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Briefing 27

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:00:12 +0000

Original Post Date: 6/25/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

IN LIGHT OF THE NEW LEAKS I SAW SOMETHING THAT CLEARED UP SOME SHIT

They told us there were no active volcanoes here but yknow, they have been known to be wrong... on many levels:

What if the ember forests are products of that volcanic activity?

Openable warehouse gate:

I think that something will be there. Probably lore stuff, but who knows.

Jetpack

Don't quote me on this, but i'm seeing this being an Exosuit upgrade, kinda like a NMS styled jetpack

Editors Note: IvanCoHe (the person whos been writing all of these brefings) left shortly after this for unknown reasons. (Ivan if you see this we hope you come back some day.)

Briefing 26

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:00:07 +0000

Original Post Date: 6/24/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

Hello. Uh, it's been... A while. Ran out of pages in the company calendar a couple of time ago so uh, I don't know how much it's been (Not only a reference I have an actual Axolot Calendar )

So uh, yeah, it is news time!

Schedule: How I think updates will go

First, they will keep working on game balancing, which is what they are gonna be doing for this month and most of next month (Creative update should come around this time as well
If my timing is right, August they will release the logbook and September might be beacon and auto oil
Then this is when the actual big brain content begins. If my calculations are correct there SHOULD be a halloween update. I think it will include colored totebots but I am not sure
December might bring something but idk what it could be

This timing is based on tweets, files, and general development knowledge.

But what about the balancing I hear you ask?

Well I don't know shut the hell up.

That's kinda all we got for- Nah I'm kidding we got more

So uh those cotton seeds made me think, what other spur of the moment ideas might get added? Here's what I think:

Flower seeds (Maybe 0.4.7)
Some kind of logbook teaser in game (I AM SURE THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW)
Leaked shit they don't realize they leaked

And at last, modding

Not coming for a year, I am 100% sure. If they already have a gigantic to-do list, this isn't coming for a long while

And that's all for today. Hope you liked this snippet of last night me putting shit into a difital bulletin board and thinking about it while sleeping as I descend into madness while watching L4D2's Steam DB and flying to Japan Sweden

Briefing 25

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 17:00:03 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/29/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

Long time no see. Let's get into this!

What do we know about update S1? That's the codename i'm giving it for now, S for survival and 1 for "It is the first one". So this is what we know about the update:

Confirmed features: Waypoints/Beacons (There is actually a chest waypoint in the files rn, not sure if it is used), oil automation and maybe the logbook, as it is on high priority for them.

Doubtful features: Glue automation, easier building material recollection

What about the other content?

We know that better creative mode and more resource automation will come this year. After that, I think they will go in order of what they have done most of, so if I had to say it it would be:

Destructible Warehouses - Modular spuds - Totebot colors - Scrapyard - Exosuit

That's all for today. Bye!

Briefing 24

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:57 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/13/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

I'm gonna talk a bit about what the SM twitter has said lately, let's start!

UPCOMING FEATURE LIST:

Colored totebots with different attacks
Challenge mode
Better creative mode
Exosuit
Modular spudguns
Scrapyard
Destructible Warehouses

Datamining and modding. I can confirm it's possible to make game files mods that add:

Custom items
Custom entities
Custom crafting
Somewhat custom GUIs
Custom tiles
Custom Spudgun (Only one slot atm)

That's really all we have for now, there's not many news atm, goodbye!

Briefing 23

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:53 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/9/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

Encryptors

I took apart one of those Warehouses. Got into Devmode and explored it. When I got into it, I took it apart and decrypted it. Now, I'm no coder, but I've got an eye for develompent. These things are simple anyway. Two functions: /Encrypt and /Decrypt. The problem is, they aren't supposed to always be encrypted. So I went into a decrypted warehouse and found nothing. Nothing! No lag, completely meant to be breakable and no problems with decrypting it at all! Like it was MEANT to be broken at release! What did those Baldheads at Axolot do? (This is definitely not an edited version of the 10th straggler log lmao)

What is left to include? So, this is my current theory:

New update for challenge the 25th of this month
Updated Creative Q3
Content update Q4 with some of the semi-finished stuff that is sitting in the files

This is it for to- No that doesn't sound right

ALRIGHT, I'M STARTING A HUNT

Where the hell did the colored totebots go? I have no clue! So I'm gonna need help. I need people to look at the files and see what info they can find about them. My idea is to find all of the possible things we can about them and where their code went. So, if you find anything, please DM me. I'll post all that you have been able to send me next sunday.
There's probably not much code related to them. This is because most of it was cut out of the final release. I suspect, however, that this was sloppily done in the last 2 weeks before launch, so there should still be some stuff left. That being said...

I COMMENCE THE HUNT

Editors Note: This was sent right after.

Colored totebots confirmed, hunt over.

Briefing 22

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:50 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/8/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

BIG NEWS

I CALLED IT I DID IT I KNEW. Ok so as you can see the logbook logs were leaked, and, as I said like 3 days ago, THE FARMBOTS ARE EVIL ON PURPOSE! I CALLED IT!

Red Tapebots! This was not mentioned anywhere but there is currently a rare, explosive tapebot that is colored red and shoots explosive tape. Not very important but still very good!

HYPE FOR LORE UPDATE. Man Idk what Axolot does but they have me hyped already! There is going to be some kind of lore in the game as we can see here which hypes me because I love lore! There is still going to be a challenge mode update and a creative update though, so it's probably not coming this month, i'd bet it might come later this year but I am not sure, it could be Q1 next year.

This is all for today! Goodbye!

Briefing 21

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:46 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/7/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

LET'S GO I'M NOT DEAD AND THERE'S NEWS SO WE'RE DOING THIS AGAIN I LIED

Ok so survival is out yay. Thanks devpeople it looks very good.

News. Ok so basically, we got some news today. First: There will be a lot of bufixes this month. Second: Challengemode will be relaunched this month as well. Third: They are going to tweak the UI and fix translations and FOUR: We might get a content update this month, I'm not sure. They said they would be focused on adding new content to survival this month. Also, adding the content to creative as well.

MORE NEWS but not in steam. They also replied to some tweets! The thing near the cockpit is a future update (Probably lore logbook), and they seem interested into looking into consoles right now (yay).

Ok so I'll probably not post that much now because we have survival and there's not much news but I'll keep you all informed. Bye!

Briefing 20

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:42 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/4/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

It's the last briefing. After 4 years of waiting survival will be here in less than 24h. There's not much to talk about today, but I'll try to recap it all.

🦀 FENOWORKS DID AN OOPSIE 🦀 Ok I'm not going to go into the drama here but I am going to go into what he leaked. There's chemical containers, concave wedges, a BUNCH of new blocks and parts and basically he went into a Warehouse but everyone got mad at him so he left. You need a key to enter though. So that's interesting.

The prerelease has updated! It fixed some minor text-related bugs and some other stuff as well. It also made some tiles less exploitable.

And uh, that's it.

This is it

Less than 24h left

Small speech: When I started playing the game, I never thought I'd have to wait 4 years for this update. The wait, however, was worth it as we can see in the prerelease. I remember reading the devlogs when they came out and thinking to myself "Oh this is cool, shame it will never come out". I never considered the possiblity of Survival ever existing! But here we are. This is, sincerely, one of my top 3 gaming experiences of all time. Just sitting here, scraping every little detail I could. I reached slightly physcotic levels (btw isli if you are reading I know basically the entire timeline of the company, even the not really public stuff). It was so fun to be a slightly stalking detective in the last 3 months leading up to this. And the only reason I have had this ungodly hype is because we were talking about bearings in class 3 months ago and I remembered the game... Idk what it is that Axolot does with hype, but sincerely, how do you manage to make not the single thing I have been most hyped about in my life but publish the SECOND thing I have been most hyped about in my life? So isli, if you are reading, personally thank the dev team in my behalf please, for the 123 brief yet really fun hours I have spent playing this game. It's been an awesome time and I can't wait to see what you come up with next! And to this community, also thanks for letting me be a part of it. It's been fun to chat with you guys. And thanks Turbo for this channel, means a lot that you would do this for a stranger you met on the internet lmao so yeah. It's been a long time. I can't wait to see what the future of this game beholds.

This got a little emotional didn't it. Anyway, bye!

Briefing 19

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:36 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/4/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

Hey! So after calming down a bit from the hype I am now able to actually take a look at it! So yeah. Let's go!

WAREHOUSES. Ok so this is actually cheating it's not only Warehouses here. By this I mean, we haven't seen warehouses. We know these are in game though, however we have also not seen some other, uh, i'd say pretty important stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like what we've seen, but it looks like there's no Propane Stations, Colored farmbot variants and modular spudguns. This kinda preoccupies me. Of course, there's still a chance this is just not in the prerelease, but I'm kinda skeptical. I like the game so far, but I was really hoping for some more enemy variety even if it was just the different colors. Which leads me to my next point:

What don't we know about? This might seem like a dumb question but until 2 days from now we didn't really know about slave trading. So I think we still lack some stuff. It seems like some of the ambitious stuff might have gotten cut, like Scrapyards and Propane Stations. I think about half of these are just not on the prerelease, but IDK, this might end up being smaller than we thought.

At the end of the day though, the game is great. The update already looks amazing. I can't wait to hop into creative and see everything new! Only 3-2 days to go!

I'm off for now! Bye!

Briefing 18

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:30 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/3/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

Ok so the prerelease is out. This is old news now, obviouly, BUT, you might not know about what isn't in the prerelease!

70% OF ALL CRAFTS ARE GONE 🦀 Ok, so only 30% of the items that will be craftable are craftable in the prerelease. This means we still have A LOT of stuff to see, which makes big hype. Also, no, Spudguns aren't craftable. You need to...

SLAVE TRADING. NOT A JOKE. You can trade people in survival for guns. This is not a joke. So there are these caged farmers you might find around the map? Yeah uh, those are sellable to the Market Farmers. And you can buy guns with it! 5 of them plus 30 of a specific fruit for each spudgun. This is truly big brain.

Creative is getting all the new stuff. That's it. Oh also, trees and rocks are parts, so @TechnologicNick was right about that. Big brain.

The map is 10x the size

THERE might BE LORE. Ok so you know that L button that can't be pressed in the prerelease? That's a Raft-styled logbook. That's all we know.

That's it for today! This is truly a big brain move by the devs, very cool.

Briefing 17

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:23 +0000

Original Post Date: 5/1/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

New STEAM BUILD. It is literally called Survival prerelease. It is LITERALLY CALLED SURVIVAL PRERELEASE. OH MY GOD. There were like 10 updates between that build and test_dev today. My prediction is it's going to be a build for youtubers to try out earlier than May 7th, but who knows, maybe the devs surprise us! For now though, I don't see it happening.

New tweeet! AGAIN! I am pretty sure we are getting daily tweets until May 7th now. So uh, the tweet itself hasn't got anything new, but the comments reveal some big things. First, we will pump water out of lakes and seas to get it. Cardboard doesn't soak in water. Crops are not movable (This is not bad I'll explain later). Backpacks are cosmetic and big thing, Farmbots go after your crops, not you. This means if you don't plant you don't get attacked, but you also don't get food. The nonmovable crops thing seems good because it will make the game more balanced, seeing how you could just outrun the farmbots with a car.

That's it for today, also tired as hell lmao

Briefing 16

trbodev — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:59:17 +0000

Original Post Date: 4/30/2020
Author: IvanCoHe

I LEAVE FOR 3 MINUTES AND THEY TWEET. AT THIS POINT THEY'RE DOING IT ON PUR- I mean hey! I'm back. There's a bunch of things to talk about today so let's go!

God dammit Axolot. I leave for 5 minutes and you tweet. Well, anyway, we've got a new part! It's an automatic water cannon that allows you to shoot water! Also, Food and thirst bars were shown as well. The thirst bar usually divides easy survival games (Minecraft, terraria) and challenging ones (Raft, Stranded deep, etc). It looks like Scrap Mechanic will be a bit more challenging.

Beetroots. Ok, so today I'm going to talk about farming! It looks like you can farm a lot of different crops. Total list is: Cotton, Carrots, Blueberries, Bananas, Pineapples, Apples, Pears and Oranges. Oh and squashes too. It looks like water will play a big role here as farmbots (Well, one in particular as mentioned by the devs literally 2 mins ago) doesn't like water so it will also be used as a weapon. Oh and it looks like you can do the equivalent of bonemeailng crops with a weird green canister

I need sleep man I have slept like 8 hours in 2 days I'm going off to sleep