Howdy, Mayors! Our patch available today in the test branch has a lot that we've been excited about internally. Let's get right to it! These are the patch notes:

Version 0.0.58.3 ALPHA

Features



• Wanderers - The game now features birds, fish, boats, helicopters, balloons, and blimps. They all move about the map dynamically, and they are animated. Some buildings and amenities spawn wanderers.
• Modding - It is possible to make custom wanderers, and to control their movement in Lua. See the Lua API section of the Citipedia for more information.
• Modding - Vehicles and wanderers can now have sound effects.
• FPS Cap - In the video options menu, the FPS can be capped to reduce CPU usage.
• When the game autosaves, there is now an animated message box.
• Added sound effects for trains, buses, aircraft, boats, and birds.

  Improvements

  
  
• The game has a new color scheme! Colors are now brighter and more consistent. Colors change with the season.
• The skybox has a new texture. The texture of the skybox clouds can be modified with texture/clouds.png
• To test the appearance of clouds, run the command "weather 4".
• The stadium amenity has been redesigned.
• When the UI is hidden, the selection cone is now hidden too. This makes it easier to make screenshots and videos while following vehicles and wanderers.
• UI: It is now easier to set sliders all the way to the left or the right.
• Aquatic buildings are now worth more and are more likely to spawn. Added some aquatic buildings.
• Vehicles and Wanderers are now included in the automatically generated images for cities and building designs.
• Natural beaches are smaller, to improve the spawn rate of aquatic buildings. This also fixes a visual glitch.

  Bugfixes

  
  
• Building Designer: The land and water now renders properly for aquatic buildings.
• Fixed a bug where the convention center was shown as abandoned.
• Fixed a bug where hotel buildings sometimes would not have a hotel business inside.
• Fixed a memory leak. Fixed some crashes and glitches.
• Reduced visual glitches (far plane clipping) when the camera is high above the ground.

Check out this update via the Betas tab. Right-click NewCity in your Steam Library and select Properties. Click the dropdown under the Betas tab and choose the "test - Testing branch". You can opt-out by choosing "NONE - Opt-out of all beta programs" instead. Going from one to the other will trigger an update as Steam fetches you the desired branch. We really appreciate all the feedback and bug reports here on Steam and Discord! Please keep posting your thoughts and touching base with us. Please follow us on Twitter for more upcoming announcements. Lone Pine Games

[ 2021-01-30 19:55:19 CET ] [ Original post ]