The Brew Barons
Update 09/27 Fixes and Fighters
- Magnus wing pitch tuning
- Refuel plane day/night glow adjusted
- Upgrade costs balance
- Sensitivity slider for manual mode orbital and lookaround camera speed
- Reverse input now requires short button hold instead of press to prevent accidental reversing
- Hangar damage speech now has a random chance to play instead of all the time
- Fix softlock in the brewery section of the tutorial
- Fix propeller trait bonus not applying to Pearl Grape
- Fix Vapor Rockets detaching after visiting bar
- Fix cockpit camera position to prevent visible pilot goggles in front of the camera
- Missiles use a new interception calculation called Proportional Navigation, which means they will more accurately intercept the target heading, instead of the current simple method of chasing from behind. Rate of turn has been decreased so the overall difficulty has not increased, but the importance of the first evasive maneuver is increased. If the first evasion is good then they will generally not turn around and keep chasing you.
- Pirate Fighter planes have been added, these are faster and much more maneuverable than the gunships so they are a bit more difficult to chase down and shoot, however they have less health and do less damage.
- Fighters and Gunships are used in various combinations, increasing in number as the game goes on. There may also be additional waves of fighters later in the game, as well as fighter variants that have different behaviours. In the later game as the number of bosses increases there will remain one gunship/fighter encounter (previously they were all removed).
Small Hotfix
- fix Vapor Wings water recharge not working
- fix overlapping ambient cars
- fix air refuelling sometime not working under certain conditions
Fixes, tuning, QOL and more plane parts update
- Gunship patrols planes now deploy a shootable swarm of slow flying kamikaze bomb drones once the player reaches sufficient fame.
- Scavenger Ornament perk now includes bomb drones. Materials or ingredient spawn chance when breaking a camp, gun tower or drone bomb.
- Further tuning of the Vacuum Boost fuselage. Removed health recovery perk in exchange for significant bolstered boosting speed to make it moderately useful for fast travel. Along with a base engine power increase to make it a bit more competitive in combat.
- Manual mode cameras now accept mouse input for looking around (for those using HOTAS or keyboard)
- Camera return input added for manual mode orbital camera, the default binding for this is F on the keyboard, but there is no default gamepad binding because we are out of buttons on the gamepad, so unfortunately if you want to use it with the gamepad you will have to choose something to unbind (I generally get rid of reverse).
- Products panel added archive checkbox so you can choose to hide recipes you don't want to see (also view archived option will display all)
- Product panel add view button which will load the bottle screen again for that brew
- Made the refuel plane easier to spot from afar with a very small pillar of light.
- Fixed an airship boss edge case during the final battle that caused the retreat phase to get stuck.
- Fixed airship sometimes failing to reset tunnel gates after subsequent battles.
- Fixed Madam Minello finger painting taunt whist retreating.
- Fixed smog dome aerial flare occasionally spawning from incorrect pirate.
- The lower ropes on the plane boss now highlight orange when the minion hatch opens to better indicate the vulnerability of the lower engines.
- Reduce chances of over-bright square looking artifacts when flying through particles
- Fixed manual mode plane control was sometimes lost after boosting at high speed
- Fixed inventory duplication going in and out of the hangar with certain heavy plane configurations
- Fixed heavy plane taking damage when exiting hangar due to insufficient buoyancy
- Fixed plane sometimes unexpectedly capsizes when docking at shipyard
- Fixed saving issue that could cause game to freeze when changing settings
- Fixed post final battle save game sometimes spawns plane at old hangar location
- Fixed sometimes repair sound does not stop playing
- Fixed Gojko-Marin story mission encounter could relocate causing mismatch with mission map icon
- Fixed Tumble Frame fuselage would cause unexpected fatal crash when performed near to water or ground
- Fixed tutorial will no longer allow collection of wheat which would cause a softlock
- Fixed Tour plane throttle hud indicator was not showing
- Fixed sunset sky would appear a bit stuttery
- Fixed if Irena is in the plane and flying at night the sky would flash after the ghosts had passed
- Fixed pirate airship boss weakpoints would sometimes not register projectile hits.
Thanks again for supporting the game, we will continue to try and make improvements.
Small fixes patch
- Fix excessive upward drift using boost targets in autopilot mode
- Fix unexpected upward deflection during boost targets with some heavy plane configurations in manual mode
- Fix Slat pontoons would sometimes never slow down on water
- Fix copter was visible in first person hud only view
- Fix FOV slider did not apply for cockpit cameras
- Plane decals take priority over trim
- Fix selecting free camera with hotkey following cockpit camera would no longer follow plane
- Fix draw distance on bomb camera
First person view, no pirates mode, new parts, fixes etc.
- First person view added with two versions for cockpit visuals on or off. Please note that the airplane art was created for visuals and style first so some of the biplanes have very poor visibility, it has also not been possible to create high resolution and functional cockpit instruments. The new cockpit views are hotkeyed to f4 (with visuals) and f5 (without) or in manual mode with the camera cycle button.
- Manual mode locked/orbital camera option has been removed, and now both can be accessed through the camera cycle sequence along with the first person views, the order is Orbital, 3rd person locked, bomb camera (heavy only), first person with visuals, first person without visuals.
- Pirate activity option, the number of pirate encounters can be chosen when starting a new game, the options are Normal which is what we currently have, Low (half the encounters) and None (no encounters). This option can be changed for a game in progress from the pause menu, however it will only take effect after saving and restarting, so make sure to dock after making the change.
- The final battle will only trigger when Pirate Activity is set to Normal, so if you have it set to None or Low and fill up the fame bar it will not happen, however if you change the setting to Normal it will then trigger after restarting. Likewise if you trigger the final battle and then change the setting to Low or None then after restarting the final battle will not take place.
- If Pirate Activity is set to None or Low then the Gojko-Marin story mission will not trigger.
- New light pontoon with fishing net trait
- New heavy pontoon with explosive damage reduction trait
Tuning:
- Canopy wings add fuel consumption bonus and increase maximum rest recovery.
- Pirate gunships minimum speed increased, rate of turn decreased
- Highlights added to certain objects to highlight what needs to be shot for certain gameplay situations
Fixes:
- Fix home indicator not working for second HQ
- fix ingredient turrets frequently not firing at all or being very inaccurate
- fix plane inventory contents doubled after resetting modifications in the hangar
- fix missing reflection for heavy pontoons
- fix black screen in floating market caused by resting for a long time
- fix missile misfire speech keeps playing incorrectly
- added some missing speech lines for pirates and copilot
- fixed speed/altitude UI overlap for widescreen users
- fix propeller collection bonus not applying to Swept Seed
- fix incorrect button focus if pause menu is opened whilst pitch down is pressed
- fix input binding for salvage minigame did not work
- fix HOTAS inputs for salvage minigame were missing
Thanks for continuing to play the game and giving us valuable feedback on where to make improvements.
Hotfix for reverse not working
- Fix reverse not working
- Fix for manual mode rudder overly responsive after transitioning back from very high speed mode to normal flight
Manual mode very high speed handling and a few other fixes and tuning
- Manual mode very high speed (500ish kts+) uses a different dynamics to make the boost targets ability much more playable
- Some people did not like manual mode stability update that was added last time so there is an option to turn it off and go back to the previous handling, you can do this in Settings/Controls/Manual mode stability
- New heavy engine
- New light engine
- Emergency Stop pontoon + 15% water tank capacity
- Ingredient Pontoons + 35% cargo capacity
- Vertical Lift wings renamed to "Ascending Lift"
- Sharpened wing model improved
- Boss health bars increased in size and end points cleared to ensure people can see when the boss just has a small amount of health remaining
- Fixed hangar camera could not view rear facing engines
- Particle motion blur fixes
- Fix bank money transfer slider could not be operated with controller
- Fix cargo transfer doubles transfer amount when using a controller
- Respawning after leaving bank could spawn in midair or crash instantly
- Rudders on the tour plane a bit more stable
Thanks again for your continued feedback and suggestions.
New parts, manual controls improvement, other fixes and balance
- Fixed ingredient rounds incorrectly drain water charge
- Ingredient rounds increase damage and decrease windup time
- Alcohol rounds decrease damage
- Vaccuum boost increase height threshold for automatic boosting
- Hangar prevent create new plane or load plane when modifications are in progress
- New light fuselage
- New heavy fuselage
- Floating market added refuel, repair, and rest
- Manual mode handling update to significantly reduce the snap back bounce as the stick is released, which would also cause some noticeable wobbling in the heavy plane at high speeds
- Rate of turn increased a bit in manual mode
- Camera position and lag tuning for manual mode cameras to try and better keep the plane in the lower portion on the screen
- Interior UI in controller mode, UI elements that can be cycled (the ones with left and right arrows) now have a new selection mode where both left and right arrows are selected, and can be cycled using the left and right navigation buttons, instead of having to navigate to the arrow and then press it. Elements that also have a central button such as the brewery dispenser, or the bottle design can activate the central button by pressing the submit button, there is no need to navigate to the button. This has been implemented for the plane modify UI, roster UI, bottle design and main menu character select, unfortunately the plane paint UI could not be converted since left/right navigation is needed to move between the controls, still thinking of a good way to handle this...
Hopefully this update will allow controller players to more easily make the kind of precise maneuvers that some of the gameplay requires, although I think controller mode will always be more difficult. Anyway if you are a controller player please let us know what you think of these changes. Thanks again for playing the game, we will keep on trying to improve the experience.
Fixes and improvements
- Fix Dijana spoiled ingredient trait sometimes applies when she is not in the plane
- Fix brewery dispose button could be pressed multiple times causing refund exploit with Dijana trait
- Fix forwards/reverse hud icon incorrect colour when exiting lz
- Fix heavy plane max health modifiers not applying for engine and propeller
- Fix burning ship quest logic keeps running after failing
- Fix bar menu buttons can be pressed too soon after boardgame complete in Ena-Franci story mission
- Fix bartender dialogue sometimes displayed empty box resulting in softlock
- Fix a softlock in the contracts section of the tutorial when it runs in the brewery
- Fix HOTAS map button does not also close the map
Balance:
- Smog dome and double team chances reduced
- Irena void mission bounds size reduced to reduce chance of getting lost
- Dijana-Nigel clothes mission clothes colliders are larger in manual mode
- Fireworks pickup colliders larger in manual mode
- Airship boss spinning tunnel spins slower in manual mode
Improvements:
- Text scaling option added to settings menu
- Keyboard pitch/yaw/roll re-centre time applies the same sensitivity slider value as pressing
- gamepad right stick can be used to control mouse pointer in menus, pressing the submit button will simulate a mouse click at the pointer location if the last input was a right stick move, otherwise pressing submit will activate the currently highlighted button
- add menu navigation for HOTAS, it uses the hat buttons for navigation, trigger for submit and another stick button for back/cancel (which button will depend on your stick)
Thanks for continuing to play the game and give us feedback, many of the items in the update are a direct result of people taking the time to give their thoughts constructively so if you have an idea please let us know, even if we don't reply immediately we do read all the comments.
Fixes and improvements
- Fixed abrupt smog dome transition.
- Fix Self Repair engine stops working after refuelling at shipyard
- Fix pirate encounter speech would not play whilst player was using boost
- Fix restarting save game from floating market in post game resulted in a very unstable plane and missing buoyancy
Tuning/Improvements
- Pirate Gunship given damage effect when under 30% hp.
- Streamlined Pontoons remain tucked whist flying fast over water. Low speed and altitude are required for deployment.
- Switching gears to reverse mode made more apparent with extra UI
- Placement of mission and contract icons on map better positioned.
- Airship vents given circling effect for better visibility.
- Smog grenade explosions expire quicker.
Snap back settings given 10second option.
- Sensitivity slider for keyboard pitch/yaw/roll inputs
- Recipe book filter options are now stacked vertically instead having to cycle through them
- Pirate harvesting encounters will now begin later in the game once the player has more fame
- Pirate smog domes and double teams will also begin at a higher fame level
- Chance of pirate smog dome deploying reduced a bit depending on difficulty (Easy is less, Hard is about the same)
New
- Recipe shop is now available at the floating market, it works the same as the owned recipe book except that it has purchase options. Cash and ingredients can be used for payment. Note that not all recipes will be available from the shop, the selection will increase as the players fame increases.
Thanks for continuing to play the game, reporting bugs and giving feedback, many of the changes above are the direct result of suggestions from players so even if we don't reply right away to your comments we do read them all and take note.