Hey everyone! I'm extremely happy to announce that v2.3.0 is now live on Steam! This is a big update that changes a lot of things for the better, getting it closer to what I wanted Lost World Zero to be, before the... incident of 2016... Here's the changelog!

ADDITIONS

• Added health packs that can be found on dead bodies as loot. When picked up, your health increases by 10.
• Added hovering motherships overhead. Adds sense of scale.
• Added more vegetation to Alice-43b. More plant life and variety.
• Added gas clouds to the moon, which indicate an area full of Eos crystals.
• Added new keybind: Swap Weapon.
• Added inventory system, similar to No Man’s Sky/Destiny, you can find weapons on the map, and store them in your inventory and swap out primary/secondary weapons.
• Added second weapon slot. You can now have two weapons. Some can be used for close quarters combat to finish the job off, or to spray and pray.
• Added new main menu. The game loads up, and you are in a scene with a play button, options button, and quit button. Clicking play loads immediately and enables the player controller in the main menu, and you can then warp to Alice-43b, and the moon of Alice-43b.
• Added new Steam Achievement: To The Moon (go to the moon)
• Added new Steam Achievement: Millionaire (hard to get, but possible. Have your bank balance be equal to or above 1 million dollars)
• Added new Steam Achievement: Completion (get to the end of the credits after the Earth level)
• Added new Steam Achievement: Too Much Pink (upgrade a weapon at the Eos Upgrade Station)
• Added field of view option
• Added mouse sensitivity option
• Added flying spacecraft that fly over every few minutes.
• Added Steam Leaderboard integration for soldier ranks and kill counts.
• Added pickup sound when picking up guns and health packs.

CHANGES/IMPROVEMENTS

• Changed gun loot drop mechanism. It was too easy to get a good gun very fast, so now better weapons have a lower chance of dropping, and their Uncommon/Rare/Legendary counterparts are also changed a bit.
• Various graphical improvements and tweaks. Bloom has been altered a little bit, and various other graphic effects have been altered.
• Animation improvements and handling.
• Improved screenshake of robot soldier explosions. They are more intense, and are based on distance. Being close to the explosion will have a more intense screenshake.
• Improved death effect of Earth AI. The robots no longer vanish, and since they are robots, they explode.
• Changed the main game to first person.
• Added hub for the main menu, and the hub is in third person with a gun on the player’s back.
• Player is now green, similar to the color of the cape that was there previously. This is catering to players with low end machines that can’t handle the cloth physics. Normal soldiers are still white.
• AI now have a chance to not drop loot at all.
• Fixed bug where health packs were dropped every time an AI died.
• Polished UI elements a lot. They aren’t as jarring, and are now a nice, subtle white translucent box. This applies to the details page (when you press E), health bar, inventory, and options/pause/main menu.
• Spent a lot of time optimizing scripts, making scene loading faster, and overall a lot more efficient and smooth.
• Multiple UWA and SNA dead bodies can be found on the ground in front of the UWA HQ, this is from Mission 5 of LONE WOLF: Simulations (to be shown near full release).
• Various bug fixes and improvements. Such fixes include saving game data and loading game data, graphics settings not applying correctly sometimes.
• WAR INFO area of stats screen has been moved to the right side of the screen
• Updated to Unity 5.5.2f1
• Removed square root calculations for AI distance calculations.
• CharacterController slope limit increase
• Mouse control y rotation limit changed to look up and down more.
• NavMesh changes that would cause SNA AI to get stuck.
• Polished visuals, I started playing Cube World again and I altered the visuals here to be more colorful and contrasting.
• Changed tree and grass coloring, much more vibrant.
• Earth terminal ship now flies in when unlocked.
• Fixed bug where SNA base would not upgrade sometimes.
• Decreased level to unlock the plasma rifles at the merchant station.
• Eos drop amount changed from 1 to 5, to 15 to 30.
• Fixed issue where Eos crystals were not removed when upgrading.
• Each base HQ has been redone, given more detail to it. Internal packaging reorganization for better workflow.
• LOD adjustments for better performance. Removes diminishing marginal return.
• SNA AI changes to interact with the player better in combat.
• MouseLook optimizations and fixes.