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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 45

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♪　THE LABS ARE RUNNING OVERTIME　♪

We're reworking a lot of larger strategy-mode stuff in this patch. There's a bunch of new content, a few placeholder contents, and general balance changes to fill out strategy mode.

The strategy AI got a general rewrite to handle economy better - now it will correctly mine crystals and use them to create units. If you control the crystals, you control the enemy. Don't let it expand to take over too many crystal areas, it will overwhelm you. Turtling inside your base will likely not go well for you!

Base building now requires a Cosmic Plug building. This will mean expanding to take a new crystal area, or control somewhere defensively, is a significant investment. Make sure you pick the right place and keep your base expansions safe.

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There are some work in progress buildings - the hypno tower, the turret, and the enemy heart. These will get graphical upgrades soon, but they need some testing in strategy context. Hypno tower will fill your vision with cosmic madness. Turrets will simply shoot you.

The enemy heart building is the new win condition - push the enemy back and destroy it to finish the round. We'll be making it more challenging in upcoming patches.

There's a huge amount of balance, timing and pricing tweaks to list one-by-one. We're doing playtests daily and changing things wildly as we go. Stay tuned and any balance/testing feedback is super useful right now; the 1.0 patch is really soon so only a few more cycles of balance tweaking to go.

PS: leaderboards will be wiped soon!

Changelist:

update unity to 5.5.2p4

reworked waterfall scene spawn area

reworked enemy AI strategy / economy

added new building cosmic plug building

added new enemy slippy boy

added placeholder enemy heart structure

added placeholder enemy hypno structure

added placeholder enemy turret structure

added health bars to enemy buildings

added resource patches to minimap

added spawn areas with starting base

added fabricator multi-disk insert

changed to allow many workers to kill enemy structure

changed many balance / economy settings

changed to allow tool usage while map open

fixed building hologram placement

fixed compressor battery ejecting bug

fixed crash bug (unity bug)

fixed crash when roller enemy target dies

fixed crystal occupation handling for worker drones

fixed enemies getting stuck half-dead

fixed enemies pathfinding through player bases

fixed enemies spawning at 0,0,0

fixed enemy building rune pull range too high

fixed friend bot not enabled, oops

fixed macaroon shooting dead objects

fixed many cave collider issues

fixed many general movement issues

fixed many pathfinding issues

fixed map buttons colliding when closed

fixed map various issues

fixed orb enemy collision issues

fixed physics drag on items in water

fixed score uploading when lose round

fixed skybox in post-death sequence

fixed various enemy builder bugs

improve building placement to show invalid location

improved builder enemy general movement between bases

improved haptics on death sequence

improved map icons sizes

improved minimap performance when lots of enemies

improved money UI positioning

improved workers handling full compressor

reduced HUD enemy notification range

reduced drone enemy scan range

removed teleporter rune locks

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 44

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♪　FRESH FROM THE LABS　♪

Today is a big change! We've added a whole new segment of map that pat has been working hard on for a very long time. Try it out in strategy mode. This also marks a large change in strategy mode - the map is much larger now and you'll have to play a lot differently. Capture important nodes and hold them against them enemy. Use your crystals efficiently because they will run out. Don't let the enemy pressure you back too much, but keep your areas protected!

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The bubble slingshot wasn't working out as fun as we hoped. While slingshot aiming is a kind of fun mechanic, for the bubble it didn't really add any value. It's now a bit more simplified and less about single shots and more about just dropping a pile of bubbles to cover/protect an area. It should be easier to use as an off-hand weapon now, and be worthy of spending resources on upgrading. Bubbles now do damage when they burst, and they will burst over time if left alone.

Finally we have health bars for drones, enemies and buildings. Sorry for the delay! We actually tried a bunch of styles that didn't work so we kept scrapping the idea, but it turned out okay this time. There's also a neat new damage flash effect. Enemies also now drop crystal and ectoplasm 'loot' pickups.

We've added some path-finding to allow drones to travel across the node structure instead of in straight lines. Enemies will be using similar logic to travel across the map - it's a bit rough in this first version, we're still improving it so hold out for next patch.

Please drop any feedback on strategy mode, it should play quite differently to earlier builds!

PS: leaderboards will be wiped soon!

Changelist:

update to unity 5.5.2p2

added new cave area

added new bubble gun

added crystal loot drops

added new hit point display

added new damage flash effects

added path highlights on map

added new pathfinding

added support for teleport by touch+trigger

added loot drop config per enemy type

changed bubble to auto-pop after time

changed bubble to damage on pop

changed crystals to not regen anymore in wave mode

changed economy balance overall

changed spawn points to edges of map

fixed battle bots orbit in confined spaces

fixed friend bot eye in spaceship

fixed harvest beam getting stuck

fixed macaroon bullets when macaroon get hit

fixed rare crash in coroutines

fixed some missing audio cues

fixed teleporters becoming non-interactable

fixed various collider issues

improved drone local movement

improved ectoplant collision

improved enemy building placements

improved enemy local movement

improved enemy spawn effect

improved fog visual settings

improved friend drone physics

improved graphics in waterfall stage

improved various haptics

increased crystal patch resource

increased fabricator build speed

increased worker mining speed

removed dual wield research requirement

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 43

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♪　FRESH FROM THE LABS　♪

We've reworked research and upgrades - there should be lots of different approaches to the research path you take now.

The bots now all have an upgraded version which costs more and is generally more effective at everything. They're slightly larger and sparkly for now, and cost a little more. Build the research building to unlock the disks for purchase.

The weapons now all have three levels of upgrade, and they are all unlocked from the start. The default power level is slightly less than before, but the upgraded versions are more powerful. The shield now also can do a shield-bash for damage. Build the research buildings to automatically power up the weapons.

We added a new Beacon building. This is still being worked on in the design, but right now when activated it will bring a lot of attention from enemies to that particular area. It might not be super useful right now but when the strategy map is expanded it should have more use as a decoy/lure.

Finally, just a lot of fixes and tweaks, optimizations and balance changes. With all the new research and unlock related changes balance is quite likely to need tweaking - please drop feedback on the forums or discord!

UPDATE: we also moved office this week and fixed a ton of bugs - finally got a build up!

Changelist:

update to unity 5.5.1p3

added new beacon structure

added new menu icons for research buildings

added homing toward ectoplants for disc

added teleport by trigger

added upgraded battery

added upgraded bomb

added upgraded tools (default, +1, +2)

added upgraded version of each bot

added ectoplants to waterfall

changed strategy 0.5 to spawn some scouting groups

changed all tools start unlocked

changed shield mechanics (dmg on hit, shockwave on break)

changed starting resource values

disabled GPU jobs, slight performance drop (unity 5.1.1p3 crash bug)

fixed crystal crash when fully used up

fixed bomb not killing ectoplant

fixed debug wave call calling too many waves

fixed map UI scale issues

fixed map zoom extents

fixed player/enemy starting in wrong node sometimes

fixed roller enemy ai in waterfall

fixed slingshot bubble audio

fixed various localizations

fixed various roller enemy logic

increase strategy 0.5 expansion rates

increase waterfall scene platform size

optimize enemy spawn blob effects

optimize scene performance

optimize waterfall scene

reduce wave rate in chill mode

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 42

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GIANT UPDATE.

We have a new Waterfall map. This is a simple wave mode for now, with some nice new scenery for you to enjoy. It's much larger than it looks. We'll likely be adding some specific mechanics for this map as time goes on.

Added new chill mode; this is desert wave mode, but at a much lower pace and more relaxed play style. If you want to take it easy, or just experiment, this is the mode for you.

We've changed a ton of balance related stuff, and economy / research related stuff. You'll have to buy the new research buildings to unlock / upgrade tools. The drones are generally much stronger overall. Difficulty curves for waves and strategy 0.5 is smoother at the start but still ramps up well.

The strategy 0.5 mode now has a new enemy builder which flies around and builds (instead of buildings magically appearing). There are also now two building types - each one spawns different enemy types.

If you had any issues with previous balance, please try out the waves mode, waterfall or strategy 0.5 modes and let us know how you feel about the changes! (discord or steam forums)

IMPORTANT: a lot of people had a crash issue - we painstakingly built a repro case and unity managed to get the bug fixed. Thanks everyone who submitted reports, it's super helpful. Thanks to everyone in discord helping test out the builds as we experimented. <3

Changelist:

update to unity 5.5.1p1 (fixes recent crash)

added new waterfall map

added new chill mode

added new enemy building type

added new builder type enemy

added new ship menu icons

added new tool research building types

added audio for slingshot

added control lines between map teleporter nodes

added limit single research building per type

added mini ectoplant patch

added new icons / effects to minimap

added sfx for bomb

added particles when roller enemy hits something

added weak attack for worker drones

added tooltips to game mode selectors

fixed crash in friend bot audio playback

fixed crystal material render issue

fixed drone damage particles stuck on

fixed hit effects on roller enemy when invincible

fixed laser bot drag when pulled soemtimes

fixed various localization isues

fixed audio background loading bug

fixed bubble enemy not taking damage when popped

fixed crash when harvesting depleted crystal

fixed physics so physical collisions can damage

fixed roller enemy taking no damage from assault bot

fixed various leaderboard issues

fixed various map issues

optimized ectoplant area enormously

optimized fabricator particles

optimized world rendering

improved antibody movements / attacks

improved assault drone movement / attacks

improved assault drone orbiting tower

improved friend drone movement

improved drone movement between nodes

improved controller graphics when using minimap

improved death sequence placement / effects

improved plant pot effects in spaceship

improved structure placement check to be less strict

improved wave difficulty curve

improved drone thruster particles

improved strategy0.5 mode general mechanics

improved wave mode general mechanics

changed roller enemy to damage buildings

changed shield to do damage on hitting enemy

increased drone health overall

increased drone damage overall

increased turret damage

increased worker drone efficiency

increased initial bot population cap

reduce assault drone attack range

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 41

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Lots of exciting changes and new stuff today. First off, we have the first pass of the Command Map in the game. Here you can quickly get an overview of the world, and command your bots from point to point. As the strategy maps expand to cover larger areas, this becomes super necessary.

Secondly, we added a new grenade item that you can use to make use of ectoplasm. This is sort of a panic / emergency item that you'll want to use when things are in trouble. It makes it worthwhile to keep control of ectoplasm resources.

Thirdly, we overhauled the game modes and shifted some of the strategy-like wip content into the wave modes. This means the wave/survival modes will have all the research buildings and upgrades, drone population caps, etc. The game modes right now are:

Tutorial: simple 10 wave introduction

Waves: survive as long as possible (leaderboards)

Strategy 0.5: simplified strategy mode - destroy all enemy buildings

Endless: constant stream of enemies

Strategy 1.0: still working on this

Wave mode now ramps up significantly faster, and the hard mode is removed. You should have a lot more tools to try different ways of approaching things now. Tutorial is now capped to 10 waves before returning to the menu. You'll have to build the research buildings to unlock various upgrades, and build drone populators to increase your drone cap.

Upcoming changes include ongoing balance tweaks and visual improvements, a new wave mode map (very different style!), the expanded strategy map (3x the current size), and more enemy RTS buildings.

We're still balancing all these new changes, so please write some feedback if you have some thoughts on the state of things!

Changelist:

upgraded to Unity 5.5.0p4

upgraded to steamvr plugin 1.2.0

added new grenade weapon

added new command map

added new return to menu

added new enemy building visual effects

added randomized spawn points

rework game modes (tutorial, waves, pods, endless)

fixed battery getting stuck half into slot

fixed roller enemy animation scale issues

fixed bot movement invalid math in rare cases

fixed bubbles invalid scale values in rare cases

fixed macaroon shot causing unusual unity crash bug

fixed slingshot audio leaking

fixed weapon closing after changing weapon

fixed excess log file printing on startup

fixed various localization issues

optimized ground collision dust particles

optimized audio import / load times

improved thrown object physics

improved dropped ectoplasm effects

improved roller enemy effects

increased drone movement speed between nodes

increased defender bot damage

increased assault bot fire rate

decreased roller enemy health

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 40

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Hope everyone had a good holiday break. We're all back from various places on the planet, and getting rolling again with work. Today's patch is some tweaks and balance fixes, and new Leaderboards for the wave mode players.

We're still trying to track down a rare unity crash, any info would be helpful. We're updating to a new version for this build - if you had the crash and it went away with this change, please let us know!

Changelist:

upgrade to Unity 5.5.0p3

added leaderboards

change wave mode spawns to attack various bases

change wave mode crystals to be used / respawn

added spaceship gravity change switch

added spaceship airlock switch

added spaceship disco lights

added spaceship funky plants

tweak balance to be harder in general

fix incorrect starting crystal count

fix roller enemy crash

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 39

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Work continues on the minimap, command mode and new extended stage. We are experimenting with a variety of ways to handle RTS style commands - trying to find something that feels natural for RTS, but in a native VR kind of way. We'll have some builds of that coming in the new year.

For today's changelist we just have a few tweaks that should improve gameplay in the current modes. Wave mode now handles multiple bases, so it should be a little more challenging trying to keep multiple areas active. Swarm mode was much too easy, so it's been tuned to be much harder now.

The medic bot was expensive and not very effective at healing. It now should move around and heal much faster with less animation/movement delays, and the price is cheaper. This should help keep your unattended bots alive for multiple base management.

There's a rare crash right now in the physics system. We're trying to track it down - if you have any info please let us know!

Changelist:

upgrade to Unity 5.5.0p2

improve portal travel timing

increase pods mode difficulty

add enemy kill sound effects

add more secrets toys to spaceship

change friend drone to stay away more

change wave mode to spawn at multiple bases

increase all drone health

increase ectoplasm drop rates

reduce medic bot price

reduce various ectoplasm costs

improve frisbee homing calculation

improve medic bot faster moving and healing

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 38

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Today we have a new game-mode that will let us start testing some of the features for the RTS mode. Swarm mode will start spawning enemy pods around the other areas of the map, which will expand and capture adjacent nodes. These pods will spawn enemies which will assault your base, and you'll have to dive in and pull off the ruin pieces to destroy them.

This is a simplified version of some of the mechanics we are experimenting with for RTS mode - we can use this to test moving out into capturing and expanding multiple areas, and have some feeling of fighting back an enemy base. We'll start adding some of the other enemy buildings over the next few builds to make it more interesting.

This mode also has a new set of research buildings which you use to unlock upgrades, and access to tools and weapons. This is still work in progress, feel free to drop some feedback. There is also a population cap increase building, which you'll need to build a lot of to get a large drone army.

We're also working on a map/minimap, which will give you a better overview of where the enemy is and what's going on. This will help for the new environment we are working on that is 3-4x larger than the current one. It's a while away but it will make things much more interesting!

Finally we have a bunch of fixes, tweaks and improvements. We reworked batching and occlusion culling for some good performance gains, which will be necessary on the new larger map. This let's unity handle some things more efficiently than how we were doing it before too.

We made some tweaks to friendbot so he will be a little less in your face -- especially when using the menu. This should help those who were having not a fun time with it.

Changelist:

add debug helper for broken vive controller touchpads

add new teleporter area to main map

add population placeholder building (swarm mode)

add swarm game mode

add research placeholder buildings (swarm mode)

add tool upgrades (swarm mode)

change friendbot to avoid player when menu in use

change friendbot to idle around when thrown away

change physics timestep to 100hz

change shield to have cooldown after broken

fix build menu tilting after placement

fix crash on invalid controller index

fix fabricator building over population limit

fix roller enemy spawning on non-terrain

fix spawn circles staying alive

improve disc weapon trail

improve roller enemy chase player

improve roller enemy death effects

improve roller enemy knockback on shield

improve roller enemy slide effecst

improve static batching (performance)

improve occlusion culling (performance)

increase compressor refine crystal time

increase disc weapon charge times

increase disc weapon homing force

increase ectoplasm attract speed

increase friendbot approach range

optimize enemy movement ai

optimize status UI being drawn when not visible

reduce assault drone scan range

reduce range of HUD notify arrows

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 37

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Roller enemy. A combination of ancient artifact stones and alien goop hive mind, this one is a large and dangerous enemy. Keep your shield handle to block it's large melee strikes and slams. It's still a work-in-progress so please give us some feedback. It should show up around wave 10 or so.

Another set of optimizations and fixes for this patch. We're making sure performance stays smooth from build to build, which is a challenge for VR.

Finally, we're working away on all the pieces and parts of strategy mode, and expanding the map to fit the new mechanics. Stay tuned!

Changelist:

add roller enemy

add secret hypercube

balance economy pass

fix achievement text localizations

fix assault bot going to wrong node sometimes

fix audio caching not working correctly

fix disc hit shaking buildings

fix disc not colliding with crystals

fix enemy egg spawn particles  

fix fabricator crash when removing disk

fix handling vr headset sleep mode

fix turret disk slot by disable for now

fix turret not shooting if battery empty

fix vacuum effect when using tool

fix various achievement issues

fix various scene collisions

fix various slingshot bugs

fix worker drone carried item lagging behind

fix worker drones delivery to multiple compressors

change tool select to show lock state

improve fabricator sparks effect

improve vacuum particle effects

improve various particle effects

increase worker drone turn rate

optimize assault drone animations

optimize drone / enemy travel code

optimize menu icon materials

optimize sand ripple scene area

optimize scene loading time

tweak sand shimmer pfx

update LOD for all drones and enemies

update amplify color plugin

update to unity 5.5b11

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 36

Hello friends! Welcome to the Scientific Research Vehicle, Vibes. This will be your base of operations between missions, and hopefully a nice place to chill out in VR. We'll be adding bits and pieces to it over time (custom game settings, etc).

Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/models/d0d1a329c5034678a0fb46697d07c840

We have also done another pass at optimization to handle the expanding map area for ongoing strategy mode work. Keeping on top of VR performance is time consuming but super important for a smooth experience. We'll be continuing to focus on that so that the 1.0 release stays smooth.

Beyond that is a just a handful of minor fixes and tweaks. Ongoing work for strategy + research systems, plus some new enemy / building types. Stay tuned!

Changelist:

add F6 demo mode shortcut

add bubble slingshot tutorial

add input-specific config files

balance various slingshot settings

change friend bot to idle away more

change laser bot to prioritize large enemy

change untracked controllers to show hologram

enable better scene lighting effects

fix fabricator not using battery charge

fix handling achievements not loading

fix harvest beam color

fix invisible text renderings

fix localization text color values

fix missing colliders on hilltop

fix onscreen hud arrow batching

fix randomize resource patches

fix shield tool scale

increase starting money

optimize air fish renderer

optimize on steamvr update

optimize portal effect performance

optimize scene mesh batching

prevent enemies from attacking in tutorial

remove turret from demo scene

tweak anti-aliasing for better quality

tweak lod for better quality

tweak shadow for better quality

various achievement fixes

various script optimizations

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 34

Hello friends! We've just returned from our trip all about California. We attended Oculus Connect 3 and Steam Dev Days 2016, trying to learn and share everything we can about VR development from the best and brightest in the industry. We were also fortunate enough to demo at IndieCade, which is always full of interesting games that are inspiring to see.

This week's build just has some minor hotfixes, no more events for the next two weeks so stay tuned!

Changelist:

fix disc weapon homing

fix disc dropping into floor when cancelled

fix missing asset on turret bullet

update tween plugin

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 33

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Today's new feature is the bubble slingshot. The disc weapon is a combat staple, but sometimes  you need to have tools to support your combat bots, rather than simply add more damage. The bubble slingshot lets you set up a zone of control with bubbles that will snare the enemy. To recharge bubbles you shake the controller, of course.

It's especially useful for keeping your worker drones safe by dropping a bubble zone around the crystal area. There is still some polish and tweaks on-going for this weapon, so feedback would be very welcome - how/why it was useful to you, what felt good or bad, etc.

The minor bonus feature today is a new wave mode 'Hyper'. This is some tweaked wave mode settings that spawns steadily over time, all over the map. We tested with some night mode lighting to see how that feels - this is also work in progress!

Changelist:

added hyper wave mode

added night scene

optimize tutorial scene

added environmental ruins

cleanup internal pylon code

optimize worker drone scanning

fix rare crash on object kill

fix battery lock in demo mode

fix many particles not destroying after completion

fix turret insert holograms not appearing

fix bug causing objects to travel to infinity

change disc melee to not break

tweak disc homing force up

improve disc melee hit detection

improve disc melee hit effects

demo mode turret infinite charge, faster shot

rts mode work in progress

spaceship work in progress

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

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COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 32

We've added a new transition effect for moving between scenes and starting up the game. You can see it in action here:

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Today's build also has a ton of fixes, polish and internal updates. We upgraded to Unity 5.5, replaced our particle effects plugin and fixed a ton of outstanding bugs. The particle system was taking 3-4ms per frame (out of 10ms~ total), and now it is down to 0.5ms. There should be a good performance improvement for anyone who was CPU bound before.

Steam was not overwriting config files when we updated them if they were locally modified, so we split the Default.json file into two parts: Default.json which is read-only now, and overwritten by updates; and User.json where you can add values to overwrite the defaults. This will not be overwritten when steam updates - there is a version value now so make sure you keep them synced.

tldr: hypercube transition, large cpu optimization, many fixes

Changelist:

update to unity 5.5

add User.json for custom config overwrites

add async level loading during transition

add controller handedness detection

add demo mode

add demo thanks for playing text

add new hypercube transition scene

add player hit sounds

add pre-placed buildings on tutorial

add tutorial helper icons

add versioning to user config files

add config settings for wave spawn amounts

change Default.json game settings to be readonly

change balance (assault drone price down, defender price up)

change battery slots to be locked during tutorial

change hud reticle to scale with enemy radius

change menu to allow point and click

change tutorial popups to have different colors

change tutorial to be shorter and simpler

fix assault bot trail effects

fix collision issue on tutorial scene

fix collision layers on structure buttons

fix demo mode wave timing

fix drone beam effect orientation

fix economy tutorial spinning with icon

fix ectoplant / crystals on tutorial scene

fix ectoplasm receive particles not destroying

fix friend bot double confetti

fix grabbing multiple turrets simultaneously

fix harvest particles on drone

fix medic bot beams error

fix menu input not working after bot touching

fix menu opening

sound wrong sometimes

fix mesh combiner duplicate warnings

fix mobius effect on turret

fix rotation on vr rig setup

fix some incorrect shield collision flags

fix spatialization on hud sounds

fix turret controller holograms showing up incorrectly

fix tween crash on menu

fix various tutorial text

improve disc weapon homing curve

improve shield regen effect

improve turret gun sounds

improve turret haptics

increase fighter bot health

optimize particle effects (removed particle playground)

optimize synth menu close check

optimize tutorial enemy queries

reduce ectoplant patch density

reduce fighter drone scan range

remove index numbers on tutorial

remove particle playground plugin

disable twitch in demo mode

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

Stay funky!

[funktroniclabs]

COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 31

This week we added a new experimental HUD display for health / damage, and for notifying nearby enemies. This helps a lot to track down the last few enemies in a wave. It will be useful for tracking sneakier enemies in strategy mode in the future.

https://gfycat.com/FatherlyMajorAffenpinscher

We also have some solid performance improvements in this build. After various experimentation we did some custom mesh combining scripts for unity which helped a lot (see below for link to code).

Our internal build last week had a few issues so we took some time aside to get through some of the bugs that have been accumulating. Thanks to everyone reporting bugs on trello, it helps a lot for us to just focus on getting on with fixing when they're all listed up like that.

We thought it might be nice to start sharing some code snippets for any unity developers who are playing the game. Here's a couple of scripts useful helpers:

MeshCombiner Unity script: https://gist.github.com/kalineh/3368ea63b9a6d29aabd92847c2547038

PrefabStatus Unity Script:

https://gist.github.com/kalineh/0d439a107517510c28606f31478c37dd

Changelist:

new: hud enemy notifications

added mesh combining optimizations

added F5 restart key

added assault drone sounds

added ectoplant sounds

added spawn extra airfish in ectogrove

fix airfish spawning

fix bullet not hitting ectoplant

fix chinese (trad) localizations

fix defender bot rare crash

fix defender drone knockback non-enemies

fix defender drone not doing anything

fix disc weapon expiring while held

fix friend bot emitting hearts wrongly

fix grabbing battery with both hands

fix hud arrow posiitons

fix macaroon aiming at body not head

fix money display when over 1000

fix turret knocking back non-enemies

fix twitch integration not displaying

fix unable to equip bug

fix various input issues

fix worker drone catching bullets

fix various internal input code

optimize batching on environment

optimize various minor areas

cleanup particle effects internal

increase player health regen time

tweak shadow quality / performance

tweak frisbee trail

tweak particle effects

update localization plugin

upgrade effects polish

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

Stay funky!

[funktroniclabs]

COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 30

This week is some minor fixes and tweaks. We're working on some optimizations and a couple of bigger new features in the background. Stay tuned next week for something new and shiny!

Changelist:

added ectoplant random scaling

increase ectoplant regrow time

increase orb enemy health

reduce antibody attack speed

fixed airfish not spawning

fixed friend bot derping into ectogrove

fixed camera depth sort issue

cleanup input device detection handling

optimize sand shader

optimize flora shader

optimize various particle effects

change assault drone to not follow between nodes

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

Stay funky!

[funktroniclabs]

COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 29

Behold the Ectoplant! The most effective way to collect ectoplasm in the known universe.

Resource collection for crystals is interesting because you have control over the process in a lot of ways. You can balance resource investment and time into drones or manual mining, and expand multiple bases, and seek out the gold crystals for extra.

However, collecting ectoplasm leaves you at the whim of the random drops from enemy. This weeks patch starts to address that by adding Ectoplants. You can go and find an ectoplant grove and collect them yourself. This gives you some control over dealing with ectoplasm if you're after a specific item or upgrade, and are will to trade time to go and collect it.

The resources also shuffle around a bit on the non-tutorial maps. This means each playthrough the location of crystals is a little different. This should help make things a bit more dynamic. As we add more maps and enlarge the current map, this will get more interesting.

On top of that, we just have a bunch of small fixes and performance tweaks. There's a lot of stuff we're working on in the background which we'll have for you soon too!

Changelist:

added ectoplant

added ectoplant groves to scene

added resource randomizer

balance economy pass to reduce ectoplasm

reduce fighter drone move speed

reduce fighter drone scan range

reduce medic drone move speed

increase macaroon shot rate

fix viveport path issues

fix friend drone spamming alerts

fix friend drone crash

fix friend bot particles issue

fix medic drone particles stuck on

fix assault drone moving into ground

fix teleport sound

disable some logging for performance

disable single pass stereo rendering

tutorial enemies now wait till you attack

tutorial music play timing improved

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

Stay funky!

[funktroniclabs]

COSMIC TRIP - BUILD 28

It lives, it's alive! The Assault Drone. This drone is fast and mobile, and will help keep enemies distracted and away from your worker drones. Mix them in with the defender drones to maximize their effectiveness.

Assault Drone 

Cosmic Trip - Assault Drone by Funktronic Labs on Sketchfab

We've also added a new Skybox configuration system. This is work in progress, and we'll move towards more configurable mixing and matching of skybox + scene. For now we've made the Hard Mode map set as the new Dawn style.

Changelist (build 28):

added assault drone

added skybox changing system

added dawn skybox to Hard mode

balance pass on economy settings

updated steamvr plugin to 1.1.1

enable gpu jobs

reduced master volume

improve disc weapon physics

improve ectoplasm to drift closer

tweak worker bot avoidance movement

fix player input enabled when dead

fix quality settings stuck on low

fix crash in controller code

fix particles in main menu

fix crash when mining crystals by hand

fix crash in tutorial

fix drone worker crash catching some items

fix shield tutorial appearing multiple times

fix caught disc weapon vanishing while held

fix drone upgrade settings

fix steamworks initialization across scenes

fix stats display issue when controller disconnects

fix disc hitting self shield

fix disc being grabbed while charging

fix collecting double ectoplasm

Report bugs or chat about the game here:

FAQ: http://steamcommunity.com/app/427240/discussions/0/352788917749583687/

Trello: https://trello.com/b/GZIV31BZ/cosmic-trip

Discord: https://discord.gg/013jLi10e03zz346o

Stay funky!