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Primordialis Patch Notes & News

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Primordialis Patch Notes & News | SteamScope

Hello everyone! It's been a while so I should probably explain why this has taken so long, which is mostly me getting caught in a loop of some things taking longer than expected and feeling like I need to have more new things prepared to justify the time. This is somewhat of a normal development pattern for me where towards the start of an update I'll work on internal stuff that is important but not too exciting for players, then near the end I'll add a bunch of content. This time was particularly bad and I probably could have handled the scheduling of it much better.

The upside is that the reworked systems have started paying off. The biggest one that took a while is the map generation rewrite, which I decided was necessary since the old map generation had many game breaking bugs that were taking a lot of time to fix individually and it was cumbersome to add new biomes to. The new system will likely still have a few bugs, but they should be much easier to fix now. The other benefits are that it is now much easier to add new biomes, and it loads faster. My broad goal for a bit will be to add more biomes and flesh out the world with more things to do. Aside from the map rework I've managed to remove a few of the previous engine limitations, and multi-threaded a lot more of the game which should hopefully improve performance.

I think before I said I wanted to do beta updates once a week. That was probably a bit ambitious for me given my working style. Some updates will happen quickly and some will take longer, but I'll try not to let any span multiple months again. I know many early access games get abandoned so a long hiatus can be worrying. I have much more I want to add to the game and I will continue working on it until it is complete. I'll try to put out a roadmap sometime.

- Kyler

NOTE: this update is on the public beta branch which you can enable by right clicking the game in steam, opening Properties, and going to the Game versions & Betas tab

patch notes:

gameplay changes & features:

Map generation has been completely rewritten, biome placement and connections should be more reliable
2 new side biomes
Biomes can now have random biome modifiers
New mutation: BIGGER cells
Most mutations are now stackable
New cell types: Musical cell, Listening cell, Light detector cell, Propagating cell, Painting cell
Reviving a dead creature now requires 55% of its maximum biomass instead of 50%
The walls are lava mutation now makes walls cooler near flowing water
Ability trigger cells now have 3 variants which use different keys, which by default are spacebar, e, and q. Only the first will spawn naturally, but you can right click in the editor to cycle between variants. These are considered distinct for the cost reduction of having multiples
Increased maximum range of lasers
Increased the upper limit on cell radius for muscle and inflating cells, this was previously an engine limitation
The radius of muscle cells and inflating cells now stack multiplicatively instead of additively with mutations that modify cell radius
Increased how much force muscle and inflating cells can take before breaking
The attraction between linking cells now has a limit
Mind control cells now suppress the controlled creature's natural actions, and movement is rotated to match the mind controller's orientation
Jet cells and vacuum cells now work outside of water with 0.1% effectiveness
Traveling through a waypoint portal no longer cures cancer
Creatures with only one cell can now be steered
Overcharge from shock is now limitted to 12 volts (this nerfs the electric jellyfish)
Player position will now be automatically reset to the last valid location if it is NaN or too far out of bounds

bugfixes:

Hopefully fixed icons being cut in half with certain graphics drivers
Fixed game being blurry with high DPI display settings
Fixed some floating point error related weirdness with torque of spinning and electromagnetic cells
The max range of electromagnetic cells was only applied to the force between electromagnetic cells, it now applies to the lightning effect as well
Fixed music not playing after loading a save in certain biomes
Fixed creatures with modified body plans outside of the loaded radius spontaneously dying after reloading the world
Fixed held mouse press being interupted by hovering over a sandbox tool
Fixed combo cells in mutagenic poison not being restored properly after creating a new sandbox
Fixed directional indicators showing up when creating workshop thumbnails
Fixed main menu background creatures being paused after returning to the main menu while paused in sandbox mode
Fixed position of creatures sometimes being (0,0) for 1 frame before dying
Added limit to internal audio sample rate. This should hopefully fix sound crackling on some devices with audio sample rates above 48kHz
Improved stability of hard cells
Fixed get_player_body_id giving incorrect results if there is no player or the player was deleted
Fixed game window sometimes being hidden on first launch
Fixed offscreen creatures reviving after saving & reloading

misc:

Improved performance, especially load times
Improved rendering of big cells
Changed how the framerate adjusts during lag. Previously the game would skip rendering a frame for one gameplay tick when it is lagging. Now this can only happen if you set a framerate cap less than 120. This generally will make the game look smoother when it is lagging, but it will still play in slow motion if it can't compute things quickly enough
Max framerate can now be set down to 30, and editing in lower values through settings.txt should work
Added setting for thread count. By default it will automatically choose based on the number of cpu cores
Added dynamic range audio compression for loud sounds
Added limit to maximum brightness of hot cells

Primordialis v0.1

kaliuresissteam_community_announcements

224d ago

Happy Holidays!

Primordialis v0.1

gameplay changes & features:

- Final music polish from Phrakture

- A couple new creatures from Keith

- Shrunk 4th and 5th biomes

- Reduced number of entrances from first biome to the dark biome to prevent new players from focusing on it too much

- Most combo cells have been removed from non-bosses

- Added some Halloween creatures, enabled Oct 24 to Nov 1 in your local time

- New cell types: Impact cell, Wandering neuron, Electromagnetic cell, Spinning cell, Heavy cell, Vascular cell, Ossifying cell, Stem cell, Transistor cell, Lightning cell (previous Lightning cell has been renamed to Shocking cell)

- New mutations: Exploding corpses,

- Increased regeneration with the Steady regeneration mutation from 10% to 25%

- Strafing mutation now makes you move in cardinal directions, instead of being relative to your body orientation

- Improved the ability to move with strafing during the ending sequence

- Echolocation mutation now shows the locations of cell types

- Explosive resistance now makes explosions non-lethal in addition to giving damage resistance

- Parasitism mutation now allows regeneration in safe zones

- Entropy reversal mutation now grants immunity to the negative effects of freezing

- Increased the damage resistance from The walls are lava mutation

- Combo cells now have a prompt to drop cell types. How combo cells work was intended to be something discovered on accident or through experimentation, but player expectations were not set properly for that to work

- Added small chance for blank combo cells to appear, which allow you to choose both components

- Single cell spikes not attached to any other cells no longer deal damage

- Increased the minimum width of certain tunnels

- The force generated by jet cells at high voltage is now capped

- Increased genome size of breakaway cells from 0.5 Mbp to 1 Mbp

- Increased genome size of spedometer cells from 0.375 Mbp to 3 Mbp

- Increased genome size of breakaway cells from 0.75 Mbp to 4 Mbp

- Slightly increased drop weight of acid cells

- Obedient neuron now works on yourself

- Poisonous cells now make adjacent cells passively immune to poison

- Moved poisonous cells to a different spawn pool, they should be much more common overall

- Increased the stickiness per sticky cell, they should now stick for about twice as long before detaching

- Negating cells and Electric isolator cells can now chain with themselves and each other, without requiring a conductive cell in the middle

- Power switch cells are now 0.8V when activated instead of 0.9V, to make them more reliable to toggle off

- Doubled the charging rate of charging cells

- Reworked lightning again:

- Old Lightning cell has been renamed to Shocking cell. Its base damage has been reduced and no longer increases with voltage. Range is now proportional to the square root of the voltage (previously linear). Frequency scaling is unchanged. It should be more effective than before at shocking creatures

- New Lightning cells will discharge when powered then unpowered, with lightning strength based on the peak voltage. If lightning overkills a cell its excess damage can spread to adjacent cells

- Chain lightning mutation has been reworked. It now gives resistance to lightning damage and stun, and complete immunity to self-lightning-damage

- Stasis cells' area of affect no longer scales with voltage. Cells in stasis can now slowly move, higher voltage stasis bubbles will result in less movement. These changes are meant to prevent situations where stasis results in getting trapped out of bounds

- Heat from radiant cells reduced by 50% to make them more survivable

- Added Acid cells to the starting weapon pool

- Physics engine now supports rigid cells. Hard, Spiky, Electromagnetic, and Heavy cells are rigid by default, and any frozen cells are temporarily made rigid

- Frozen cells have reduced biomass transfer speed

- Frozen cells can now be shattered with sufficient force

- Reworked a side boss

- Exiting the edit menu with no cells in your body plan will no longer kill you. It was fun but too easy to do accidentally

- Adjusted death condition to be based on biomass cost + biomass storage. This should improve survivability when you have low biomass cost hearts

- Dead creatures will now revive if they regain biomass above their death threshold

- The regneration cooldown recovery from collecting xp no longer decreases past 2250 biomass, previously it would get less effective the higher your biomass cost with no cap

- Reworked cancer to be more customizable

- Made the final boss arena 50% wider

- Made the final boss faster to finish off when it has low biomass

- Buffed first biome boss

bugfixes:

- Fixed more cases of softlocks in 5th biome

- Fixed some cases where entrances to biomes could be blocked off

- Fixed overcharge mutation not applying to always negative cells

- Fixed overcharge mutation getting applied twice to power switch cells

- Fixed negatively powered jets pushing things in the wrong direction

- Fixed some parts of the environment not stopping when paused in sandbox

- Fixed buggy wall collision physics in special area

- Made line drawing mode in editor work better with undo

- Fixed incorrect rendering of spikes in editor history

- Fixed incorrect rendering of spikes after mirroring a selection

- Fixed bug where saved body plans could save to the incorrect name when the save name is a substring of another saved plan

- Fixed waypoint locations not getting saved

- Fixed cells not showing up in the sandbox combo list

- Fixed combo cells not being granted correctly between sandbox saves

- Fixed reverting to default body plan when loading a saved game with a body plan over your maximum cost

- Fixed mouse dragging being off with letterboxing

- Fixed color/cell buttons still being visible while in the opposite mode with widescreen resolutions

- Made final boss fight not activate when you are outside of its arena

- Fixed fearful neuron's wall avoidance not using seeker cells properly

- Made electrical connection of linking cells more consistent

- Fixed bug where mutations would save incorrectly after using a waypoint

- Fixed health gating cells not stopping poison

- Fixed mutagenic poison not transfering between connected cells

- Fixed breakaway cells and explosive cells draining biomass from from neighboring cells when they kill themselves

- Added some safeguards for voltages and temperatures overflowing and becoming nan or infinity

- Made high voltage lightning hit things more reliably

- Fixed uncombined combo cell tooltips showing the cost reduction for the base cell type

- Fixed crash when audio device is lost

- Other keyboard inputs are now blocked when a text box is active

- Fixed rare crash on startup

- Fixed lua creature death functions not working

- Fixed set_plan_cell crashing when passed an invalid cell type

- Fixed icons being cut in half on certain graphics drivers (thanks h!)

- Fixed rendering bugs when creating too many particles

- Fixed cursor changes not updating until the mouse is moved when using hardware cursor

- Fixed toggle seek and toggle ability settings not saving between game sessions

misc:

- Re-enabled gamepad support

- Added inspector which by default activates when you press \. The inspector allows you to view the current state (eg. voltage, temperature, speed) of all your cells. You can also hover over other creatures when you press the inspect button to inspect them instead of your own body

- Symmetry mode in the editor now supports all point group symmetries compatible with a hex grid

- Duplicate cell types are now grouped together in the editor

- You can now filter your cell types by pressing control+F or clicking on the search button in the lower left corner of the editor

- Hovering over Phasing, Poisonous, or Feeler cell types in the editor will now highlight cells which are adjacent to the hovered cell type

- Cells which do something in the outward direction such as Jet cells now have a small arrow indicating their direction in the editor when icons turned on

- The fill tool in color mode now cares about cell types when you have cell icons turned on

- Added loading screen tips

- Zoom is now saved

- Added warning when loading old saves

- Small performance improvements

- Enabled AVX instructions, which should improve performance on CPU's that support them

- Adjusted threat level calculation for switching between ambient and battle music

- Mutations are now preserved when you use the respawn tool in sandbox mode

- Replay recorder now stops shortly after you die, unless in sandbox mode

- Clicking on a body plan in your history no longer rewinds your history to that point to prevent accidentally overwriting your undo history

- Added video settings for gamma and contrast

- Replaced the radiant visual effect for better performance

- Added new sound effect for high-voltage lightning

- New lua function reset_position(), meant for use in the console if you get stuck out of bounds

- New lua function set_input_delay(ticks) to simulate playing with network lag. set_input_delay(12) should be roughly equivalent to 100 ms ping. This is just a quick test to check if multiplayer is even viable, it does NOT mean that multiplayer is being developed

- New lua function get_all_body_cell_ids(int body_id)

- Added cell_count and plan_cell_count to body metatables

Primordialis Early Access out now!

klrsteam_community_announcements

398d ago

The Primordialis early access has released!

Here are the patch notes from the previous demo (non-beta) build: Primordialis v0.0

hotfix d:

- Fixed crash that could occur when changing resolution

hotfix c:

- Temporarily disabled controller support

- Renamed a secret cell type

hotfix b:

- fixed Entropy reversal mutation not working properly with Heat pumping cells.

gameplay changes & features:

- More music by Phrakture and added dynamic music transitions

- More creatures by Keith

- Added final main biome and boss

- Reworked how new cell types are obtained

- Cell types now appear as items in the world, with biome dependent spawn rates

- Cell types have a genome size, and you have a maximum total genome size of cells types you carry

- Combo cells and mutagenic poison have also been reworked to fit this new system

- Adjusted biomass limit to scale linearly, this allows you to use more biomass than before at lower levels but much less at high levels.

- Reworked the editor tutorial to fit the new system and to be less on-rails

- New cell types: Experience stealing cell, Electric isolator cell, Heat sink cell, Charging cell, Stasis cell, Hesitant neuron, Heat pumping cell, Thermoelectric cell, Radiant cell

- New mutations: Entropy reversal, Steady regeneration, Obligate parasitism, Smaller cells, Echolocation, Chaotic costs, Strafing, The walls are lava, Overcharge

- Adjusted starting area

- Cells that are voltage sources no longer inhibit negative voltages when they are unpowered

- Explosive cells' explosions deal lower damage, but their radius increases with temperature

- Increased laser damage by 50%

- Root cells no longer regenerate biomass in walls if the creature they are part of cannot regenerate

- Linking cells with negative voltages now repel other linking cells.

- Linking cell force is now proportional to the magnitude of the product of the two linking cell voltages

- Renamed Minion neuron to Obedient neuron

- Reduced opacity of jet particles

- Jets pushing other cells is now calculated with an invisible force field in front of the jet cell instead of from the jet particles hitting the cells. The particles are now purely cosmetic

- Jets now help disipate heat

- Lightning cells now reduce shock slightly when they activate

- Lightning now matches the cell color, and the default lightning cell color has been changed to match the old lightning color

- Combo cells properties are no longer randomized, instead they will always be either the sum, mean, or reciprocal sum of reciprocals, depending on the specific property

- Walls now conduct heat, biomes can have hotter or colder walls

- XP orbs now blink when they are about to despawn

- Cells now have a short delay before they can regrow after being destroyed

- Increased default swim force by 50%

bugfixes

- Fixed mouse cursor being misaligned if you change the aspect ratio of the game window

- Fixed laser endpoints being incorrect inside walls and sometimes crashing

- Fixed loading a body plan from the save menu bypassing cancer

- Fixed some cases of creatures not dropping xp when they die

- Fixed redo sometimes causing you to enter an invalid editor mode

- Fixed detached bodies having cells disconnected but still part of the same body when loading a save

- Fixed target dummies spawning outside of safe zones

misc:

- Added Steam workshop support for sharing body plans

- Added alternative map types available when creating a new sandbox

- Added respawn tool to sandbox mode

- Added a shortcuts tab to the right-side editor panel, which displays a list of editor shortcuts excluding the ones that are rebindable in the controls

- Updated .bod file format to use lossless compression, old .bod files can still be loaded, but new ones should be much smaller. Technical details for the new format can be found in data/documentation/bod_file_format.txt

- Added resave_single_body_plan and resave_multiple_body_plans to the lua api to allow for bulk updating old body plans to the new format

- Detached parts that are inside the loading radius will now have their body plans saved and loaded in the world save file

- Improved shader compile times and performance

- Added support for aspect ratios other than 16:9 and you can now set arbitrary resolutions and window sizes, although some ui might not fit aspect ratios that are too narrow

- Resolution and window size changes now have a timed confirmation to avoid the game getting stuck in a state where the settings can not be changed back

- Optimized detection of nearby creatures

- Added low-pass effect for distant explosion sounds

- Moved most hardcoded text into translations.tsv

- The save panel now only displays the name of your saved body plans, this change is to fix issues caused when you have too many or too large saved body plans.

- Added folder support to the save panel

- Added setting for cosmetic particle limit

- Run history is now tracked, although it is not displayed anywhere in game yet

- Game inputs are now cleared when unpausing to avoid actions bound to left click from triggering immediately

- Improved gamepad support

- Recursive combo cells now only say "Combo cell" for the top level combo

Primordialis News

klrsteam_community_announcements

428d ago

Hello everyone! It's been a while since the last demo update so I wanted to give an update on what's been going on.

Beta Branch

If you missed it, the demo has a beta branch, which you can enable by right clicking the game in your steam library, and going to the Betas tab, and changing your Beta participation from None to beta. My plan with the beta branch was to have more frequent updates before pushing them to the main branch. However due to a combination of awkward timing and poor planning on my part that hasn't happened. I was planning to push the current beta build to the main branch about a week after it was first released, but I decided to allow more time for testing after some reports of issues with the new body plan saving system (I believe the issues are mostly fixed now but please let me know if that's not the case). After that I had started adding some things to the game that I didn't want to reveal until the early access release which I'll talk about later in this post. To do a main branch build at this point I would have to go through and remove all the content and files that I want to keep secret, which I could do but it didn't seem worth the effort when it wouldn't be substantially different from the current beta build aside from some bug fixes and balance tweaks. In hindsight I probably should have waited until after the release before trying to do a beta branch. As it is there will probably not be any public updates until the EA release. After that I do plan to return to more regular updates on the beta branch, hopefully at a pace of about once per week.

Upcoming Content

Despite the lack of updates I have been working on the game this whole time and there are some exciting new things in store for the EA version. The full main path has been completed, which includes 1 additional biome past the jungle, and a final boss that is very different from everything else in the game. There will also be a few new mutations, new cells types and new enemies for every biome.

Early Access

Now let's talk about early access. I had previously stated that I would not be doing an early access and would just be using the demo to test things up until the full release. However the scope of the game has increased since then, largely due to the excitement of all of you. Because of this I would like to continue working on the game for longer, instead of trying to keep a small scope and releasing quickly. The early access version already has more content than I was originally planning for the full game.

Demo Plans

The demo will stay up after release, although some content will be restricted and it might receive updates more slowly than the EA version. I know that might suck to hear since loosing access to something you used to get for free can feel worse than it never having it at all, but I do need to make sure that there is enough incentive for people to buy the full game.

Pricing

For United States Americans, the game will cost $19.99 during Early Access, other regions will initially follow Steam's default regional pricing. I have heard that Steam does not always get the regional pricing perfect, so if the game is unreasonably expensive in your country let me know and I'll look into more accurately normalizing the pricing for you.

New Trailer

- Kyler / kaliuresis

Patch Notes | Feb 25 2025 Build, Primordialis Demo

klrsteam_community_announcements

525d ago

NOTE: To access your saved body plans from before the update, right click the game in your steam library->manage->browse local files. Your old body plans will be in the body plans folder, unless you manually saved them to a different location. You can copy the files to the new body plan folder, which you can find by clicking the folder button in the save panel of the editor. Feb 25 2025 Build, Primordials Demo hotfix: - Fixed combo cells not getting unlocked automatically when you load a body plan using them in sandbox mode - Fixed Seeker cells sometimes resulting in an unbalanced net force on the creature - Fixed combo cells having infinite capacitance - Reenabled F9/F10 for sandbox only - Added safeguards to prevent mind control feedback loops from breaking things - When reserving memory fails it will now try again with a lower limit - Fixed bosses sometimes being inaccessible - Fixed combo cells in your saved creatures list showing up in the mutation menu - Fixed the game crashing if a laser cell is deleted while active - Made copying a creature's body plan when you possess it an option in the game settings - Fixed tutorial area sometimes connecting to first biome - Increased world size to avoid map generation from hitting the edge - Made loading a body plan with F10 unlock the combo cells it uses - Adjusted the default thermal properties of cells. The overall effect should be that cells heat up and cool down more slowly - Made moving exterior cells cool down faster, up to twice as fast - Fixed the health property of cell tables in the lua api returning maturity instead - Removed the diminishing force from jet cells at high speeds, instead jet cells have diminishing returns from increased voltages - Fixed sticky cells transfering to stick to walls when they are already attached to a cell gameplay changes & features: - Added original music by Phrakture (Nafeu Nasir). Additional music will be added throughout development - Added a new main biome - More creatures by Keith - New cells: Laser cell, Mind control cell, Speedometer cell, Proximity detector cell, Always on cell, Always negative cell, Detach detector cell, Elastic cell - Editor improvements - Added a new panel to the editor which allows you to stash groups of cells, save and load body plans, view your undo history, and load the body plans of existing species. The "secret" F9/F10 buttons to save and load body plans are now disabled. To put your previously saved body plans into the save panel, you can click the bottom right button in the save panel to open the new body plan folder and move your previously saved body plans there - Pressing control-S will save your current body plan - Pressing control+A in the edit menu will select all cells - Holding control while dragging selected cells will now duplicate the dragged cells - Possessing creatures in sandbox mode now automatically switches loads their body plan as well. You can access your previous body plan using the history tab of the new panel - Amplifying cells have been renamed to Lightning cells - Acid cell cost increased from 10 to 12, and have been made about half as common - You are now less likely to hit yourself with lightning while moving quickly - Sticky cells now lose stickiness based on pulling force, rather than loosing stickiness at a constant rate over time - Jet cells now have diminishing force at high speeds - Minion neurons now move toward your cursor while you hold the seek button, instead of just when you quickly press it - Added temperature property to cells - Some plants now have procedurally generated body plans - Added explosion tool to sandbox mode - Some new sound effects bugfixes: - Fixed setting for reflections being inverted - Fixed framerate slowing down after minimizing the game window - Fixed crash from imbuing mutagenic poison with a combo cell with a long name - Steam overlay will be automatically disabled for certain graphics drivers where it was causing issues - Fixed sticky cells not sticking to self-colliding cells on the same body - Fixed combo cells from other creatures showing up in sandbox mode - Fixed creatures with no cells sometimes not being deleted and existing at 0,0 - Fixed some graphics buffers getting initialized with garbage data after changing certain video settings - Fixed disconnected parts in your body plan not getting applied immediately after being connected to by cancer cells - Improved plant placement to prevent them from spawning out of walls as often misc: - Updated main menu background - Auto-saving is now much faster and runs in a separate thread - Significantly improved performance of physics simulation. This involved a major rework of the physics systems, which might make some things behave differently than before - Slightly improved audio system performance - Tooltip text now wraps - An error sound will now play when your body plan fails to apply due to being over budget. This can be disabled in the game settings. - Removed limits on maximum numbers for various things, including cells and particles. Memory usage will now increase as needed until your computer runs out - Added get_combo_id function to the lua api - The C++ code for creature behavior is now available as a reference for modders in the data/scripts/creature_funcs.h

Patch Notes | Jan 8 2025 Build, Primordialis Demo

klrsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

574d ago

gameplay changes & features: - A couple more enemies from Keith - Seasonal enemy disabled (you can set your system date if you want to experience it) - Imbued mutations now show you 5 options for cell types instead of 3 - Added a slider to coloring mode to adjusting the opacity of cells - Ink, acid, and vacuum particles now change color with the color of the cell emitting them - Explosive cell explosions now change color with the color of the corresponding cell - Linking cells will now unlink when activated with negative voltage - Vacuum cells will now push with negatively voltage - Jet cells now reverse when powered with negative voltage - Reduced the capacitance of jet cells - Jet particles no longer inherit momentum - Seek trigger cells now always give at least the standard voltage threshold while activated, and the range at which they give the full voltage has been reduced - Jets, explosions, and vacuums can now push ink, acid, and xp - Power switch cells now give off 0.9V instead of 1V and can be toggled off by powering them above 0.95V - Increased the conductivity of muscle cells and inflating cells - Increased default voltage leakage to make cells that are not connected to a voltage source turn off faster - Voltages for each cell are now displayed as a circle with a radius depending on the voltage - Cancer cells are unlocked when you gain the cancer mutation, in case you want to give yourself more cancer - Added interact keybind (F by default), which is now used to select mutations instead of clicking, it can be changed back to left click in the controls settings bugfixes: - Fixed cases where the parts with the most cancer cells were not considered to be the main body part - Fixed one creature not spawning where it's supposed to - Fixed neurons being able to react to creatures outside of their vision range - Fixed mutagenic poison loosing track of the imbued cell after rebirth activates - Fixed crash loading some body plans with recursive combo cells - Fixed crash loading bodies with cancer - Fixed crash from combo cells having too long of a name - Fixed imbued mutations giving options of every cell type, instead of cell types you have unlocked - Fixed maximum particle count sometimes being exceeded, and increased maximum particle count - Fixed Alt+f4 not closing the game - Fixed detached body parts responding to inputs after being unpossessed - Fixed the print() function in lua scripts not working - Fixed a few world generation errors - If the audio device is lost (eg. it gets unplugged or goes to sleep), then the game will try to reacquire it - Tried to fix issues where game would crash or go back when changing some graphics settings - Maybe fixed distortions issues - Fixed sometimes crashing on startup - Improved loading body plans so that cells are properly distributed when they spawn misc: - Added setting to make cell buttons in the editor pushable by each other - Added options to the controls settings for editor keybinds - Combo cells that are loaded in sandbox mode will be automatically unlocked - Made world seed always visible - Added new lua functions: set_next_run_seed, get_player_body_id - Added lua console (disabled by default, can be enabled in the game settings) - Re-enabled distortions by default - Some crashes will now generate a dump file in /common/Primordialis/crashes

Patch Notes | Dec 24 2024 Build, Primordialis Demo

klrsteam_community_announcements

588d ago

gameplay changes & features: - New cell types: Acid cell, Ink cell, Vacuum cell, Linking cell, and Self-colliding cell - More creatures from Keith - Added some festive parasites - Combo cell icon now changes based on the combined cell types - Having multiple combo cells and is now possible, and combo cells can be used as part of other combo cells - Mutations that get imbued with cells now pick from your list of unlocked cells, and the ui for selecting imbued cell types now appears around the mutation pickup when you select it - The total width of your healthbar now scales logarithmically - The fill tool now works on enclosed empty regions - The fill tool will now replace all cells of a given type when control is held down, regardless of connectivity - The selection tool now behaves better with symmetry on - Cell type buttons will try to return to their resting position when you bump them with another cell type button - Added move and delete tools to sandbox mode - Made creature spawn tool able to spawn more than one of a creature at a time when you hold control - Added more team options for the team selection tool, including a "None" option which will make a creature enemies with all other creatures. The spawn creature tool will also use the selected team - Increased biomass storage of growth gating cells from 1 to 4 - Particles from jet cells now push other cells - Breakaway cells are back to being conductive and will always power neighboring cells when they are activated - Lightning from amp cells are now directed toward open sides - Jet cells can now activate at lower voltages - Seek trigger cells now output voltage proportional to their distance from your mouse cursor, with full voltage output when at a distance around 30% of your vision radius - Increased poison damage and reduced poison spreading threshold - Reduced leech rate of leeching cells and reduced their biomass storage back to 1 - Overhealed cells lose health less quickly - Sticky cells lose stickiness more quickly, but now share stickiness with neighboring sticky cells - Rebirth is now limitted to parts that detached within the past 20 seconds - New biomes - Modified algorithm for biome connection and placement - The third biome now has some patches of non-lava walls - Cells no longer instantly die when the creature they belong to dies - Added heat shimmer effect for lava walls - Added shockwave distortion from explosions and adjusted explosion visual to make the radius more clear - New visual effect for backgrounds and certain particles, this can be turned off in video settings bugfixes: - Fixed bugs with resolution switching - Fixed the close button in the top left corner of the edit menu not working - Fixed particles in streams only having half of the flow velocity - Fixed panning with arrow keys in the editor being rotated if you change your build orientation - Fixed some issues with death threshold calculation while changing body plans - Fixed new game confirmation erroneously showing up when you start a new game from the main menu after dying - Fixed being able to paste cells from a previous run which you had not yet unlocked - Fixed budding timer resetting for parts that detach from detached parts - Fixed sticky cells attaching to walls even if they have no exposed sides - Fixed pinch to zoom with mousepads triggering a fake press of the control button - Fixed the game using the incorrect Steam appid for the demo misc - Greatly reduced video memory usage - Adjusted default settings to be friendlier for lower end devices, this will only apply to fresh installs * Disabled replay recorder by default * Hardware cursor is enabled by default * Windowed mode is now default * The default resolution is now 1280x720 instead of 1920x1080 - Added settings to turn off background effects and reflections - Added support for 4k resolutions - You can now press control-Y in addition to control-shift-Z in order to redo in the editor - Pressing escape on the exit screen will now return to the main/pause menu - Removed dependence on visual studio runtime

Patch Notes | Nov 18 2024 Build, Primordialis Demo

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624d ago

gameplay changes & features: - New cell types: Root cell (sandbox only), Minion neuron, Fearful neuron, Seek trigger cell, and Negating cell - Anchor cells have been updated and are now obtainable - New mutation: Drifting - Many new creatures by Keith Sammut - Added some vegetation - Added button to make seeker cells move away from the cursor, right click by default - You can now mirror selected cells by double clicking the selection - When replacing one cell type with another, colors will not be changed unless it is the default color for the old cell type - Hovering over the body plan cost in the editor will show the maximum stored biomass. There is a setting to keep this always visible - Angry neurons will retarget when they are switched from off to on - All neurons now adjust action strength based on their voltage. They are still limited by their body's capabilities - Spikes no longer have a minimum damage, previously spikes were guaranteed to do a certain amount of damage regardless of impact force - Spikes no longer recover regeneration cooldown when dealing damage - Regeneration cooldown reduced from 10 seconds to 8 seconds - Made phasing cells a lighter blue to distinguish them from slippery cells - Cells that were phasing transition more smoothly to normal - Made power switch cells easier to activate - Made leeching and health infusing cells less flexible - Made leeching and health infusing cells more reliable, and able to transfer with more than one colliding cell at a time - Leeching cells now have 3 biomass storage - Poison now only transfers to neighboring cells when it is above a certain threshold. This means poison stays more localized. The build up and decay rates have also been adjusted to be slower - Poisonous cells now remove poison with negative voltages - Shock is now an independent cell property instead of depending on voltage. Shock is directly applied by lightning, and will quickly spread between cells regardless of conductivity. This helps grounding cells mitigate shock from further range and makes activating cells with lightning more consistent. - Sticky cells are now stickier, and lose stickiness less quickly when attached. - Lightweight cell cost reduced to 1 - Breakaway cells are no longer conductive, they will break when any of their neighbors are powered - Growth gating cells now block when electrified instead of when not electrified - Updated the description for Health monitor cells to match what they actually do. The behavior has not changed - Healthbar displays more clearly when you are over your stored biomass capacity - Cell collisions are more stable. They bounce less when colliding with each other, and more when colliding with walls - Adjusted perpendicular drag to vary by cell type, previously only the parallel drag was different. This makes the altered drag of slippery cells, hard cells, and a few others much more impactful - Drag is now applied to single cells and one cell thick lines. - Replaced slippery cells of the main menu snakes with speedy cells - Improved ai wall avoidance - Made second biome boss stronger - Removed turning boost, this was a mechanic that was mostly unnoticeable anyway - Slightly reduced damage from lava walls, it can still kill you very quickly - Budding can now grow any cells not part of your main body, not just cells that were present when detaching - Adjusted starting area generation - Made controls prompt more immersive bugfixes: - Maybe fixed spontaneous explosions for real this time - Particles connecting gates and bosses no longer despawn when the gate is far away - Fixed cost display showing random numbers when you have no cells - Cursor is no longer locked to the window in the main menu - Fixed the game reacting to the mouse when the game is in the background - Fixed healthbar for detached parts - Fixed pause persisting when switching from sandbox mode to a normal run misc - The game should now run on devices that only support OpenGL 3.3 - Reduced default gif replay buffer size from 40s to 20s - Added slider for number of gif replay frames - Several small performance improvements - Added option for hardware cursor in game settings - Added setting to pause when the game loses focus, which is enabled by default - Added screenshake slider to video settings - Cell growth sound now plays when cells are fully grown instead of when they start growing to avoid the annoying sound with the Budding mutation - Added launch option --autoreload, to automatically reload lua scripts and shaders - Added link to the game discord in the main/pause menu

Patch Notes | Nov 3 2024 Build, Primordialis Demo

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640d ago

gameplay changes & features: - Added Sandbox mode - Three new cell types, Capacitive cells, Inductive cells, and Inflating cells. - You can now pan and zoom in the editor using the arrow keys and page up/down, in addition to middle mouse button & scroll wheel. - The starting body plan now has Seeker cells, and Seeker cells start unlocked - The starting area is now smaller on average and there is a maximum distance the spawn location can be from the gate - You now have bonus biomass regeneration while your body has 12 cells or fewer - Regeneration cooldown recovery from picking up xp orbs is reduced for bodies with higher biomass cost. It is scaled so the recovery you get is roughly proportional to the portion of the xp bar which is filled, if your body is at your current biomass cost limit. - Changed the voltage threshold for cells to glow blue to be the same as the standard activation threshold - Phasing strength depends on voltage - Cells affected by phasing are now transparent - Poisonous cell strength is now proportional to voltage - Explosive cells are more common - Venomous cells are more common - Poisonous cells are less common - Poisonous cells are are now immune to poison damage - Spiky cell damage has been changed again as a consequence of a bugfix. The damage has been adjusted to feel similar to before, but some builds may be stronger and some may be weaker due to this change - Made Flex cells more tear resistant - Increased the light radius from Glowing cells - Other cells will not grow from Sticky cells while they are attached to something - Reworked lightning again - Shock is now weighted by the biomass cost of the shocked cell - Lightning now deals damage by default, which is proportional to the voltage of the lightning and total shock on the struck creature - Lightning Burn has been replaced with Chain Lightning, which causes lightning from your amplifying cells to chain from cells it strikes, and causes damage from lightning to not delay regeneration - Amplifying cells activate less frequently (but still more than the Oct 19 Build) - Rebirth now shows a visual indicator around your healthbar when it is able to activate. This indicator is transparent when the detached part you will be reborn from has low biomass - Mutagenic poison will not transform cells until they have 20% stored biomass or less. - Budding now allows detached parts to regenerate biomass for 10 seconds from the time they detach - Detached body parts are no longer instantly deleted outside of the loading radius, but instead will take a low damage over time - Reduced the number of Heart cells for the tail detaching enemies - Leech and Health infusion cells transfer biomass twice as fast as before - The venomous squids in the first biome have had their hearts reduced and moved toward their front - 1 new enemy - Made some enemies less likely to get stuck on walls - Background particles now subtly move towards the boss for the current biome - Gates are now visible as dots in map mode - Mutation pickups are now pushed out of walls - Adjusted how the max forces between cells is calculated to prevent vibrations from ripping them apart bugfixes: - Fixed crash when activating a follower neuron as a single detached cell - Fixed bug with how collision force was calculated. Spike damage has been adjsted to compensate. - Fixed bugs that occur from using too many different colors in the editor - Increased the minimum tunnel width in biome connecting streams to avoid getting stuck - Fixed some map generation bugs - Fixed bug where being shocked could make seeker cells aim towards (0, 0) - Fixed combo cells having properties higher or lower than either of the ingredients - Fixed bug where parts detached from detached parts would not count for rebirth - Fixed some cell properties persisting after a cell changes its cell type - Prevented non-passive creatures from spawning at the same location as a boss - Fixed undo not working for first edit - Fixed undo breaking after too many edits - Increased the size of the undo buffer from 1024 edits to 4096 edits - The sound effect for being shocked no longer plays while paused or in the editor misc: - Improved performance for things that play lots of sounds, lightning is the main case where this should help - Improved performance with gates while they are opening - Turned off dithering in the gif recorder to work better with discord's gif compression - Added setting to disable gif replay recorder - Moved restrict cursor to window setting to from Audio/Video settings to Game settings - Tutorial will no longer prevent you from selecting new cell types or editing your body plan - Tutorial will now be considered passed and disabled for future runs if you get past the step where you draw cells - World seed is now displayed in the pause menu next to the game version

Patch Notes | Oct 23 2024 Build, Primordialis Demo

klrsteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

650d ago

changes & features: - Initial upgrades now show 5 options for new cell types instead of 3. After level 4 it will go back to 3 options. This intended to speed up the early game - Added new button in body plan editor that toggles showing/hiding icons on top of cells - Made warnings in editor less obtrusive, and added an option in settings to turn off warnings for disconnected cells - Cells that have associated keybinds will now say the name of the button you have bound - Your choices for customizable mutations and cell types are now shown in the relevant tooltips - Combo cells now always perform the special functions of both cell choices, previously one would be randomly chosen - Reduced the cost of Amplifying cells from 10 to 7 - Reduced the cost of Muscle cells from 10 to 6 - Reduced the cost of Leeching cells from 10 to 6 - Significantly reduced the damage dealt by Spike cells, they now deal 44.4% of their previous damage - Increased swimming force of Spike cells from 0% to 20% of base swim force - Changed the color of grounded cells to be slightly teal - Grounded cells are more effective at grounding adjacent cells that are non-conductive - Jet cell strength is now proportional to the activating voltage - Reworked Amplifying cells - The lightning range now increases with their activating voltage - Lightning activates much more frequently - You no longer have resistance to shocks from your own lightning, previously 20% effect on cells in the same body - Renamed Injecting cells to Health infusing cells - Phasing cells can now phase through other cells in addition to walls - The breakaway tail creatures in the first biome now move slightly slower - Recolored shield crabs in the first biome - Streams between levels now have a slight inward flow to make getting stuck on walls less likely - Made the second biome smaller - Made a side biome smaller - There is now a small transition zone when entering the third biome bugfixes: - Hopefully fixed spontaneous physics explosion bug - Fixed crash involving muscle cells - Fixed gates being invisible when continuing a saved run - Fixed wasd prompt appearing in the wrong place after continuing a saved run - Fixed xp being reset after triggering the rebirth mutation - Fixed tutorial getting stuck when turning it on mid run - Fixed selection of main piece when bodies are split into multiple parts being based on the number of Heart cells instead of total cost. This fixes some cases of creatures instantly dying when split in half - Fixed combo cells resetting to base properties when continuing a run - Fog of war is now saved and loaded

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