Teams Thoughts

As per usual, Verde is posting the detailed patch notes at the community hub.

Additions

10 New Mutations

Detailed information about them in the in-depth post in the community hub




New Widgets

The Build Icons Bar, also called Action Bar, is now a widget, resizing itself when moved.

Balance changes

Winter Scaling Reduced

• On Delayed Development difficulty, winter energy cost no longer scales with your current amount of stems
  
• On Regular Rise, this same scaling was reduced by 50%
  
• Speed Sprout remained unchanged
  



Mutation Stacking Changed

• Energy and flower generation increases are now additive instead of multiplicative
  
• This also affects rain and spring multipliers, so they can be more easily countered by mutations
  



Mutations Reworked

Aerodynamic Design

• Now sets the current Crisis to Strong Winds, as well as reversing the wind direction
  
• Overwrites current crisis
  



Porous Soil

• Reworked to trigger at the end of your turns, reducing the water level it if is above the default value
  



Flying Rivers

• Reworked to trigger at the end of your turns, increasing the water level it if is below the default value
  





Small changes

• Nature's attendants buff that increases following buffs now affects itself.
  
• Nature's attendants no longer generate attendants during the winter.
  
• Regretful growth no longer generates parasite tiles when used during a parasites crisis
  
• Burls now increase capacity by a percentage instead of a fixed value
  
• Capacity interests gain is now removed if the mutation is removed by Harmful Pesticides
  
• Lucky Seed can no longer call for a turn of Human Greed
  

Other Changes

Input Changes

• Now once you place a tile, your current tile no longer deselects
  
• Now you can select another tile without cancelling your tile placement first
  
• Shift is now no longer used since its behaviour is now always active
  



Tooltip Changes

• He Speaks for the Trees mutation now explicit that it fills your capacity at 50% when you die
  
• Capacity Interests now tells you how much capacity it gave to you
  
• Stem tiles now tell you how much cold resistance they have, as well as how much cold damage that resistance reduces
  



Visual Changes

• Particles now come out of leaves and fire tiles
  
• Mutations now glow when they are activated
  
• Mutations are now tinted grey when they are inactive or on cooldown
  
• Stems should no longer have a twig pointing upwards when a leaf tile is in the same cell as it
  
• Implemented some changes to the mutation shader so that details are now possible
  
• Human greed targets should now be more easily seen when a leaf tile is in front of the targeted tile
  
• Info Display Text now has a black gradient behind it so it is visible in any weather
  
• Lucky Seed now uses display text instead of the narrator to announce its result
  
• When placing a tile, the cursor now shows the current tile being placed
  



Widget Changes

• You can now click on the resource display spheres to toggle their size between 2x2 and 1x1
  

Fixes

• Fixed the game stopped responding bug(we hope)
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Winter Widget to stop working if you died under certain conditions
  
• Fixed a bug that would cause the Resource Spheres not to update their current value properly if you died under certain conditions
  
• Fixed widget drawer opening with clicks above the handle
  
• Fixed a bug that would make a sigil reveal itself if Regretful Growth was used near it