We are excited and extremely grateful for everyone's submissions to the Automaton Newsletter! Your levels are really awesome - there are very challenging ones, cleverly designed using the game mechanics, and even mini-games - we had a lot of fun playing them!
In the meantime, we have addressed the issues reported to us in this update. As there are many of them, we won't go into detail here. Please see the release notes section below for more information.
We’d like to explain something to everyone regarding the fact that "Why I can’t edit the test cases or level content, once the level is load onto level uploader?”
It is due to a rather fundamental design of the game, "when a player plays a level, a copy of the level template is actually made (a savefile), and editing is done on the copied file". We cannot guarantee whether the player modified level template in level uploader can 1. Apply the change to savefiles and 2. Whether the verification savefiles should be deleted.
We apologize for this inconvenience. At this stage, it seems that we need to modify the game's fundamental design to allow modifying a level in level uploader.
To address this, we’ve currently taken a compromise approach: to reduce the need for re-verify as much as possible.
In this update, we have made some changes to the behavior of the level uploader - when loosing level constrains (ex. allowing other players to use more Diagram Item / actions, Devices, or raising certification standards), we will no longer require re- verify of the level. When lowering the certification standards, we will only require re- verify of the automaton without deleting any saved files. Only when restricting the available Diagram Item and Devices, will delete the savefiles and require re-verify.
We hope that this change will make level creation and sharing more convenient. And once again, thank you for your patient support!
Release Notes
Master build 40420
Improvements:
- Improved level uploader behavior: Player won't be ask to re-verify the level when loosing level constrains (ex. allowing other players to use more Diagram Item / actions, Devices, or raising certification standards).
- Player will be ask to re-verify the level, but the verified savefile will not be deleted when lowering the certification standards.
- Player will be ask to re-verify the level with previous savefile deleted, only when allowing other players to use less Diagram Item / actions or Devices.
- Add hints and confirming dialog for the three situations above.
- Decreasing the chance sandbox page freeze when encountering damaged files.
Bugfixes:
- The level authors in Automaton Newsletter can display correctly now.
- Fixed an issue that the 'next page' button malfunctioned when player downloaded 7 or more level from Steam Workshop (Thanks Inversionpeter for reporting it)
- Fixed 'confirm button' behavior when creating Sandbox levels.
- Fixed an issue may cause level uploader delete the level accidentally when deleting savefiles.
- Fixed an issue that Display Screens showing wrong symbols after modifying its available symbol list.
- The name plate of axes of Display Screens will update correctly when renaming now(Thanks MoldyVanilla for reporting it)
- Player won't crash the game by dividing zero on Calculator anymore (Thanks purin for reporting it)
- Add the description about Div() of Calculator in the manual (Thanks MoldyVanilla for reminding us)
