ALPHA 50D ALPHA 50D UP: OUR MOST EXPERIMENTAL BUILD YET

Just in time to "ruin" my weekend.

Interesting way to implement "crowding"...

 

I just purchased your game a few days ago, and am loving it. This new experimental patch has me a bit bummed as the overseers don't have the weird and sometimes disturbing, yet hilarious trait system was a HUGE decision on the purchase of the game...and it's gone already! I'm a sad camper. It gave it that campy feel that I love in games. Please tell me that it's not going to be permanent change and that you may possibly put it back...please...maybe? I'm still fumbling around trying to figure stuff out...the games I have gone through. I'm not great at the RTS, but you guys really drew me in with the campy, kitschy feel that just went **poof** with the latest experimental patch.

 

50 D Ok lets Go !
Beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a base ball bat Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh Oh
Joey Ramones

1/ Create new world. New game. Seems it suggest a map by default but theres no light, i don t know where it is.
Never mind i choose one myself.
2/ Kitchen What is the use of lower class rug ? ( a box ... )
3/ Kitchen What is the use of windows ? ( 0 quality )
4/ No time to build kitchen and carpenter game crash
=> Go to bed myself !
Edit ****
=> Relaunch New game same map location
Biomes Temperate Moist Mixed forest / High prairie
Load Out : Instant colony - just add labourers
First Day
5/ ( multiple Hunting orders all around 2 times a day )
NCO kill one beetle et 9 Aurochs => kill some wild game Hapiness + 3
But i don t know if with only one, did he get the same ?
Day 2
I closed and relaunch the game later.
NCO characterization
Traits ; Hale & Strange
Quality of life :sleep icone change with red arrow ( ok )
She hasn t sleep for a day is feeling irritable.
Feeling summary :
Hunger : rather hungry
Tiredeness : tired and looking for a bed
6/ Feeling list : transparency have almost completely fade away description lines
7/ Hapiness / Despair / Anger / Fear
Pop up, passing on columns :
Title Hapiness 36
0 : character based line value
- 5 : A day without sleep
+ 10 reasonably safe
+ 10 well fed
+ 0 working outdoors
+ 9 Pleasantly spare
separate line
- 4 : ( blank information )

i don t understand the title value no more than the last blank line.
Same kind with the 3 others feeling columns

8/ How affect low class worker to ad hoc characters traits mid class overseers ?
9/ Don t know when beguin workshift for each one
Don t know strategical or tactical employement of worshift start time.

Edit ****
Love the new building modules but ...
10 / Anomaly with production numbers. I command 2 loading bay door and i got 3
11/ I don t know how to use Switch job order type
12/ RoooOOo ... turn a quarter the mini map ! ( as a lozenge )
13/ Bandits arrive but zoom to location doesn t work.
14/ Dig strange artifact that i can t see
15/ Change overseer affectation, his icone face disappears
16/ Box of bricabrac icone appears like logs in stockpile
17/ Foreign ennemy attack day 8 at night, 5 tragic death, NCO + militia
Barracks under construction, not finish => game over !
New NCO flee, don t fight, not accept or support any workers

Conclusion : what did u expected really ?
Following character s one by one with one screen by day for each about their feeling summary and evolutiv traits ?
Quick descript about environnement, quality of life ... ??
What would help ?

To my point of view it s difficult to appreciate characters reactivities around a walkthrougt without game stabile environnement and especially major achievements. Because it needs a calibrating references. If the game suffer too much of breaches, comments will be only factual without projections or other possible assessment.
I hope that, this is not too confusing.




To follow multiple edit mod

 

Your or our weekend, that the question.

 

The traits are still there, desires seem to be gone though. Desires never really had much impact, but they did add a little extra flavor.

Hmm, also property ownership is gone... is that not going to be a thing anymore?

Overall I think the new character panel looks pretty slick! Gotta love those Zelda hearts.

 

Windows are just decoration for now; personally, I think you should get *some* value from external items, since there's so many, but make it half of what you'd get for equivalent indoor items or something along those lines.
Also, is battlefield promotion fixed? The multiple problems with that lead me to not play 50c at all after the first few days.

 

Bricabrac is still showing up as logs in my inventory.
EDIT: But rugs and carpets are actually being made, though there's no quality info for the Cheap Rug.

 

When the NCO died, it would claim that another soldier got promoted to commander; the portrait in the work crew would change to the new commander and the other members would still be part of the crew, but they'd be unassigned from the barracks and I'd be unable to reassign them to that or anything else, and none of them would work. I could remove the underlings from that crew and put them in other crews and assign the barracks to someone else and they'd work fine, but the promoted CO would just idle until it was time to eat or sleep (they weren't unkillable unlike characters trapped in take confession or serve drink jobs). If I saved after the promotion and loaded that save, the game would load normally, but crash as soon as I clicked on the work crews button.

 

Sorry if I'm late to the party but...
The Palmerstock loadout option doesn't give you the materials it says it does. There's no lacquered planks for building a lab.

edit 1: I'm not sure how I feel about the new workshop. On one hand, it's cool to have a "dedicated plank workbench" (this is effectively what I was doing lategame before with multiple workshops - one carpentry shop for planks/bricabrac, one for goods; ditto metalworks for smelting and refined products). On the other, I find it kind of annoying in the early game (If I want 10 beds asap, I've got to set each bench to make 2-3, then remember to go change it to something else after). I'm also not 100% sure how it works. If I tell a bench to make a cot, and I don't have any planks, will that bench make a plank first (or make one if there aren't any in the stockpile?)? If so, that's really good and I like it a lot.
I can see it being really frustrating with the ceramics shop (though I'm not there yet in my playthrough), since I usually do fine queueing up 7-8 items at a time there and forgetting about it.

edit2: I dunno if it's just me, but lately/the last few revisions, I'm finding night time tedious. I've started tabbing out of the game and browsing the net until I hear the "day" music start (and being annoyed that I left an overseer/colonist message up for ten minutes lol).

 

I haven't had time to play extensively, but the UI changes feel great, much more solid now. I think players in general will appreciate more direct control of the workshop outputs, even if it moves the level of detail a little more toward the micromanagement end of the scale.

An interesting consequence of the new workshop UI system, though, is that it's not possible to queue up more Carpentry projects (for example) than you have workbenches, which will lead to even more frequent micromanagement.

 

Spice racks are missing from the carpentry.

 

That's what I meant...I'm still a "newbie" when it comes to this game...they dampened the desires down as well and buh bye traits...which is what I meant to say...it was late for me...thanks for the correction.

 

"FIXED: added protections against scripterror in drop_item_for_trade_mission"
Is this the error that causes foreign trade convoys to say "sorry old chap, I appear to have lost some items!" and then loiter around your colony forever and ever and ever? I ran into that in 50C but the new build came out before I reported it.

 

Desires did nothing, as far as I can tell (yeah they sometimes could fufill them but it didn't -do- anything). Also, a bunch of traits did nothing as well.

Still, it sure looks sparser now. Hopefully overseers, at least, will get back their desires in future.

 

Should the Power Saw be constructable right from the Carpentry Workshop menu? It requires only one plank (which implies I don't need to build it at a Metalworks). Attempting to build it this way results in a script errror and no Saw being constructed.

 

I didn't mind that it was useless...it was twisted and hilarious...and it did draw me in. That and telling the peanut gallery what kind of nut jobs were running my colony in hopes of convincing him to buy the game as well. LOL For me, personally, it's those little touches (especially when it's dark humour) that really sets it apart for me. By all means it's not a deal breaker, just a bummer.