Greetings Pioneers!
It’s been a busy week over at Flix, we’ve moved into our new office which is a big step up from the house we were in previously that was becoming rather cramped! We have also had more people join us too!
We’ve decided that this week we are going to take a look at the Beta Branch feedback and how we are looking to respond over the coming weeks. With everything that’s been going on this week with the move and other projects on, in all honesty, we’ve been a little light on responding in code, more design and decisions, so without further adieu, let’s take a look at some of the key points raised;
Picture Credit – DragonTemplar4
Resource acquisition could use some tweaks for testing purposes
I’m several hours into my savegame in the exp branch now and can’t craft anything because of the low resource droprates (acid + the rare minerals). It would be nice if the drop rates and means of acquisition get some love right now, because at this point I can’t even build three graphene without farming huntermites for an hour, which is too slow and unreliable. The secondary resource requirements seem a bit over the top for me.
Then, looking at the resource distribution further on, I really suggest giving every resource dedicated nodes instead of making some randomly drop from metal/quartz nodes. – Genoscythe
Gathering resources is something that we are going to balance in the near future. We have seen that getting some materials can be a chore so we are going to be having a deeper look into the resource economy to make the game more enjoyable.
Picture Credit – DragonTemplar4
Ok, I was liking the whole atmosphere and all the little notes and details you put in, But I really don’t like seeing entrails or other organs exposed. If you could just leave that part out of the game, that is fine. Also the new radiation sensor is a nice touch of putting in a new game mechanic. – FireStorm Victory
We mainly use things like this in the game to cause tension and make the players think “I don’t want that to happen to me” and not to cause any genuine discomfort to the person playing the game.
Picture credit – Old-gamer
There is no hydration. Water is now food.
What you are thinking of as ‘hydration’ is suit fuel.
They changed the icon to make it more obvious.
I think that removing water was a bad idea, and if you agree, say so. If enough people think it sucks then they might put it back. – Azirahael
Removing hydration was something we did for balancing reasons. We are still working on finishing up fuel on player which will provide energy for the kinetic laser module. This is something that as a player you will have to keep on checking over. We think that having too many stats to keep track of can be very frustrating.
Picture Credit – Old-gamer
Good update Devs…thank-you, will keep testing. 🤓 – Old-gamer
Thank you Old-gamer for playing!
Purple Box on harvesting materials – Picture credit – Old-gamer
Most of the “No physics materials” sprites appearing have been fixed as of latest experimental build V0.3.3
So, can we please get some smoother Running/Jumping animations, while climbing the transmission tower I fell of 3 times because when running to jump you leap like a 3 Centimeter distance. – Commander Tempest
We will be polishing up quite a few aspects to the pioneer character like sprint speed, jump height/distance and health.
Multiplayer:
Will multiplayer make a comeback with the new updates or is it completly gone (hope not) – SSundee
Multiplayer will be back with a vengeance, but it is under maintenance at the moment as we feel it isn’t quite where we want it to be. There are a bunch of features that will need adjusting to cater for multiplayer.
Picture Credit – Old-gamer
So we’re still putting 100% of our effort into Eden Star as and when we can over the coming months, our current focus is multiplayer stability and AI fights again so that night time battles come back with a renewed vengeance! Thanks again to eveyone who has tried the Beta Branch recently and for all the feedback so far.
See you in the fray!
-Team Flix
