[Game Update] - Public Testing 478105

[JarrettM]

Hi everyone,

Today's patch for the Public Testing branch includes a couple new buildings, artwork revisions for Radbolt buildings, a couple new sounds, and some bug fixes.

The Party Line Phone is a new recreation building that Duplicants can use to talk to each other over long distances. The Radbolt Joint Plate is a solid tile that allows Radbolts to pass through one-way.

Full patch notes below. If you'd like to try the Public Testing branch you can follow the instructions listed here.

Have a good weekend!
 

Features

• Spaced Out! Only
  • Added Party Line Phone building.
  • Added Radbolt Joint Plate building.

Changes & Improvements

• Added sound for automation overlay activation.
• Spaced Out! Only
  • Limited the height of rockets to 30 tiles when no engine exists to define the height.
  • Art updates to buildings with Radbolt input ports.
  • Added sound for radiation overlay activation.

Fixes

• Spaced Out! Only
  • Fixed crash that could occur on load for saves with stationary rockets.
  • Fixed Radbolts not colliding after passing through a Radbolt Reflector.

 

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[Primalflower]

5 minutes ago, JarrettM said:

Added Party Line Phone building.

unbelievably cute idea.

[Sebastiangperez]

2 minutes ago, Lbphero said:

unbelievably cute idea.

Do you have it ? i dont .. 

[Primalflower]

Just now, Sebastiangperez said:

Do you have it ? i dont .. 

you must be on the beta branch to access it.

[Sebastiangperez]

Just now, Lbphero said:

you must be on the beta branch to access it.

Yes , i'm in the public_testing branch , i see the building now in the building lists but is not in the research window. 

[gabberworld]

what for those phones for? are those for automation or dial up internet?

[Sebastiangperez]

Just now, gabberworld said:

what for those phones for? are those for automation or dial up internet?

Just for morale . 

[Primalflower]

Just now, gabberworld said:

what for those phones for? are those for automation or dial up internet?

they're for recreation. From what I gather from a cursory glance, is that duplicants will get +1 morale from just using it [they get the "less anxious" morale buff], and that may be upped to +4 if theres someone else on the line when they do. But i'm not sure about that last part. Interplanetary automation is however  in the game through a different building.

[pether]

43 minutes ago, JarrettM said:

Added Party Line Phone building.

You got wrong offset for the power input:

Spoiler

Edited September 10, 2021 by pether

[Hokaeru]

I can already imagine them spending cycles on the phone : 
Bubbles : "Hello mate, Abe, how are you doing fellow ? Here we are spending litterally weeks to finish off this hecking "rust melter" thing, nobody knows what it could be useful for... but the Chief said so."
Abe : "Oh, nice to hear from you, well listen at least you still have something to do, I'm alone eating meal lice just waiting here, everything is taken care of by the autosweepers"

[gabberworld]

4 minutes ago, Hokaeru said:

I can already imagine them spending cycles on the phone : 
Bubbles : "Hello mate, Abe, how are you doing fellow ? Here we are spending litterally weeks to finish off this hecking "rust melter" thing, nobody knows what it could be useful for... but the Chief said so."
Abe : "Oh, nice to hear from you, well listen at least you still have something to do, I'm alone eating meal lice just waiting here, everything is taken care of by the autosweepers"

Bubbles : Hey Abe

Abe : Hello

Bubbles : to you seen any asteroids?

Abe : Nope.

Bubbles : i have a idea.

Abe : oh what?

Bubbles : Lets blow up the Nuclear Reactor  for simulate asteroid rain

Abe : oh that's a good idea, lets to it

 

 

[Sebastiangperez]

Question , how the phones work ?? Works in the same asteroid or only in different asteroids . 

[Gurgel]

Obviously, Dupes suffer from quarantine too!

[gabberworld]

that 120 w power for phones is really weird tho. makes me think what year phones they are

[n_t_p]

This is cute and wholesome. Long distance communication for star-crossed dupes.

[TuxSam123]

On 9/10/2021 at 4:09 PM, JarrettM said:

Changes & Improvements

• Added sound for automation overlay activation.

 

The automation overlay sound is wonderful! It's certainly an improvement!

[sakura_sk]

On 9/10/2021 at 10:09 PM, JarrettM said:

Added Radbolt Joint Plate building.

Why can't I brush any element over the radbolt input part of it on sandbox mode...?

[TheTickingTick]

On 9/11/2021 at 1:35 AM, gabberworld said:

Bubbles : Hey Abe

Abe : Hello

Bubbles : to you seen any asteroids?

Abe : Nope.

Bubbles : i have a idea.

Abe : oh what?

Bubbles : Lets blow up the Nuclear Reactor  for simulate asteroid rain

Abe : oh that's a good idea, lets to it

 

 

Bubbles: Why our fresh water supply is polluted?

Abe: I don't know.

Bubbles: I saw you going there, what have you done.

Abe: I just relieved myself from misery. All bathrooms were out of order and it was urgent.

Bubbles: Couldn't you find some other place to do that? Why only on top of fresh supply water?

Abe: ......... (drops phone)

[josuesleyer]

Added Party Line Phone building.

 

 

 

One more uselessness

[Gurgel]

Do the phones work? I think I saw a new morale buff once ("less anxious"), but that is it. I have it on two planetoids and the dupe there has overlapping recreation time with three in the main base.

[gigamoi]

12 hours ago, josuesleyer said:

Added Party Line Phone building.

 

 

 

One more uselessness

I disagree. I'm really looking forward to this building. It sure doesn't provide much morale but it is even smaller than the water cooler as a recreational building and thus allows us to get the great hall room bonus while taking less space, which is critical on rockets (the space).