This new feature of both onboard and hand-held sonar monitors (but not navigation terminals) will allow you to see mineral deposits as blips on the sonar. The mineral scanner mentioned earlier.
Here are some highlights for the “miscellaneous improvements” category.
BAROTRAUMA BEACON STATION UPDATE
Can you guess why? What else?īesides the environment overhaul, the missions, and the enemies, the update of course contains a bunch of other improvements and fixes – this is, again, one of our biggest updates to date. Keep it in check or deal with the consequences! The ballast flora’s fleshy appearance resembles the thalamus. It’s a wholly new concept in the world of Barotrauma that stretches what we typically consider an ‘enemy’ – instead of another monster fish, it’s a vaguely plant-like organism that takes root in your ballast tanks and will spread through your sub searching for sources of electricity to feed upon. This update also adds the long-awaited ballast flora (first mentioned only a few days after our early access launch, if our Discord server is to be believed!). We look forward to hearing about your best practices for dealing with these creatures – don’t get skewered! The spineling may not be the biggest enemy you’ve seen, but we advise caution nonetheless. Yes, finally! In boring terms, it’s a medium-sized, mid-tier creature, meaner than a crawler but nicer than a mudraptor… and more interestingly, it shoots armor-piercing spikes that can pass through several decks of your sub and impale unlucky crewmembers within. The spineling is the first monster with a ranged attack. These two new adversaries are particularly exciting, because both introduce behaviors that are completely new to the game.
We’re also adding new enemies to bring increased variety to your underwater struggles. Where it may have been a bit too hard to find outposts in the late biomes, the beacon missions and the better-balanced way the map now evolves should make the late campaign a bit more forgiving, and there should always be habitation no more than a few nodes away from your position on the map. Approaching a beacon station.īesides the obvious – it’s just nice to have a bit more variety – we’re hopeful these additions will also solve some problems our players have encountered, particularly later in the game. Just be careful – activating the beacon will attract a swarm of creatures, so the station will probably be harder to get out of than it was to reach. It’s always been the plan that player action can and will affect the spread of humanity on Europa, and this is how: reach, repair, power up and activate a beacon station, a small lighthouse of sorts, to pave the way for civilization. As a bonus, you get to keep the minerals you dig up.Īctivate a beacon: This is where we go deeper, both in terms of gameplay and game design. To complete this mission, you’ll need to find and collect a cluster of minerals with the aid of the newly added mineral scanner. Mineral collection: As mineral spawning has been adjusted a little along with the environment overhaul, now is a good time to go prospecting.
BAROTRAUMA BEACON STATION FULL
So, enter the lair, find a nest full of eggs and dispose of them. (Mind the grown monsters guarding the nest, and the brand new ones that may hatch as you approach.) For now, let’s take a look at…ĭestroy a nest: Now that we’re getting caves, we need cave missions, too! This mission tasks you with locating, entering and clearing out a cave.
New missionsĮver get that feeling like you’ve completed all the available missions at least 800 million times? To remedy that, we’re finally adding some new ones, with more to come soon in following updates. Take a look here if you missed it! The other improvements in the update build on these environmental changes in many ways – more about that below. So, let’s take a closer look – what does it actually contain? New environments The new environments are much more varied, and pretty.īecause this topic is not easily covered in just a few paragraphs, we wrote a bit more about it two weeks ago. Even more importantly, this update rounds off this year’s efforts to lend our game the kind of depth its name suggests. We named it “ Uncharted Depths”, naturally because of the environment overhaul that makes your journey into the unknown more scenic than ever. The last update of the year is coming next week.
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