Volcanoids News

Listen up Partisans,

We saw your feedback, plotted for days and now it's finally here! Build a pilot seat, explore underground maps, mine with your drillship, discover caves, spy on your enemies using the periscope, and more in the Travel Update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VswT1fR2etQ
Captain put together a quick manual below so you understand how each feature works and don't get toasted the second you jump outta the submarine!



With this update, our intention was to solve following issues frequently reported by community: nothing to do underground, previous traveling system being just a fancy fast travel and not being able to mine with your drillship. This is also only the first iteration. In future updates, you can look forward to things like underground combat, toolbar in the travel map view (for torpedoes, boarding drones, self-repair) and survival mechanics.

Big thanks to our amazing community for helping us name all these new locations! Coming up with names is probably the hardest part of game development (not joking).

• Music audio slider in options
  
• Once a dead COG is looted, the outline no longer shows
  
• New quest hud marker system that keeps markers at the center of the screen
  
• Landing site numbers replaced by names suggested by the community
  
• Ore deposit spawn locations have been decreased, ore respawns only after the eruption
  
• Starter drillship has more items in inventory which makes the first few quests a lot more faster, and less about endless checklists
  
• COG attack groups no longer camp on free landing sites, but run between all landing sites within the node
  
• Unity launcher has been removed
  
• Ability to call drillship to other landing sites is removed, but might be brought back in future (the ability to call it under and above is still available)
  
• Target selector has been removed and will be remembered only in Captain's deck
  
• Map stand has a different texture and will be improved in future
  

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• Watch update trailers on YouTube
• See highlights from the office and conferences on Instagram

If you have any questions drop them in the comments below or on our social media.

Enjoy, and don't get lost down there!

~ Volcanoids Dev Squad

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Volcanoids got officially translated into the 8 most requested languages by the community. Big thanks to anyone that participated in community translations before this, it made the whole process much easier since we already had a foundation. You guys rock!

From now on you can enjoy Volcanoids in:

• French
  
• Spanish
  
• Portuguese (Brazilian)
  
• Russian
  
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese
  
• German
  
• Czech
  

To change the language simply click on flags located in the main menu.





In this update, we also made some adjustments to the starter drillship to make the beginning more friendly for new players. The drillship now has coal by default, 4x breach replacements and opened coal power plant.

And if you have Volcanoids in your wishlist patiently waiting for the perfect opportunity then stay tuned as there's a sale coming very soon!

• Get development news and sneak peeks on Twitter or Facebook
• Participate in contests and chat with the development team on Discord
• See upcoming features on Trello
• Watch update trailers on YouTube
• See what we're up to in real life on Instagram

Hope you enjoy the new languages!

~ Volcanoids Dev Team

The time has come! The time to pack our 3 PCs along with 27 monitors, leave our cozy apartments and move into a real office.

And this was only possible thanks to you. Thanks to all the support, feedback and love you've been showing this project since the very beginning. We are boundlessly humbled and forever grateful. Thank you!











Share your creations with us in the Artwork Section or in our Discord Server and we'll use them as decoration for all the empty walls we have down here.

We already put up some of the awesome creations you guys shared with us. So keep them coming and help us give these bland walls some style!



Thanks again for making this possible!

~ Volcanoids Dev Team

We released a new update fixing a lot of critical bugs that snuck their way into the game in the Gear Up Update such as "enemy drillships kidnapping player" and so on.

With the fixes, we also added a new feature! If you couldn't tell from the thumbnail, from now on you can destroy just the drill of an enemy drillship to take its ability to go underground.

But remember that COGs can do the same to your drillship as well. The drill can be repaired with the repair tool just like any other module or device.

Player no longer gets kidnapped by COG drillships
COG Research drillships have turret ammo and turrets shoot at the player
The ghost stone in Area 1
Drillships bring new COGs with bigger delay
Several typos and errors in texts
Bug where stolen drillships from COGs can't reach the Volcano cave




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Big thanks to anyone that helped us track down these bugs!

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