Beta Build - Evolution 9 - Scenario Creator and Custom Scenarios

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WARNING - Beta builds are not fully tested and should only be used by people who are ok with the near certainty of encountering bugs. If you just want to play the game - please wait until we release the Evolution formally.

This beta build adds the biggest and most requested update yet for Plague Inc: Evolved - the much anticipated Scenario Creator along with Custom Scenarios. Players can hit the lab and use the same tools that we do to create awesome new content for Plague Inc: Evolved, as well as sharing it with their friends and exploring other players’ deadliest ideas via the Steam Workshop.

If you want to help test, right click on the game's name in your Library, select 'Properties' then the 'Betas' tab and then enter the code 'testbuildevolved' to get access.

We are keen to know how easy you find the Scenario Creator to use. Are you experiencing any bugs? Are there any performance issues? What type of scenarios have you made? How did you find the process?

Good luck creators, have fun and please try to keep it clean :p

UPDATE 15/Sept/14
A new beta was pushed, with the following changes:

Versions: Game 0.7.6.5 Scenario Creator 0.0006

Allows loading of older files that were produced with a bugged version.
Country re-naming now dynamically updates lists of countries as A to Z.
Full refresh of game data for subscribed scenarios added on load added.
Russian strings text issue fixed.
Bug on adding deleting air routes fixed.
Sea routes on/off issue fixed.
Issue on Trait Icon fixed.
Transmission issue fixed.
Custom start month issue fixed.
Other minor fixes.

[NdemicTech]

OK, think I see what the issue is here now. We're looking into that... Thanks.

[Papparizza]

I don't think there's something wrong with my scenario. It uses the normal boat and plane transmission upgreades, Just with changed name and desc

[Circurose]

Can't republish scenario

I am the creator of Digital Demon scenario, i made a new update to my scenario so i want to republish but it failed! anyone?

[NdemicTech]

There is an issue in the republish in the current build. We're working on it now. If you unpublish and publish then it republished it, however any rating are lost. Thanks.

[brothercake]

NdemicTech님이 먼저 게시:

Currently you can only upload one state of icon and the rest is handled by the game, within the selections offered. I'll note the request though.

If it helps -- what we commonly do with web icons is create mini sprites -- so an image could 74x148 with the top 74 being the default state and the bottom 74 being the alternate state, then it's simply a case of switching the background offset when required. That would be pretty simply for scenario creators to work with (easier than requiring a compound icon format like ICO)

OR -- how about using fonts to create icons? There are loads of icon fonts available, and loads of tools for converting PNGs to font maps, so if it were possible to upload something like a TTF file (or select from a bunch of internal ones) then the state changes would simply be a change in their rendered colour, and you wouldn't have to worry about dodgy anti-aliasing at low (or high) resolutions, since fonts are vectors.

Just thinking out loud :-)

[Ndemic James]

New update again!
Versions: Game 0.7.6.4 Scenario Creator 0.0005

Fixes and improvements to re-publish process (inc. fixes to disease tech and country data not showing in re-published scenario.)
Added warning message when changing plague types.
Custom victory icons now displaying correctly.
Added warning message if trying to play an unpublished scenario.
Fixed not default icon for initial pop-up ingame.
Added 'cut-corner' mask to provided icons to keep with visual style.
Fixed issue if delete and icon added in multiple places, only now removes from where deleted.
Fixed lock-up on event restriction.
Fixed lock-up on air-routes.
Fixed issue where unsubscribed icon remained on unsubscribed scenarios.
Added differentiation is message for closing scenario vs closing Scenario Creator.

Known issues:
- If you edit a scenario and go into the game and don't see the changes, it might be that the game is caching the existing one. Some edge cases result in caching, so to be sure quit the game and then re-run it and then load the scenario.
- Existing scenarios may still have publish issues. If you unpublish and re-publish this fixes them; - however ratings etc are sadly lost.

[medic]

what do I do after I enter the code and press "Check Code"? It says that it's correct and it updated but when i go into the game and click Custom scenarios it tells me that its still in early access? can anyone help me?

[medic]

i got it, it is now working after i restarted the downlode

[brothercake]

Thanks for the update :-) But unfortunately there's quite a serious new problem -- it's no longer possible to load existing scenarios. You select it from the list in the load dialog, click the "load" button, and nothing happens.

EDIT: if I create a brand new scenario and save that, then I can successfully load it again, both immediately and after restarting the creator app. But if I try to load an existing one (which does nothing), now I can't load the new one either (until the app is restarted).

It must be like a huge pile of sticks :-)

[brothercake]

When editing sea routes: if you set a route to "off" (which also does the same for the corresponding country) then you can't set it to "on" again, it just keeps flipping back to "off" when you select a different country.

[brothercake]

btw -- if you deactive then reactivate the world lab, you don't lose the changes you made, even though the confirm dialog says you will. Not sure if that's a good thing or not -- it's good if you did it by accident, but it means you can't reset the world lab if you wanted to start it again (short of creating a new scenario).

[brothercake]

Now I'm seeing that you can't define an icon if you create a new trait.

You can add an existing trait and change its icon, but if you create a new trait, then selecting or uploading an icon does nothing, and once you try, the "file" menu is now frozen (clicking the "file" button changes its highlight, but the menu doesn't appear and you have to quit the application to use it again).

EDIT: also, if you have more than one trait which is using a custom icon, then ALL those traits use the same icon (whichever one you defined last). They look fine in the scenario creator (ie. all different) but when you go to play the scenario, they're all using that same icon.

EDIT2: okay it's not ALL traits, it's all traits on the same page (ie. all abilities or all symptoms which have custom icons use the last icon you specified for a trait of that type). And sometimes they all change when you evolve one!

The icons which show in the evolution history list, and the one that appears in the information box when you select a trait -- those are all fine -- it's only the ones in the main hex grid that have this problem.

[Mooncalf]

Do you have the initial value of the air and sea transmission set to 0? I had a problem with that but if you look in the tooltip it says the minimum is 0.0001. I think if it starts at 0 it ignores techs increasing it.

[brothercake]

Is event restriction in your known issues? It still doesn't happen.

(Assuming I have the right idea about what constitutes a special event? I mean things like robotic juicer, UN initiative for poor countries, new sterilizing air filters, that stuff)

[Delevingne]

After clicking many icons (For example zoonotic shift from Necroa) all buttons become unclickable. I'm using the latest beta version of creator. Also, I can't load my disease, which I has been making for 2 days. : (