Hi everyone. As always if you aren't in the beta you can sign up here. Usually I make a bunch of gifs and screenshots for patch notes, but today I just wanted to get the patch done and uploaded. It is quite a big one with some love to the story mode and challenge modes.

Bonus Objectives and Ratings in Story Mode

As much as possible Dave and I try to 'follow the game' when we think about game design. We have an idea, we try implementing things, and let the game and the fun lead us. This is also why testing is super important and why we appreciate you spending your valuable game time playing our game as we develop it. Lots of feedback we kept getting was that people really enjoyed the core loop of building vehicles and driving them, but that people didn't really know why they were doing it. With the blueprint mode we wanted to push the idea that this is a building game - and with today's patch we are dealing with the why. We have added ratings and objectives to the story mode. Each leg you'll get a rating for how fast you did it in, and get some money based on that. In addition some legs will have bonus objectives which you will have to design a vehicle in mind for. Depending which route you take you'll have some different objectives, these are all shown with icons on the map screen.

Average Speed Leader boards

A few people have made some very good points about the problem with having competition for maximum speed. As soon as we introduced the rocket it became clear that top speed isn't that competitive. So we have now added 2 leader boards for each challenge mode, one for top speed and the other for average speed. We have also added an end screen so you can see your position on the leader board and retry straight away without going back to the main menu.

General Changes

• Player velocity is now set to zero on respawn.
• When falling off the vehicle the player now drops $5 (from their own wallet) which can be recollected. This is to add some punishment for one of the new objective modes where you can leave your vehicle to complete a bonus objective.
• Tutorial system has been revamped behind the scenes. There is now a little more tutorialisation because of this.
• Made the walls and floors thicker and clearer.
• Added some music to the challenge mode and Ellen encounter.

Bug Fixes

• It was possible to get a negative wallet using the blueprint editor, that has been fixed.
• Removed the bump from the balloon panel.
• Blueprint editor UI now correctly scales on different resolutions.

[ 2020-05-08 15:15:17 CET ] [ Original post ]