Trailblazers Into the March

Good morning Trailblazers!

It has been brought to my attention that there was no available hotfix changelog in the steam updates. I had entirely forgotten to post them there, my very bad. So here are the latest changes we did with hotfix 1 and 2, following your feedbacks and the problems encountered by some people.

If you want to follow things on the day to day, you can also go on this page : Daily Updates

Where I've posted some of the stuff we were focusing on every day.

I hope life treats you well, thank you for the love and force given, if you want to follow the project and influence it's developement, join our discord!

Best,
Arn

Here is the changelog :

New

• Zoom sensitivity slider – You can now tune how fast the camera zooms from the Options menu. On macOS, scroll zoom now steps in larger increments so it feels less twitchy.

• Save button in the HUB and Overworld – The pause menu now shows a Save button in both those sections of the game.

• Vampire leech warning – If a vampire leech can’t be removed, you’ll get an alert explaining that no Medical Station is available instead of silently nothing happening.

• Translation - Added international fonts, support non-latin characters in crew names. Please note that we still don't have an official translation in the game expect for the English language.

Changes

• Elevator can be any shape – The “invalid elevator shape” restriction and its alert are gone. Elevator Tiles still need to be connected to each other or to the Elevator Station.

• Elevator tiles placement – They can’t be placed under existing items or rugs anymore.

• Fire leeches explode later – All fire leech variants now take more time to detonate, giving you more time to react.

• “Refining” is now “Crafting” – The Refining Station and its actions have been renamed to Crafting.

• “Indestructible” loot is now “Solid” – The previous name was misleading as it can be destroyed, it just can’t be split or recycled.

• Scan – Running scans no longer hold the Landship in place.

• Faction Buff – We removed the "Coming Soon" buff since they could stack. We didn't think so many players would unlock them!

Fixes

• Crashes – Fixed some crash reports.

• Ship Movement – The Landship should no longer stop before a Beacon is visible.

• Data Fragments – They no longer list a recycle output since you can't recycle them.

• Merchants icon – Their points of interest now disappear from the map after you encounter them.

• Escort contracts – Contract text and the generated escort crew now match.

• Trade offers – The neutral ship event no longer offers trades you can’t afford.

• Relocating resource boxes – Moving a crate no longer wrongly marks its resources for clearing.

• Onboarding – Fixed a blocker in the onboarding when using keyboard shortcuts

• Notifications – They now time out correctly while the game is paused. No more Notifications that stay on the screen at the HUB.

• Crew – Fixed some pathfinding issues.

• Text – Fixed some typos in help page, events and tooltip.

• Audio - Landship audio no longer starts or stops movement sounds while time is frozen (hub, pause).

• Performances - Fixed freezes and combat perf issues

• Leeches are now properly removed when leaving the journey map (no more leeches in the hangar)

• Hangar now shows healthbars for damaged items

• Doors can no longer be built on the landship's exterior walls

• Loot blueprints on an elevator no longer block navigation (fixes issue where crewmember would get stuck between loot blueprints)

• Offering to the spirit is now available from any direction (blocking the right cells of the heart would prevent spirit offerings)

• Fix broken description on "Overcame Challenge" thought

• Fix anti-aliasing sometimes making the entire screen green

• Fix touchpad and macos zoom

• Beacon corridor art now stands out more from the background

• Window resolution no longer reverts to default on scene change

• Armory text wrongly said it can be moved with right-click

• Landships returning from the march may find some money on the way (only if the player has very few resources left)

Greetings Trailblazer

We have never been more excited to talk about Trailblazers Into The March with all of you!

This is a big moment for us at the studio. We have done small playtests in the past and gotten feedback from players. However, this is the first time we are truly sharing Trailblazers, a game this team has dedicated so many years of our lives to developing.

Being able to put Trailblazers Into The March out there for everyone to play has been our dream. This day, part of that dream comes true. Releasing our demo will put it in the hands of tens of thousands of people.

This fills us with excitement and joy. Of course, the game isn't done yet. There is so much more to do. In today’s demo, we have packed in so much for you to explore. From overcoming dangerous excursions to battling threatening foes. Take on contracts from the fixer and build out your perfect Trailblazing crew! The demo is out. Our brand new trailer is out as well! You can see it below

Welcome to the March, Trailblazer!

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