Patch Notes - V0.32

Headline Features

• New Custom Game Maps! The 2 winners of our summer map design contest have been completed & added to the game, as well as one more
  • Imprisoned, based on a design by - a swampy area that floods & drains, opening up easier access to other resources & colonies
  • Strawclutch, based on a design by Noctazar - tightly-packed nests around central resources in the swamp ensures intense skirmishes with neighbours
  • Sand Spit - a sandy peninsula designed for a 3v1 setup, where the single colony has an uphill battle ahead of them
• Achievements! Over 100 new achievements for all aspects of the existing story mode & seasonal levels
  • Please note: in this test build, meeting an achievements conditions will not activate the achievement on Steam, but youll be able to see if you got it in victory screens
  • Icons for the new achievements are still in the works, so worry ye not if you spot them defaulting to an older one!
• Reworked Difficulty Settings! More resolution in lower difficulty settings with more linear gradation between them
  • Easy, Medium, Hard, Extreme & Impossible are the new difficulties, with new Easy a little easier than the old, & Extreme being where old Hard was. Impossible is the new name for what used to be Insane

Other Additions & Changes

Mission Rewards

• Mission rewards increased significantly:
  • Formicarium rewards for a repeated play of a mission have been increased (increased by 67%), for a defeat have been increased & the rewards provided at higher difficulties are higher.
  • Easy, Medium & Hard - although these difficulties are easier than before they provide the same rewards they used to
  • Extreme - although this is as hard as Hard used to be, it will provide the same rewards that Insane used to
  • Impossible - although this is as hard as Insane used to be, it will provide more rewards than Insane used to

Creature Changes

• Pine woods tree frog now climbable
• Uber hermit crab is now climbable
• Uber red velvet ant is now climbable
• Young velvet worm is no longer climbable
• Improvements to climbing points on hermit crabs
• Small harvestmen now become food on death
• Jumping spiders now become food on death
• Ladybirds now become food on death
• Young praying mantis can now only be harvested by 1 ant
• New beach creatures now spawnable in Battle Arena

Custom Game Changes

• Creature resource quantity slider added to freeplay options
  • Allows players to make creatures in their freeplay game drop more or less food if they like
• Restart button added to custom game defeat screen
• When spawning attack waves, freeplay director will now choose larger creatures to spawn if none can be found in the smaller creature options
• AI harvesting process now considers the average of total & ants alive when deciding where to harvest & not just enemy ants alive
• Freeplay now starts with a default save name

Graphical Changes

• Default FPS is now set to 60
• Updated beach loading screen to use new assets
• Arcade button graphics updated
• Improvements to the living sea urchin decorative asset
• Seaweed models updated in 2.1 & 2.2
• New hat for the sand bear wolf spider

Other Changes

• New early game objectives added to 3.1 The Harvest, the same as in The Crucible
  • The idea here is that the early objectives act as a mini tutorial, so the player has a good-sized leaf & refuse chamber before encountering the enemy colony. Shouldnt interrupt established gameplay otherwise
• New narrator dialogue added regarding leafcutter refuse storage
• Formicarium Challenges now have names instead of numbers
• Visual pulsing effect when the queen is at low health & has recently taken damage to more urgently telegraph that the queen is in imminent danger
  • Can be disabled in Advanced Options
• Minor Improvements can no longer be applied mid-mission
• Creatures no longer heal in the formicarium after purchasing an ability
• Adventure: leafcutter supermajor can no longer climb creatures or carry food
• Extremis: food from killed creatures increased
• The Culling: tripled food from spawned creatures
• The Other Foot:
  • More time given on Impossible (previously Insane) difficulty
  • Food drops from spawning creatures build up & spawn with the next drop
• Both spider levels:
  • Added sound effects to spider abilities
  • Increased healing from Devour by 17%
  • Increased max health gained be Bite level
• Hungry Spider only:
  • Reduced uber wolf spiders attack damage (down from 410 to 150)
  • Added some queen corpses with 60 food each near the uber wolf spider
• Many new & updated localisations

Fixes

• Enemy colony health bars are now properly hidden in fog of war
• Adventure-specific UI elements no longer overlap the huge whip spider health bar
• UI elements no longer visible when photo mode is on during a victory animation
• Fixed depth of field in tutorial level victory camera
• Fixed depth of field in Hungry Spider victory & defeat cameras
• Formicarium Challenge 4 (The Final Experiment) victory camera positioning fixed
• Fixed some old beach style level tunnel exit to use the old one
• Fixed some issues that would cause the wrong loading screen to show in some situations in a custom game
• Fixed some huge creatures & hybrids appearing to resurrect after a formicarium reload
• Fixed long creatures adorably chasing their own tails (sorry!)
• Fixed a crash when colony 2 was empty in a custom game
• Hermit crab shells & spider hats no longer receive decals