The first post EA package is here! Quite a few people have requested this one, so here it is.

Normally, a big patch would break your save files, but although this one is pretty big, it’s mostly cosmetic and shouldn’t affect your Alpha 2.x games (if it does, please report it!). I’m putting this version up on the Beta branch today. It will be a week or 2 before the base game gets updated to this version in order to give time for bugs to be found and fixed. I’ll also use this time to implement some wishes by you guys! For example, I was thinking of giving the option of putting in a name for the character, even though the character is never mentioned in game, either in text or by voice. So if you have any ideas concerning this patch, let me know and I’ll look into it!

Here’s the patch:


* Character customization! There’s now a button in the new game panel where you can choose the gender, color, hair style, hair color and customize the face and a few other things. If you don’t wish to customize your character, good ol’ Amanda is going to be used instead.

* Saving while a building which has an inventory (such as generators or cabinets) is assembling used to corrupt your save file and the only way to fix it was to destroy the offending building. Players are now prohibited from saving while a building is assembling until a better fix comes along later

* You used to be able to climb on stuff even when there was an obstacle on top of said stuff. Shouldn’t be happening anymore.


Known issue: Switching gender for the first time after the start of the application will take a good 10 seconds to load. This will be fixed in the next patch most likely.

What next? Well after this alpha gets published on the default branch, I’m going to start work on the Vehicles package. No vote on this one sorry guys! Vehicles are badly needed because the maps have an area of 64km^2 and the only modes of transportation are walking, running and flying in the very late game. If you’ve got any ideas or suggestions concerning vehicles, post away on the community hub or the Discord server! I haven’t given any deep thought to the vehicles package yet, except for what’s on the forums, so your opinions will likely count for a lot.

PS: Sorry for the big patch size. Those hair models take quite a lot of space.