We are currently 24-48 hours away from merging experimental into the public normal game. We are still conducting various bug hunts and making slight adjustments for QOL.

How to opt into Experimental

To opt into experimental install "Cepheus Protocol Experimental" in your steam library. It is no longer a beta opt in but an entirely new game granted when you purchase the base game.

Patch Notes

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• Set up a 'Squad Objective' widget for civilian squads. Shows you what they're currently doing, and which faction they belong to
• Fixed a potential crash with 'moving components around via rename' with a cleaner 'clear name, then set null name so engine decides on non-crash name' setup
• Set up the ability to toggle the visuals for Civilian Squad Status widgets, in the Visual Toggles dropdown
• Fixed the Visual Toggles dropdown not having a hovertip
• Added 'RIOT' as a type of string read by the Civilian Squad Status widget to be translated to 'Rioting'
• Fixed several civvie classes that had the C++ version of the VictorAK equipped (replaced w/ BP version)
• Updated civilian squads to have a 'relaxed mode'
• When gathering supplies or defending a base, if not in combat, they'll use Walk instead of Run, and sometimes just idle around
• Civ animation updates. new parachute animation
• M4 changes in scale and size
• Civilian wallbuilder fixes
• Unit Mover devirtualization updated to 'rewind' movers via warp instead of fastforward backwards, and to better 'force' units to not devirtualize at wrong times (for units 'popping out of nowhere')
• Improved faction construction queries to better avoid deep water
• Updated TUGS to not ping units that are already visible (saves a bit of processing)
• Rioting animations added
• Radio op mesh added
• Experimental UnitMover optimization (seems to be very beneficial and few-to-no downsides so far): doesn't repeat move order, and lowers move component tickrate, if near target when reissuing a move order
• Unit Movers (particularly defense squads for civvie camps) should be more performant
• Assault female optimized
• Crashfix added for virtual combat
• Add a limit to how many evacuating civilian groups can be spawned at any given time. Has 'backwards save compatibility' to make units over double the evac limit get 'booted back' to a nearby world building, for population's sake
• Limited the amount of Dynamic Civilian groups that can spawn into the world to 13 for performance reasons.
• Added Militant civilian archetype. With its own Elite unit and Recruitable unit (just duplicates of Regular civilian classes for now)
• Fixed up Evacuation civvie 'limits' to not respect civvies who are garrisoned, so civvies who enter an evac chopper no longer 'block' other civvies from spawning
• Added some backup logic so civvies who are waiting on a chopper can move to a different one in the same zone, if one is available and the one they were waiting on is not on the helipad
• Fixed up some related logic to make civvies less likely to 'stop moving towards evac pads' when helicopters aren't directly on the pad
• Updated civvies who are evacuating to a helipad to have a faster move tickrate when hidden in FOW, to make them less likely to get 'stuck' on geometry (and thus taking up evac slots)
• Updated some building 'civvie spawn lerps' (door entrances/exits) on specific building instances in Angel Island G1 and G3. Fixes civies getting stuck when exiting a building
• M4 clip size changed back to 30rnds
• Updated the 'highlighted evac building' for evac helipads to re-update for UI's sake, even when we have to wait for more civvie slots (so that the 'evac building icon' won't be over an empty building before the next update loop). This doesn't really affect functionality all that much, but it does make UI make more sense
• Added the faction emblems for each faction archetype, and set up displays for them in the Diplomacy tab and Squad Status widget
• Applied fire damage crash fix for characters

Please note the following going forward (Restart your game/steam to get the update if needed [/expand]

General Development Updates

[expand type=details] https://youtu.be/GV3YOssGEfs https://youtu.be/LOdVk1yiuak

Letter from the Producer

https://steamcommunity.com/games/979640/announcements/detail/3718325557390407190

New Roadmap system

We now have a new system for our community to follow along on development. This website will break down all the major systems that are coming each patch. It will not include hotfixes/bug fixes. Sections inside TBD can be included randomly if we are ahead of schedule https://www.notion.so/cepheusprotocol/Cepheus-Protocol-31f1b25ce00148d6844825f4a0c0bc08 [/expand]

Ways to Support Development

[expand type=details] Everything goes towards expanding the team and building a better game!

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First 40 Minutes of Cepheus Protocol Anthology Season 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eWbDibGMrU [/expand]

[ 2023-05-10 06:15:01 CET ] [ Original post ]