Valley 2 alpha v0.704 released!

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Once again a separate thread so more testers would be likely to notice it: http://arcengames.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Valley_2_-_Pre-Beta_Release_Notes#Alpha_.704

This is very close to the final beta, which we now hope to hit tomorrow.  I know I said that yesterday, but there was a bit more cleanup today (mainly in terms of clarity, but also a couple of key bugs) that we wanted to do.  Anyhow, once again, if any testers feel there's something critical for before beta still hanging around, make sure and drop us a line at the email address that we gave you when you started testing!  We definitely want to know if there's anything like that, but things seem to be in better shape than ever.

Lots of good stuff in this one, incidentally.

[MouldyK]

My PC turned off while I was playing multiplayer in my server after I took down the wind on an Ivory Tower tile and when it loaded up again, the tile was cleared, but I am unsure if it registered the Tower's effect as the adjacent tiles were not purified...is this normal and if not, is the Ivory Tower Cave-Lighting powers useful?

[khadgar]

I am quite excited to mess with the new storage of dispatch missions, it will help quite a bit on the harder difficulties!

Here I go!

[Aklyon]

Ooh, Dispatch storage. And warping survivors.

This is a pretty nifty update.

[madcow]

I think listing the key binding of at least the action button in the very first dialog of the game is going to be pretty important. The bindings don't pop up until afterwards currently.

[Nanashi]

It's not on the wiki, but you fixed the respawn bug, neat!

[madcow]

Oh, and a minor bug (wasn't worth writing an email over really) is that if you equip a perk to change your max ammo, it only refill your ammo once you leave a region. Eg, I have 30 max ammo, I equip a +10 ammo perk. I enter a new chunk right away and still only have 30 ammo, when I leave it goes up to 40 ammo.

[LaughingThesaurus]

I actually haven't been around. Got surprisingly busy. Is there a skip scene function in this game? Given that you restart campaigns fairly regularly, turning off tutorials and cutscenes might be nice to have as options.

[madcow]

There's a setting called "Allow Skipping Text Interjections With Cancel Button." It does what you might expect and the default is off.

[Teal_Blue]

Am Having A Great Time!!  The Updates Are Very Cool!!  I'm Not Dying as much, so that is very, very cool!!



-T

[Aklyon]

I haven't died as much either.

Also, light rocket is best rocket for cave exploring. It can do damage, and it can be a kinda-flashlight if you fire it in front of you enough.

[Nanashi]

I'm actually starting to burn out on AVWW2 cause of bad luck with random generation - as explained in the tutorial, desert tower expansions are a priority in order to keep the difficulty rate at a manageable level - but for the second world in a row, I've had the vital tile leading to the tower (i.e. there's no way around it) blocked off by a double jump barrier. Maybe I should prioritise finding skelebot facilities instead.

If the game is hardcoded so that you can't unlock the towers until you get doublejump, maybe the message about the towers shouldn't be appearing so early.

[c4sc4]

I'm actually starting to burn out on AVWW2 cause of bad luck with random generation - as explained in the tutorial, desert tower expansions are a priority in order to keep the difficulty rate at a manageable level - but for the second world in a row, I've had the vital tile leading to the tower (i.e. there's no way around it) blocked off by a double jump barrier. Maybe I should prioritise finding skelebot facilities instead.

If the game is hardcoded so that you can't unlock the towers until you get doublejump, maybe the message about the towers shouldn't be appearing so early.

Er, that actually isn't a double jump slice, it seems to fall under an issue I had with a previous slice, it works fine getting from left to right normally, but since slices are flipped to increase the randomness of chunks, in this case, when this slice is flipped, it is impossible to proceed without double jump.

Josh, this particular slice seems to be the "ExteriorFlatJungleGymsHorizontal" slice "zm_StrangeProtuberances"

[Coppermantis]

Can chunks be regenerated in this game like they could in AVWW1? The skelebot mainframe room with the vent exit that generated in a place that makes me get stuck upon exiting makes it impossible for me to not take significant damage before I can break free of the glitch so if I could make the game re-generate that room it would be very convinient.

[Teal_Blue]

I haven't run into anything i haven't been able to cope with, so far. And just got into the rain forest? where it is always raining? Anyway, I just had to come here and say IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!   

It really is, please tell HeavyCat they did a wonderful job!  And you all too, of course!! 

-T