ARCOSTATE  -  DEVLOG 08

Big update! Some more of the usual QoL additions and bug fixes, plus a bunch of new features. Including a new quest job board in the arcology inn with miscellaneous quests, new farm animals, a bunch of new SFX, new CRT mask styles, new unique locations, personalities given to AI cores, plus other fun additions!

Also, check out the new Steam page for the game! A demo on steam is planned for release during Next Fest in October. If you enjoy the game on itch.io, please wishlist the game on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5034430/Arcostate/?beta=0

NEW FEATURES

- New quest job board in the arcology bar with new mission types.

- Farm animals and merchant caravans can be found in the wilds.

- The rundown car can be converted to an electric car. 

- Fuel drums store fuel and explode when destroyed.

- Sleeping on a bed/bedroll now allows player to sleep a week at a time.

- New sounds for doors, footsteps in water, fire, rain, lava, the monorail, bandages, syringes, sprays, placing walls and furniture, the booster jump and psychic casts.

- A screen curvature setting bends the game view like a CRT tube. Off by default.

- Three CRT mask styles under CRT style in settings: grid, aperture grille, slot mask.

- A blue map memory setting overlay puts explored ground out of sight in monochrome blue. On by default.

- A new forest biome of dense woods, ponds and streams.

- New electric generators charge batteries and other powered gear. Can be used while placed or in inventory.

- Added a very rare funny encounter.

- New unique quest location.

- A destroyed arcology location.

- Auto-explore now walks player to chests you have never opened and stops there. Can be turned off in settings.

- Grafted AI cores now 'speak', each sin has its own voice and opinions. Can be turned off in settings.

- New armor upgrade benches.

- Armor can be renamed at an armor upgrade bench.

- Armor mods drop as loot or found on modded armor on certain enemies.

- Containers can now be emptied of their contents.

- Added take all option when interacting with a pile of items.

- A favorites tab in the item windows lists only the gear you have favorited.

CHANGES

- Village states are now permanent.

- Active quests from villages are no longer forgotten.

- Fog now lifts on its own after a day.

- Auto UI scale now follows the window size, so smaller windows get a proportionally smaller UI.

- Added custom mouse cursor.

- The cybernetics window shows a live player sprite body with installed chrome.

- Dialogue portraits no longer sit in a dark box.

- Vault security droids drop rail slugs instead of energy packs.

- Base carry weight raised by 10.

- Time passing now puts NPCs where they would be afterwards.

- Settlements and camps now sleep from 20:00 to 06:00.

- Renting a room at an inn no longer skips the night and now lets player sleep in an inn bed.

- Stoves and server racks give off light.

- Villages now have a new generated layout, a central square and a farmstead.

- Raider and meateater camps now use separate prefabs from regular villages for generation.

- Character creation adds orange hair and a balding fringe hairstyle.

- Barred doors now require a key to unlock.

- Taking from an owned container while sneaking now goes unnoticed unless someone sees you do it.

- A vault location was changed to moon biome.

- The stealth array and gps no longer appear in the ability list as they work passively. 

- Fuel units now have weight.

- Added row highlighting to upgrade bench list.

- New game plus now scales up every creature in the world, not just enemies.

- Berserk creatures now charge through fire and lava instead of stopping at the edge.

- Item and NPC descriptions color upgraded gear and installed mods based on tier.

- Menu lists stop at their ends instead of wrapping back to the top.

BUG FIXES

- Fixed NPC weapons showing in some dialogue portraits.

- Fixed windows sitting off center when their content grew past their base size.

- Fixed the save browser freezing after deleting a save.

- Fixed loading a save cutting max HP for characters who had ever taken a drug or eaten raw meat.

- Fixed loading a save dropping the extra HP granted by installed cybernetics.

- Fixed the wilderness refresh deleting a home base after a long time away.

- Fixed fog striking during map travel dropping the player inside locations instead of at the edge.

- Fixed windowed mode and resolution changes doing nothing at some desktop resolutions.

- Fixed village quests becoming impossible to turn in after the village reset.

- Fixed repair bots destroying the water tiles in marshland villages.

- Fixed raider camps spawning without their guard dogs.

- Fixed camp guard dogs disappearing between visits.

- Fixed ability cooldowns running long after dying and quickloading.

- Fixed the game freezing when looting a large pile all at once.

- Fixed inventory lag when carrying a very large number of items.

- Fixed crocodiles and other predators never appearing in the marshes.

- Fixed marshbloom never growing in the marshes.

- Fixed arcology guards never standing down at shift change.

- Fixed a delay between movement inputs in the starting area on a fresh game.

- Fixed the weapon upgrade bench losing its place in the list when selecting weapons.

- Fixed some weapon mods becoming impossible to remove once installed.

- Fixed legendary bosses coming out weaker than intended in new game plus.

- Fixed the inventory lagging when switching tabs with a full pack.