Bulwark Evolution: Falconeer Chronicles News

Squashed a loot off small bugs last few days.
Most notably it was unpredictable when a wall would have a bridge, especially in the shallows. Also the breakwater walls (so walls that are thicker closer to the deep water) weren't working properly anymore.

Also fixed the flags, they'd sometimes float in the air.

Many small menu and cursor glitches, (like not being able to use the esc button to close the pause menu)

Small fries but always part of a janky experience if you notice to many.

As always drop a post if you notice something odd or off, this is an evolving demo so development is ongoing.

cheerio,

So I'm going on a holiday;) first time in 6 years, insanity.

That means also there will be some changes to how and when the evolving demo is run going forward, more more on that later this week.

For now there's a new update and it adds a few new things

[h2]New first time control choice menu[/h2]
firstly it adds a menu you will see only once at the start of the game, asking you to pick from one of the four control schemes. (controller, controller right handed, mouse and Mouse alternative).

The mouse and mouse alt are the most interesting, with the mouse scheme being basically the 'old' default Bulwark controls, but with orbit mapped to the WASD (q and e still pan) and the mouse alt setting it to the new scheme introduced a while back.

that scheme moves building away from the RMB, (puts orbithold on the RMB) and builds with spacebar and moves some other bits around and WASD is camera panning. Offcourse it doesn't suddenly add a conventional command bar, but it should feel less confusing for new players. So that's why there is now a choice at the start.

You can still rebind and change everything manually from the control menu.

[h2]Changes to make foundation building more predictable[/h2]
Second big thing is that , stone towers now have 1 extra floor. You can upgrade a single stone tower to a two story tall stone tower, which then transform again into a command tower.


this new taller stone tower adds new options like skyways to stone towers and combinations with command towers to allow for a few more cool short tower variations. But more importantly it allows changes to the foundation system. Now circular fortress pieces are build always from the ground floor and square expansion foundations only from floor 1 and 2 (balconies are unchanged).

this makes things more predictable, which is good, I hope!

here's the full changelist for this update:

features

• added control template menu with 4 templates
  
• changed that the mouse template now has rotation back under wasd (to be completely old school)
  
• changed how the buildline works for balconies and foundations, there the buildline doesn't drop to the ground, this to improve depth perception. (seeing as the height is rarely the height of the spawned item anyway)
  
• added a second floor to the stone towers
  
• triangle shaped foundations are now always build from the ground floor
  
• square shaped foundations are now always build from the 2nd and 3rd floor.
  
  

fixes

• reworked control menu reset option
  
• made sure the glowing "mouse hold" circle isn't visible when you start scenario 2
  
• back button now works predictably on map and scenario selection
  
• various small bugfixes
  
• changed how the height of foundations is limited
  

Hi everyone,

Today's' upload adds the 'mouse alt' control scheme setting in the controller menu.
This scheme changes things around and seems to be better for some MKB users that come from a traditional rts background . By default the controls will still be set to the regular mouse scheme , so set it manually.

• Building = Spacebar
  
• Switching between ground and air = TAB
  
• showing resource flow = CTRL
  
• orbiting the camera =RMB
  

Remember these bindings can be changed in the controller screen, just click on a binding and a prompt to press the new binding appears.


In the future a prompt will pop up when a users plays the game for the first time where they can pick the control scheme of their choice.

Let me know if bugs appear, control changes are always tricky.

Cheerio,
Tomas

A small update with the following changes:

-you can now skip the dialogues (left shift or B)
-you can now skip the tutorial title roll down (any button)
-some walkways would auto destruct themselves cuz they thought they were blocked
-prevented captains from talking when a voice over from the advisor was running