AI Olympius news & patch notes

The mysterious structures on the Island are now active! This update also makes the final level easier to complete and adds new building elements. I hope you’ll enjoy the automation features. There isn’t much resource management in the game, so I wanted to avoid making the automation mechanics too complicated. Thank you for playing AI Olympius and helping to make it better with your feedback and suggestions! With every update, the game gets closer to leaving Early Access, though there’s still a lot of work to be done.

• Island: A new storyline element has been added, related to the recently introduced mysterious structures. (The tasks involve gathering a fairly large amount of resources and production, but if you already have a well-developed Island, this definitely won't be a problem.)
• Island: The rocket launcher now has a smaller ammunition capacity (24→15) but no longer fires a three-rocket salvo at a single target.
• Olympus: The crafting cost for EMI explosives has been changed; instead of portable chargers, a simple energy capsule is now used. This will significantly simplify progress through this stage and eliminate the need to build an additional workbench to research the crafting recipe for the intermediate ingredient.
• Olympus: The activation area for the hint about the first key’s location has been significantly increased. It’s now impossible to miss it.
• Olympus: “Welcome Turrets” are now deactivated using 3 buttons instead of 4. The placement of one of the buttons has been changed so that it isn’t visible to all 4 turrets. The other two buttons have been given additional cover to keep the player safe while they learn the mechanics.
• Olympus: An intermediate spawn point has been added after loading, located slightly deeper to reduce the travel distance when re-entering the map.
• Island: Fixed a minor issue with resource mining in mines that caused unnecessary concrete to be gained.
• New building component: Olympic Forge. (Available after completing the Nuclear Wasteland)
• New building component: Rail Manipulator, for automating resource processing and collection, as well as charging generators and rocket launchers. (Does not work with plants, but can collect biofuel.)
• The Island Shuttle now trades all 3 resources at once, and the trading rate has also been increased.
• The cost of crafting spare parts has been reduced by half (80→40 matter)
• The Silicon Station no longer requires an Olympic Shard to build and is no longer blocked in the early stages.
• After completing the storyline, a trading terminal appears at headquarters.
• The Matter Converter now requires fewer parts to build. (This will also simplify one of the phases of the Olympia.
• You can now obtain an Olympic Shard from the core of a destroyed Hexa.
• Charging stations generate energy capsules faster (210→150 sec)
• Island: Settlements have been expanded with additional houses containing loot; settlements now also have defenses (a dropship with satyrs, drones, or strikers).
• The mine and the radio emitter now consume less energy while working.
• The Combat Hoverbike is no longer instantly destroyed by its own missiles.
• Fixed a bug where items placed inside bookshelves would not drop when the bookshelves were removed.
• Harvesting plants from vases now works by holding down a key.

Fix2:

• The cutscene on the Island is no longer triggered on the client side every time he connects to a host that has already completed the Island structures quest.
• Fixed a bug where teleport settings were not syncing properly over the network.
• Potentially fixed minor lag issues that occurred when the first shot was fired, or a rocket exploded.

Most of the changes are focused on the final stages of the game, with the aim of improving the gameplay experience and reducing frustration.

• Crossroad level: movement during the final phase has been significantly simplified.
• Eye of the Storm: Minor changes have been made to make it smoother to play through.
• Desert Hunt: number of attacking strikers has been reduced, and the number of scout factories has been reduced by 1.
• Heart of Elysium: the stairs leading to the Great Portal no longer require the insertion of unstable Olympic shards to avoid having to exit the level to obtain particles elsewhere.
• More Olympic shards have been added to the Great Gate, Central Meadow, Eye of the Storm, Crossroad, and Desert Hunt levels.
• The number of enemy turrets on the Serpents has been reduced by 4. (Now, some sectors are free of enemies to balance combat and movement along the Serpent.)
• An icon showing what each structure produces has been added to the build list for most structures.
• Combat Hoverbike: reduced chance to collide with its own missiles while moving.

The mines on the island are now marked on the map, and they finally have resources to mine. But since there is no processing equipment yet—the resource isn’t currently used in construction—you can just store it in chests for now… I hope the first processing equipment will be available next week so that the mined resources can become a part of construction. For now, good luck hunting for your new giant relic!

• Added new building elements: angled walls and windows (10 shapes in total)
• Added a narrow ramp variant.
• Many building elements have been reorganized into categories that better reflect their logic. The new layout may feel a bit unusual.
• A giant relic consisting of many parts has been added to the Island. A corresponding pedestal has been added to the building elements in the “Decor” category.
• Fixed an issue with the positioning of arrows and grenades in the hands and the missing weapon recoil micro-animation for the female character.
• New resources have been added to the mines on the Island: copper, quartz, and silicon.
• Seashells now have a little shine, just like other relics.
• The female character’s anatomy has been slightly adjusted.

Fixed a bug in the “Bastion” level where enemy screamers did not appear at the end of the level.

I paid a lot of attention to active abilities, adding several automatic triggers to them, even if they aren't currently selected. (This means you can use Injection, and Invisibility and Shield will also trigger if they are at level 5.)

• The Dynamic Shield is now limited to 7.5 seconds (was 10 seconds), but at higher levels it can even block plasma and rays.
• Some active abilities now have an automatic passive trigger: if the player’s health drops below a certain threshold, a shield, self-healing, or invisibility may activate. This effect triggers once every 20 seconds. Descriptions for all abilities have been updated.
• Energy transfer now also triggers automatically when charging plasma.
• Hacking will trigger automatically during a hack, starting from level 3.
• The character's outfit now gets dirty during combat and gradually cleans itself when the character moves through water or is caught in the rain.
• Improved walking and running animations for the male character.
• Using med. capsules and auto-med capsules now instantly restores 15% stamina.
• A new ancient mine has been added to the Island.
• Fixed some animations that had a one-frame glitch at the end of the animation.
• Minor changes to the “Medieval Siege” level.
• Minor changes to the UI.

The new character graphics are finally here. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44180189/a871f96bff66218eda4c87c09ad1a0c51c01f5be.jpg I spent much more time on this than I had planned. This also delayed the fixes for two critical bugs, so I’m glad I finally managed to release everything. I’m also continuing to work on game balance. This process will continue next week. The new characters still have minor graphical glitches in their animations. Also, since this is a fairly significant system change, new unexpected bugs may appear. I’ll respond quickly to anything like that.

• Fixed a respawn issue in co-op mode.
• Updated character graphics; many small animations have been reworked.
• Some characters in headquarters no longer wear masks (mostly indoors).
• Added facial speech animations (lip movement, slight emotional effects on eyebrows).
• The Olympic rifle’s homing missile now fires straight ahead if no target is locked on.
• The physical size of the vehicle has been slightly reduced.
• Turret detection range has been reduced by 10%.
• Satyrs now shoot with slightly less accuracy.
• Fixed an issue in the “Aircraft Factory” level where, in very rare cases, stingrays would get stuck during the production phase and block progress.
• In the “Aircraft Factory” level, the type of anti-aircraft gun used to counter stingrays has been changed.
• Fixed an issue in the headquarters where 2 agents remained behind after evacuation.
• The chest and leg armor from the Artemis set now provide more healing.
• “Pandora’s Temple” level: a number of simplifications have been introduced to improve the gameplay experience; the number of enemies has been slightly reduced, and movement between the final sections of the location has been simplified.
• The accuracy of the spider guns has been slightly reduced.
• Crossroads Level — The number of turrets on the roofs, armored screamers, and worms has been reduced. Turrets have also been removed from the second ring so as not to distract the player from navigating between the rings.
• Central Meadow Level — Movement through the main temple has been simplified.

It took six months of development to complete the final mission. I hope you enjoy it. Development isn’t over yet. Next up: character graphics improvements, focused work on the island, polishing and optimization, and another location for construction.

• Added the last two story levels.
• Seven new equipment items added to the new level.
• An additional full Olympic set can be found on the new level. (This will be the only two-player equipment set in the game.)
• A new enemy and enhanced variations of familiar enemies have been introduced on the new level.
• 9 new achievements have been added.
• Island: The first ancient mines have been added (currently without mining elements, just exploration and additional loot).
• The Tactical Backpack now provides +4 inventory slots instead of 3. (A slight advantage over the loot-collecting drone.)
• Reduced the crafting cost of parts and panels at the crafting table.
• Minor UI fixes.
• Additional physics optimization.
• Fixed a bug with grappling hooks in multiplayer.
• Fixed a bug where the character’s direction was displayed incorrectly on the map while the character was in a vehicle.
• Some changes to music volume: combat tracks will be louder than regular background music. Recommended new default music volume setting: 85%

• Leia's generated intro dialogue (it seems this dialogue has changed about 5 times over the years) has been re-voiced by the actress.
• Co-op: enemies now receive +50% HP if the player is not playing alone. This slightly increases the difficulty of cooperative play, but this increase only applies to the enemy's core, not all of its armor components. So it's not that much.
• Construction: resources will now be extracted and processed even while the player is on a mission and not present on the island (or at headquarters).
• Construction: Added a crafting table. Allows you to create a drone that automatically picks up loot from enemies.
• Construction: Growing plants is now more detailed. Added seedlings and biofuel farms. The cost of building many elements has been changed.
• Construction: Added a biofuel generator as the fourth type of energy source.
• Construction: Added options for rounded stone railings.
• Construction: Structural elements built on the street can now get wet/snow covered visually.
• Enemy balance change: enemy white plates now have 40% plasma armor.
• Control/animation: Slightly smoother start/stop of character movement.
• Fixed a bug where reloading the Olympic rifle would switch its mode.
• Fixed a long-standing issue with the character sliding down stairs after stopping.
• Additional physics optimization.

Hotfix 0.9.24f1

• Fixed a bug where, upon returning to the island or headquarters, some facilities produced more resources than was possible.
• Four relics have been added to the island, all related to the coastline.

Hotfix 0.9.24f2+3

• Fixed an issue with archery that occurred after 200 shots.
• Fixed an issue where the sprint effect would affect the player simply by pressing Shift, even without running.
• Fixed enemy aiming accuracy against the player. (Following recent changes to enemy bullet speed, aiming ahead was significantly overpowered.)
• Fixed a long-standing issue with light source flickering on the Island due to a large number of light sources.
• Reduced the selling price of plants.
• The charging station now operates slightly slower and requires more energy to run (1–>3 kW).

Beware of stingrays. The only way to counter them now is with explosions. I haven't had time to explain this properly in the game yet, but it's much more fun this way.

• Two new pieces of equipment from the RGB set. You can buy them at headquarters if you have an RGB rifle with you (but only in new HQ).
• Stingrays can now only be destroyed with explosive weapons. As before, you can reduce their HP by shooting their weak spots on the core.
• Switched to GPU Occlusion Culling. This is a significant step in optimization; the load on scenes will decrease without loss of quality, and performance should increase. This transition has also reduced the size of the game again. This system will also work on the Island (previously, if you built and entered a closed room, the rendering would also show what was behind the walls, but this has now been resolved).
• Island: You can now walk through the bushes that have been built.
• Fixed a bug where characters could run on nearly vertical walls.
• Some plants can now be covered with snow or “wet” from rain.
• The base speed of bullets has been increased (now the minimum is as if after 3 upgrades). The maximum speed of bullets has also been increased (by approximately 35%).
• Cores (enemy and friendly) now have a small regeneration rate.
• Experimental settings for some 3D displays, such as 3D TVs. (Not compatible with local co-op)
• Minor fixes and improvements to graphics, sound, and UI.
• Fixed camel sprint synchronization over the network... because that happens.
• Camels now run faster!