Please find a small update that fixes many small bugs and add a first version of the ship construction site. Enjoy the game !
Patch notes 0.37.02
Graphics
Added a construction site when you start to repair a ship part. More polish to come on this feature
Improved dust VFX
Sound
Added zipline SFX
Bug prevention
Improved climbing to prevent some bugs if the arrival point has no navmesh
Bug fixes
Fixed diamond and battery processing that was not working properly since the last patch
Fixed crates 3D models display
Fixed processing timer calculation
Fixed pathfinding around the medical bed
Fixed zipline speed. It no longer depends on the distance between 2 posts
Fixed ascensumophobia trait
Fixed idle item
Fixed storm bolt that was not applying the correct debuff effect
Fixed various sound volumes
Fixed various save issues
Patch notes 0.37.01 | Automation
Dear Pioneers,
Releasing a game is not an easy task. You have to manage the influx of new bugs, work on fixes, prepare major updates, take care of your growing community... After more than 3 months of intensive work, the whole team needed to take a moment to rest. That's why we took a little more time than usual to bring you this new patch.
We still took advantage of this low intensity period to set up our new offices. It's really quite new. As you can see on the picture, the computers are not even plugged in yet, but we are happy to finally have a proper place to work!
This week's patch brings you a new batch of all kinds of fixes, as well as a much-awaited feature for the community: production automation on all processing machines.
More details below. Enjoy!
Patch notes 0.37.01
Gameplay
Automation's upgrades are now available on processing machines. You can use them to batch the desired amount of material to be processed
You can also now queue automated and non-automated processing tasks
Deep rework of the looting gameplay. The crates are now specialized, visually distinguished and distributed differently on the map. The farthest loots also usually contain better rewards
Characters now appear in game in the order in which they were selected (when setting the mission)
Added a new defeat condition if the mental health of all characters (or the last one) drops to zero
UI
Added a "support the game" button in the main menu and in an easter egg in the station's hub
Added a hierarchy system to the action menu to navigate through different levels of commands
Polished action menu animations
Twitch extension
Added a leveling system to voting options. The extension is now better balanced and more interesting for both viewers and streamers. Please tell your favorite content creator to give it a try!
Bug fixes
Improved pathfinding system to avoid most of "I prefer to turn around this thing instead of using it" issues
Fixed a bug that made the crashed probe inaccessible since the lakes update
Fixed a bug on character selection
Fixed Maggie that were sometimes not visible when the roof was displayed
Thank you for playing the latest build. We know it's far from perfect, but we'll be improving the player XP and trait systems as we work on the next update. In this week's push, expect some interesting changes, fixes and new features. Please read this note for more details.
Patch notes 0.36.02
Gameplay
Added new feature: Recycle. You can now dismantle existing machines and modules. Use the construction terminals to start the recycling process and recover half of the invested resources. This feature has been requested by many of you. We hope it will help!
At start of each day, average temperature increase is now displayed
Graphics
New VFX: Camera particles before storms
New VFX Cascade before storms
New VFX: Psschhhhhhh psschhhhhhh when you open a life pod
New VFX: Foot steps dust
New shader: Liquid/solid sulfur lakes
New camera shot at game launch
UI
Improved traits selection system: animations, VFX, SFX has been added to make the feature smoother
Improved a lot of tooltips, especially on machines
Added new tips in the loading screen
Twitch extension
Fixed subs/bits calculation
Improved viewer overlay usability
Bug fixes
Fixed a rare bug that prevented some new games to be started
Fixed a pathfinding bug that caused some navigation problems in fully installed modules
Fixed cave entries that were sometimes unselectable
MAJOR UPDATE #1 | Player XP, traits, game modes, Twitch Extension and more...
Dear Pioneers,
We hope all has been well for you. At Supercube, we are super proud to release the first major update for The Pioneers. According to the roadmap announcement, this is the first game changing patch from a serie of six that will lead us to the 1.0 release
Let's have a quick overview of what is new here
Difficulty settings
Game setup now has options to adjust the mission's difficulty. Play with different parameters or use a preset to fit your skills and overall challenge. Just note that harder games lead to higher scores
Player XP
The end-game score has been changed to include the missions difficulty. You should now see a larger spread of scores between different players and runs. The score is also converted into player XP, to progress through player levels. For each level you gain, you unlock a unique reward that will offer you to replay the game in a different setting
Game modes
Based on your player XP, you will unlock new game modes to choose from. At the moment, we have implemented two modes, but this system is going to evolve in the future to offer a lot of new scenarios and challenges. Here are the modes available now:
Survivor mode: enjoy the vanilla experience of the game with only... one survivor. Apocalypse mode: start the game with an active volcano...
Traits
Based on your player XP, you will also unlock personality traits to customize your characters. Before launching a mission, you can add positive and negative traits to your selected survivors. For each positive trait you must have a negative trait, but you can have more negative traits than positive overall. :)
Characters
You now have to unlock characters through the progression system if you want to select them at the beginning of a mission
Twitch Extension
We are very excited about the beta version of The Pioneers Twitch Extension (Chat Revenge). We hope you will enjoy it as much as we had fun to design it. Do not hesitate to ping your favorite streamer to try it.
How does it work?
In this game mode, you can influence the environment to ruin your streamers life and prevent them from achieving their survival goal
Community votes
Each round lasts between 6 and 12 minutes. During this phase of the game, you can vote for the penalty you want to inflict on your streamer among the 6 random disasters proposed, using the interface of the extension. You can change your mind, but only your last vote is taken into account. The votes of the whole chat are counted and sorted by popularity at the top of the streamers screen
Subs/bits
During each round, you can increase the difficulty of the game by using subs or bits. Each contribution raises the difficulty and triggers more penalties among those chosen by the community
End of each round
At the end of the round, all the penalties are activated and the streamer faces the disasters that the chat has chosen. The added difficulty from bits will expire, and a new round of suffering begins
Note
If the difficulty level maxes out, extra subs/bits roll over into increasing the difficulty of the next round. Of course, subs and bits work as usual and only go to the streamer
OTHER CHANGES (v 0.36.01)
Gameplay
Since many of you asked us to rework the end-game, seismic activity and heat system have been balanced to avoid soft-locking situations. You will now have more occasions to explore the map, even if the seismic activity has raised to a very difficult point
Reworked EVA cooling module. It slows heat increase instead of cancel it
Added new possible spawn points for radioisotopes
Added new possible spawn points for crew life pods
UI
Added station inventory button in the left HUD
Graphics
Added a burn shader effect when a character walks in sulfur lakes
Added a transparency shader effect on characters
Balancing
Increased fruit farm cost (from 7 carbon nanotubes to 15 carbon nanotubes and 2 electronic parts)
Bug fixes
Fixed character XP system that was sometimes buggy
Fixed panic attacks that could be canceled if mental health is higher than zero
All the team thank your for your support and hope you will enjoy those additions. Do not hesitate to join us on Discord and share your feedback!
To celebrate this update, we are participating in the spring sales and offering a 15% discount for one week.
As promised, we have started to expand the localization of the game. In this first batch, we added German, Russian and Swedish languages. They can be selected in the settings menu.
We also worked with 2 amazing American translators to rework/polish the existing English localization. Since the previous version had many translation flaws, this new one should improve your overall experience of the game, especially if you are a native English speaker.
People involved have joined us in the game credits. A big thank you to the whole localization team!
We hope you will enjoy this patch!
Patch notes 0.35.05
Localization
Added new localization: German
Added new localization: Russian
Added new localization: Swedish
Revamped English localization (USA)
Gameplay
Added new spawn locations for crew life pods
Added new action on crew life pods: steal oxygen
Bug fixes
Fixed various missing terrain assets
Fixed resource quantity display
Fixed a bug in the crafting menu that prevented some recipes from being completed if they had a prerequisite
Fixed station inventory UI
Fixed long text strings display
Fixed a small bug in the save system that could prevent some games from loading correctly
Fixed Jonas Winter biography
Patch notes 0.35.04 | Carry your mates
We've all experienced that strange feeling, somewhere between disappointment and anger, of watching your friend choke a metre away from the station because he forgot his EVA suit. That is finally over. Download the 0.35.04 update and help him out!
Patch notes 0.35.04
Gameplay
New feature: carry a crew member. This is a very rough first version of the feature that the whole community has been waiting for. This one will certainly save many lives!
Characters now start a mission with a personal item
New way to interact with lost life pods
New zipline positioning system
Storm alert is now triggered when the electric charge VFX appears
Balancing
We tried to give you more breathing room between two earthquakes without reducing the overall difficulty curve of the current game by balancing two values: - average time between seismic period slightly increased - average speed of magnitude rise slightly increased
Other additions
New buttons in UI left bar: station inventory shortcut & placeholders for future updates
Improved video settings: you can now switch between several monitors
Bug prevention
Improved zipline system to prevent major bugs (End of task)
Bug fixes
Fixed displayed amount of collected resources by automation upgrades
Patch notes 0.35.03
Dear Pioneers,
Once again, this regular update focuses on improving the overall playing experience: new video and accessibility settings, bug fixes and UI improvements have been implemented to make the game run more smoothly to everyone. In parallel, we have started working on the major gameplay update that will arrive in March.
Enjoy the game and see you soon!
Patch notes v0.35.03
Gameplay
Jetboots now improve move speed
Balancing
Decreased oxygen leakage on large breaches (10/sec -> 5/sec)
Reversed last change on starting food rations (7 -> 9)
Other additions
Updated building UI for better understanding of what what can be built
Improved game settings: temperature units. Default unit for US/UK configurations is set to °F
Improved accessibility settings: UI rescaling
Improved accessibility settings: zoom with keyboard instead of mouse
Improved video settings: gamma adjustement
Improved video settings: brightness adjustement
Improved video settings: FOV (very helpful for 32:9 screen resolutions)
New localization system to prepare future language additions (Russian, German and Swedish are coming soon)
Graphics
Added a visual effect when travelling in jetboots
Bug prevention
Language fallback to display the english string if a localization is missing
Improved zipline system to prevent major bugs (WIP)
Bug fixes
Fixed loading bug where a character could appear on the roof of the station
Fixed task queue which could sometimes cause a character to run in a straight line for no reason
Fixed main UI character panel. Action icons are now correctly removed when a character exits an action
Fixed various notifications and localizations
Patch 0.35.02 | Welcome Akiko!
Dear Pioneers,
Big news are coming in these patch notes. Please read the following announcement, try or retry the game and join us on Discord to share your feedback. https://discord.gg/thepioneersgame
Akiko is a 40 years old exogeologist, daughter of Japan industry Minister Nobuo Takada. Her mother Yumi Takada is also well-known for being one of the leaders of The Great Gaïa Church. She studied geological risks at the University of Kyoto and graduated with two PhD in mineral analysis and exogeology.
During her studies, she became involved in politics and joined an environmentalist NGO as a spokesperson. Her wisdom and charisma, in addition to her exceptional scientific capabilities, allowed her to take a very important role in the organization.
Thanks to her growing fame, she quickly had the opportunity to work where she always wanted to and joined the Red Destination Company as Chief Operator of the Lunar Helium-3 Extraction Base. She gained a lot of experience and participated in different perilous space missions, making her an exceptional astronaut. She left Red Destination in 2082 to join Octal Corporation and began preparing for the Io-1 mission.
Akiko is a valuable member of the Io-1 crew. She not only brings a very solid scientific and space mining knowledge, but also her incredible personality and psychological skills. Akiko is a wise and calm woman, with a very poetic and philosophical way of approaching problems. She is committed to respect and team values and is considered a rock to rely on by her teammates. On earth, she loves hiking, nature photography and meditation.
Gameplay
New character: Akiko Takada
Added a queueable action. It is now possible to use the main airlock when planning your tasks
Keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in various tooltips to help you master the game's controls
Balancing
With the arrival of Akiko, character skills have been reworked. Check out the new character sheets before setting your strategy!
Balanced carbon drills and rare earth drills costs. It is now necessary to spend advanced resources to build drills.
Started to add more challenge to hunger management by adjusting some values: - Increased the cost of processing fruits into food rations (0.5 -> 1) - Reduced food rations stored in the first loot (9 -> 7) - Slightly reduced food rations loot rate
Graphics
Reworked hand drill visual effect: more visible laser and particles!
The name of each crew member is now correctly displayed in the main UI
Bug prevention
Implemented a first batch of fixes to make climbing action more resilient. More will come in future patches.
Reinforced interior pathfinding calculation system to avoid various errors
Bug fixes
Fixed Maggie's behavior. It (she?) is now correctly protected from storms by the roof of the station
Fixed Maggie's notifications
Fixed a major bug that would freeze a character when sharing equipment while in the medipod
Fixed sulphur lake collider
Fixed sulphur pit triggering
Fixed chat action that could sometimes cause a minor bug
Fixed various interaction bugs in UI panels
Fixed various notifications and localizations
Steam
The 1st version of the German Steam store page is now live!
Patch notes 0.35.01
Tired of searching the last shuttle part?
Fortunately, they now have flashing lights!
Patch notes v0.35.01
Additions
Shuttle parts are now more visible (scale & lights)
Reworked pathfinding system to be more efficient at long range
Added notifications on crafting actions
Improved video settings: vsync (WIP)
Improved video settings: quality presets now change texture resolution
Bug prevention
Added a safety feature to prevent character location errors
Fixed station inventory reservation system to prevent conflicts between characters
Bug fixes
Fixed pathfinding issues when machines are installed in a module
Fixed a visual bug that appeared when a character was repairing a breach
Fixed medipod reservation system
Fixed a bug that could make it impossible to store the EVA suit
Fixed energy gauge not being displayed correctly after a character left the medipod
Fixed continue button that were displayed in the main menu even if all saves had been deleted
Fixed breach repair UI indicator
Fixed a bug that allowed a character to share oxygen without an EVA suit
Fixed image size in UI notifications
Fixed game disclaimer that was not correctly displayed in 32:9 resolution
Fixed various menus to be correctly displayed in 32:9 resolution
Fixed personal items. They are now all linked to the correct character
Fixed resource tooltips that would show a storage limit even if the resource did not have one
Fixed a duplicate video setting in the main menu
Fixed victory conditions panel. Progression is now correctly displayed
