achievements, so I have had to fix and reset them. You'll unlock again the ones you had as soon as you reload a game.


[h3]Plan B - v0.7.1 build 775[/h3]

Improvements:

- Add unbind input option (and fix buttons while waiting for binding)
- dumps selection shows the stored items.

Balance:
- dam pumps speed x3, and can be build over existing dams

Bugs fix:

- fixed and reset population and temperature related achievements
- fixed bug that sometimes validated a level before the objective was complete.
- planets with same name are actually similar
- fixed selection bug on emptied dump

Minor:

- improve desc of recycling center
- backquote by default to open console in qwerty keyboards
- planet suffix smaller in planet creation screen
- localization updated from crowdin

Finally! Here is the changelog.

[h3]Plan B - v0.7.0 build 768[/h3]

Major Improvements:

• Achievments
  
• Dam pumps
  
• Automatic drones priority system (depots naturally move containers from producers toward consumers)
  
• Add "Backup supply" option on Depots and on City Supply (to be able to prioritize resources from recycling over new production).
  
• Add world generation option system:
  
  • minerals quantity (including infinite)
    
  • water quantity
    
  • mountain quantity
    
  • city growth difficulty
    
  • name of planet now used to define the generation (name = seed, number suffix = options), so it can be shared
• Add game options:
  
  • Vsync & target framerate properly linked.
    
  • Centered zoom out
    
  • Anti-aliasing (fixed)
    
  • HDR
    
  • Shadow
    
  • Depth of Field
    
  • Ambient Occlusion
    
  • Items particles effect
    
  • Auto-destroy depleted extractors
• Bookmarks for cities and landmarks tower. Caution: shortcuts have been modified (1-9 for bookmarks, F2-F4 for game speed)
  
• Added new langages: Polish, Turkish, Thai, Italian, Czech, Ukrainian
  

Improvements:

• Item dumps, created when you destroy a depot, factory or transport.
  
• Improved water table simulation (more trees areas around water areas, and water extractor do not dry an area if water nearby).
  
• Heavy optimisation on drones
  
• Updated localization from community help (crowdin)

Balance:

• Balance of water apparition speed (start at the same temperature, but now starts much slowlier, then faster)
  
• Mouse scrolling trigger max duration set at 0.3s instead of 0.2s
  
• Modification of train speed near stops (drones take off earlier ; vehicle slow down a bit longer)
  
• Add Tempered Steel in Dam Wall recipe
  
• High Tech Part unlocked at level 6
  

Bugs fix:

• Pumping station actually remove water from the ground (a tiny bit)
  
• Fixed crash bug with water in dll
  
• Fixed ghost vehicles bugs (empty trains that cannot be loaded, etc)
  
• Fixed depot distribution not random
  
• Fixed errors with drones (when a drone is flying toward a stack that disappear)
  
• Fixed drones not visible on new depots
  
• Fixed forest objective description with specific initial water quantity
  
• Fixed Ice name in status bar
  

Minor:

• Display depot range when selected
  
• Changed the rivers and water color
  
• Stop music if volume at 0
  
• Remove stacktraces for basic logs
  
• Warning if overwrite planet name
  
• Load screen : improve perfs, fix scrolling, delete key shortcut
  
• Refactoring of items containers stack corruption check (lot of time wasted for me...)
  
• Loading tips for items max count
  
• Added /debugprio console command to show the depots priority
  
• Added some debug and checks for the "GetStackContainerTr" error
  
• Fix looped warnings with the extractors getting stacks of 4 containers
  
• Fixed minor perfs issue on cities
  
• Fixed refresh issue in world generation screen
  
• Fixed texts cuts in some buttons & long languages
  

As explained before, the game is in discount -20% for one week, and then its price will increase from $10 to $12.