The builds continue to continue! Despite last week’s kerfuffle I’ve doubly settled on the title The Dawn Star. This time for sure.
Here are the changes for this week’s build:
- New exciting low-oxy start
- Added Primary Thruster module
- A new series of sectors to explore
- Double the spawn rate of oxy tanks
- Made guardian designs more variable
- Made asteroids flicker at least a little on damage > 0
- Added key binds for arrow keys
- Oxy stations returning as atmosphere stations
- SOS marker on some atmosphere stations, including the first
- Removed guardians from ~half the settlements
- No modules on new game start
- Fixed some savegame issues w/ new modules
- Added new custom font rendering system & test (Ctrl-T)
Here is where you go to play the game
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Farbs
Wow!!! This looks AMAZING! I’m really stoked to see you picking up pace so quickly!
WHY? as if oxygen deprivation wasn’t already the biggest obstacle of the game.
I agree oxygen is the biggest problem with the game, but the new intro system doesn’t change that. It’s just an interesting and intuitive way to teach the oxygen mechanic to new players. He’s doubled the spawn rate of oxy tanks as well. I’m gonna play around with the new build and see if it’s noticeable. Ever since the oxygen mechanic was introduced I almost completely stopped dying in battle.
I love the oxygen mechanic. Felt it was the limiter to keep you from diving into deep space to quickly. Finding an oxygen tank is like finding an energy tank in Megaman, a life tank in Metroid. It was a real sense of accomplishment.
I do agree that the drop rate needed to increase.
I actually have yet to find an oxygen tank. That intro was unexpected and killed me once, i always panic at that alarm :D The Stations without oxygen are a bit fun to use. Anyways keep up the good work.
Oh man i totally missed this announcement farbs, great to see you working on this stuff again!