[Game Update] - Public Testing 640445

[mitboy]

I wish there was still some consideration for not having random mass creation when it comes to something like animals. 

[Red Shark]

44 minutes ago, mitboy said:

I wish there was still some consideration for not having random mass creation when it comes to something like animals. 

Since 40kg of Nectar can be boiled into 30.8kg of sucrose + 9.2 kg of steam, another way to look at this is that the Bonbon feeding path "deletes" 9.2 kg of water!

[zergologist]

Dupes that slip don't seem to have a lasting status effect from their slip-up.

Dupe mid-slippering:

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Dupe after slip (the floating text that implies they gained a status floated off without any lasting effect)

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How big is the stress malus from a dupe slipping on a slippery surface supposed to be?

[Charletrom]

Great update. Thanks for all the hard work Klei!

[sakura_sk]

On 11/8/2024 at 2:28 AM, JarrettM said:

Revised schedule screen UI allowing for multi-cycle schedules, schedule duplication, and easier schedule block shifting.

Does this really need to be this big?

 

Having the selection on top and less space in-between schedules, will let at least three separate schedules  to be visible on screen if they are single cycles

Edit: and where did the third night slot go?!! Only two slots for night owls? "Night" actually has 3 slots

Edited November 9, 2024 by sakura_sk

[Roodmas]

Does anyone have a screenshot of the new Bammoth morph?

[hydragyro]

On 11/8/2024 at 2:55 AM, Knurek said:

I've checked out the beta for a moment. No performance improvement on my late game save.

I tried running this save, first on the public branch and then again on the beta branch; I also see no significant change, if anything it's worse. CPU and RAM utilization went up 1-3% while FPS stayed the same (and the freeze/stuttering issue remains). I wonder if/how they're measuring performance to determine if a change improves it.

Edited November 9, 2024 by hydragyro

[goboking]

10 hours ago, sakura_sk said:

Does this really need to be this big?

 

Not gonna lie, that's a bit of an eyesore. 

[asurendra]

New bottle drainer doesnt need energy to work? Hmmm... That make regular liquid pump useless. Manual pump plus bottle drainer can do absolutely the same but doesnt use any energy. That shouldnt be like that

[goboking]

12 minutes ago, asurendra said:

New bottle drainer doesnt need energy to work? Hmmm... That make regular liquid pump useless.

It does in a roundabout way since it requires piping, which means pumps, with means power draw. 

[asurendra]

8 minutes ago, goboking said:

It does in a roundabout way since it requires piping, which means pumps, with means power draw. 

Thats true for gas version. But liquid ones can be pumped manually. Moreover. manual pumping is faster, doesnt take any energy, only dupe labor (which is almost free), ignore temperature, can keep 200kg inside... Its better than regular pump by any means!

[hydragyro]

33 minutes ago, asurendra said:

Thats true for gas version. But liquid ones can be pumped manually. Moreover. manual pumping is faster, doesnt take any energy, only dupe labor (which is almost free), ignore temperature, can keep 200kg inside... Its better than regular pump by any means!

There's already a building that turns dupe labor into power, enough to run a liquid pump, so you could already pump liquid with dupe labor. This is just a QoL improvement that means you don't have to build a dedicated temporary pump run with pipes and wires just to drain small liquid pools or fill plumbing loops.

Edited November 9, 2024 by hydragyro

[sakura_sk]

45 minutes ago, asurendra said:

Moreover. manual pumping is faster

That makes me think... Wouldn't it be fun to have a manual pump for gases? That would make vacuums "easier" to make but manual labor needed and popped eardrum pressure handled in a different way

[DSTUser]

29 minutes ago, sakura_sk said:

That makes me think... Wouldn't it be fun to have a manual pump for gases? That would make vacuums "easier" to make but manual labor needed and popped eardrum pressure handled in a different way

Manual Pump:

1 dupe goes in room

2 breathes gas in

3 leaves room

4 breathes out gas

5 repeat until vacuum is achieved

[sakura_sk]

On 11/8/2024 at 2:28 AM, JarrettM said:

Renamed “Move to” to “Relocate to” for pickupables.

Was the intention the renaming of the button only? Because the game refers to "Move here" instead of "Relocate here" on the actual errand

[Carib94]

Not Sure if anyone experienced this yet but theirs seems to be a bug where critters at least for me hungry wild and tame bammoths and floxes continuously eat their diet plant without stopping. They will eat the plant and if their is no other source of food whether its the plant itself or the harvested product they will eat the 1 plant non stop even while its at 0% growth so long as they are hungry/looking for food.

So if you come across this in your ranches or starting up a ranch take the critters out then have the plants grow a lil bit then put them back in. So long as they dont eat the plant down back to 0% growth they wont be stuck on eating.

 

 

[sakura_sk]

3 hours ago, Carib94 said:

Not Sure if anyone experienced this yet

[sakura_sk]

On 11/8/2024 at 2:28 AM, JarrettM said:

Fixed issue causing Duplicants to repeatedly play the Water Cooler’s “drink water” animation when using other buildings.

I think there is a new one now...

[Dracian]

On 11/8/2024 at 1:28 AM, JarrettM said:

• • Duplicants will now occasionally slip while walking over ice or puddles of oil.

I'm not against this addition, but is there a way to prevent them from slipping ? 10% stress is kinda big if your dupes are bound to slip every time they go in a frozen or oil biome...

[goboking]

5 minutes ago, Dracian said:

I'm not against this addition, but is there a way to prevent them from slipping ? 10% stress is kinda big if your dupes are bound to slip every time they go in a frozen or oil biome...

Do atmosuits protect against slipping? 

[sakura_sk]

If something is needed to be calculated here, why not the actual dupe consumption per cycle (without blank lines)? How much one dupe consumes is irrelevant when I have 23 of them and several bottomless stomach ones, right?

[Dracian]

8 hours ago, goboking said:

Do atmosuits protect against slipping? 

I haven't been able to test, but that would be an acceptable solution. I would also decrease the chances to slip with the Athletic attribute.

[Cmagik]

What's the usual delay between 2 beta update?

Can't continue my progress until the munching critter loop is fixed.

*Loving* the new bottle related building. Going back to the regular game hurt after experiencing this one.

 

[Fistleaf]

No mention of fixing the bug of dupes panting when in filled atmosuit.

[sakura_sk]

On 11/8/2024 at 2:28 AM, JarrettM said:

Post it up on the Bug Tracker and we'll fix it as soon as we can.

I just noticed where this link leads... Are all beta testing bugs supposed to go there and not through the "live branch" "preview branch" option of the bug report?