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New Base-Building Trailer!

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It is time to unveil yet another secret that we have been working on for the past couple of months!



The gameplay of The Riftbreaker is centered around establishing and maintaining huge bases around Galatea 37. The planet holds a lot of potential and it is up to you to make best use of it. Nothing beats the feeling of satisfaction when all the infrastructure you have carefully been setting up clicks together and the entire base comes to life at one moment. Base building is a test for creative thinking and problem-solving - and it’s also a lot of fun. That’s what we wanted to convey in this brand-new building trailer!

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There are quite a few things in the trailer that might be entirely new to some of our players, so let’s go over them one by one.



Decorations - A few updates ago we introduced new variations of floors, as well as lights in many different colors. We have a lot more to offer, including flags, statues and potted plants. However, before we let you play with them, we need to solve the issue of having A LOT of buildings in one category. Still, they are ready, they are coming your way and we cannot wait to see what you manage to do with them!



Planetary Scanner - This building was in the game for a very long time but it lacked any functionality. With our work on the Campaign Mode progressing very well it has finally received its purpose. The building scans the surface of Galatea 37, looking for anomalies and pinpointing coordinates for long-range jumps. In those areas, Ashley and Mr. Riggs will encounter various tasks that will deal with exploration, base building or gathering research samples. That brings us to the next point…



Magma and Acid biomes - We have presented these to you before, and although we haven’t let anyone have a go at them they will be a vital piece of the Campaign. In the final form, there will be a lot of differences between each biome. They will have creatures, resources and weather events that are characteristic of that biome only. This is just a little sneak peek, though. They are still very much work in progress.



Lots of mentions of the elusive Campaign Mode here… Let’s just say that we are VERY close to officially entering Alpha status (in our terminology Alpha means that the game is feature complete, playable from start to finish and there are a lot of placeholder assets in the game). Fun times are coming! We are going to publish even more material this week, so stay tuned and join our Discord not to miss a thing!

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Studio Update, Demo Update & BAXMOTH!

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It’s been quite some time since we last published a development update. In fact, in the last real article, we promised that regular devlogs were coming back. However, a lot of new online events have been taking place in the absence of all the gaming shows this year. With most of them requiring some form of exclusive assets we simply did not have enough time to cover everything that has been happening in the studio.

With that being said, we are nearing the end of the festival season, with the final couple of events happening this week. First of all, we are going to be a part of the Indie Arena Booth for Gamescom Online 2020. As a part of the event, we’re going to hold an AMA and a bonus live stream. Secondly, we have been selected to be the Polish representative in the Europlay competition that takes place on Friday. It’s essentially a gaming counterpart to the Eurovision song contest. We’re going to need your help to win, but that comes on Friday.

In the meantime, our programmers and artists have been working on lots of sweet stuff that you might have already read about in our Discord daily changelogs. Today, we unveil one of those super-secret developments - a new creature, straight from our nightmares to your computer screens. Meet Baxmoth!



Baxmoth is a very interesting and dangerous creature. You can encounter it almost anywhere on Galatea 37, as long as there are enough flowers there to keep Baxmoth alive - its diet consists solely of flower nectar. Seeing one in the wild is quite terrifying. The large body of the creature is covered with a thick carapace and sits atop six long, blade-like legs. This would be enough to deter any Riftbreaker from interacting with this monstrosity, but it gets worse. The Baxmoth is not just a single, hideous creature. It is a hive on a stick (or six sticks, to be precise).



The disgusting abdomen of this creature houses a colony of flying drones. Their job is to scout the area in search of nectar, which they collect and bring back ‘home’ to share with their host. They are also Baxmoth’s main protection mechanism, as the drone swarm can easily incapacitate any hostile creature that threatens the wellbeing of the hive. It is not yet known, whether Baxmoths and their drones are the same species, or two different ones living in symbiosis, but you will have plenty of opportunities to find that out yourselves during your research on Galatea 37. The Baxmoth will be one of the creatures that come to your base during attack waves.



As we mentioned many times during our streams and on our Discord, creating a 3D model for a new enemy is the easiest part of the entire process. All aspects of the Baxmoth, apart from its appearance, are still work-in-progress. That means we still need to prepare proper animations, behavior, sounds and tens of other small things before we will be able to put this creature into a public build of the game. However, here’s a little sneak peek for you.



Swarms of little flying creatures are also a great stress test for the navigation system in The Riftbreaker. Here’s 10.000 drones navigating the map all at once!



There is still a lot of work to be done when it comes to implementing new enemies, but we are on the right track. Our schedules are filled with various tasks meant to bring even more creatures to life and we are going to show them off with increasing frequency, so stay tuned.



Finally, we have pushed an update to The Riftbreaker Alpha, as well as The Riftbreaker: Prologue. It contains stability fixes, as well as a couple of features that should make our modders’ lives a little easier. If you would like to join our wonderful modding community, visit our Discord at www.discord.gg/exorstudios - the results of their work is incredible, given the limited nature of the Alpha and the Prologue!



The full changelog for this patch:

[h2]Changelog for Stable Build 195 on 2020.08.26:[/h2]
  • Fixed miscellaneous crashes when closing the application
  • Fixed memory corruption that was causing random crashes
  • Fixed a few obscure crash bugs
  • Improved loading time - optimized underground treasure generation algorithm
  • [Modding] Added a user-friendly warning message when trying to start a mission that doesn't exist
  • [Modding] Fixed overlaying loose files over .zip archives
  • Audio: limited submit sample rate to 200kHz


There has also been one more patch last week, but we didn’t have the time to issue a changelog on that, so here it is now:

[h2]Changelog for Stable Build 191 on 2020.08.21:[/h2]
  • Audio: limited submix sample rate to 200kHz
  • disable IME on win32 platform (potential fix for some users' with IME enabled for input being stuck)
  • Mouse: fixed window size
  • Fixed MouseWin32 cursor container integrity
  • Multiple misc crash fixes:
  • fix crash in AugmentsMenuScreen
  • fix crash in OnBuildingSellEvent
  • fix reattaching bounds to building
  • fix crash in CustomizeControlsMenuScreen


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AMA with the devs!

Hello!

We would like to invite you all to another AMA session that we are going to hold on our Discord server as a part of our Indie Arena Booth 2020 participation!



We are going to pay special attention to the #ama channel all day long and answer all your questions about The Riftbreaker, our studio, or the meaning of life. We are going to answer every question that you ask, as long as we are not bound not to share the answer by a pact with dark forces (aka NDA).



We have done a couple of AMAs in the past, so there is a good chance we have already given an answer to one of your questions. You can read the full transcripts of the previous AMAs here, as well as check our FAQ. Come up with original questions.

...there might be some Alpha keys waiting for the authors to the most interesting Qs!

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