Overgrowth 1.4 update out now!

[kavika]

The 1.4 update for Overgrowth is now available.

This will be the final update of Overgrowth for now. We temporarily unpaused Overgrowth development for the 1.4 update, and now we are pausing again so we can focus on our new (currently unannounced) game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMuzNDgGDoY
In this update, we added a new story mode campaign: Drika's Story, and some improvements for modding.

The editor's spawner menu has been cleaned up quite a bit. Many new items have been added to the spawner menu (over 200!), and old ones have been cleaned up.

Now most hidden parameters for characters have also been exposed in the editor, so they're easier to find and to remember how to use.

There's also a bunch of other bug fixes and other small modding related features that have been added.

Thanks to the Wolfire community (especially people on The official Discord Server[discord.gg]) for all the play testing and bug reporting they've been doing. Without you, this 1.4 release wouldn't have happened! Also, thanks for the late-night spawner item testing. That was a lot of work :)

Changelog:
Here's the top changes in the 1.4 release. The points listed here are just a summary of all the changes. You can find the full change log here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kTlvqPI5DxGyRETuk11pUdpa8x918az96oKNtoTgkdM/edit?usp=sharing

New Drika's Story Mode:
- New story mode content in the Therium 2 universe
- Drastically improved version of the mod version of Drika’s Story (so it would be worth another playthrough if you’ve played the mod)
- A lot of new dialogue and levels
- Graphics updates (to the Steppes especially), and more character interactions

Editor:
- Exposed most hidden parameters on characters, so they can be easily found in the editor UI
- Made AI fear mechanics fully customizable via editor params. Can now make rabbits not flee wolves, make non-wolves scary to other species, etc.
- Added parameter to make a specific character flee when health drops below specified value
- Cleaned up spawner items, added all working items to the spawner that were used in levels

Modding:
- Many bug fixes. See the full change log (link above) for details
- Many new script APIs
- Several small improvements to the editor

If you find any bugs, please email a full description along with your system specs to [e-mail]

To download the update, use Steam, or log into your Humble Bundle account[www.humblebundle.com].

Thanks as always for all the support. See you guys in Discord[discord.gg]!

[White Male]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από kavika:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ￦hitɇ ┼ Malɇ:

WE NEED THIS IN THE GAME:

1# - Sound for 2nd player, when using splitscreen!!
(should be possible, since EVERY OTHER game has this "feature")

2# - Controlable camera option, when using shared-screen. (Unuseable in coop as is, but at least it has sound for both players)

WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE:

Gore.... ;)

Yeah I've seen this the other 5 times you've posted this same text :)

#1 would take a bunch of work to fix, and would effectively eliminate 3D sound, if we do it the way other games do it.

I'm not sure we want to intentionally enable #2 really. I tried the equivalent of #2 in the game "hat in time" with my girlfriend, and she rage quit because it was way too hard to use :)

I think these are good suggestions, but I don't think split screen multiplayer is a common enough method of play for us to justify focusing on improving it in ways that don't fix essential core bugs that make it impossible to use. That is to say, if we ever do a 1.5 patch.

I just dont understand why sound in split-screen is so hard to make in this game, when literally every other game in gaming history has sound for both players when doing split-screen.

I am not trying to be rude, I just really dont get why..

On the 2# - I would still prefer to be able to control the camera in shared-screen (optionable in the options menu) maybe even lock it to a certain angle and place.

And please - 3# make coop arena a game mode - it is already done with a mod :)

[White Male]

And I only say these things cause I love your game and I wanna keep playing it ;)

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ￦hitɇ ┼ Malɇ:

And I only say these things cause I love your game and I wanna keep playing it ;)

Thanks for the suggestions, but we cannot really do them. I love the game and I want to keep working on it, but Wolfire as a studio simply cannot work on this game forever. As said in the OP of this tread, development is "on pause" right now, but I think we basically mean it this time.

If you would like to have a big discussion on why, come to the discord :)

[kallistuma]

I tried to run the game, but it crashed. I read logfile.txt, and as far as I can tell I found nothing out of ordinary besides:

"2019/03/24 20:16:01 [w][__]:threaded_sound_wrapper.cpp: 617: Sound system isn't initialized yet, putting message into the queue."

and

"2019/03/24 20:16:02 [e][__]: Soundtrack.cpp:1284: Unable to stream data from file."

Is this the problem causing the crash? If so, is there a quick fix to this?

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Glögi David:

Is this the problem causing the crash? If so, is there a quick fix to this?

Not sure. I haven't checked my email yet today to see if you sent us an email, but I think I'd have to look at the crash dump to tell you why it is crashing. Zip up that folder, and email it to us. Here's instructions: https://wiki.wolfire.com/index.php/How_To_Report_a_Bug_in_Overgrowth

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

My game won’t load. It partially loads but then a message pops up. It says that it couldn’t load and then it says that I need the correct drivers. All of mine are up to date. Can someone direct me to the drivers needed.

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από shadowidkyt:

My game won’t load. It partially loads but then a message pops up. It says that it couldn’t load and then it says that I need the correct drivers. All of mine are up to date. Can someone direct me to the drivers needed.

That error message ("might need to update drivers") is just a guess about what the problem is. It could be that your computer is also too old to play the game, or that you have some software installed that is conflicting with the game's ability to find your gaming GPU.

If you want more help with this, please email tech support, include the full text of that error message, and attach your log file and hardware report: https://wiki.wolfire.com/index.php/How_To_Report_a_Bug_in_Overgrowth

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

Do I need that receiver thing that popped up when I bought overgrowth

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από shadowidkyt:

Do I need that receiver thing that popped up when I bought overgrowth

Receiver is a second game that you get when you buy Overgrowth directly on Steam or Humble Bundle (directly as in outside of a game bundle). Besides the fact that you get it for free when you buy Overgrowth, it is unrelated.

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

ok thanks. so i guess my laptop is too old. its an old dell laptop that my mom bought off someone.

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

it was originally a windows 7 but upgraded yesterday.

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

im gonna see if i can get a refund because im not gonna be able to get a new laptop. do you approve?

[UNSUNG.SPYDER]

what kind of software. also i dont think i told you yet,i'm 12 and dont really know much about computers. should i un install my other steam games? i have 2, garry's mod and left 4 dead 2.

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από shadowidkyt:

im gonna see if i can get a refund because im not gonna be able to get a new laptop. do you approve?

Developers don't really have to approve. We all have to comply with Steam's refund policy.

I approve, though. If this computer can't run the game, that's not really your fault.

Steam's refund policy is here: https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/ - you're limited to 2 hours of play time or 2 weeks, whichever comes first. If you're outside of that time, they have a way to ask for an exception I believe. Probably best to not wait and let it come to that though. Better to get it over with sooner, if you know it definitely won't work on your computer.

[kavika]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από shadowidkyt:

what kind of software. also i dont think i told you yet,i'm 12 and dont really know much about computers. should i un install my other steam games? i have 2, garry's mod and left 4 dead 2.

Games that aren't running don't do anything but take up space. If they're not currently being run on your computer, they won't interfere with this game running.

If you have less than 15% space free, you should free up some space until you have %15 free. Your OS will slow down or possibly start behaving poorly if you have too little hard drive space.

I'm not sure that's really important in this case though. You probably wouldn't be able to install the game if you were running out of hard drive space.