Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor News

Dear Drone Engineers,

We just uploaded a patch (1.0.7) addressing the following things:

[h2]Changes[/h2]

• Made Nimbatus warp drive invincible to lower programmer captain difficulty
  
• Changed warp drive container collision layer to "Enemy Structure"
  
• Fix drag and drop of drone parts
  
• Fixed bug where opponent drones could unlock achievements for you
  
• Improved sound effects of ice planets
  
• Added music to the survival mode outro
  

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

We just uploaded a patch (1.0.6) addressing the following things:
Thanks for reporting the bugs! Keep on testing!

[h3]New Features[/h3]

• New Keybind Settings in the Main Menu
  
• Small visual changes in the Tournament Screen
  

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

• Resource Tank now more accurately displays how full it is
  
• Improved visuals of fossil
  
• Added sound effect for deploying resources into container
  
• Fixed background color of gameover screen to use the correct shade of black
  

[h3]Balancing[/h3]

• Initial resource amounts now differ depending on the selected difficulty / mode
  
• Balanced frostbomb and jumpfish missions on higher difficulties
  
• Improved final mission. Added shortcut after you found warp drive
  
• Balanced blackbox mission: Less wreckage and no large bees on low difficulty
  
• Rebalanced corp outpost mission
  
• Buffed starter weapons slightly, added some weapon upgrades
  
• Balanced prices of mothership upgrades
  
• Balanced rate at which the repair cost increases, now depending on difficulty
  

[h3]Bugfixes[/h3]

• Fixed Garbageman achievement, the required amount of barrels was 9 instead of 5
  
• Fixed exploit where travel events could be skipped by quitting the game
  
• Fixed save file ui in main menu not updating when language is changed
  
• Fixed splashscreens, they should now show correctly again
  
• Fixed localization of edit drone UI for workshop drones
  
• Fixed jungle chest sound effects
  
• Fixed wrong materials on pirate enemies
  
• Fixed not playing sfx at survival tutorial end when you get rewards
  
• Fixed cryo tank not spawning
  
• Fixed amount of tortoice dens to destroy
  
• Fixed bug where you got a mission in the competitive modes after game-over in survival mode
  
• Made altimeter usable on test planet
  

Cheers,
Stray Fawn Studio

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.

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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