Out of Space

Improvements

1. Added latency information for online matchmaking. Players can check their latency in settings and in player selection, right after they connect to the chosen server.
   
2. Added a warning message to inform players of the instability of connections between China and other regions.
   
3. Dog will now stop resting and get up when someone pets him.

SFX

1. Add screen transition sfx.
   
2. Fix door sfx playing with a delay.
   
3. Add sfx to item spawn on porch.
   
4. Refrigerator UI now have open and close sfx.
   
5. Fix controls tab of settings screen not having any sfx.
   
6. Fix victory song sometimes not playing at all.
   
7. Add whistle sfx to players using the shower.
   
8. Fix music ignoring volume settings when the player is on the porch.
   
9. Add sfx to compendium screen scroll;
   
10. Add some sfx to achievements update screen, shown after each match.

Bug fixes

1. Fix mixer generating battery bigger than usual.
   
2. Enemies can no longer remain active while transforming into flying aliens.
   
3. Players cannot move again until the appliance interaction is over. This will prevent players from moving while still animating that interaction.
   
4. Ship size are properly updated to "LARGE" on online clients when the host selects the weekly challenge.
   
5. The game won't hold anymore if the hosts pauses on online games.
   
6. Fix sync on shaft animations, so it shakes at the same time for everyone and properly warn the players when it's about to spit.
   
7. Fix bike sometimes working by itself;
   
8. Pressing "Cancel" when invite friends screen is open will not send the player back to main menu anymore. The invite friends screen will close instead.

Update 0.9.6b1 - Hotfix

1. Players will now hold the food given to them after passing out.
   
2. Fix an issue causing some delayed effects to stop abruptly, like appliance construction and others;
   
3. Fix rug swapped skins in the shop;

• No, we will NOT abandon the game. If everything goes well, we might even have a future content update for it! But honestly, that depends on things we cannot control, so lets just hope for the best and leave promises for another day;
  
  
• Expect more people to join both our community and our servers, so finding new friends to play will be much easier than today;
  
  
• There will be no more regular updates like we used to have, but impactful bugs will still be fixed for as long as possible;
  
  
• This also means it is far less likely that the game will somehow break and cause problems for you all playing it regularly;
  
  
• Our team will now start a new journey with a brand new game, and since being closer to you all was so damn good this time, we are surely going on a similar path with the next project. Expect to hear about it soon!
  

• Added a button on the Compendium screen to show the credits;
  
• You can now skip the credits by pressing and holding the “back” button;
  
• [COM] The system that set where it is possible for players and AIs to walk on has been reworked, which
• may* have fixed the invisible wall bug that we have tried to fix many times before lol;
  
• [COM] Rework in Cleaner Bot’s AI to reduce the chances of getting stuck on corners and/or appliances;
  
• The camera now stops following cocooned players thrown into space;
  
• Cocooned players can no longer control their trajectory after they are thrown into space, so inertia works as it should and throwing friends there becomes more satisfying;
  
• Added some new elements to the menu background scene;
  

• [COM] Added a fallback font for some interfaces that were not compatible with the main fonts of languages that had special characters;
  
• [COM] Fixed an issue causing some eggs that spawned on the floor to prevent a door from getting cleaned;
  
• Fixed the bug causing Flying Aliens to sometimes have wings smaller than usual;
  
• Removed the looping sound effect of the stunned aliens that kept on playing after the alien was recycled.
  
• Added an extra check to avoid appliances on corridors to get dirty after the room is deactivated (this started happening after the performance improvement from the last update);
  
• [COM] The camera no longer considers the spot where a player died as a relevant point to show on online matches (it was keeping that spot in focus even after the cocoon was removed);
  
• [COM] Fixed an issue causing building holograms to have physics and, therefore, become extremely difficult to aim and build;
  
• [COM] Pumpkin Gardens no longer display two fruits for clients on online matches;
  
• Laps no longer lure aliens on hologram mode;
  
• The mopping “dust” effect is now properly synchronized in online matches;
  

• [COM] The mop now has a priority check when stunning aliens, giving preference to aliens that are not yet stunned and then to the ones closer to getting back from a stun;
  
• [COM] Heavy optimization round check both for local and online matches, reducing internet usage demand and processing usage;
  
• Rework on how the position of Aliens and Dogs are synchronized in online matches to prevent them from jumping and teleporting around, visually.
  

• Fixed an issue causing some aliens to teleport out of a Refrigerator to a VERY far away spot in the game world. The game’s performance would suffer severely anytime this happened, so this just might have fixed the fps issues reported in the late game by some players;
  
• [COM] The bug that allowed more than one player to interact with the Refrigerator at the same time has been successfully fixed as well :D
  
• [COM] Bug making the Bucket and the Mop to be eligible for recycling during the “Secret Santa” challenge was also fixed;
  
• [COM] Fixed issue causing players to be instantly disconnected from a game if they were playing on a keyboard and a controller connected to the same computer turned off;
  
• Players that are not the host on online matches can now pet the Dog too;
  
• [COM] Fixed the issue causing some icons on the Refrigerator’s interface to not properly appear for clients on online games;
  
• The sound for choosing a character will not played twice anymore;
  
• Fixed issue causing some interface sounds to never play after the game dynamically changed on the matchmaking screen;
  
• It is no longer possible to change other player’s character on online matches if you have more than one controller connected locally;
  

• FIXED a different issue causing some items bought not to be delivered as they should (this time it was related to an interface change we did on the last patch);
  
• Added a dialog window to confirm the AFK auto-kick (it allows players prevent getting kicked by giving any input to the game);
  
• Cocoons no longer remains in the game after the player inside it has been auto-kicked for inactivity;
  

• [COM] The doors on the porch will no longer have their levers hidden by an external decoration;
  
• [COM] The Shaft now starts dripping goo when it is completely dirty to show the players how it works;
  
• [COM] The Shaft also starts to shake 5 seconds before its major goo spit, as an anticipation to avoid getting hit by the spit without a proper warning;
  
• [COM] Dirty doors now have the “water here” balloon on them, to help new players learn how to open them;
  
• The decoration Nightstand had its size reduced to better fit the rest of the appliances in terms of proportion;
  
• [COM] Now the controlling player can leave a local lobby and one of the other players will take its place;
  
• We rolled back on the individual ready for local lobbies and now once the controlling player hits the “ready” button, every player sharing the same computer will be ready too (that did not work as well as we thought);
  
• AFK players in online matches are now disconnected after 5 minutes of inactivity (and the game will be rebalanced to the new number of players);
  
• AFK players in local matches leave the game after 1 minute of inactivity, but can come back at any time with the same character chosen before;
  
• [COM] Buckets filled in the Shower are pushed forward to avoid accidentally activating the Shower instead of picking the Bucket up;
  
• [COM] The interface for arrived items now disappears after 30 seconds, regardless if the item was picked up or not (to avoid too many of them from stacking up);
  
• Players now drop the items on their hands when they get cocooned (I have no idea how we did not notice this before lol);
  
• Mixer’s liquid color now changes according to the last input;
  
  
  
  

• [COM] Cleaner Bot will no longer work if the charging base is out of power, regardless if the bot itself has energy or not;
  
• [COM] Having all players dead, but at least one of them getting respawned at a shower no longer causes a game over;
  
• The Secret Santa challenge now have only one price for all items when you buy them in the shop ($25);
  
• [COM] The ratio in which trash bags are generated have been rebalanced to favor early game and avoid useless trash (literally) in the late game;
  
• [COM] The anticipation for the Flying Alien attack was reduced a little and a cooldown to its attack was added;
  

• Added multiple sound effects for things that were missing, such as:
  
• Phone ringing sound for the tutorial;
  
• Momma Beaver’s voice;
  
• Character selection feedback;
  
• Interacting with the menu interface in general;
  
• The volume settings’ scrolling feedback;
  
• Friend list’s scrolling feedback;
  
• Disassembling an appliance;
  
• Spawning of items bought through the shop;
  
• Using the Exercise Bicycle;
  
• Every action the Cleaning Bot does;
  
• Using the Refrigerator’s interface;
  
• The new effect for opening the item info tooltip (and removed the sound played when it closed);
  

• Some achievement rewards descriptions were fixed;
  
• [COM] The Secret Santa challenge no longer prevents some items to arrive after you buy them;
  
• [COM] The Secret Santa challenge now allows players to sell items at the recycler normally;
  
• [COM] Pumpkin Garden no longer keeps on growing fruits even when it dried out;
  
• [COM] All the doors clean themselves right before closing to, once again, so no one gets soft-locked anymore (please, work this time);
  
• Enemies’ colliders ware reduced to prevent them from getting locked on corners;
  
• Fixed issue causing the Flying Aliens to spit twice at the same time;
  
• There is now a proper animation that plays when Aliens try to get an appliance dirty or to eat a Battery;
  
• Fixed issue causing some Flying Alien’s eggs to hatch instantly;
  

• [COM] Added a priority in grabbing, so that trying to get important things like the Mop, the Water Bucket and Aliens is now easier;
  
• [COM] The menu screen now gets the focus back to the buttons when a controller is used, even before the tutorial hasn’t been finished;
  
• The area cleaned by the water bucket now reflects better the water VFX it has;
  
• The usage of network in online games is now significantly reduced due to better optimization;
  

• Mixer now takes 50% more time to produce a battery after the input of the third organic item;
  

• Settings no longer shows the controller scheme if there is no controller connected;
  
• [COM] Fixed Polish and Turkish fonts to properly display what is written;
  
• [COM] Fixed tabs text on settings to properly fit the canvas even when using other languages;
  

• [COM] Fixed bug that caused building items the player hasn’t yet unlocked to crash the game;
  
• [COM] Fixed another issue that allowed players to receive items from other players while using appliances;
  
• Alien animation of “digging” into an appliance to get it dirty has been added back to the game;
  
• Throwing water over an Alien that are transforming into a Flying Alien now properly results in a stunned regular Alien.
  
• Fixed visual bug causing players to fall from hunger without animating it;
  
• Fixed issue with the Clean Bot CB-8 skins;
  

• FIXED issue preventing the shower from taking players off their cocoons when the “Hardcore Housekeeping” challenge was on;
  
• FIXED bug that caused itens to get stuck in the hand of players that fell from hunger;
  
• Fixed bug causing food to sometimes play the spoiling particle explosion animation in a loop on online games;
  
• Issue causing items to not be delivered when you buy them during the tutorial was fixed once again;
  
• Fixed issue that caused some doors to get dirty again after a bucket of water without any apparent reason;
  
• Golden skins are now shown properly in the shop even if only one of the players have unlocked them;
  
• New professional localization was added to the game, including Turkish as a new language to the collection;
  
• Circle of Life challenge was rebalanced to reduce the chance of getting stuck on a loop of starvation and fatigue;
  
• Added an extra check to avoid the now rare cases of soft lock due to doors closing behind the players;
  

• Accessibility Mode has been rebalanced to bring back a few challenges that were lost in the last version. Please tell us if you feel this mode is now better or worse with them;
  
• [COM] New achievements were added to the game! Four related to the weekly challenges, the former “win a weekly challenge” achievement was changed and a new hidden achievement was added too;
  
• Five new special appliance skins were added to the game and can now be unlocked along with the new achievements;
  
• [COM] Buckets can now clean eggs spawning on the other side of the door, so players won’t see the door getting dirty again because of eggs hidden in the fog;
  
• Local players now have to set themselves as ready individually now, instead of depending on the player one to do that.
  
• Added new wall paintings for every type of room in the procedural generation;
  
• Pumpkin Gardens will now finish growing any given item before stop working due to lack of water;
  

• [COM] Analog sticks will no longer occasionally skip an option on menus or settings screens;
  
• Some dialog windows were adjusted to better fit its texts;
  
• Fixed the positions where the money earned with the Recycler and the Exercise Bicycle give is shown on screen;
  

• [COM] Cleaning players no longer turn them into cocoons with the “Hardcore Cleaning” challenge active;
  
• Fixed the position of the Fruit so it is centered again;