Volcanoids News

It's almost a week since the game entered Early Access on Steam, and we would like to thank everyone for supporting the game. There is still a long way ahead, and a lot to add, but we are off to a good start.

We went through all the Steam discussions and read the positive and negative reviews. Thank you all for taking the time to write the feedback, it helped a lot to get a picture of what to focus at in the upcoming month.



Main focus will be on improving gameplay outside the drillship. More weapons, difficulty scenarios and improving progression through research and gaining new technology.

Smaller adjustments are also planned, such as making the time between eruptions longer, adding actual meaning to the drillship upgrades (speed, armor) and more.



The difficulty scenarios should ensure that players that are new to the game get all the important information from the captain, while those already familiar with the game, go into the world on their own armed with only the skill and knowledge. That will come handy especially when hunting down your first drillship, no longer served by the captain.

Based on the feedback, the tutorial quests will be adjusted for the easy scenario in a way that players can access them through the radio but are not bothered if they want to progress on their own. If players get lost at any point, the captain will be there to help. The tutorial quests will update with players progress, so it should be easy to get back on track.



We will do our best to deliver the mentioned features and changes in the next update. The exact date is not set, but it should be ready in several weeks. Will keep you informed about the progress in weekly Developer updates, posted every Thursday here on Steam.

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the comments below.

First things first, thank you for the support during the Early Access launch! It means the world to us to see that you're digging the game!

We got a ton of reports from you guys and we're doing our best to go through all of them. Thanks a lot and definitely continue sending them through the "Send Feedback" menu or posting them in the bug report section in discussions.

Today's update is a smaller one containing mainly fixes. In case you load your game and your quest is messed up, simply abandon the quest in the quest menu (press L) and get it again from Cap.

Screenshot in header by: ҀЯФИ ↁÆМФИ

• Quest: The first quest to craft door module as well (to ensure players won't block themselves in drillship)
  
• Quest: Moved turret quest after the Add segment quest (to ensure players have a free slot)
  
• Quest: Disabled scrap metal quest
  
• Quest: Contact captain quest won't show when the game finished
  
• HUD notification "Inventory full" now contains info about the trash icon in inventory
  
• HUD notification "Storage full" now contains info about the trash icon in inventory
  
• HUD notification "Landing site occupied" now contains info to pull the blue lever (players kept pulling the green, that did not solve the issue)
  
• Radio device has more HP now
  
• Door has sound on open and close
  
• Refresh rate in options now shows correct refresh rate
  

• Issues with joystick inputs (player should no longer randomly move in one direction)
  
• Submarine ladder stuck issue
  
• Light orb spawned after killing a COG
  
• Drillship call no longer sends drillship out of a lava cave
  
• Player getting killed underground by eruption blast
  
• Multiple typos in texts
  
• Issue with placing production module
  
• Main menu background video is now working on Linux
  
• Main menu background video recompressed to reduce lagging
  
• Achievement: Kill COGs
  
• Achievement: Full extender
  
• Achievement: Multitasking
  
• Core upgrade no longer destroys after placing to Core stats instead to the Core on the wall
  
• Items in submarine and player drillship (had wrong stacks and caused issues)
  

If you have any questions, feel free to drop them in the comments below or on any of these platforms:

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Thanks for reading!