Wastelander
Update notes June 8th
In the meantime the current version got some visibility from a few youtube videos which brought an influx of new playtesters. From watching these videos we noticed that intro experience was pretty terrible. A lot of game mechanics were not explained and surprised players or ended up unused. As a result, the vast majority of testers were unable to win games at all.
Better communication and smoothing out the learning curve will definitely be a bigger priority for the Unity release. The game is meant to be hard but that difficulty shouldn't be due to poor communication.
Changes:
+ Tutorial now has much more information and more steps than before. This might be further expanded if necessary in the future
+ Your closest ore and water are now revealed on game start (all difficulties)
+ Bug fixes
+ Leaderboard shows difficulty along with your score
Match latest beta branch
Update notes 31/01/2022
+ new mechanic "drops" - storms uncover drops around the map. These drops provide powerful reward choices when connected to your base and can be modified by augments
+ new mechanic "deployments" - in addition to drops offering blueprint options they can also offer a deployment option which replaces the drop tile with a powerful rare building
+ new mechanic "defense protocol" - ruins have this additional option. Deploys shields around the ruin to create a small safe area for base building
+ new augment "storm overload" - undefended batteries are always hit by storms. Batteries destroyed by storms explode levelling adjacent mountains and unprotected buildings
+ new augment "hab module" - deploys grass in a circle around your base
+ new augment "expansionist" - future events will not have a blueprint or deployment reward but will leave behind a frontier post in addition to the option you chose. Frontier posts are shielded and provide +1 water and +1 power per turn while connected
+ new augment "reactive coating" - buildings destroyed by storms leave behind a scrap shield
+ new building "hydraulic fracturing pump" - converts adjacent sand and mountain tiles to water while connected (deployment only)
+ new augment "careless archaeology" - this ruin is destroyed. Connection to it is no longer required for victory
+ map gen - tall mountains have been removed from the game. All buildings that were fixed to them have been distributed among other tile tiles
+ map gen - lava and water spawn with a small clearing now allowing for more base building and larger open spaces overall
changes
+ minishield now shields all surrounding tiles (not just adjacent) but can only be built on water. Resource cost changed from -1 power per turn to -1 water per turn
+ biodome grass radius increased to 2 (was 1). Now a deployment building only (no longer in core building pool)
nerfs
+ overwhelming industry - now gives +1 to all metal producers instead of 2x metal income
+ sub zero battery - energy storage reduced to 8 (was 12)
+ volcanic mineral filter - metal cost increase to 5 (was 4)
buffs
+ hybrid storage - cost reduced to 5 metal (was 7) to make it more spammable. Storage it provides has been reduced to 2/2/2
bug fixes
+ fixed issue with loading save files losing you a turn
+ node tiles no longer multiply negative income. Multiplier only applies to positive income
+ recycler refunds water when recycling aqueducts