The new release has landed. This one comes with a number of major changes and additions, so I've added a new section to the manual (press H in-game) to explain all the mechanics that RS:SA has introduced on top of the vanilla game. Have a skim through that, particularly if you turn the Advisor Hints off.
A very special thank you must go to Jess, who's amazing artwork has brought more atmosphere to a collapsed and decaying world, and it adds immeasurably to the game. Jess also offered a number of the ideas that were implemented in this release, and performed a huge amount of testing during development. I'm very grateful that Jess found the RS forums and was keen to contribute to Still Alive. Thanks Jess!
As always, the download link is in the first post of this thread.
STILL ALIVE 2.9.15.26 (aka Release 7-6, 16/2/2023)
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Features:
-Added fishing. (see section 9 of the manual)
-Corpses now drop raw meat when butchered.
-Added a chance to get food poisoning from uncooked meat.
-Cannibalism now has much more significant consequences (see section 9 of the manual).
-Raw meats can be cooked on fires.
-Added receptacles that can be used as fire barrels. (see section 9 of the manual)
-Added the ability to make campfires.^ (see section 9 of the manual)
-Added fire extinguishers.
-Added paint thinner, for removing unwanted sprayed tags.*
-Added new weapons and sprites: cleaver, brass knuckles, flail, kitchen knife, scimitar, mace, nunchaku, frying pan, pitch fork,
scythe, sickle, spear, spiked mace, SMG, standard axe, double barrel shotgun, minigun (unique), tactical shotgun, army pistol,
flamethrower, pistol, shotgun, hunting rifle, revolver, precision rifle, army precision rifle, army rifle (3 variants), fire axe,
grenade launcher (unique).^*
-Added display cases to churches, which is where rare antique weapons may spawn.
-Added a grenade that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.
-NPCs and the player now have a chance to extinguish fires on self by Waiting (stop-drop-and-roll).
-Corpses now list cause of death when hovering over them.*
-Players can now bury corpses. This will leave behind a burial cross with the deceased's name.*^
-Players can now destroy items from their inventory, removing them from the world permanently.
-Items that are dropped by NPCs and go untouched for 4 days are despawned from the game for performance optimisation (configurable in Options).
-Players can now change their clothing outfit, shoes, and hairstyle in the relevant stores at the shopping mall.
-Added an option to configure how frequently undead and dogs will growl when doing actions (eg. attacking).
-Added section 9 of the manual to explain all the RS:SA-specific changes and additions.
-Prisoners now wear a distinctive uniform.*^
-Improved the sprites for the following items: books, magazines, dynamite, medikit, bandages.*^
-The world now decays as time passes (configurable in Options).*^
-Players can unload the ammo from their equipped ranged weapon.*
-Livings now scream when they are killed by undead.*
-Added a Bio Force Gun. CHAR and their shady weapons R&D...
-Screams SFXs now play relevant to the NPC's gender. Death at the hands of an undead has a distinct SFX for each gender.
-Melee and ranged weapons now have weight, which can reduce one's speed (-0.01 SPD = 1 turn skipped in every 100).
Fixes:
-Killing gang members that accosted you (ie. self-defence) no longer counts as murder.*
-Buffed flame weapons, nailguns, and crossbows, and balanced all ranged weapons.*
-Fixed RS Alpha 10 bug that made "the prisoner" invincible.*
-Guard booth door in the police station jails level is now locked.
-Fixed the cause of "the prisoner" dialog not being initiated.*
-Corrected logic when dropping items (now will drop on the spot rather than beside it, unless absolutely necessary).
-Fixed issues with banks safes not working as intended.
-Added missing actions to the keyrebind menu.
-Fixed NPCs taking forbidden to AI items.
-Improved logic of NPCs rating the value of certain types of items when trading.
-Perishable stuff (eg. undead corpses, blood splatters, etc) no longer render when out of FOV.*
-Fixed cause of corpses infinitely appearing to be on fire under certain circumstances.*
-Alleviated some of the priority towards NPCs endlessly trading amongst each other.
-Fixed church bells not ringing loud enough when in a district with a church after loading a saved game.
-Exploding fuel cans no longer destroy walls.
-Fires no longer travel through walls.
-Fixed fire resistance of armor, and the encumbrance of the fire hazard suit.
-When Immediate Zombification (Std mode) is on, NPCs zombified by a hit from an undead now have their corpse removed.
Misc:
-Adjusted the items spawned at stores, junkyards, houses, army and CHAR locations, churches, and farms.
-Reduced the accuracy penalty when uses ranged weapons whilst having a shield equipped.
-Added more items to army supplies drops.
-Added advisor hint and message notifications regarding extinguishing fires on oneself.
-Reduced the decay of blood splatters from 5 days to 3. Added decay for explosion & fire scorches, and piles of vomit.
-Items that solely restore sanity are no longer spawned if the sanity system is disabled at new game creation.
-Benches are now movable.
-Autosaves now occur every 540 turns rather than 360.
-Tweaked the advisor hints to not spam quite so much on the first few turns.
-Permadeath no longer gives a scoring multiplier.
-Less likely to vomit when siphoning fuel now.
-Increased the FOO and SLP penalty from vomiting.
-Can now cut down trees for planks (an appropriate melee weapon is required).
-A bladed weapon is now required in order to butcher corpses.
-Dogs now only spawn in certain conditions (mostly based on district - you're unlikely to find them in Green districts).
-Maximum Dogs option is now Maximum Animals (applies to chickens, rabbits and dogs, but not fish).
-Reduced the default daily zombie invasion increase from 5 to 1, and default max undeads cap from 100 to 80.
-Expanded the radius of lit area around object fires an extra tile (configurable in Options).
-Tidied up the game manual to remove line wrapping cutting off words.
-Added a few extra clothing items.
-Removed the chance of heavy rain when starting a new game.
-Added police cars.^*
-Reduced the chance for dynamite to spawn.
-Defending oneself from aggressively hungry civilians is now only self-defense.*
-Tweaks to the kennels and jail cells.
-Tile fires now damage corpses.
-Buffed the Light Feet skill.
-Added antiviral pills to army supply drops.
-Buffed medikits and cigarettes.
DEVELOPMENT:
-Moved HARDY to last Living skill position in the CSV, as it now needs two lines to fit its description on the skill selection screen.
-Add a timer task for adding MapObjects.
-An issue (assumed pre-existing) has been discovered whereby the game may crash on district change if District Simulation is set to Off.
The cause is unknown. Bug tracker entry:
gitlab.com/RogueSurvivor-StillAlive/StillAlive/-/issues/91*denotes an idea proposed by or a bug reported by Jess on the RS forums.
^denotes sprites contributed by Jess on the RS forums.
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