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March's player feedback update

Let me start off by thanking you for all the feedback that followed the release of chapters 10 & 11! With different people taking vastly different approaches to the same content, it was somewhat of a challenge to define the rough edges. But nothing is as helpful as in-depth thought-sharing of your experience to determine what to improve upon! So lets get to the changes, I hope youll enjoy them!

Player feedback balance adjustments

Jobs that deal damage on completion [spoiler](seals, magma, steel)[/spoiler] now reduce your active food cooldowns by 10% of your maximum cooldown per completion as well. Providing an additional strategic element to tackle them through food variety. This aims to reduce a commonly reported frustration of "I get worse as I get faster" if properly utilized, without invalidating their place in the balance
Chapter 8: [spoiler]Catch seal damage per completion was increased by 10%, to keep the initial pressure similar to how it was before, now that the cooldown reduction effect is added. It remains a clear buff for chapters 9+, but is initially fairly minor during chapter 8 (it's never a nerf either)[/spoiler]
Chapter 8: [spoiler]Catch seal now has additional safety logic, causing it to look a little ahead (one food cooldown) to prevent accidental automated deaths to the walrus fight. This should make it require less specific automation setups to comfortably pass at higher skill numbers[/spoiler]
Chapter 10: [spoiler]Mushroom school damage was increased by 12.5%, while required time/experience per completion was increased by 25%. Effectively making it 10% easier (damage per second), but in a way that benefits later stages of the chapter more than earlier stages[/spoiler]
Chapter 10: [spoiler]Added additional flavor text to the first dog exploration, to hint that you might want to explore that part even if you've already obtained the iron stick in chapter 3[/spoiler]
Chapter 11: [spoiler]Reduced the base difficulty of dodge by 20%, and the damage of trip by 12.5%. Aiming to soften the first phase for builds that are very low on agility (one of which is fairly commonly used)[/spoiler]
Chapter 11: [spoiler]The titanstone hut can no longer be finished after returning to the fight[/spoiler]
Added a new game plus perk [spoiler]that matches the fourth funnel[/spoiler]

Other changes

The inventory total food value tooltip now also displays uncooked food (after unlocking cooking for the first time)
Reworked how food cooldowns internally behave when eating within the dynamic tick-range of 1-100ms, slightly increasing millisecond accuracy behind the scenes and aiming to tackle a rare situation where combat safety calculation could false-positive due to hardware delays or offline progress
Chapter 10: [spoiler]Food-trade resource automation no longer continues to run food-jobs until it has enough food of that type to trade, but instead only triggers this automation for the very last food-job if total food is insufficient to trade. This way it should no longer interfere with manual min-maxing, while automation still uses the internal functionality[/spoiler]
Chapter 10: [spoiler]Food-trade no longer uses partial food-value food types during trades when it doesn't have enough of those to complete, to prevent wastage through previously getting combined with 1:1 food value trades[/spoiler]
Explorations that deal damage on completion now consume an additional food to reach maximum health, if health decay after completion would otherwise become deadly within one food cooldown. This mostly affects rare situations with low maximum health
Action tooltips now update instantly when their automation unlock requirement is reduced by completing another action, instead of being somewhat delayed until something else triggered a tooltip update
Chapter 11: [spoiler]The fourth funnel effect now updates affected tooltips more consistently/faster on completion[/spoiler]
Added additional logic to tackle the chapter 11 health bar element not visually updating during some first completions
Fixed a bug that could cause low-priority jobs not to trigger, when no manual actions were present in chapter 5. Causing the game to require manual interaction when it shouldn't
Fixed a bug that could cause combat-stalling logic to overwrite empty-food automation, if the food job was on a lower priority than other stalling options
Fixed a bug that could cause automated jobs with additional requirements to get stuck in a loop (visual freeze) that required manual intervention, if job automations were prioritized in specific orders
Fixed some story elements firing their "done this before" story alteration on first completions, after an earlier update changed how that was tracked internally
Fixed a bug that caused combat-decay increases on completion of explorations [spoiler](funnels, ch11)[/spoiler] to also apply to the very last tick prior to completion, causing them to deal a fractionally higher amount of damage than intended (usually 0.03~3ms of extra combat decay) and in very rare occasions caused the combat safeties to fail
Similar to the bug-fix above, constructions now consume their in-tick time prior to triggering a completion as well. In this case the same bug was arguably (fractionally) working in your favor for huts
Fixed a bug in the chapter-completion backup logic for chapters 6, 7 and 8 that caused it to backup too early, causing it to miss one completion in the data. Previously affected backups should also be detected and work again with this update

What's next?

The following update(s) will focus on UI/UX player feedback, as well as quality of life additions. This was originally the intent right after the content update, but there was quite a significant amount of feedback regarding the balance of the new chapters, so I decided to adapt to that first. This update was a slight detour, but I hope it improves your experience throughout the existing content!

[ 2023-03-15 16:59:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Increlution
Gniller

Developer

Gniller

Publisher

Q3 2021

Release

Singleplayer EA

Managing time

Throughout life, you'll have access to various jobs, constructions and explorations. Using the step-by-step queue system, you can plan exactly what you want to happen and the game will automatically follow your orders. When your queue is empty, the game pauses automatically, so you don't lose any of your precious time! This is a game about planning and strategizing, not a game about micro-management or clicking. However, if you prefer to play more real-time, you can prioritize anything over your queue at any time.

Skills

Every action uses one of many skills, such as Farming of Woodcutting. Every skill has two leveling types, Generation levels and Instinct levels. Generation levels increase more rapidly and provide a bigger benefit throughout life. Instinct levels increase at a slower pace, but persist through death, creating a permanent improvement for every following life. The combined effect of these levels directly affects how quickly you can perform actions that use these skills, allowing you to spend more of your time on other actions to increase your chances to survive!

Story based progression

You progress through the game with a story. Exploring the world allows you to discover new tools to improve your chances at survival. Unlike most idle games, having a story also means the game includes no procedural content, and you're actually able to complete the game. When the game is released into early access, the story will contain between two and three weeks of content, depending on how well you are doing. Throughout early access this story will be expanded significantly, until at least two months worth of content. When the story feels properly finished, a new game plus will likely be added to offer an option to continue playing after completing the game.

Meta progression

Every generation will have better chances at survival than the last. The longer you survive, the more those chances will increase! This cycle of life and death plays a fundamental part in the overall progression through the game. Death is inevitable, but never pointless!

Featuring a free demo

Like many things in life, you can only truly judge whether something fits your liking by trying it first hand. For that reason, Increlution will feature a free demo so you don't need to take anyone's word for it! Try it yourself, and only get the full version if you're completely convinced that it'll be worth your while! The free pre-release demo is estimated to release in the second half of May 2021 and will contain roughly nine hours of content. After the game reaches Early Access, the demo will probably be adjusted to roughly two hours of content.

When will the game be available?

Increlution will release as Early Access during the third quarter of 2021. The Early Access version is currently targeted to be between two and three weeks of content, after which I intend to expand the game to at least two months of content. As a solo developer, community involvement has been incredibly useful to the overall quality of my previous game and calling a game finished before improving it to player feedback would be a missed chance!

Interested? You can wishlist the game and Steam will notify you when the demo is released, or Increlution reaches early access!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 12.04. Fedora 21. Debian 8 (or later) (64 bit)
Processor: An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capableMemory: 512 MB RAMStorage: 250 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: If your device is able to run a modern browser (Chrome. Safari. Firefox and the like). it should be good to run Increlution
Memory: 512 MB RAMStorage: 250 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: If your device is able to run a modern browser (Chrome. Safari. Firefox and the like). it should be good to run Increlution
Storage: 250 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: If your device is able to run a modern browser (Chrome. Safari. Firefox and the like). it should be good to run Increlution

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