After nearly a year of work, we've finally got a relatively playable version of the dev branch! Here's a list of some of the new features and content:

• Happiness mechanic - As your colony grows from a quiet farming village to a bustling city, their demands increase. Feed them well and give them luxury items to keep them happy. Or don't, and watch your science speed & productivity plummet while recruitment costs dramatically rise.
• Co-op - It's now possible to share a colony with friends!
• Dozens and dozens of new items and jobs - fishermen, cooks, diamonds, tea, coffee, silk, and last but not least, potatoes!
• Entirely new world generation - It uses a combination of temperature and "rainfall" (not visible, but a lush forest obviously has more rainfall than a desert) to determine what the area should look like.

• Three exotic regions - There's now a Far East, Tropics and New World, each with their own unique science, jobs and research!
• Multiple colonies mechanic - Craft a Colony Starter Kit and start new colonies.
• Glider - Research and craft a glider and take to the skies for rapid exploration and travel!
• Trading - Set up traders to sent items and science from one colony to another, or to other players in multiplayer.
• New Unity Version - Includes a multitude of updates which solve common problems
• Dramatic optimization - Terrain should load a lot quicker, and you ought to be able to have a lot of extra colonists!
• New save system - Savegames are 10 times smaller, making saving and loading 10 times as quick. They're also 10 times less likely to corrupt! It's also prepared to deal with the Steam Workshop.
• Easy co-op hosting - It's no longer necessary to browse through the installation folder and find a separate server. Set up a multiplayer server with friends right from the main menu!
• LAN support - By popular demand.
• Plenty of other small optimizations - You can now recruit as many colonists as you've got unfilled jobs or beds in one click, or enter a custom number. A lot of old and ugly hand drawn icons have been replaced with rendered icons. Some job blocks have been replaced as well.

This is the most dramatic overhaul Colony Survival has ever had. 0.6.3 was highly polished and balanced - 0.7.0 is not like that. You should be able to have many hours of fun with the beta, but you will run into errors, missing content, highly unbalanced recipes and unfinished elements. But if you understand that and are still looking forward to testing 0.7.0 and sharing your experiences with us, we'd love to have you on board! We're planning to keep the Open Beta live until the definitive release of 0.7.0. Make yourself invaluable by sharing good and detailed feedback, and you'll be invited to future internal testing as well. Join the open beta by going to #introductions in our Discord and typing something like the following sentence with the appropriate info: "@Developer @Admin I'm from [continent], I'm [rough description of age] and have played CS for [amount of hours played according to Steam Library] and I'd like to help!" So it would look something like: "@Developer @Admin I'm from Australia, I'm in my 20s and have played CS for 32 hours and I'd like to help!" "@Developer @Admin I'm from Europe, I'm 19 and have played CS for 12 hours and I'd like to help!" We'll check #introductions often and grant the Open Beta Tester role to anyone who posts the sentence there correctly. With the OB Tester role, you've got access to the Perpetual Testing Initiative category on Discord. Read #test-announcements to read how to get access to the 0.7.0-branch. You need to own the game on Steam to unlock it! We're all based in Europe, so there might be a gap in verifications somewhere between midnight and 9AM CET. We hope you'll try all the new features and report back about your experience. Screenshots and videos are welcome. You're allowed to share videos outside of the Discord, but we'd appreciate it if you make clear that it's a highly unfinished beta. Good luck testing and bedankt voor het lezen! Reddit // Twitter // YouTube // Website // Discord

[ 2019-05-31 20:10:23 CET ] [ Original post ]