Choo Choo Survivor 2 news & patch notes

Hello Choo Choo Engineers!

I'm making a new game where you spin a slot machine to push back crushing walls! It's a roguelike so of course you unlock and buy new symbols, upgrade them, and alter your reel layout to create powerful symbol combos, trigger jackpots, and escape crushing debt! I've got an open beta going and if the game looks interesting then please do wishlist it!

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers,

We now have Danish language thanks to Rune Kistrup and Lars Kistrup!

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GTGD

This bug has been fixed and input rebinds should now correctly persist between runs and when shutting down and launching the game.

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Thanks to Joaquín Riveros Véliz we know have Latin American Spanish as a language!

Also I've added more targeting options to each weapon. Just remember though that auto targeting is against monsters, not structures that can yield resources. My recommendation is to power up an auxiliary weapon that can help with gaining resources and then set an auto targeting option on the main weapon. The laser beam on auto targeting is pretty cool and great for the survival challenge.

Choo Choo Engineers!

Good news, our weapon technicians have been able to upgrade the Wrecking Ball and Vampire blade with auto targeting/swing options. You can now set them to auto rotate or auto snake.

Note: For the wrecking ball you must have at least the first Hurl Level purchased or else the auto rotation will not be able to kick in. There just isn't enough oomph until you upgrade the Hurl Level.

I personally use the Snake motion once I have an auxiliary weapon blowing stuff up for resources. The auto rotation is really helpful early on for cleaning the area and getting all available resource.

As for bosses I strongly recommend switching back to manual and keeping the wrecking ball or vampire blade constantly attacking to bring those bosses down as fast as possible!

Thanks,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers,

I've doubled the effect values for weapon class specific damage increases. Previously Hardened Bullets, Hardened Spikes, etc. could have a damage boost from 1% to 6%. This is increased now to 2% to 12%.

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Today our epic and dangerous journey begins! It is up to you to rescue survivors and make it through the apocalypse. I know you will survive and destroy the boss, because you're awesome!

Thank you to all the fans and translators who volunteered their time and skill to help make Choo Choo Survivor 2 an incredible experience!

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

I've made a few improvements to the custom colour palette system:

Choo Choo Engineers!

I've added the option for you to define three custom colour palettes which can recolour the game. You can access them from Game Settings > Colour Palette.

You can then click on the Edit button for any of the three custom colours and then type in or copy paste in the hexadecimal colour codes into each of the input fields. Press Apply to apply that colour scheme. You must ensure that each colour is unique and not transparent to avoid sprite atlas corruption.

If the game sprite atlas does get corrupted it is not over for the game. Just go back to palettes and select the first palette SLS08. Shut the game down and then restart it, and all should be good.

A great place to find interesting colour schemes (almost all of the Choo Choo Survivor 2 colour schemes are from there) is a website called Lospec and you can easily copy paste the hexadecimal codes from there.

Thanks,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers! Launch is not far away! On the 27th of October it will be up to you to rescue survivors and try to erase some of the damage done by the evil Raincoat corporation in Choo Choo Survivor 2!

Over the last year of development a huge amount has been accomplished and Choo Choo Survivor 2 will be launching with much more content for you to enjoy than what Choo Choo Survivor 1 had when it launched. There are 11 locomotives to drive and 11 auxiliary weapons to use, 9 primary weapons to choose from, and five bosses to destroy! As you increase your victory count you will gain access to more locos, weapons and bosses! There are over 70 Steam Achievements to gain!

Besides English, four other languages are supported thanks to the hard work of volunteer translators who have been taking time out to translate Choo Choo Survivor 2. We have Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese!

There are many colour schemes that you can apply to the game and there's a particular green one that looks cool and retro and endorsed by Grisu the dragon! I'm still trying to develop a system so you can create a few of your own custom colour schemes.

If you haven't already, then please don't forget to try out the polished demo. It will be part of Steam Next Fest that starts on the 13th of October!

Thanks, GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers! Thanks to pe_yang we now have Japanese language! Also Choo Choo Survivor 2 has achieved the wishlist requirement to appear in the Steam front page popular upcoming list on launch day which is great! There is one month to launch and Choo Choo Survivor 2 will be in the October Next Fest. I'll be reaching out to influencers and let's hope lots of them choose to play! Thanks, GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

It's been an amazing journey, and it is now time to reveal the launch date, which is the 27th of October, so only five weeks from now till we can get our train out of the depot!

I'm hard at work on the choo choo rail road and I'll soon have Steam achievements (about 60 achievements at launch) created for the full game. At launch the full game will have five bosses to defeat and a new selection menu so that you can choose which boss you want to fight as you unlock those bosses.

Thanks,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

I've moved the guard tower track section to after the regular boss. I think it was a bit troublesome trying to avoid activating the survival challenge while fighting the regular boss so I wanted to fix that gameplay issue. So now you will encounter the regular boss first, and just before the end of the level you will come across the guard tower and you can then choose to activate it if you want to do the survival challenge.

Let me know what you think of the change!

Thanks,

GTGD

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GTGD

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The demo for Choo Choo Survivor 2 will be launching on the 5th of September to coincide with the start of the ANZ Indie Festival here on Steam!

The demo version will have an Australian A Class locomotive from the state of Victoria and this locomotive is equipped with powerful boomerangs! The boomerangs fly away from your locomotive and then return, hitting everything on the way and when fully upgraded there's an explosion at every point they make contact!

Also here's the latest trailer showing some of the content that will be coming to the full game and btw I'm progressing pretty well and I think I can reveal the launch date soon which will probably be two months from now!

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Thanks to Yaridovich we now have Brazilian Portuguese as a language!

Thank you!

GTGD

Hello Choo Choo Engineers!

I'm trying out floating damage numbers so we can all better see how much damage each weapon type does and also get a bit more feedback on screen. Fortunately I've written a different system from Choo Choo Survivor 1 that is much faster and does not affect performance much, but if you do find the floating damage numbers to slow down your experience then they can be turned off from the settings menu under miscellaneous.

I hope you find the update helpful!

Thanks,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

We now have German language thanks to Grisu the Dragon!

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GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Thanks to two very kind Choo Choo Engineers we now have Spanish language onboard! Thanks to Carlos and Juan for their hard work!

There are still a few places here and there that are not yet localized and over time we will get to them!

Best Regards,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

I've built a new camera system for Choo Choo Survivor 2, that makes use of three cameras, and you should now find the graphics to move really smoothly as you drive, and the monsters and background should move smoothly as you chug along at max speed! Hopefully the lines in the mines textures have been eliminated.

Every good thing though does come at a cost and here the cost is that the train is now permanently above the zombies so you will always be able to see your locomotive, but enemies can now appear underneath (such as the jumpers). Also your projectiles and wrecking ball can also obscure the console UI at the bottom of the screen.

Best wishes,

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Our survivors have located a Raincoat Facility, and believe that this might be an origin site for some of the monstrosities that have been emerging! The site is under the control of insane Raincoat mutants and these monsters use jetpacks to do their jump attacks.

If you have more than two victories you will see Raincoat Facility as a possible track section in your journeys. The Raincoat Facility can only ever be the fourth or fifth track section. These locations are very dangerous because they are packed full of monsters, but at the same time there are tons of resources because the sites are being actively maintained by the Raincoat mutants. There are hardly any survivors so we can only imagine that most of the Raincoat staff at this facility have been turned into mutants.

Advanced jets are also being used by these mutants and so far we’ve only encountered transporters that do not have weapons, but the mutants like to jump out of these transporters using their jetpacks so it is important to destroy transporters to eliminate sources of these mutants.

Good luck out there!

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

Those train journeys can be pretty long so now you can play your own music. Import your soundtracks through the Settings menu under Sound and Volume. You'll need to give the game permission to access the relevant folder on Windows or Mac and then you can import whatever music you want to! You can replace all of the soundtracks in the game.

The Guard Tower has received an update and there are now two Turrets on either side of the guard tower. These can be upgraded from your upgrade menu once the guard tower is active. The grenade launcher on the guard tower has had a reduction in damage dealt because of the additional damage from the turrets.

The settings option for notch control by mouse wheel has been moved from the Misc menu to the Accessibility menu.

Keep on winning!

GTGD

Choo Choo Engineers!

There is now the option to engage in a 40 minute survival challenge and fight a mighty boss! At 30 minutes monsters will gain 5x health, deal more damage and move faster. They also drop more money as well! 

You can advance time quickly to 30 minutes by activating the guard tower which is at the 97% mark. Once activated you can upgrade the guard tower from your upgrade menu and it has a grenade launcher that does impressive damage and superb knock back (a throw back to the grenade launcher of Choo Choo Survivor 1). Swarms of monsters will then continue to attack you from 30 minutes onwards and you must survive to 40 minutes. Then a mighty version of the boss will emerge and you can choose to defeat it to utterly defeat the monsters. When a mighty boss is defeated all zombies will perish and you can proceed to the finish line in safety and calm. Btw, you can proceed to the finish line at anytime past 30 minutes if things are getting too tough and so still win the run.

There are now local achievements for the playtest edition of the game. I haven’t integrated Steam achievements yet (might do for the playtest or maybe for the demo, but definite for the full game). This gives more direction on what to accomplish in the game and the mighty boss challenges are definitely for more skilled players, and some skilled players may still find the challenge easy! For everyone else though it will be challenging to survive!

You can now change locomotive notch using the mouse wheel. Just turn it on from the misc menu.

Keep on smashing through apocalypse!

GTGD