ALPHA 49C ALPHA 49C: STRANGE METEORS AND MINIMAPS

Oooh. I cant wait to discover REDACTED. Nice work!

 

Lots of great new stuff here, but oddly I think I'm most excited by building destruction. That makes defense far more important in the late game, when colonists can be expendable (sorry), but your massive, lovingly crafted structures full of modules are not.

 

Massive farm rebalance, mmmm interesting

Yes, it gives you a good defensive option of building a lot of tiny little buildings which the enemy AI can now target. At least this should slow them down and distract them as well as help mitigate the risk on NCO sniping (as there are now more targets they can shoot at).

 

An observation. I seem to be wanting for overseers more than in the last build, to the point where I'm having to wait on them to expand more, whereas in the last build I only really felt constrained by resources. I don't know if anything was tweaked in this area or not.

 

The correct german spelling is "Grossherzogtum" - no matter if it is ruled by a count ( Herzog ) or countess ( Herzogin )

 

More Starting Area oddness: I decided to pick one of the arctic spots and got this:

 

Yes, I've noticed that the terrain immediately under the the location dot on the map is not always indicative of the actual terrain you embark on.

 

I love having a minimap (watching your territory expand is very satisfying), but it's so small I find myself squinting and getting closer to the monitor.


EDIT:

Woah woah woah, there's an "upgrade building" button in the buildings panel now? How did I miss that? Was this ever in the patch notes? Mine are grayed out so far, but do they work in this build at some point, and if so, what does it do?

 

So, noticing some issues:

• I'm getting some major lag even early in a game. Colonists will walk a few steps, then stop (legs still moving) then jerk forward. Graphics?
• MILITARY: Squad leaders no longer rally, nor do they react to emergencies. I had a bandit raid on my colony and one of the bandits strolled into the barracks and started beating the s**t out of my NCO while she was asleep. She finally woke up but didn't really react. When she was killed I assigned another guy to the barracks along with troops. The soldiers kept fighting the bandits, but the new NCO was "on military patrol" somewhere near where he had been cutting trees before his reassignment, and never joined the battle. Also, before the raid I was rallying my soldiers around to explore some of the map. The troops responded fine but the NCO would not rally, and her job continued to show as "idle."
• CRASHINESS IN WORLD MAP: I didn't save the crash logs (sorry), but I'm still having this issue where if I click on more than one potential colony site on the world map, and then click "set course for adventure," I get a crash to desktop. 'Create a new world' seems to help prevent this.
• The tropical/savannah crop package is a little tough. Chilis, tea and sugar? Any way to add sweet potatoes or something? ;-)

 

I've seen another person report this, so I don't doubt there might be something going on, but I have not seen this yet. My squads rally, and respond to threats. However, this was during the day, not at night while they were sleeping. Maybe it will become important to use the work shift functions to get a squad to stay awake on night duty.

 

I just had another raid, during the day, and my NCO stood there with his job listed as "idle" while bandits chopped him to pieces.

Guess I'll wait until the next release to try again...sort of a show-stopper since I'm going through NCO's like... something disposable.

 

Oh, that is a drag. That means I have to keep another small squad to make up the lost combat potential, and I'm already starving for Overseers. I don't know what it is this particular game. Ive got plenty of workers, but I'm waiting around constantly to be able to staff my buildings. I actually save scummed my way through the loss of a mundane work squad OS because they're too valuable to lose any in this game.

Are you guys sure you didn't fiddle with this?

 

Here's what I get when I load the attached save:

Also attached a crash dmp from a few minutes later.

 

I got the Strange Meteor event and well, I found some... things.

Spoiler: Mild descriptive spoilers

And those things seem to be spreading rapidly all over the area surrounding the colony. Military shoots them on sight, and they don't appear to put up any kind of struggle, but they appear to be multiplying. Also, they create no memories in anyone who encounters them.

Spoiler: Screenshots

 

Agree completely. Untill this is fixed I'm classing the game as unplayable. It's no fun to know that you're doomed and there's not a thing you can do about it.

 

Logged in to say I'm really liking the biomes. I did have an issue when I started on an all-desert island (I couldn't build since there was no way to get wood), but all-in-all the biomes are very interesting.

The minimap, of course, is very welcome.

Still bummed about fixed size farms. I don't really see why the game can't use the new labor calculations on a per plant basis instead of the old grow time calculations. Add up the number of plants in a given farm plot, multiply by the labor needed per plant, and you have the labor needed for that farm plot, just like the current fixed size plots.