Welp, that's going on the wishlist immediately! I was always kinda hoping for something like this for Blades of the Shogun—always felt like it could support an expansion to give us more nail-biting missions to enjoy. :grin:

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I'm no fan of Microsoft buying anything, but I'll grudgingly admit they've managed not to run GitHub into the ground yet, so…50-50 Discord will still be worth using in a few years? :neutral:

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyFYI, the "In-Dome Buildings Pack" is already available (the article above implies it's coming soon)

I believe it wasn't available at the time the article was written (I looked), but released a scant day or two later.

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So, I'm trying out the new buildings pack, and it's quite good. Most of them are larger or smaller variations of pre-existing buildings, giving you a lot more flexibility for supporting larger or smaller domes. E.g., there's a 1-tile security post now if the 3-tile normal version is too large, there's now a smart apartment complex so you no longer have to choose between the comfort of smart homes and the capacity of apartments, etc., etc.. I haven't unlocked the new workshop yet, but apparently it's a way to gain money besides just exporting rare metals to Earth (and some technologies), which sounds great.

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Quoting: AkienFYI, this is now fixed in the Steam demo.

Also fixed another Godot issue along the way which should benefit users of AMD discrete GPUs :)
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/46794 [External Link]

Thanks!

I went to check out the game the other evening intending just to fire it up and play for 15 minutes or so and report back, and ended up playing until after midnight. :grin: It's definitely quite compelling, I'll be keeping an eye for its release.

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That looks pretty neat. Funnily enough I was just thinking the other day, "I wonder how long until someone makes one of those 'it's an old game but with a twist*' games using Minesweeper." (This is not intended to be disparaging at all, I really do think it's a cool twist on a familiar formula.)

*It's Pong, but you're the ball trying to escape! It's Snake, but a rogue-like! It's Tetris, but an RPG!

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I quite enjoyed the demo when I played it last year, and am eagerly awaiting the full release! :woot:

Seattle [External Link], 37.49; Glasgow [External Link], 49.01.

I see your two mildly damp cities, and raise you Hilo [External Link], Hawaii: 126.72 inches (3,220 mm) average annual rainfall. :grin: (Though it does get more sunshine than Glasgow at 1656 hours per year, and it's all lovely warm rain instead of that nasty cold stuff, so I reckon you have us beat in the misery department.)

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Quoting: Guest-- edit
Jokes aside, actually without pollinators and wind or animals to distribute seeds, plants would not spread on their own regardless of other favourable conditions.

Once you've increased the atmosphere to Earth-like pressures, there's gonna be wind. :wink: Though it's a good point about animal-based seed spreading…clearly the solution is to allow us to introduce animals to start spreading plants about the planet faster! :grin:

But seriously, I'm really glad to hear this. I picked the game up with all DLC when Green Planet was released, and it felt like a really good solid game with a lot of potential…which then never got additional content. Which, fine, nothing wrong with making a good game and releasing it as-is, but I'm so happy to hear there'll be new stuff coming.

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I think this is the expansion I'm most excited about yet. :woot: I found the introduction of the Galactic Community really breathed new life into the game by giving you new story options that didn't require warfare*, and Nemesis seems to be building on those strengths with espionage and, of course, the ability to either become the crisis or to valiantly hold it off only to unite the galaxy into a galactic empire. I'm still working my way through all the origins introduced with Federations; so many interesting possibilities for my next game! :grin:

*While I enjoy a good war—or even a game as a fanatic purifier—as much as the next player, it's so much fun throwing my diplomatic weight and soft power around to try to enact resolutions beneficial to me while denying those of my rivals. :whistle:

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Quoting: Rooster

Quoting: PhiladelphusIs this *by* the studio that made Goat Simulator, or was that just a comparison? I couldn't tell.
Fake edit: I looked it up on Steam, and it's a different studio, MAD Sprouts.

I like the premise, I think you could get a lot of story mileage (and a bunch of games) out of the tension between animals and humans moving into their territory, as seen from the animal perspective.

The studio that made Goat Simulator are working on Satisfactory now, which looks to be a great game, but unfortunately no Linux version.

Oh right, yeah. Forgot about that. :whistle: And I even got Satisfactory (playing with Proton) when it released on Steam middle of last year, too…

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