Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor News

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just released a preview version of our next big update on the preview branch. <
This new update adds Nimbatus upgrades, a snake boss and many more features.
Please report all bugs you find and tell us what you like and what you don't like about the new features.

Discord
To give us feedback, talk with the developers or show off cool drones, please join our Discord Server :)
https://discord.gg/6wu92F6



Please note:
This update resets the save files, however your drones should be safe. We extract them from your old save files and place them into the global drone list.

New Features

• Nimbatus mother ship upgrades
  
• Added first Steam Achievements and unlockable drone skins. We will add more achievements in the next update. Please note that the corp skin is not yet unlockable.
  
• New captain: Programmer
  
• New save file management (freely create / name / delete save files instead of having fixed slots)
  
• Added difficulty settings to the survival mode
  
• New Jungle Ruin location
  
• New Garage and Weapon-casino locations
  
• Added new rewards when advancing to the next galaxy
  

New Drone Parts

• Temperature probe
  
• Audio part
  
• Small Hollow Block
  
• Programmable LED
  

Improvements

• Reworked the brawl-mode
  
• Added new travel events
  
• Added Ambient soundscapes on planets
  
• New music for the galaxy map
  
• Options are now also accessible from the galaxy map
  
• Snakes are now detectable with sensors as danger zone
  
• Added detection layer for enemy projectiles
  
• Added mission target as detection layer to detect mission relevant objects
  
• Added container as directional sensor target
  
• Added nearest enemy as directional sensor target
  
• Added mission target as directional sensor target
  
• Added fallback target to directional sensor and vtol thruster in case no direction could be calculated
  
• Reworked drone skin selection
  
• Drone skins can now be applied to all drone parts
  
• Added ability to flip and offset skins
  
• Added time slider to test area
  
• Added ability to rotate the drone core and made the visuals symmetrical
  
• Added option to hide sensor visualization
  
• Nimbatus now supports wider than 21:9 aspect ratios
  
• Added radius indicator for heat bubbles
  

Balancing

• Increased inventory for shops
  
• Decreased prices for shop items
  
• Heat bubble radius increased by 50%
  
• Default radius of TnT is now 10
  
• Improved effectiveness of heat-seeking and laser-guided rockets
  
• Adjusted captain starting parts
  
• Rebalanced weapon upgrade prices and tech tree
  
• Jungle chests now give 80 rare resources instead of 200
  
• Made grenades heavier, less bouncy
  
• Made meteors stay hot for longer
  
• Increased radius of small magnet from 5 to 10
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where timer on ore planet would not work
  
• Fixed bug where the travel screen would break while in creative mode
  
• Fixed bug where Heavyweight perk effects weren’t applied correctly
  
• Used tag list is now correctly updated when deleting parts or switching the drone
  
• Several UI fixes where descriptions sometimes got cut off
  
• Fixed collider size of "select drone", sometimes blocked the mouseover for rewards
  
• Lava Heat Capacitor doesn’t radiate heat anymore when frozen
  
• Fixed bug where you could use wireless fuel / energy by decoupling a subdrone using a factory part that has fuel tanks behind a decoupler.
  

Happy testing!

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio


Here is how you can get the preview build on steam:
– Open your Steam library
– Right click on Nimbatus in the Steam library
– Select Properties / Beta
– Select the Beta tab
– Select preview from the drop down
– Restart steam in case the game does not update automatically or you can't see the preview branch

Dear Drone Engineer,

The holidays are coming closer and closer :D
And with them a give away for Retimed, a game that we help to publish!

Retimed is a 2D multiplayer arena shooter with nerve wracking slow motion moments. You can challenge up to 4 players, alone or in teams, online or offline on 8 different maps.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/760810/Retimed/

To celebrate the occasion, we are currently running a give away on Retimed's Steam page. A Steam key will be given away in the live-stream chat every 15 minutes! Come join us :)

We are also working hard on the next Nimbatus update! Which will come soon to the preview branch for you to test!

Cheers & Happy holidays,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just released the 0.8.4 hotfix to resolve a critical bug in the fuel / energy management:

• The fuel and energy management was not working as intended since the last update. It was possible to use an unlimited amount of thrusters with just one small fuel tank. This is fixed now.
  

Unfortunately we also have to reset the racing leaderboards, as some of the top entries used this bug to get the fast times.

On other news: we are working hard on our new big content update, which should come to the preview branch later this month!

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just released the 0.8.3 patch to fix some bugs.

• Enemies are no longer super fast when unfrozen
  
• Fixed a bug where the race would not end when a drone got destroyed
  

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just released the Brawl Tournament Update!
Enter the Brawl Arena and fight other players drones using close combat weapons like saw blades, spikes and drills. We also added a couple new drone parts to the game.

To celebrate this update, Nimbatus is 20% off on Steam for the next two weeks!
We are also running a giveaway on Twitter



New Features:

• New Brawl Tournament
  
• Added German localization
  
• Added different camera modes to the tournaments
  
• Added sound effects to all travel events
  

New Drone Parts:

• New mechanical part: Flipper
  
• New melee weapon: Bumper
  

Reworks:

• Changed the look of the Tournament UI
  
• Reworked all the UI labels to be able to scale dynamically in size
  
• Added torque and option to reverse rotation for saw blades
  
• Balanced the damage of all melee weapons
  
• Added timescale-slider for Autonomous Racing
  
• Added Music for Asteroid fields
  
• Updated melee weapon sound effects
  
• Updated melee weapon particle effects
  

Bugfixes:

• Fixed sorting issues with Drone and Container on Space Missions
  
• Fixed rare case in which cryo container would not spawn on lava planets
  
• Fixed bugs where the game still ran in the background after exiting
  

Misc:

• Upgraded our engine to Unity 2018.4.6f1
  

We are also preparing for the full release and working on the localization of Nimbatus. This update adds a first version of German translation. More languages will be added in the following months.

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio