Offworld Trading Company Beta 10 Now Available

Offworld Trading Company Beta 10 is now available. This update includes a variety of improvements and fixes including new custom maps, new building auctions, optimized multiplayer, and more.

See all the updates in the changelog:

[Gameplay]

• New custom maps are available!

• Buying out a player costs less the more shares of them you own.

• Stock value now takes into account whether you are Expansive or Scavenger when valuing your buildings.

• Adjusted stock delay after buyouts.

• Pleasure Dome now gets +10% per adjacent housing module (instead of +16%).

• Boosted base wind power from 0.9 to 1.0

• Bond rating thresholds now scale from 2 to 8 players.

• Water and carbon is no longer guaranteed on maps with ice and dry ice, respectively.

• More carbon on maps.

• Added Building auctions.

• Better game event warnings

• Power Surges, etc. no longer have "bad bounces"

• Added Core Sample probability help

• Better Hologram logic.

• Added Pause Selection mode where the game pauses in single player while you are founding, claiming, building, etc.

• AI is better at founding with Reveal Map on.

• Reveal map timer is a little slower.

• Better & faster AI.

[Art]

• New Scavenger HQ art and animation!

• New Art for Colony Hub!

• New Art for Colony Office Module

• New Art for Colony Lab Module

• New Patent Lab construction animation

• Sparks added to construction animations

• Fixed terrain shaders for ambient lighting.

• Placeholder Solar Flare effect is back, baby!

• Animation polish for elemental quarry, engineering lab, and scientific electrolysis reactor.

• Nighttime animation for solar panels.

[Multiplayer]

• Reduced network traffic by half!

• Add code to display the number of people waiting for a ranked match while waiting for a match so people playing 4 Player FFA quick match can see that other people have joined the wait and how many.

• Multiplayer screen now shows the leaderboards

• Changed it so the player's handicap is the default handicap instead of none which speeds up the process of joining a lobby.

[UI]

• Colony now has a name visual and HQs now have a player name visual.

• Clamping terrain mouse over to minimum playable height

• Improved patent/tech messaging.

• Added a warning popup if you try to found too early with Reveal Map on.

• 7 Sols end game screen added.

• Blocking input while the game is loading. Preventing hotkeys and mouse input from firing.

• Multiplayer observers are automatically ready and the ready button is disabled.

• In-game campaign results screen improved.

• Adding a gameplay tip while the game is loading.

• Displaying resource icon in region text.

• Build panel is always up. Until it's not when you close it. But if you open it again it is sticky.

• Resource ordering: moved silicon next to carbon as Dorian requested.

• Now showing building connection lines to constructions as well as buildings.

• Showing potential dividend in buy stock button for subsidiaries.

• Enabling MapSeed field in Skirmish & Multiplayer settings screen.

• The map seed can be found in the main game's escape menu.

• Resource rates now show buildings that are short of resource input.

• Reworked cursor and selection logic.

• Moved tile tooltips below mouse cursor

• Added Random options for resource presence and minimums.

• Clicking on a player's name will now select their HQ.

• Added mouseover help for sabotage if tile is invalid.

[Graphics]

• Fixing depth of field effect to work on D3D10 video cards

[Audio]

• Added 6th song to the game.

• New win & lose end game music.

• New HQ founding/upgrade sounds.

• “Quickmatch thrill ride” sound effect added back in.

• Added delay ability to sounds and made the found & upgrade slightly delayed so they don't smash on top of the music fanfares.

• When you set the music to zero volume in the options window, the volume changes appropriately.

[General]

• Tutorial 2 is now ready to play!

• Added “Show Total Cost” player option.

• Added “Hide Build Menu” player option.

• Added “reset” to skirmish and campaign games.

• Moved replay files into a "Replays" sub-folder.

• Add the file picker for selecting a replay file to playback from the main menu.  Also added a popup to show if you selected a file that it can't play back and what version of the game it was created with.

• Separated skirmish and campaign games saves into their own folders

• Added file picker for saving and loading skirmishes.

• Daily Challenge replays now work!

[Bug fixes]

• Fixed bug where you could resign, go back in as observer, and then resign again in Skirmish mode.

• Fixed bug where you could resign, go back in as observer, and then couldn't exit the game in multiplayer mode.

• Fix for trying to resume a ranked match when the game is over.

• Fix so that exiting a non-ranked lobby game takes you back to the find lobby screen.

• Fixed orders not updating when game is paused

• Fixed where "Exit and Save" option was available when playing back a replay.

• Fixed being able to existing and saving a game from a replay and exiting and saving a game after the play has conceded.

• Fixed save games to have the correct game pause state.

• Fixed HQ hotkeys not working.

• Fixed a bug with where the "save and exit" option takes you from a campaign.