Colossal Crusade Update! Featuring: Mechanical Melee Warfare

Ok we finally made it! So much has gone into this update it won’t actually fit into this announcement! I’ll have to find a way to list it all somewhere else…

BETA ONLY

– we’ve pushed this build to a separate branch where you have to manually opt-in to download it. (instructions at bottom) ONLY opt-in if you don’t mind playing a bugged version. We’ve checked it all our selves but there WILL be bugs, we’re doing this so that we can find them and squish them before rolling it out into the main branch for all players. REMEMBER this is a beta version of the update, we NEED bugs and feedback please, if you spot something, write it down and add it to the bugs forum on steam – MAKE SURE YOU SAY BETA VERSION in the heading so people know it’s not the live version. As I can’t list everything we’ve done here, I’ll put the bullet points: Battle Seas – completely overhauled this and changed it to Crusades
Crusades now includes the following activity types: • Battle • Race • Fleet Battle • Survival Battle • Siege • Challenge – these come in various sub-forms like treasure or hill climb.
Crusades 1 & 2 are available, we’re working on 3 & 4 and hope to roll 3 out within a couple of weeks or so with 4 coming a little time after that. Save data – as we’ve changed the game so much all your current save data is now redundant unfortunately. Your ships will be fine but your star ratings will be deleted. Sorry. Good news everyone: you get to beat them betterer in our new crusade mode – We’ve lifted the restrictions here so you can play any challenge with ANY ship you like. Oh yes. Blades – these now actually do Melee damage which meant a change in their collision data, which may give some of your ships issues. If your ship gets instantly destroyed when you set sail, remove these blades and try again. Essentially you are not allowed to put anything underneath the actual blades now, before we you were. Joints – any block not actually attached via an actual attach point (i.e. cheating) will drop off. Localization – Players can now make their own translation mods! We’ll add the instructions to the localization area asap Mechanical Blocks – We’ve added a bunch of cool mechanical blocks including a pivot joint, grabber, spring detonator, winch & chain and various rotating blocks. We’re hoping these will fuel your collective creative genius and manifest into some simply jaw dropping ships! Check out some of our earlier videos showing some of the new mechanical blocks Melee – Melee weapons now do damage to other blocks and we’ve added a number of new melee blocks to boot. I think you’ll like the spiked roller of doom…. Harpoon – YES! It’s in finally! You can collect ‘things’ with it and use it to pull your enemies closer before you hit them with a devastating massive spiked ball to the peanuts. Rockets / torpedoes – new blocks, try them and see. We like to put the mine on the end as a warhead… Key Assignments – you can now change all blocks and controls to whatever you like via the new key assignments windows. Press ALT whilst hovering over a block to bring it up. AI improvements – yes we’ve done some of these too
There’s a load of other smaller tweaks, changes, rewrites, fixes & improvements but I’ll let you experience that yourself as you play Ok, get playing and letting us know what’s wrong please! SPG.

Beta opt-in instructions

Here's what you need to do: 1. Shut down Steam (IMPORTANT!) 2. Re-start Steam. 3. Go to your Steam Library. 4. Right-click on The Last Leviathan game in your Steam Library and select the Properties option. 5. Click on the Betas tab 6. In the "Enter beta access code..." field, type in the Public Beta password: PenguinTorpedo 7. Click on the Check Code button. Steam should then tell you that you have unlocked the public_beta branch. 8. In the "Select the beta..." drop down, select the public_beta branch. 9. Click the Close button. Steam will then begin downloading the app in the background. Once it's finished, you should be good to go.

Important Notes

1. Steam Workshop. PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD anything to Steam workshop - any new blocks you upload will NOT be available for existing users and will, most likely, crash their game. 2. Sometimes downloads are not automatic and you may need to select the “verify integrity of game cache” option from the ‘local files’ tab in the properties menu.

[ 2016-09-22 17:39:55 CET ] [ Original post ]