The Hoarder update for Sunless Skies is now available! This is one of our largest updates since launch here's what's new:

• Engine upgrades for your locomotive (the only feature people asked for even more than a horn).
• Full Steam Mode, which will let your locomotive travel even faster, at some risk...
• A new constructable transit relay. This is a substantial and dangerous undertaking, but once completed, it will allow direct travel between Albion and Eleutheria.
• A new quartermaster, the Chiropterous Hoarder.
• A way to report bugs and send feedback from directly within the game.
• More devils.
• Various smaller fixes and improvements (see the patch notes below).

Engine upgrades and Full Steam Mode

All locomotives now have equippable engines that can be upgraded to increase speed at a small premium in fuel. The better engines have minimum crew requirements. If your crew count drops too low, your speed will be limited to that of a basic engine, but there are otherwise no ill effects. To make these a little easier to meet, we've also increased the Quarters values of many locomotives.
The best engines also grant access to something called Full Steam Mode. Engaging this will grant your locomotive a large further boost to speed, but will also consume considerably more fuel and limit your manoeuvrability. NB crashing while in Full Steam Mode is not advised. In general, Full Steam Mode should significantly speed travel along familiar routes. It is not recommended for ventures into the unknown, pirate dens, Cantankeri bases, tight corners or enclosed spaces.

The Albion-Eleutheria transit relay

This new quest will allow seasoned captains to leave their mark upon the sky. Assist an Insistent Surveyor in establishing a new transit relay that will directly link Albion to Eleutheria. Be warned: this is a costly, perilous, and demanding quest. But once the relay is completed it will be available to all future captains in your lineage.

The Chiropterous Hoarder

Recruit a winged horror of profound cunning and unreliable manners. Rumoured to have been one of the Masters of old London, this peddlar of immortality has fallen on hard times. Take it on a macabre journey to perfect a new method of prolonging life. Perhaps you might become friends on the way. Perhaps you might become more...

Bug reports and feedback

In this update, we're replacing our support email with a way to submit feedback directly from within the game. Pressing F8 will bring up a short feedback form. Sending this will submit it to our database, and automatically attach a screenshot, save file and game log.
Our hopes for this are that it will make it much easier to submit reports and also help us understand and fix issues more effectively. It was helpful to have an email during early access as fixing issues sometimes involved tweaks to people's save files, but now the game is very stable we think this will work better and of course, we'll continue to keep an eye on the forums for anything that can't be handled effectively this way.

Devilry

Have you discovered the Abstemious and Patchwork Devils, yet? Have you delivered them to a howling well? If so, you may be interested to learn that a 'Retired' Devil now needs a similar service. Completing his story will unlock a third and final revelation at the Well of the Wolf.

Additional patch notes

• Scouts now insist on being fed the correct amount of Supplies, even if this means opening a new crate.
• Tooltips for quest objectives are no longer indiscreet about potential plot developments.
• Sounds no longer get out of step with their animations when interfaces are opened.
• There is now a sound effect for arriving at transit relays.
• Many locomotives now have higher Quarters.
• The Agravain's base Hull has been increased.
• Cramped Quarters are now available at St Dominic's Augmentations in London.
• Engine Problems are now known as Mechanical Problems.
• Heat now accrues and dissipates smoothly, rather than in steps.

Keep in touch

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[ 2019-09-12 15:49:08 CET ] [ Original post ]