Astronaut: The Best

• Fixed a big glitch that made it so the parade showed characters from the Spacewolves mission even when you didn't pick that mission
  
• Prevented buying Challenges from the postgame store before that system is introduced
  
• If you succeed at the tutorial, the launch is now abbreviated and makes it clearer that failure is OK
  
• Got rid of the weird third coin type we never ended up using in the postgame
  
• Fixed uniform count on the main menu being wrong
  
• Tweaked text highlight colors to be more visible on various screens
  
• Fixed assorted small display bugs and typos
  

• The Haunting of Porpoise Bay mission
  
• The Celestial Ascent mission
  
• The True Ending
  
• Any nice birds you encounter
  

• TONS of improvements to controller input readability and ease of use
  
• Runs really smoothly on Steam Deck - try it out if you can! Just waiting on Valve's testing to get verified.
  
• Every button in the games should now have a visible change when you mouse over it or select it with the controller
  

• Now prevent player from selecting "Day Off" on Day 1 of "Earning Your Wings" (and missing how to train)
  
• Replaced dialogue-based training tutorial with UI-based one that hopefully more people will read
  
• Made tutorial a bit easier by de-randomizing the difficulty of the skill tests at the end
  
• Various small dialogue fixes to make the goal of the tutorial mission more clear
  
• In later missions, added more appropriate UI to show an event will test multiple stats
  
• Changed top bar to make it more clear that "k" is the Flaustrian currency
  

• Now pauses when opening Steam Overlay
  
• The Lion of Flaustria now has more poses/expressions!
  
• Fixed rare soft locks that were possible on low-end computers
  
• Changed preconditions of some world events to avoid situations where you could lose all your astronauts to a ritual on the day of a mission
  
• Changed rituals to remove random chance of dramatic effects (injury or large stat gain) on astronauts, since those could have a very outsize effect
  

• Fixed bug where the "Back" button in stores and inventories could have very tough-to-click collision, which could lead players to believe they encountered a soft lock
  
• Fixed a few dialogue lines in "Prestige Drama" that had the incorrect speaker, which was... confusing
  

• Improved character sprites in "Prestige Drama" - now animated instead of static
  
• Optimized crowd in parade scene
  

• Made level-up animation during training quicker, to match the new pace of training
  
• Fixed recent bug where astronauts' stats could be incorrectly de-highlighted in UI
  
• Changed language of Prestige Drama networking event intro to clarify not all conversations take time
  
• Fixed misaligned path on Prestige Drama mapestry
  
• Fixed incorrectly displaying stats of failchild in Prestige Drama
  

• Fixed normal music overlapping Day Start music
  
• Changed mission order for this release so you don't have to scroll past a locked mission
  
• Fixed first mapestry segment not filling in, in some missinos
  
• Fixed mapestry filling in offscreen in some missions
  
• Added correct voice for a few characters
  

Preview Details

• Two missions unlocked: Earning Your Wings (tutorial) and Prestige Drama
  
• Unlike our demos, which cut off at the end of week 2, in this preview you can play all the way through the space launch and parade
  
• Instead of the full metagame loop of earning coins and unlocks, there are special cutscenes in the postgame void - one for each mission
  
• There are a few Talismans and Hexes specially unlocked when playing Prestige Drama
  

Other New Stuff

• New look for mapestries - they now have a special new texture and animation
  
• There are now 5 songs that play at the main daytime menu, one for each weather
  
• New character voices in Prestige Drama
  
• Various small typo and logic fixes
  

BALANCE

• In this first patch, the big change is that
• *training has a bigger impact**. You gain experience way faster, but difficulty also ramps up much more quickly over the course of the game. This will hopefully lead to more feelings of agency and investment.*
  
• Training gives dramatically more EXP and levels, and gives stress more evenly
  
• Changed event, ASE, and mission difficulty to increase over the game, and refactored odds of test success
  
• Changed how Glory affects final rankings, and adjusted Glory given by all sources
  
• Resting restores more stress
  
• Mental injuries now give negative skill points instead of random traits
  
• Adjusted price of purchasable items to fit new values
  
• New trait hexes now give a choice of trait
  

BUG FIXES

• Fixed bug where Challenges could be on when marked as off
  
• Fixed display count of missions played
  

ALSO

• Nice Bird enabled