Colony Survival

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/9cce7ccebb374a872c3a3a694a0f94417c2358b9.jpg The release of 0.18 went well! In subsequent days, we released a bunch of small updates, bringing the current version number to 0.18.0.9. They’re mostly tiny fixes, but some are worth extra attention. The biggest one concerns Remote Play Together, which can be used to play Split Screen Colony Survival with friends on distant computers, even if they don’t own Colony Survival. We developed Split Screen for use on one machine, where mouse & keyboard + controller is the most common solution for multiple inputs. But when linking up two machines remotely, double mouse & keyboard suddenly becomes a much more obvious solution. That’s actually quite complicated to get functional, and we hadn’t developed that yet. But of course, it is technically possible - and 0.18.0.3 granted this ability to everybody! Then 0.18.0.6 introduced two new significant changes. NPC pathfinding was improved to better deal with very large structures, and that doubled the efficiency of our pathfinding algorithm in general. Elevator controls have also been enhanced. If you’re in an elevator with multiple stations, holding jump will auto

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/2b8b7ae389b0f6c0649728098ca0fbfb76ff368d.jpg This update does exactly what it says on the cover. Plug in a controller, divide your monitor in two and play the game with a friend right next to you! Enabling Split Screen will generate a second character who has the same capabilities as the first. The second player can start their own colony, explore the world on their own, use the top-down view, or share a colony with the first player. There’s a new Split Screen menu that allows you to customize the feature. Which character should be on which side of the screen, and which keyboard or controller should control them? This can be fine-tuned in detail. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/8cee9dd584d7a4bee7516030d7d05f4243755007.png Is your friend currently unable to come to your place? No worries - Colony Survival supports Remote Play Together. Your friend doesn’t even need to own Colony Survival to participate in remote Split Screen! There are minor tweaks to the rest of the game. The first is especially helpful in Split Screen: you can request to join a friend’s colony by clicking on their banner. Another tweak is the fact that pressing CTRL now actually crouches th

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/a3b50928073a347862f93424779d9860e0c19bda.jpg A big new update is live on Steam right now! It should make the game a lot more accessible to new players, and it should speed up some of the slowest days of starting a new colony. There is a new tab next to the stockpile: “Quests”. These are missions that should guide you through the core of the game. They contain a goal and instructions on how to achieve it. When you’ve fulfilled its requirements, you can claim the reward of the Quest. The rewards are items like food, resources and some unique decorative objects. None of the old content is locked behind Quests. If you know how the game works, you can fully ignore Quests. It’s not a slow, mandatory tutorial. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/452fcc333019406d9b8c4db6226901391ca120ca.jpg 0.17 contains more noticeable changes. One of them concerns the Notifications menu. The old one was a work-in-progress disaster. It looks much better in 0.17, and it has been deeply connected to the regular first-person gameplay. When something significant happens, like the death of a colonist or a Quest being ready to complete, an icon will pop up in the top right corner of the scre

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/b4c9e493d8df7bc07f6230fde45ff000604c0fcb.jpg The next update is 0.16.1, not 0.17. This means: no major changes to content, but a whole bunch of improvements to Quality of Life. Tweaks that make playing the game more convenient. The ugliest menu in the game was the Notifications tab. It was a chaotic, work-in-progress UI. It’s a lot more functional and pleasing to look at now! And it even has a connection “outside of the menu”: major events in-game, like a colonist being killed or Siege Mode triggering, will now generate an alarm-icon in the top-right of the screen, warning you about the event and connecting it to the Notifications tab. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/28352917/586897e8b85f48f2aab25c03325c8d0d45da5e97.jpg Colonist deaths will also spawn an in-game marker of the place where it happened for 60 seconds. They can be made visible again afterwards by going to the death-notification. From the very first version of CS, we’ve always had ammo-counters visible in the UI, helping you keep track of the stockpile of these important items. As more and more ammo types kept being added, it became a little confusing, and we could no longer display all relevant items. We