Quality of Life & Death Update Out Now

Twelve month ago we released Resolutiion, our first video game. And boy, have these few months been a ride. Two major updates later (“The Red Plains” and “The Craftsman”) and we realized, that the journey of Valor and Alibii is not the end but a beginning. We wanted to tell a much grander story about humanity and technology; about death and rebirth.

Since late 2020 we are working hard on Resolutiion’s prequel (“Lila’s Sky Ark”), while also planning for the sequel. Both are coming along great, especially for a team of two.

Still, to honour Resolutiion’s birthday, we took some time off our mad schedule, and collected a lot of feedback and bug fixes into the “Quality of Life & Death” Update:

- Various visual improvements
- Remarkably reduced loading times
- Earlier access to fast travel system (Theremin in Sunken City)
- Tinted map for clearer orientation
- Progression changes, so that parts of the world can be accesses simpler
- Issue 879: a new secret
- Bug fixes & general polish

Happy birthday, Valor.
Happy birthday, Alibii.
Happy birthday, to everybody who was born today.
A great gift to yourself might be to replay your favorite pixel-adventure again.

Update 3.7: "Upgrade System" Now Released!

Hey all!

The Upgrade System is now live!
As part of working towards the next Major Update (0.4), we added the Upgrade System, where some buildings can be upgraded to better versions.

This update is accompanied by Audio and Performance improvements.

Enjoy!

Early Access 0.3.7: The Upgrade System

General

- First iteration of the upgrade system:
- Plastic drying rack is now Drying Rack
* Drying Rack upgrades into a large & huge drying rack.
- Distiller is now Desalinator.
* Desalinator upgrades to large Desalinator.
- Bed now upgrades to House.
- House now upgrades to Big House.
- Drifters will now temporarly stop their production, research and energy projects when it's bedtime.

Visuals

- Reworked the size of distiller.
- Reworked the size of desalinator.
- New visual for Large and Huge Drying Rack

Audio

- Added FMOD to manage audio.
- Various new sounds have been added.
- Added effect for ambience when pausing the game speed.

Performance

- Reduced overhead of drifters requesting projects, increasing overall performance.
- Added LODs for all storage visuals, reducing rendering at further ranges.
- Added LODs for all flotsam / fish in water, reducing rendering dramatically when looking at the horizon.

Balancing

- Metal plates now require 1 fuel to make.

Fixes

- Fixed getting stuck in map view when going to the map while building.
- Fixed drifters getting stuck on the energy producer when disabling the building.
- Fixed bug where drifter would get stuck on landmark.

Update 4.0: "Eel-Ectricity" is OUT NOW!

Hullo everybody!

The Eel-ectricity Update is all charged up and ready to go!
This patch brings energy, weight and workshop electricity upgrades to your town as well as various other improvements.

Your town can now produce energy, which powers town movement, crafting and research buildings in a more centralized way.
Each item and building now has weight, which impacts the energy required to get to new destinations.
Generators ranging from manual to oil and to solar panels can be built to generate energy.
Workshops can be upgraded to connect to an energy grid, removing their normal fuel cost.

This patch comes with a complete update to the render pipeline, offering smoother performance and fancier graphics (shadows on the water!).
We've done some pacing rebalances and many other changes. You can check these out in the patch notes below!

Thanks again to everyone who tested it in experimental! Your reports and feedback are always a great help <3
Enjoy everyone and sea you next patch!

Change Notes

New Energy System

- Energy buildings can now be connected to energy grids.
- Buildings that require energy will draw energy from their connected energy grid.
- If an energy grid becomes overloaded, connected buildings will work at reduced efficiency.

- Certain buildings now require energy, instead of fuel:
- Town Engine
- Research Station
- Desalinator
- Food Truck
- Electro Crafter
- Electrified Scrapsmith
- Electried Fish Kabob

- The townheart starts with a crank to produce energy which prevents players getting stuck when they didn't build an energy related building.
- Added an energy overlay that shows the energy consumption, production or storage of energy related buildings.
- Added an energy grid overview window which shows all your energy grids with their consumption, production and storage.
- Removed old fuel import system and replaced it with the fuel being part of the production recipe.
- Added a method to link energy grids together using click and drag energy wires.
- Moving to a new biome now costs 10.000 Eels, instead of 75% of your town's fuel.
- The athletics attribute now affects how much energy a drifter generates in a drifter powered generator.

Town Weight

- Your town now has a weight, which will affect the energy cost of town movement.
- The town weight is calculated by the total accumulation of all resource weights in construction costs, inventory and in storage.
- There are currently 6 different weight tiers:

- Very Light: 0kg - 500kg
- Light: 500g - 1000kg - Movement cost increased by 50%
- Medium: 1000kg - 1500kg - Movement cost increased by 100%
- Heavy - 1500kg - 2000kg Movement cost increased by 150%
- Very Heavy: 2000kg - 2500kg - Movement cost increased by 200%

New Buildings

- Battery: Increases energy capacity.
- Wood-Powered Generator: This building can burn wood to generate energy.
- Oil-Powered Generator: This building can burn oil to generate energy.
- Energy Pole: A building that is used to connect buildings to the energy grid.
- Solar Panel: Generates energy from solar power.
- Electro Crafter: Turns Electric Scrap into various electric items.
- Electrified Scrapsmith: An upgrade for the Scrapsmith which uses energy instead of Firewood.
- Electrified Fish Kabob: An upgrade for the Fish Kabob which uses energy instead of Firewood.

New Items

- Battery: Used for energy storage.
- Generator: Used to build item based generators.
- Solar Panel: Used to generate energy from solar power.
- Electric Scrap: Can be made into energy related items.
- Temporarily removed Books.

Landmarks

- Drifters can now be rescued from landmarks without a boat.
- New Landmarks:

- Polluted Woods
- Car Battery Islands
- Truck Generator Viaduct
- Solar Panel Villages

Pacing Rebalance

- The research station comes into play much faster now, with many buildings being behind research.
- The research station no longer requires books. Instead, it requires plastic buoyants and energy.
- Dried wood can now be found more frequently on a new landmark: The Polluted Woods.
- Wood drying has been slowed down.
- Reduced Metal Scrap cost for Metal Plates.
- Increased amount of landmarks containing Metal Scrap.
- Overhauled each building's cost to take weight, time and energy in regard.
- The desalinator upgrade now only replaces the Firewood cost with energy, instead of a flat time / resource upgrade.
- Removed Cooked Fish from the Food Truck.

Render Pipeline Update

- Updated the render pipeline to the Unity Universal Render Pipeline.
- Reworked all shaders to increase overall performance and visuals.
- Reworked the ocean shader.
- Shadows can now be cast on the water.
- Reworked the underwater world, as you can now see it better.

Animations

- Added Manual-Powered Generator animation.
- Added Ropecrafter animation.
- Added Plastic Recycler animation.
- Added Reroll animations for the crew selection screen.
- Added Wood-Powered Generator building animation.
- Added Oil-Powered Generator building animation.
- Added Scrapsmith animation.

Misc

- Seagulls will now be scouted by drifters.
- Added LODs for walkways.
- Added LODs for flotsam.
- Changed names and descriptions for various buildings.
- The Captain's Log is now displayed above the notifications.
- Reworked some pages in the survival guide to reflect the current state of the game.

Fixes

- Fixed an issue where the fog of war would not go away around the town when moving to the outer edges of the map.
- Fixed an issue where loading a save would make the day / night visuals appear out of sync.
- Fixed an issue where a drifter would get stuck on a mooring point after moving the town.
- Fixed an issue where the boat panel would sometimes show the wrong captain on a boat.
- Fixed an issue where a boat would get stuck at the wrong mooring point after moving the town.
- Fixed an issue where a drifter would not eat or drink if the game was saved in the night.
- Fixed a building being stuck upgrading when you upgraded without the proper items. This would happen when upgrading buildings that required the same items.
- Fixed selection outline of watchtower.
- Fixed issue where the salvaging attribute tooltip would display the construction tooltip instead in the drifter attribute window.
- Fixed outline of the Fish Kabob not highlighting the whole building.
- Fixed Desalinator biking animation being offset.
- Fixed not being able to salvage Research Station if researched finished when a drifter was on their way to the station.

Behind The Scenes

- Added a landmark generator to improve our workflow for the landmarks.

* Improved and made the scenario hints (Blue Objectives) texts more detailed.
* Translations for the new scenario hints texts implemented.
* Added more informational text to the overview section for some facilities.
* Improved the behavior of salvage robots at derelicts, utilizing access points to a higher degree than before.
* Fixed bugs.

We have another patch for Alpha 12!

We've worked hard to improve the blue objective notifications (Guiding towards a hyperspace capable ship and teaching some other basics), to help new players understand the game. This patch introduces new improved texts for them as well as all translations for supported languages.

We have also worked on fixing bugs you are reporting to us.
Keep the feedback flowing. Thank you for reporting and enjoy the new version. =)

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- Fixed issues with people unable to run the game if their usernames contained certain unicode characters.
• Improved movement controls.
• Zombie cages have been reworked so only projectiles can go through the cages.
• Cutscenes can now also be skipped by holding down a button. Menu option added for it in HUD Settings.
• Added new option in Input settings to allow you to look up and down.
• Added new option in HUD settings to show the items in your hands when in snipe mode.
• Grinder baddies can no longer hit you through doors.
• Fixed an issue with toggling of HD textures after loading a save.
• Freed audio and cutscene speech file caches when unloading level
• A door has been added at the end of Jacks fight area.
• Each levels Start music is now played when teddy warping.
• In Marco final encounter he now moves around even if he can see you. His stats for music/no music/Trueform states have been adjusted.
• Destroying Marcos outdoor speakers now play one of his unused speeches (English only).
• Legion now uses his attack and taunt sound effects.
• Trueform Legion's Health increased by 100 and all other stats have been set back to what they were in version 1.0 (Congratulations to those who still beat him and embraced the horror)
• Other minor and 20+ year old bug fixes.