Re-rolling research results, plus a language fix. Enjoy! If you’ve spent time with Heart of the Machine and want to leave a review, that’d be appreciated. No need to say more than you mean, but if you’ve been meaning to write one, I’d be grateful. Steam reviews carry weight. For a project like this — developed by a single person over many years, every review makes a difference.
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Update 80 Changelog
Features
- You Feel A Creative Impulse: In the rewards screen for inspiration in a given category, you can now re-roll your options if there are options that are not currently shown. This costs 4 creativity on normal difficulty, 8 on hard, 16 on extreme, and 24 on misery mode. When a re-roll happens, it does not include any of the prior entries that were shown, so with one or two re-rolls you can choose exactly what you want.
- For Those Who Micro: Added a new mod called "Free Re-Rolls," which allows people to re-roll things for free, rather than having to spend creativity.
Bugfixes
- Turn, Windmills, Turn: Fixed a regression from update 76 where windmills stopped rotating. When I baked all the matrices, I forgot about those. The sub-matrices in question are now recalculated per-frame as-needed, rather than being fully baked. This costs a few microseconds in total per frame, which is very nice.
- Achievement Localization: Fixed an issue from Update 76 where the achievements were not properly linking up to their localization entries anymore, meaning that they were showing fully in English even when another language was chosen.
Full notes here.
What's New In 1.0
If you missed the retrospective of what changed from the start of Early Access to the 1.0 release, you can read that here:
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