Hi everyone. As always thanks for everyone who is taking part in the closed beta and giving us great feedback. If you aren't in the beta but want to join you can sign up here. Today's patch has taken us a while to get done because there is a big change. One thing we keep hearing is how people really like building, which is great because we do as well. With that in mind we've done a bit of a pivot with our design to really bring the building side of things to the foreground. This patch is our first step in that direction.

Blueprint Mode

We want to push your creativity and make it easy to play with the options you're unlocking. So we've implemented a blueprint mode for creating vehicle designs. We've still got the 'on the road' workshop for when you have an idea mid journey, but we think the blueprint mode will really open up possibilities. For example, you can now build walls anywhere you want!

Rockets

This is the first Act 3 panel we've designed, and you'll see why it's something you'll get as an end game option when you use it in the challenge modes...

New Challenge Mode

In the spirit of letting you be more creative we have added a challenge mode which gives you every single panel. All of them. Each month the length of the leg and budget will change. In the future we plan to add 3 permanent leader boards at different budgets.

Music

We have had some initial drafts of some of the soundtrack from Jordan so have put those into the menu and blueprint mode.

General Changes

• Changed tutorials based on new blueprint mode.
• Removed scaffolds because you can now edit walls in blueprint mode.
• Removed dependence of leaderboards on version number, they will reset less often with patches.

Bug Fixes

• Sail tutorial would sometimes stay permanently, that is fixed.
• The camera would sometimes glitch when you pause and un-pause the game, that is fixed.
• The game would un-pause when editing controls while driving, that is now fixed.

Balance Changes

• Decreased cost and weight of solar panels.
• Decreased cost and thrust of steam engine.
• Decreased cost and increased weight of water tanks.

[ 2020-04-26 14:24:51 CET ] [ Original post ]