I've been working on polishing a bunch of stuff up. Teleportation was bound to trigger + grip, which was a really awkward combo. I decided to make it a first class interaction so now it's bound to the touchpad like other games with teleport.
I also added a shortcut to riding rideables allowing you teleport into them so you no longer need to point at them with the trigger and then click the touchpad. You can teleport within rideables, but you are limited to its bound to make it slightly more realistic. I brought back the full laser because it was too difficult to see where you were pointing with just the dot. It's now much easier to target distant objects. I finally modeled in-cab controls to replace all the placeholders. They are nice and shiny. I added a long overdue speedometer and a light switch so that you can toggle an engine's lights on and off. Engine lights now default to off for performance reasons (more lights on = worse performance).
At the same time I modified how engine throttle works. Now instead of speed increasing linearly it increases with a curve that uses more of the lever for slow speeds. This prevents you from instantly ramping up to max speed and crashing. The last obvious feature is that I added a mini tutorial when you first launch the game. It takes you through the major interactions in the game by highlighting the necessary controller buttons and physical objects you need to interact with. These can be disabled/reset with the "Toggle Hints" button inside the toolbox.
And the last change that is not obvious at all is that I moved the user data folder from the Steam folder to Users/[Windows Username]/Documents/My Games/Locomancer/. This makes it easier to find and allows for per-user settings/saves if you have multiple users on the same machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVca2nad5iU Also, the game officially comes out next week? ːtrainbowbarfː