A bug introduced in Major Update 14 disabled sound effects from some environmental objects and also disabled Replicon 'chatter' sound effects. This little hotfix resolves that issue. This also brings the main branch version in line with the newly released demo.

Introduction:

Main Update 15 - Weapons & War Overview:

Weapon Overhaul

• The fire rate of all the weapons have been doubled! Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew Pew.
• The fire rate of the lander's gun has been doubled.
• The damage of all weapons have been reduced by approximately 40-60% to compensate.
• The time that Replicons are shocked has been reduced to compensate.
• The energy cost of firing each weapon has been halved to compensate.
• The recoil push back for each weapon, on the player, has been tweaked on a per weapon basis.
• Self damage from the rocket pistol has been reduced to trivial levels.
• The rocket pistol's knock back has been doubled. This thing is a beast now.
• All the weapon visual effects have been juiced up.

Combat Overhaul

• Replicon spiders now scuttle around much faster like real spiders.
• The maximum number of Replicons on any given planet, at any given time, has been increased by 40%.
• The spawn rate in order to reach that maximum number has also been increased by approximately 40%.
• The shield values for each Replicon have been altered to suit the new weapon damage values.
• The Replicon Invasion speed (how quickly they spread across the system) now ranges from 75% - 200% normal speed based on the game's difficulty. (This only affects Invasion Mode. This was previously 50% on the easiest difficulty and 100% on all other difficulties.)
• Replicon combat AI, behavior, and movement characteristics have been significantly updated.
• Replicon spiders can now move at a variety of different speeds - often faster than Bob.
• Replicon rasks can now move at a variety of different speeds - rarely but sometimes faster than Bob.
• Replicon wasps can now move at a variety of different speeds - occasionally faster than Bob
• Replicons shock duration is now varied creating more combat unpredictability.
• Replicons now react in various ways after being shot. They might start dodging, become even more aggressive, turn away, or simply carry on as before.
• Replicon rask jump trajectories are now far less predictable.
• Although Replicon wasps can survive and function in water, they now prefer to avoid it, and can't see the player through it's surface.
• To balance the other changes, and maintain overall difficulty, wasp damage has been reduced by 20%, rask damage has been reduced by 25%, dart damage has been reduced by 25%

Quality of Life Improvements:

• The camera system has been overhauled. It's now smooth as butter and uses far more advanced tracking and prediction algorithms.
• The 'tap to cancel' functionality of the grapple gun has been removed by default.
  • Simply tapping the fire button will now fire a grapple if it has a valid target. This is far more intuitive behavior.
  • It is possible to re-enable the old behaviour again by setting tapToCancel = True in gameConfig.ini if you prefer it.
• A new slider has been added allowing the player to choose the game's difficulty prior to starting the tutorial.
• A new 'Reset Game' button has been added for Survival Mode at the game select screen.
• A new hotkey has been added to allow toggling of the user interface.
• Using the 'Reset Game' button, for either game mode, now resets Dave's conversation history and memory for that game mode only.
• The physics system has been extended to test if either Bob or his lander have glitched into an impossible position and offers the option to reset both.
• The crafting recipe for a new lander now requires 100 fuel and the lander will spawn with 100 fuel.
• Improved the font styling and readability of Dave's chat panel again. This was also tweaked in the last update.
• Updated the tutorial to simplify the instructions during the grappling gun section.
• Replicon Wasp shield value and scared status is now saved allowing 'wasp balloons' to still work after reloading.
• To aid performance on lower end machines, Replicons will stop dropping loot if there are more than fifty pieces of loot already on the current planet.
• Reduced the damage taken by bumping into crystals by 40%
• Reduced the damage taken by bumping into the various stalactites by various amounts. 10%-40%

Miscellaneous Improvements:

• The central Replicon station's main event has been tweaked.
  • A disabled mechanic, that caused wasps to spawn during this event, has been reactivated.
  • To compensate, and also to make the event more manageable on higher difficulty settings, the laser damage has been reduced by 40% and slowed by 20%
• The drop pod sequence at the start of the tutorial has new visual effects.
• Various UI text element quality improvements
• Updated the tutorial to reflect the changes to 'tap to cancel'.
• Updated the dialog that appears after completing the tutorial, for the first time, to more clearly state that it's possible to directly click on grapple lines to select them.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed : Missing planet name added to the starting planet.
• Fixed : Replicon spider drop ships now receive splash damage.
• Fixed : Inconsistencies with the use of bullet points in the difficulty slider information texts.
• Fixed : After loading a save, Bob would sometimes have the incorrect footstep sound for the surface he was initially standing on.
• Fixed : A bug that allowed Bob access to the refinery ship during the tutorial.
• Fixed : A bug that prevented Dart (spiky ball) Replicons from appearing on regular planets.
• Fixed : A text bug on the game complete screen that read "Continue to Start Act 2", instead of "Continue to Start Act 3".

Final Notes:

Introduction

Patch 1.443 - New Features & QOL improvements.

• Grapple Length Extender (doubles max grapple length to 60)
• Grapple Length Maximizer (triples max grapple length to 90)
• This allows grapples to reach the planet from orbit and opens up new gameplay options and strategies.

• Fixed unintended grapple pull speed reductions witnessed with very long grapples.
• Grapple pull speed is now consistent at all lengths. This makes upgrading grapple pull speed far more noticeable.
• Fixed a bug that could cause long grapples to extend when viewed at large distances under heavy load.

• This is a big qualitiy of life improvement that makes selecting grapples easier, faster and more intuitive.
• The grapple attached to the players grapple gun now highlights whenever it is the active grapple line for consistency.
• Cycling through grapple connections now includes the grapple line attached to the player's grapple gun.
• The active grapple now highlights green when idle or expanding, and yellow when shrinking.
• Using either grapple cycle hotkey will now automatically highlight and activate the last previously highlighted grapple.

• Due to Main Update 14 reducing the default difficulty (with 50% damage reduction) the recipe for the various armors has been slightly increased.
• The illmenite requirement for Carbon armor and the boot upgrades has also been slightly increased.

• This is to balance with the slower replicon expansion speed on lower difficulty.

Build 1.434 Patch notes:

• Main Update 14 increased Bob's acceleration and movement speed to make his movement more responsive. A side effect of this meant that he moved too quickly to feel comfortable inside the refinery ship.
• This new system is a quality of life improvement to solve that.

Build 1.432 Patch notes:

A PERSONAL UPDATE

I'm back!

SO WHY A NEW UPDATE NOW?

WHAT'S NEW in build 1.43?

• This hopefully allows more players to learn the ropes before becoming discouraged.
• Previous builds started with the difficulty slider set one notch higher which was the equivalent of double the incoming damage.
• If you are a new player, and prefer a challenge, make sure to move that slider back one notch to the right (its just below the Play button).

Especially the grappling gun section.

• This points new players in the right direction and gives the early game more focus.
• It pops up the first time a player enters the lander after the tutorial.
• It looks like this and has five pages of quick visual tips:

• These tips can be manually cycled and include tips and clues about secrets that even some of the more experienced players may not know about.

• It can now be reopened manually which causes his last message to repeat.
• This can be achieved via an onscreen button, a hotkey, or even by simply clicking the edge of the screen near to where the message panel appears.
• The font design and coloring has also been reworked to be more readable.
• The speed of the dialog appearing has been increased slightly.

• Bob now accelerates, and changes direction, more quickly.
• This leads to his grounded movement feeling much snappier.

• Rask damage has been more than halved from 2.7 to 1.3
• Various UI tweaks and improvements throughout the game.
• Fixed a rounding bug with the reported temp/perm upgrade values from upgrade machines.
• Power Cubes can no longer be salvaged.
• The lifting power of the familiars has been significantly increased once they are upgraded.
• The default music volume has been lowered.

NEW FEATURES

New In-Game Speedrunning Overlay and Leaderboards

Upgrade machines can now spawn as Epic(10% chance) or Legendary(5% chance)

• Epic machines increase previous bonuses by 30%.
• Legendary machines increase previous bonuses by 100%.

BRAND NEW GAME GUIDE:

Builds 1.41, and 1.42 were minor hotfixes, released last week, that only contained minor tweaks and bug fixes. Build 1.43 deserves it's own announcement as it brings much bigger changes that may go unnoticed otherwise.

Speedrun Changes:

The new Reset button:

Rask damage has been more than halved:

This build is a release candidate:

Whooah. New build? Cool. Wasn't expecting that. Let's Go! The public test for Main Update 14 is now live in the public test branch. Full patch notes are available in game and will be released publicly here on Steam when this build goes officially live for everyone (probably next week). The major new features of this build are based around speedrunning. There are new speedrunning leaderboards and a speedrunning split time overlay. There's lots of other tweaks and improvements too. For more information, download the beta and check the 'What's New' tab on the main menu. Have fun, let me know if you find any issues and if anyone needs help accessing the public test branch let me know. Note: Everyone can try out this public test prior to it's full release next week. Simply swap over to the publictestbranch in the game's beta options and use the password 'iunderstandthisisatest'. Oh, and twitch/Dr_Doof will likely be doing some speedruns and testing of this new build over the coming days so pop by and say hi. If he's playing Space Bob, the chances are I'll be hanging out with him too.

Survival mode is here, Bob! Main Update 13 is a complete game changer. For everyone who likes their games to last for tens of hours, survival mode is here to save the day.

Survival Mode Highlights:

Return of the Life Saving Teleporter:

Crafting Remix:

Dynamic Difficulty:

Respawning Resources:

Realtime Leaderboards:

Craftable Lander, Grapple Cycling, and much more....

Main Update 13 - Build 1.3 - Full Changelog:

Survival Mode - Features and Changes:

• Six dynamic difficulty settings for survival mode dramatically alter how the game plays out by manipulating many different aspects of the game. See below.
• Bob's refinery ship is equipped with a life saving teleporter that Dave can use to teleport Bob to safety the moment before he dies. As long as he has enough energy to power it, Bob can't die.
  • The cost of the teleporter is tied to the chosen difficulty.
  • The teleporter is disabled at max difficulty.
• The amount of starting resources is tied to the chosen difficulty.
  • Lower difficulties provide enough resources to power the teleporter from the start.
  • Higher difficulties begin with barely enough to fund your first away mission.
• The number of resources that can spawn on any given planet is tied to the chosen difficulty.
  • At lower difficulty levels resources are abundant but at the higher levels crystals and illmenite become so scarce that only the most efficient salvage experts will survive.
• The materials required for all crafting recipes have been increased five-fold to better suit the long-term objectives of Survival mode.
  • This is less extreme in practice than it sounds. The overall pacing of Survival mode is much slower and far less time critical than the default game mode.
• The speed of the Replicon invasion varies based on the chosen difficulty settings.
  • This ranges from four times slower at the lowest difficulty setting to fifty percent faster at the highest.
  • The arrival of the various Replicon defense stations has also been equally slowed. They appear later and expand their influence more slowly.
  • The logic determining how and when individual Replicon drop ships appear on each planet has also been rewritten to suit the very different gameplay requirements for survival mode.
  • Replicons spawn over a much longer period of time and take considerably longer to respawn after being killed.
  • This dynamic spawn rate then increases over time based on the current difficulty setting.
• Crystals, illmenite and carbon plants all now respawn.
  • This takes many hours and varies based on planet type and resource type.
• The spawn chance of craftable upgrade machines is significantly lower in Survival mode.
  • Bonus upgrade dispensers will spawn in their place.
  • Bob is expected to craft the majority of his upgrades in Survival mode.
  • There are a maximum of two craftable upgrade machines per game but there's no limit to the potential number of bonus upgrade dispensers.
• Exploration mode achievements/challenges have been removed and replaced with new survival mode achievements/challenges.
• Many changes to Dave's dialog have been made to suit Survival mode.
• Additional dialog and conversation for Dave has been added to Survival mode.
• The Mega Cube and all related storyline elements are either absent or inaccessible during Survival mode.
• The music selection dynamically alters to match the slower pacing of survival mode based on the chosen difficulty setting.
• A 25,000 point penalty is applied if Bob is forced to use the teleporter (dies) in Survival mode.

New Features for both game modes:

Craftable Lander



• It's now possible to craft a replacement lander via the crafting panel.

  New Grapple Selection Options:

  
  
• You can now select a grapple line by directly clicking on the end grapple nodes with the mouse.
• 'Cycle Grapples Next' and 'Cycle Grapples Back' hotkeys have been added.
  • This new feature allows for cycling between all visible grapple connections. At least one termination grapple node must be visible for a connection to be considered visible.
  • For keyboards these keys are bound to 'Z' and 'C' by default. (The 'Cycle Weapons' hotkey has been moved to 'F' by default and the Select Pistol' hotkey has been moved to 'G' by default.
  • For gamepads the weapon selection hotkeys have been moved to the two thumbstick buttons and the new cycle grapple hotkeys have been set to left and right on the D-pad by default.
  • Existing players will likely need to rebind these keys manually (or reset to defaults) as these hotkeys will not overwrite previous custom keybindings.

  Updated Scoring System:

  
  
• The points scoring system has been overhauled.
  • Points are now awarded for ALL resources ever salvaged. In all previous builds, resource points were only awarded for what the player currently had in storage.
  • All respawning resources have had their value increased signficantly to reward players that constantly travel between planets. (Carbon, energy, fuel, hyperfuel, illmenite).
  • The various carbon plants for each biome have been given additional 'Bonus Salvage' points ranging from 2500 to 3500 points to also reward exploration.
  • Replicon loot spawns have been reworked to better balance farming Replicons for score versus farming resources.
  • These changes should ensure that the most efficient playstyle is to keep on the move collecting resources while killing Replicons along the way.
  • Build 1.2 saves are compatible with build 1.3, and will update to this new scoring system, but will not include the score for resources already consumed while previously playing build 1.2. That data was not previously recorded.

  Miscellaneous Improvements:

  A new in-game dialog tips system has been added to inform players about Scan mode, how to remote control the lander, and other important features that didn't suit being taught during the tutorial. These will normally appear soon after completing the tutorial but for those that have already completed the tutorial they will instead appear in their first game after this update.

  The time since Bob last visited each planet is now displayed on the System map to help with resource collection in survival mode. This information can be used to gauge when resources have likely respawned on previously visited planets.

Improvements and Tweaks for both game modes:

Replicon Tweaks:



• Replicon expansion speed across the system has been halved for the lowest difficulty setting in Invasion mode.
• Rask damage has been reduced by 10%.
• Dart damage has been reduced by 10%
• Rasks are now much less likely to jump while shocked.
• The maximum distance that the various Replicons can travel from their host defense station has been tweaked. It's possible that some very distant planets may only ever see spiders or no Replicons at all.
• It now takes ten times longer for Darts to appear on planets at their maximum range from the mothership.
• Replicons no longer drop loot or award score if they die due to damage from liquids. This avoids a potential score and loot exploit.
• The range at which wasps can detect and therefore follow the player has been increased.
• Spider Drop Pods will now sometimes self-destruct to keep their numbers manageable over long survival games.
• Score for killing each Replicon type has been altered to:
  • Spiders: 500 points
  • Wasps: 1000 points
  • Rasks: 1500 points
  • Darts: 2000 points
• Kill points are now awarded for salvaging live Replicons.

  Quality of Life Improvements:

  Bob's rocket pistol now only does a maximum of 20% self inflicted splash damage to himself.

  Invasion mode now begins with 750 energy and fuel in storage rather than 500.

  Improved the automatic detachment of grapples when entering the refinery ship to be more intuitive.

  Bob will no longer point at the on/off buttons, in the refinery ship, if he has something attached to his grapple gun.

  • He no longer needs to jump over these buttons to drag items past them.

  Bob's laser sight has been reworked to be visible against both light and dark backgrounds

  Dave will no longer begin talking to Bob if Scan mode is currently active.

  If Bob shoots his own lander, it now only does 50% normal damage.

  The mass of stalactites has been reduced by approximately 25% to make them a slightly more viable salvage option. (Please note: stalactite mass varies by size AND type. Some are more viable to salvage than others.)

  The 'Swap Gun' hotkey now toggles between the two guns and never holsters to an empty hand. If Bob's hand is empty, it will toggle to his pistol.

  A new 'Empty Hand / Holster Weapon' hotkey has been added for those that would still like to holster their weapon when not in combat.

  Significantly reduced the damage caused by various Replicon body parts, and machinery parts, when hitting Bob or his lander.

  Bombs have had their damage doubled to be more useful for destroying certain object types. Of course, they will almost certainly kill Bob, or destroy his lander, if they are close to the explosion.

  The icons representing the left and right analog stick buttons, for Xbox controllers, have been redesigned to be more recognizable.

  The trigger that opens the main entrance door of the central Replicon station has been significantly increased in size so nobody will ever miss it again.

  Miscellaneous Improvements:

  The green jump-lines, that connect to previously visited planets on the system map, have been widened to better differentiate them from the white jump-lines that connect unvisited planets.

  The tutorial has been updated to include a new section that covers the new grapple cycling hotkeys and direct selection method.

  Dave now warns Bob about the significant danger posed by acidic bubble plants.

  The default description text for planets with no desciption has been updated to 'No Data Available. Click to Add Custom Notes'.

  • Some planets deliberately have no data to help new players realize that this text can be customized by clicking on it.

  When Dave first informs Bob that he's detected the arrival of the various Replicon drop ships he now gives a tip on how to combat each one. eg. 'Spiders can't fly' and 'you can fly faster than them' etc.

  Miscellaneous Tweaks:

  The 'Continue From Saved Game' button no longer appears if saved data is incompatible for any reason.

  When accessing the leaderboard panel, the Single Game leaderboard is now the default rather than the Total Score leaderboard.

  • Accessing the leaderboards while playing Survival mode will automatically show the Survival mode single-game leaderboard.
  • Players can still change the currently visible leaderboard by clicking on the column titles.

  The save system has been extended to prevent Dave from commenting on some past events after loading from a save.

  The Quit panel has been reworked.There are now three options:

  • 'Kill Bob' which does not save and returns to the main menu.
  • 'Quit To Main Menu' which automatically saves and returns to the main menu.
  • 'Quit To Desktop' which also automatically saves.

  The main menu tips panel has been updated to reflect changes in this update

  Frozen geyser mist damage has been reduced by 30%

  The larger planets have had the number of crystals that can spawn reduced.

  The system map now only draws jump lines to planets within jump range rather than to all planets within fuel range.

  Tweaked the amount of fuel and energy required to refuel and repair Bob's suit, jetpack, and lander for improved overall balance.

  A much higher resolution model is now used for the crystal forcefield during the tutorial.

  • Bob no longer kicks up gravel while walking on this forcefield.

  The in-game patch notes panel now shows all patch notes since the 1.0 release.

  runInBackground added as an option to the game's gameConfig.ini file.

  The lander thruster upgrades have been reduced in power by 10% without affecting their top speed. The tier 2 upgrade was previously so strong that the tier 3 upgrade was barely needed.

  Fusion cores can now be salvaged from a few more hard to salvage objects.

Miscellaneous Bug Fixes:

• Fixed an issue that would cause all grapples near to the lander to be removed when using the 'Detach Lander Grapples' hotkey, rather than only grapples attached to the lander.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the energy storage tank from visually updating after crafting an item that required energy.
• Fixed a bug that prevented Exploration mode (and the new Survival mode) saved games from loading unless the player had first saved a game in the main Invasion mode.
• Fixed a bug that prevented correct navigation of the game select panel, while using a gamepad, if there was a saved game in Invasion mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused collectible carbon mushrooms to fall over without any interaction.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Game Mode selection options and Main Menu options to appear at the same time if entering the options menu while at the Game Mode selection screen.
• Fixed a bug that caused a specific stalactite type to show fuel twice as a salvageable resource.
• Fixed an issue where tapping the on/off button could sometimes be ignored when trying to activate the various screens in the refinery ship. They are now consistently responsive.
• The 'Eject/Toggle Remote Control' hotkey is now disabled for 2 seconds after ejecting from the lander to help prevent unwanted behavior when spamming this hotkey while ejecting. (Increased from 1 second).
• The lander ejector seat now has a little extra power. This ejects Bob a little further to help prevent him from falling back into the lander if the lander is moving at the time of ejection.
  • Warning: Bob is now more likely to bump his head on low ceilings when ejecting.
• The smallest Replicon salvage parts have been artificially increased in size to make them less fiddly to grapple but to also help prevent them from penetrating other objects during extreme physics conditions.
• Fixed visual duplication errors in the background layer of planet Eitis.
• The 'All Materials' panel now appears after crafting the last upgrade of a specific upgrade type rather than a blank 'Required Materials' panel.
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the Friends filter from working correctly on the leaderboards.
• Bob can no longer take collision based damage while inside his lander. This was previously possible under some very rare circumstances (eg. being attacked by a large sand worm).
• Fixed a bug that prevented some heavy hail weather effects from appearing.
• Replicons now correctly register their death when salvaged alive allowing replacement Replicons to spawn on the current planet.
• Fixed a bug that caused Rasks to push Bob's lander instead of climbing over it.
• Fixed a bug that would disable a huge amount of Dave's conversation dialog if loading from a save.
• Fixed an issue when attempting to register an achievement while disconnected from Steam.
• Dave no longer warns Bob about the lava on planet Brurn. It doesn't have any lava. :P
• A large number of dialog typos have been cleaned up. (Thank Mango Bango's OCD)
• Fixed water surfaces being visible in front of the fog of war on a couple of the most recently added planets.
• Fixed a bug that prevented 'kill score' from sometimes being awarded for killing Rasks and Darts.
• Fixed a floating tree on planet Reotera.
• Fixed Pulser mushrooms in the new mushroom biome from rendering in front of crystals
• Fixed a bug that made it cost considerably more energy than intended to repair Bob's suit compared to repairing the lander.
• The toggle ship control hotkey no longer functions while in the configuration menus.
• The gun icon in the UI now immediately updates when Bob's gun is upgraded using an upgrade dispenser

It's been a busy month, with many long days, but here it is! Main Update 12 is live.
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Overview

Twin Stick Controls - Behind the back aiming

Updated Skid Physics

Build 1.2 Changelog

New Features

• All planets have been visually updated:
  • A new visual effects system has been added. This allows for a variety of new atmospheric effects to be implemented. Planets can now appear bright and sunny or dreary and overcast. Some have effects like fog, mist or sand storms, while others have caves that get darker the deeper Bob decends into them. Most planets have been updated to take advantage of at least one of these new visual effect layers.
  • The various effects for planetary collisions, including footsteps, have been reworked and improved.
  • Various tweaks and improvements have been made to rain, snow and hail on a per planet basis.
  • Grass generation has been updated to allow grass to generate only on specific parts of a planets surface.
  • Fixed two nebula textures that were half of their intended resolution.
  • Frozen and air geyser particles now correctly collide with liquids rather than passing through them.
• 11 new planets added.
  • All planets are now unique. The game no longer re-uses the same planet design more than once in a single game.
  • All planets now have unique names instead of 'Planet 15', Planet '24' etc. This allows planets to be recognized by name alone.
  • Basic preliminary scan data descriptions have been added to the majority of planets. These descriptions can still be manually edited or replaced. Previously defined user-made planet descriptions will override the new defaults.
  • A fourth act 3 arena planet has been added. Each power cube is now found on a unique planet with a unique arena to defeat.
• Bob can now shoot backwards. He is no longer required to face in the direction he wants to shoot. This works automatically with mouse controls.
• A new twin-stick option for gamepads has been added to allow independent movement and aiming via the use of both analog sticks.
  • A new option to 'Set Twin-Stick Defaults' has been added to the 'Controls' screen.
  • NB: The 'disable movement' hotkey can be unbound when using twin-stick controls as it serves no purpose.
• New friction system for Bob added.
  This allows for much more precise and flexible control over how Bob will slide on any given surface. This has been set manually for every surface so he can still skid and slide around as much as before on surfaces like loose gravel or ice but he'll slide far less on hard surfaces like metal. On a surface like deep sand he'll stop almost instantly but he'll still slide a little on grass.

Tweaks and Changes:

• Heavy Hail damage has been tripled. Be careful.
• Exploding mushroom damage has been doubled.
• Ice Geysers are now far more dangerous especially without armor upgrades installed. They now do damage and freeze Bob solid 60% faster than before.
• Echo/Reverb settings inside caves has been adjusted for each planet.
• The objective panel now shows the current act.
• Weapon fire now causes a small amount of camera shake based on recoil force.
• A selection of new Dave messages have been added that trigger when arriving at specific planets.

1.2 Bug Fixes:

• Fixed some planet surfaces not having the appropriate universal friction settings applied.
• Fixed a navigation issue on the 'Controls' screen while using a gamepad.
• Fixed a number of misplaced (hovering) scenery elements on various planets.
• Fixed the red '!' icon, that represents the central replicon station after act 1, being half it's intended size.
• Fixed the 'Continue' UI prompt from becoming stuck on screen after viewing the Challenges screen
• Fixed a bug that would allow gamepad users to navigate to the planet description input field on the system map.
• Fixed a bug that would allow the 'Jump To' button to appear when there wasn't quite enough fuel to jump.

Coming in Main Update 13

First up, I hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and happy new year!
Before I share some dev news can I say a big thanks and welcome to everyone who picked up the game during the Steam Winter sale.
(Open images in a new tab to see full size versions) Here's the news:

100% Unique Planets coming in MU12

New Atmospheric Effects

Twin Stick Control System

Bob's new boots

Survial Mode - Interested?

Build 1.101 Changelog:

Development Update:

It's here! The first significant content update since the 1.0 launch. Rather than spoil all the surprises, with overly detailed patch notes about the new content, here's a quick summary:

• New Equipment to discover and upgrade.
• New Highly Hostile Biome
• New Hazardous Liquid - Acidic Goop
• New Planetary Hazard Types
• New Stalagmite Type
• New Highly Toxic rain variant
• New Flora
• 5 New Planets
• New Secret Areas
• New Mysteries to solve
• New Dave Dialog
• 12 New Challenges/Achievements (Achievements have been renamed to Challenges)

• Fog of War state is now saved and recreated upon reloading.
• Methane liquid damage increased by 50%
• Stalagmite drip damage tweaked to create more variance between biome types.
• Fixed grass generation when loading from a save which could cause grass to incorrectly generate over some objects.
• Increased the bonus score value for the radioactive Archic salvage items.
• Permanent upgrade statistics are no longer reset after defeating the mothership and completing the game. They are now truly permanent and never reset.
• Increased the maximum values that various combinations of permanent and temporary upgrade bonus' can reach.
• Tripled the bonus score when finding a bonus upgrade machine with a stat that is already maxed out.
• Archic balls no longer need to be filled with the Archic refueller before being placed into the mega Archic refueller however their resulting value is based on the quantity of resources they contained before conversion.
• Grapple connections attached to the lander no longer automatically detach when entering/leaving the refinery ship unless the lander has a downward trajectory allowing the player to attach objects to a docked lander and fly out of the refinery ship without the grapples automatically detaching.
• Areas and caves that disable Bob's jetpack also now disable his lander thrusters.
• A new HUD icon has been added to indicate when Bob's jetpack or lander thrusters have been artificially disabled.
• The lander hatch now detects if something is blocking it's ability to close and will stop with a warning sound.
• Added a larger smoke effect to toxic stalagmite drips as they hit the ground.
• Additional spawn points added for Archic balls
• Additional planets are now considered essential and will exist in every game. This ensures that all three of the Archic refuellers are guaranteed to spawn in every game and that the new familiars can always be found and fully upgraded in every game.
• Many of Dave's dialog messages are now preceeded by various sound effects to draw attention to important messages or warnings.

• Fixed a bug that prevented the 'Required Materials' panel and 'Upgrade Now' button from updating after installing an upgrade until the player clicked on a different upgrade button.
• The 'Release Grapples' hotkey is now disabled during scan mode to prevent unwanted disconnections while setting waypoints.
• The lander directional HUD icon is now correctly deactivated if the lander has been destroyed.
• Fixed an exploit with the Archic mega refueller
• Fixed an issue where filled Archic balls placed into the Archic mega refueller could get stuck inside the machine or get pushed out of the side.
• Fixed an issue where mega Archic balls (the ones created by the mega refueller) could disappear after saving and loading a game.
• Fixed the visual depth of the mega refueller to prevent Bob appearing infront of it if he decides to climb inside.
• Fixed an issue where objects that had previously travelled through a hyper jump inside the refinery ship and were then removed from the refinery ship would still jump with the ship rather than remain at the current planet as expected.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the new waypoint hotkey UI to appear on the game complete score screen.
• Fixed an issue where the first planet could be duplicated on a players first game after completing the tutorial.
• Fixed an issue where the first planet in every game after using the jump gate would always be the same. This only happened for players who first completed the tutorial during early-access.
• Score update audio pings can now only play if the score UI is visible.
• The new waypoint system now correctly activates at the end of the tutorial. It is deliberately deactivated during the tutorial.

There's some good news and bad news. The bad news is we found a bug that needed a hotfix. The good news is that along with the hotfix this build contains two highly requested new UI features: a new waypoint system that allows the placement of destination markers while using scan mode, and a new UI that lists all recently salvaged materials. We weren't planning to release these features for another few weeks; they are technically the first part of the upcoming Main Update 11, but seeing as they were ready, and we were releasing an update, we thought why not let you get an early look at them. If you have any suggestions on how to improve these features or run into any issues, leave a comment below. As always, have fun and take care of Bob.

Build 1.02 Changelog

• HUD indicators have been implemented pointing towards the Refinery Ship, Bob's Lander, and Bob himself whenever they are off screen.
• Three user defined HUD waypoint indicators have been implemented that can be manually placed while in scan mode to mark potential destinations.
• A recently salvaged materials UI has been added.
  • This appears automatically whenever an item is salvaged.
  • Each new item salvaged has it's materials added to the list and refreshes a 3 minute timer.
  • It will fade off screen after 25 seconds but can be reactivated by toggling in and out of the menus.
  • After the 3 minute timer expires, the list is reset to zero and will not appear again until a new item is salvaged.
  • If it's possible for Bob to craft a new upgrade this UI will now also display the message 'New Upgrade Available'
• The labelling for various hotkeys on the Controls panel has been tweaked to include the new waypoint setting hotkeys.
• The swap weapon hotkeys are no longer active while in Scan mode.
• Fixed a bug that caused the anomaly icons on the system map to be too large when loading from a saved game. (Retro-active fix)
• Fixed a bug that could cause the anomaly icons to be invisible on the system map under certain circumstances when loading from a saved game. (Retro-active fix)

Build 1.021 Changelog

This update is a combination of a number of hotfixes that addressed a few bugs and added a handful of tweaks that have or requested by players since the 1.0 release last week. Although it contains no major new content this announcement helps to keep everyone informed about the recent hotfixes and also offers the opportunity to let you all know how the launch went and how it has forced overall development plans to change for the foreseeable future. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. I want to be as transparent as possible so you know exactly what is going on.

1.0 Launch report

Main Update 10: Full Changelog

Build 1.013 Changelog:

• Reduced the friction in the main ship to allow Bob to walk up slopes properly again.
• The game now continually tests if Bob has become trapped inside another object.
  • When this happens a message will be shown to the player allowing the option to reset Bob's position back to the refinery ship. Resetting Bob's position is not currently automated to ensure that it doesn't happen at the wrong times.
  • When Bob is considered to be potentially trapped he will no longer take damage. This prevents death in these situations.
• Under some extremely rare circumstances Bob could fall out of his lander. The game now detects when this happens and automatically puts him back inside. The player will be unlikely to notice that this even happened.

Build 1.012 Changelog

• Fixed a bug in the tutorial that would allow Bob to grab the grapple gun before he was meant to. This would allow skipping an important part of the tutorial.
• Increased the friction on all surface in the main refinery ship. Bob will no longer slide around so much in there. This also makes stepping on to his repair platform much easier.
• Increased the friction on the conveyor belt and also added a little bounce to it.
• Added missing friction to the tutorial planet surface to match recent changes to friction on rocky planet surfaces.
• Added missing friction to the tutorial planet metal surfaces.

Build 1.011 Changelog

• Fixed a bug that made the Mega Power Cube, found on the second defense station, unresponsive in future games if the player had previously installed it into their ship and then died before reaching the jump-gate.

Build 1.01 Changelog

• Fixed the possibility of duplicate planets spawning or systems generating with less than 4 power cubes. (Tested on 10,000 systems once solved to be sure this time)
• Fixed a bug that allowed navigating back to the main menu with a controller while viewing the game mode select screen.
• Reduced the size of one of the rare Archic equipment spawns that was a tiny bit too large to fit through some doors.
• Changed the collision detection type on Bob to be more robust.
• Fixed a spawn on one planet that could potentially cause a triangle key to spawn inside an upgrade dispenser machine.
• Fixed a bug that could allow air geysers to spawn procedurally on metal planks suspended in the air on a couple of planets.
• Bob's gun aiming laser transparency reduced making it more visible. Requested by Steam user Misery.

It's time! It's been 6 months since Space Bob entered early access, 18 months since the free open alpha became available for download, and 2.5 years since development first began, but Space Bob has now gone gold and left early access today. It's been a fantastic journey and I've met so many great people along the way who helped to shape the game at every stage of development. I can't thank each and every one of you enough for showing support and making Space Bob what it is today. I hope I did you all proud but our journey is far from over. Like Bob reaching the jump-gate, it's is only the beginning. I have some wonderful ideas brewing for post release content and you can expect updates and new features to continue to appear as often as they did during Early Access. There are still so many cool things to explore in the world of Bob and I could happily work on expanding it for years to come if there's enough support. Whatever happens in the future, I'm extremely proud of how Space Bob turned out and now it's time to have some fun and make it even better. Thanks again and here's hoping for a successful launch. Edit/Update: Oh dear. Steam has changed so much since the release of my last game in 2015. New games no longer get a spot at the top of the new releases list on the front page, so Steam is generating very little traffic to us here. This is very concerning for me right now. Views are only about 5% of what I was expecting based on previous experience. If you can help to spread the word about Space Bob's release today it would be very helpful otherwise the game is going to disappear before anyone even knows it exists. Somehow we need to get it trending to grab that front page spot.

Space Bob's journey through early access has been incredibly useful in helping to smooth off the rough edges and the full 1.0 release is now just around the corner. This update includes the final balance tweaks and changes before that happens along with a couple of cool new features: hazardous weather and procedural grass.
Don't expect to find hazardous weather on every planet, or even most planets, as this would soon become more annoying than fun. Instead you'll run into the non-hazardous hail and rain far more often than the new hazardous heavy hail and acid rain. You'll be able to spot the differences easily though. Heavy hail is much bigger and acid rain is not only green but also fizzes into puffs of smoke as it hits the ground (see the GIF above). Needless to say, don't spend too much time in those conditions and get Bob underground quickly. There was also a significant update to the score multiplier system in this update. The starting multiplier has been increased to encourage playing at higher difficulties by offering much higher scores for doing so. If you are looking to climb the leader-boards you'd be wise to increase the difficulty especially if you are an experienced player.

Build 0.99 Changelog

• Hazardous weather added - Acid rain and heavy hail.
• Procedural grass added to appropriate planets - (Every blade of grass is an individual polygon)
• Camera shake added to explosions and various other game events.
• The game now has a new logo.
• The Start Menu has been redesigned to include and suit the new logo
• The Start Menu now has a new button - Tips (a quick overview for new players)
• Replicon expansion speed increased slightly. They now appear a little sooner after starting a game.
• Act 3 Power Cube cave cable damage reduced by 33%
• Increased the volume on the pistol select audio effect.
• The first planet that the player sees on their very first game is now always the same to ensure a consistent first impression and experience.
• Slight visual improvements to the pistol and plasma gun impact effects.
• The starting score multipliers for higher difficulties have been increased. (Eg. The highest difficulty setting @300% damage now rewards a 8x starting multiplier).
• Rocket Pistol crafting recipe altered to require nanotechnology
• Tier 3 Jetpack thruster crafting recipe altered to require nanotechnology
• Drop rates for nanotechnology altered (The main sources are now high level Replicons, MegaCube casing pieces, and some random archic loot items)
• Savannah worm spawn frequency increased significantly.
• Various UI cosmetic tweaks and changes
• A non-family friendly word removed from one of Dave's messages.
• Fixed a bug that would continually reset the permanent fuel optimisation bonus stat when launching the game.
• Fixed a bug in the tutorial where under rare circumstances the sleepy sequence could start when Bob wasn't properly docked in his lander
• Fixed a bug that would play the 'score updating' audio ping once per second during the 'View System Map' sequence of the tutorial until the player's score becomes visible once the tutorial was completed.
• Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause Bob's jetpack thrust effect to remain active while inside his lander.

I'm excited to announce that Space Bob vs. The Replicons will be leaving Early Access on September 28th. Space Bob originally launched into Early Access in February 2018 with all of the major gameplay mechanics and story-line content already in place but Early Access offered a fantastic and unmissable opportunity to work directly with the players to polish off any rough edges while adding the remaining planned features and content. Space Bob would be a very different game today without all of your input and suggestions and I can't thank you enough for sharing your thoughts on what needed to be changed or improved. With that said, game's like Space Bob are never truly finished. I could easily spend another two years adding new features and planets to explore but those pesky things called bills need to be paid. The good news is that everything that was originally planned is now complete and we are more than ready for a 1.0 release. The even better news is that development is not going to stop any time soon. Bob's world has so much expansion potential that it would be a shame to stop here and the plan was always to continue development, adding new content and features, for a minimum of six months post release. I'm hoping this can extend much further but that is entirely down to you the players. If the game gathers enough support and momentum I can see development continuing for years to come. Time will tell.

So what's next?

Linux and Mac support became the primary focus of this update cycle but there's still plenty of tweaks and updates for everyone here. A huge shout out must go to the redditors from r/linux_gaming and r/macgaming who volunteered to help out and especially to those who sent in their compatibility and bug reports. The Mac port worked flawlessly first time and although we had a few hiccups on Linux we were able to get them resolved and everything is now ship shape and looking great. Space Bob is now available on 64bit PC, Mac and Linux systems with this build!

Build 0.85 Changelog

• Linux and Mac support added.
• New Antialiasing option added.
  FXAA is now an additional option. This is not as effective as any of the regular 2x, 4x, 8x options which use the far superior MSAA. However, MSAA is hardware dependent and is not supported by many integrated graphics chips. If the MSAA options fail to work the inferior (but far better than nothing) FXAA option is now available.
• You can now write personal notes for each planet on the system map.
  • Please be aware that the contents of planets are procedurally generated so these notes are not planet specific but planet 'type' specific.
  • If you have two planets in a system that use the same base planet 'type' they will share the same notes.
  • These notes are persistent between games whether you live or die.
• Significant update to the on-screen scoring UI.
  • New animations and sound effects have been added as the player's score increases.
  • Higher score increases result in larger more impressive score animations and sound effects.
• Substantial rework of the Bonus Upgrades systems:
  • The chance for Archic Upgrade Dispensers to spawn on small planets and asteroids has been increased by 20%
  • The effect of 'temporary' upgrades has been increased significantly to make them far more useful immediately.
  • Due to the increased effect of temporary upgrades the dispensers now have a 50/50 chance to spawn temporary or permanent upgrades. (Previously 75% chance to be permanent)
  • These upgrades are now all shown in the UI as percentage based increases. Some previously used abitrary numbers that only made sense to the most experienced players.
  • Permanent upgrades are now saved immediately upon activation to prevent being lost if Bob died soon after unlocking them.
  • The Statistics Panel in Bob's main ship has been completely redesigned.
    The data now includes a breakdown of temporary, permanent, and total values for each statistic type. The panel now includes icons for all craftable upgrades that start greyed out but activate as upgrades are crafted or discovered via Archic upgrade dispenser machines. This allows the player to view their upgrade progression in one place.
• Spider drop pod loot piece salvage materials altered.
• Destroying the lander during the tutorial now triggers the tutorial fail state.
• Carbon plant spawn rates increased on many planets and biomes.
• Crystals and illmenite have been graphically updated with highlights and shadows to match the other recent visual updates.
• Fixed a bug with the 'Max Framerate' setting on the Video panel not working on many machines.
  The 'N/A' option has also been renamed to 'Max' to be more intuitive.
• Using the mouse to drag the camera in 'Scan' mode is now consistent across all framerates.
• Fixed an issue that caused the low clouds to appear infront of trees on one planet.
• Fixed a bug that could allow the player to see the edge of the game world when first entering Scan Mode.
• Fixed a typo on the Leaderboards UI panel.
• Fixed a glitch that happened if Bob was inside his lander when saving someone that would be a spoiler to name.
• The refinery laser now detects very small objects.
  Small objects, that would previously fall below the height of the laser are now detected and will activate the conveyor belt.
• Fixed a bug with the permanent Fuel Optimisation bonus stat.
  Due to this previous bug, the permanent value for this stat will be reset to zero when loading this update for the first time.
• New Audio
  • A new sound effect has been added whenever the player increases their score multiplier.
  • A new sound effect has been added when the UI displays the results of using a Bonus Upgrade Dispenser.
  • New sound effects have been added when changing guns.
• The on screen multiplier update effect now triggers whenever the player increases their score multiplier via increasing their salvage score by a multiple of 100,000 points.
• The System map activation button trigger has been tweaked.
  When moving close to the system map on/off button, Bob empties his hand and points his finger at the button automatically. This also causes him to detach any grapples attached to his grapple gun. This can be frustrating while trying to drag grappled objects passed the system map screen. The size of the trigger that causes Bob to point his finger has been reduced and lowered. It's now much easier to jump or jetpack over the button to prevent Bob from pointing at it.

Development Roadmap - Leaving Early Access Soon

Let's turn a few recent frowns into smiles.

Main Update 7 (Build 0.84) Changelog.

• 9 new planets added.
• Difficulty sliders added
• Collision damage reduced by 30%
• Additional collision damage reduction with refinery ship, planet surfaces, stalegmites, crystals and illmenite.
• Per frame damage cap added to particle based damage to help reduce one-shot deaths.
• Boss 2 laser damage reduced by 20%
• Act 3 power-cube cave cable damage reduced by 33%
• Jetpack thrust power increased to lift more.
• Replicon expansion speed increased
• Upgrade descriptions updated to be more informative.
• Damage ring threshold added to show only significant damage.
• Time between non-critical Dave messages increased by 50%
• Bubble plant lifting power increased by 60%
• The 'Play Now' button now reads 'Continue' after exiting via the jump-gate
• Bob can now slide down steeper slopes without taking damage.
• Fixed a bug that caused a power-cube cave to be not have a fog-of-war and no jetpack disabling effects.
• Fixed a bug with archic resource balls giving 2000 micro-electronics rather than fuel or energy. (Leaderboards scores using this bug will be removed)
• Added a failsafe to prevent a crafting bug exploit.
• Fixed the cave entrance on one planet that could cause the lander to get stuck.

Patch Notes Full Information and Reasoning

• Difficulty Sliders Added
  • Space Bob's design philosophy was always to keep things simple and clean and so difficulty options were resisted up until this patch. In hindsight, the benefits of offering the player the choice to change difficulty outweigh the desire to keep things simple. I think the chosen implementation is super clean and intuitive to use while also adding more strategy and depth to the end-game. On the game select screen, each game mode start button now has a slider below it which allows the player to alter the difficulty of the game. The slider for each game mode has 6 settings. 50%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 250% and 300% incoming damage. At 50% damage, the score multiplier system is disabled. This mode is great for practicing the game but not good for setting highscores. For each additional 50% damage over the base 100% damage, the score multiplier will increase by 1. So for example at 200% damage you will start the game with a x3 score multiplier. A similar difficulty system was used in my previous game NeonXSZ and allows players to tune the challenge to suit their current mood or taste while offering tangible rewards for players who want to challenge themselves. Incidentally, playing at 150% incoming damage in this update should feel similar to the damage levels in the last main update. Playing now at 200-250% incoming damage is closer to how damage felt in the original version of the game when it first released to early access.
• Collision damage reduced by 30%
  • This was first reduced by 50% (many patches ago) then tweaked back to only be a 30% reduction (a couple of patches ago), and now it's back to the 50% damage reduction. This is the equivalent of a 30% damage reduction over Main Update 6. This reduction was first applied in the hotfix earlier this week.
• Collison based damage with certain biome type environments reduced.
  • Desert, grass and savannah surface collisions have been reduced by 50%. Bumping into the walls and ceilings of planets that are supposedly covered in softer surfaces like grass, moss and sand should not do the same level of damage as bumping into the walls of rocky planets or hard metal surfaces. This helps to ease down the difficulty in a more interesting way than a universal damage reduction.
• Collision damage with stalegmites, crystals, and illmenite reduced by 35%
  The various stalegmites, crystals and illmenite each have different collision damage values based on their type. They have all been reduced by 35%. It's meant to hurt more bumping into these than many other objects because they are considered sharp, but the damage was a little too high in hindsight. It's still not advisable to attach these objects so close to Bob or his lander that they constantly bump into and damage him though. That's just common sense and this type of damage is very easy to avoid.
• Per frame damage cap added to particle based damage
  Running into the seed of a pink lancher plant causes the seed to explode and this used to be instant death. This was always intentional but although they are super easy to avoid it seemed unfair to insta-kill an inexperienced player with full shields. Dave warns the player about the dangers of things like these plants but some players feel that listening to Dave is a waste of their time. The new maximum damage possible from particles in a single frame now prevents this type of insta-kill unless the player's health is already below 50%.
• Boss 2 laser damage reduced by 20%
  • It was previously possible to defeat this boss without taking any damage at all.
  • It was previously possible to defeat this boss by upgrading to titanium armor and letting the laser hit you if you were quick.
  • It was previously possible to defeat this boss relatively easily with the carbon armor upgrade.
  • The 20% reduction in laser damage should allow less experienced players to defeat this boss more easily.
• Act 3 Power Cube caves electric cable damage reduced by 33%
  Contrary to a certain review it is possible to navigate past these cables without taking any damage at all. You need to learn to 'throw' Bob by grappling the ceiling, shrinking his grapple line to launch him into the air, and release the grapple so that he flies through the air at a speed that is faster than normally possible. They are also meant to be hard and require practice before they become easy. However, the cost of making a mistake and landing on the cables was a little too severe so the damage from the cables has been reduced by 33%.
• Damage from collisions with the refinery ship walls reduced.
  This was already so minimal that Bob would need to bash his head into a wall 100 times in a row to kill himself, yet we still had a negative review complain that this was ridiculous damage and that flying around inside the refinery ship was somehow an unnecessary challenge because of this. To ease this terrible situation Bob can now bash his head into the walls of his refinery ship 200 times before he kills himself. (Seriously people, if you are going to complain and write negative reviews, ease up on the exaggerations otherwise it's hard to take any of your points seriously).
• Bob's jetpack thrust power increased.
  The game is all about solving the logistics of lifting loot out of caves so making this too easy would be a problem. I've recently been wanting to increase the speed of loot extraction and this is a great way to do it without making any dramatic changes that could spoil the challenge.
  • Default jetpack power increased from 475 to 575. (Previously this was enough power to lift 2 crystals. It now allows lifting of 3).
  • Enhanced jetpack power increased from 575 to 675. (Previously enough to lift 3 crystals. Can now lift 4).
  • Advanced jetpack power increased from 675 to 775. (Previously enough to lift 4 crystals. Can now lift 5).
  NB: Bob's lander has 3500 basic thrust power so if your jetpack isn't strong enough try to figure out how to get your lander closer to the loot you want to lift. If that's not possible then you'll need to winch heavy loot which has infinite lift power. It's all part of the challenge of the game. Winching is slow but always effective. It's not always worth doing it but that's something that comes from experience.
• Bob can now slide down steeper slopes without taking damage.
  A recent negative review made many highly exaggerated claims like "slightly slanted surfaces did damage to me". This is simply not true. Bob could happily walk up and down slopes at angles up to around 60 degrees off horizontal without taking damage. However, HIGHLY slanted slopes could still do damage to Bob. This is because as he slides down these highly slanted slopes his jetpack can drag against the slope/floor behind him and cause damage. This is intended. This tweak increases this angle closer to 75 degrees off vertical. This causes the jetpack to clip through the walls but makes this intentional damage less common.
• Replicon expansion speed increased.
  This may seem like a strange one considering this patch is all about making things easier but a recent negative review complained that "Just starting you barely see them ". The player needs time to grab a few resources before the Replicons attack, so the fact that you barely see them at the start is intentional. In the past we had many complaints that Replicons expanded over the game world too quickly so it was slowed down. Now we have a complaint that it's too slow. This tweak puts the expansion speed somewhere in the middle. It's impossible to please everyone but hopefully this finds a happy medium.
• Upgrade descriptions updated to be more informative.
  The descriptions for the armor upgrades have been altered to stress the strength of these upgrades. Rather than being vague they now state that each upgrade doubles the players defenses/protection.
• Red Damage Ring Thresholds altered.
  When taking damage, a red damage ring appears at the point of damage. This varies in size based on the amount of damage taken. Previously this would show even minimal levels of damage and I felt this was creating frustration for the player where it was not needed. Taking 0.1 points of damage from 100 points of shield is not worth creating a damage ring for and it's unlikely that the player would notice that they took such minimal damage. They would see a damage ring and become frustrated. This change ensures that if the player sees a damage ring it is due to noteworthy damage being taken.
• Extended the time between non-essential Dave messages to 6 minutes from 4 minutes.
  Essential messages are considered time dependent or situation dependent. Non essential messages are general small talk etc.
• The 'PLAY NOW' button on the main menu now changes to read 'CONTINUE' whenever the player escapes through the jump gate.
  This is to make certain that new players understand that reaching the jump gate is not the end of the game but only the end of the first act of the story.

No changes to Bob's momentum or fuel usage in the air.

A recent negative review stated " the character physics were slow..." and "...the character has too much momentum" Too fast and too slow at the same time? I'm struggling to work out how to resolve that issue for you. The same review also claimed that Bob always used fuel while in the air which is also completely untrue. If you want to alter or maintain your momentum in the air or change direction then that requires the jetpack and therefore uses fuel. The jetpack has both horizontal and vertical thrusters. releasing the controls and simply falling uses no fuel. No change required.

Final Thoughts

I hope these tweaks resolve the difficulty related issues a few of you have with the game because if I make it any easier you'll be able to play it with your feet. I'm kidding of course but the game does need to retain a certain level of challenge and difficulty for it to be rewarding and worth playing. If it can't kill experienced players occassionally then it's too easy. If less experienced players quit out of frustration then it's too hard. Finding the balance is always going to be tricky but hopefully the new difficulty sliders will resolve this for everyone. A recent negative review simply said that permadeath ruined the game. As permadeath is expected in rogue-lites I can't fix that without 100 others complaining but I'm hoping the reduction in overall difficulty makes the permadeath less common and less frustrating so that it's no longer an issue for you. Have fun, let me know if you run into any problems, and please share your thoughts on these changes. Next up: Linux and Mac support. (If you are interested in helping out with this let me know. I'll be putting together a group of testers for this over the next few weeks) Edit: Build 0.8401 contains a tiny extra fix for one of the exploit fixes in the main update.

[ 2018-07-06 16:14:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Update 0.8311 is now live. It contains only a new warning on the leaderboard and achievement panels to stress that the results only represent a tiny percentage of the game's user base. Only 1% of players have replayed the game since the last update so only 1% of players have completed any achievements. This update was necessary due to the recent negative review trend warning that the game was too difficult based on the assumption that only 1% of players had unlocked any achievements. It also likely explains why we've had a recent flurry of negative reviews complaining about various difficulty related topics when this was never a problem in the past. Please update your reviews if you made this incorrect assumption because it's hurting the game. If you personally find the game too difficult then please share your thoughts in this feedback thread dedicated to discussing the game's difficulty. Negative reviews dramatically effect whether other players buy and support the game. If you enjoy the game, and want others to play and support it, but you also want to share feedback, writing a negative review is not the best place to do that. Please share your thoughts in the discussion area instead. I read and seriously consider everything posted there. Thanks. NOTE: This update is 10Mb because it also contains some new planets that are not yet enabled. The next 'main update' will include these new planets and many more.

I would have prefered to not need to create this announcement but Space Bob needs your help. A wave of negative reviews have suddenly appeared and although they complain about many different things they essentially all say the same thing in various ways: The game is too hard. This has caused the game's 91% positive review rating to drop to 77% in a matter of days. Visitors to the store page have fallen off a cliff because of this and sales have all but stopped. Needless to say this is a very bad situation and totally unexpected. I thought we had the difficulty balance about right. The difficulty of various elements of the game have been discussed here on Steam and tweaked many times so it was a complete surprise to suddenly see a flurry of negative reviews out of the blue all complaining about difficulty. (Edit: It turns out at least one of these recent negative reviews was based on the fact that only 1% of players have completed the first achievement. The truth is that only 1% of the player base has replayed the game since achievements were added last week in the latest update. Things are starting to make sense.) As a solo developer, one of the biggest problems we must deal with is that we know every inch of our games. We know how every mechanic works and so the game always feels too easy. We never get the opportunity to play a new feature or mechanic without already knowing a way to beat it or how to avoid it. I'm not trying to make a super difficult game. The goal was for it to be challenging but only so far as to be consistently rewarding. Ideally I wanted it to be playable by every skill level. I've made a topic in the discussion area to discuss the subject of difficulty and would seriously appreciate your support by getting involved. Unsurprisingly, sales have dropped dead after the negative wave of reviews and it could spell disaster if we don't get this resolved. There's a link to the discussion below. If the game really is too hard for most of you, and more frustrating than fun, then tell me! This is news to me. That's why the game is in Early Access: to get player feedback and make any necessary tweaks. So please, speak up. Have your say. Let's get this fixed. If you want to see Space Bob succeed please get involved and share your thoughts and experiences with the game. Here's a link to the discussion on this subject. https://steamcommunity.com/app/780390/discussions/0/1727575977555648848/ Thanks for any feedback you can share on this subject.

As mentioned in the Early Access information section, the $9.99 price tag was always likely to increase as we got closer to final release. With the 1.0 release only a few short months away we will soon be increasing the price to $14.99. Originally, this was planned to coincide with Main Update 5, a few weeks ago, but it could have come across as a bait and switch to first increase the price only to drop it again for the Steam summer sale. Don't expect to see the game at such a low price again until well after it's full release.

Developers often say how excited they are by their latest release or update but it couldn't be more true in this case. Main Update 6 brings both leaderboards and achievements and I can't wait to see you guys battling it out. During development, Space Bob's design was built around a deep scoring mechanic and difficulty curve that extends way beyond what most players experienced in the past. With the addition of leaderboards this is all about to change. Players are going to need to develop totally new strategies, and explore every possibility, to have a chance of reaching and holding on to the #1 spot and new changes to the scoring system will only make this even more exciting.

Updated Scoring System

Not only will the new leaderboards push players to find new strategies, but Space Bob now includes a new Score Multiplier System.
• For each objective completed, the multiplier will increase by 1.
• For every 100,000 points of salvage collected the multiplier will increase by 1.
• Defeating each Replicon Station is considered an objective.
• Collecting each Power Cube in Act 3 is considered an objective.

• Complete objectives, collect power cubes, and salvage loot to increase the score multiplier.
• Reaching the jump-gate alive increases your 'Total Score' which is immediately uploaded to the leaderboards.
• 'Total Score' is then carried over into your next and all subsequent games, until you die. Total Score is reset to zero upon death and you'll need to start building it again.
• Reaching the jump-gate also RESETS YOUR MULTIPLIER. This encourages a risk vs. reward scoring mechanic. If you try to complete all objectives in a single game, without going to the jump-gate, your score multiplier will grow huge but you risk losing it ALL if you die. Do you play it safe and lock in your score on the leaderboards or do you go for glory and risk it all for a massive multiplier? It's up to you.

Leaderboards

• Invasion Mode - Total Score
• Invasion Mode - Single Game Score
• Exploration Mode - Total Score
• Exploration Mode - Single Game Score. A single game is considered any run from the start to the jump-gate. It doesn't matter which act you are in. It doesn't even matter if you've survived to the jump-gate multiple times in a row. As long as it's from a fresh start (no upgrades in a new system) through to the jump-gate it's classed as a 'Single Game Score'. 'Total Score' is a combination of all scores achieved on a single life. You can potentially play forever, go through the jump-gate 100 times, and your total score will keep increasing until the moment you die. The moment you die it's reset to zero and you'll need to try again. Each time you go through the jump-gate your 'Total Score' will be uploaded if it beats your previous best score. You can find the leaderboards in the 'Score' panel in the escape menu. Many of you will also be pleased to know that you can filter the results to only see your friends allowing you to have your own personal leaderboard to fight over.

Achievements

On your way to mastering the game and reaching that #1 leaderboard spot you can now take on the first wave of achievements that have been added. They'll challenge you to reach specific scores but also survive over multiple games. You'll be tasked with feats like collecting all the upgrades in a single game and ultimately beating the entire game in a single run before going to the jump-gate.

The achievement system is currently fully functional but does not yet have an in-game UI. The Steam achievement UI is more than up to the job for the next few days while the in-game UI is developed for added convenience. This will come as a patch to Main Update 6 hopefully before the end of the week.
EDIT: Work on the UI went smoothly so build 0.831 is already live with the new in-game achievements UI implemented. You access it from the Score panel - the same place as the new leaderboards.

Main Update 6 - Build 0.83 - Changelog

Hi all. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying Main Update 5 released last week.

64bit Update and Steamworks- Build 0.8201

Please Launch Space Bob after the update (at least once).

New Score Multiplier System

WARNING: Main Update 6 is going to require a server wipe.

ETA

Thanks

Developer Notes

• Salvage Data
  • The grappling gun laser now shows salvage data for ALL salvageable objects. A large number of objects previously had this information flagged as hidden by default for the reasons described above. This change also solves the previous problem of players having no idea what some of those 'secret' salvageable objects actually salvaged into.
  • This also opens up new gameplay challenges for even the most experienced players as some salvageable objects were so sneaky that it's unlikely that anyone ever even tried to salvage them before. See the image below for a couple of examples.
    
• New proximity tips and message system added
  • Dave now expresses his thoughts, ideas, and tips when Bob encounters many objects for the first time or for the first few times.
  • This will help new players to understand some of the more obscure deeper mechanics in the game and offers clues that many objects have effects and uses that even experienced players probably had no idea about.
  • Dave also now comments on some things that otherwise confused players like the locked arena doors that become accessible only in Act 3, and things like taking radioactive damage for the first time.

Graphical Updates

• New 'unflattened' graphic design for Bob and all of his equipment.
  • Bob, all of his armor sets, all of his guns, his lander, and his main refinery ship have all been graphically improved.
  • Reasoning: Over the course of development, the graphical design began to evolve to include highlights and shading on many objects, especially important objects in the foreground. However, Bob and all of his equipment still had the very flat early design look. They have now all been updated to the newer more visually appealing design.
  • Click on the image above to expand it and get a better look at these changes.
• Weather Effects Overhaul:
  • Rain has been significantly improved to look more like rain and splashes when it hits the ground. (see gif at the top of this announcement)
  • Snow now flutters in the air as it falls.
  • Hail created and added to a number of planets. (See gif below)
• New collision effects system added.
  • Collisions can now create a visual effect.
  • This system was added primarily for use with planet surfaces to allow for the inclusion of things like grass, snow, or gravel kicking up when collisions occur. The size of the effect is based on the force and angle of the collision.
  • Many different effects were created for the various planet surface types and the size of the effect is based on the force of the collision.
  • The system was extended to allow Bob's footsteps and bullet impacts to also trigger these collision effects.
  • Reasoning: Other than simply looking nice it helps to ground objects into the game world, adds atmosphere, and makes planet surfaces feel less rigid and lifeless.
• Start Screen updated.
  • The previous patch introduced Exploration mode which caused a situation where the game world was no longer being generated until after the player chose a game type. This meant that the planet at the start screen could no longer spawn it's environment. It would be barren and not even water would spawn. This has now been resolved and the start screen planet is once again fully featured.
  • The following additions have also been added to the start screen planet for the first time:
    • The planet now rotates.
    • Replicon drop ships now appear and spawn replicons on the start screen planet.
    • Some of the newer planets have been added to the possible planets that can appear at the start screen.
  • Reasoning: First impressions count and this is a small part of the planned additional polish being applied to the game as we close in on the 1.0 release later this year.

Gameplay Updates:

• Surface Physics Added
  • Surfaces now have varying levels of friction.
  • Bob will now slide a lot on ice/snow, a little less on sand, similar to before on grass, and less on rocky/hard surfaces.
  • Reasoning:Adding this extra layer to the physics simulation adds additional gameplay variety to each planet and should create new gameplay challenges especially when trying to remove resources from icy caves for example. It's worth noting that things actually become a little easier on rocky planets where Bob will be able to stand still on slopes that he would previously slide down.
• Jetpack affecting hazard tweak
  • The recovery rate for Bob's jetpack has been reduced when encountering hazards that interfere with it's power.
  • Reasoning: When encountering the plant spores that reduced the power of Bob's jetpack,it would previously recover so quickly that the effect rarely caused Bob any problems. Extending the time it takes for the jetpack to recover makes these hazard types more dangerous and forces Bob to treat them with more respect especially when other hazards, like Replicons, are close by.
• Explosion force tweak
  • The force falloff radius for all explosions has been doubled.
  • The damage radius remains the same but objects close to explosions will now experience knockback at up to double the previous range.
  • This does not create a dramatic difference as the knockback beyond the previous max range is small.
  • Reasoning: Previously, the radius for damage and knock-back force were equal. Knocking Bob and objects around at a greater distance is visually more appealing and helps to create more emergent moments where Bob can be knocked into other hazards.
• Shut up Dave!
  • Dave will no longer talk to Bob while he is inside his lander.
  • Reasoning: Flying the lander almost always requires the player's full attention so Dave conversation while flying would usually be ignored. Dave will often share essential tips and suggestions with Bob on how to progress and it's important that the player has the opportunity to read them.
  • Exception:There are a few exceptions to this rule. For example, Dave can still warn Bob that his lander is low on shields.
• Collision damage increase.
  • Collision damage for Bob has been increased slightly.
  • Scrape damage has not been changed.
  • Reasoning: A few patches ago, collision damage for Bob was reduced by 50% after feedback suggested it was too high. After further playtesting that change felt a little too heavy handed. This retweak is the equivalent of previously reducing damage by 35% rather than 50%.
• Salvage material tweaks:
  • Carbon obtained from salvaging cacti lowered.
  • Triangle key salvage tweaked to include energy and electronics.
  • Main Ship Upgrade keys salvage tweaked to include energy, electronics and sometimes quartz.
• Max crystal spawn counts on most asteroids reduced by 25%.
• Weapon recoil force added:
  • Bob will now experience a slight recoil knock back when firing his gun.
  • This increases based on the power of the gun.
  • Reasoning:This was added to make the weapons feel more tactile and powerful but to also add some epic fail moments. Bob will now need to think twice before firing his gun while balancing on a precarious edge as the knock back could push him off. It can also be used to create backwards momentum if flying and aiming in the opposite direction to movement.
• Replicon wasps have evolved. (not really)
  • 20% of wasps will now fly away from, rather than move towards, the player when their health is low.
  • Reasoning:This was added to allow new and fun ways to manipulate and move objects around. Think out of the box. Scared wasps can be very useful.
• System map fog-of-war added (See image below)
  • The System Map now hides distant planet icons.
  • Planet icons now only appear when Bob's ship is within maximum jump range of a planet, otherwise the planet icon with be shown as a question mark - '?'. Bob's ship can detect the existence and size of a planet, and will scale the new '?' icon to match the size of the planet, but can't resolve enough detail to show the full planet icon until Bob get's closer.
  • The save system has also been updated to record and reveal all previously visible planet icons.
  • Reasoning: The recently updated planet icons made it easy to recognize planets, from any range, and removed some of the reason to go exploring.

Audio Updates:

• New and improved air/wind sounds effects
• Wind sound effect on planets reworked. This varies in intensity for each planet. Wind volume also matches cloud movement speed. Wind is louder when on the top of mountains than it is in valleys.
• Air rushing sound added as the camera moves. Most noticeable with high speed movement like when swapping between Bob and his lander. Also noticeable when transitioning from the main menu into the actual gameplay or using scan mode.
• Tweaked the sound of air rushing past Bob or his Lander when they move quickly. Most noticeable while falling at speed.
• Added, tweaked or replaced many of the main menu and options panel UI sound effects.
• Key configuration button highlighting audio added
• Weather: the new rain and hail effects now have atmospheric audio.
• Grapple Shrink/Extend audio tweaked.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a couple of Dave message typos.
• Re-positioned a floating tree on one of the recently added Savannah planets.
• Fixed missing atmosphere height settings for the tutorial planet
• Fixed a depth based issue that prevented weather effects from being visible on some of the newer planets and even a couple of the older ones. _______________ That's a lot of changes! There may not be any new content in this update, but the number of gameplay tweaks and visual changes make a big difference to the feel of the game and even the most experienced players are going to find new challenges to mess around with. (Salvage a cactus!) As always, thanks for all of your support so far, and be sure to share any thoughts you may have. ❤
  
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New Exploration Mode Added

• No Replicons, No Story, No Pressure This mode will suit anyone who wished for more time before being overwhelmed by Replicons. Those who aren't big on combat will also prefer this mode and it's a great place to test out ideas or simply practice before taking on the normal, far more challenging, game mode. In this new mode the Replicon invasion never happens. Everything else is the same, but that's a big change. Replicons are dangerous, but without their loot to salvage, it's going to take much longer to gather the resources for some upgrades. This will make for a very different challenge for anyone trying to fully upgrade their equipment in Exploration Mode, even if you've beaten the game in regular mode.

• Teleporter Added to Exploration Mode. Moments before death Dave will now teleport Bob back to the safety of his main refinery ship. This only happens if Bob has 1000 energy in storage. If he doesn't, it's game over, he will die as normal. So permadeath is still active in Exploration Mode but with the new teleporter you can't die as long as you always have 1000 back up energy.

Full Changelog for build 0.8

• Exploration Mode Added.
• Default previous game mode renamed to Invasion Mode
• New Teleporter enabling auto 'respawns' added to Exploration Mode.
  • 1000 energy required to function
  • Permadeath still active if there isn't enough energy to power the teleporter.
  • The teleporter automatically restores 30% of Bob's suit shields when used.
• Bob starts with 1000 extra energy in Exploration Mode.
• Many new Dave dialogs added exclusively to Exploration Mode.
• New game mode selection UI added.
  • Click 'Play Now' to access this new mode selection. See image above.
  • The Invasion Mode start button now shows the currently active story Act.
  • The Exploration Mode start button shows the current Day.
• Independent save system for Exploration Mode
  • System and planet data saved separately.
  • Upgrades installed saved separately.
  • Permanent bonus upgrade data saved separately.
  • High scores saved separately.
  • Various event related flags saved separately.
  • Essentially there are now two separate saves for everything but a few things like whether Dave will offer tips to Bob when he first sees certain things.
• The main menu now shows the High Score and Current Score data for the last played game mode.
  • As always, Current Score only shows the 'Total Score' for the last played game mode if Bob survived.
• The score panel now shows the score and high score for the current game mode, or last played game mode, by default.
  • Holding a key shows the total and high-scores for the other game mode.
• Fixed a couple of typos in Dave messages in Act 3.
• Electronics and Micro Electronics have been added to various salvageable items.
  • Previously these were only available from salvaging Replicon body parts or machines. This allows all upgrades to be crafted in Exploration Mode.

New Planets - New Biome

• New Savannah biome added
  • New plants
  • New lifeform - Savannah Spitters
  • New hazard type
• 4 x New Planets added

System Map Update

• Visually updated to better suit the new planet icons added in the last update
• New zoom functionality added.
  • Use the regular zoom hotkeys to zoom in and out on the currently selected planet.
• Jump lines to planets that have previously been visited now appear green

New Carbon Plants

• Each biome now has it's own unique new plant type that salvages into carbon.
  • These spawn in low numbers on most planets and encourage exploration to find enough for upgrades.
  • Stalegmite salvage materials altered in many ways and are no longer a source of carbon.

Miscellaneous Changes

• Sand Worms can now spawn loot under semi-secret conditions.
• Visual improvement to Sand Worms as they launch out of the ground.
• Fixed a bug that caused two planets added in the previous update to not spawn resources.
• Fixed a bug in the cloud system of one of the asteroids added in the last update.
• Salvage materials for Spider Drop Pods altered.
• Changes to Replicon loot salvage materials.

Thanks

Surprises are good right? Enjoy a weekend surprise update that includes:

• 8 x New Planets
• New Desert Biome (+ New plants, new life form)
• All New System Map Icons (for better planet recognition)

First, thanks so much to everyone who wrote reviews and offered feedback over the first few weeks of release. Your help in highlighting what needed tweaking was invaluable and much appreciated. It resulted in improvements and changes across the entire game that can be found in this first main update. There were four things that popped up frequently in feedback.

• Many players wanted a way to save at any time during the game.
• Bob's lander was too difficult to control for many players.
• Bob took too much damage from bumping into things.
• Replicons expanded too quickly over the system.

Gameplay Changes:

• You can now save your game at any time by choosing 'Quit To Desktop'
• Scrape damage for Bob's suit has been reduced by 30%
• Velocity based damage for Bob's suit has been reduced by 50%
• Bob's lander physics have been significantly altered to make it much easier to fly with a much lower tendency to roll during flight.
• Replicon expansion slowed by 30-50%
• Recipe for Carbon Armor tweaked
• Advanced Thruster recipe changed to only require 6 materials. This prevents a bug where the 7th material would not show up in the required materials panel UI.

Tweaks:

• Removed the few instances of bad language from Dave. The game is now family friendly.
• The trigger box that automatically detaches loot grappled to Bob's lander, when landing at the refinery ship, has been increased in size slightly.
• The final tutorial message has been tweaked to stress that Bob has less than an hour before being overwhelmed by Replicons.
• Reduced the minimum delay between Dave conversation messages. He'll talk a little more often overall.
• High and Ultra Liquid Quality settings removed. They offered little visual improvement but high performance impact.
• System map 'Fuel Required' UI tweaked to be more intuitive.
• Wisp movement slowed to be less erratic.
• Your Potential Total Score is now shown under your Current Game Score during play if you escaped alive in your previous game.
• Score for manually destroying the mothership weapon increased to 175,000
• The mothership replicon spawning system has been redesigned.
• The 'Quit' tab is now disabled while viewing Options before starting a game.
• A new warning sound effect will play if Bob's lander is taking damage while the player is controlling Bob, and vice versa.
• Direct selection hotkeys added for Bob's gun and grapple gun.
• 'Release Lander Grapples' is now a default hotkey and allows you to manually detach all grapples attached to the lander. It has been added to the tutorial. (You may need to bind this manually on existing installs)
• Doors can no longer be grappled. It could cause physics glitches and other unnecessary instabilities.
• Spider drop ship mass reduced by 25%

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that randomly caused unresponsive grapple nodes and invisible grapples.
• Fixed an issue that caused the HUD to disappear during the tutorial if entering the menus.
• Fixed a typo in the tutorial.
• Fixed a grappling bug that could occur when salvaging Replicons if they were grappled together.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the end node of grappling lines to become smaller than normal.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Quit Game button to be disabled during the tutorial
• Fixed a z-depth issue that caused some parts of Rasks (the spinny jumpy replicons) to seemingly disappear when they were inside Bob's refinery ship.
• Fixed a number of grappling related bugs that could be caused by continuously holding down the 'Shrink Grapple' hotkey while performing other grapple related operations such as selecting other grapple lines and firing new grapples.
• Fixed an issue that caused the log file to be spammed with warning messages.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Bob to fall out of his lander occasionally when alt-tabbing.
• Rocket Pistol bug fixed that prevented it from damaging some shields.
• Fixed a bug that caused jerking of some objects as grapple connections were created between them.
• Fixed a bug that caused jerking of some objects as grapple connections were removed between them.
• Fixed a formatting typo in the Rocket Pistol description.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the mouse wheel up/down to be incorrectly rebound.

What's next?

Changes include:

• A complete game-state save system.
• Updated lander physics for easier control.
• Reduced Replicon expansion speed.
• A default hotkey to release all lander grapples.
• Many other tweaks, fixes, and changes.

One of the most frequently requested features during the first week of release was for a mid-game save system and so it became the primary focus for the first major update. If you've been checking in on the discussions you'll know that we've been working to get a full game-state save system implemented on the public-test branch and it's now ready for everyone who is interested to give it an early try. It will not be moving over to the default game branch for another week or so. There's still a couple of final jobs to be implemented and then a few additional days of final testing before we can update everyone's game to the lastest build. It's easy to swap over to the test branch and you can find out how HERE. You'll also find that the latest build includes a number of other tweaks and fixes. Thanks for your patience while we've been implementing this and for supporting Space Bob vs. The Replicons during it's first couple of weeks on Steam.

Space Bob vs. The Replicons will release tomorrow (Friday 23rd Feb) at approximately 2pm GMT. Thanks to everyone for the amazing support leading up to release; thousands of you have already added it to your wishlists. We can't wait. Have fun, take care of Bob, and together we'll make the game the best it can be. ❤

Yesterday (11th Feb), a 15 second teaser gif for Space Bob vs. The Replcions was posted to Reddit. Within 90 minutes it had received 15,000 upvotes and was the #1 post on all of Reddit. Wow. Thanks so much everyone for the kind words and support. We can't wait for the 23rd. You can find the full 720p version HERE. If you'd like to see what Reddit had to say, take a look HERE Okay.

Hey there! Glad to see you here so early. Space Bob vs. The Replicons has been in development since early 2016 and is our second major Steam release. Our first was NeonXSZ. We're now nearly ready to let you try out everything we've been working on since the success of Space Bob's pre-alpha-preview release over on itch.io back in early 2017. Setting up the Steam store page is an important first step but there's plenty more still to do. We're currently working on the final testing, tweaks and updates while making sure everything is ready for a smooth launch. While we do that, if you have an opinion on the game or any questions, fire away. Thanks for stopping by and we'll be back with updates as soon we have them. Intravenous Sofware

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Technology

• OS: Ubuntu 10.10 or later (see below for other distros tested)
• Processor: 2Ghz
• Graphics: Intel HD4600 or better
• Storage: 2 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Tested and working on Ubuntu. Arch Linux. Fedora. Gentoo. Tumbleweed