Public Beta Patch Notes 0.2 - Free Playing Mode & Three Brand New Levels

[p][/p][p][/p][h2]Public Beta Patch Notes 0.2[/h2][p][/p][p]☀️ Fixes & Improvements Based on Community Feedback[/p][h3]
New Content:[/h3]

[p]Added sectors 08, 09, and 10.[/p]
[p]Introduced a new star system: Paradeira.[/p]
[p]Added a new star, new color palette, and new asteroid shapes for Paradeira.[/p]
[p]Added 7 new buildings.[/p]
[p]Added 15 new resources.[/p]
[p]Added 3 new alien plants.[/p]
[p]Added 9 new achievements (local only while in beta).[/p]
[p]Added a new cutscene.[/p]
[p]Added alien tentacles (“Wigglers”) and an alien eye.[/p]

[h3]Free Play Mode[/h3]

[p]Added the first iteration of a Free Play Mode / level generator.[/p]

[h3]Improvements:[/h3]

[p]☀️ Sector 02: Landing pad dialogue no longer progresses when placing the landing pad on the wrong asteroid.[/p]
[p]☀️ The upgrade button now displays a lock icon as long as the perk required to upgrade the building further is not unlocked.[/p]
[p]Non-purchasable buildings (such as Volt Shroom or Strangelet Detector) are now previewed in the building inventory before they are obtained.[/p]
[p]When discovering a plant for the first time, a “Plant Discovered” effect now spawns.[/p]
[p]Added a system for obtaining Strange Points via Module Quest progression in Sectors 08–10 and in generated sectors.[/p]
[p]☀️ The Melter building now only respawns ice it actually melted when deleted.[/p]
[p]☀️ The target framerate setting is now disabled when VSync is enabled.[/p]
[p]Added missing building LODs in the Map view.[/p]
[p]Improved distribution of resources across asteroids.[/p]
[p]The Wiki no longer opens when left-clicking a building inventory button; it now only opens via right-click.[/p]
[p]Save files are now compressed and have a much smaller file size.[/p]
[p]Removed solar panel upgrades for balancing reasons.[/p]

[h3]Bugfixes:[/h3]

[p]☀️ Fixed asteroids being generated without resources.[/p]
[p]Fixed the Small Explosive unlock being available in Level 04 by mistake.[/p]
[p]☀️ Fixed Map ambient sound not being affected by the volume slider.[/p]
[p]Fixed asteroid plateaus being counted as connected despite being separated by a gap.[/p]
[p]☀️ Fixed several issues that could cause holes to appear in the asteroid surface.[/p]

[p][/p][p]The best place to give feedback is our Discord server. There, we are running a Smart Ticketing System: Leave feedback, vote up change requests and bug reports from other users, and help us to prioritize tasks in the further development of Star Birds.[/p][p][/p][p]🙏Thank you so much everyone for the overwhelming response, all your feedback, comments and bug reports! This helps us a lot to prioritize and identify issues with the game. We're trying to address the most critical issues as soon as we can. Please be patient though, since we're a small team and might take a while to address specific issues you're experiencing!🙏[/p]