REVISION 41C NOW IN THE EXPERIMENTAL BUILD

Loving the update, decided to try it instead of eat dinner. One thing though. I don't understand the new barracks system. It sounded like I could assign an NCO to a barracks to have them train other soldiers, but only civilian work crews can be assigned. How does this work exactly?

 

Here's the first hour or so of Revision 41c. Twenty-One's a Crowd, in the Jungle biome. Some quick feedback:

• stuff gets built very quickly with 21 colonists - it's actually very easy to bypass starting without any supplies - and it's considerably easier than The Dauntless Dare (which is the same, but with fewer colonists)
• I like the look of the new Work Crew menu - are Crews now limited in size to 3 workers and an Overseer?
• clicking on the cameos that represent workers will zoom to the person, but I kind of miss being able to pop up that person's info panel easily
• colouring Overseer and Worker names white and orange, respectively, is a good change
• colonists do indeed sleep anywhere, and not just the last building constructed
• the Airship Flyover favour is awesome now, and zooming to the beginning of the path is good
• the Stack of Bricks still seems to turn invisible sometimes, when being retrieved from an oven and transported to a stockpile
• the new gigantic farms are handy, but they're so large a full-size plot may see some crop spoilage

Huuuuuuge .. tracts of land.​

 

First script error I have seen, got a good game in tonight.

 

In 41B my NCO would shoot the beast and not butcher it, now in 41C the NCO shoots and butchers, but no job is generated to collect the meat, only option I have when clicking on it is to deny.

 

Add a job in the kitchen to cook the meat and they will go and get it unless it is far from home.

 

Very much like the new work crew window layout - much improved. Only played a couple of game days but had an obliskean at start and have had a cow chasing my NCO around the map since near start and they are still at it. Apart from that all good.

 

Like it all thus far. Have we lost the ability to choose between an Overseer and an NCO? Not seem the dialog yet.

Edit : Day 18, population 36 and not one soldier or NCO ... odd

Edit : Still got people running on the spot

Edit : Dead bandit (corpse) was still scaring settlers away

Edit : Can't set rally point for Militia NCO or other soldiers recruited via barracks

Edit : Night raid by beetles. Militia stood around not doing anything despite marking "Hunt Animals". No regular troops left so had to make barracks for these. No fighting at night?

EDit : Metalworks stuck making cogs and nothing else, could not flip it to anything new.

 

I've been getting repeats of people having a memory of a murder they did not commit, for this version and for 41B and for 41.

"He killed another being for the firs time. [emotion] at the death of Unnamed" is the description. No one has died, or been killed, and it's also not from participating in combat and having someone killed nearby. Twice it's been when they were foraging? But that could be incidental.

 

Just chose the military load out and the basket of goods exploded on ground impact killing one the starting colonists who was 'riddled with shrapnel' is this a event? The colonist was in a bloody mess at the bottom of two large craters.

 

Thanks mate, I'll give it a try.

Edit... I'll also add, the meat is showing up in my commodities list, however it is still on the ground where the beast was killed, and not in the stockpile, hope this helps nail it.

 

oh god the changes are disorientating

 

also I can't assign my NCO (Her MAjesty's 53rd Regiment) to the Barracks, but I can assign her to the Kitchen.
If you assign a Military Squad to a Kitchen (presumably any other workshop too) their redcoat skin will disappear and they will become a regular Overseer. Which you can rally.

 

That sounds like the impact triggered something explosive, like a landmine or science crate.

 

Yep, just never seen it before. Was a bit puzzled as to if it was a feature or a bug.

 

The new work crew menu is disgustingly... refined.

 

Thanks - finally figured that out, was having a slow day The inability to set a rally point for such squads makes chasing down bandits hard; you need to spend points for temp soldiers.