New Trailer! Plus fixes, changes, and a new quest!

Approaching Infinity has a brand new Steam trailer. Even if you already own the game, you might get a kick out of watching it... Just make sure to have your sound on ;)

Or you can watch the almost-final version on Youtube:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]



Here's something suggested by a player here on Steam: whenever you have the maximum number of officers and you detect "human life signs" on a planet, you now have the option of rescuing them. (In the past, they were just turned into "human remains" instead...)

It's just one more small way that the universe is becoming more "alive".



(These are taken straight from the list of daily accomplishments on the Approaching Infinity Discord)

• Reduced the value of planetary surveys
  
• Each race now prefers surveys of a specific type of planet (vordalene like barren planets, humans like terran, etc.)
  
• You can no longer survey Whiteworlds (their value was negative!)
  
• The "trader" starting quest can now be completed by purchasing 200 commodities.
  
• I took aggressive action against warping into the middle of an asteroid belt or ion storm (you're welcome!)
  
• I have addressed monster permanence issues. (This makes alien spaceships behave more as intended.)
  
• "Crew lost" stat now includes crew killed in every way (I think), not just on away missions.
  
• Shrank the purple diamond on the mini-map that represents items.
  
• Increased the display size of space stations and the warp point on the main map.
  
• Stopped the over-spawning of quest items in the same sector.
  
• When you kill a Holeworm, there is now a 33% chance that the sinkhole will collapse
  
• When doing the Bankers "deposit money" quests, you now get a pop-up message asking if you want to pay now.
  
• I fixed a visual bug when unlocking a ship by completing a quest. (they were displayed on top of each other)
  
• I fixed some sounds that were playing even if you had sound turned off.
  
• I increased the sensitivity or the mouse-wheel for zooming in and out.
  
• (Thanks to some discord users for many of these... If you've got suggestions, that's a great place to have them addressed)
  
• Got 29 new "HD" sets of shipwreck walls from David!

Work continues this week, but on Monday March 29th I will be going away for an entire week! My wife is vaccinated and so are her parents. My mom is vaccinated and I should be getting my first shot this week. SO WE ARE GOING TO SEE OUR FAMILIES!

So I plan not to make any major changes near the end of the week, to avoid problems while I'm away.

Take care and enjoy,

Bob / IBOL17