Founders Chapter 1 Update -- August 17th

Published on Friday, August 17, 2018 By shaw In Founders Starbase

Hello everyone,

We continue to polish and update the game as we get closer to release. Here are some of the updates we've made to Chapter One:

Audio

Added hundreds of lines of new VO
Cleaned up Fleet Battles weapon SFX
Pass on balancing Fleet Battles weapons. Also, changing weapon sounds to play the correct sounds.
First shot in a battle is no longer always too quiet.
Pitch fixes for Wymdoo in Chapter 1 dialog. Should fix up the VO where his voice gets deeper suddenly.

Graphics

Sector map drag movement is now 1:1 with the mouse
Additional controller support for different menus
Crew bar size is now correct so when you have 100/100 crew it no longer has extra bits on the end due
Fuel bar when you have lots of fuel capacity now fits on the starbase screen by scaling proportionally when too large
Updated tooltips for crew and fuel
"Fleet management" is now a top level menu item on the starbase screen
Updated Training Officer Portrait
The Briefing monitor looks more realistic
Moved the first officers' dialog box to the top of the screen
Spacebar closes dialogs when they're finished
Displaying tooltips for weather/toxic/heat damage
Added a pulsing red alert to the fuel gauge when you fall below 10% fuel, and to the cargo meter, when you rise over 90% capacity.

Balance

Increased energy consumption of Drenkend Plasma shot
Balanced critter sale prices
Destructible rocks give out more varied stuff.
Iterating on Earthing Cruiser Main Weapon
Reduced strength of fleet deflection mark 2 and 3. It is now impossible to stack over 75% total deflection.
Improved Singularity Nuke Weapon. Now has tracking, more range, less energy cost and more direct hit missile damage.
Balance pass on ship components
Lowered Health of Scryve Interceptor and replaced Flak Cannon
Rover slowed down a tiny bit.
Callisto doesn't have Tzo crystals anymore

Gameplay

Added Steam achievements
Improved AI behaviour of some weapons to reflect their attack range.
Scryve Probe has a new quick-fire bolt
Critters spawn more reliably now
Shrunk the Training arena for the targeting trial and removed ion storms and pickups form it
Removed ion storms form the combat trial
Removed several Commander dialog branches that let to confusing dead ends or orphaned content

Bugs