Offworld Trading Company Beta 2 (v0.2.5792) Change Log

Now available via the Steam client

Thank you for joining Early Access and providing such great feedback! We still have a lot of work to do. Progress will be slow and steady. If this new update causes you issues, please let us know in the Offworld Trading Company Support forums. Save games may not be valid between updates. (https://forums.offworldgame.com/forum/1078) Thank you!

[ Gameplay ]

Can now shift-click to buyout players with shares still available
Changed starting prices for various resources
Hacker Array shortages/surpluses have diminishing returns
Shortages less powerful with fewer players
Patents/techs take less time with fewer players and longer with more players
Pleasure domes make more money if they are closer to the colony
SHIFT-clicking on scrap building button scraps all buildings of that type
Alt-click will now ship resources immediately from a building
Cycle through HQs is now on the TAB key
More minimum resources generated in games with fewer players
No back-to-back random events of the same type
Major Campaign changes. Please check them out!
Players are now revealed at the end of a masquerade game
Allow players to concede during multiplayer games
Ability to reload a skirmish game
Keybindings are now driven by an xml file in the user directory (Hotkeys.xml)
Added option for auto-sharing all resource in the team game
Added option for turning on auto-supply for all buildings
Added option for turning off unprofitable buildings on buyouts
Daily challenge now at Manager difficulty level
Marathon mode now Double Stock mode
Added daily challenge game option
Increased range of random map seed from [0,999] to [0, MaxInt]
Fix for HQ founded off the map
Scanning now works when the game is paused
Better AI
Removed Quarterly Report

[ Art ]

Robotic HQ upgrade animations!
New sexy disco ball Pleasure Dome! (I wonder what REALLY goes on in there?)
New Wind Turbine!
Solar panel construction animation!
New art & effects for Electrolysis Reactor!
Changed Patent Lab to look less like a toilet
Texture tweaks to the water pump
Generic construction animation added!
Offworld market rocket color now mo’ betta team colored

[ Terrain ]

Disabled shadow-casting by flat terrain tiles for a small rendering speed boost
Unusable tiles on the edge of the map are now more distinct

[ UI ]

Mouseovers now work in observer mode
After a player is bought out, s/he can now see how much cash each player has on the main UI (instead of the buyout percentages).
Resource paths change their intensity based on zoom level and distance from the center of the screen
New art for highlighted in-world resource icons
Best tiles when previewing a building are outlined
New UI system implemented in main menu
New pulldown control
New slider control
Fixing black market icons rendering against sandstorm and fog effects
Fixing bug where resources would float above tiles
Fixing the text submit function so that it isn't one character behind

[ Audio ]

Added an option to mute music when in-game
Music in the game now loops
Music is finally played correctly through both channels!

[ Multiplayer ]

You can now play single player games (Skirmish & Campaign) without being connected to Steam
You can no longer join a game as an observer. You join a game and then set your handicap to “Observer” to be an observer in the game.
Added a cooldown period before the lobby owner can press start if they change their handicap
When anyone changes their handicap a chat message is sent out with the player's new handicap

[ Performance ]

Improved building placement preview by 3ms per frame

[ Graphics ]

Added soft camera intersection to transparent effects

[ Localization ]

Many new screens ready for localization

[ Miscellaneous ]

Added screenshot hotkey that renders without the UI (CTRL+SHIFT+PrintScreen)
Exposed print screen commands to Mac: CTRL+HOME for hi-res screenshot. CTRL+SHIFT+HOME for hi-res screenshot sans UI (thanks OffworldTrader)
Switched Mac print screen command to CTRL+LEFT_BRACKET for hi-res screenshots, and CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT_BRACKET for hi-res screenshots without UI (thanks mischanix).
Logging <RI.Hid> error messages instead of spamming the screen
Moved TutorialSave.bin to \My Games\Offworld\ directory
Fixed HQ terrain hiding in the first tutorial
Fixing small memory leak when showing best resources
Prevent multiple instances of executable to run at the same time
Fixed bug when game was won before HQ was founded

Things that are not fixed yet but are working on:

Saving and loading games (more full support)
Audio issues on Mac
… and a whole bunch of other cool stuff!

Optional: Revert to v0.1.5301

NOTE: You will not be able to play multiplayer with anyone not on the same version as you!

To update to the previous version:

Select Offworld Trading Company in your Steam Library list
Right-click and select Properties
Select the BETAS tab
From the dropdown, select prev_version and click Close
Steam should pull down the changed files; if you ever want to go back, do the same as above but select default

Only the version prior to the current update will be made available.

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I see we can by upgrades for the colony in the campaign. What for? And are there any more details on the campaign changes?

UPDATE:

Watched Zultar's preview video. I think that answered it. Upgrading the colony is a way to raise your stock price and demand for certain things from the colony. Zultar wasn't clear yet on the victory condition, whether it be stock price or colony upgrades. He also mentioned that the campaign is now a limited number of days per round, instead of the previous buyout victory condition.

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