Medusa Frontier
May 6, 2022. Friday Night Patch.
Base Floor texture is changed to a crude "Metal Plate" texture.
The new base floor texture is a crude galvanized plate metal surface intended for certain types of crafting refinery technology.
Green Crystal Node moved to location 220 80 at the top of the hill near the metal deposit.
Update v0.0.2.60
Medusa Frontier Early Access
Update v0.0.2.60 highlights
- Better Resource Gathering Mechanics:
- Cleaner more simple OpenGL Shaders.
- New decorative ship model.
- Restored third person camera.
- Vehicle Mode "Auto Run"
Terrain Surface Gathering & Resources
Mixed Stone. Common & Abundant.
Mixed Dirt. Common & Abundant.
Mixed Ore. Common & Abundant.
Metal Ore. Limited Deposits per square km.
Node Resources:
Crystal Nodes have unlimited harvest.
Red, Green or Blue Crystals can be gathered from nodes.
Gathering crystals has a 10% chance for bonus Rare Gems.
Buildable Objects
A decorative ship can be built.
Buildable "Decoration" ships cannot be used.
Game Engine Changes.
Player basic jump power reduced.
Players current jumpable height is about 2 units.(Shoulder height).
Third Person view option is restored.
View camera is now limited to playable area.
Camera no longer floats off the edge of the world.
GL Shader improvements.
GL Shader Errors will appear on screen.
Mouse cursor should appear more consistently opening inventory or storage.
Terrain Rendering:
Normal detail is now aproximated using diffuse texture.
Terrain layers reorganized to match gathering mechanics.
Layer 1 = Rock or Foundation.
Layer 2,3,4 are surface gatherable.
Version 0.0.2.50
Changes:
Terrain height & density factor set to 25.
Terrain slope texturing corrected.(cliffs and slopes)
Shiny metallic effect improved for terrain deposits.
Medusa Moon returns with marble swirls
Red Crystals replaced with red boulders.
Green and Blue Crystals have new textures.
Nearly all game textures resized to 512x512.
Buildable base floor is now a metal floor.
Adjustable Camera returned.
First person or third person as hover vehicle.
Fixes:
GUI 2D Shader corrected for OpenGL 4.0
Terrain slope texturing corrected.
Update v0.0.2.4
There are issues with the games production pipeline so be cautious with this build.
Added:
Buildable Piece: 8x8 Test Bay. A small shelter like bay just large enough for one hovercraft.
Changed:
Camera view raised in height.
Ice Brine changed to Compound Ore.
Hovercraft is now visible when pressing R and roaming around in vehicle mode.
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Patch notes v0.0.2.37a
v0.0.2.37 First person patch.
4_18 Update v0.0.2.36
This patch may possibly break save games so frequent updates will slow down and a very considerate save game system will be implemented.
Updates will slow down to allow better focus on core systems. Since novice use of software development methodology has been observed in the project, Early Access hotfixes and patch progress simply will not work so a few more hours or days of random iterations and improvements will occur before the Demo and Paid Early Access merge to be nearly code identical with some exceptions. Primarily the Save game and player builder options. This is a COMMON "phase" for many types of software developers regardless of the scope ,nature, of the game or project.
Changes and Updates
- Bug fixes, cleaner base building.
- Platforms should be easier to build and more stable in the clickable world space.
- Gold items have changed to Season Event Item.
- The Medusa Yellow moon has disappeared and a sphere of some sort has appeared.
- A mysterious corner sphere with no texture remains in the exact same location.
- Terrain normal map changed from globby material to a rocky stone like normal map.
- Stat Meters will remain full for a while. Survival drains and mechanics are not being implemented.
- Decorative Green Crystals and a few fighters are buildable options.
- Building an item will remain "instant" and a discovery system is being considered.
4_18 Patch Notes. Early Access promotion event has ended
Changes:
Event items have faded and the value has to be examined.
Update notes are in progress and several details are being examined
but the patch needed to be uploaded.
4_14 Update v 0.0.2.31
Early Access Update v0.0.2.31
With the swiftly implemented Frontier Roamer yesterday it became obvious that the actual Frontier would need to be a little bit bigger to make a fair impression. Frontier Terrain in the Early Access edition is scaled 2x thus making the current terrain area 1024x1024.
Medusa Frontier is pretty empty until players build something and the controls and interface for build mechanics do need improvement, which is why Medusa Frontier is an Early Access game.
Changes:
- Ice Brine is randomized over a larger area.
- Mysterious Face monuments have been replaced by crystals.
- Explorable area is now 1024x124 world units(as promised).
- Harvesting from terrain reduced to 1 square per harvest.
- Player Harvesting now only gathers 1 unit per harvest.
- Achievements are disabled for revision and total rework and will likely be redesigned to require twenty hours of gameplay or more.
- Player Saves to a new data folder for save games. Development of dependable cloud based save games and inventory will be examined later in development.
Bug fixes:
A variety of game start up fixes should improve compatibility.
Introduction Logo and Medusa Frontier intro screen wait time reduced to about 10 seconds.