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| 25s | [Applause] |
| 27s | oh oh it's that thing is that yeah that |
| 31s | right |
| 32s | yeah yeah we'll get to that we'll get to |
| 34s | that we'll get to that |
| 38s | but have you figured out what it is |
| 42s | hey hey i'm snoot i'm one of the |
| 44s | community managers at coffee stain |
| 45s | studios and i have a couple of things i |
| 47s | want to talk about today regarding the |
| 49s | creatures in our game there's also a |
| 51s | couple of things i want to tell you |
| 52s | about the mam but we'll get to that |
| 54s | we'll get to that right so the next |
| 56s | update we're working on is update six |
| 58s | and the theme for this update focuses on |
| 60s | improving the exploration aspect of |
| 61s | satisfactory a big part of exploring the |
| 64s | planet boils down to what the |
| 66s | environment looks like where do you go |
| 68s | what kind of resources can you discover |
| 71s | how much do they weigh |
| 73s | and what kind of creatures do you |
| 74s | encounter that brings that environment |
| 76s | to life the creatures you encounter on |
| 77s | the planet play a big part in the player |
| 80s | experience when exploring and we felt |
| 82s | that the current iteration of creatures |
| 84s | and their behavior have had some room |
| 86s | for improvement so for this update we've |
| 88s | kind of rebuilt the ai system from the |
| 90s | ground up to better support the |
| 91s | direction we want to take them in so |
| 93s | doing this proved to be a much bigger |
| 95s | undertaking than we estimated and we ran |
| 98s | into like a whole bunch of roadblocks |
| 100s | along the way we're quite happy with the |
| 102s | system itself but there's still a lot of |
| 104s | work when it comes to implementing the |
| 106s | ai for creatures and this can take quite |
| 108s | some time before we're fully happy with |
| 110s | it the overall of the creature ai isn't |
| 113s | necessarily to make the enemies harder |
| 115s | it's more about adding variety to the |
| 117s | creature's behavior and that's the key |
| 120s | thing here right variety because while |
| 123s | we won't necessarily add new uh |
| 125s | creatures in this update we are going to |
| 128s | make changes to the existing hostile |
| 129s | creatures let's talk about some of the |
| 131s | creature changes we made |
| 133s | and what you can expect to see in this |
| 134s | update essentially so first of all the |
| 137s | spitters in the game will have a |
| 138s | different look we want the spitters to |
| 140s | sort of like fit the biome that they |
| 141s | recite in so we've added three new |
| 144s | spitter types we've added desert |
| 146s | tropical and forest looking types that |
| 148s | you run into in different sections of |
| 149s | the map |
| 150s | there's also like a small version and a |
| 152s | big version of them in the future we |
| 154s | want these different variations to have |
| 155s | their own unique attacks and behavior |
| 157s | variations as well but for now they'll |
| 160s | have the same sort of set of behaviors |
| 162s | and just look differently essentially |
| 164s | hogs have also gotten some tweaks to |
| 165s | their behavior when they're attacking |
| 167s | the player and they also know like |
| 169s | telegraph when they're doing like that |
| 171s | charge a bit better by doing this like |
| 173s | animation wind up before they come |
| 174s | crashing in uh the hogs will still look |
| 177s | pretty much the same for now but we hope |
| 179s | to give the hog some updated looks in |
| 180s | the future as well |
| 182s | and on the topic of like general ai |
| 184s | behavior some of the creatures now have |
| 186s | a couple of more behavior states uh in |
| 189s | addition to the existing behavior states |
| 190s | the creatures will now also do like an |
| 192s | investigative state sort of to try and |
| 194s | figure out like where their enemy went |
| 196s | if they're chasing something and we've |
| 198s | also implemented so that creatures now |
| 200s | react to sound as well so enemies will |
| 202s | also investigate if they heard something |
| 204s | nearby which also means that you can now |
| 207s | sneak up behind enemies to like sucker |
| 209s | punch them or just like sneak by them if |
| 211s | you don't want to if you want to take |
| 212s | the more passive approach essentially uh |
| 215s | don't expect like any fancy like stealth |
| 217s | mechanics or anything like that it's not |
| 218s | metal gear sole or anything it's just |
| 219s | like an added touch to the existing |
| 221s | behavior that we have so |
| 223s | what is that cabbage looking yolk thing |
| 225s | that we've been teasing for a long time |
| 227s | now like what is it is it a new plant is |
| 229s | it a new creature well |
| 232s | it's actually none of those things |
| 234s | it's actually a redesign of the crab |
| 236s | hatcher |
| 238s | but it's not just a new look for it |
| 239s | though the crab hatcher still triggers |
| 242s | the same way as before when the player |
| 243s | gets close to it it will spawn a bunch |
| 245s | of flying crabs that attack the player |
| 247s | the difference now though is that the |
| 248s | crab batcher will keep spawning the baby |
| 250s | crabs until the hatch has been destroyed |
| 253s | we've also tweaked the flying crabs to |
| 255s | only have like one hp so they now go |
| 257s | down in like one hit and we also felt |
| 260s | like their ai was a little bit too |
| 261s | complex actually with the way they like |
| 263s | rolled around on the ground and stuff |
| 264s | like that when you hit them so we |
| 266s | decided to simplify their behavior a lot |
| 268s | so these are some of the changes you can |
| 271s | expect for update 6 for creatures for |
| 273s | now it isn't everything we originally |
| 275s | planned so we won't be finished with |
| 277s | this part of update 6 when it comes out |
| 279s | in the past we probably would have |
| 281s | waited actually with releasing this |
| 282s | update until we're closer to our vision |
| 284s | of how we want creatures to be in the |
| 286s | game but as i mentioned in the at the |
| 288s | announcement of update 6 we have to sort |
| 290s | of work a bit differently if we're able |
| 292s | to reach 1.0 in a reasonable rate and we |
| 294s | also couldn't release all the other |
| 296s | stuff without these new system changes |
| 298s | as they are like depending on one |
| 299s | another so we'll just have to deal with |
| 301s | the fact that we didn't manage to fully |
| 302s | finish what we set out to do for |
| 304s | creatures in update six so in some |
| 305s | regards you know creatures might not be |
| 307s | what we aim for them to be right now in |
| 309s | some aspects of the ai might actually be |
| 311s | a bit worse than before but we are going |
| 313s | to keep working on this while the update |
| 315s | is out on experimental which by the way |
| 317s | is going to be a bit longer than past |
| 319s | experimental periods so expect like a |
| 321s | you know a couple of update drops when |
| 323s | it comes to this sort of thing being |
| 324s | improved while the game is on |
| 326s | experimental the plan for creatures in |
| 328s | the future is to keep working on variety |
| 330s | we intend to tweak creature health and |
| 333s | damage values more depending on where |
| 334s | you run into them and as i mentioned |
| 336s | before another thing we didn't have time |
| 338s | to get around to is add more varieties |
| 339s | to the hogs looks |
| 341s | and like have them spawn in like |
| 343s | locations where they thematically fit |
| 345s | better in addition to this there's also |
| 347s | a new creature that we were working on |
| 349s | but uh we need a bit more time before we |
| 351s | can actually show that off yet so yeah |
| 353s | big tease we also want to strengthen the |
| 355s | connection between factory building and |
| 357s | exploration with creatures and combat |
| 359s | part of this is why we introduce new |
| 360s | ammo types as we want players to have |
| 363s | access to more powerful and different |
| 364s | tools to overcome exploration challenges |
| 367s | as they progress |
| 368s | so that's sort of the rundown of like |
| 370s | the creature changes that we have |
| 372s | planned for now now there's a there's |
| 374s | another couple of things i want to talk |
| 375s | about in this video uh one of which is |
| 377s | that there's a couple of new parts |
| 378s | coming the creatures in the game will |
| 380s | still drop loots once you've defeated |
| 382s | them and all the creature loot will now |
| 384s | have to be grinded down into a new part |
| 386s | called alien protein which |
| 389s | boy had it doesn't that look just look |
| 391s | tasty huh |
| 392s | this part will replace other alien loot |
| 394s | in some research and crafting such as |
| 396s | the inhaler from alien protein you'll |
| 398s | also be able to create these dna |
| 400s | capsules which will be used for science |
| 402s | research and some additional unspecified |
| 404s | purposes in the future another new part |
| 407s | that is related to the new ammo type |
| 408s | changes is smokeless powder this part is |
| 411s | an advanced type of black powder and can |
| 414s | be produced by combining black powder |
| 416s | with heavy oil residue in a refinery the |
| 418s | next big thing i want to talk about is |
| 419s | the mam and specifically some of the |
| 422s | changes we're making to the research |
| 423s | tree in the mam |
| 424s | the blade runners will now be unlocked |
| 427s | in the course tree instead of keterium |
| 429s | as he felt that quartz is somewhat |
| 430s | underwhelming and coterium was sort of |
| 433s | stealing all the thunder we've also |
| 434s | moved a few uh noteworthy alt recipes to |
| 437s | be unlocked in the ma'am now which is |
| 440s | kind of wild |
| 441s | the polyester fabric recipe is now |
| 443s | unlocked in the mycelia research tree |
| 445s | because we felt it wasn't really useful |
| 446s | enough for players to want to spend like |
| 448s | a hard drive for it and the compacted |
| 451s | coal |
| 452s | is now unlocked in the sulfur research |
| 454s | tree along with the turbo fuel recipe |
| 456s | which is like |
| 458s | what where's this change coming from the |
| 460s | main reason these two were moved was to |
| 462s | avoid the hard drive grind for |
| 463s | experienced players generally these |
| 465s | recipes also provide like a nicer power |
| 467s | progression so we felt it made sense to |
| 470s | make them more accessible but let us |
| 472s | know in the comments if you feel like we |
| 473s | goofed it with this decision because it |
| 475s | is a little bit out of the blue right |
| 477s | but hopefully our reasoning makes sense |
| 478s | for this another key change we're making |
| 480s | to the mam is that we're expanding the |
| 481s | visibility of mam research to allow |
| 483s | players to see more of the future |
| 485s | research options currently the mam hides |
| 487s | a large part of the available research |
| 489s | and so in update 6 we're making it so |
| 491s | that the future research options are |
| 493s | visible this change is mostly to |
| 495s | increase motivation to interact with the |
| 497s | mam and to allow players to better plan |
| 500s | like their progression a similar change |
| 502s | has been made to the awesome shop as |
| 504s | well so that some items that have |
| 506s | research requirements will now show |
| 508s | their pre-requisite unlock |
| 511s | uh milestones and mam research that |
| 513s | unlocks such a prerequisite now |
| 515s | clarifies that it does and any shop |
| 517s | unlocks with dependencies to any |
| 519s | research chain unlocks are no longer |
| 521s | hidden until the prerequisite has been |
| 523s | met count how many times i said |
| 525s | prerequisite such a funny word pre pre |
| 529s | it's like losing its meaning now that i |
| 531s | said it so many times so cool that's |
| 533s | probably gonna be all for today so |
| 535s | remember we're not quite there yet when |
| 537s | it comes to the changes we're making to |
| 539s | the creatures in update six there's more |
| 540s | to come on this front so hopefully |
| 542s | you'll be a bit understanding that this |
| 544s | area of the game is still a bit of work |
| 545s | in progress once the update drops |
| 547s | anyways glad you made it to the end of |
| 549s | the video |
| 550s | but all good things have to come to an |
| 552s | end don't forget to floss before |
| 553s | brushing your teeth and we'll see each |
| 556s | other in the next one bye-bye |
| 561s | actually |
| 563s | okay wait there's actually one more |
| 564s | thing uh |
| 566s | i forgot really important i just wanted |
| 568s | to give you an update on what we're |
| 569s | planning to do with overclocking in |
| 571s | update six uh a few weeks back i talked |
| 574s | about that we were thinking of changing |
| 576s | overclocking to be linear and that we |
| 578s | were planning on trying that out in |
| 579s | update 6. well |
| 582s | change of plans |
| 583s | we're not doing that in update 6. we |
| 585s | might still do that later down the line |
| 587s | but we want to spend a bit more time |
| 589s | looking into this ourselves and evaluate |
| 591s | it before we are to give it a go sort of |
| 594s | so in update six you won't see any |
| 595s | changes made to overclocking uh but |
| 597s | we'll see what we do in the future |
| 598s | regarding this so yeah just just really |
| 600s | quickly want to get that out there uh so |
| 602s | yeah now you know and knowing it's half |
| 604s | the battle okay actually bye |
| 614s | by the way um |
| 616s | update 6 is going to be available on |
| 618s | experimental next week on june 14th |
| 622s | fun fact |
