Hello Nomads,

It finally seems that 0.9.7.3 release is free from all errors, so we've released it for everyone now. This is probably the last release this year, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and we all are looking foward to see what we could do with Planet Nomads in 2019!

For those, who did not try our experimental builds, here is the complete list of previous changes:

• 0.9.7.0
  
  
  
  • new game mode: Free Roam - you can play with your inventories without worrying about thirst, hunger, radiation etc.
    
  
  
  User Experience & Survival Tweaks:
  
  
  
  • added new weather types and improved look of old ones
    
  • color visualisation and new screen effects for survival attributes
    
  • directional indicator of damage source
    
  • "take it all" button in Containers and Automatic Miners
    
  • allowed direct using/equipping of items from black box Container
    
  • improved weapon beam, new weapon batteries
    
  • "bees" - improved attack behaviour and nest appearance
    
  • enabled animal aggressivity on Medium difficulty
    
  • changed appearance of toggles (aka "check boxes") in UI
    
  • grouping Joy notifications by type
    
  • logging Joy notifications in the Journal
    
  • added descriptions to block / item radial menus
    
  
  
  Other changes:
  
  
  
  • hidden unavailable blocks in Block Catalog
    
  • improved brakes and added parking brake to wheeled vehicles
    
  
  
  Bugs and optimizations:
  
  
  
  • fixed game freeze / crash on finishing blueprint during sleeping
    
  • optimized merge of box colliders for better performance and less physical glitches
    
  • fixed non-working automatic switch on Solar Beacon
    
  • fixed corrupted water surface on higher quality settings
    
  • narrowed camera near plane (reduced weapon/wall see throughs)
    
  • fixed Craneballs logo quality on splash screen
    
  • improved Sandy Engine compatibility with legacy Linux distributions
    
  • fixed water and fog graphical glitches on MacOS
    
  
  
  
• 0.9.7.1
  
  
  
  • fixed bugs in collider optimization
    
  • fixed missing container connections after building a blueprint
    
  • fixed shader in Planet Map
    
  • fixed sun making flares through ship walls in the tutorial
    
  • better quality of sun textures
    
  • modified vignette textures gradation
    
  • suppressed an error during downloading blueprints
    
  • tuned shadow quality for better shadows in middle distance
    
  
  
  
• 0.9.7.2
  
  
  
  • finished new weather types
    
  • different Suit appearance for each armor tier
    
  • modified Suit survival attributes
    
  • special Kickstarter-exclusive Suit for our Unique Nomad backers
    
  • some main character animations changes
    
  • increased maximum Air Blade altitude
    
  • increased brake efficiency of small vehicles
    
  • added immediate reversal of wheels after braking
    
  • survival screen effects tuning
    
  • fixed bug that caused empty Block Catalog
    
  • fixed bugs in notifications display and logging
    
  • fixed errors from Steam Workshop
    
  
  
  
• 0.9.7.3
  
  
  
  • reduced the impact of weather to hot/cold survival attributes
    
  • linux: built Sandy Engine against older libraries to support not so recent distributions