Hey everyone! One of the final updates for the closed Alpha is here! Lots of new exciting features have been added and for the first time, there's Linux support as well!

LASER STRUCTURES

No more "press E and run". Now it's the real deal as you'll have to destroy all the modules located on the pillars to bring the whole thing down. Won't be easy as COGs are protecting it and some might have turrets on them as well.

GRENADES

Will come in handy, especially when trying to bring down one of the laser devices. Also great for taking out large groups of COGs or their drillships with turrets (as you can see in the screenshot below).

NEW FEATURES

• Laser Structures - player now has to destroy laser structures in each cave in order to win the game
• Grenade that player can use against COGs and their drillships
• COGs now have random loot, a large variety of items can drop
• Linux support!
• Real-time player map - players can now see where they are and where the drillship is located (to open map press M)
• 2 new types of shotgun ammunition, switch by pressing the middle mouse button
• Drillship safety features, player can no longer lose ship by sending it underground, press G to call it back to surface, also you can call drillship to your current location by pressing G as well (drillship will land on the closest landing site to you)
• Drillship Emergency Handles - If players get to a situation where they are stuck, and can not move the drillship (devices lost, no material etc.), they can pull the emergency handles that will send the drillship to the landing site closest to submarine, player, can this way repair their drillship and continue further
• Warning: Online cargo is full (works same as Energy or Landing site occupied)
• Closed modules now have armor, applies only to modules that can be closed and opened
• New visual of lava and smoke particle effects in lava pools, volcano, lava sources

CHANGES

• Repair kit has only one stack, to balance it lasts longer
• Video tutorial screen in the main menu has been disabled
• COG NPC navigation, COG now do better patrols and should less get blocked by an obstacle
• Increased number of COG units on the map
• Drillships now bring more COG units in one turn (before they had to go 3x times to bring all up)
• Quests - updated to reflect the Cave Laser drillships, Turret quest, Preparation to fight quest
• Quests - adjusted to warn player eruption is coming, but not blocking players progress until only 40 sec left to eruption (was 2 min before)
• Overall Cave visuals
• Modules now have detailed info about their stats in the production menu
• Shotgun reload and shooting is faster
• A different sound of the eruption
• Sulfur powder now stacks 10 and is faster to produce

BUG FIXES

• Lava not killing the player
• Random death screams no longer happen
• COG bodies were not removed by eruption blast

Special thanks goes out to our closed testing group for helping us polish the update!

Hope you'll enjoy the new features as much as we do! If you have any questions feel free to drop them on any of these platforms:

Discord: https://discord.gg/volcanoids
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Volcanoids/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/volcanoids

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