Greetings scientists! Thank you for your continued feedback on the Forever Skies closed playtest. These improvements and patches wouldn’t be possible without your input!
In this update, our goal was to structure the game with a clear main progression path and additional optional activities.
We can’t wait to hear what you think to the new additions and changes. The full details are below:
New methods for research and blueprint acquisition:
- Destroyed technology added to the game that provide new researches for the Research Station.
- Memory cards that provide new blueprints for crafting.
Locations:
- New Location variant added - Water Lily
- Radio Towers balancing
- New placement of blueprints and resources
- Underdust VFX improvements
Quests:
- New Quests “Red Signal Source”
- New Quests “Navigation Technology”
- New Quests “Find Lift location Coordinates”
- New Quests “Get The Information About World Under Dust”
- New Quests “Get to the laboratory”.
- New Quests “Examine the virus carrier”
- Quest “Find the Lab Under the Dust” has been removed as a result of the above.
New Items added:
- Medkits can now be crafted in the fabricator.
- Large Storage Boxes
- Secret life form to discover under the dust
Improvements:
- The Radar now shows quest location and unknown location variants. The range has also been updated.
- Lore Scenes on locations now give more information and background to the story.
- Items to scan in the “Study” menu are now divided into location variants and regions they can be found in.
- Delete save confirmation prompt added to the main menu.
Settings
- Mouse and Gamepad Sensitivity improvements
Bug Fixes
- Autosaves have been improved in many aspects
- Airship building QOL
- Water bottles improvements
- Audio indicator for lack of fuel in the engine should be less irritating
- Audio indicator for damaged engines and turbines should be less frequent
- Improvements to Deck extractor smoothness, targeting and more
- Elevator shouldn’t get stuck mid way down
- Repair patches should now stack properly
- Some performance improvements to the ship and it’s behavior at a lower FPS
- Boosters shouldn’t disappear from Study Menu after loading a save.
Changed depots in shipping branch