Escape The Pacific News

Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (1) for Alpha 57.E1 (experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Game halts after the Initializing bar fills in some World regions (different Win Locale settings)
02. Fixed: Game halts after the Initializing bar fills due to some internal functionality (caused by floating point inaccuracy)
03. Fixed: Not set "Cooked" state when cooking meal over 100%


We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.

Hi everyone,

for this experimental build we were mainly focusing on updating the internal game engine and adding background functionality required for future features. On some new island you might also find a small Pond with muddy water. It is now possible to choose the properties of the starting island while we also introduce 2 new island types as well.

To switch between stable and experimental game builds make sure game properties in your Steam client are set to either "Experimental" or "None" (which is the stable branch)

During the Summer we managed to add and upgrade the internal engine parts which are necessary for adding new features in the future. There is also a new complex system for creating multiple biomes on islands which enables the ability to create islands with a couple of different biomes at once. For example Forest, Jungle, Grassy, Rocky Hills, Ponds and Swamps mixed. We will have a big amount of different islands that find their way into the game continually in the future - of course along with many new building ingredients and new features. The game's underlying base engine - Unity - was upgraded to a more recent engine version and therefore we also made sure there's a full new ocean system for you to enjoy.

It is now possible to override the world generator and choose the properties of the Starting island in a new dialog window which we'll expand with the new island types in future updates.  


This new island generator's first introduction is the Archipelago small island group.


Another new island type is the Big Forest type, which - besides the new, taller trees - introduces the first "bigger" island topology. Later we'll have 2 even bigger ones.


Based on the new biome system, we also have added Ponds, along with muddy water mechanic. Ponds can sometimes and only be found hidden on the Big Forest type islands. For muddy water to become clean you would need to boil it. After that you are safe to drink it or use it in cooking recipes. Drinking Muddy water in its raw and unboiled state will still receive a health bonus but expect health issues. 


On another note we have set up a Patreon page for those who wish to support game development even more. If you like our game and want to help development significantly, we look forward to and appreciate all your support for the game correspondingly. Find the link here to our Patreon site here: www.patreon.com/g4gteam

New features:

01. Big Island topology
02. Big Forest flora
03. Muddy Ponds
04. Muddy water mechanic
05. Archipalago Island group
06. Starting Island type selection screen
07. Upgraded ground texturing system
08. Upgraded grass placement system
09. New Split biome system
10. New Ocean system

General:

01. Game Engine was upgraded Unity 2020

Fixes (highlights):

01. Sailing UI issues
02. Rudder causing Raft issues when colliding with the Player character
03. Sailing mode issues in combination with other UI hotkeys
04. Steering mode issues in combination with other UI hotkeys

For the complete list of about ~34 bugfixes please see our hotfix list (english only):
Hotfix 1 Hotfix 2

For the next update we plan to work on fixing the more complex and hard to track down issues. The additional plans include also Reworked tutorials, Map UI, Old Telescope, Old Pistol, Spear, Smoker, Dolphins, Simple Quests, Building modules aging ... We will work also on solving new issues and will recheck some older issues too. Other new features will be added as implementing the planned features and fixing issues will allow us to.

Thank you for your patience and for your constructive feedbacks helping us to get rid of the issues as fast as is possible.

Do you like our game and want to help even more during development? We look forward to every positive review posted on our Steam page and thank everyone who decides to support us along the way!



G4GTeam.

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to ask us. We will try to answer your questions in detail.



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Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (2) for Alpha 56 (regular and experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Rudder handle colliding with Player standing in front of it in the area of the Rudder handle and sometimes causing:
01.a) Raft "sailing" backwards
01.b) Raft drifting sideways
01.c) Raft submerging
01.d) Raft jumping away
01.e) Raft flying
01.f) Raft capsizing
02. Changed: Advanced rafts (lots of walls, multi-story (tier?)) do not capsize so easily
03. Fixed: Sometimes not correct internal state after detaching the Wall Candle holder from a build module
04. Fixed: Sometimes the Wall Candle holder not attached correctly to the Wall modules built on Raft ("levitated" in the thin air where the player's hand was)
05. Fixed: Raft tilting/flying/sinking after a Wall Candle holder was attached to a Wall module built on Raft
06. Fixed: Not exited Manual Sailing mode when the Raft sinks (and the player enters Swim mode)
07. Fixed: Not exited Manual Steering mode when the Raft sinks (and the player enters Swim mode)
08. Fixed: Not exited Sailing UI mode when the Raft sinks (and the player enters Swim mode)
09. Fixed: Not exited Sitting mode when the Raft sinks (and the player enters Swim mode)
10. Fixed: Possible to enter Sailing UI mode while not standing on the Raft
11. Fixed: Possible to enter Sailing UI mode while Swimming
12. Fixed: Possible to Sit down on the Raft while not standing on the Raft
13. Fixed: Possible to Sit down on the Raft while Swimming
14. Fixed: Displaying "Sit" on Raft hotkey in ActionBar while not standing on Raft or swimming
15. Fixed: Displaying "Sailing UI" hotkey in ActionBar while not standing on Raft or swimming
16. Fixed: Possible to enter manual Sailing mode while not standing on Raft or swimming
17. Fixed: Possible to enter manual Steering mode while not standing on Raft or swimming
18. Changed: Bug reporting functionality interacts with new external bug tracking system

With this version we take the internal behavior of how bugs are reported through the in-game function to the next level. Thanks to the creators of osTicket our bug reporting feature now automatically feeds into this system using its internal API. No more manually adding new bug reports to a list of bugs - instead because of improved workflow efficiency and the transparency we need is provided we save a lot of time that goes right into bug fixing and game development. Thanks also go out to Jonas Terhaar aka Kutie for lending a hand with the website code.

Because we cannot show you a screenshot from our productive environment, we still would like to show you what Escape the Pacific osTicket looks like based on our staging system:



We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.

Hi everyone,

the summer is finally here and in this short announcement we would like to inform you about our summer schedule.

We are leaving to vacation with our families and in between we are also going to work in our full time jobs which means stress in general so we can't guarantee there will be regular updates during summer time.

The last regular pre-summer release was published on June 11th. We plan to release the next game update on September 10th (Experimental) and on October 1 (Regular). From October we plan to resume our normal schedule and will return to release an update every 8th Friday (on 5th Friday it is Experimental release day).

During the stretched interval between these releases we plan to work on some interesting and unique features that need more work and we hope you will like them. Also it is very needed to migrate our game to a newer game engine build which is much more optimized and stable (the engine itself). Another plan is to add the much awaited bigger (~3 times bigger area of the actual biggest grassy island ) islands too (but still not the biggest ones :-) ). There will be ponds, hills and big forests too. Besides the above mentioned big changes the bug fixing will be still our almost top priority.

With the help of our community we together have done a big amount of work and laid down a very good foundation to further improve our game to all our liking.

Thank you all for all of the feedback, ideas and suggestions and for the patience during solving issues!

We wish you a very nice summer and good health and we hope to continue together with our work relaxed and well rested.

Best regards,

Gamers4Gamers Team.



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Hello everyone,

A new Hotfix (1) for Alpha 56 (regular and experimental) is now available!

Bug Fixes:
01. Fixed: Sometimes Not floating Sticks, Coconuts ...
02. Fixed: Sometimes Not floating Canoes
03. Fixed: In case of Player death while having the Sailing UI open the "Death" screen buttons are inaccessible
04. Fixed: In case of Player death while having the Sailing UI open the Sailing UI is still displayed after returning to the Main Menu
05. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when the Death screen is also shown
06. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when the Map is shown
07. Fixed: Not intentional closing of Sailing UI while the Map is displayed too and the Esc key is pressed
08. Fixed: Sailing UI controls still reacting when a Hint is shown
09. Fixed: Not intentional closing of Sailing UI while a Hint is displayed too and the Esc key is pressed
10. Fixed: Entire game gets nonresponsive when the Hint screen pops in while the Sailing UI is actually shown

We would like to thank you all for your support, bug reports and feedback.

Best regards,

G4GTeam.