Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor News

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just released the Nimbatus Drone Creator! ːsteamhappyː
The Drone Creator is the free standalone drone editor from Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor. You can build and test drones using all the drone parts from the full game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1243130/Nimbatus__Drone_Creator/
Please note: The Drone Creator does not include any planets, missions, story elements or competitive challenges. Drones can be exported and used in Nimbatus.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
To celebrate the release, we host a drone building competition! The deadline to enter a drone is May 7th. Winners will be announced shortly after and will receive 1 of 3 Steam keys for the full game!

[h3]Here is how you can enter the building competition:[/h3]
- Build the smartest, coolest looking or most creative drone using the Nimbatus Drone Creator.
- Create a GIF of the drone (press F9 to create a GIF of the last 10 seconds in the game) or record one otherwise.
- Post your creation in this thread in our forums, on our discord, or share them on Twitter with #DroneCreator to enter the competition

We hope you enjoy the Drone Creator and build many awesome things with it!

​Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just uploaded a patch (1.0.5) addressing the following things:

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• New Keybind-Settings in the main menu
  
• Small visual changes in the Tournament Screen
  

[h2]Bugfixes[/h2]

• Fixed stretched fire and frozen effects in final corp mission
  
• Made the Weapon Workshop UI larger so the text fits better for the different languages
  
• Fixed Bug where downloaded drones had no deploy cost
  
• The Preview in the Weapon Workshop now shows locked upgrade effects again
  
• Fixed bug where amount of certain weapons was not saved correctly
  
• Fixed bug where “Freely unlockable weapon upgrades” sandbox setting didn’t work unless “Drone part unlocking” was also active
  
• Fixed bug where resolution changed after entering main menu. The resolution now only changes when you press the apply button.
  
• Fixed Bug where the Drone Description Input Field could not be deselected and scrolled out of view.
  
• Fixed translation of starting weapons
  
• Fixed Going Green Achievement. It was accidentally triggered when using thrusters.
  

Thanks for reporting all the Bugs!

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just uploaded a patch (1.0.4) addressing the following things:

• Adjusted spawn location of fossils to be further away from the core
  
• Adjusted terrain strength of all planets to make digging easier with upgraded weapons
  
• Balanced difficulty of destroy pirates mines missions
  
• UI: new icon for enable / disable borders
  
• Added fail-safe to corp fracking mission, towers destroy themselves when they fly too far away
  
• Balanced firefly mission, gave fireflies better swarming behavior
  
• New visuals for test drive enemy spawners
  
• Added small objects you can pickup to the test planet 
  
• Fixed bug where galaxy map could load endlessly if you had any upgrade maxed out
  
• Changes corp mines radius indicator color and adjusted particle effect size to match damage area. Added health-bar indicator to small corp mine.
  
• Fixed particle collisions with Nimbatus Container
  
• Balancing: Made shortcut in final corp mission slightly harder
  

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

Dear Drone Engineers,

After 1.5 years in Early Access, Nimbatus now has a release date: Full Launch on May 14th!
We want to thank you once again for helping us to get to this point. We wouldn't be here without your support.

We made a new trailer for the game to celebrate the occassion:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

It would be amazing if you could help us to get the word out! Here is how:

• Wishlist the game or if you already own it tell friends and fellow gamers to wishlist the game on Steam (there will be a nice launch discount)
  
• Tell your favourite Youtuber, Streamer, Newssite about the upcoming launch
  
• Retweet our launch date announcement
  
• Share our launch date announcement on Facebook
  
• Review the game on Steam
  
• Play the game on launch day (May 14th)
  

Cheers & Thanks,
Stray Fawn Studio

Thanks for the quick bug reports and feedback on the discord!

We just uploaded another patch (1.0.3) addressing the following things:

• ​​​​​​​“New Drone” is now also correctly localized
  
• Added better localization for random weapon names
  
• Fixed resource gathering tutorial counting as completed when you died
  
• Added gravity and air resistance indicators when on planets
  
• Fixed bug where the game crashed when exiting the test simulation
  
• Fix label size for gamemode description
  
• Fix particle collision with the Nimbatus Container
  
• Fixed that the pirate mine mission did not load anymore
  
• Fixed wrong MissionTarget for the pirate mine mission
  
• Improved placement of lava fountains
  
• Tortoice icicles now deal 100 damage, don’t freeze tortoices anymore 
  
• Reduced amount of tortoice dens / jumpfish nests / pirate mines to destroy
  
• Improved spawning behaviour for pirate mines, especially for ice cave planets
  

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio