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Title: SITREP Saturday #22: Around the Corner
Post by: Kyzrati on May 04, 2018, 05:28:42 PM
The Beta 6 countdown begins! It's coming May 8th, but that's my morning when it'll be released, technically still Monday evening/night in the western hemisphere where most of the players are.

In preparation for that, the full range of achievements have been uploaded to Steam, although again they aren't technically accessible in the current public build, even though Steam insists on showing them on the store page...

(https://i.imgur.com/zUAfrRz.png)

You can check out the full list on Steam's global achievements page (https://steamcommunity.com/stats/722730/achievements), but I wouldn't recommend using third-party achievement managers unless you want to be spoiled, since they will spoil the third of achievements which are meant to be hidden. Also: As always, here's your reminder that achievements are equally available both in the Steam and DRM-free versions.

If you're interested in why some achievements are hidden, the methods and purpose behind achievement selection, how they're categorized, how the icons were created, and much more, check out the latest article on my blog (http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/05/achievements/).

(https://i.imgur.com/uODJZ4o.png)

Testing is going well, just a few more bits to fix up and polish then we'll be all set.

Ape has already added achievements to his graph-generating script (https://github.com/Ape/cogmindgraph):

(https://i.imgur.com/BfDJW4i.png)

See more graph samples in last week's SITREP (http://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=1115.0).


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Actually, for the record, may as well list out all the achievements that are part of Cogmind's first batch (this way it's also better organized than the global Steam list, which is mostly random at the moment).

Mechanics:

Style:

Progress:

Challenges:

Events:

Wins:

Again the selection, categorization, and more are discussed on the blog here (http://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2018/05/achievements/).

Features

Although this week has mostly been about testing, tweaking, and writing that mega-article, I did slip in a few last quick features before the Beta 6 feature freeze had to set in.

Melee Analysis Suites increase minimum weapon damage, yet another buff that'll help make synergistic melee builds more effective but not OP.

(https://i.imgur.com/UwK6Rte.gif)

By indirect request, the message log now reports what items were crushed by a cave-in. Aw...

(https://i.imgur.com/bmvr62Y.png)

And my personal favorite to finally slip in there: Drones can be released from bays without even attaching them!

(https://i.imgur.com/Yea1eE4.png)

Less tedium, more OMG DRONE SWARM STOP ATTRACTING EVERY DAMN PATROL ON THE MAP.

(But seriously, sometimes it's still good to equip the bays, be it for makeshift armor if you've got no real protection, or to recall drones for repair and storage.)

I also noticed Cogmind dev recently passed the 9,000-hour mark. Onwards to 10k!

(https://i.imgur.com/T0gSWqv.png)

Discount

There'll be a 10% discount next week to coincide with the new release. As a heads up, this is the largest discount Cogmind will have during Early Access unless at some point Valve decides to again offer exposure for a larger discount like they did in December, in which case I might take them up. (But I wouldn't count on them doing that again, there being so many games out there these days :P)

There won't be a SITREP next week because it's a major release week and we'll have Beta 6 and its release notes instead. We'll be back to sitrepping the week after with Beta 5 scoring and analysis (http://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=205.msg7158#msg7158), and before that I'll mostly likely be doing some streaming (http://www.twitch.tv/kyzrati/)! (As usual the results will later appear with my other recent runs on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/GridSageGames/videos).)

There may be other relevant discussion of this SITREP on Steam (https://steamcommunity.com/games/722730/announcements/detail/1653262146440031154), but feel free to post replies here, too :)